Orlowski walks on water

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How the music biz can live forever, get even richer, and be loved
By Andrew Orlowski
Published Thursday 23rd September 2004 14:37 GMT

Earlier this week Register San Francisco bureau chief Andrew Orlowski spoke
at the In the City convention in the UK, telling the cream of the music
industry it's never had it so good, that it's been swindled by the
technologists, and that it should dump DRM and embrace freedom. As, to our
knowledge, he got out alive, we think it's possible they listened just a
little. What follows is the text of his speech.

You're very lucky people.
Like the sex industry, you're in a business where demand is guaranteed. A
lot of other people wish they had your problems. What a stroke of good
fortune!

Think about it - you're in a happier situation than the Peterloo
demonstrators who rioted here, and the imperialists who later built this
hall. Trade routes and markets disappear. You're also in a better position
than any technology company I know. Even IBM and Microsoft - two official
monopolies - need to invest a lot of money to keep their captive customers
happy, and neither can be sure they'll be here in twenty years, without a
lot of stoking and a lot of stroking. Meanwhile, you're sitting on a
goldmine, and no one is going to take it away from you.

Why?
We create music in order to share it.

We've been sharing it for thousands of years. And people pay to hear it.
Since the invention of transmission and recording technology you've been
able to monetize this desire, and build an industry on it.

Full article at
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/23/orlowski_interactive_keynote/

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[elektro80]

Yeah... shit happens..
Perhaps you should try a kind of combined act? And you could of course still use your new Powerbook..

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