willyhoops;199078 Wrote: > the point is that without drm (basically where we are now becuase itunes > drm is dead) music sales collapse, artists stop making music unless its > mega bucks pop t-shirt sales stuff, our economy shrinks a bit, and the > record companies won't release fancy new formats as digital files we > can copy to our devices.
Music sales collapse? Yeah, because music is free. Certainly there will still be ways to make money distributing it, but the business model will change greatly, that's for sure. Artists stop making money? Sorry? What world are you living in? I know several pro musicians well and am acquainted with quite a few more, including some reasonably successful ones and one very successful one, and only that last one makes a significant portion of his income from record sales. So a few of the most successful musicians would have less money - balanced against everyone else in the country having free or cheap access to all the music they want. My expectation is there would be an explosion in the music scene as all these artificial controls were relaxed - people could sample as they wanted, explore new music without a cost barrier, there'd be more live shows, and less hype by record companies promoting the flavor-of-the-month crappy pop. Fancy new formats? I couldn't care less - I want good music, not digital formats. And cutting parasitic companies out of the market is regarded as a good thing by most economists, actually. > > so life would clearly be better if drm was possible... and once you > start thinking that way you realise how well maybe with a bit of > lateral thinking and tough anti piracy legislation... Just think about that for a while. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
