Internet enables mass piracy in the 90s

...and the film, music, and book industries start to fall apart in the 90s.

Hmm... Maybe feeling entitled to looking at artists' work without paying them money so they can support themselves isn't such a great idea after all?

Film & record industry had it coming

>film and music "industries" fall apart

How come? There was lots of crap made in the 80s, but much of it was crap that at least had heart and some craft, unlike the completely manufactured, room temperature IQ-targeting pop film and music of today.

Hollykike profits have never been higher and some blockbusters rival the gdp of third world countries.

It does kind of suck, though, if nothing of artistic value ever comes around to take its place. Artists have to eat. The US film industry right now is in some sort of death spiral of making lower and lower denominator garbage in order to squeeze some profit out of the international market. Even cheesy 80s action movies were made by people who understood craft - pacing, editing, camera work - better than the sheltered imitators who make Hollywood blockbuster today.

That's because chinks started to go to watch movies in theaters it might also be a reason why movies suck because Chinamen seems to like transformer.

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>tfw you pirate literally everything you can
Free stuff is the best. fuck the market and fuck the authors.

It's an example of anarchism at work. Also artists can now support theirselves through the name your price model and their success is more reflective of consumer approval than through some commercialist promotion. It might not be as effective at generating capital but it does meet the peoples needs better. Quality is improved and the same shit isn't rehashed not just with music but with other forms of entertainment as well. And it's not like we need an ever growing cult of celebrities to worship either. Not to mention that major names are often consolidated under monopolized labels.

These industries need to change with the times. The only thing truly falling apart are the massive publishers, which are strictly a product of the limited information distribution methods of the time. Trying to prop these up will do nothing but hinder the development of the economy into something actually suited to the material realities of the time. These industries as they stand need to die, as several have over the course of history.

>nd the film, music, and book industries start to fall apart in the 90s.

What are you talking about?

If you pay for music you're functionally retarded

Or you just have a moral sense?

Perhaps, but thanks to the internet I now have access to superior Japanese cartoons for entertainment instead. It's the cause of and solution to all of our problems.

Cognitive dissonance at its best.

And this guy

The author gets money no matter how you view the music.

I don't pirate, I am in Switzerland, I am legally entitled to a free copy of everything ever published, as long as it is for private use.
Fuck you, rest of the world!

Wait, what?

>GOY YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR BOOKS WHOSE AUTHOR DIED YEARS/DECADES/CENTURIES AGO
No.
Copyright laws are a disaster. The fact that they last more than 10 years is already a farce.

>at least had heart and some craft
le born in the wrong generation

Yes Sir, law is differently here, I can download and even make copies for my friends and family of music, books, films, whatever. All perfectly legal as long
a) the work has been published somewhere on this planet before
and
b) I only use it for private purposes and not for business or educ

On the other hand, In Switzerland private customers pay a small tax on storage media (sticks, disk etc) with this tax a federal agency, SUISA, is funded, they give the money back to artists.

Pirate all you want, pay nothing because you buy your sticks and disks via company or via Germany.

I don't pay much attention to music anymore beyond whatever song I want to listen to out of nostalgia (which I can usually find on YouTube), but if I did I'd use iTunes. It's just convenient.

Following to the local conclusion of this statement, if you pay for anything at all that you could simply steal you're functionally retarded. Which I assume you do.

>film, music, and book industries start to fall apart in the 90s.
And I thought /pol/ contained a lot of bullshit...

Thanks to the internet, the indie scenes for both music and film is thriving like never before.

It's not my fault you don't know how to search for media without it being served to you on a silver platter by monolithic corporations.

And Jap music

The film, music, and book industries have never been about the art, and have ALWAYS been about monopolizing access to the art to make shekels off of the artist.

Technology changed that, and they failed to adapt.

Fuck them all with a cactus.

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This to be honest.

I'll let the dumb normies pay for music industry executives Bentley's and Lamborghinis.

Yeah Schlomo I feel so guilty for not making some kike richer.

going to level with you, I don't really care about contemporary music and film to a large extent

whatever I want to watch I pop onto netflix for, and they are paying for licenses from numerous companies that all seem to think I'll watch their content once they take it off of netflix and start their own club

I collect records

want to fight about it?

So, taking the fruits of someone's labor and handing it out for free doesn't work.

Good to know.

damn you and your mountains

>I collect records