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mcnally
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response 55 of 151:
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Oct 13 16:22 UTC 2003 |
Will there be much Grex footage in the "John Ellis Perry -- Behind the Music"
special? (And if so, will it be part of your downfall or redemption?)
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orinoco
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response 56 of 151:
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Oct 14 17:02 UTC 2003 |
(I guess between Grex and heroin, I'd choose Grex...)
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jep
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response 57 of 151:
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Oct 14 19:43 UTC 2003 |
re resp:55: It's unauthorized. I don't know anything about the
details. My former publicist is not allowed to tell anything he knows
about my private life as part of his severance package. I have no
comment on the rest of it.
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tod
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response 58 of 151:
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Oct 14 20:14 UTC 2003 |
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slynne
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response 59 of 151:
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Oct 14 20:58 UTC 2003 |
Re#51 - technically you probably didnt hurt the band. For any song
there are a certain number of people who will buy it at every price.
For example, lets just say that at $20 there are 1000 people who will
buy the song. And at $10, there are 2000 people who will buy it. And
just suppose that if the price were $0, there would be 5000 people who
would be willing to get this song. If the price of the song is $20, it
doesnt really hurt the artist if the 4000 people who might want it but
arent willing to pay that price download it or whatever. In fact, there
might even be some benefit to the artist if that happens. The problem
is that there isnt an easy way to get the song to the folks who might
be interested in it for free while still getting the people willing to
pay for it to pay for it. So, it being available for free is what is
hurting the artist.
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tpryan
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response 60 of 151:
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Oct 14 22:11 UTC 2003 |
One thing is, they could not find a way to stop taping, either.
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lynne
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response 61 of 151:
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Oct 15 00:01 UTC 2003 |
Ah, the good old days when all my mix tapes were created by taping songs
off the radio. It didn't hurt sales any--I couldn't have afforded to
buy any of the albums.
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krj
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response 62 of 151:
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Oct 16 16:37 UTC 2003 |
An item I just found in
Stereophile reminded me that hardly anyone has noticed that Big Music
is facing a format war which might be as messy as Betamax vs. VHS.
http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1750
The article is about the National Association of Record Merchants --
the trade group for the retailers -- bracing its members for being on
the front lines of consumer discontent as Big Music rolls out more
CDs with the SunnComm "copy-discouraging" technology.
In particular:
The Apple iPod holds a 25% market share in the portable MP3 player
market, or some number like that. But, you cannot use SunnComm
protected CDs to feed your iPod!! For authorized use, SunnComm-
plagued CDs only deliver Windows Media WMA files, which the iPod
doesn't play.
Similarly, Napster 2.0 only delivers WMA. If you've got an iPod,
Napster doesn't want you as a customer.
So we're set for a Windows Media vs. Apple AAC format battle, and a
lot of users may just sit this one out and contine to download MP3
files. Which wasn't Big Music's intent at all...
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gull
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response 63 of 151:
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Oct 16 20:18 UTC 2003 |
It's going to be hard to wean people off MP3s. They're more flexible
than any of the alternatives, and have become a defacto standard. The
experiences the movie industry had with Divx (the disc format, not the
more recent video encoding scheme) suggest that people don't like
time-limited, copy-protected media formats, either, and that they do
know the difference.
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krj
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response 64 of 151:
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Oct 16 20:27 UTC 2003 |
The Washington Post reports that the FCC is poised to impose
requirements that consumer electronics, including computers,
block the copying and transmission of digital TV and movie programming.
This is the "broadcast flag" proposal. The article says a final rule
is expected at the end of August.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32173-2003Oct15.html
The article contains no technical details, but such a rule seems to
ready to clash drastically with Linux and the other free Unix versions,
and with the general ability of people to freely build computers out of
parts.
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dbratman
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response 65 of 151:
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Oct 16 22:15 UTC 2003 |
Mary's notion that, if we don't like the terms, we should just not buy
the product, is more than a little naive. What if we want the product?
Even more naive is her notion that falling sales should teach the music
industry that their approach isn't working. Hah! So far it's only
encouraged them to pursue their approach with greater vehemence. Like
Bush in Iraq, their belief is, "If you get in a hole, dig faster."
on the other hand -
slynne said, "I have copied a few songs to my hard drive so I can
listen to them while playing games and stuff."
I don't even do that. I have my stereo system next to my computer.
(I've tried playing CDs on the computer. It slows down whatever else
I'm doing.)
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vegetto
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response 66 of 151:
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Oct 17 09:52 UTC 2003 |
I really think the RIAA should just bow to the inevitable and just give up
the fight which was lost before it began. I personally have over 200 CDs,and
they are all BACKED UP on mp3,so when one scratches I just chuck it and burn
another.Honestly how are you gonna sue muti-millions of people who
download,rip or otherwise copy music?NOT HAPPENING.They'd be smart to cut
their losses and stop rocking the boat,because they're the ones wearing cement
life-preservers.Besides,statistics show that 80% of people wo download music
BUY THE ALBUM IN QUESTION ANYWAY!!
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krj
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response 67 of 151:
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Oct 17 19:40 UTC 2003 |
Apple iTunes for Windows launched yesterday with much foofaraw.
If any kind reader tries it out, please bring us a report!!
(Same for Napster 2.0.)
Apple is launching a huge promotion at the Super Bowl with Pepsi;
Apple says it is going to give away 100 million free song downloads
as part of the promotion, and many of those giveways will be keyed
to Pepsi contest caps, where about 1 cap in 3 will win a download.
Also from today's New York Times coverage, which I read in the
dead tree edition (thus no link): the iPod is up to a 31% market
share in the portable MP3 player market.
