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Originally Posted by narcoman  you're kidding right? We've ALL known this is where it was going even since the irst days of CDR burners and the FTP protocols of the internet. I saw this whole thing back in 1993 - i'm just surprised that we're five years behind where i thought we;d be AND that the biggest of the sales were in 2000 !!
What's amazing is that soooo many people (myself included) were warning and giving talks about internet downloads of music over 12 years ago. In fact back in 1997 i was part of a consortium to put together an web shop based around music internet downloads with the early Rio player, which i presented at several music conventions around the world.
Even took it to all the majors - "we dont think there is a significant future in music downloading" - this was their opportunity to get it on with the online music community BEFORE there was any significant piracy. They could have lobbied (and won) against the startup of organisations like Napster or Kazaa and got people like the MCPS to license any online shenanigans - putting in place a fee, for example, to even HAVE an online connection since it has LONG been predicted as a delivery mechanism for digital product.
Did anyone listen even though it was the majority of us (the lower hard working echelons of the music/muzak industry) saying so? |
Narco,
I understand that you may have been able to make an "educated guess" at some point, even if that point was 12-15 years ago. But you could not have
known where we would be. If you could have
known, well then how many lotteries have you won? Boy, seeing into the future is a skill i would love to have.
Shitty sarcasm aside, what i am saying is that there was a time when nobody would've have had a shred of an idea that we would be where we are now. There was a period where the Majors, with their way of doing business ruled. And that time has not entirely ended. But even so, there have been these developments, both technological and societal, that were happening underground, in the background even while these kings ruled.
This cross-over period of old business model to new business model has been going on for some time, and will maybe go on for a while longer. We have all at different points seen that "the times, they are a-changin".
But people who claim to have absolute premonition or foresight of the events are talking BS.
Anyway, some people are listening now. Others, like Minipoddle, not yet.