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Bought it hook, line, and sinker.

It has nothing to do with property owners rights. Only a dolt can't see that. It has to do with keeping the artificial entertainment economy going so it doesn't do DOTCOM like burst. This is all very anti capitolistic!

Bet you've never thought of the music industry as an artificial economy did you?

If you look at it though you see the truth. Some 75 years ago it was very expensive record you music as the equipment was not cheap. So businesses were made by people who invested in the technology used the technology to perform a service in which they were paid. Now that's a stable capitolistic business model and it works.

Now fastforward to today. The equipment needed to record music much less expensive than it was even 10 years ago. You can set up a professional style studio to record music in your own home for a small investment of $30,000. So the business model of selling the service to record music is not a viable businesss model today. What those providing this service should do is contract out thier expertise.

Then there is distribution. In a effort to control who can distribute music the Big 5 bought store shelf space making it impossible to sell a CD in store if you were not under a major contract of some sort. If the store decided to sell independent CDs the cost of the Big 5 CDs increased big time. Kind of the same situtation the with Microsoft OSes and OEMs.

Next is promotion. The major labels controlled this by flooding the major promotion channels with hoards of cash. So much cash that an independent couldn't possibly have thier music played on radio or MTV as it would cost too much.

Now along comes the internet. You can get information on recording your own music, you can find out the cost, you can chat with experts, you can sell your music on the net and you can advertise music on the net. All this an no real barrier to anyone doing so.

Think of the ripple effects. Suddenly the big labels can't charge inflated prices to record an artists music. The distribution cost drop as they have already. Small record stores surviving on the money from big label buying shelf space is disappear causing these stores to go under. Next will be radio station and TV that suffer as promotion costs are no longer paid to get songs on play lists. I suspect many radio station will go under.

In the end the big labels will still be standing offering a competitive product to artists and consumers a like. They will not be guaranteed to control the market anymore though.

It's very little to do with property rights. It's a smoke screen because the entertainment industry knows very well that they can't claim capitolism is changing how they must do business and their should be laws against capitolism. That would never fly. But raise the spectre of piracy and ingnore any solutions that actually fix the problem while pushing for laws that not only fix piracy but fix that capitolism problem as well. That's what they are doing.

Posted by: voska   Posted on: 10/21/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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