Stream Ripping: How Google/YouTube Is Slowly Killing Music Industry

[tangor]

There is a quiet crisis brewing in the creative community…the potential end of music as a viable pathway out of economic hardship. Almost any song that comes to mind can be acquired online easily, at absolutely no charge. Adele’s “Send My Love” can be downloaded using ListenToYouTube.com. Kanye West’s “Famous” can be obtained using YouTubeinMP3.com. Even classics like Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” can be had using YouTube2MP3.cc.

[breitbart.com...]
This is not a short article. It is not just about stream rippers, advertising, royalities, or copyrights. It is all that a more. If your site relies on video/audio files you might want to read this. There is a coming crisis between creators and consumers on the horizon, one the creators might not win and the consumers will ultimately lose in that if there's no fair compensation for work, the creators will go elsewhere.

[graeme_p]

It might kill the music industry, but it will not kill music.

This is just a re-run of Home Taping Is Killing Music [en.wikipedia.org ]

New technology means new business models. May be concerts will be where the money is made, and downloads will be free. Then there is advertising, sponsorship,crowd funding and a million other models. Paying per duplicate made sense when duplication was the expensive part of the process (so easiest to take money from). It does not work well any more.

Creative destruction [en.wikipedia.org ]