MTV blames Internet piracy for its demise as a music channel into reality TV FUD

Re:MTV blames Internet piracy for its demise as a music chan... by ianferrel on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @02:00AM (#2169400)

>Napster had cast its stone straight into the music goliath’s eye, and no one had seen it coming.

>MTV was forced to react, and fast. The network realized that the cheapest way to operate was to start producing its own content, rather than fork out the oodles of cash needed for a half decent music channel. And thus, hits like “Punked,” “Pimp my Ride,” “Singled Out” and more recently “Teen mom” and “Jersey Shore” were born.

That was some serious foresight, running Singled Out from 1995 to 1998, in response to Napster, released in 1999.

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Re:MTV blames Internet piracy for its demise as a music chan... by chopsueyar on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @05:15AM (#2169731)

Even more foresight, "The State"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_State_%28TV_series%29

No mention of MTV2, either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV2

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Re:MTV blames Internet piracy for its demise as a music chan... by redthrowaway on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @05:17AM (#2169736)

The release of Snooki's book caused so great a disruption to the universe that a closed timelike curve formed in spacetime, preserving causality relative to any reference point within it but causing such seeming paradoxes as cause preceding effect when observed from a separate worldline. Thus MTV's flight from music in the 90s was in response to the rising prominence of Vevo.

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