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OTish - Copying music is like the mortgage bubble.
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isaacullah
2429 posts
May 08, 2013
7:56 AM
....or so this interesting article says: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/04/digital-music-is-like-a-mortgage/. I'm not sure I buy the argument 100%, but there are some interesting ideas raised in the article, and it summarizes the main dilemmas faced by those who want to pursue a career in music these days. What do you all think? Is this an apt analogy?
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arzajac
1044 posts
May 08, 2013
8:33 AM
I agree with these ideas. People are quick to dismiss some of their rights - such as the right to privacy - to gain access to immediate gratification, like being able to download songs on their Ipod.

The fact that Apple can track the comings and goings of your device (not limited to what files you put on them but when and where you plugged your device into another computer, when and where you listened/watched...) scares me. Apple knows a lot about what their customers do and only fraction of that information is relevant to selling you music (or movies, Ebooks, etc...)

The other point was about revenue. I think the most reliable way to make a significant amount of money from the music industry is to study law and become a lawyer. A musician making money by playing music? Forget it - not realistic.

But this is nothing new. How many artist have complained about "selling out" or being "ripped off" by "the system". Money and music clash in the most spectacular ways.
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nacoran
6773 posts
May 08, 2013
1:55 PM
My solution sounds like big government, but it's really just an expansion of the library idea. Put all digital data in a library and let anyone download for 'free'. Pay the contributors based on how much people use their stuff. It's sort of the the Netflix model. It's been done in music too, and video games. Ultimately people pay one fee to access everything. The fee doesn't even have to be that high. Most of the services run $10-$20 bucks a month. That adds up though. Music, video, video games, books, software, pretty soon you've priced the bottom of the market out of the game, and a connection to access it all and made something that doesn't need to be scarce scarce. You've also left the traditional market gatekeepers in place, which means that middlemen are still going to be getting a leveraged cut for someone else's work.

Personally, I'd regulate it and subsidize it for the poor, but that's my personal agenda showing through. The other model you could look at is the BBC, where if you want a TV you have to pay the tax. You could put a tax on all internet and fund artist payouts. We did that on a much smaller scale with a tax on VHS cassettes. Again, I'd be for putting strong subsidies in place. I think it's better for the economy and creativity if people have access to all the best ideas out there, and since there isn't any marginal cost difference between distributing it to one person or everyone, why not.

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