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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Without reading the article, I've had that thought for a long time. <div><br></div><div>It's basic supply and demand. Increase the supply to fill demand at a given quality level and the price drops. I don't think its any coincidence that as access to professional grade tools has increased, industry has started hurting - particularly since peoples standards for what they consider 'quality' music is very subject and easily attainable at the home/artisan level. </div><div><br></div><div>Also, people want video. They don't actually care about music by itself much anymore. Put a track on sound cloud and no one really cares. Put a video on youtube (even if its just disembodied hands tweaking knobs) and you will get a LOT more attention. Thats just the way people are I suppose. </div><div><br></div><div>Tony<br><br><div>> From: seclorum@mac.com<br>> Subject: Music Industry? What industry?<br>> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:59:45 +0200<br>> To: music-bar@lists.music-bar.org<br>> <br>> Nice article making the blog-rounds today:<br>> <br>> http://rocknerd.co.uk/2013/09/13/culture-is-not-about-aesthetics-punk-rock-is-now-enforced-by-law/<br>> <br>> tl;dr- the music industry isn't dying because of piracy - its dying because of competition. In a nutshell: there are too many people trying to be professional musicians.<br>> <br>> What thinks the -bar?<br>> <br>> j.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> music-bar mailing list<br>> music-bar@lists.music-bar.org<br>> http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar<br></div></div> </div></body>
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