The growing popularity of the “Bowie” bond — a security backed by royalties — may sound strange, but it’s nothing new. In treating songs like annuities, capitalists prove once again that nothing is too sacred, or silly, to be commodified.

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[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The music industry is dead. There is no music industry anymore. What once was the recording industry is now just a part of the finance industry. That's why nothing new has been coming up in the (mainstream) music world and that's why nothing but crap is on the movies. Why discover or produce anything new and risky when you can make good money selling and buing copyrights and bundling them into "finance product"? Why come up with new "products" for cinema when you have an ongoing and predictable(!) stream of profit from the 957th shitty sequel of a well established franchise?

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They won't stop there. AAA game developers and the awful productivity software giants like Adobe, Oracle and Microsoft themselves have already gotten everybody used to live service, cloud software, and subscription models where they have all the control and you're just renting. They will destroy indie software and games next too, if we let them, Microsoft's TPM requirement on Windows 11 is likely just the first step in putting up unbreakable walls around their garden, which they would build even faster if Linux weren't providing real competition they can't just buy to suppress.

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks to Linux, LibreOffice, Inkscape, Blender, Ardour and Ableton I've been able to avoid any of these so far. I certainly hope to keep doing so. Actually, with some will to adapt to new software and slightly different workflows it still seems possible. Kicking WaveLab and Waves seemed hard at first but I can't say I am missing them now.

[–] antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does Ableton work well on Linux in your experience? What's the best recipe? I haven't tried it yet, but awesome if it works!

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

I'm not running it on Linux, usually. Live is pretty much the only thing I am running from the Windows partition of my laptop. I did, however, run it on my PC on a Virtualboxed Windows and -IIRC- also under wine64. The virtualized variant ran like on bare iron. Absolutely no problem, not even with hardware synths via MIDI. I think the wine install also worked fine - at least I can't remember having any problems with Ableton on a Linux PC. The one thing that will cause problems with wine are VST(i)s. You'd have to install each one with wine and hope they'll coexist with the shared environment.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

"You will own nothing and you will be happy."

[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The more I understand economics and the longer I live with it, the more capitalism seems like a death cult.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Extract all resources, concentrate all power, do war, collapse, repeat.

[–] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We were doing that well before capitalism was a thing. We learn from history that we don't learn from history...

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Some of the tech oligarchs are explicitly stating they want to do a paperclip machine.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nothing says "rock and roll" like commodifying art in order to extract every last bit of value from it.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

And people give me shit when i say I won't pay for music (files) anymore.