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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
This got me thinking, the generation that she belongs to is obviously of the mindset that media is freely available for no cost. The mother and I sort of shared a look and a slight nod both sayings simultaneously "there is no such thing as free media". So the daughter began talking about how many free MP3 songs she had downloaded just last week. Hence, it seems to me that we are raising a generation that thinks there is no need to pay for any kind of media. In my mind, the price we have paid for all the free MP3 songs out there is that the good songwriters turn to other endeavors such as writing film music or musicals rather than writing songs to be recorded and distributed on media.
Movies hasn't been available for download for as long as MP3 songs, so the changes hasn't been as far-reaching yet. Take the new HBO serious Luck, it stars Dustin Hoffman who as far as I know have never appeared in a TV series before. So is this perhaps the future for movies? They will all be made for cable channels?
This leads me to the question of what will happen to books in the future. If her generation expects books to be free in the future, who will write them? I believe it was Samuel Johnson who said "only a blockhead writes, except for money". Does that imply that in the future only blockheads will write?
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You could ask the question: how did this happen?
And I'm firm in my believe that it is caused by the industry. People ask for something, and if the industry doesn't want to deliver (even though it is possible), simply because either they are afraid of losing a dime or simply because they are, well, stupid in modern technology, people will look somewhere else. And if it takes time for the industry to pick it up, people will grow used to getting it somewhere else. And it takes a much longer time for people to see the errors of their ways, when the industry finally catches on...