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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Nick Walker on September 17, 2015, 04:16:59 am

Title: BBC - The Pop Star and the Prophet - so much recorded music - cease to have value
Post by: Nick Walker on September 17, 2015, 04:16:59 am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34268474

Article is not just about music - 'Manufacturing will be hit by an identical crisis, this time it will be caused by 3D printing.'

'Soon we would all have so much recorded music it would cease to have any value.'

Title: Re: BBC - The Pop Star and the Prophet - so much recorded music - cease to have value
Post by: AreBee on September 17, 2015, 05:14:21 am

N Walker,

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Soon we would all have so much recorded music it would cease to have any value.

The value of music to music-lovers has never related to its financial cost.

Title: Re: BBC - The Pop Star and the Prophet - so much recorded music - cease to have value
Post by: graeme on September 17, 2015, 05:27:23 am

Quote from: Rob B. on September 17, 2015, 05:14:21 am

N Walker,

The value of music to music-lovers has never related to its financial cost.

Very true but that doesn't help the performers /  songwriters who have to eat, drink & keep a roof over their heads.

The article was more optimistic about the possibility of making money from live performance.

Title: Re: BBC - The Pop Star and the Prophet - so much recorded music - cease to have value
Post by: Rob C on September 17, 2015, 12:01:30 pm

It makes sense, unfortunatey, for the industries that fall into this mould.

Look at photographic stock: from a good earner it's become a waste of investment for the shooter and, I suspect, will have for the agencies too, in the not too distant, whichever model of agency they try to run.

But then, that's life: gets much better all the time without improving at all.

Rob C