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My guess is that "the new paradigm" is not happening to digital sales of music but rather to cultural norms and and people's ways of relating to music. We can already see the change: fewer people value to own music like old days "collectors" did. One is not motivated to pay for music just because it is music. However, the much older role for music in the society, when music serves a specific purpose, is still being regarded as something worth to pay for. Like if you go out to dance you aren't bothered paying for an entrance ticked, or if going to a concert. An even more obvious example is the rapidly growing media that uses music for a very specific purpose - films, games, presentations - everyone today agrees to pay for this and music goes with the package. I think that we are repelling back to where it has been for most of mankind's history; music mostly exists for a specific purpose, to play a role in a specific context. The period where music was just one consumable product among others on a market is about to end. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Tyler <programmer651@comcast.net> wrote: > Why would you call Itunes a rapist? I don't remember an artist being > treated unfairly by it. > Free mp3 sites? Maybe! But Itunes? No! > Tyler Z > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:32:52 -0800, Rick Walker wrote: > > >>On 1/29/2013 9:39 PM, Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T) wrote: >>>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/business/media/streaming-shakes-up-music-industrys-model-for-royalties.html?ref=us >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>*This is one of the most depressing articles I've read in a long time.** >>>** >>>**Does anyone remember when Colonel Tom Parker was revealed to have >>>cut a deal with Elvis Presley ** >>>* >>*so that he would receive a usurious 50% of ALL money that Elvis made?** >>** >>**It was unprecedented and the rest of the music business, artists and >>the public recoiled heavily from the news (though cynics always pointed >>** >>**out that 50% of $40 million dollars was still vastly better than 0% of >>nothing).** >>** >>**Well folks, iTunes, one of the greatest rapists of musical >>artistry, in the world charges 50% of ALL DOWNLOAD SALES.** >>** >>**And they are the good guys compared to Pandora and Spotify, whose >>statistics make iTunes look like positive artistic ** >>**philanthropists.** >> >>A new paradigm of selling digital content online needs to assert >>itself. One that is fair to artists and all the energy >>and time and money they spend trying to create art for people. >> >>There are rumors of this coming. I can't wait. >> >>Rick Walker >>Fuck iTunes! Fuck Spotify! Fuck Pandora! >>Fuck the dominant paradigm that says that downloading other people's >>music is okay as long as you get away with it. >>Theft if Theft, Folks! >>*