The end of the world as we all have known it

I am going to make a prediction here…

Most of my predictions are pretty good, but my timing is usually way, WAY off. Just sayin’.

I predict that most of the music and movies we have known will sometime in the not-to-distant future be… persona-non-Grata. Unwelcome to the average listener.

The logic goes like this. Many of you may know that Netflix had to raise their prices by 60% yesterday. Why? Because the Recording Industry is charging them much more than a year ago. Think: 10 times as much.

But we can all watch YouTube for free [maybe a commercial].

The idea is that there will be a time when there are so many bands and movie makers making content for free – AND that they will be so easy to find – that listening to someone LIKE Miles Davis for free will beat paying $100/month to corporations that sue little old ladies for downloading music and blind guys for downloading porn.

I think artists will make money not by selling content but by selling tickets to shows – and other methods by which they work with the music/movie lover instead of suing them. What a concept huh? šŸ˜‰

I think this could happen at any time – but is most likely in the next 5 to 10 years.

Before that we will probably see micro-payments where you pay a few cents per minute and can listen/see anything you want [Do you realize that at $1/song itunes is – if each song is 3 minutes long, they make $20/hour off of someone who is just exploring new music? -This is where.how we have always been kind of ripped off. Buying an album, hoping it will be good because you heard of one of the artists before or because of the cool cover…. been there, done that 1000s of times. Gets expensive and is usually unsatisfactory.]