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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)."
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!"
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Just like in 1979, eh?
At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend I don't care that you're not here with me
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.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
...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".
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
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.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
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.
I'll be dating myself
;)
Spoken like a true nerd!
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
You mean petroleum-on-the-hoof?
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.