The End of Physical Media

L-s-L69 writes "The register is reporting that Forrester is predicting that a third of all music sales will be made by downloads in the next five years. They also predict that almost 15 per cent of films will be viewed by "on-demand" services such as rather than by DVD or video by 2005. "

Comments

Re:Yes, good thing. Revitalize live music instead.

[Eric Ass Raymond]

The "music industry" (or whatever is left of it) will see to that and you will have no say in the matter.

What you are advocating is total capitulation to the abusive music industry and you see complete secession from the industrial way of making and distributing music as the solution.

You are prepared to sacrifice the quality of production to this cause. I, on the other hand, like good, professionally produced and quality music. Not some amateur muffled-sounding garage recording. It's either quality or no music at all.

I'm not telling you to give up and eat whatever the industry is feeding you. On the other hand, if you give up the fight and go back to pure amateur performances, you've lost the war just as well.

In short, the professional production of music must stay, but the current model of distribution must go.