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jmsaul
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response 141 of 165:
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Jun 8 18:05 UTC 2002 |
Good riddance to them, as fas as I'm concerned.
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krj
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response 142 of 165:
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Jun 9 05:28 UTC 2002 |
found it! The New York Magazine article referred to a Wall Street Journal
item; usually the WSJ stuff is not freely available, but this story
was made available as a cautionary tale for children... :)
http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/0502_mdia.htm
MCA Records spent about two
years preparing Carly
Hennessy for pop stardom,
and about $2.2 million to
make and market the
18-year-old singer's first pop
album, "Ultimate High."
But since "Ultimate High" was
released in stores nationwide
a few months ago, it has sold
only 378 copies-amounting to
about $4,900 at its suggested
retail price. ...
Wonderful story!
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jp2
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response 143 of 165:
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Jun 9 05:31 UTC 2002 |
This response has been erased.
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jmsaul
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response 144 of 165:
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Jun 9 14:23 UTC 2002 |
#142 brings a tear to my eye. I'm proud of the American public.
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aruba
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response 145 of 165:
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Jun 9 14:50 UTC 2002 |
I think musical tastes were well on the way to slintersville before the net
became something a lot of people used.
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scott
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response 146 of 165:
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Jun 9 17:14 UTC 2002 |
Great interview/article about David Bowie in today's NYT:
"The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music
will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it.
I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm
fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10
years, and authorship and intellectual property is in for such a bashing."
"Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity," he
added. "So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none
of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a
lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going
to be left. It's terribly exciting. But on the other hand it doesn't matter
if you think it's exciting or not; it's what's going to happen."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/arts/music/09PARE.html?todaysheadlines
Sounds like (as usual) Bowie has been thinking a few years ahead of most
people in the music business.
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bru
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response 147 of 165:
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Jun 9 21:13 UTC 2002 |
who is carly hennessy?
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scott
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response 148 of 165:
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Jun 9 22:04 UTC 2002 |
Carly Hennessy was given as an example in one of the articles Ken posted
yesterday.
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oval
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response 149 of 165:
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Jun 10 03:18 UTC 2002 |
it's great to see people so optimistic. i can't wait, if they're right.
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russ
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response 150 of 165:
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Jun 10 11:48 UTC 2002 |
Re #147: That's *exactly* what I'd like everyone to ask about all
the acts which the RIAA tries to manufacture via their hype machine.
If I hadn't seen N'Sync plugged on T-shirts and sniped at by Foxtrot,
I might still be ignorant of them. The nice thing about such creations
of hype machines is that if everyone stops paying attention to them
they soon cease to exist.
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dbratman
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response 151 of 165:
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Jun 10 18:14 UTC 2002 |
And a good thing, too, that musical tastes are splintering. Whenever I
see a movie set, say, in the 1950s, it's always filled with the pop
music of that era, and I think, "If I'd lived back then, I would have
had to hear that crap all the time _whether I wanted to or not_." (I'm
thinking to myself, I'm entitled to call it crap.)
Of course, nowadays I have to hear hip-hop whether I want to or not,
usually while I'm waiting at red lights in traffic, but at least I
don't have to hear too much of it.
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oval
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response 152 of 165:
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Jun 10 21:42 UTC 2002 |
i'll happily take hip-hop over shit-pop.
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flem
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response 153 of 165:
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Jun 11 14:20 UTC 2002 |
Dunno if this is the right item, but I read yesterday that some ReplayTV
users are suing Turner for saying that skipping the commercials is theft.
I could probably find the URL if I tried.
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jazz
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response 154 of 165:
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Jun 11 20:01 UTC 2002 |
It's not theft; you're not taking something that Turner's not giving
away for free. At worst, it's a breach of an unspoken contract.
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tpryan
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response 155 of 165:
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Jun 14 23:51 UTC 2002 |
It's the defamation of character the Turner is doing, to call
it's veiwers "Theives".
