As a medium unto itself, vinyl isn't lossless. You're scraping a hard pointy thing through a groove in a soft piece of plastic... do that 30 times in a row and the high frequency transients are audibly reduced.
An analog pressing of a digital master has had the dynamic range, bass content and phase based imaging effects drastically reduced for the sole purpose of keeping the stylus in the groove... it's lossy before it ever sees the turntable.
Vinyl is warm, soft and nostalgic, but it most certainly is not lossless.
Re: Doesn't your very article explain WHY Apple should be suing??
"Apple did not take a generic term and trademark it"
Yeah, actually, they did.
Apple is trying to *create* confusion in the marketplace by insisting that 'App' is somehow a contraction of 'Apple', when it in fact has been a common and widely used abbreviation of 'Application' for at least a decade.
So you're the blog equivalent of that spittle flecked graybeard in gumboots and a plaid waistcoat screaming at startled passers-by about The End Of Days?
The same mid-life crisis victims who buy West Coast Choppers and PMY 'Vettes keep Gibson and Fender busy churning out Relic instruments (tribute and otherwise). They're rewarding themselves for having made those crucial lifestyle compromises 30 years ago.
When you're the man to beat in premium composite hardwood flooring sales in the Pacific Northwest, life comes with some well deserved Rawk bling.
Ya gotta hand it to the major labels... they really had a good thing going, and they kept it up for a shockingly long time. They were absolutely pervasive in figuring out how to suck money out of any musician with even the vaguest aspiration of success, with the blank media levy being their way of grabbing cash from unsigned artists trying to promote themselves.
The term we had for them back in the 'Home Taping is Killing Music' days is 'Fucking Fuckers'. Still appropriate 30 years on.
They wanna control their stuff *all the time*. Since they don't seem to realize that putting stuff for sale on the open market inevitably results in their loss of control, they need to set up an exclusive closed market where member/buyers willingly and contractually cede control of their purchases back to Sony, in exchange for bragging rights and an attractive certificate, suitable for framing.
Sony products would be removed from the general marketplace, and available *only* through this exclusive distribution channel.
Call it Club Sony, and charge the punters 50 bucks for the privilege of membership. The mothercorp will be saving money on legal bills, as well as generating another much needed revenue stream.
Shareholders will respond favourably to this bold, new monetization vector, and fanbois will rejoice at having finally trumped Apple in the all-important "Aren't We Special" demographic. Most importantly, Sony will quickly receive a patent for this breakthrough business model, resulting in a stunning Q4 earnings boost of $2.4B as a result of strategic licensing partnerships with major manufacturers covering a broad spectrum of consumer goods.
Unfortunately, mere weeks before this fundamental redefinition of the manufacturer/consumer paradigm reaches it's tipping point, a hitherto unnoticed meteor the size of Rhode Island will interrupt a perfectly lovely Sunday morning by smashing into the Earth a few miles east of Liverpool, eradicating all the remaining 5 traces of intelligent life on the planet, and pretty much everything else.
4 billion years later, a middle level marketing guy will push back his chair, scratch his left antenna and think to himself "Wait a minute... that's an idea..."
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An analog pressing of a digital master has had the dynamic range, bass content and phase based imaging effects drastically reduced for the sole purpose of keeping the stylus in the groove... it's lossy before it ever sees the turntable.
Vinyl is warm, soft and nostalgic, but it most certainly is not lossless.
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Sorry Mack... You lose.
Is there a prize?
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Re: Not Comparible
Also: Music is actually art.
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Re: Doesn't your very article explain WHY Apple should be suing??
Yeah, actually, they did.
Apple is trying to *create* confusion in the marketplace by insisting that 'App' is somehow a contraction of 'Apple', when it in fact has been a common and widely used abbreviation of 'Application' for at least a decade.
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Long suspected, now confirmed.
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Re: Mike Masnick Doesn't Know What He Is Talking About
Sadly, scum also rises. The difference between cream and scum in this case is dictated by the market rather than Big Music.
Tell me how this is a bad thing?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf670orHKcA
http://w ww.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE
Tell me again how Big Music ensures only the cream of the crop reaches our tender ears.
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Re: Sony? Another fine product from the people who brought us World war Two...
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When you're the man to beat in premium composite hardwood flooring sales in the Pacific Northwest, life comes with some well deserved Rawk bling.
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The term we had for them back in the 'Home Taping is Killing Music' days is 'Fucking Fuckers'. Still appropriate 30 years on.
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Mike has a business model that works. The recording industry doesn't.
He gets paid.
The recording industry is kind of the opposite of this.
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Work with me on this one...
Here's the plan:
They wanna control their stuff *all the time*. Since they don't seem to realize that putting stuff for sale on the open market inevitably results in their loss of control, they need to set up an exclusive closed market where member/buyers willingly and contractually cede control of their purchases back to Sony, in exchange for bragging rights and an attractive certificate, suitable for framing.
Sony products would be removed from the general marketplace, and available *only* through this exclusive distribution channel.
Call it Club Sony, and charge the punters 50 bucks for the privilege of membership. The mothercorp will be saving money on legal bills, as well as generating another much needed revenue stream.
Shareholders will respond favourably to this bold, new monetization vector, and fanbois will rejoice at having finally trumped Apple in the all-important "Aren't We Special" demographic. Most importantly, Sony will quickly receive a patent for this breakthrough business model, resulting in a stunning Q4 earnings boost of $2.4B as a result of strategic licensing partnerships with major manufacturers covering a broad spectrum of consumer goods.
Unfortunately, mere weeks before this fundamental redefinition of the manufacturer/consumer paradigm reaches it's tipping point, a hitherto unnoticed meteor the size of Rhode Island will interrupt a perfectly lovely Sunday morning by smashing into the Earth a few miles east of Liverpool, eradicating all the remaining 5 traces of intelligent life on the planet, and pretty much everything else.
4 billion years later, a middle level marketing guy will push back his chair, scratch his left antenna and think to himself "Wait a minute... that's an idea..."
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Logic
Lobbyist
Paranoid
Piracy
Tantrum
Pathetic
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Who would have thought being able to talk to anyone anytime would cause this.
There is currently no clear evidence that this is the case..
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