music is a service, not a product (!?)
i saw the above said on a Metafilter discussion here.
Case in question being Lily Allen's blog entry on Myspace, where she goes on about things painfully known to the entire community. As any discussion on piracy it has quickly grown into a long thread in which one can see interesting points such as "the core of the music business was a high cost of entry to record and distribute music, not the inherent value of the music itself".
(thanks for valuing music as such...)
Now, I don't know whether any of those are true. For all I care, I've resolved not to take part in discussions on piracy. But I'll mention one thing that has become apparent to me: In order to create, an artist must free their mind from everyday distractions, the biggest of which is finance. In simple terms: it works better if you don't have to worry about food.
Oh, and one more thing, regarding "anti"-measures. Read my lips: they don't work.
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Previously
- » spiderboatfishermanloudspeakerflash September 3rd, 2009, late at night
- » how hard can we try? July 31st, 2009, around noon
- » honourable mentions July 4th, 2009, around noon
- » The Creative Cost of Piracy June 10th, 2009, around noon
- » soundwalkers May 6th, 2009, late at night
Posts of note:
- Sony PCM-M10 review - a fantastic portable two-track recorder.
- is it a great time to be in the music industry? - music or music business?
- tiger airport audio dropouts fix - Apple f*cked up my computer for the third time. Luckily it was all software and could be fixed.
- Theta - I did the music to this Nintendo DS game
- The IT610 Crowd - a Sony Ericsson T610 ringtone
- Gear hall of shame - a few pieces of gear that got on my nerves
- Dolby NR in software - useless but fun
- dBlue Glitch on a Mac? (a usable solution)
- "Minus Bells" - a (mac) AdiumX soundset (1000+ downloads and counting)
- uv@!ttl Podcast - Every 6 weeks I present my favourite tracks in a 1-hour mp3.
Comments:
pyrop says:
Is this essentially a symptom of the modern conception of music being recording-based rather than performance-based?
posted: September 24th, 2009, in the small hoursgeorge says:
@pyrop,
posted: September 24th, 2009, in the afternoonwould it help you better if I said "a composer", not "an artist"?