Glowka Guillaume, Justin Bilinski, Deborah Herbin, Marion Mommeja
Subject: the democratization of the music industry and its consequences
Firstly on the radio, then on television to be finally expanded now on the internet, some consider this evolution as positive whereas others denigrate it
Nowadays everybody can be a part of it. Web 2.0 allowed this evolution with the emergence of sites such as musicme.com, deezer.com where you can freely listen to your favorite artists or even jamendo.com where you promote your own band, and discover many others amateurs bands.However behind this brilliant foreground, the background is clearly cloudy. The internet cannot be totally controlled: the music labels and the government are fighting as hard as they can illegal downloading. Who to blame as a consumer? The restrictive measures of labels and the government or the boundless expand of the internet?
Questions:
- What are the different means for the hadopi bill to change the people’s habits? https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxsZWFtdWx0aW1lZGlhfGd4OjE0Zjg1M2YwOGFhNzE4MDQ
- According to Don Henley, is internet a useful mean for artists to become famous? http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2010/10/21/henley_shares_views_on_legacy_music_industry.aspx
- In which way can we say that internet completely modifies the chain of jobs that gravitates around the artist’s work? http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2010/10/21/henley_shares_views_on_legacy_music_industry.aspx
- What is the main argument that allows us to say that internet, despite his effective bad aspects, shows some good qualities? http://www.nichebk.com/internet-music-what-are-the-effects-to-the-industry-of-music/
- Why do sharing services kill music companies? Give some arguments from the text. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=861
Personal opinion:
- Do you use a sharing service to download your music? If it’s the case, which one(s)?
- When have you bought a CD for the last time? Which one?
- Do you think that music companies will have a future?
- Do you think that the Internet is the best means to become famous in the world of music?
- Could you suggest something to help music companies?
1- Mails are sent to people who illegally download, in order to ask them to
ReplyDeletestop. The law theats them to stop their connexion and to make them pay a fine
of 1500 euros high if they continue.
2- Henley maintains that launching a career thanks to the Internet is not
possible. You can get a little bit of celebrety, and attract people's attention, but
that not makes you a artist. Indeed, he explains that when you are a
professionnal, you need expenses, promotion and distribution. And the
Internet alone can't offer you all these.
3- When you download illegally, you steal the work of a large number of
persons. Not only the artist who is singing/playing: you also don't recognize
the efforts of the musicians, the technicians, the persons who take care of the
materials and equipments, and all the persons who work on the background.
When you donwload illegally, you get for free, by a simple clik, the hard
investment of many workers that you might ignore the existence, but who are
supposed to be paid for offering you a work of quality: when you dowload
illegally, you simply deny their work and you refuse to pay them.
4- Thanks to the Internet, the artists can acquire some fame. People can
discover them easily, listen to their work, share it, and make them know better
by advising them to friends.
5- Naturally, music companies don't wish to see their work spread freely
around the world. But they also have a problem with the MP3/MP4: in fact, the
digital format, sharing through the different networks is very successful, and
so, at the expense of the CDs. Moreover, now people are very involved in the
virtual atmosphere, they don't give a lot attention about the promotion done by
the artists: they just wait to get the new songs, to know if these are good or
not, and that's all: they don't interest in advertisments, magazines, etc. So, the
feeling of sharing culture, thanking the artists for what he brings us is
disappearing. Not only, the revenue to the artist dicreases, but also, the
marketing and promotion companies are confronted to serious difficulties in
surviving.