A sad, sad movie is in development, it’s shocking, scary, full of a triumph and a tragedy. The story about the U.S. Record Industry. Ah yes.. from disco craze in the late 1970s, through the CD boom in the late 1980s and 1990s, from the dawn of Napster, Morpheus, limewire and other free file sharing online services in the 2000s to artists and musicians suing them because their royalties got cheated, from the glamorous, high profile world to today’s digital downloads and iTunes. Yes sir, the record industry has seen its ups and downs, its bittersweet history, so much so that HBO films thinks it’s appropriately cinematic… Read the rest of this entry »
