>You think the *public* has control over that? Yeah, yeah, people vote with
>their wallets, but before they do that the candidate CDs have to be made
>available for puchase. The record companies control that, and they also
>control the amount of promotion that a particular candidate gets.
>Promotional agencies like MTV play right into the herd mentality of pop
>music buyers, convincing a few that the herd is buying album X. Those few
>buy album X, and then the rest of the herd follows suit. Essentially people
>are *told* what to buy.
As much as it was a farce comedy, the movie Josie and the Pussycats shows
almost exactly what the RIAA/MPAA would love nothing more than to have
(and discount the subliminals, they are just about there already).
>Do you think that P2P is going to damage this control system?
Potentially. Right now, the public has no choice... if a studio doesn't
want to promote an artist (can we still call them that?), the public has
no access to their music. P2P removes the studio from the flow control.
It is now possible for a small garage band to record their own music...
AND get wide spread distribution via P2P sharing. Essentially, the need
for the recording studio at all is starting to disappear.
THAT is what scares the hell out of them, and THAT is the heart of all
their complaints and cries for new laws. They are doing nothing more than
trying to secure the need for their own existance (with the wonderful
side effect of being able to have total control over what we see and hear
at all times)
-chris
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