The major record companies have always been dragged kicking and screaming into the present, complaining that every new technology is robbing them of revenues - and with recording technology, it evolved into something along the lines of "the consumer is a thief who would rather make a cheap copy of something than actually purchase one from us."
Pre-CD, the industry's whining peaked in the late '70s/early '80s, as the quality of LPs and singles declined sharply, thanks to shrinking pressing cycles and the pressures of selling ever more millions and millions of copies of the flavor of the moment.
Pre-Napster, the industry topped the earlier peak by persuading Congress to pass the legislation that effectively forced the manufacturers of DAT recorders to incorporate SCMS, thus killing DAT as a consumer format.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
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Remember "Home taping is killing music"?
The major record companies have always been dragged kicking and screaming into the present, complaining that every new technology is robbing them of revenues - and with recording technology, it evolved into something along the lines of "the consumer is a thief who would rather make a cheap copy of something than actually purchase one from us."
Pre-CD, the industry's whining peaked in the late '70s/early '80s, as the quality of LPs and singles declined sharply, thanks to shrinking pressing cycles and the pressures of selling ever more millions and millions of copies of the flavor of the moment.
Pre-Napster, the industry topped the earlier peak by persuading Congress to pass the legislation that effectively forced the manufacturers of DAT recorders to incorporate SCMS, thus killing DAT as a consumer format.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...