There’s rumblings that the big grunting dying dinosaur called The Music Industry is going to make a push to have a mandatory music tax to, get this…create ‘guaranteed revenues’!
Here’s a quote from Techcrunch.com:
[Trent] Reznor [Nine Inch Nails] called for it today, saying “I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, ‘All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a– if you want and it’s $5 on your cable bill.’”
Yes, you guys got it now! Force people to pay for music they may or may not want! In the immortal words of that little English paper cutout guy on the Guinness commercials…Brilliant!
I (and many people before me) have said for years that the Music Industry refused (refuses!) to open their eyes to what was coming in the digital age and that they would have to totally reinvent their business model to survive and prosper in the future. So did they close their eyes and hope it would just go away?
I don’t think so. I worked in a friggin’ mailroom at a music magazine and figured this out. They didn’t see this coming?
Sure they did.
Ego.
Big STUPID ego.
That’s why they’ve done nothing. And now they’re screwed.
Not that I care too much. There were a great bunch of people I knew and worked with who had to change careers because of this monumental paradigm shift and I feel for them. They got screwed.
As for the rest of you in the industry who made your living screwing others…and you know who you are…
Up yours.
You get everything you deserve.
