The writer delivers the latter part of his 2-part blog series that damns the industry to a life of diminishing returns.
On March 8th Cary Sherman , president of the Recording Industry Association of America spoke in front of the House Judiciary subcommittee on courts, the Internet and intellectual property and said that despite the fact that music’s popularity is at an all-time high, fewer and fewer people are paying for it.
Sherman and his buddies don’t think enough is being done to stop online campus file-sharing especially. Which basically is a sign that reads in big blaring letters: WE ARE SCREWED. With this realization the recording industry has to go knocking on the doors of college campuses, some of the few places it has any control because of the large internet networks in housing residences that make it relatively easy to track ‘thieves.’
Last week I wrote that this is going to be a pretty futile effort especially considering the fact that the dying breed that is the large music chain sells CDs at a disturbingly high cost. Cracking down on a few college campuses is only going to make it worse and certainly not going to stop, slow or impede the theft.
So while we all sit at home looking for a reason to feel sorry for the music industries’ incredibly wealth being slightly reduced how bout I give out a few tips to those megalomaniacal robber barons.
1) How bout you have your bands not sell concert tickets at an increasingly unreasonable price
2) How bout you make a CD affordable
Yes, not groundbreaking concepts but hey, music is a drug and as you make it increasingly harder to obtain for us mere blue collar mortals the problem will only metastasize as we find other, cheaper ways to obtain some tunes.
