funding sources are always either unfair to some clueless suckers or based on selling something else.
The Lables and their musicians have been doing this for years anyways. The "Something Else" is called CDs and the clueless suckers are the guys who paid $15+ because they liked one song on the radio and got a bunch of filler tracks.
if pirates had indeed downloaded their music 100,000 times then yes the pirates are doing them a favor.
I wouldn't go so far as to make that statement. It can be hypothesized that pirates are doing them a favor if you assume the favor being done is free promotion - and while I think there's merit to that argument, I'm not sure there's enough evidence to just state it flatly.
People download what interests them. Period.
This statement is the key, though. If 100,000 people downloaded your music, it's a fair bet that 100,000 people had some amount of interest in your band (though, it may be true that some percentage sampled your music and decided it wasn't their style, so you can't say you have 100,000 fans). If people are downloading your stuff, there's some amount of interest being generated, and now the question is how to harness that. If no one is downloading your stuff, then there are other potentially-more-concerning questions you need to start asking (like "is this something we can be successful at" and "why are we being ignored").
That is to say, they operate/manage the network. And part of that is enabling devices to communicate with each other. And part of that is enabling standards such as MMS.
That's an interesting metric that's often left out. "One million sold" makes for a nice big number to put in your headlines, but how does the profit stack up? If you're selling twice as many for 1/3rd the price, that's probably not a winning equation.
I'd love to know what stations you listen to, because around here the radio definitely can't be called "random." Sometimes it feels like the play the same song at 3:40 for several days in a row, and most stations' music catalog is maybe a few dozen entries long.
Compared to my own personal collection, which I could literally listen to straight for over 2 weeks (over 330 hours running) and not hear the same song twice.
I blame the authorities for enforcement measures that infringe on the rights of the citizens. The ends don't justify the means, and I'd rather live with the risk of exploding airplanes than under the fear of my own government.
I hold my stand that gender doesn't matter. It doesn't matter in terms of agent intent (is the TSA *admitting* they don't hire homosexuals? That's illegal, isn't it?). It doesn't matter in terms of how passengers are affected (a woman who's assaulter this was is going to feel violated regardless of whether they were assaulted by a man or a woman). And it doesn't matter in terms of our Constitutional rights (it doesn't say we're protected from unreasonable searches conducted by a member of the opposite sex).
Whether or not prostitution should be legal is a completely different discussion. This is a "safety issue" only in as much as it's about the police enforcing the laws, and more of that should make people safer, right?
Because if prostitutes can't advertise, they can't get business, they can't be profitable, and the profession dries up. If prostitution is a safety issue (and some might argue it is) then there you go.
The problem is assuming that "they can't advertise here" means "they can't advertise anywhere," or at least the mistaken belief that you'll be able to stop all advertising everywhere.
It's only unsupervised if you aren't supervising it. By virtue of the fact that Craigslist has lead repeatedly to real arrests, I'd say it's fairly supervised.
And I said "can't see" not "can't control." Either way, the point is you don't know what you don't know, and I'd be doubtful that other avenues aren't available to those who care to take them.
If they invested $40m up front, can you really call it a "success," even in the short term, before they make that money back? If you spend $40 to get $38, I don't think you've succeeded at anything (and I'd be surprised if they make back that much).
I'd much rather have a clean Craigslist then one supposedly "helping" law enforcement. If there was nothing posted there, there wouldn't be a problem. I can hear it... "but but but, they'd go elsewhere!!!one" Where? Name alternatives.
You're basically saying you don't care whether it's happening or not as long as you can't see it. The rest of us would rather the problem were visible, so that it can be addressed appropriately, rather than hidden from the authorities.
The problem is if you close off the ones you can see they'll just migrate to the ones you can't. It's better to cut them off at the source -- arrest the criminals -- than to pretend you're solving the problem by sweeping it under the rug.
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The Lables and their musicians have been doing this for years anyways. The "Something Else" is called CDs and the clueless suckers are the guys who paid $15+ because they liked one song on the radio and got a bunch of filler tracks.
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I wouldn't go so far as to make that statement. It can be hypothesized that pirates are doing them a favor if you assume the favor being done is free promotion - and while I think there's merit to that argument, I'm not sure there's enough evidence to just state it flatly.
People download what interests them. Period.
This statement is the key, though. If 100,000 people downloaded your music, it's a fair bet that 100,000 people had some amount of interest in your band (though, it may be true that some percentage sampled your music and decided it wasn't their style, so you can't say you have 100,000 fans). If people are downloading your stuff, there's some amount of interest being generated, and now the question is how to harness that. If no one is downloading your stuff, then there are other potentially-more-concerning questions you need to start asking (like "is this something we can be successful at" and "why are we being ignored").
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Somalia begs to differ. But that's a different discussion, I suppose.
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That is to say, they operate/manage the network. And part of that is enabling devices to communicate with each other. And part of that is enabling standards such as MMS.
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Compared to my own personal collection, which I could literally listen to straight for over 2 weeks (over 330 hours running) and not hear the same song twice.
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The problem is assuming that "they can't advertise here" means "they can't advertise anywhere," or at least the mistaken belief that you'll be able to stop all advertising everywhere.
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And I said "can't see" not "can't control." Either way, the point is you don't know what you don't know, and I'd be doubtful that other avenues aren't available to those who care to take them.
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You're basically saying you don't care whether it's happening or not as long as you can't see it. The rest of us would rather the problem were visible, so that it can be addressed appropriately, rather than hidden from the authorities.
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