Re:Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry
by joe_the_user on Friday April 15, 2011 @11:54PM
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It's not so much that the music industry is large as such.
It is that the music industry something like a token in the game of control proprietary content. Music is something of a thin wedge for showing the ability to deliver highly valued content - Look at what Apple's iPod brought it and indeed, would Apple ever want a rival control the rights to the content it has mastered selling?
Possibly, the recording industry of something of a stand-in for the movie and/or television industry, an industry which is not small by any stretch of the imagination. And the movie industry, gigantic as it might be, is something of stand-in for proprietary control of popular culture...
It is that the music industry something like a token in the game of control proprietary content. Music is something of a thin wedge for showing the ability to deliver highly valued content - Look at what Apple's iPod brought it and indeed, would Apple ever want a rival control the rights to the content it has mastered selling?
Possibly, the recording industry of something of a stand-in for the movie and/or television industry, an industry which is not small by any stretch of the imagination. And the movie industry, gigantic as it might be, is something of stand-in for proprietary control of popular culture...