the next 5 years ?
In 2002, there was no Facebook, no Youtube, CMSs were used by precious few and no laptops shipped with built-in cams,
… today professionals in Seattle listen to pitches or manage projects via internet video collaboration suites like IWM , millions of regular people are video-bloggin, video chatting, the porn industry is apparently making a killing from allowing joe and jane to broadcast directly from their bedroom, Obama´s inauguration is going to be broadcast on CNN / Live.
In the space of 6 years, though has social networking & communication have moved to the internet digital distribution of music and art still controlled by the old guard; we are forced to buy music, movies and art the same way we did 25 years ago – the artist, movie or show is promoted on late night TV, and then plays at a theater near you or is available for digital download from iTunes or other DRM protected sources,
nowhere is the artist, musician or moviemaker allowed to publish directly to all devices, either the device maker is blocked by the OS maker or the music distributor throws a spanner in the works …
its a soup of stupid capitalists, greedy lawyers, ignorant buyers, frustrated artists – for me the bottomline is – art, music, movies must go from the creator to the consumer directly, why do artists and musicians and moviemakers need a bunch of MBAs parasting on them ? they dont – sure the record company puts up the capital to produce an album but its the listeners who pay the artists and the record company back, or have they forgotten that the business of selling creativity is ALL about the creator and the buyers, and NOT about the middle man.
i foresee artists bypassing record companies altogether, i foresee tour operators, booking agents, caterers 8 the works ) ignoring these fools in suits,
release your music directly onto the internet as FLAC, APE, MP4, WMA, see here, outsource the art work in contests across the world, or do away with them altogether, allow devices to discover and recommend downloads,
follow the lead of these guys and dont just play to 150 K fans play to 2 million via live internet broadcast, –
artists, musicians, movie makers the world is your oyster, why are you still tied to the aprin strings of the old world ?
come join us at MINIFAME !
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the next 5 years ?
