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MTV: 2007 Borked the Music Industry

Sockatume writes "MTV thinks 2007 was the year the music industry broke, and provides a hefty pile of examples to justify it. Unsurprisingly, most of them revolve around the collapse of CD sales and the rise of digital distribution (authorised and otherwise). Be advised that many of the examples are the continuations or repercussions of old favourites (RIAA suits, the Sony rootkit fiasco)."

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  1. it's swedish. by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    MTV: 2007 Borked the Music Industry

    Ah, so that explains the hit song, "drup it like it's hut".

    "Vhen my peemps in zee crib, mun: drup it like it's hut! Sveedeesh Cheff be peempin on 4-fo's!"

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  2. Video Killed the Radio Star by eharvill · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just like in 1979, eh?

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  3. Why should they care?-That sinking feeling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I mean, would you tie yourself to a sinking ship?"

    The people who made the latest Titanic movie did.

  4. Randy of the Redwoods by dgun · · Score: 2, Funny

    would be sad.

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  5. Re:Why should they care? by sm62704 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, too, remember the time when the M in MTV was for MUSIC

    It's not M for music, it's one of those text message/license plate thingies; MT is an abbreviation for "empty" like sk* is an abbreviation for skate. It's "empty-v" as in "no vision". I remember the time when empty-V came on the scene and started confusing rap with rock and tried to fuck up rock and roll forever.

    Fortunately it was unsucessful as the empty-V decade (1980s) saw some great rock and roll, little of which got air play on empty-V.

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  6. Re:It's not the year. It's just a gradual developm by sm62704 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...with the occasional landslide. A bit like the glaciers melting.

    Global warming is killing the RIAA? Yay global warming!

    if there was a "deadhorse" mod option I'd be modded into oblivion

    Naw, this is slashdot. +5, dead horse

    But what about those people who don't have the net?

    The only one I know not on the internet is my 76 year old dad, and he hasn't been a music fan since they stopped playing Willie Nelson on the radio. You might as well ask "what about those people who don't have radios".

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  7. TV? by slapout · · Score: 2, Funny

    Remind me again...what does MTV have to do with music?

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    1. Re:TV? by Mex · · Score: 2, Funny

      They've been trying to kill it since 1980, so I suppose this article is just a progress report.

  8. Typo in headline... by Kiuas · · Score: 2, Funny

    MTV: 2007 Borked the Music Industry
    I think it was supposed to say: MTV: 2007 Borged the Music Industry.

    "We are the RIAA. Lower your lawyers, and surrender your lawsuits. You will be assimilated. Your wealth and intellectual property will be added to our own. Resistance is futile!"
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  9. Re:It's American by WED+Fan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn kids, get off my lawn!

    Generation whine, with their "jargon files" and all and their epods and blobs and whotubes and "oh we have to save the planet" and damn it, the word is "porn" not "pr0n". Why in my day we have perfectly crumulent words like "groovy" and "far out" and "stick it to the man" wasn't an invitation for gay sex.

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  10. Re:The Kids Aren't Taking It by BlueParrot · · Score: 5, Funny

    What would help music sales, cd or otherwise, is a decent way to find the music people wants to hear.


    Yea, I hate to SEARCH for music. It would be nice if I didn't have to SEARCH so much, like if there was a webpage which could help me SEARCH for music. Heck, you could even imagine a company making money by offering a SEARCH service of some sort. Like when people SEARCH for airline tickets travel agencies do the SEARCH for them. If there was only some sort of SEARCH company which could help me SEARCH for music in a similar way. Maybe if there was a way to combine SEARCH with ADVERTISING. Do you think anybody could make money that way?

    I'm still waiting for gTunes.

  11. Re:MTV itself is helping with the decline by geminidomino · · Score: 3, Funny

    MTV used to be the best channel on television. For the past 10 years it has been nothing but a reality tv slop fest. It is a channel for the unintelligent, hands down. As opposed to 10 years ago, when they brought us gems of intelligence and witticism like these...
  12. Re:Why should they care? by sm62704 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll be dating myself

    Spoken like a true nerd! ;)

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  13. Re:It's American by WED+Fan · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean when dinosaurs roamed the earth?

    You mean petroleum-on-the-hoof?

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  14. Re:Burying the record companies by OakDragon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Go to concerts/pubs/etc

    Is this off the root directory?