Yeah!!!!!!!! 3D is beginning to tank.

David Jimerson said:
And LP/cassette sales disappeared following the advent of CDs.
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That's not the same thing at all. Piracy is not a new "format".

The point is, for the first time in the (albeit relatively short) history of recorded media, the new format (digital) does not appear capable of maintaining the economic stability of the format(s) it's displacing. Not even close.

For current and future creative professionals, this is a problem.

David Jimerson said:
Yet there is no shortage of music being recorded, sold, and played on the radio...
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For the time being.

If the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is sufficiently diminished, there will naturally be an exodus of creative professionals to other pursuits and endeavors that actually reward them for their efforts.
 
arroway said:
That's not the same thing at all. Piracy is not a new "format".

The point is, for the first time in the (albeit relatively short) history of recorded media, the new format (digital) does not appear capable of maintaining the economic stability of the format(s) it's displacing. Not even close.

For current and future creative professionals, this is a problem.

For the time being.

If the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is sufficiently diminished, there will naturally be an exodus of creative professionals to other pursuits and endeavors that actually reward them for their efforts.
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Other than MP3s/downloadable files indeed being a new format, I don't disagree with any of that. I simply take issue with the idea that music is "dying."
 
arroway said:
That's not the same thing at all. Piracy is not a new "format".
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Agreed. It's always been around.
For as long as there's been VHS and cassette players on the market, people have been taping shows and movies from TV, songs from the radio, making huge home video movie collections and compiling mix tapes for their girlfriends. People would share cassette tapes with C64 games you'd start with Turbo 250 EX long before they'd even hear about the internet. It wasn't just common, it was part of the 80's culture as much as sex and drugs was a part of the 60's.
The whole anti-file sharing lobbying wave didn't start to pick up until around 2000-2001.

So yeah no, it's not a "new" format.

And it didn't kill home video or the music industry in the 80's either.
 
Jawa Ex Machina said:
Agreed. It's always been around.
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While I agree that piracy has been around forever that's not really what I was saying. Piracy is not a "format" period, old or new. It's just piracy. Digital is the new format.

Jawa Ex Machina said:
And it didn't kill home video or the music industry in the 80's either.
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Analog VS digital piracy is apples and orangutans. The level of piracy we have now is unprecedented, The scale isn't even comparable. There's never been anything like torrents, file lockers, youtube, limewire, and on-demand streaming before. Piracy has never been easier or more prevalent. It's also never been more monetized by freeloading 3rd parties. It's a whole new ballgame now. It remains to be seen how much of an impact it will finally have on the various creative sectors, but if the recording industry is the canary in the coal mine, everyone who makes their living (or plans to make their living) directly or indirectly from IP should be very concerned about where this is all headed.
 
His movies flop because they are CREEPY. Polar Express was weird. Christmas Carol could scare the bajeebas out of anyone under 6. Rango, Cars 2, and Hop will do well simply because they are cute. Throw in some adult humor for grown ups to bare it and Poof, you have a successful animated (or 3-D) animated film.
 
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