You're right but do you really want to return to the 90s when CDs cost $20 each and you had to carry around a 100 CDs instead of an mp3 player? Or to the 80s when we used lo-fi tapes instead? The labels would love this.
It shouldn't be required of just the RIAA to use technology properly but everyone. If someone makes music you like, and they're not attempting to rob, respect them. $1 is not much for a song you enjoy.
I don't care what the labels do. If they fell they cant make money that way then they should probably stay out of the digital business model.
But the truth of course is that they saw huge benefits throughout the years as it became cheaper and cheaper for them to produce and distribute the music.
Where is your sympathy for all the truckers, records store people etc. that lost their jobs because of digitalization?
I personally have more sympathy for them, the musicians will always have the music. Whether they will be able to live from it is another thing.
I'm trying to understand your point. Are you for digital music being available or not?
>Where is your sympathy for all the truckers, records store people etc. that lost their jobs because of digitalization?
Of course I do have sympathy for them but humanity has to move forward. We are living in a disruptive age – much like those in the beginning of the Industrial Age. Humanity will need to adjust. This really is another subject for another story and doesn't hold relevance to the topic of piracy.
>I personally have more sympathy for them, the musicians will always have the music. Whether they will be able to live from it is another thing.
This makes no sense. You are condemning musicians to the same fate as those you mentioned. The only difference is that potential future truckers and HS/college students at record stores won't suffer because there will be new jobs created but the artist always will.
So basically what you are saying is that the truckers should get with the times but the artist shouldn't?
We live as you say in a disruptive age and this applies in no small part to artists.
As with regards to the starving artists.
Let me remind you that the kind of artists that actually have spent many years becoming good have always been struggling and always needed to do live gigs.
They are very different than those the labels push to become big stars today.
What i mean with they will alway have art is this.
The trucker will loose their job and that's pretty much it. The artists will always be able to do art whether they get paid for it or not.
>So basically what you are saying is that the truckers should get with the times but the artist shouldn't?
You're playing a game that has nobody's interests at hand.
Yes I'm saying this because 'truckers' are going to get left behind. You still haven't answered the question of whether we should live in the digital age or not.
>Let me remind you that the kind of artists that actually have spent many years becoming good have always been struggling and always needed to do live gigs.
You're playing a game against my argument.
All artists struggle but do you want them to become eternally poor?
>Let me remind you that the kind of artists that actually have spent many years becoming good have always been struggling and always needed to do live gigs.
Do you or many know the difference? Are most making the distinction and buying indie products? I can already tell that they are not.
I lived as a musician for some years. I think I have a pretty good understanding on how it works and I am playing no game at all.
Plus I have both a product out (cost money), a service out (free), have a design agency.
I don't say that artist shouldn't make money. I think they should when they work. But claiming that it's somehow a right for musicians to keep reaping the benefits of digital distribution but not those related to it, is in my mind wrong and not serving the anyone.
Truckers and musicians who don't conform to the new reality is going to be left behind.
It's really that simple. Of course they will try and get the government to protect their interest and it will have people helping them defend that.
But it's not a fair game.
And artist neither are nor will be eternally poor. It's a poor argument. There will always be people who make money on their creations, they will just have to do it differently than what we do today.
Technology is always a double edged sword. No one, not even artist can escape that.
It shouldn't be required of just the RIAA to use technology properly but everyone. If someone makes music you like, and they're not attempting to rob, respect them. $1 is not much for a song you enjoy.