Posted on 01/30/2008 9:32:00 PM PST by bamahead
Our government seems more concerned about revenue loss from downloading than savings lost by identity theft.
I think it’s whoever has a better little gator to file for yer cause.
Peer to peer is a given with these folks that like to get bad copies and virus’s be it handing someone a disk or CD or sending em a .rar torrent file over the net.
If Bono and associates really want to protect their crappy toe tappin tunes maybe they should go back to basics and only do concerts vs albums.
It couldn’t be that recording companies are peddling crap ... no, that’s too convenient an excuse.
And, interestingly, it is those folks who will benefit most from internet distribution. For all I know it's already out there somewhere ... but I can easily see the advent of a "YouTune" type industry where good, self-produced music can bubble to the top for cheap.
Exactly!! Under the Dead model, Bono would have much more money and Mr. McGuinness would be out of a job.
Destroying music is one thing. We do that every day as we pick up the viola and bow. Destroying the music industry is another thing.
"Why it's gotten to the point where Bono has to wipe his ass with coarse $20 bills instead of the $100s his sensitive, African-debt-relief-promoting buttocks had become accustomed to."
Later, Mr. McGuinness climbed into his Bentley and headed to the airport, where his private jet whisked him off to his Caribbean island retreat to relax and recover from his exhausting speech.
Youtube has already been hacked by the industry. Some company (Disney? WB?) had a woman signed for a year when they started a viral marketing plan where they shot videos cheaply in her kitchen on a single camera setup.
She was skeptical at first but they were pitched to the masses as an independent singer/songwriter just uploading her own material to Youtube and getting signed as a result.
The scam was exposed but it worked.
The soulless cool always seek to co-opt the language and techniques of the real.
The music industry is a criminal enterprise. Sometimes more than others but there is always a criminal element to “making hits” and “keeping books” and even keeping “talent” from jumping a contract.
‘Money for nothing.’
That’s the way to do it.
I agree. There is a ton of good music being produced these days. Just like you don’t look for the MSM for news, don’t look at the record companies for music.
I highly recommend Richard Taylor’s absolutely excellent podcasts (download from his site - http://www.rrradio.com/)about once a month. Hour long roots rock show. Great stuff, and no, I’m not Richard (but he is engineering and producing my band’s cd).
but who wants to spend 20 bucks for just audio, when you can get a movie for 10? It makes no sense.
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To you, maybe. To me, buying a movie makes no sense. How many movies will you really watch multiple times? A handful, maybe.
Music, OTOH, one will listen to time and time again.
I saw U2 live on the Elevation tour. U2 ruined music. They’re talentless hacks.
The relevant legal term is "common carrier." If I plot a crime over the telephone, the phone company is not liable for providing the line. I would hate to live in a country where the phone company is allowed to -- let alone required to -- police the content of every packet I sent to or receive from their networks.
McGuinness said much of Silicon Valley arose out of "hippy values" that did not include a respect for copyright and established business models.
I'll give him partial credit. Desktop computers were definitely driven by hippie values -- the goal was to wrest control over computers out of the hands of powerful business, government and academic institutions and give it to everyone. Power to the people.
There was certainly no love for established business models. F--- established business models. If the computing pioneers of the 1970s respected existing business models, we'd still be using terminals and dialing into IBM mainframes.
No respect for copyrights? Gates, Allen, Ballmer, Jpbs, Wozniak, Ellison, and on and on have all become billionaires on the strength of their intellectual property.
"There are plenty of private equity fund managers who are Deadheads," he said, a reference to hippy icons The Grateful Dead. "And embedded deep down in the brilliance of those entrepreneurial, hippy values seems to be a disregard for the true value of music."
The Grateful Dead allowed fans to tape their shows. If you bought a ticket in the right section and you owned a tape deck you could carry, you didn't even need a mike. They'd let you plug straight into the board. The result? The Dead were the top-grossing touring band in the country for about 30 years, right up until Jerry died. Prince took the title then, and he hasn't let it go.
Information is now fungible, and music is now just another form of information. Adapt or perish It's that f'n simple.
Take a look at youtube.com
Lots of indie bands put up videos there, with links to where you can buy more of their music from Amazon and itunes
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