"Is Netflix Killing TV"? Says the front page today. We remember the same statement about home taping. In fact, paid musicians complained about the Edison Cylinder, who complained about radio, who complained about 78s and 45s, and so on.
Napster took the complaints to another level!
Does anyone have a book title or article to suggest or a comment on this long and seemingly repeating phenomenon?Thank you!
Lessig's The Future of Ideas has a great exposition of these sort of trends throughout the 20th century.
More specifically on stuff like format shifting is his book Remix.