This blog is about commentary and questions surrounding the noise currently coming from the music industry stating that copying is “Killing Music”.
Is this really so, or should they instead be stating more precisely “killing our outdated business models” which of course is the very nature of business.
A similar noise appeared twenty years ago “Home taping is killing music”. If so, then it must be dead already which you only need ears to understand is obviously nonsense. Did recording kill live music because you don’t need to hire a band for your party? No it just changed the dynamic.
This topic is complex. So is human nature are there are so many questions to ask. History has some interesting insights to offer on the futility of control and the advantage of creative adaption in business.
There must be a more sensible and workable approach than trying to force ISPs to become the big brother arm of the music industry. That doesn’t seem like a very creative approach to the problem to me, which is surprising for a “creative” representing industry. It is also an industry that seems to have lost any human heart it may have had, if it thinks a police state is the right way to go about things. I am not surprised that ISPs have not been fast to move on becoming spies any quicker than they have been forced to. They know their technology and understand the futility of this expensive exercise.
