Subj : Re: When everything is di
To   : esc
From : hollowone
Date : Sun Feb 26 2023 14:05:02

-=> esc wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 pF> When your media company goes out of business, good luck having your
 pF> restricted media still be available, or play.

 es> I have a similar frustration with Apple here. I've purchased a ton over
 es> the years through the iTunes store and I'm fearful things will just
 es> continue to migrate to streaming services and the concept of purchasing
 es> and owning music or movies will basically die.

Quite recently I had interesting conversation with one of my peers at work.
He admired Spotify like if it was created yesterday, because he finally paid
for subscription.
So as the ads disappeared he finally started enjoying whe he called 'endless
library of music'.
When he believed it's endless and perpertual, he was evangelising the concept
of recommendation and 
his own personal discoveries of music he'd normally never discover.

I asked him if he remembers any of those recommendations, by albums, songs,
authors.. that was more 
difficult, he sticked to the genre as the only hook.

I told him that this is a problem as it creates no loyalty to the artist and
such discovery is very 
shallow at the end. It's nice to get some recommendations this way or another,
but returning to the 
same artist is what shaped us back in the tape/cd times...

I think showing up or disappearing items from the list is part of the problem.
Second part is that common peoples approach to music, film and similar artistry
is very shallow.
New generations may not even know who their favourite actor, musician or band
is.. they will surely 
though fight to evangelize you that Disney+ is better than Netflix or the
opposite, this day or 
another...

Everything becomes a fly bye if you don't own a copy. Ownership creates
appreciation, subscriptions 
create meaningless consumptionism and try to hook people up to major brands
only in media.

Instead of repeating watching one great movie to remember it, people watch
100th part of Marvel for 
the same reason... not knowing the difference between them anymore, over time.

end_of_rant:

-h1

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