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# How The Record Industry Committed Suicide
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/how-the-record-industry-committed-suicide/
- Published: 2009-06-24T04:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2009-06-24T04:06:00.000Z
- Description: "The mass-marketing practices that the Record Industry adopted and mastered in correlation with file-sharing’s rise into predominance may have, in turn, created the ultimate paradox. Wherein the more the major. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/06/how-the-record-industry-commit
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Major Labels, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:03

[![Noo](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20115714fee88970b-250wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20115714fee88970b-pi?ref=hypebot.com) "The mass-marketing practices that the Record Industry adopted and mastered in correlation with file-sharing’s rise into predominance may have, in turn, created the ultimate paradox. Wherein the more the major labels focused on producing music that could be highly and quickly popularized, the more expecting fans perceived these artists negatively, perhaps, avoided buying their albums, and preceded to file-share their potentially ‘short-lived’ songs instead."

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