To dwindle away...
Posted Dec 15, 2005 5:44 UTC (Thu) by
xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
In reply to:
No kidding by jeaton
Parent article:
GStreamer to support DRM
> If the music and movie industries are not fueled with funds,
> they'll simply dwindle away under a model you desire.
Now that would be a rosy outcome! No longer will record companies be
able to profit by signing bands into indentured labour, throwing up some
glossy posters and videos then pressing the 'copy' button at $15 a pop.
More likely is that these industries will adapt to a different business
model that offers what the real market -- the consuming public, which
happens to have taste and duplicating machines of its own -- demands,
instead of demanding draconian enforcement of new artificial monopoly
rights.
People have already started spending less money on prerecorded
mass-market CDs and films and more on live entertainment, concert
merchandise (including indie recordings, often on CD-R, at a reasonable
markup) and art objects -- a direct financial return to numerous
individual artists.
No-one here is advocating the abolition of copyright. We *are* decrying
the attempt to keep general-purpose machines out of the hands of the
general public.
> The demise, however, will not be for lack of demand for the product.
It would be for a lack of demand for the product *at the inflated price*
it's offered for. I have no problem paying $20 for a disc if it cost $10
per disc to make the music. I simply don't buy music at those prices if
it has already amortised a million times -- unless it's *really* good (I
confess, I did buy a couple of Beatles albums at full price a year or two
ago).
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