As the music industry loses sales, they want to provide music which is less "threatening" [meaning, takes less risks]. But since that ends up being pre-fab pablum such as britany spears, people hold on to their cash--which perpetuates the cylce.
Obviously, what will have to happen (from the *AA point of view) is:
1)P2p will have to be eliminated. There is no such thing as a free lunch--particularly when finances are running in the red. They will have to stop the hemmoraging of revenue due to people getting free "samples" and then not feeding into the revenue stream
2)a "independent" movment will need to come along that the industry can captialise on. Something along the lines of the hippy and punk movements in the past. This would generate "buzz" and, therefor, sales--and would go a long ways towards concealing the cultural/esthetic bankruptcy of the modern entertainment industry.
Without one or both of those things happening, I fear we will have an ongoing barrage of tepid britany-clones and [tv-wise] full house knock-offs..without end.
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Now, if we can only get some music to sell ...
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(anyone going to go for the +1 funny and suggest britany spears?
As the music industry loses sales, they want to provide music which is less "threatening" [meaning, takes less risks]. But since that ends up being pre-fab pablum such as britany spears, people hold on to their cash--which perpetuates the cylce. Obviously, what will have to happen (from the *AA point of view) is: 1)P2p will have to be eliminated. There is no such thing as a free lunch--particularly when finances are running in the red. They will have to stop the hemmoraging of revenue due to people getting free "samples" and then not feeding into the revenue stream 2)a "independent" movment will need to come along that the industry can captialise on. Something along the lines of the hippy and punk movements in the past. This would generate "buzz" and, therefor, sales--and would go a long ways towards concealing the cultural/esthetic bankruptcy of the modern entertainment industry. Without one or both of those things happening, I fear we will have an ongoing barrage of tepid britany-clones and [tv-wise] full house knock-offs ..without end.