(Recall what I wrote yesterday about BMG Sunn-Comm plagued CDs, and
Napster 2.0, not interoperating with the iPod.)
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tpryan
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response 68 of 151:
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Oct 21 20:04 UTC 2003 |
Meanwhile, at ConClave this past weekend, Steve Salaba
presented Bill Higgins and later, Bill Roper each with a 78 rpm
record of their work. Each cut on a machine that can make 78's
one at a time. Even back when this machine was in use, it was
posible to make copies. In this case, the input stream to the
78 cutter was his Ipod.
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tod
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response 69 of 151:
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Oct 21 20:44 UTC 2003 |
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mcnally
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response 70 of 151:
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Oct 21 20:51 UTC 2003 |
Since the iPod acts as a Firewire disk (if you choose to configure
it to do so) I suppose you could "load" just about any computer file
you want on one, but you wouldn't ordinarily "load" Napster or Kazaa
onto your iPod.
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tod
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response 71 of 151:
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Oct 21 20:59 UTC 2003 |
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mcnally
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response 72 of 151:
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Oct 21 23:35 UTC 2003 |
I don't know where to begin picking apart that one, so I'm just going
to assume you're trolling..
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tod
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response 73 of 151:
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Oct 22 15:43 UTC 2003 |
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krj
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response 74 of 151:
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Oct 22 18:10 UTC 2003 |
There is a flood of items....
As lawmakers tear out their hair, crying "Why won't they stop?",
adding jail to the list of penalties is the next step.
"UK to adopt EU copyright law"
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=362934
4§ion=news
Quotes:
> "It could be interpreted under these new regulations that you are
> now committing a criminal offence when you use Kazaa or other
> (peer-to-peer) services," said Out-law.com Editor Struan Robertson
> in a statement on the site, which is part of the law firm Masons.
> The law would also make illegal the circumvention of copy-protection
> schemes, such as copying songs from a protected CD or watching a
> DVD on a computer using the Linux operating system.
This is reported as a done deal, with the new penalties coming into force
shortly. Penalty: two years in the pokey.
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Meanwhile, the European Union plans to ratchet up the pressure and
throw more people in jail.
"Europe's Antipiracy Proposal Draws Criticism"
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/20/business/worldbusiness/20lobby.html
Quotes:
> The proposal would go far beyond existing laws in Europe and the
> United States by classifying copyright violations and patent
> infringements, even some unwitting ones, as crimes punishable by
> prison terms.
> Lawyers who have studied a draft of the proposed law say that not
> only could a teenager who downloaded a music file be sent to jail
> under it; so too could managers of the Internet service provider that
> the teenager happened to use, whether they knew what the teenager
> was doing or not.
In an outstanding example of how we are now ruled by our corporate masters:
the draft rules originally applied only to for-profit copyright infringements.
However, wording to include file-sharing was inserted in the legislation
by THE WIFE OF THE CHAIRMAN OF VIVENDI, who own the world's largest
record company.
Let me repeat that: Draconian criminal copyright proposals are being
dictated by the wife of a record company executive.
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Can't happen in America? According to this report,
the "Free Trade Area of the Americas" treaty (FTAA) will require
all signatories, including the US, to make file sharing a felony.
The treaty also mandates law changes which greatly erode the scope
of fair use and user's rights to backup their own media.
An organization called IP Justice says the treaty implements the
wishlist of the RIAA, the MPAA and Microsoft.
"International treaties will force 34 democracies to change copyright,
IP laws."
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12219
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krj
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response 75 of 151:
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Oct 22 18:37 UTC 2003 |
Todd Rundgren speaks out in favor of file sharing and against the
record companies and lawsuits. This may only be available TODAY at
the Hollywood Reporter:
http://hollywoodreporter.com/thr/music/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2
007230
The sidebar articles are also pretty good.
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murph
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response 76 of 151:
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Oct 23 18:52 UTC 2003 |
I've got an iBook, so I've been using iTunes for a long time; so far, most
of what I've heard about the Windows version has been good, except that it
won't work on Win98 and crashes Win2k if certain Win2k upgrades aren't
present. (google news says they just released an upgrade to fix that)
I've never bought anything from the store--anything that I want enough to buy,
either iTunes doesn't have (yet), or my girlfriend will have already bought.
And, since iTunes can share its library with other iTunes users on the local
subnet, I can play all of her music.
I'm interested to see how the iTunes Music Store AAC vs. Napster 2.0 WMA vs.
legacy hardware mp3 wars play out. The iPod's market share is only growing
(and with good reason, too), which means iTMS will have a huge advantage over
Napster 2. Unless, of course, Microsoft comes out with a piece of hardware
nicer than the iPod. I suppose that since Steve Jobs has announced hell to
have frozen over, the snowball's chance that is MS producing decent hardware
is plausible. Almost.
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dbratman
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response 77 of 151:
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Oct 24 07:13 UTC 2003 |
Once upon a time, the penalty for stealing a loaf of bread to feed a
hungry family was death. The latest rules are almost that stupid.
How's King Canute doing lately?
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murph
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response 78 of 151:
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Oct 24 20:06 UTC 2003 |
King Canute XCIII, last I heard, is on his way to death by saltwater
inhalation, just like every previous member of his ruling line...
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krj
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response 79 of 151:
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Oct 27 14:13 UTC 2003 |
Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA, is interviewed. He says the
RIAA lawsuits are working great; sales have been up for six weeks,
relative to the year-ago numbers, and the public backlash predicted
by common wisdom simply hasn't materialized.
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2003/10/26/qampa_cary_sherman
_riaa_president_on_battle_vs_file_swappers/
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