DISQUS

Vincent Clement · 1 year ago

What is with the sense of entitlement within the content creator community? Why should I pay a levy on blank CDs when I already have paid for the music I put on them? Why should I pay to transfer my paid content to another medium? What will prevent the content creators from supporting a new medium every decade?

Content is meant to be used. I'm sick and tired of the content creators dictating what we can and cannot do with paid content. Content creators should be embracing new business models that add value to non-scarce goods.

mathewi · 1 year ago

I think those are some good points, Vincent. Thanks for the comment.

scrawledinwax · 1 year ago

This may be a little tangential but I can't help but think of this in light of the recent Guardian piece on Facebook. In it, Tom Hodgkinson states that the VCs funding FB are ultra-right wing 'capitalist philosophers' who believe the next wave of business is the commodification of human relationships.

I raise this because it's at least plausible that online music and video will move towards an ad-supported model of some kind if the labels crumble. The choice then becomes what one wishes to support - a sort of new online version of 'voting with your dollars'. My participation in Facebook funds an ideology I oppose. If music and video move to the same model, does that mean that every time I download a track - be it fluffy pop or neo-Marxist hip-hop - that I also *have* to fund an ideology that I may or may not agree with? I guess what I'm saying is that I'd rather pay the artists, even if, as Vincent Celement points out, their desire does stem from a sense of entitlement. I dunno' though - too 'Soviet Russia'?

-Nav