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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So that doesn't mean owning it? 
We never cared about owning a plastic disc, we cared about listening to the music on it.
The part I can't understand is why did a huge industry with so many clever people and so much money.Suffer from online access to their product. While so many people here with less money and no way as clever, swear blind the Internet brought a huge boom to porn. </sarcasm> |
No, it doesn't mean owning it. I know a lot of people who take pride in their CD collection. They like people seeing and knowing how many CDs they own (the same can be said for books and DVDs for other people). Some people want to outright own their music and be able to say, "I own 1,000 CDs." or whatever. Streaming isn't ownership, it is rental.
The problem with the music industry, and I worked in it for a while so I saw it first hand, is that it is kind of like the government. They seem to always be a step or two behind when it comes to new technology. Back in 90's when I was in the industry if a band had a top 10 hit it meant millions in sales for the record label because the only way you could own that song was to buy the entire CD. That method had worked for them for decades so they weren't about to budge from it. Had they adapted earlier piracy might not have bit them in the ass so badly.
I can remember hearing one of the marketing guys for the record label I worked for talking about the Internet and how it will never replace record stores because people like the experience of going to record stores. As we can see now that is not the case and it holds true for porn as well. Yes, there are some people who like to go to record stores to buy music, just like there are some people who still like to go to porn stores and jack off in the booths. However, the Internet made delivery instant, convenient and anonymous. Those three factors drove the porn boom and killed record stores.