Opiate of the masses. Not easy to give up. Media consumers are little better than junkies. They hate themselves, but do it anyway. If they cant afford it because their money now has to go else where in a society which spends its time monetising things that used to be free, or sorry, "added value" they pirate.
And this is one reason I reckon piracy is popular and less money is going to media producers. Our money has different places to go now, compared to before. Some things like fuel have massively increased in cost. One simple example is the internet its self. We have to pay for a connection, which means 2 less CD's per month. More of our money goes on things like video games. Fuel, gas, and electricity in the UK for example have almost double in the last 5 years or so. Dunno the total cost there, but its is in the £1000's. So if the media people what to know where their income has gone, a big chunk of it is with the energy producers. The money has simply shifted elsewhere. Maybe if fuel costs went back to 2002 levels, money money might get spent on movies, etc.
But, we still want our opium. The opium they fed us in the first place.
I think artists and media companies have to accept that the gravy train has derailed and they have to make less millions than before when they had it good. And frankly, these people have been obscenely over paid for decades. Isn't $5m OK any more? Does it have to still be the historic $10m?
And this is one reason I reckon piracy is popular and less money is going to media producers. Our money has different places to go now, compared to before. Some things like fuel have massively increased in cost. One simple example is the internet its self. We have to pay for a connection, which means 2 less CD's per month. More of our money goes on things like video games. Fuel, gas, and electricity in the UK for example have almost double in the last 5 years or so. Dunno the total cost there, but its is in the £1000's. So if the media people what to know where their income has gone, a big chunk of it is with the energy producers. The money has simply shifted elsewhere. Maybe if fuel costs went back to 2002 levels, money money might get spent on movies, etc.
But, we still want our opium. The opium they fed us in the first place.
I think artists and media companies have to accept that the gravy train has derailed and they have to make less millions than before when they had it good. And frankly, these people have been obscenely over paid for decades. Isn't $5m OK any more? Does it have to still be the historic $10m?