I can't help but think that one of you influenced the other. But that is not necessarily a bad thing. Let's see if they credit you or each other or put their efforts into a single book. BTW, IT Conversations just published a 30 min talk by Chris on this topic. http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3328.html
I just saw a report on how retailers like Walmart are discounting everything for the stupidbowl, including TVs to entice people to buy new HDTVs for the game. I wonder when the NFL is going to as the TV manufacturers for their cut.
So, with the cheap USB drive argument, you are saying that in the future music will be so ubiquitous that making it available in this manner will not be a big deal.
Today, it is still possible to get data from a floppy disc. True, the software that is on it might be so outdated that it has no value. I would argue that music does not go out of fashion. And if this format (USB drives laying around with gigs of music on them) is not enticing in the future, then you are predicting that we will win the war.
For some reason I don't think the band is standing behind this. It was not U2 who sued Negativeland, it was Island Records. When Negativeland's friend R.U. Sirius had the opportunity to interview The Edge, he had Negativeland secretly do it. Halfway through the interview, Negativeland revalued their identity and The Edge, he told them he was bothered by Island Records tactics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativeland#The_U2_record_incident
The more special interests subvert the law to favor their businesses, the more the consumer/citizen has contempt and disrespect for those law, and maybe even all laws.
Hi, I'm AT&T. You can use my phone network to talk about and plan crimes such as kidnapping, extortion, robbery, beatings, drug selling, forgery, larceny, or arson. Please sue me because I did not filter out conversations that were related to the planning of crimes.
In regards to the development, how mapping of notes could be made easy is to have the audio and the Midi files of the songs in sync in some software that does midi sequencing, multi track audio playback, and Guitar Hero/Rock Band mapping sequence. Then you simply decide what Midi notes you want represented as a guitar/bass strums or drum hits. I would be surprised if this is not how the developers are currently working.
I think the opportunity to monetize on this is not going to be very long. Soon enough, the game will be hacked, tools to create your own button sequences mapped to notes will emerge, and then people will start trading these creations on p2p. I like a lot of obscure music, and it would be fun to play these songs on Guitar Hero or Rock Band. But the chances of these songs getting an official release on the platform are pretty slim unless peer production occurs.
If/when this hack becomes available, once again, the incumbents will cry fowl when this happens. After this, the answer will be to allow the hacks to link to a legitimate means to purchase mp3s, ringtones, concert tickets, etc.
Another outcome is that Activision releases a developer's kit to the publishers, the publishers fund the development, and Rock Band/Guitar Hero becomes a platform.
Her official books is going to need to be so damn great that people will want to buy it. She will need to pull out unpublished details that the unauthorized version of the book will not have. This should be pretty easier for her to do. Really hardcore fans (and I think most are) will buy both. This competition will benefit the fans! This is a good thing, of course!
Being 2nd to market does not mean you cannot compete. I am thinking of one example that is so obvious it is not even worth mentioning.
Wow, Matt Mason seems like a really cool guy. I am definitely getting his book, thanks for the tip. Mike, you guys should meet him. When is there going to be a book by Mike Masnick?
When someone like Scoble says he "owns" data, he says that because he used his personal brand and time to aggregate his contacts. Despite what Facebook's policies may be, he feels he is entitled to do what he wishes with this compilation of this data. It is arguable as to weather the user's data he has collected have agreed to his harvesting of data. Such users should opt to no allow full profile views (phone numbers and e-mail addresses).
Here is a parallel analogy. If I have a SIM card in a phone, I take the card out, put it in my new phone (flow). My phone book comes with it. I did not need to get permission from the phone manufacturer or all of the people who's phone numbers I have stored on the card. I own the card; so I own the collection of data.
Now let's move the analogy to large data aggregator/resellers such as research companies, mailing lists, etc. I bet they think that they "own" their collection of data. They own it in the sense that they would like to control the use of the data as a collection since they invested in its aggregation.
I think this is the same guy (or at least he is using the same idea) that published the free e-book "Everyones An Expert" that Seth Godin mistakenly licensed under Creative Commons without the Non-commercial aspect last year. When I saw it on eBay I saw all of the other items that the seller was selling and recognized the titles to be some of the same audio books being offered by the Librivox community (a community that makes free audio books out of public domain writing). I rushed over to the Librivox forums to report this and they said that it is fine with them that someone is doing this. I'll admit, even then the copyright industry mindset still had me thinking their way. Very interesting.
Simply put, RIAA, MPAA, IFPI, BSA and others must deal with piracy and adapt business models so that freedom of speech can survive. Big Content has already shown that it will abuse such tools to silence critics in the name of IP protection.
