Re: Is the Era of Free Streaming Music Coming to an End?
Good Rant Petrus! As I have watched the methods of recording music shift through my life the focus was to make the recording available for ownership by the purchaser on a one time basis. Now for the first time as far as I can tell the focus is on selling a monthly service and unfortunately with it a trend away from availability to own individual music libraries legally. As I think of my volumes of old vinyl, cassette tapes, 8 track tapes, VHS, Beta, CD, and now Blue Ray it's easy to see the lure of unowned streamed music in a monthly service. The trend now for music services is away from personal downloads or recording of music with limited availability of these services as time goes on. Even so called free streaming now cost you each month to pay to be part of the Web so it's just a matter of once they have you over a barrel with no personal libraries, how much are you willing to pay and how many hands will you tolerate in your wallet monthly to listen to songs you once could own. The lure of convenience and variety thru music service companies may one day make legal ownership of copy written music a thing of the past.
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