Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Sometimes I think that certain entertainment and tech journalists are simply lazy. I mean, they just repeat what a movie or music industry flack says without bothering to question the fundamental logic, or at least providing an opposing point of view.
If you believe the stuff they tell you, and I’ll avoid the more graphic description of their spiel, there are a number of reasons why the movie box office figures have stalled, and CD sales are down. I’m going to evaluate the fundamental claims, and try to test them against simple logic to see if they hold water.
People aren’t buying CDs because they are stealing their music from the Internet: I suppose that’s a convenient excuse, that teens are busy downloading their songs from their favorite peer-to-peer network software of the week, that they share their bogus merchandise among their friends, and so don’t buy the genuine versions in the stores. In fact, I think it’s partly true, but it’s not the entire picture.
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