{"id":205,"date":"2009-02-26T16:11:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T05:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=205"},"modified":"2009-02-26T16:11:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T05:11:02","slug":"music-industry-vs-music-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2009\/02\/music-industry-vs-music-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Industry vs Music Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com is running an essay on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/culture\/culturereviews\/magazine\/17-03\/st_essay\">music industry&#8217;s beef with music simulation games<\/a> like <em>Rock Band<\/em> and <em>Guitar Hero<\/em>. In some ways, it&#8217;s like listening to a broken record: old business hasn&#8217;t anticipated how the times are a-changin&#8217; and starts whining about not having a big enough cut of the proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve done it with Apple and the ITMS, they&#8217;re doing illegal things\u00c2\u00a0 to hinder file swapping, and they&#8217;re doing very little to be innovative and stay ahead of the game. What they don&#8217;t seem to realise is that if they weren&#8217;t stuck in this orthodoxy of the plastic disc, they could be inventing new distribution channels like games and ringtones and online file distribution.<\/p>\n<p>One fact jumped straight off my monitor and burned into my brain when I read the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Music games are proven earners\u00e2\u20ac\u201dAerosmith has reportedly <a href=\"http:\/\/multiplayerblog.mtv.com\/2008\/09\/15\/gh-money-for-aerosmith\/\">earned more<\/a> from <cite>Guitar Hero : Aerosmith<\/cite> than from <em>any single album<\/em> in the band&#8217;s history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow! Aerosmith is one of the biggest rock bands in history, and they make more money off a game? It&#8217;s obvious this could be used as a fantastic promotional tool, but it can also help revitalise bands.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the last couple years of music games, I&#8217;ve (re)discovered music and bands I haven&#8217;t given a thought to in over a decade. I&#8217;ve spent money on them. Even if the label gets a relatively small cut from the game, it gets much more from my track purchase.<\/p>\n<p>I would hate to be working for such an introverted, conservative company. It would frustrate me to think that my employer behaved like a spoiled brat who wanted credit every time somebody came up with a better idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com is running an essay on the music industry&#8217;s beef with music simulation games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero. In some ways, it&#8217;s like listening to a broken record: old business hasn&#8217;t anticipated how the times are a-changin&#8217; and starts whining about not having a big enough cut of the proceeds. They&#8217;ve done it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[17,44,194,193,43,99],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-3j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}