____/ [H]omer on Wednesday 02 January 2008 01:27 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that thad05@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx spake thusly:
>
>> The only problem with this model is that it decreases the importance
>> (and thus the profits) of record labels and keeps more of the money
>> with the artists. Wait, did I actually call that a 'problem'?
>
> Well it's a "problem" to the media moguls, certainly :)
>
> These moguls are just businessmen; they have zero empathy with the
> creative process, and thus view their role in this system entirely
> dispassionately. That is not, in and of itself, a reprehensible or
> corrupt position to adopt, but at some point the game changed from
> "promotion" to "ownership" (a.k.a. "Intellectual Property"), where
> the "artist" became a "product" (e.g. The Artist Formerly Known as
> Prince case);
Isn't the artist a bystander or a by-product in the same way that OEMs and CIOs
are the real clients of software giants? I agree with you on one thing. The
businessmen haven't a clue about music that they sell. They look at names and
numbers. They urge artists to rename themselves for show-biz purposes too. In
the same way, some media companies keep their staff incognito.
> and the industry became a grotesque, greedy monster;
> out to harvest humans and their artistic works, rather than be the
> symbiotic benefactor that helps them. Now there is no symbiosis at
> all - only leeches sucking every last drop of blood from those who
> are naive enough to play the game.
I don't like the term music industry or music business. What happened to
creativity, art, culture and folklore? I wonder what Gilberto Gil would have
to say about this. He's a big free software fan and advocate. He's also the
minister of culture in Brasil now. I believe he recognised the same issues.
This turned today's music into a heartless industry of re-rendition, pop
beats, and lousy ripoffs of /real/ music from the 80s and 70s.
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