Destandardize the pop standard
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Cringely on P2P
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More interesting than P2P's effect on the entertainment business model is P2P's effect on the actual content and form of entertainment. Once it becomes easier to obtain just the best, individual tracks from an artist than to obtain a 45 - 65 minute album made up of 10 - 14 3.5min tracks, does the entertainment unit of "album" lose relevance? Will we see less "filler" content produced to fill out an album?
Without the arbitrary constraint of making most cost effective use of the the Vinyl/CD medium by filling it, I believe artists will be able to produce a lower quantity of higher quality material and distribute it directly to their fan base as a result of P2P, and this is good for the public, if not the RIAA. Maybe this will even free us from the decades-old but arbitrary standard of three and a half minute tracks. Goodbye Oops...I did it again, hello In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
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More interesting than P2P's effect on the entertainment business model is P2P's effect on the actual content and form of entertainment. Once it becomes easier to obtain just the best, individual tracks from an artist than to obtain a 45 - 65 minute album made up of 10 - 14 3.5min tracks, does the entertainment unit of "album" lose relevance? Will we see less "filler" content produced to fill out an album? Without the arbitrary constraint of making most cost effective use of the the Vinyl/CD medium by filling it, I believe artists will be able to produce a lower quantity of higher quality material and distribute it directly to their fan base as a result of P2P, and this is good for the public, if not the RIAA. Maybe this will even free us from the decades-old but arbitrary standard of three and a half minute tracks. Goodbye Oops...I did it again, hello In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.