TorrentFreak thinks so. I admit, they come from a position of bias, but you should read the article and make up your own mind:
BitTorrent Freed Music, and Now It’s Yours | TorrentFreak
BitTorrent Freed Music, and Now It’s Yours | TorrentFreak
Sunday, March 15, 2009
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finally, a voice of reason.
Music types (like me) should be paying more attention to what's happening to print media (like newspapers) these days, as it is an industry facing nearly identical pressures to the music industry, but responding in drastically different ways. We should be able to learn something from how each approach works out...
On that note, I read a really great piece about the state of newspapers, revolutions, the printing press, and how it all fit together. I would seriously recommend giving this one a read, and mentally swap out "Record Labels" every time you see "Newspapers," and "Musicians" for "Journalists."
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/
A couple choice quotes:
"That is what real revolutions are like. The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place."
"Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperatives to strengthen journalism and to strengthen newspapers have been so tightly wound as to be indistinguishable. That’s been a fine accident to have, but when that accident stops, as it is stopping before our eyes, we’re going to need lots of other ways to strengthen journalism instead."
I think all of this is relevant because one of the points Shirky's article gets at is that in times of real technological revolution, nobody knows what the future will look like. So all experiments are valuable. Us little guys have the advantage there - we can adapt & experiment faster than the big guys. I guess the greater point here is that if the internet is anything like the printing press (and it is), it makes you a darn fool to try to stand in its way.
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