Posted on 05/27/2004 12:57:50 PM PDT by jjm2111
We have a more basic problem,which I see as a lack of self-confidence such that not only teenagers, but young and not-so-young adults are afraid NOT to buy what the advertisers tell them is in. They have to listen to what's IN,even if it is absolute degenerate garbage.
And why don't the girls reject all the so-called music they says it's fine to beat and mistreat women ??? And reject the males who play that crap?
Sometimes people get what they deserve- ; they always get what they will settle for.
..........Never mind. I don't want to get banned
MusicMatch is free....and you pay 99 cents each download.
ArtistMatch allows you to listen to all the songs from the artist. Plus, I get composers so I can hear classical.
No banners & No ads....that is worth $4.95 per month to me!
Steve Jobs is out there saying that iTunes is a success, but if you take away the freebies from the Pepsi promotion, it looks pretty anemic to me.
Of course, that could be a marketing model, songs could become the great freebie giveaways to promote other products, and iTunes, etc. could just be in the coupon redemption business as their primary business model.
Real Rhapsody lets you listen to songs for two weeks free, then you can cancel. No, there are no downloads, but if you have the Total Recorder software running (or similar software) you would be able to capture the song (illegally, of course, so don't try this at home, kids!) It would also have the effect of stripping out any tracking bits that were put in a song. (oh, oh, there I go again, saying naughty things!)
why do you doubt they can do that?
If it's a peer-to-peer connection, how do they know who's downloading, unless they're one of the "peers"?
Based on what do you infer that she has broadband? Also, I've seen broadband in some cases priced competitively with dialup (which I would pretty much consider a basic necessity).
so hence my question.....are they only going after the people who share or are they going after the downloaders as well?
The article would lead one to believe the latter, but don't believe everything you read.
I didnt see anything in the articel that said she wasnt "sharing" the music with others
Leroy,
According to the article...
>> The industry is particularly keen on stopping people who keep their computers open on the Internet for others to share. On Lafky's computer, for instance, record companies like Universal Music Group, Sony and Warner Bros. found songs by groups they publish like Bloodhound Gang, Savage Garden and Linkin Park. Also found were songs by artists Michelle Branch, MC Hammer and country stars Shania Twain and Neal McCoy, which not only were downloaded but also available to others to upload, according to the lawsuit.
I read this as she downloaded the music and had it available to others.
the article says "The record companies follow the songs when they're downloaded onto computers". That's wishful thinking imho, or an outright lie.
I uploaded stuff on Kazaa a couple of years ago on dialup. It can be done but, as with anything dialup compared to broadband, it's a horrible option.
And you are right, at $27.95 my dsl connection is not really any more expensive than when I had AT&T dialup ($19.95).
High Speed Internet ($27.95)+ Online Game ($9.95)= cheap long term entertainment ($37.90 or @$1.25 a day). Cheaper than cable or a nice dinner and show.
iTunes is a loss-leader that it gets people to buy more iPods, which is a high-margin product. Given that the iPod has roughly 30% of the mp3 player market, I'd say it is working.
My personal favorite spot to buy music online is www.allofmp3.com , which lets you chose the bitrate & encoding method for your music - you can get it in mp3, aac, wma, ogg vorbis, ect. And it is cheap too - only a penny a megabyte. Of course, the site is based in Russia, and is cheap due to some quirks of Russian copyright law, but from the research I have done it seems to be legal for US citizens to buy music from them.
The Klebold's and Harris's have no responsibility for what their offspring did. That was just mass-murder. But this is about something much more important, money.
Online Game = Everquest?
Yep been there done that! Now I play AO much better game!
I actually play EQ, SWG (on a furlough till they fix a few things) and recent release CoH. Now that is a fun, fast paced game! If it wasn't for my smithing addiction, I would have quit EQ a year or more ago.
I've played em all save for Horiszons and COH.
AO is still my favorite and this September we get the Aliens invading! That is gonna be some fun. You get player made cities that get attacked by the aliens then if you beat back their attack you get to try boarding their ships and taking them on!
The reporter doesn't know what he is talking about. The RIAA goes after people who make songs available for UPLOAD. They would love to get the people who download, but I will almost guarantee you this girl had a shared folder with songs in it that were available to other KAZAA users.
It is theoretically possible to put a bug in the file swapping software to log the IP addresses of those downloading songs and report them to the RIAA, but that would take planting a trojan on individual computers.
Give Orrin Hatch a year and the Justice Dept will have the authority to spy on your computer to see if you are pirating music.
we are responsible for our children. At least we were.
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