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krj
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The Twelfth Napster Item
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Sep 26 22:41 UTC 2002 |
Napster the corporation has been destroyed, but Napster's paradigm
continues on. This is another installment in a series of weblogs
and discussions about the deconstruction of the music industry and
other copyright industries, with side forays into
"intellectual property, freedom of expression, electronic media,
corporate control, and evolving technology," as polygon phrased it.
Several years of back items are easily found in the music2 and music3
conferences.
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krj
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response 1 of 160:
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Sep 26 22:59 UTC 2002 |
((( fall agora #25 <---> music #119 )))
There's been a torrent of interesting articles since the Agora rollover;
I'll try to paste in links for all the ones I can still remember over the
next day or three.
It's widely reported that the music biz is launching a new anti-downloading
ad campaign which will use top artists such as Britney Spears, Luciano
Pavarotti, the Dixie Chicks and Eminem, to convey their message that
downloading songs through the Internet is theft. The campaign is
sponsored by a broad array of music industry groups. Here's the
Washington Post link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2894-2002Sep25.html
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mcnally
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response 2 of 160:
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Sep 26 23:31 UTC 2002 |
Great.
I can't wait to receive advice from Eminem on how to behave responsibly..
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orinoco
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response 3 of 160:
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Sep 27 14:48 UTC 2002 |
I can't wait to see what happens when you put Eminem and Pavarotti in the same
room.
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goose
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Sep 27 14:53 UTC 2002 |
Eminem and (Sir?) Elton John was weird enough.
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mxyzptlk
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response 5 of 160:
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Sep 27 14:53 UTC 2002 |
Perhaps Pavarotti can persuade Eminem to retire along with him?
Word.
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krj
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Sep 27 19:41 UTC 2002 |
Imagine if every radio station, in order to play a song on the radio,
had to negotiate individually with each song's composer, performer and
record label. That's a good analogy of the legal quagmire facing
the authorized download services such as PressPlay and Musicnet
as they attempt to build up their catalog.
(Imagine if the representatives of the composers could not be bothered
to answer the inquiries because there wasn't much money in it!)
Grab this *excellent* NYTimes article before it disappears into the
pay archives early next week:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/23/technology/23MUSI.html
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*This* NYTimes article, on the other hand, strikes me as just a lot of
wishful thinking from the music industry, which believes that its
legal actions, and its shadowy war to degrade the usefulness of P2P
networks, are leading vaguely-charactized "early adopters" to give up
on the file sharing networks and switch to the for-pay systems.
Little of this matches the gossip I hear from file sharing users,
although almost all of them do mourn the loss of Napster's comprehensive
selection, probably the greatest library of music which will ever be
assembled.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/25/arts/music/25DOWN.html
"Online Fans Start To Pay The Piper"
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