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June 28, 2005
The REAL reason music and movie industry revenues are down?
The recent decision against file sharing software outfits was spurred, in part, by major music labels and movie studios because -- as they've argued for nearly ten years now -- illegal downloading hurts their profits.
While there is some truth to their claims, the amount of illegal downloading is down and the amount of legal downloading is up. The scare tactics seemed to have worked, though who's to say that other, newer technologies won't spring up to make the illegal downloading easier and, say, safer for the illegal downloader.
A bigger issue? The record labels and movie studios (two industries NOTORIOUS for screwing artists) are putting out, how do I put this, CRAP. In essence, SCREWING the consumer out of their hard-earned cash. On average, if people don't want to pay to see the latest Tom Cruise turd, they almost certainly don't want to go through the trouble of illegally downloading it, as it is still a TURD and the "oh, man, I can download this" craze wore off at least a year ago. Our eyes, ears and minds are FLOODED with product -- VERY little of it vital -- and we are rebelling, thank you. Go cry in your Maserati.
Give me something to buy. Give me something to watch. Not only have I not seen 10 movies this year (and I get free tickets), I don't think I can NAME ten movies this year. AND I LOVE MOVIES!!!
And before you shed a tear for the studios, keep in mind that DVD sales are through the roof. So I guess we ARE buying their crap. In more ways than one...
OK. I'm done.
| By colrus | 12:08 PM
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