Comments on: The Death of the Download? http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/ a blog about information Sat, 25 May 2013 08:29:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jo Jordan http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/comment-page-1/#comment-538352 Jo Jordan Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:37:13 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/#comment-538352 Agreed, shut your eyes often!

Just stumbled it for you and in summarizing it, this question -

If we basically will pay (smallish amounts) for experience, where will the whole economy go.

Specifically, how do we store value for a rainy day or for retirement?

]]> By: Jorge Mejia http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/comment-page-1/#comment-538198 Jorge Mejia Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:41:24 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/#comment-538198 I thing habits about how people enjoy music is changing. Now music is one service more. Music and Entertainment Business needs to reinventing how bands could obtain benefits by other ways. Digital world is a reality and we need to take this opportunity to make things different. The world is changing, we need to change our way of thinking….
Congratulations….good post….

]]> By: Mike Seyfang http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/comment-page-1/#comment-537957 Mike Seyfang Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:49:35 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/#comment-537957 Absolutely nailed it JP! (should shut yer eyes more often ;-)

I wish I had said “digital copies of his music were essentially infinite, and that he personally represented the most valuable scarcity” of the Prince view. As that Monty Python skit suggests:

“You will, Fang (Oscar), you will”

Thanks for the loan of your eloquence.
Fang – Mike Seyfang

]]> By: Ric http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/comment-page-1/#comment-537898 Ric Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:53:21 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/#comment-537898 @andrew – I think the physical artefacts now come as part of the “merchandise” element – vinyl LP as souvenir that will also allow you to listen to the music … similar to the scarce physical concert, or the t-shirt. If you were given the choice, though – would you take the abundant digital music or the scarce physical reminder? I know which I’d prefer :)

]]> By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/comment-page-1/#comment-537810 JP Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:37:20 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/#comment-537810 @andrewsavikas whenever someone mentions cost-driven pricing to me, I have three letters to say back to them. SMS.

]]> By: Andrew Savikas http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/comment-page-1/#comment-537782 Andrew Savikas Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:20:02 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/#comment-537782 Glad you liked the post! Drucker’s thinking and writing is definitely an influence, and I’ve long been harping on the importance of avoiding one of his “deadly sins” of business: cost-driven pricing (http://toc.oreilly.com/2009/03/one-question-interview-at-booknet-canada.html)

]]> By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/comment-page-1/#comment-537734 JP Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:56:14 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/#comment-537734 @andrew couldn’t agree more. I was trying to make a subtle point, and I guess I failed. The *free* download was a very cheap way of the industry keeping in touch with its customers, the real scarcity. By constantly harping on about the alleged illegality of the download, and by making it artificially scarce, people will have been put off downloading. End of cheap way of keeping in touch.

]]> By: Andrew Back http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/comment-page-1/#comment-537731 Andrew Back Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:34:10 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/#comment-537731 Some people do buy LPs, tapes and/or CDs to own something: a physical connection with the artist(s); a scarce artefact that serves as a visible demonstration of their devotion; a recording that has not been quantised and stored as a finite string of monotonously predictable 1s and 0s, but that instead lives an organic existence amidst pops and crackles and wow and flutter, and will one day subsume to them; a thing they can hold and hold dear; an objet d’art limited in number.

Admittedly this does not apply to most people. However, I’m seeing a growth in popularity of scarcities associated with music, and this is almost certainly a reaction to digital downloads. For example, people who don’t even own a record player buying copies of their favourite band’s music on vinyl, and new bands being increasingly keen to have something released on vinyl, even if it is only a run of 500x 7″ singles. The latter I suspect being in part a reaction to the realisation that CD sales will be poor and coupled with a desire to have some physical legacy. And of course that the more digital we become the more cool the old formats become. Heck, even the compact cassette is enjoying a new wave of popularity (amongst those who are too young to have experienced the despair which results from the purchase using a week’s pocket money tangling itself round the mechanism of a Walkman).

]]> By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/comment-page-1/#comment-537725 JP Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:45:28 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/#comment-537725 @julian thanks! looks an interesting read.

]]> By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/comment-page-1/#comment-537724 JP Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:45:10 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/07/13/the-death-of-the-download/#comment-537724 @sean go ahead, of course you can. The whole Feed Me book looks at *all* digital information this way, not just music. That’s why I still say “a blog about information” while writing about music, food, cricket, whatever.

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