Thursday, August 2, 2007

Were selective not criminals

I cant help but feel disgusted when i hear that 'illegal downloads are distroying the music industry' line, over and over again. I don't see anything wrong in downloading music for free. I see downloading music for free as a form of sampling, similar to listening to the radio or watching a chart show. I have downloaded a couple of albums "illegally" and then gone out and physically bought them. I have also deleated illegal music from my computer when i realised i didn't like it. This is not an argument to clear my concience. If any one is ripping of muscians it is the major record labels who have a shared monopoly and apparently apple aswell. According to http://downhillbattle.org/itunes/ apple makes three times as much money than the artist for every song sold on the site. So much for the artist getting a better deal under itunes.
Lastly I dont see itunes as revoloutionary, i see the way people are selectively using music as been revoloutionary. No one wants to listen to the radio if they have an ipod or another mp3 player. If your up with the play you hear new music through the internet now and choose what you like and add it to your ipod. I think in doing this our generation has put radio stations on the endangered list. Top of the pops is already extinct. I hope radio is next. Why not?

6 Comments:

Blogger Salkz said...

Firstly, why are you doing media if you wish radio to become extinct? Most of the modern media forms today such as TV link back to radio...Radio is the biggest tool for advertising, it reaches more people than any other form! Sometimes you may actually want to hear radio show hosts, as they can be entertaining too.
I listen to George FM in the evenings often because I want to hear about upcoming gigs that are on, or I want to hear the latest tunes from particular DJs, which I would not have been able to find out about if it weren't for the radio! Destroying a whole industry is ludacris, corporations have come about because of radio, for example CanWest. C4 would not be around if it weren't for the Edge radio station.
As I said, radio still remains the medium which reaches the largest market, so you are wrong when you say our generation has put radio stations on the endangered list. Film is not endangered because of TV, radio is not endangered because of ipods and the like.

August 2, 2007 at 10:41 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Radio won't become extinct, it'll just turn itself into newer forms through newer mediums.

As for internet streaming - it's dieing. The majority of the current streams are produced in the US, and the a new bill that's going to be inducted will mean that internet streaming music is going to die off 'cause they can't pay for the copy rights of the music they play.

August 3, 2007 at 1:19 AM  
Blogger calum said...

I want radio stations to become extinct so that public can become more selective and are able to choose what they want to listen too (not advertisements). I want to see the death of commercial radio stations. They have treated the public like guinea pigs for to long. I cant stay on the same radio station for more than five minutes before im subjected to advertisements. Im not saying that advertiseing doesnt belong in the music industry but the way in which is so intrusive in commercial radio does not do any justice to the intelligence of its viewers. Only an idiot would love everything about radio.

August 3, 2007 at 8:50 AM  
Blogger liz shaw said...

Incorrect to the initial poster. I have an ipod, and guess what? I'm listening to the radio right now. You dont' listen to the radio for music, you listen for the whole package, the music, the ads and the announcers (a graduate of the NZRTS speaking).

Radio will never be extinct and nor should it be. There are different types of radio and if mainstream is not your cup of tea then don't listen to it, just as you wouldn't watch a tv show you hated or try a drug that you knew was bad for you.

As for the music industry, record labels are businesses and therefore they have to generate capital in order to be able to sign new artists. It is bloody difficult as a new artist to make it big without the record label and all the publicity and promotional work they do, not to mention distribution.

Having also done two papers on the popular music industry, most bands make their money from touring, nto from selling cds or mp3 files.

Stop blaming the record labels, do you know that since people hve been illegally downloading the cost of CD albums has gone up by about 10$ (from $29.95 a few years ago to $34.95 now).

Forget about the record label if you must, but just respect the artist.

Calum, not everyone can be bothered going online and searching for "underground" music. I know I can't, and I enjoy listening to the radio. There are different radio stations for different people. Record labels may produce a lot of music that we don't like and radio stations may play a lot of music that you don't like, but I'll just re-iterate my point, it is entertainment and it's how many people find out about music.

August 3, 2007 at 2:40 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

quote - (from $29.95 a few years ago to $34.95 now)

not $10

only $5

August 4, 2007 at 12:30 PM  
Blogger Julio Marx Panoff said...

I have been working on radio for a couple of years now, I host two shows on Planet FM, one on Fridays and one on Saturdays.
I play Brazilian Music which I normally download of the internet (for free), am I stealing?

The music I play it would never play in any radio stations here.

I need to come up with new music every week and my show is volunteer so I don't make any money out of it, if I was to buy every song I played how much it would have costed me?

All of my shows go on podcasts, and they can download them or just listen to it by visiting my blog.

My listeners have now the choice of either listening to them on the radio or through the internet, at their own time and where ever they feel like it.
So what the internet has done is just expand the powers of radio; in my opinion radio is stronger and more accesible than ever.
It will never die.

August 6, 2007 at 6:37 PM  

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