Qwest commercial 1999 - Every Movie

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Cites snowwrestler · 2019-03 · on “A brief history of why artists are no longer making a living making music”

I think it's incomplete to characterize the state of the industry today without discussing how those consumer perceptions of value were intentionally created. If you worked in the music industry for 10 years then your experience almost completely post-dates these efforts. Starting even well before Napster, investors and technology companies saw the opportunity to change the allocation of value from artists and producers, to distribution. To be clear, that was not the allocation 30+ years ago. Record stores and radio stations did not make immensely more money than the labels and artists. Tech companies and investors worked aggressively to "commoditize their complement"--that is, depress the v

Cites dublin · 2022-10 · on “The deception of “buying” digital movies”

Yeah, but that's a real problem for those of us who don't watch a lot of movies. Many people aren't capable of figuring out "where to look" at all anyway. I am, to some degree, but it's just not worth spending that much of my time to hunt them down on the rare occasions I really want to watch something. Also, I'll just note that we never got the 21st century we were promised, which was this - any movie ever made: [this video] The fundamental problem is that the people who own movie IP rights are truly evil.

Cites mansilladev · 2023-01 · on “AT&T's predictions of the future (1993)”

These also remind me of the Qwest commercials. ("Every movie.. every language.. any time") - [this video] The tone and cadence of the rhetorical questions in the AT&T commercials also reminds me of comedian Tom Papa ("Have you ever..? .. I have") - [LINK]