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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Free content, legal and not, killed the magazine industry, devastated the DVD industry
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No it isn't. Stupidity did and having old people in charge of the companies that didn't understand online killed them. And you can add music to that mix too.
Problem with people of your age is that you simply don't *get* it.
The record labels, movie studios and publishers had it made for ages. They made stuff, priced it how they wanted it, sold it on formats they wanted and The People had no choice. Of course they were happy.
Then people realised that they wanted one song out of 18 on a new album and didn't want to buy the CD. They wanted to buy the track. But the labels wouldn't let them. So the didn't buy. Then iTunes came along, understanding online, and offered them one track for 99 cents. Biggest success story in music.
People also didn't want to pay x for a DVD packed for of non-skippable adverts and crap extras. They just wanted to watch a movie when they wanted to watch it. Netflix was born. Biggest success in movies.
People didn't want to subscribe to magazines anymore. Out dated information presented in a manner they didn't want to read. Then the Kindle came out. Low and behold, another huge success story.
I know you don't udnerstand how any of that happened Paul, but people smarter than you saw an old dinasaur of a market and disrupted it.
Nothing to do with free. It's to do with offering people content they want in a format they want at a price they want. It's not even fucking hard.
xxx
PS not seen you post over at B&B for a while, JT scared you off?