The Music Industry Strikes Back | System Shock Ep 2



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With music flowing freely over the internet and nobody paying for it, record companies sought to curb online piracy with the help of celebrities, ad campaigns, and a flood of lawsuits. This episode explores how the music industry, the RIAA, and the U.S. Government went head-to-head with the emerging platforms like Napster, KaZaa, iTunes and more in a battle over music rights and money.

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28 thoughts on “The Music Industry Strikes Back | System Shock Ep 2”

  1. Outside of the intellectual property issue, the MP3 format considerably downgrades the quality of original music recordings-What's the point of spending hours balancing EQs & compression on very expensive mixing consoles? It's like wearing dark glasses to look at a Tiepolo painting-

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  2. It's hard to pinpoint any singular point, but the 18 bucks reference only emphasises how much coin the companies were reeling in. As a UK citizen, I'm grateful of the late Gerald Kaufman MP who took the side of the CD consumer and asked the record companies concerned to square the circle between what the format cost to produce and what they fiscally retailed for. Case in point, the double albums that set us back 20 pounds sterling. Now that's what I call a rip off, pun very much intended!
    Now they're instead fleecing people through concert ticket hikes and associated merchandise tie-ins.
    My last gig before lockdown 1 laid bare how even without beers and booklets (programs), has the pendulum swung too far in this direction too. When all this Covid debacle ebbs away, I'll reluctantly see things from the standpoint of the peoples to whoms' jobs rely on this cash stream to at least mitigate the losses, and be stung for it. May that reality come sooner than later, in a favourable balance between all respective parties this time around.

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  3. musicians dont work ,its a passion, a desire from inside, you will make songs because you are driven to do it, why the fuk do millions people paint pictures without selling them?????

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