Recording Industry Extinction Predicted RSN

nautical9 writes "There's an interesting commentary from Wired's Charles Mann, speaking of the imminent death of the recording industry as we know it. Nothing really ground-breaking here, but it is a good summary and somewhat fair treatment of the RIAA's current state-of-affairs, and offers a little insight into what the world of music may be like without them (hint: perhaps better off)."

Umm..

[Gentoo Fan]

"from the imminent-death-predictions-getting-boring dept"

Then why post it?

Hilary Rosen is obviously psychic...

[3waygeek]

That's why she chose now to resign [slashdot.org] her position as head of the RIAA. She doesn't want to preside over a sinking ship.

3... 2... 1...

[Rayonic]

Counting down until someone posts a modified "RIAA is dying" text, which will immediately get modded up to +5 Funny. (:

It ain't gonna happen

[cscx]

Recording industry -> Music -> Girls -> Clubs -> Hot, horny girls -> Sex

Nope, not gonna happen.

Maybe I'm dense...

[SoCalChris]

But what does RSN mean when they say their death is predicted RSN?

Does it mean Really SooN?

Re:Umm..

[rot26]

Remember, the music industry is loosely associated with the war industry.

So noted.

Now tell me what the significance of that is? Should I worry about them dropping unsold CD's on my house?

Re:It ain't gonna happen

[Guppy06]

You're confusing music with beer again.

what if.....

[A Vengrow]

What if they had public exocutions of all the teenie bopper studio band sugar coated micky mouse club burnout brat packs and billed them out at halftime shows at football games? they could even make it entertaining too. Not just some cheesy lethal injections, Im thinking about fucking crucifixions, and beheadings. When was the last time you saw anybody stoned to death? I'd pay 20 bucks to see that! And certainly the commercial time spot sales would be able to keep the industry going for many years to come.

Re:Umm..

[slothdog]

Then why post it?

So they'll have stories to choose from for tomorrow's news, silly.

Re:McDonald's

[Anonymous Coward]

I can see it now:

McDonald's projects Q1 loss; blames sales drop on piracy. Burgersharing networks might be partly responsible for a 10% drop in revenue world wide. McDonald's respond by declaring anyone downloading and sharing their meals as "Hamburglars"(TM). New measures planned include requiring signing an EULA when collecting take-away, and doubling prices.

Re:Umm..

[LordNightwalker]

Should I worry about them dropping unsold CD's on my house?

Not realy, judging by the musical preferences of people these days, if it remains unsold it must be good.

The invisible FISTING of Adam Smith!

[Thud457]

Yay Capitalism! The market decides! The good drives out the bad! Ayn Rand is my copilot!

Re:Quote...

[sixseve]

I'm sorry, were you trying to be a pedant?

Re:Umm..

[lucabrasi999]

the music industry is loosely associated with the war industry

Let's analyze a "snip" from your web-site:

*snip*

AOL Time-Warner is one of the remaining major label record companies and owns Atlantic, Elektra/Sire, Asylum, Reprise, Warner, American, Maverick, and others. It also owns AOL, which is involved in a co-venture with Hughes Electronics Corp called DirecTV. Hughes is owned 100% by General Motors. Hughes merged with Raytheon to form Hughes subsidiary Raytheon Industries. Raytheon Industries makes bombs.

*snip*

And Raytheon starred in "Footloose" with Kevin Bacon! YOU WIN!!!

Re:Paying customers?

[PCBman!]

It sounded more like a settlement to me, I'd rather see them lose and lose big. I'm talking, no mercy, we're taking you to the cleaners so you better bring lube for the reaming you're gonna get when we get there.