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If these new business models cannot support the current size of the movie industry they're still going to complain. An industry will never voluntarily shrink. Spotify is a great example, since IIRC they are paying most of their revenue to the labels yet that is still dramatically less money than the labels made from CDs.

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perhaps, but being paid _something_ if significantly better than getting nothing at all -- let us not forget that in their heyday, CD prices went up to $15-$18 apiece, and people paid because there was simply no other option.I seriously doubt that the record industry wants to made obsolete to everyone but the few vinyl enthusiasts that are still out there.

This raises the question of whether Netflix/Spotify/etc. are replacing piracy or DVDs/CDs. If it's mostly the latter, the industry should wait for the old system to finish collapsing before embracing the new one.

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