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Originally Posted by **********
It won't stop the bleeding but it will definitely help. The music industry and the movie industry are in the same fight like we are. They are not only surviving but thriving. There is an answer, we just have to keep looking.
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I don't know why everybody keeps saying the music industry is "thriving".
NO it's not. You look at the billboard charts and it's a catastrophe. And all the single song downloads everyone says is "thriving"...not compared to what it was when musicians were really making money.
Look, I've been a pro musician since I was 8 years old (playing steel guitar around the country in 1969). The music industry is a ghost town/shell of what it once was.
ITunes can still make some money. But Jesus Christ! Don't any of you remember when a major band used to ship an album PLATINUM! And "platinum" back then meant ONE MILLION.
That shit hardly happens at all anymore. Used to happen every week because EVERYBODY bought the new albums and singles.
The music industry is on life support. And the only thing making real money (compared to what it once was at it's height) are the big (old) bands going on worldwide multi-year tours.
The movie industry is an entirely different beast. It's an EXPERIENCE.
You don't take your wife and kids to the living room to watch a ripped version of the newest movie on your computer on a Friday night.
No.
You take them to the MOVIE THEATER. It's a night out for your family. Or a date.
Totally different.
And having said that...BOTH of those things are COMPLETELY different from the porn business.
People get their porn when they are ALONE.
And they have to be sneaky to buy it (so their wives or girlfriends don't catch them)
Having it given away for free DESTROYS the business model of selling porn in ways that don't touch the music or movies industry.