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On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w...> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 08:47 -0500, Len Bullard wrote: >> [...] The quote I sent to Liam >> was a calm response from one of the world's top music producers whose >> name you would recognize. > > The higher up, the harder the fall. so very true (and even truer in the UK!). > The British coal distribution industry was really dismayed when the > canals were cut, and tried to fight them; the folks with oxen and heavy > carts went out of business. One hundred year later it was the canal > shipping industry that tried to fight the railways. And then in turn the > railways tried to fight the automobile. But none of that was about coal. nice illustration of how competing concerns play different roles throughout time, I think it would be real 'evolution' if somehow we evolve without the built in concept of 'fight' ... but so is the way of the world. > It's the distributors tied to selling physical objects who are going to > go away. well, Amazon 'same day shipping' may color your thinking here. > Same as the movie industry. Did you know Google Adsense's revenue is > larger than Hollywood box office sales and the computer game industry > combined? stunning ... did not know this. > The answer is not "how do we fight the Web and the computer industry > until they learn to send everything on CDs instead of this awful net > thing." the fundamental problem is how we go from 18th century developed notions in place now and evolve forward, not backwards. > Let's see a W3C Business Group for tracking music downloads via Web > browsers so that ISPs can pay royalties. You know where the door is. > Stop throwing rotten eggs and come inside. seems reasonable (and I note on topic for the list) Jim Fuller
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