Klonk Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:01:49 +0300 veschprigt mroktar Jussi Salmi <jussalmi@utu.fi> [re: Re: [Yello] Dear Glen]:
From: "Per Lindgren" <yello909@telia.com> Meier: We've had all that before. People thought music cassettes were going to wreck the industri. It wasn't true at all - it was a wonderful method of disseminating music. The music industry will go bust because of its own stupidy, not because of downloads. It's a reactionary industry that's stopped developing emerging artist.
Here's the other fact that isn't in any way unique to me: I have spent THOUSANDS of dollars on music that I would have otherwise not spent as a DIRECT result of having been exposed to new art via t3h Internets. These Eeeeevil Internets have made artwork more accessible in a way that seems ludicrous to even try and describe. "Order of magnitude" springs to mind. Instead of having to depend on the whimsies of local retailers, bless their souls and may their businesses rest in peace, I now can shop the world - and most importantly to me - I can increasingly and with delight purchase directly from the artist - thereby *actually supporting the artist* instead of supporting some greedy fat suits at Megacorporate Music, Inc. More and more artists are promoting their own work instead of having to sign their lives away to said fat suits. All because of t3h Internets! In precisely the same way that portrait artists were effectively put out of business by the mass marketing of the personal camera, the music industry as we knew it is dead. The only difference is that we didn't see a row of lawsuits like "Old-Timey Fathersons Fancy Real-Paint Portrait Business vs. Eastman Kodak Company". But I am guessing that's only because iKamm wasn't born yet. -gcr