ABSTRACT
WHY THE MUSIC INDUSTRY? Within a short period of time, the music industry has transformed itself into an operation which makes use of, and relies heavily on emerging new digital technologies. At a grass roots level, this process began where music is created, in the recording studio, where engineers found themselves parting from analogue and moving onto digital transmission. Digitalization has
Thomas Dolby Robertson has a message for record company executives: the Internet is punishing them for 20 years of abusing their fans. ‘The record industry increasingly over the years has desensitized us to the reason that we originally got into music in the first place. The music industry is now going to have to own up to the fact that the flocking of people to the Web as a venue for music is really an expression of the fact that the Web . . . is a much better venue for that activity than a large chain store in a shopping mall.’
