This is why the sales are dying. Big music lost touch with the artists by screwing them over and the fans as well. Now people are looking for something with meaning. That meaning isn’t found in Big Music, they have their own agendas and those are contrary and without sympathy to Big Music’s underlying theme of money and control. It’s really difficult to control the ground under you while it is free falling into obscurity.

The sue’em is the last grasp to retain control and pull in some money, only it isn’t working out like they thought. For those 30,000 caught in the wringer, there will come a backlash not yet felt to Big Music. In another article here it is mentioned something I’ve been saying for a long time. That those will make sure to tell all around them about the raw deal that bought music is with the majors. The little fiasco about not ripping your own music you purchased as being legal will haunt them as well. Just as you can still hear the echos from Sony’s rootkit, so too will the majors hear about this for a long time to come. They will hear of it while people spend their money on games and other items of entertainment instead of over priced and underacheived product that represents the near total offerings today on the commercial market.

In the hey day of music, people would line up to be the first to have the newest album of that group they loved, whatever it was. The Top 10 would carry that tune for sometimes near a year. That lack of interest is reflected now by no record stores to line up at, if the public had the interest, which they no longer do. Big Music played it for all it was worth for the money and control, caring not for what happened as a result of those actions they are going down the toilet inch by inch.

I for one have no sympathy for them, they dug their own grave. No matter what any of us think about it, the facts are the facts and music control as well as the money is rapidly slipping away from the corporate control. That is why you see so many trolls in the music subjects is the corporations trying to maintain some semblance of the idea that they are still present and it matters to the public. When you have to buy and pay for this sort of advertisement, you know they are really feeling the heat and it isn’t creating buzz in favor of them. Instead it is further feeding the disgust average Joe feels over these gluttons.