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Originally Posted by TheDoc
I simply stated what they say. By judging it, we lose out. We can't change the collective group, until technology changes it. Unfortunately but yet, oddly not at all unfortunate, technology is going more open, and this isn't going to help.
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That is true. Rick Rubin was hired to be the new head of Columbia Records and the first thing he did was put together some focus groups where they asked a bunch of people age 15-25 how they got music. Almost every one of them said they downloaded without paying and they didn't consider it stealing. So the collective whole has decided if everyone breaks the law, then no worries, they will just change the law. I guess that is a sign of the times, but it worried him and it should worry anyone who creates content and sells it.
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It comes down to, the people are telling the labels they want something different but labels say no, then try to tell the people what they want.
That has never worked.
The big business profiting from this, the real business people... which we know is happening, they took the word Piracy and replaced it with the word fans.
They want more fans, aka: eyeballs. And piracy is just 1 TINY part of the possible eyeballs. It's not like the Majority of the Internet pirates, that bands, music.
These people are looking at the overall... no mater how many ways you twist it, you can't saturate yourself.... so even thinking that Piracy hurts you, is impossible. Nobody has ever haven't reached even 1% of the possible market, even if your on every pirated site in the world.
This game... is way, way, way ... bigger than the minds here on gfy allow it to be.
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people actually love being told what to like. Why do you think half the garbage on TV gets watched. Do you think people would choose to watch this shit if they were of free will? No they are told it is funny or cool or interesting and they watch it. They like being told a band is good so they check it out. They like being told a movie is good so they should go watch it. There is a huge sector of the media that does nothing but write criticism of movies/music/TV shows and millions pay to be told what to watch and read and listen to.
Certainly any artist wants fans, but getting those fans costs money. Even if a ton of people download your album and there is a big demand for you to perform live you will have to have someone who is willing to finance your appearances. And those people will want something in return for investing in you. When you start to cut record sales out of the equation it makes the pie smaller, but there are still the same amount of people wanting a piece of it.
If you think that there is a glutton of garbage out there now to listen to and watch, wait until the masses have control of it. The day that Bob and his garage band have the same access to the same amount of ears and eyes as The Rolling Stones is the day we will be lost in a swirling mass of shit and finding anything worth listening to will become a part time job. Trust me, for several years I made my living writing about music. Every week I got no less than 40-50 CDs that record labels were releasing and they were hoping I would review them or write about the band. 90% of it was trash. And this is back pre-internet which means someone listened to it and thought it was good enough to invest money into and it was still terrible. Imagine what it will be like when anyone with $200 and a garage can release an album world wide.
The old saying is that you get what you pay for. Those that feel downloading music is not stealing and those that insist on doing it will eventually get exactly what they pay for which is nothing.