Napster Not To Blame

enjo13 writes "Slate is running an article on the music industries recent troubles. It articulates exactly what Slashdot has preached all along.. that the Music industry is suffering at its own hands and has no one to blame but itself. All I have to say is... finally." There's actually been a number of pieces like this, but I think this one says it best.

The problem is...

[thelinuxking]

Napster and its successors are obviously not the problem...its just like the article says...its those damn cassette tapes! Ban them!

It's not just the music industry

[ch-chuck]

Looks like Ford [bbspot.com] is getting into the act.

Re:Like DUH!

[flewp]

Yeah, really. And Duh! According to the current poll it's the screaming dancing guy from MS. Sheesh.

NAPSTER NOT TO BLAME?

[_ph1ux_]

of course not... we've known all along - its Canada!

Re:Color me unimpressed

[rmohr02]

Let me know when it shows up in...USA Today

Ok [usatoday.com].

Re:What is this slate.msn.com?

[gilroy]

Blockquoth the poster:

irrespectful of the fact that we ARE IN A RECESSION, it will be the music-swappers' faults this happened. Just like it was cassette tapes back in the day, right?

I don't think the RIAA goes far enough. I blame cassette tapes for

the 1979 oil crisis

the hostage crisis in Iran

the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

and El Nino

Re:Even the Once-Cool Now Sucks

[mrcparker]

18-25? 18-25 I wish. It is more like 12-18 now days.

Re:BS Fan and Proud to Admit it

[Alsee]

And its fun to watch her videos.

You seem to have misspelled cleavage.

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Re:It's not the pirates...

[xkenny13]

I won't believe that Britney's albums are not selling as well as they used to because everyone wants to get them for free.

Of course not, Britney's albums aren't selling as well as they might because they don't include any naked pictures of her in the booklet.

Re:silliness

[InadequateCamel]

There are benefits to owning a properly-mastered CD. No matter what people say, CD-R's aren't as durable. Plus, I really enjoy buying the case for the artwork and music info. A 48 CD case full of black-Sharpie-on-white-Verbatim CD's gets on my nerves after a while.

Finally, I too have bought CD's from artists I would not have before. But I have also NOT purchased albums from artists because they sucked much harder than I thought they would. And I have 20 or 30 friends in the same boat.