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- monkeychow
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Re: Four Mistakes That Killed the Record Industry Before File Sharing
I agree they have made some bad decisions. But to be honest i think this kind of article is just justifying downloading by saying it isn't the problem. But realisticly...if technology were still as it was in 1989 - the entire record industy would be exactly as well off as it was in 1989. There isn't any doubt in my mind of this.
Re: Four Mistakes That Killed the Record Industry Before File Sharing
I agree they have made some bad decisions. But to be honest i think this kind of article is just justifying downloading by saying it isn't the problem. But realisticly...if technology were still as it was in 1989 - the entire record industy would be exactly as well off as it was in 1989. There isn't any doubt in my mind of this.
Walmart and Target the record stores in 1989 only selling top 40? You wanna know what would have happened? A couple kids at high school would start a network where one or two people buy an album and everyone copies it.
I know you're anti downloading, but certain conditions were set that led to this environment, and this article does a great job at showing that.In 1989 I wasn't buying albums at Target. I was buying them at my choice of record stores.
The record industry forced people into downloading.
You want Death Angel's opus Act III? Too bad. Walmart doesn't sell it. Neither does Target or Best Buy. Your only way to ever get that is either when the stray used copy(which doesn't benefit the artist or record company) pops up on ebay or amazon, or download it from a torrent(if its on there).
Years ago you could have walked into any record store and bought that. ANY record store. Now you are forced to five finger discount the album.
and you're gonna blame downloaders for that?
