Re: Wired Article: "Digital Music Biz Ain't Booming"


JC McNeil wrote:
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70170-0.html?tw=rss.index

thoughts?

It reads like a high-school newspaper article. She really does not
understand or participate in the market herself. The music industry
was blind-sided by 2 major changes outside their control that they are
only beginning to react to now.

The first change in the 80's obviously is the advent of digital music,
prior, when you bought an album and copied it you went to cassette and
there was degradation of the sound for every copy. With digital you
can copy it and the bits/bytes are the same on the copy as the
original.

The second change happened around 1993, and that is the
disintermediation that the Internet brought about, providing a
distribution system.

Now you have a renegade distribution system combined with the ability
to copy music without degradation.... DUH it doesent take rocket
science to know how that will kill a record company. The industry will
recover eventually and find a way to make it fair for both artists and
consumers again, but that will take investment, digital rights
management, and other changes in the way music is delivered and
consumed.

My fear is that if CD's go away, the industry will not replace those
with the ability to download lossless files, which I would be a
consumer of, as I am still hesitant to buy compressed music I can
compress myself having purchased a license to own the CD.

.

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