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Originally Posted by crockett
Hulu fails because it has nothing of interest.. I mean yea your first browse through it is ok for a few things here and there.
Even netflix lacks real long term pull, due to them getting everything way late, specially when talking about TV series.
If these companies treated the web as they do cable TV, with constant fresh content then they would certainly be booming in business.
IMO the TV,Movie & record industry have all failed miserably to capitalize on the web.
The Music industry is absolutely run by brain dead idiots when you look at how horribly they failed to take advantage of the web and then went with something as shitty as things like itunes, when instead they could have been taking over the entire retailer market place for their products.
The Music industry could have created a massive market grab right out from under retailer stores but they were too worried about killing Napster and other sharing sites.
TV & Movie industry seem to suffer from the same limited gene pool with their inability to understand the internet marketplace.
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The main problem the music industry has/had is that for a very long time they have been able to sell a low quality product for a premium price and the internet changed that.
Up until the internet if you wanted a song your only real option was to buy the entire album (Vinyl/tape/CD depending on the decade) and so often you found out that the album had 2 good songs on it and a bunch of crappy filler. When the internet came along those days ended. Now instead of being forced to plunk down $15 for a full album to get the song I want, I can just spend $1 and buy that song. The record industry was not prepared for this and had stables full of shitty bands that couldn't sell once it became a singles driven industry.
Rick Rubin said it best when he said that the music industry used to be the business of selling art, but they lost their way and got in the business of selling product and it cost them.