I'll post more on this when I'm not so tired but the problem really lies in the fact that neither of the aforementioned industries know well enough how to compete against free and both are too inflexible and unwilling to admit that bankrupt and out of business is where they'll be if they don't learn to embrace the price point of no price point at all.
There's a reason that this years iPod offers twice as much storage capacity as last years model at the same price point and this reason is so far disconnected from the idea of filling that iPod at the cost of 99 cents per song that it almost goes without saying.
The fact that the blockbusters aren't the most popularly downloaded serves to further illustrate the obvious disconnect.
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Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth
I remembering sharing tapes when I was a kid because I couldn't afford every album I wanted, is that really any different? Taping songs from the radio, taping movies from television? Sharing with your friends? Both have been going on for decades for the same reasons. Both industries have been creating a pissed off customer base for generations, now that the tech has caught up they're paying the price. It may not make it ethically or morally right but these things are going to happen when you run a business that way, especially when you sell something people can't really get anywhere else. Neither industry is going to get much sympahty from me.
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That's one way to look at it but I really don't think it's as much the result of a pissed off consumer base tired of being goaded into buying a crap album by a few good singles. People are more interested in music and media now than ever - the fact that these industries can't manage to convert all that interest into dollars is merely symptomatic of a failed industry too dumb to realize that the creation of a false sense of scarcity isn't going to work any longer.
I've given more time to watching poor quality, poorly acted, poorly edited (if at all) homemade multiple part series on Youtube than I'd give most blockbusters if the tickets were half the $12 ticket price they're charing in my city.
Free is not only where all the moneys at but where the survivals of their industries lie. They simply need to get with the times.