In the big box music stores they used to have those magnetic strips that would sound an alarm if you tried to leave with your Guided By Voices Cd without paying. And in the small record stores (at least one in Pittsburgh anyway) they called the cops, or made your life hell some other way. Point is, we used to police stuff before it left the store. We should still be doing so.
More than just perfect copies though. It made it easier for millions of people to do it without even thinking of the consequences.
No doubt with your history you're familiar with what a nuisance (albeit smaller scale one) that bootleggers were. I'm sure you remember how Charle's Mingus' wife Sue used to get even with record stores selling bootlegged of her husband's concerts and whatnot. As you said the mindset existed, but it grew exponentially with the advent of technology designed to make sharing information freely. The problem was that the people who designed it were for the most part idealists. When they thought of information sharing i don't think they meant it in this way.
It may also be a nature vs/ nurture thing. Millions of us weren't taping songs off the radio to our cassettes at once. For one thing it was a lot of work. Now there's no work involved, and more people do it. Technology has made it easier to steal, lie and cheat. It has also made it easier for companies to justify making rip off versions of popular songs to put in their adverts as a way to avoid paying fees.
It's the erosion of ethics, driven by technology. One could argue with every technological advancement there has been an erosion of sorts (the automated factory cause exploitation of workers, etc) so it's easy enough to see a direct correlation. But what's crazy is how much it has grown. Exponentially. At high speed internet rates.
Yeah chalk that up to no brainer advice. I have no idea if it's common that when people are promoted to CD level and above they see the world differently and assume if they are happy then so is everyone else. But it should not be a surprise that the most talented people in the industry end up leaving their jobs for somewhere else. Would you really want to work for someone who devalues you, underpays you and takes the position that working for their agency is a "privilege?"
And should those bosses really be surprised when, after taking that stance, people leave?
My question is, why is it so hard to understand this phenomenon isn't really a phenomenon at all? Do we really need an infographic to understand?
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