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Originally Posted by dirk digler
This is why I don't feel sorry for the music industry and to a lesser extent the movie industry. Sorry Dane.
Before Napster exploded everyone was saying that online music distribution was the future yet the music industry had it head up their ass and still does today. People were telling them they all need to band together and form their own service but they freaking let a software company, Apple, come in and do what they should have been doing years earlier. Even 2 years ago they renegotiated their deal with Apple. You would think they would have had something done in those 6 years but no they are still a bunch of clueless idiots. To show how really stupid they are they think each song is worth $2.00. Apple told them to stfu no one is going buy songs for that amount and they are lucky people are going to pay .99. Apple did cave and offer DRM free songs for $1.29. I would be curious to see how many of those they sell.
And to make matters worse they send out the RIAA to sue grandmas and dead people and all that does is piss people off and make them want to do it more.
The movie industry isn't that much smarter they are just lucky their product is alot bigger to download than a 3mb song to put on Sally's ipod. It actually takes a little work to find a torrent site, download a 1GB-4GB file and put it on a DVD. Most normal people probably can't figure it out. Once mass people figure out streaming and there are better streaming products it is game over for the movie industry as well unless they pull their head out of their ass too.
If I was the movie industry I would come up with a service, device whatever to stream theatrical releases of movies on TV. Charge $10-12 and people can sit in their home and watch a brand new movie. That is the future whether they like it or not and they would make a trillion dollars. But I am not counting on them to actually use their brains and think.
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This is ****ing bullshit.
So, because the music and movie industry didn't come up with a solution that you were happy with, the fact that the industry lost billions is suddenly okay?
Gimme a ****ing break.