According to Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture," the real cost of digital archiving is hiring lawyers to clear the rights for films still under copyright that should have fallen into the public domain now that the Sonny Bono Act has extended copyright once again. This includes tracking down the rights holders, despite the fact that there is no directory of rights holders. The cost of restoration is now so low that it is below the cost of clearance. Then there is the threat that new rights holders can emerge and sue companies trying to restore the films. This makes the cost restoration not even worth the cost and the films made between 1923-1932 will now rot in the vault before they can enter the public domain. You have Sonny Bono's rent-seeking widow, Mary Bono, to thank.
We are getting a little off topic here (music business consulting), but:
NO ONE is going to pay for something that can be found for *free* so easily somewhere else. That is naivety.
Water comes out of the faucet for almost free. But people buy bottled water? Why? Because bottled water marketers figured out how to make water more valuable. They put it in a bottle so that it is easier to carry around. It taste better than tap water. And list whatever other reasons you buy bottled water instead of drinking out of the tap.
Others have figured out how to be remarkable. That means that you can too. Use your creative energy to come up with a better way to market yourself and add value to your music. And then you can charge more for it.
That is exactly the analogy I was going to propose (although it might be confusing becuase it involves the concept of photography.
The person that has taken a picture of your barn has not taken the barn itself. You still have it, and you are still able to produce your crops, meats, poultry, whatever. That means to produce has not been stolen. It has not been interfered with. It has not lost value.
You might have lost a business opportunity to negotiate a license to have the picture of your barn taken. However, this business opportunity is not a right you have that enforceable by law. If that was the case, you could sue anyone and everyone for doing what you are not doing. You could sue Donald Trump becuase he took business opportunities that you did not take (investing at the right place at the right time, learning skills, partnering with the right people, buying and selling properties, etc). That is pure and unadulteratedly capitalism, my friends. It is not a government granted or even a human right.
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I can't help but think that one of you influenced the other. But that is not necessarily a bad thing. Let's see if they credit you or each other or put their efforts into a single book. BTW, IT Conversations just published a 30 min talk by Chris on this topic. http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3328.html
I am going check out the Charles Seife book soon.
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Today, it is still possible to get data from a floppy disc. True, the software that is on it might be so outdated that it has no value. I would argue that music does not go out of fashion. And if this format (USB drives laying around with gigs of music on them) is not enticing in the future, then you are predicting that we will win the war.
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Unfortunately, there is no needlepoint pattern lobby.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativeland#The_U2_record_incident
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I want my hackable Rock Band/Guitar Hero
If/when this hack becomes available, once again, the incumbents will cry fowl when this happens. After this, the answer will be to allow the hacks to link to a legitimate means to purchase mp3s, ringtones, concert tickets, etc.
Another outcome is that Activision releases a developer's kit to the publishers, the publishers fund the development, and Rock Band/Guitar Hero becomes a platform.
Fun times ahead.
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You CAN compete when someone beats you to market
Being 2nd to market does not mean you cannot compete. I am thinking of one example that is so obvious it is not even worth mentioning.
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Here is a parallel analogy. If I have a SIM card in a phone, I take the card out, put it in my new phone (flow). My phone book comes with it. I did not need to get permission from the phone manufacturer or all of the people who's phone numbers I have stored on the card. I own the card; so I own the collection of data.
Now let's move the analogy to large data aggregator/resellers such as research companies, mailing lists, etc. I bet they think that they "own" their collection of data. They own it in the sense that they would like to control the use of the data as a collection since they invested in its aggregation.
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NO ONE is going to pay for something that can be found for *free* so easily somewhere else. That is naivety.
Water comes out of the faucet for almost free. But people buy bottled water? Why? Because bottled water marketers figured out how to make water more valuable. They put it in a bottle so that it is easier to carry around. It taste better than tap water. And list whatever other reasons you buy bottled water instead of drinking out of the tap.
Others have figured out how to be remarkable. That means that you can too. Use your creative energy to come up with a better way to market yourself and add value to your music. And then you can charge more for it.
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Re: Confused
The person that has taken a picture of your barn has not taken the barn itself. You still have it, and you are still able to produce your crops, meats, poultry, whatever. That means to produce has not been stolen. It has not been interfered with. It has not lost value.
You might have lost a business opportunity to negotiate a license to have the picture of your barn taken. However, this business opportunity is not a right you have that enforceable by law. If that was the case, you could sue anyone and everyone for doing what you are not doing. You could sue Donald Trump becuase he took business opportunities that you did not take (investing at the right place at the right time, learning skills, partnering with the right people, buying and selling properties, etc). That is pure and unadulteratedly capitalism, my friends. It is not a government granted or even a human right.
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