Really great article on File Sharing

Discussion in 'Computer Science & Culture' started by spyderweb84, Jun 28, 2003.

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  1. spyderweb84 Registered Senior Member

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    Those who, like the RIAA and the MPAA, are trying to put roadblocks around the Internet will fail. The programmers and the kids (often one and the same) will stay a step ahead of them. Finally, the Internet police will give up. As a result, within ten, at most twenty years, every form of art that can be digitized--every song, every movie, every book--will be available for free to everyone who owns a computer. The recording, movie and book distribution industries as we know them will collapse, though there will continue to be a cottage industry for those who, driven by nostalgia, demand actual vinyl records and paper books, or want to watch movies in large groups at movie theaters instead of in their own, far superior, home entertainment centers. Art that cannot be digitized and passed through wires or the ether, such as sculpture and painting, will flourish, in part because of the very fact that it cannot be translated by Booean algebra and is therefore extra-special. Art that depends on live performances--rock concerts, live theater, novel and poetry readings--will likewise flourish, and that’s how most singers, actors and writers will make their livings. Finally, art itself will be more malleable than ever, since every digitized novel can be re-edited instantly by anyone who receives it on his computer, and every song changed to suit the listener--much as those who recited the Iliad modified it with each retelling, often, I suspect, improving it. This audience-editing, of course, is already happening and can never be stopped.

    Rest of the article can be found here: Here

    That guy hit the nail on the head.
     
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  3. jkish2 Classic Registered Senior Member

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    Now that's a point that I wish more people could make. If your a true artist, you do it for the expression... Though the money is an extra bonus. Not the other way around.

    Now if only we could somehow beat this into the heads of those crazy bitch-brains over at the RIAA. Or even to the gerriatric gezzers in the united states senate.

    Does it really have to come down to the corparations being left out in the cold, dick in hand, to realize they're going about this the whole wrong way?

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  5. ZwiSter Registered Senior Member

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    "Or maybe artists will rely on patrons to support them, as Michelangelo relied on the Medicis in Renaissance Florence."


    I think there is another very important point missing: The fans can be patrons themselves, small scale big number patrons aka micro patronage.

    In earlier times, noone could have paid an artist, but those big patrons. But now, every fan could spend 1€ or 1$ or a few ¥ per month for his/her favourite artists. 5.000 Fans would make you a good living, and the Fans wouldn't realy pay much. They wouldn't have to pay for your music, just for concerts and live exibitions.

    What about 1.000.000 Fans?

    You could have five or six favourite bands, and deeply involved fans coudl even support small groups, whoose music pleases only 100 people in the whole world. I think music would become much more free like that.
     
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  7. geoffk Registered Senior Member

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    i think it comes down to eliminating the middle man. we can support artists by getting music, art, books direct. i've figured i'd take the money saved by file sharing, and go see more live shows. besides, the artists make more money by touring then album sales.
     
  8. bunni Registered Member

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    This is a bit too in the year 2000... But the basic premise sounds about right.

    Don't. Fucking. Count on it.

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  9. Fen Registered Senior Member

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    Paintings and sculpture?

    Well, pictures are obvious, and sculpture can obviously be replicated in any VR system. Or even analyzed and replicated in a matter replicator (not too far off).
     
  10. Voodoo Child Registered Senior Member

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    I'm not sure that is true. As bandwidth increases I think they will lose more and more of their bottomline. They will either continue with their Verizon/we want names campaign or aggressively push the legal e-commerce alternatives, ie. paying for it(that sounds so dirty). More likely is that they will do both. They have fuckloads of money, political influence and they have the law on their side. They could engage in a serious legal crusade if they got desperate enough. And perhaps a techy crusade( unlikely since the miserable fuckers can't even their website up).

    They will not adopt the alternative direct funding model because it will reduce their power and their salaries. They will draw the good artists because they have fistfuls of cash and the ability to promote the shit out of stuff. All they need to do is throw wads of green at the most popular 10%.
     
  11. wet1 Wanderer Registered Senior Member

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    Want to throw the RIAA a loop? Don't buy anything new. Get your music from the garage sale, the used book store, whatever.

    What you are not hearing is the fear that this will alienate the consumer (the music industry). Should that happen, support for the RIAA will dry up like a mud puddle.

    I have posted rants against the RIAA before so will not do it again, now.
     
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