Kyle Reese, I must commend you on your outlook of the industry and the state of media at this current time. I know Nick’s comment makes sense to him, but I cannot understand why.
Media has been in a place currently, that the industry does not understand at all, and have not done anything to compete…to actually halt some of the leaks…
Look guys…there are ways…that could be made, when a game,cd or movie goes gold…they could be sent into distribution immediately through broadband access. Even a junky ass computer in a gamestop or some junk could burn enough copies for distribution at that store. Industry standards must begin to evolve…and evolve it hasn’t. People now get more of their media online…and not through supposed ‘legit’ ways which aren’t really legit to the people, as I mean, you try to download music, and you’ve got to worry about what you can use it on or how many times you can use it.
Anything coded in 0’s an 1’s is not really backed in the economy like physical property is, it’s freely transferable, which shows that the industry does not have an ounce of understanding in the area…if something can be so freely transferable so Halo 2 is released a month before it’s release date, there is some heavy industry problems, that will take years to catch up with, because they are so slow with what they can do with technology.
The music industry I believe in not having it’s problems not because of online sharing, but because of it’s shitty selection of current music fed to the mainstream consumers. I mean take a look at who has the top hits and you’ll know what I’m talking about. Not only is media expensive as fuck, and the reason is, theres lots of shitty music, lots of shitty 100+ million dollar budget flops, short games with no story with too much attention to gameplay mechanics and not the whole picture. The inspiration is at a new low folks…in all areas.
Many people also don’t understand the internet society and the ‘share everything’ attitude. The people that know the internet well understand that it’s a community on it’s own and that people are sick of the old ways of distribution. Music industry began because of it’s selling of portable distributable products that people could listen to from the original artists of a song without seeing a live performance. The industry is dying; not only from their shitty selection of current modern music and their inablility to understand the internet and find new and cheaper ways to sell music. Actually the music industry will die because of the full connection of the world and the integration of cultures that understand the aspect of sharing with one another and not putting someone in jail because of ‘a song’, ‘a film’, or a ‘video game’, etc.
I will have my own film projects developing over the next year, and I cannot possibly fathom people getting fines or jail time for consuming art. It’s ridiculous and frivolous, and needs to be ended immediately. The court system and the dollar squeezing entertainment industry holds back the upcomers. The current state of file-sharing is a boycott to the industry standards we currently have, and those standards are mediocre at best.
We should have a society, where you don’t have to pay for entertainment, and I think that’s what the internet community is about currently.
Entertainment is more expensive than food alright, unless you eat ramen all day, and that just shows that entertainment is only supposed to be meant for a certain pool of folks. Entertainment is not available to all, because it’s not affordable. I mean you buy an album, and your like, I could make better shit in my basement on my pentium 166. You see a film and say, my 8 year old sister could write better garbage than that. You play a game, and especially in this time since there is only 1 good game per 25 games released, you feel let down all the damn time.
The internet trading and sharing, is about exposing people to entertainment on a massive level, just as it exposes people to information on a massive level. When more people are exposed to this entertainment, it starts to become collective, as people bonding to create better art styles of art forms. With exposure on this level, in current times, it’s something that should be viewed as a phenomenon, if people are able to view and listen to art in a way they weren’t able to before You’d gain a greater sense of inspiration listening to 100 albums over a period of a week, compared to the only one you could afford come paycheck time. 100 films over a period of a week, instead of being able to see only one. 100 games you can test and get to the few good ones.
Nick, of course poor people have more important things to worry about than entertainment such as food n shit, but they have a soul too, and are probably the ones more interested and hold a better taste in art than people in the middle or upper class, not saying that a certain class holds more taste than another, just it’s usually the poor who come up, struggle, and make the inspirational piece of work about what they want to, usually it’s the people who’ve been in the shitter heavily at some point in their life, that make it real, and project views into lyrics, paintings, games or movies stronger than others. The people who are poor have just a strong of an entertainment view as everyone else, if not stronger and on a higher wavelength.
The input and output of media has grown, something that is not understood by most. In this case with media, with Halo 2… its out because the industry knows how to, but is to lazy to at this time, use a better way of distributing it’s product when it goes gold, when a product goes gold, there are ways to get it out even quicker than what is being done currently, alot better ways.
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