Re:Think piracy is killing the music industry? This chart su...
by kbutler on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @08:42PM
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The rebuttal is obvious from the graph (the central point in the article, which was hyperbolically disputed above): Music isn't dying - the industry around it is evolving.
That's what happens when new technology is introduced into an existing business model - the industry changes. Existing players may exit the market (some may even "die"), some struggle, some adapt to the change and thrive, and other new players enter.
> a dying art form
> music as we know it...is dying
> the music industry is dying
Music as an art form is largely unchanged, especially the more artistic, less "pop music"-focused forms.
The music industry is refocusing on live performance and the long tail, and less on retail sales of pre-recorded physical media.
Adapting, evolving, changing, transforming.
Maybe declining, shrinking, endangered, troubled.
Maybe broadening, renewing, refreshing.
"Dying" doesn't describe it well at all. I don't think it means what you think it means.
That's what happens when new technology is introduced into an existing business model - the industry changes. Existing players may exit the market (some may even "die"), some struggle, some adapt to the change and thrive, and other new players enter.
> a dying art form > music as we know it...is dying > the music industry is dying
Music as an art form is largely unchanged, especially the more artistic, less "pop music"-focused forms.
The music industry is refocusing on live performance and the long tail, and less on retail sales of pre-recorded physical media.
Adapting, evolving, changing, transforming.
Maybe declining, shrinking, endangered, troubled.
Maybe broadening, renewing, refreshing.
"Dying" doesn't describe it well at all. I don't think it means what you think it means.