andrew casey

uk

music lover

my personal belief is that the music industry has an ingrained fear of the download market now facing them,

unfortunatly when it comes to "buying" music downloads the masses appears to have two trains of thought:

firstly: because they do not recive a shiny piece of plastic with a case to keep it safe, printed track titles and of course the destinctive artwork found on todays recordings, many consumers feel that value for money is rather lacking

secondly: the ever so much more common comparison to popular literature, comparing the cost of production and more importantly the creators investment in time, a book has greater "consumer" value

the fear of loosing control of there own industry, being dictated to by the giants of multimedia technology, becoming the disposable middle men of music and the resulting transfer of profits to the tech industrys have prevented the embrace of a newer better system not seen since betamax

instead the music industry operates in a realm of its own,
with no real sense of competition, a never ending conveyer of publicity, well timed release dates and poor attempts at piracy solutions

will they continue doing as they please ? steered by imaginative managment concepts such as "dont change anything and no one will notice"

Q: why do we put up with it ?

A: because we love music

i wonder if itunes has "status quo"