I'm in!
I wonder if I can download a free copy of Johnny Cymbal’s ‘Mr. Baseman’?
Awright! “Rockford Files” theme, here I come!
Sounds like a giant piece of spyware to me.
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I’ll be looking for the Wild Tchoupitoulas.
I see where “artists, record companies and publishers” will be paid. No provision for payment to the writers. Typical of mechanical reproduction where royalty payments are made to the publisher, but writers often don’t get paid by the publisher according the terms of the contract. A writer needs to retain control of his own publishing to the greatest extent possible or he’s going to get screwed.
I'm in!
Imagine if you could immediately access and download ANY piece of music you remember from your past?
The record companies are sitting on a gold mine and they don't even seem to realize it. So what if it's "out of print." No need to pay money reissuing it. Just put a digital copy online. Hopefully they are starting to come around.
They are missing a bet here. While music sharing *can* result in increased sales, it has to be done through traditional music outlets. That is, listen to it for free from download, but if you want to buy it, get it from a record store.
If they try to sell it online, it defeats the purpose, because you can get the track for free online. They have to sell the physical disks to profit from this model.
However, that being said, even more importantly, the music industry needs to exploit one of the most impressive side effects of peer swapped music: it encourages downloaders to find not just other music from their favorite artists, but to discover new artists.
For example, a downloader likes an artist who belongs to the “Chicago Electric Blues” genre. On the Internet, he can quickly find out what other artists belong to that genre, and quickly get samples of their work, knowing that they are a lot like the artist he already likes.
Practically speaking, this means that instead of wanting just three *physical* albums from one artist, he discovers that there are fifty or a hundred albums out there for artists he has just discovered.
From the consumer point of view, it is like discovering that a novel you really enjoyed was just the first of 20 written in that series, by that author. You are in consumer heaven.
And *that* is what the music industry needs to capitalize on. Both letting downloaders know that there is a LOT more that they might like out there, *and* to be able to give them the physical product when they want it.
Say they have just discovered Big Bill Broonzy. There might not be an album of his still on the shelves. The music industry needs to get a print of that album to that consumer. They might also need to print up single copies of every other album BBB ever did.
And *that* is where the real money is. “Pirate” song downloading didn’t cost them a penny, it made them a fortune.
I liked the headline for this story on another site:
Free DRM Infected Music with Ads
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“Nor is a lack of compatibility with the iPod player expected to put fans off. Apple is unlikely to allow tracks downloaded from its rival to be compatible with iPods”
Apple can ESAD. They’ll never get a penny from me. Pack of America hating, dope-huffing pervert hippies.
“Nor is a lack of compatibility with the iPod player expected to put fans off. Apple is unlikely to allow tracks downloaded from its rival to be compatible with iPods”
Apple can ESAD. They’ll never get a penny from me. Pack of America hating, dope-huffing pervert hippies.
No DRM here thanks. I will continue to control the software, and all files including audio on my PERSONAL computer, not big brother.
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