"the point is that we have all the distributions systems already in place"
Did you even read the article?
point 1 - "all the distribution systems" - when only 1 is needed.
point 2 - that STILL DON'T SUPPLY THE MARKET!
I accept that the final "A" in RIAA and MPAA stands for "America" but you'd think they'd have figured out by now that if
a) the population of the USA is about 300 million and
b) there are about 3 billion people connected to the web
then there must be people connected who aren't in the USA.
There's a lot of these people, and they could be customers...
You're entire post seems to be based on your personal opinion of the quality of the music created by the examples given. That seems to be a bit of an arbitary standard to me.
Let's take the "Trent Reznor and his light show" example you give at the end. This is an absolute, nailed-on, pitch-perfect example of the difference between the infinitely abundant (the mp3) and the scarce (the show). The former is available for free, the latter is where people are happy to pay money to get/view/share/be-part-of something rare.
I don't think you could have illustrated Techdirt's repeated theme better, thank you.
The thing is, as I think your first post points out, that there's still a huge amount of value the established industries could add. If they chose to focus on that rather than trying to shore-up their old business models.
There is a place for middle-men who add value in loads of these models, what's losing its relevance is the old "all or nothing" type deals.
You can actually see this happening with some of the smaller, truly-independent labels already. They've figured out that the magic comes from getting the content in front of the fans and they work on making that happen in a way that provides some return to the artist without screwing over the fans.
The short answer to "who is fucking who" is "the government is fucking the people."
The longer answer starts with the question of "when, in the last 30 years*, has copyright ever moved back in the direction of benefitting the public?"
* With the honourable exception of Canada this week. Go you Canucks! No really, please go.**
** This is a joke, some of my best friends are Canadian***
I invoke Stephenson's second law: any online discussion of UK politics will blame it on thatcher before the end of the first page of comments.
Thank you for the data point.
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Did you even read the article?
point 1 - "all the distribution systems" - when only 1 is needed.
point 2 - that STILL DON'T SUPPLY THE MARKET!
You are barely coherent.
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Commentary and criticism can come in any form. Dan Bull has a clear history of using song as both.
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As to who's earning the label of "attention whore", my bookie has you as clear favourite.
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a) the population of the USA is about 300 million and
b) there are about 3 billion people connected to the web
then there must be people connected who aren't in the USA.
There's a lot of these people, and they could be customers...
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Or you could make it available over the web for a reasonable price.
Hmmm. I wonder which one better serves your customer base?
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Let's take the "Trent Reznor and his light show" example you give at the end. This is an absolute, nailed-on, pitch-perfect example of the difference between the infinitely abundant (the mp3) and the scarce (the show). The former is available for free, the latter is where people are happy to pay money to get/view/share/be-part-of something rare.
I don't think you could have illustrated Techdirt's repeated theme better, thank you.
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There is a place for middle-men who add value in loads of these models, what's losing its relevance is the old "all or nothing" type deals.
You can actually see this happening with some of the smaller, truly-independent labels already. They've figured out that the magic comes from getting the content in front of the fans and they work on making that happen in a way that provides some return to the artist without screwing over the fans.
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The longer answer starts with the question of "when, in the last 30 years*, has copyright ever moved back in the direction of benefitting the public?"
* With the honourable exception of Canada this week. Go you Canucks! No really, please go.**
** This is a joke, some of my best friends are Canadian***
*** This is a lie.
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Thank you for the data point.
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funniest thread ever
And it has swearing.
Lots of swearing about those stupid fuckwads at www.london2012.com
cuntwagons.
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FTFY
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