Originally Posted by Trill Trax ➡️

The article below is great insight on the track that the music industry is headed. What do you fellow GS'z think?

Digital Music News - Uh-Oh: A New Report Says Downloads Are Flattening 'In All Key Markets...'

Originally Posted by Trill Trax ➡️

Right. Its funny because the labels STILL have not embraced change. With everything else going on and has gone on the past decade they still are blind to innovation. Musicians simply can not make a profit with spotify. Of course there are other outlets but today it seems "touring" as well as digial downloads.

Originally Posted by aroundtheworld ➡️

Seems plausible. It's hard to find a compelling logic that recommends one's purchase of a track if one can be assured of reliable access to that track through an online streaming service.

Originally Posted by rack gear ➡️

Originally Posted by JJAM ➡️

Streaming will prevail because it's what the majors want - have heard this from a few people at some of those labels.

Originally Posted by rack gear ➡️

we'll see... no one is going to support a business that does not make sense financially.

Originally Posted by Don Hills ➡️

... like the music business.

Originally Posted by rack gear ➡️

well, the music business did just fine till the turn of the century...

Originally Posted by Don Hills ➡️

... and then Edison came along.

Originally Posted by rack gear ➡️

wrong century...

Originally Posted by Don Hills ➡️

Nope. Those who fail to learn from history, etc....

The phonograph was just as disruptive a technology as the Internet.

Originally Posted by John Philip Sousa, 'The Menace of Mechanical Music,' 1906

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On a matter upon which I feel so deeply, and which I consider so far-reaching, I am quite willing to be reckoned an alarmist, admittedly swayed in part by personal interest, as well as by the impending harm to American musical art. I foresee a marked deterioration in American music and musical taste, an interruption in the musical development of the country, and a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue – or rather by vice – of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines.
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Right here is the menace in machine-made music! The first rift in the lute has appeared. The cheaper of these instruments of the home are no longer being purchased as formerly, and all because the automatic music devices are usurping their places.
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But let the mechanical music-maker be generally introduced into the homes; hour for hour these same girls will listen to the machine's performance and, sure as can be, lose finally all interest in technical study.

Under such conditions the tide of amateurism cannot but recede, until there will be left only the mechanical device and the professional executant. Singing will no longer be a fine accomplishment; vocal exercises, so important a factor in the curriculum of physical culture, will be out of vogue!

Then what of the national throat? Will it not weaken? What of the national chest? Will it not shrink?
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When a mother can turn on the phonograph with the same ease that she applies to the electric light, will she croon her baby to slumber with sweet lullabys, or will the infant be put to sleep by machinery?

Children are naturally imitative, and if, in their infancy, they hear only phonographs, will they not sing, if they sing at all, in imitation and finally become simply human phonographs – without soul or expression? Congregational singing will suffer also, which, though crude at times, at least improves the respiration of many a weary sinner and softens the voices of those who live amid tumult and noise.
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Originally Posted by Don Hills ➡️

Nope. Those who fail to learn from history, etc....

The phonograph was just as disruptive a technology as the Internet.

Originally Posted by rack gear ➡️

really don? who was distributing millions of phonographs globally, daily?

Originally Posted by Don Hills ➡️

You really don't get it, after aroundtheworld gave you all the clues you should need? Think it through. There was a fundamental shift. Who was massively disadvantaged by the phonograph? Who made lots of money from it? What lessons should be learned from it? If you're so shortsighted as to think that fixing the copyright infringement problem will go very far to solving the problems the industry currently faces, then you deserve to be disappointed.

Actually, to be fair, I don't think you're that shortsighted. You've posted several times about your willingness to adapt, given a fair playing field. I just don't see much evidence of it on a day-to-day basis, which leads to you playing whack-a-mole with people who haven't read you as much. Regardless, I think the point is valid - there are lessons that we can all learn.

Originally Posted by rack gear ➡️

the golden age of hollywood ended due to a new disruptive technology called "television."

Originally Posted by Eat ➡️

you did neglect to mention a number of other causes, at least one of which was the studio system itself

Originally Posted by rack gear ➡️

the studio system was working just fine, but probably would have eventually evolved on it's own

Originally Posted by Eat ➡️

i'm reading that the big frustration here with these posters you blanketly term 'freehadists', is that they aren't at all for piracy, rather they are trying to have you understand that, for better or worse, you all need to deal with the fact that everything is in the process of what could very well be a complete overhaul.... and this constant focus on the p***** thing as the be all and end all of all your worries is to have head firmly planted etc etc and so on crush two cloves of garlic and saute lightly

Originally Posted by Eat ➡️

the studio system as a distribution monopoly was busted up allowing for the floodgates of indie and foreign production and distribution.

Originally Posted by Eat ➡️

there's your mental block right there.

and we'll never know what the studio system would have evolved into on its own, now would we...

Originally Posted by Eat ➡️

you're about as obtuse as they come. you must be a bot spewing by rote, with the same damn litany of links in every post.... either that or you're a completely mad person

Originally Posted by Eat ➡️

you're about as obtuse as they come. you must be a bot spewing by rote, with the same damn litany of links in every post.... either that or you're a completely mad person

Originally Posted by aroundtheworld ➡️

I've seen it suggested that he is at least in part some kind of search engine optimization bot/agent; his current pallete of links notably all direct toward that one particular blog. Given how unrelated many of his replies tend to be toward the subject matter to which they are addressed (the submission two posts above my own here being a good example), the SEO agent theory does seem at least marginally plausible. But there are rare instances in which he posts and converses as a genuine human being would, so I'd say that there is not yet a conclusive body of evidence to support either possibility.