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Napster Not To Blame
enjo13 writes "Slate is running an article on the music industries recent troubles. It articulates exactly what Slashdot has preached all along.. that the Music industry is suffering at its own hands and has no one to blame but itself. All I have to say is... finally." There's actually been a number of pieces like this, but I think this one says it best.
Come on fhqwhgads!
What's the pain like? I think I may have it.
I've been reading Slate for many years; and often printed it before they charged a subscription fee (at one point - which I do believe was shortly after being taken over by MSN). It may be an MSN-centric publication in some ways but I've always found it to be pretty interesting. Of course, regardless of what the numbers say; and irrespectful of the fact that we ARE IN A RECESSION, it will be the music-swappers' faults this happened. Just like it was cassette tapes back in the day, right?
I think with the interesting people, their lives can't possibly be wrapped up into a nice little package.
Slate was owned by Microsoft from Day One. They only merged it into the rest of MSN a few repurposings ago.
Slate is free, they have a lot of ads, but no subscription, or am I missing part of it?
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
They were free at the start.
They had subscriptions for a year,
Seeing their readership go downhill
they switched back to being free.
At one point I was asked for a fee to enter parts of it; or at least to get the word-format print version which is what I'd usually do and take on the train home over the weekend (and back again on Monday).
I think with the interesting people, their lives can't possibly be wrapped up into a nice little package.
a musical jackass to claim that John Williams is intellectual fare of any type. The truth is that John Williams' music is the most watered-down, pathetic, trough-feeding type of music available, and is of interest only to those who listen to classical music to "better themselves". Piss on that. There's plenty of good stuff out there. Check out Xenakis, Jonathan Harvey, Pierre Boulez and Tristan Murai for starters.