The awful truth of commerce

[KiwiCoromandel]

Hare-brained ideas like MP3s, iPods and indeed the internet are now reality and doubtlessly will be supplanted by even more lunatic-sounding technologies (hologram home concerts by Jimi Hendrix, anyone?).

Nearly three decades on, everything has changed, except the attitude of record companies and the moral compass of audiences. Which means nothing much has changed, apart from the gadgets.

read more: http://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/2295280/The...uth-of-commerce

source: GREG COTMORE/The Dominion Post

images: Fair Use/images.salon.com/www.taxi.com: "The internet has become the great liberator, freeing artists from self-interested record companies, providing a global and instantaneous promotional platform, and encouraging performers to get back out on the road and connect with audiences"....."Record companies served a definite role in the analogue age, but their existence in these digital days is less clear cut."