On Mon, 13 May 2002, Steve Schear wrote:
> I suspect that one of the things the major labels really fear is the
> increasing market share of the independents. Two decades ago the
> independents had a palter 10-15% penetration. Now I've heard it greater
> than 25%. This is really what's on their minds.
If so they are worrying about the wrong thing. The record companies,
credit card companies, book publishes/stores and a lot(!) of other middle
men will be out of business and dinosaurs in another 10 to 15 years.
The simple change in the network to a truly distributed system where any
node and talk to any other node using high bandwidth with (near) universal
access is going to kick their predatory/parasitic asses. They might
actually have to learn to make an honest living solving other peoples
problems.
They need to be taking their funds, and instead of spending it on law
suites and a business/IP model that is dead, dead, dead; and invest it in
technology companies that show great promise in bringing the 'grid'
computing paradigm to fruition sooner (rather than later).
Once that technology comes into play, people will buy anything digitizale
directly from the source. No distribution channels, no loans, no nothing.
Just 1:1 (with the individual parties banks acting as auditors of the
transaction until it is clear both parties are satisfied).
Government and Economics are -technologies-, technologies that stem from
the specialization (and hence compartmentalization) required to get to a
point where technology is advanced enough (and ubiquitous enough) so that
each person can take care of themselves all by themselves.
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