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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
Not really, you'll recall - and I pointed this out earlier - the music businesses made and sold the blank cassette tapes and the mediums by which they were played back - both domestically and personally (Hi-Fi tape deck, portable tape deck and Walkman). Effectively they were making more money due to the required outlay on the part of the consumer to keep up with technology.
If anything the advent and subsequent popularity of the cassette further increased the profits of the music industry, "simple economics" as nffc would put it.
See above. Bear in mind also that the 80's saw the introduction of the CD as a medium. Subsequently, and in tandem with the introduction of CD Walkmen and Mini Disks, the demand for vinyl (as a non portable medium) fell.
See above. Once the transition to the binary (MP3) came about the music businesses were quick to corner the blank cd markets -0nce again they, for the greater part, are the manufacturers of playback and recording machines. It truly "got out of hand" when someone not connected with the music business (Apple) created a stand alone platform.
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Hang on, it seems to me that the players that made money out of the media and the playback equipment overlap with, but certainly don't make up the copyright holders/labels. Sure, Sony, Philips et al. have/had their content branches, but generally, the labels that really lose out on copyright infringement are not part of the media and playback producing industry? Or are you saying that the big guns didn't give a hoot about the losses of the minor players because they were getting their money anyway?
(Incidentally, bakc in the 80s Holland introduced a levy on blank media to recoup some of the lost sales, which I thought was a really good idea)
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Nice pun. Neither do I. I'm just pointing out that taking something for free just because you can does not make it right or OK. It comes at a cost and even if you buy the track / album later as many claim to do, it does not deflect from the fact that you acquired it without paying first.
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Yes, I do agree there, but I'm also a big fan of the try before you buy concept. It's good to see services like Spotify spring up that allow you to do so legally, because the 'buy in order to try' business model really is outdated imo.