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spat · Feb 13, 2004, 10:19 am

Maybe we should look at why other types of media don't suffer from this problem.

Well, Xerox technology has been around for nearly a century, but the publishers haven't been plagued by it.

Also, I believe when crime is as widespread as this we should ask ourselves why ??

During the 20's significant amounts of crime were created due to prohibition. If a majority of people feel they should be able to do something perhaps it shouldn't be a crime to begin with. After all, if a minority of people forces a majority to obey them, isn't that wrong ??

Governments (and thus law) are a social contract. People have agreed to live by certain rules to their mutual benefit. It seems in this case the record companies have abused those rules and are now reaping what they have sewn. After all, the artists who created the music in the first place see a very small portion of the profits from the sale of the music. Most of their money comes from concerts and other merchandising.

I think technology has obsoleted the record companies and they are in their death throes. What they are doing is the equivalant of buggy manufacturers fighting cars around the turn of the century to keep their market share ('course the buggy manufacturers didn't realize what was happening, and they didn't have "industry" orgaizations that border on monopolies).

In at most a couple decades, the music will be distributed on the internet for free (like broadcast TV and radio, and they manage to make a profit). The record companies will be reduced to advertising like the rest of madison avenue and the artists will pay them for promotion instead of signing away their lives into indentured servitude to the record companies. People will continue to pay $$ for merchandise, and concerts, and companies will pay $$ for product promotions and life will go on.

Will anyone really be upset if rock stars go back to making only 10x what musicians (and most other artists) have made throughout history ??

If they are in it for the art they will be happy to have people appreciate their art, and should make a comfortable living doing it. If they are in it to get rich, they they probably weren't much in the way of an artists to begin with.

Feb 13, 2004, 10:19 am	#31 (permalink) (top)
spat Sedimentary Rock Posts: 7	Maybe we should look at why other types of media don't suffer from this problem. Well, Xerox technology has been around for nearly a century, but the publishers haven't been plagued by it. Also, I believe when crime is as widespread as this we should ask ourselves why ?? During the 20's significant amounts of crime were created due to prohibition. If a majority of people feel they should be able to do something perhaps it shouldn't be a crime to begin with. After all, if a minority of people forces a majority to obey them, isn't that wrong ?? Governments (and thus law) are a social contract. People have agreed to live by certain rules to their mutual benefit. It seems in this case the record companies have abused those rules and are now reaping what they have sewn. After all, the artists who created the music in the first place see a very small portion of the profits from the sale of the music. Most of their money comes from concerts and other merchandising. I think technology has obsoleted the record companies and they are in their death throes. What they are doing is the equivalant of buggy manufacturers fighting cars around the turn of the century to keep their market share ('course the buggy manufacturers didn't realize what was happening, and they didn't have "industry" orgaizations that border on monopolies). In at most a couple decades, the music will be distributed on the internet for free (like broadcast TV and radio, and they manage to make a profit). The record companies will be reduced to advertising like the rest of madison avenue and the artists will pay them for promotion instead of signing away their lives into indentured servitude to the record companies. People will continue to pay $$ for merchandise, and concerts, and companies will pay $$ for product promotions and life will go on. Will anyone really be upset if rock stars go back to making only 10x what musicians (and most other artists) have made throughout history ?? If they are in it for the art they will be happy to have people appreciate their art, and should make a comfortable living doing it. If they are in it to get rich, they they probably weren't much in the way of an artists to begin with.