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Music: Death of the Back Catalog; take that Sony, BMG.
Sat, 31 Dec 2005

(OKay, maybe, 'take that artist estates' too)

My observation of the day (besides the glorious beautiful full day of snow we've gotten; bring it on Mother Nature - make us remember why we're alive!) is that due to digital music (mp3s etc) and fat hard drives, we're going to be buying (re-buying) less old or back catalogue music. I'm sure the music industry has loved every time we've rebought our favourites - how many times has each Beatles track been sold to each Beatles fan? LP? casette? CD? mp3? Same for the movie and television industry.. but my friends, times are a'changin'. As hard drives get bigger and backup systems become more automagic.. we won't lose music. We'll keep it forever, and skimp on the $1/per/listen the industry will want. We'll try like hell to keep things sane and not just-so for the maximized business models.

Back catalogue sales are about to pay. Good riddance.

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