Music blues ...

The music industry has been complaining about the losses they face because of people downloading all kinds of music using the internet. Is this the first time that technology has been against an industry, a business or an individual? What about the guy who had a distant small restaurant by a road and sold warm food to travelers and suddenly because of the advent of railroads and trains, no body passed through that path and he went broke. (Actually this was a fictitious story and I don't know the guy)

We all know thousands of such stories, but usually these people and businesses are not as strong as the music industry to be able to make such big issues out of this reality and try to enforce all kinds of rules against it.

Lets face it, what is really happening here is a degeneration of values. Degeneration of the value of music for people. There used to be a time when you would wait for the release of a CD, buy it really quick, listen to it all day long, love it and sing it everyday .... but now, you have the music before you even know it has been released, there are so many artists and bands out there which are rather similar... you might even forget to listen to some music that you have because of this abundance and this has led to the degeneration of values that I am talking about... maybe because we have limited cognitive powers... we can not really find the value in situations of abundance of resources .... when you have lots of books available around you .. it would be hard to find the passion for following one of them as compared to the situation when you have a hard time finding a book.

So I think the root of the music industry crisis right now is this real value of music for each individual which has been lost and thus they will not be willing to pay much for something they don't care as much and this phenomena can not be changed much with enforcing all kinds of restraining rules and regulations... Dear artist (if I can call you so), your work is not admired by people these days as much as it used to be, and justice says you shouldn't expect to make as much money as you used to, don't push it.

So what about the poor artists ( ... poor really) , well they should do a research and see what all the people in the world did when they were faced with a change in the business ecosystem due to technology change and find another way of playing the game, a new game. Will some artists have to not be in the music industry anymore? Well I hope so... it will open possibilities for some real lovers and artists and also help in increasing the values... breaking the existing business driven monster. Maybe we have to start all over in this case and see how music should really be ...

The world will balance itself sooner or later...