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(curmudgeon alert) I have to semi-agree. I feel that MTV, with its inevitable focus on visuals, also inevitably led to the transformation of the commercial music industry into the soft-core porn industry. This led to a huge decline in quality and diversity of musical expression at the labels (remember Reprise from the late 60's? I'd buy stuff on that label I never heard of just cause it was on the label). The Internet was terrific for music promotion when it was mostly dialup and low-fi RealAudio streaming. Once speeds got fast and mp3s became downloadable, well... you'd like to believe that people would respect artist copyrights and stuff because they're honorable, but when temptation is placed in our paths, many will succumb. And, as someone else said, the outrageous prices for new CDs have contributed greatly to the situation. Personally, I feel that a royalty charge on mp3 players and sound chips would not be out of line. However, in a practical sense, the idea that such a royalty would ever be distributed fairly to smaller artists is so far-fetched as to make the whole concept ridiculous. But still, who are the main financial beneficiaries of music sharing/theft (choose your loaded term)? Clearly, it's the hardware mfrs. -----Original Message----- From: samba - [mailto:sambacomet@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 2:18 PM To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: record industry I think the record industry started it's decline by gearing it's whole promo machine to producing Very expensive videos for MTV ,henceforth known as emptyvideos.They stopped putting money into more creative eccentricquirky acts and even dropped alot of famous musicians who were making platinum record cause they were dropping 100k on each video. Meanwhile MTV staretd producing more feature programming designed to keep viewers tuned in rather than surfing,and reduced the amount of airtime for mtvids.When napster and cheap digital recording came along the didn't adapt intelligently. The tech changes are certainly an important factor,but secondary to bad tactics and strategies.They could have used napster to their advantage. _________________________________________________________________ http://newlivehotmail.com