Imagine: beat, even without coffee and chat, freshly shaved and de-motivated in their place of work and the boss telling you that soon a celebration is held to honor you - with little dancing, an exhibition of their performance and everything else that they would prefer to drive out from the pension.
Would you know not the lack of sarcasm, your boss, and his testimony would be taken seriously, you would find this event will not significantly stupid?
For who would have celebrated in this way themselves, other than Charles Manson, Joseph Stalin and other representatives of specific genres?
Well, the music industry.
Well, other industries also operate the stroking their own egos, but none has so far brought to perfection, this brilliant, how did the music industry. Regardless of whether one of the launches of 'Germany sucht den Superstar "hailed, or simply just wanted to sip champagne (or non-alcoholic beer): It has been celebrated and praised!
So how is it now that this event is canceled, where they still irreplaceable for ego and self-praise was?
protested Man.
is correct: The small, third arm of the music industry protested defiant as the 68ers of old. Against what? Not against old-fashioned standards, but against the potential buyers, which is currently shopping a little differently.
you remember " four times sing"? Was indeed from the film industry, but still funny and fits very well with the behavior the music industry.
(Incidentally, it is recognized Schwachfug, Popkomm that allegedly would have no more money, or the exhibitors they could no longer afford, Sources:
- http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=10712 the industry in which it is is a partly home-made problem that was encountered to date in reasonable shape only minor: the illegal sharing of music over so-called P2P networks (in short, file sharing, which basically is not illegal , should still be demonized, because after all distributed Blizzard, for example, its patches of P2P
- and is by far not alone). Unfortunately it but recognized only the blemish, without a solution, or even to the cause. For the reasons we have to travel a bit, in time. my personal memory, by (going back because of my age only up to the Berlin Wall), began The triumphant success of the MP3 from the year 1998. I had one of my first computer, after I over the years only a Sega could torment Saturn
- (Audio CD, Audio CD with text and with a pig expensive add-on card even VCD and SVCD - YAY) and I enjoyed several crashes, sponsored by Win98 . The school was irritated, I was a chubby child and the thought of pairing, kissing, and the nice dark-haired the Vengaboys drove their adolescent games with my mind. In short, I was one of the ordinary young people who were still far from mature and the better you do not have the humanity can let go. the same genus now sits on the bus next to me and I could strangle her. Just youth. What I, from that time, compared to the present day, enormously stood out:
a)
b) I had four CDs, one of which was given to me, a once belonged to my mother and the other two from Bravo Hits series originated.
In summary, I have time, then, in spite of existing resources, possessed fewer CDs than it is today - although the interest in music already existed.
What was that?
In my view, out Was it the lack of potentially interesting music. My current favorite groups that already existed at that time were hardly heard on the radio and Viva was
a transmitter of the mainstream, the one got to hear so that even at any Radio. Latest interesting tracks are spread over the mouth and in my school there was a lively exchange of simple cassettes, mini discs (one teacher was a fan of them and infected us) and the first, nor precious, self-burned CDs. This
were also settled directly with ethical issues and poor children were allowed to touch it a mini disc, a CD, or marvel at the views on it was not AOL.
so it was a wild time in which one of new music only through the black-clad classmates joined, or even boldly bought a music magazine to look beyond the superior nose.
The "hip" radio stations were playing good the superior song list, the other channels were rarely more than "70, 80.90, he and the best of today" (where you simply avoided the songs to imagine, or even to name an artist - after all, There Were this indeed partly _kostenpflichtige_ hotlines). Then it went but in rapid succession - the Internet was for the masses finally ready and affordable, flat rates were up and DSL! Well, that although a few years later, after the Telekom finally got that no one on channel bundling and video telephony over ISDN was, but it came.
What happened here? A lot. We finally had access to the "Wild West" of the digital world, found himself suddenly with the forerunners of today's "social communities" face (Fortune City - who knows it too) and was inaugurated by experienced users in the secrets of the Web. With horror I still remember my first self-encoded back-up copy of my newly purchased CD
Aquagen
I with no more comprehensible software on the hard disk and then to MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 format.
right - Mp2. Was occasionally even then still common, but antiquarian already at the time.
What happened on that date with me? Well, I finally found out that there was more than I presented and Viva Radio, and also quite far away that you could get better songs of the mainstream. Finally, I had direct access to information about my favorite bands that I could only know you through the web and my CD collection grew. Up to tragic loss of much of my collection (removal; is laundry basket with CDs in the vicinity of a heater that decided to spontaneous self-ignition), which slowly is complete again, I had 80 slices.
singles, albums and even two bootlegs, although I knew at that time with the concept yet to catch anything. from four to eighty
, not just a small boost.
But what did the music industry in that time? It has developed a successor to the MiniDisc format, the proscriptive even then with all sorts of copy protection, improvement of a pseudo name
SACD CD
brought to the market and changed very little from the previous price structure. A CD of 20 marks at that time was not rare (there are now depending turned 20 €, yay!).
The discovery of the Internet went completely past the industry.
A proof of the former "responsiveness": a) http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0308/26942.html&wort [] = popkomm
German music industry announces music portal for autumn
b)
http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0310/28110.html&wort [] = popkomm
postpones launch of the music industry Portals Phonoline again
c) http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0403/30386.html&wort [] = Phonoline
Chancellor is not launched PhonoLine
Quote: "It is a B-to-B range: The music is not sold directly to end customers, but offered through dealers online retailer can either open their own shops. or supplement their existing stores to music downloads. "
" At the start, all titles offered at least three times burning and three exportable. The files also contain a watermark. "
" Before the first download you have to install the software "My Playlist" for Windows (coming soon, according to the person responsible for Mac and Linux). She also serves as the playback program (...)"
d)
http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0409/33801.html&wort [] = Phonoline
German Music Industry download platform provides a Evidence for the customer-oriented pricing policy:
http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0008/9325.html&wort [] = MusicDownload24
Who would not ever want 0.49 cent for the _einmalige_ spend
hear a song?
So a pure success story. Would not Apple has come up with Itunes a platform would have created, which today has a huge user base, would the music industry cry cry even more and, T-Online would not sit still with music Load in a dark
DRM-WMA corner
and Popkomm would probably be really broke. Man
So, rather than adapt to the changed situation, angry customers, made illegal and deprived of their rights and the quality of new releases is not really risen - see photo left.
Some
mental was twitching
then yet, but of which one has seen anything today, heard and seen more than just the Verweseungsgeruch. For years there were only forced software, without which one could not buy songs and listen to the WMA format, which Linux and Apple were clear at that time also great and sometimes such astronomical price expectations that we basically already have to get a laughing fit. For what? For poorly mastered, the idiocy of consumerism customized music.
And in all this mismanagement, as someone really wants to protest against the customer?
And they have learned today not to see:
http://www.potatosystem.com/genre/de/ An interesting system in itself, wrapped in a plug ugly site from which you can only acquire Mp3s issues without the bit rate can, moreover, neither the quality of the Tagger is difficult to see whether or cover, etc. are included. Well, for some services you can download and covers _extra_ _kaufen_. Which quality? No idea was, unfortunately, nowhere to view.
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