Obviously, this affects the culture industry. The more you use the Internet, less consumption will be in stores and material products, since there is no greater benefit than that offered by the Internet. But not only in movies or music this happens, the same goes for books that are on the Web, or the online version of newspapers, more and more people are added to read network, avoiding extra money spent by something they have from her couch. Customers increasingly are favoring these ways of learning and entertainment network for the convenience, freedom to choose hours, not to occupy space and, above all, because they are free.
A new crime or informative resources?
The introduction of fees was one of the first ideas of government so that when someone is down a cultural product, be paid a minimum figure, however, the Internet is the great giant against which you can not fight, great expansion and Globalization makes it impossible to control such acts.
The Government tries to scare consumers of cultural products through advertising Network and the law against piracy and downloading, since it constitutes a crime. But here another problem arises: if these products are art, revealing a society based on a culture with an educational purpose, there should be no barriers to access. Read the rest of this entry »
With the advent of the Internet and various P2P programs, or free downloads, creates a new problem for the cultural industry.
The majority of Spanish households have a computer and connection to the Internet, or find it difficult to connect from the library of his neighborhood, school, etc.. Moreover, many of them use programs downloads free music or movies, through which they can access non-material cultural products, but free. Such actions have gone from being a threat to create a great crisis in the world of the culture industry.
But what is the culture industry?
When we speak of cultural industry, we refer to the production, publication, distribution … products with cultural bases for further marketing. That is, it creates a fusion between the two concepts to define the action of bringing the individual, in material part of their culture. Such products are newspapers, books, movies, music CDs … that, despite having an informative basis, are sold and inserted into the commercial world
It is true that, despite having an artistic and symbolic basis of belonging to create values disclosed, music CDs and, above all, the movies cost an innumerable amount of money at the time of its creation. Making a film has a large economic burden, due to the mobilization of large human, technological, also counting the wages of star-system and all phases have to pass the film to get the first copy. Read the rest of this entry »