Comments on: Google brings free, legal tunes to China http://techlifepost.com/2009/04/02/google-brings-free-legal-tunes-to-china/ Living with technology. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:22:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Evolving Squid http://techlifepost.com/2009/04/02/google-brings-free-legal-tunes-to-china/comment-page-1/#comment-880 Evolving Squid Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:34:39 +0000 http://techlifepost.com/?p=3410#comment-880 >>Some prominent Chinese recording artists say they’ve given >>up recording because not enough people actually buy their >>songs anymore. That's the most interesting bit. It seems apparent that music has little value in modern Chinese culture. Obviously, they have their traditional music, and what they can leech from the rest of the world. With the RIAA and copyright issues going on in North America, I wonder if there's a message for "artists". I put the word in quotes because so much of North American music is formulaic and created based on its marketing value. Music now isn't what it was 25, 50, 100 years ago. The prevalence of piracy is sending a message that seems to be lost on artists and is definitely lost on industry: "STOP FEEDING US CRAP AND EXPECTING US TO PAY FOR IT." Perhaps the Chinese industry is getting it. >>Some prominent Chinese recording artists say they’ve given
>>up recording because not enough people actually buy their
>>songs anymore.

That’s the most interesting bit.

It seems apparent that music has little value in modern Chinese culture. Obviously, they have their traditional music, and what they can leech from the rest of the world.

With the RIAA and copyright issues going on in North America, I wonder if there’s a message for “artists”.

I put the word in quotes because so much of North American music is formulaic and created based on its marketing value. Music now isn’t what it was 25, 50, 100 years ago. The prevalence of piracy is sending a message that seems to be lost on artists and is definitely lost on industry:

“STOP FEEDING US CRAP AND EXPECTING US TO PAY FOR IT.”

Perhaps the Chinese industry is getting it.

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