I (and at least 5-6 others) got moderated from Lowery's blog as well. Weird how 6 out of 300 posts disrupt his echo chamber. Here's my deleted post:
?Both of these artists, despite growing global popularity, saw their incomes collapse in the last decade. There is no other explanation except for the fact that ?fans? made the unethical choice to take their music without compensating these artists?
More assumption than fact. Given the complexity of the Internet cloud, it?s pretty much impossible to determine to how many files have been downloaded, and how they directly link to financial losses in the musical industry over that last 15 years. Even if you enacted draconian regulation to monitor the Internet infrastructure, starting from today on, I still don?t think you could get accurate statistics of current worldwide illegal downloading activity, let alone pull log data going back more than a few months.
Anecdotal data is definitely very, very strong ? we all know people who illegally download music. It seems like illegal downloading is deeply ingrained in our culture. But all we have to go on is anecdotes, speculation and projections ? no hard evidence as to the actual EXTENT that it has affected the industry.
Maybe music just sucks now. Maybe the ?general? public is just too mesmerized by ?pushed? electronic media to go out and seek new content on their own. Maybe the media companies just screwed everything up. Maybe artists peak at a certain point in their careers. All I can do is speculate.
I firmly believe in supporting art, film and music. I occasionally get burned by crappy artists and albums, but I still buy LP?s/CD?s/Amazon MP3′s. I probably bought more stuff before Napster and Kazaa got shut down ? when I could sample a few songs by a new (or old) artist, before buying. (And please, can we bury the ridiculously feeble ?You can?t walk into a store and bite an apple/wahoo a 12-pack to sample? analogies? Record stores used to routinely allow customers to listen to (partial) LP?s before buying ? some still do).
And David, dramatizing the deaths of Linkous and Chestnut to underscore your point is just f***ing sick, man. Killed by illegal downloading? If they truly were your friends, then leave them out of your political arguments.
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Re: I wrote this but it got moderated (maybe it is nonsense?)
I (and at least 5-6 others) got moderated from Lowery's blog as well. Weird how 6 out of 300 posts disrupt his echo chamber. Here's my deleted post:
?Both of these artists, despite growing global popularity, saw their incomes collapse in the last decade. There is no other explanation except for the fact that ?fans? made the unethical choice to take their music without compensating these artists?
More assumption than fact. Given the complexity of the Internet cloud, it?s pretty much impossible to determine to how many files have been downloaded, and how they directly link to financial losses in the musical industry over that last 15 years. Even if you enacted draconian regulation to monitor the Internet infrastructure, starting from today on, I still don?t think you could get accurate statistics of current worldwide illegal downloading activity, let alone pull log data going back more than a few months.
Anecdotal data is definitely very, very strong ? we all know people who illegally download music. It seems like illegal downloading is deeply ingrained in our culture. But all we have to go on is anecdotes, speculation and projections ? no hard evidence as to the actual EXTENT that it has affected the industry.
Maybe music just sucks now. Maybe the ?general? public is just too mesmerized by ?pushed? electronic media to go out and seek new content on their own. Maybe the media companies just screwed everything up. Maybe artists peak at a certain point in their careers. All I can do is speculate.
I firmly believe in supporting art, film and music. I occasionally get burned by crappy artists and albums, but I still buy LP?s/CD?s/Amazon MP3′s. I probably bought more stuff before Napster and Kazaa got shut down ? when I could sample a few songs by a new (or old) artist, before buying. (And please, can we bury the ridiculously feeble ?You can?t walk into a store and bite an apple/wahoo a 12-pack to sample? analogies? Record stores used to routinely allow customers to listen to (partial) LP?s before buying ? some still do).
And David, dramatizing the deaths of Linkous and Chestnut to underscore your point is just f***ing sick, man. Killed by illegal downloading? If they truly were your friends, then leave them out of your political arguments.