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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Brian Austin Whitney:
The greatest irony to me is that little kiddies want to steal..er download the songs by their favorite famous artists who they only learned about because of the marketing machine needed to bring it to their attention.. without the label system, ALL music would be obscure like all those FREE tracks they could already get legally and without any negative ramifications.. but they don't want any of those artists.. they want to suck the the tit of the corporate marketing machine.. and they clearly don't want to buy the cow to get their milk for free.

I wish we could magically snap our collective fingers and ALL marketing would disappear. THEN.. when there was no info to be found about music, things would truly be equal and fair. Then no one would really care as much about file sharing. Then people wouldn't need to recoup signing advances, radio and TV payola, retail store payola, outrageous video costs, etc. But then what would all these little kiddies do when there were no longer force fed pop stars for them to consume? They'd be forced to go out and find music they liked on their own. And guess what? They can do that now and choose not to.

Ironic isn't it? </font>


Ironic in deed, particularly since having kids go out and find music they liked on their own is the last thing the label system wants to happen. That, even more than P2P file sharing, really would kill their industry.



[This message has been edited by Knute (edited 09-17-2003).]

P.E. Knudsen