mr NOT
Chinese gold farmer
My 2 cents, well it turned out a bit longer than I expected, so its more than just 2 cents but I hope it will help visualize one thing or another.
1.Back in the middle ages, people sold their music and reached fans by giving a concert. That was the only way a musician could sell his music.
2.Then we got radio, people stayed in their houses, since that was, what television and internet is now and that medium is still up and running.
3. And lastly we got records, tapes, dvds etc. Up to not so long ago, there wasnt a real way to share music on data-holders.
Unless you consider tapes being one, but the industry kept that in control by putting an extra surcharge on blank tapes, so they would get money even if blank tapes where sold to put music on.
Those are about the 3 ages that the music industry went through and now we are in number 4, the internet age.
A big rise is shown now in internet radio. People dont need to own music anymore that much, they just want it to be available thats it.
Same goes for sharing with torrents, who doesnt have an ipod nowadays? (well I dont ok, but I am talking about the youth, I am old)
buying a cd album is only trouble, if all you want is to get it on your mp3 players.
Downloading is a lot easier, then its already on the pc that you connect with your ipod all the time. With an album youd need to rip it first.
Dont get me wrong, I grew up as a headbanger in the 80s and I think its a Gods sin to download music.
I love old LP records, the way they sound, smell and the space on the covers on which the most cool covers where drawn and almost make the music come alive before you even listened to it. 3
Even the new PQ cover, man, just imagine how that would look on a big LP cover. Not to forget the warm way music sounds on LPs in stead of on overproduced cds, well I am getting carried away, more on topic:
Here an interesting interview about it from Richard Conlon, of New Media Licensing. In which he talks about the future as mentioned above.
And here is an interesting arctile which could be an eyeopener. Its about how a band called Trent Reznor deals with new opportunities in stead of only looking at the downsides of nowadays music industry.
http://vimeo.com/4244922
I think that one of the good things that comes with the internet as well is that in the future you will not need distributors anymore.
And a way to win this is to go with the developments and walk ahead of the crowds, not to follow all the way in the back because yes, then you will have no other option but to complain about people downloading your music and you did nothing about it.
I would love to see the industry keeping itself alive with cool albums and without torrents, but the industry evolves, just as any other thing in life and you can either think back about the good old days or make a good old day today to talk about later on.
By the way, respect for the people that say honestly they download music. I like the way people discuss here on the PQ forum with each other in respect in stead of flaming like on other bandforums.
And face it, downloaders are more represented than the 1% of people that dont. So everyone saying they dont download music, would be hypocrite anyways
1.Back in the middle ages, people sold their music and reached fans by giving a concert. That was the only way a musician could sell his music.
2.Then we got radio, people stayed in their houses, since that was, what television and internet is now and that medium is still up and running.
3. And lastly we got records, tapes, dvds etc. Up to not so long ago, there wasnt a real way to share music on data-holders.
Unless you consider tapes being one, but the industry kept that in control by putting an extra surcharge on blank tapes, so they would get money even if blank tapes where sold to put music on.
Those are about the 3 ages that the music industry went through and now we are in number 4, the internet age.
A big rise is shown now in internet radio. People dont need to own music anymore that much, they just want it to be available thats it.
Same goes for sharing with torrents, who doesnt have an ipod nowadays? (well I dont ok, but I am talking about the youth, I am old)
buying a cd album is only trouble, if all you want is to get it on your mp3 players.
Downloading is a lot easier, then its already on the pc that you connect with your ipod all the time. With an album youd need to rip it first.
Dont get me wrong, I grew up as a headbanger in the 80s and I think its a Gods sin to download music.
I love old LP records, the way they sound, smell and the space on the covers on which the most cool covers where drawn and almost make the music come alive before you even listened to it. 3
Even the new PQ cover, man, just imagine how that would look on a big LP cover. Not to forget the warm way music sounds on LPs in stead of on overproduced cds, well I am getting carried away, more on topic:
Here an interesting interview about it from Richard Conlon, of New Media Licensing. In which he talks about the future as mentioned above.
And here is an interesting arctile which could be an eyeopener. Its about how a band called Trent Reznor deals with new opportunities in stead of only looking at the downsides of nowadays music industry.
http://vimeo.com/4244922
I think that one of the good things that comes with the internet as well is that in the future you will not need distributors anymore.
And a way to win this is to go with the developments and walk ahead of the crowds, not to follow all the way in the back because yes, then you will have no other option but to complain about people downloading your music and you did nothing about it.
I would love to see the industry keeping itself alive with cool albums and without torrents, but the industry evolves, just as any other thing in life and you can either think back about the good old days or make a good old day today to talk about later on.
By the way, respect for the people that say honestly they download music. I like the way people discuss here on the PQ forum with each other in respect in stead of flaming like on other bandforums.
And face it, downloaders are more represented than the 1% of people that dont. So everyone saying they dont download music, would be hypocrite anyways
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