magiccarpetride wrote: > Same as the death of telegram industry had no negative effect on > people's ability to communicate long distance.
Not necessarily true - most of the telegraph industries morphed into telephone companies - and are now looking at multiple communication media. There are several issues facing the music industry: - rise of piracy due to both the "entitlement culture" and a is-judged idea of exploitation - An inability over the last two decades to embrace new business models (unlike the telegraph industry) - caused in part by the success of CD (enabling them to sell the same content twice to consumers) and complacency - in turn allowing Apple and now Spotify to get in on the act - A rise in the power of major artists - no longer an exploitative cash cow for them Therefore it is plausible that the current crop of large players may go. However a music industry needs to exist - despite the rise of social media a media company acts as an arbiter of quality - filtering out the "good" from the "dross" for the mainstream - the kind of music I like will always be on the periphery of this, but it serves a purpose. I think the piracy debate is different when it comes to the exploitation of musicians - and that is where the original article is great... J ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JonWill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20259 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95541 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
