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Originally Posted by 100th Monkey  Because they can get it for free on TV, radio, myspace, youtube, internet radio, VidZone, and a multitude of other sources which don't require piracy. Add that to the increase in competition for your disposable income and all that music is now competing against movies, ISP fees, smartphone data plans, cable TV, TV on demand, netflix, video games, xbox live, DVDs, Blu-ray, online shopping, books, magazines, Steam, WOW, and, of course, live gigs.
If someone can go to the youtube channel of their favourite artist's label and watch the latest single any time they want, why would they go out of their way to pay for it when they can put that money towards something else? |
I think that you've made some great points.
I do find it interesting that so many here look at the past decade which has been horrible for music and newspapers (online and offline revenues combined for both), and they'll say music's issues are all caused by piracy yet the news industries issues were not.
I've also written about the difference in listening to music when I was 13 (had to buy the tape, copy it off the radio, copy it off MTV, or copy it off a friend) versus the average 13 year old today who can listen to whatever song they want free/legally on youtube.com or the record company's website.
The need to pay in order to access music is gone, because you can access it for free.