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Originally Posted by Igottago
Do you feel the same way about oil companies who are scrambling to sustain their business model in a world where there is pressure to adapt new forms of clean energy?
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I doubt he does. (I think) his point is that in the case of media, people have found, refined and begun using methods to circumvent the company's death grip on the status quo. In other words, the people got pissed about how the industry operated and did something about it (rightful or wrongful).
In the oil company scenario, the people may have started getting angry but have yet to really do fu*k all about it. I mean, if we really cared that much, we'd all be burning McDonald's french fry oil in our cars and growing algae in the bath tub.
Back to Pastiche's original point......I understand the mood/tone that he's trying to tap into.. After decades of being essentially forced into replacing collections over and over again, paying outrageous prices each time, I finally got sick of it as well. Much of my current digital music library has been downloaded.....but I've got *zero* guilt attached to albums I've already bought before.
Where the record industry (for example) used to thrive was in format shifting. Issue everything on vinyl. Sales start to dip, move to cassette. Of course, getting a quality record player (as most can tell you) was essentially impossible during the (late) 1980-2005. Sales start to dip again, move to CD, and so on, and so on. Where they're angry now is that by becoming digital, they've lost their industry leverage....not their copyright. For the first time EVER, people can do pretty much whatever they want.