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MTV: 2007 Borked the Music Industry

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-the-poetry-and-love-industries dept.

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. Borked by da5idnetlimit.com · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No need for wikipedia. It immediatly evoked a mindless swarm of robotised warriors sharing a hive mind that contro...

    Sorry. There might have been something in what you said about the editor.
    The proper sentence should have been
    "MTV: 2007 Borged the Music Industry"

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  2. Re:2007: the year slashot rebelled against spellin by slapout · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Welcome to Slashdot. You must be new here.

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  3. 2007 What? by PacketScan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This coming from a network that prides themselves on music television while cramming the time slots with nothing but reality shows. MTV died along time ago.

  4. what does MTV know about music? by DragonTHC · · Score: 1, Redundant

    didn't real world kill the video star?

    MTV hasn't played music in well over a decade.

    If anyone killed the music industry, it's MTV.

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