I take pride in possibly being the one to introduce you to Nightwish. I know I mentioned Imaginaerum a while back on here (specifically here), and it feels good to introduce people to things they end up liking. If it was just independent discovery, then kudos on finding such a great album/band :)
Maybe they're not affected because they're copyright maximalists, patent trolls and hoarders, lawyers, and congresscritters. Maybe they're those things because they're affected.
That sounds like a good plot for a bad sci fi movie. Solar flares only affect people with a specific brain chemistry, causing their views on intellectual property law to twist and warp into dangerous ideas that threaten freedom worldwide!
You pay the full price for that particular iPod. How much money they have to spend to make any number of iPods is directly based on how many iPods they make. When you go to the Apple store and pay $200 for your iPod, you're not paying for all of Apple's design costs for the whole iPod line, so why would it ever make sense to ask one single person to pay %250,000 for a single copy of a song?
All the means by which you could monetize it (without having to play lots of miniputt or try to hawk t-shirts) have been removed by the pirates.
Dude, maybe some of us like playing mini golf. I would totally start a business where people paid me to play mini golf with them, even if it meant I had to write some good music for it.
Watch out, though. If you ask Pidgin to remember your password, it will do so in plain text in accounts.xml in its .purple directory. Not a huge problem if you've got your system well-protected, but not exactly best practice either.
Wait wait wait, hold the phone. Someone else in my household is watching my movie? This is intolerable, they didn't pay for it! I know that personally, whenever I have friends over to watch a movie, I make sure to buy plenty of extra copies. Each person brings his own TV so we can be sure he's watching his copy, and only his copy.
Seriously, it's shit like this that makes people not take people like you seriously. Don't copy your DVD and send it to hundreds of anonymous people on the Internet? Yeah, I get that. Don't share your DVD with other people in the same house? That's just psychotic.
I remember having more than one record store in my area that did nothing but metal. You wanted the latest death metal releases from Sweden... they had them!
Now, it's enjoy the website and figure it out yourself.
That, or it's "enjoy the website and figu-- OH WAIT YOU'RE IN THE WRONG COUNTRY. NO MUSIC FOR YOU."
The quality of music has suffered, there is no longer music of depth or value.
Funny, Nightwish's new album, out January of this year, is one of the best albums I've heard. (In my opinion, of course.) The whole thing comes together to tell a story, and it does so with amazing writing and musical execution.
Good music will continue to be made, no matter what. There will be people with the talent and passion, and the hounds of hell will not keep them from doing what they love. Will they make a living from it? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on how good they are, how much people like them, how well they promote themselves, etc.
Do I think piracy is justified? No. Do I think piracy will ever go away? Again, no. Trying to pretend otherwise is simply denying human nature and ignoring the lessons of history. There is no reason a creator can't plan for that, and even use it to their advantage. There's not a set formula for doing so, but someone who actually cares about their fans will find a way. I'm fine with losing people who make music to make money. I'd much rather have people who make music to make music, with an added bonus if they also happen to make money.
I don't want to pay for content? ...Did I forget to renew my Zune Pass? Last I checked, I was still paying $15 a month for that.
I would love to (legally!) obtain a copy of Tool's music. I'm already paying aforementioned $15 monthly so that I can listen to as much music Microsoft has access to as I want, plus download 10 DRM-free MP3s each month. However, Tool has zero digital presence. So, instead of them getting some of my money and me getting to listen to their music, I listen to one of the other countless artists available to me. If Tool ever moves away from shiny plastic discs, I'll listen to them instead of forgetting them in favor of my other options.
I really wish Tool albums were available as digital downloads. I like their music, but I have less than zero desire for more shiny plastic discs. So instead of listening to their stuff, I'll just listen to the countless other groups I like that do make their music available digitally.
Wow, you really think that those apps had zero up front costs, don't you? Go ask a developer to code you up an app and see how much it's going to cost. I think it's pretty fair to say that 95% of the costs in app development occur before the app is made available, too. Yet they still made more money by lowering their prices.
If someone bought a Bentley then started letting random people drive it for free, that would be legal as far as I know (assuming, of course, that the random people are licensed, insured drivers). Would it be smart? Not terribly so; while you are driving the car, it can't be used by anyone else, and you have a chance of damaging it so that it can't be used again. If they charge you for it, they can be compensated for their loss of use of the car, as well as the possibility of damage resulting in further loss of use. There is no problem with this: it's their car, they can do what they wish with it.
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That sounds like a good plot for a bad sci fi movie. Solar flares only affect people with a specific brain chemistry, causing their views on intellectual property law to twist and warp into dangerous ideas that threaten freedom worldwide!
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Dude, maybe some of us like playing mini golf. I would totally start a business where people paid me to play mini golf with them, even if it meant I had to write some good music for it.
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Seriously, it's shit like this that makes people not take people like you seriously. Don't copy your DVD and send it to hundreds of anonymous people on the Internet? Yeah, I get that. Don't share your DVD with other people in the same house? That's just psychotic.
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That, or it's "enjoy the website and figu-- OH WAIT YOU'RE IN THE WRONG COUNTRY. NO MUSIC FOR YOU."
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Funny, Nightwish's new album, out January of this year, is one of the best albums I've heard. (In my opinion, of course.) The whole thing comes together to tell a story, and it does so with amazing writing and musical execution.
Good music will continue to be made, no matter what. There will be people with the talent and passion, and the hounds of hell will not keep them from doing what they love. Will they make a living from it? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on how good they are, how much people like them, how well they promote themselves, etc.
Do I think piracy is justified? No. Do I think piracy will ever go away? Again, no. Trying to pretend otherwise is simply denying human nature and ignoring the lessons of history. There is no reason a creator can't plan for that, and even use it to their advantage. There's not a set formula for doing so, but someone who actually cares about their fans will find a way. I'm fine with losing people who make music to make money. I'd much rather have people who make music to make music, with an added bonus if they also happen to make money.
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I would love to (legally!) obtain a copy of Tool's music. I'm already paying aforementioned $15 monthly so that I can listen to as much music Microsoft has access to as I want, plus download 10 DRM-free MP3s each month. However, Tool has zero digital presence. So, instead of them getting some of my money and me getting to listen to their music, I listen to one of the other countless artists available to me. If Tool ever moves away from shiny plastic discs, I'll listen to them instead of forgetting them in favor of my other options.
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It's the total disconnect of the dirty, filthy pirate thieves from their customers.
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