http://mathewingram.com/media/2007/09/06/best-of-luck-to-rick-rubin/ ...watching the intersection of the Web and media Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:22:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://mathewingram.com/media/2007/09/06/best-of-luck-to-rick-rubin/#comment-8697 Christina Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:29:10 +0000 http://mathewingram.com/media/2007/09/06/best-of-luck-to-rick-rubin/#comment-8697 That was an incredible article about Rick Rubin but it also talked a lot about the state of the music industry today. RR is going to need all the luck he can get to turn around a corporation that is still living in the Dark Ages! I don't think he is going to last very long there because I think he will become frustrated with the corporate system and will give up. It was nice he was upset over the Neil Diamond 12 Songs disater but he sure got over it in a hurry to take that job! As for the subscription idea it isn't going to work. The reason people do file sharing or buying pirated media is because they can get music cheap or free. They aren't going to pay $19.95 a month when somebody can undercut that price and I think it will just increase the practice of piracy and bootlegging. I think the record companies have just sat on their collective butts far too long and the problem has gotten way out of control. I doubt they could do much to change it unless they really started enforcing the copyright laws and that would be a monumental task at this point because any moron with a good machine and a little computer knowledge can create professional quality websites for file sharing and music distribution and places like You Tube look the other way when copyrighted materials are shared on their site because they know it brings in the numbers. If Viacom wins their case against them maybe that will change but until then record companies don't have a prayer of gaining control of their own industry again. That was an incredible article about Rick Rubin but it also talked a lot about the state of the music industry today. RR is going to need all the luck he can get to turn around a corporation that is still living in the Dark Ages! I don’t think he is going to last very long there because I think he will become frustrated with the corporate system and will give up. It was nice he was upset over the Neil Diamond 12 Songs disater but he sure got over it in a hurry to take that job!
As for the subscription idea it isn’t going to work. The reason people do file sharing or buying pirated media is because they can get music cheap or free. They aren’t going to pay $19.95 a month when somebody can undercut that price and I think it will just increase the practice of piracy and bootlegging.
I think the record companies have just sat on their collective butts far too long and the problem has gotten way out of control. I doubt they could do much to change it unless they really started enforcing the copyright laws and that would be a monumental task at this point because any moron with a good machine and a little computer knowledge can create professional quality websites for file sharing and music distribution and places like You Tube look the other way when copyrighted materials are shared on their site because they know it brings in the numbers.
If Viacom wins their case against them maybe that will change but until then record companies don’t have a prayer of gaining control of their own industry again.

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