The subtitle in parenthesis is not mine. It was taken from the rotten.com link to this article.
1 posted on
07/09/2002 4:31:23 PM PDT by
Drew68
To: Drew68
Let RIAA and Hillary Rosen keep it up. They'll put themselves out of business soon enough and they won't be missed when it happens.
To: All
The government can create any stupid internet law they want...
They will simply be unable to enforce it...
The internet is global...
Internet radio servers will simply move offshore...
And the government, or other record companies won't be able to touch them...
THE bottom line is this...
The genie is out of the bottle...
The internet is the ultimate mover of power from the collective to the individual...
It's very existence guarantees the death of the "old school" machine...
From record companies to governments, the internet is their worst nightmare...
It is your best friend...
3 posted on
07/09/2002 4:40:36 PM PDT by
Ferris
To: Drew68
The secret is to have your stations ONLY broadcast music from UNSIGNED (hence UNOWNED) artists. This way you can broadcast free music and not be liable for any revenues. BTW - MP3.com is great for this, they have hundreds of thousands of artists (mostly unsigned) and thousands of stations to choose from.
To: Drew68
Internet Streaming Radio to RIAA and other clueless exec-types: "VE HAVE VAYS TO MAKE YOU MORE IRRELEVANT THAN YOU ARE NOW..."
Genie out of the bottle is exact.
Compare the naysayers (no pun intended) about the "new, smelly contraption" to the horse-drawn carriage.
Rather than embrace realities of the future and look for ways to improve upon it as any smart capitalist would, these mini-totalitarianist executives circle the burning wagons and proceed to shoot blanks.
Their days are surely numbered, and they will be replaced by types in the mail room who stay on top of real world technology.
5 posted on
07/09/2002 5:01:02 PM PDT by
Vidalia
To: Drew68
washington post owns newsweek. please post excerpts next time. thank you.
To: Drew68
I was at my daughters high school basketball game a few months ago and saw something astonishing. Read this with while keeping in mind that the kids are the ones who buy the lions share of cd's and are most susceptable to the marketing of musical tripe like Britney.
Ok, so here are all these kids in the stands with their portable cd players and CD's scattered all over the benches in the crowd - and none of them, NOT A SINGLE ONE was a pre-recorded CD. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM WAS HOME RECORDED/COPIED!
The recording industry execs are aware of this and they shudder! I was able to go to KazaA and download the entire quadraphenea album and Alice cooper stuff off billion dollar babies - stuff I can't even find in the used cd stores that pepper the U-district. These are 128k mp3's that make excellent CD's.
There is a shakeup coming whether the big players like it or not. And the horse is already out of the barn.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys 8^>
9 posted on
07/09/2002 5:09:55 PM PDT by
RobRoy
To: Drew68
My prediction is that those who make music are going to earn most of their money from playing live. No matter how good a copy you have , there is always going to be a huge desire to see these people perform in the flesh. The Grateful Dead made a good living at this for decades.Not a bad lifestyle if your stuff is good enough: work one day a week, travel one day a week and spend the rest of it being a tourist. All because folks have easy access to your music and want to see you LIVE.
20 posted on
07/09/2002 8:05:01 PM PDT by
Nateman
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