This is similar to the time when recorded music began being sold, or when radio started playing recorded music. Everyone was convinced that live performances would die out, and concerts would lose to recording studio sessions. It didn't happen of course, nor will the death of the "music industry" (though more appropriately TFA should be referring to as the "recording industry"). The industry has been changing over the course of the last several years, and will continue to do so.
I also agree with the earlier posts that said the reason for decreased CD sales is due to lower quality content. I have been burned far too many times by buying an entire CD and finding that the only songs I like are the two or three I've heard on the radio. I think if the recording studios want to keep selling CDs/records/albums, they will need to put out content that stands together as a piece of performance art, not a compilation of singles. Great examples of this (for me anyway) include Pearl Jam's Ten, Pink Floyd's The Wall, or even Fiona Apple's Tidal, all of which in my opinion are greater as an album than as a sum of their individual songs.
Yeah, so, like, I know this guy who got shocked by a Dell laptop. He said so on a bunch of forums but moderators kept deleting his posts. I think Dell was behind it, man.
You know, they also have a car that can run totally on water, man, but the government keeps covering it up!
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The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the same day they start making vacuum cleaners.
There's plenty of FREE screensavers and the like out there as well... doesn't mean I want to trade FREE for my (possibly) personal info. In the same way, I don't want anyone else knowing what's in my PC without at LEAST asking my permission first.
Google toolbar being a good example of the right way to do it - they ask you at install if you want to use "advanced features" which involve pushing some of your info over to Google's servers.
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This is similar to the time when recorded music began being sold, or when radio started playing recorded music. Everyone was convinced that live performances would die out, and concerts would lose to recording studio sessions. It didn't happen of course, nor will the death of the "music industry" (though more appropriately TFA should be referring to as the "recording industry"). The industry has been changing over the course of the last several years, and will continue to do so.
I also agree with the earlier posts that said the reason for decreased CD sales is due to lower quality content. I have been burned far too many times by buying an entire CD and finding that the only songs I like are the two or three I've heard on the radio. I think if the recording studios want to keep selling CDs/records/albums, they will need to put out content that stands together as a piece of performance art, not a compilation of singles. Great examples of this (for me anyway) include Pearl Jam's Ten, Pink Floyd's The Wall, or even Fiona Apple's Tidal, all of which in my opinion are greater as an album than as a sum of their individual songs.
Yeah, so, like, I know this guy who got shocked by a Dell laptop. He said so on a bunch of forums but moderators kept deleting his posts. I think Dell was behind it, man.
You know, they also have a car that can run totally on water, man, but the government keeps covering it up!
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The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the same day they start making vacuum cleaners.
Google toolbar being a good example of the right way to do it - they ask you at install if you want to use "advanced features" which involve pushing some of your info over to Google's servers.
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My $0.02 worth.