(C) BoingBoing
This story was originally published by BoingBoing and is unaltered.
. . . . . . . . . .
After home taping was killing music, record profits were made [1]
['Rob Beschizza']
Date: 2023-07-26
Open Culture reviews the music industry's 80s-era freakout over cassette recorders and in paerticular the British Phonographic Industry's deranged, piracy-promoting marketing campaign against "home taping," which made absolutely clear to otherwise unaware consumers exactly what those recorders were useful for.
The first time I saw the infamous Skullcassette-and-Bones logo was on holiday in the UK and purchased the very un-punky Chariots of Fire soundtrack. It was on the inner sleeve. "Home Taping Is Killing Music" it proclaimed. It was? I asked myself. "And it's illegal" a subhead added. It is? I also asked myself. (Ironically, this was a few months before I came into possession of my first combination turntable-cassette deck.)
Ten years and racks and racks of homemade cassette dubs on my shelves later, music seemed to be doing very well. (Later, by going digital, the music industry killed itself, and I had absolutely nothing to do with it.)
[END]
---
[1] Url:
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/26/after-home-taping-was-killing-music-record-profits-were-made.html
Published and (C) by BoingBoing
Content appears here under this condition or license: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0.
via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/boingboing/