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scott
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response 156 of 165:
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Jun 15 03:26 UTC 2002 |
"In a continuing effort to maintain their image as evil incarnate" is how a
slashdot item on record company consideration of attempting to charge
royalties on sales of used CDs. The referenced article can be found at:
http://www.sduniontribune.com/news/business/20020614-9999_1b14usedcds.html
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gull
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response 157 of 165:
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Jun 15 20:09 UTC 2002 |
Re #146: France tried eliminating copyright, after the French revolution.
It resulted in a major reduction in the amount of creative works
produced there. I'd hope we won't make the same mistake.
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other
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response 158 of 165:
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Jun 16 05:30 UTC 2002 |
might lead to an overall improvement in the quality of the works actually
produced...
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gull
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response 159 of 165:
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Jun 17 13:27 UTC 2002 |
I'd expect a decrease in quality, personally. It's the people who are good
at what they do who have the most to lose.
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mcnally
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response 160 of 165:
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Jun 17 23:21 UTC 2002 |
re #157: I've never heard that before. Do you know whether other factors
(such as the loss of aristocratic patronage) were accounted for?
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gull
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response 161 of 165:
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Jun 18 12:33 UTC 2002 |
I don't know. I did find this reference with a web search, though it
appears to be a college student's paper:
http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:UnEL9Hlq8KwC:skipper.gseis.ucla.edu/st
udents/dwalker/html/projects/documents/IS-200_Heirs_of_the_Enlightenment.rtf+fr
ench+revolution+intellectual+property&hl=en&ie=UTF8
Sorry for the long URL, it's a Google-converted HTML version of a Rich Text
document.
"In freeing the presses, it appears that the National Assembly intended to
break the monopolistic hold of the book guilds, allowing the great literary
works of the Enlightenment to be printed and circulated freely, as well as
allowing new works to be published without censorship. The result, however,
was far different. Having essentially dissolved all copyright, pirating of
new and older works became widespread. Although slanderous and libelous
pamphlets circulated widely, the publication of books came to a virtual halt
as both authors and publishers found that rampant pirating made the
publishing of books economically unfeasible. Rather than foster creativity,
the freedom of the presses stifled creativity."
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dbratman
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response 162 of 165:
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Jun 19 21:36 UTC 2002 |
Not that it proves anything, but French music had been in kind of the
doldrums anyway through the later 18th century, and produced few
masterpieces after Rameau's death in 1764 until Hector Berlioz came
roaring in after the Restoration, in the late 1820s.
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krj
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response 163 of 165:
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Jun 21 03:02 UTC 2002 |
Slashdot points to a bunch of stuff about the Librarian of Congress'
decision on webcasting royalty rates and record keeping requirements.
The short version is that the proposed rates were cut in half
-- the 50% discount for on-air radio broadcasters was eliminated,
setting the rate at $0.0007 per listener per song. Mainstream
media calls this a win for webcasters; Internet media says that
half of vastly-more-than-total-revenues is still more than total
revenues, and most independent webcasters in the USA are finished.
To make things worse, everyone who has webcasted has to pay a bill
for the four previous years' royalties, at this rate, and it's due
this October. Many independent and student stations are expected
to be bankrupted.
Slashdot readers report that some online webcasters have already
started to shut down. A few sympathetic congressmen are making
noises. The RIAA is complaining that the rate set by the Librarian
of Congress is too low.
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jmsaul
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response 164 of 165:
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Jun 21 04:40 UTC 2002 |
Wait for legislation on this one, if enough congresspeople get pulled in.
This isnt a final resolution by any means, and Congress has been looking
increasingly suspicious of the RIAA lately.
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krj
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response 165 of 165:
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Jun 22 20:04 UTC 2002 |
((Metadiscussion: the "Napster" items are linked between Music
conference and each season's Agora. The Agora conference has now
rolled over to Summer; I'll start The Eleventh Napster Item in
a couple of days, so other folks have a chance to get things in
Agora first; sooner if there is any big news.))
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