{"id":10,"date":"2002-08-23T13:33:22","date_gmt":"2002-08-23T13:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdragon.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2011-03-31T12:07:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:07:37","slug":"its-called-shooting-yourself-in-the-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/2002\/08\/its-called-shooting-yourself-in-the-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Called Shooting Yourself In The Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>&#8230; or biting the hand(s) that feed you &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In 1978, record sales began to fall, and the major labels blamed a larcenous new technology: cassette tapes. The international industry even had an outraged official slogan: &#8220;Home taping is killing music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the five major labels that dominate CD retailing, would like to blame much of the slide on Internet music-file swapping. Yet there are many other causes, including the fact that the big five are all units of troubled multinationals&#8211;AOL Time Warner, Vivendi Universal, BMG, EMI, and Sony&#8211;that are focused on short-term gain and have no particular interest in the music biz. There&#8217;s also been a recession, of course, and resistance to CD prices that have grown much faster than the inflation rate. Perhaps the most important factor, however, is the major labels&#8217; very success in dominating the market, which has squelched musical innovation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m just shocked&#8230; and to think I thought it was all due to the Internet and P2P file sharing&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--\n\n\n<ul>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregus.com\/content\/6\/26099.html\">Hit Charade - The music industry's self-inflicted wounds.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or biting the hand(s) that feed you &#8230; In 1978, record sales began to fall, and the major labels blamed a larcenous new technology: cassette tapes. The international industry even had an outraged official slogan: &#8220;Home taping is killing music.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[136,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-10","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-mp3","8":"tag-revolution","9":"anons"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peSL2o-a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}