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Re: no more free Movies/Music in the U.S. come July 12?
« Reply #30 on: June 11, 2012, 07:51:10 PM »
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just temporary fixes to a permanent shift in how people access media. obviously the entire entertainment industry is losing billions of dollars and this will probably put at least some money back into their pockets for a bit but the internet is not going anywhere and eventually everyones just gonna need to find a new way to make a buck.
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yep. Its really funny how when automation came in and cost millions of people their jobs there was no attempt to slow that down, but now that its cutting into the profits of the top, there are constantly laws stopping what is essentially the next step in technology. You used to need 20 men to make a car, now it takes one guy operating a machine, you used to need to own fancy recording and album making equipment to distribute music, now you just need a PC. It won't change even with a million laws.
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Except that this has nothing to to with music recording technology at all.
meh, minutia. Doesn't change the main point. Besides, I would assume some sort of recording process has to take place in the mass production of an album. Record labels have become obsolete aside from promotion overall.
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Re: no more free Movies/Music in the U.S. come July 12?
« Reply #31 on: June 11, 2012, 08:29:04 PM »
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just temporary fixes to a permanent shift in how people access media. obviously the entire entertainment industry is losing billions of dollars and this will probably put at least some money back into their pockets for a bit but the internet is not going anywhere and eventually everyones just gonna need to find a new way to make a buck.
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yep. Its really funny how when automation came in and cost millions of people their jobs there was no attempt to slow that down, but now that its cutting into the profits of the top, there are constantly laws stopping what is essentially the next step in technology. You used to need 20 men to make a car, now it takes one guy operating a machine, you used to need to own fancy recording and album making equipment to distribute music, now you just need a PC. It won't change even with a million laws.
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Except that this has nothing to to with music recording technology at all.
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meh, minutia. Doesn't change the main point. Besides, I would assume some sort of recording process has to take place in the mass production of an album. Record labels have become obsolete aside from promotion overall.

Record companies don't care about an upstart making music on his MacBook, using a quality studio with a producer and staff to make music is not a method that is going anywhere any time soon.  They care about the public getting music for free whereby it becomes more difficult for them to pay that producer and studio and staff.  And let's remember, it's not just music industry it's all forms of media, film and television, books, etc.

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Re: no more free Movies/Music in the U.S. come July 12?
« Reply #32 on: June 11, 2012, 08:54:23 PM »
Obama doesn't want you to watch free porn, too much masturbation is slowing the economic recovery

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Re: no more free Movies/Music in the U.S. come July 12?
« Reply #33 on: June 12, 2012, 03:32:09 PM »
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just temporary fixes to a permanent shift in how people access media. obviously the entire entertainment industry is losing billions of dollars and this will probably put at least some money back into their pockets for a bit but the internet is not going anywhere and eventually everyones just gonna need to find a new way to make a buck.
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yep. Its really funny how when automation came in and cost millions of people their jobs there was no attempt to slow that down, but now that its cutting into the profits of the top, there are constantly laws stopping what is essentially the next step in technology. You used to need 20 men to make a car, now it takes one guy operating a machine, you used to need to own fancy recording and album making equipment to distribute music, now you just need a PC. It won't change even with a million laws.
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Except that this has nothing to to with music recording technology at all.
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meh, minutia. Doesn't change the main point. Besides, I would assume some sort of recording process has to take place in the mass production of an album. Record labels have become obsolete aside from promotion overall.
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Record companies don't care about an upstart making music on his MacBook, using a quality studio with a producer and staff to make music is not a method that is going anywhere any time soon.  They care about the public getting music for free whereby it becomes more difficult for them to pay that producer and studio and staff.  And let's remember, it's not just music industry it's all forms of media, film and television, books, etc.

You sound like you work for a label. While you're right about the necessity for a quality studio, producer, etc, the big labels are trying to hold on to their model where they charge a lot for each copy, justify this as production/distribution cost, and give the artist a very small percentage (under 10% iirc). The problem with this model is that digital media has pushed these costs to nearly $0 per copy, because copying an .mp3 file costs nothing. Like the gip said, promotion is their only selling point, and they hate that.
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Re: no more free Movies/Music in the U.S. come July 12?
« Reply #34 on: June 12, 2012, 03:44:07 PM »
Tons of big artists self-produce/self record. It is definately still trending upward too.
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