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I am an old guy but you guys sound like a bunch of "get off my lawn" old farts we dealt with when growing up. If the internet goes dark for a short period music and facebook is the least of our worries. Try banking or selling stocks or ordering your clothes or pick whatever.
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The bottom line is physical media and downloads may not be dead but they will soon become a quaint reminders of phases in this hobby. Just who do you think is going to stock and sell physical media? It is easy to look back at CD titles previously sold by Amazon that are now only available as downloads. Do you really think that records labels will continue to maintain manufacturing capacity when CD sales dropped under $1 billion for the first time since 1986. It is much cheaper for these companies to provide data for streaming. Per the RIAA: “Revenues from streaming music platforms grew 30% year-over-year to reach $7.4 billion, contributing 75% of total revenues for 2018, and accounting for virtually all the revenue growth for the year.”
In the near future CD's will take its place along side vinyl was as a niche market for those willing (or enjoying) all of the associated issues with that media for whatever perceived sonic benefits they seek. I am sure there are those that cannot find replacements for the 78 shellacs. |
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However, I would actually argue the real motive behind subscription services is actually not demand side. I'll give you an example. I am an engineer and worked at Microsoft for 10 years (I left in 2018). One of the areas my org leadership was obsessed with was piracy. Or, more succinctly, the impact piracy caused on Microsoft's ability or inability to make money. Piracy is an extremely broad and complex issue, but at a very high level, the crux of the issue is people dont actually own software (or music for that matter) even if they purchased it. If you actually read the terms of use, you are granted a perpetual license to *use* the digital good within the bounds of the license agreement. Everything digital falls under these same types of license agreements. You have a right to use the bits, but you dont own them. Several years back (at least 9 from what I can recall) there was internal debate about how to change the mindset of people thinking they owned their own software (even though they paid for it). The comparison was made to your cell phone provider or cable company in that users dont ever feel they "own" those services; even though to Microsoft, they had the same type of license agreement with their users as those companies. Coincidentally, this same type of thought is what lead to "the cloud" (which everyone called software as a service at the time). There is a ton of group think in the tech industry and they all follow each other like cattle. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, etc., all do the same crap and follow what each other does. They also lobby governments and pull all sorts of crap at those levels too. Streaming services like Tidal do offer value, but it is much more expensive than it actually appears due to how much control you surrender in the deal. Having said this, there is no way to stop turning things into services as even if people refused to use them, its already been decided that there wont be any other distribution mechanisms. So while Millennials may in fact actually like this form of distribution, they are not the driving factor. The tech companies have chosen this route as its the only way for them to make sure they perpetually monetize you. |
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The concept of "value" is very much subjective, and not everyone agrees with your opinion that you state as fact.
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