[Ilugc] free music : what happened - whats happening - why itshappening
- From: sensunda@xxxxxxxxx (Senthil Sundaram (sensunda))
- Date: Thu Jun 19 22:50:28 2008
WHY ITS HAPPENING
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there are lots of other things going on in the Net about ownership.
Music and movies and various other forms of culture are being
distributed better by children than by people that are being paid to
do the work. Artists are beginning to discover that if they allow
children to distribute art in a freehanded sort of way, they will do
better than they do in the current slavery in which they are kept by
the culture vultures, who do, it is true, make a good deal of money
out of music, but they do so primarily by keeping ninety-four cents
out of every dollar and rendering six to the musicians, which isn't
very good for the musicians.
Hence, again, we are going back to square one - some middlemen who'll
take care of all that hassle, so you're free to make music. What you're
seeing is not any sort of revolution, just an evolution of a business
model. I won't be too surprised if YouTube gets into record distribution
business. Wait. It probably is already in that business. At least, Hulu
is (legally).
It's nice to make speeches about freedom, art, culture, yadda yadda, but
the music industry is born out of a necessity, and the current model
might be crumbling, but there will be a new one in it's place (iTunes is
just one of its' forms).
V.
absoultely!! I don't think Eben is asking for aboloition of middle
men...or abolition of business ...
but for more meaningful business models...which do not restrict
'distribution' in the name of 'business'..especially when cost of
copying is marginal and tending to 0...all that eben is saying is that
monopoly is not healthy ..and that there are people interested in
creative commons..
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