The first couple of times I clicked on the links and realised it wanted to download an app. Now I just skip straight past the update.
Some of them will access not just your details but your friends details. Now I'm comfortable with everything I put up on the web, but I'm pretty certain that none of my friends have given me permission to go spreading their details around like this, so any app that works in this way gets two fingers from me.
1- It will never scale
2- It will only work for X
3- It's not really working for X because X is having to do loads of other stuff
4- X would never have made it without the record label in the first place
5- People will never pay for anything if they can get it for free
6- I've never heard of X so X is not a proper musician anyway
7- Kickstarter is fine for the small stuff but you'll never raise any serious money on it
I think that's the usual list of complaints isn't it?
Now let's translate that
1- You need us! No-one's worked out how to make money on the web!
2- You're too small and insignificant to try this yourself, come to our welcoming embrace.
3- Because in the old model everyone instantly becomes a millionaire and never has to work again.
4- Because there's no way to get your CDs into the record shops. You remember them don't you?
5- All your fans are criminal scum, you'd be better off arresting them in advance really, it will save on the court time later.
6- Because we define what music is culturally relevant, don't forget that, we bought the rights...
7- Pay no attention to the old man behind the curtain!
They want to know everything that you do online right? So organise a day (sometime soon, ideally with a bit of national significance) and on that day copy your congressman / senator into every e-mail you send and every online post you make.
They want to know, so tell them, see how long they still want to know for...
Nice that some countries appear to be recognising that the right to life should triumph over the right to profit.
Countdown to the appeal starts here: 10...
Pirate Mike hates nobody more than you artists, right?
Actually I reckon "Pirate Mike" is a pretty cool nickname. How many folks would have loved to have that as a nickname at school?
Instead I was called Captain Pugwash :¬(
I realise now that I should simply have sued the name-callers for copyright infringement...
Oh yes, and a massive 8 comments before we have someone conflating infringement with theft and completely missing the point of the article. Good work there.
Actually this is going to be whole new world in terms of legal clusterfucks. We appear to have structured our entire society so that lawyers are the only people who always win.
"in other news: dvd ripping is the new gateway drug; hide your children!"
Doubtless the next step is trafficking in counterfeit medicines then child pornography and then, next thing you know, it's international terrorism.
Won't somebody please think of the profits?
Er, children, think of the children, forget the bit about the profits.
What's nice though is that they conveniently link to some nice legal russian sites where i can down load tracks for 10 rubles, or about 6p. That's waaaay cheaper than any of the UK or US sites, maybe I'll do all my shopping there now?
Or maybe i'll keep using the unlisted sites like bandcamp and soundcloud so that the artists maybe actually see some of the money...
" The assumption--which hasn't been proved, but has only be assumed (and assumed without having much if any facts, no less), is that their due process rights were violated"
Welcome to the wonderful world of community. The site was a blog, complete with comments and interactions from fans and artists (have a shufti at their facebook page, that's still up, apparently Usher is a fan), all of whom have been censored without due process. It's not just the site owners who've been affected.
"My conclusion is that Mike is a worthless, pirate-loving sack of shit. YMMV."
You're right, my milage does vary, in two years of reading this blog I've never seen Mike endorse illegal file-sharing. What I have seen is him demonstrating more options to minimise its adverse affects than anything from the major rights-holders.
All without the need for prior restraint or the presumption of guilt.
yep, turns out there's no monopoly on being dumb, nor is there on being greedy.
Doesn't mean there's any value in it either.
Thing is, via the old model, a very small number of people got stupidly rich* and that's always going to appeal to a pretty broad segment of the population who've bought into the myth.
An increasing number of people have done the reading and done the maths though, and they're looking at the old model and working out that, unless they're really, really lucky, there are better models out there.
If you're a music fan and want to support musicians you should be pretty happy about this. If you're connected to the legacy businesses you wouldn't be. Where are you?
really? you actually wrote this? really? wow that's pretty impressive. What about all those professional musicians who signed up to the major labels and got dropped after an album? Are they professional musicians? What about the cruise-ship singers who earn their living singing but have never created an original bit of work in their lives? Where, exactly, is your line of professionalism drawn?
I ask because i want to make damn sure i stay the right side of it.
Probably cruising over $910,000 as we speak.
Maybe they decided they could afford a publisher now?
But i'm unconvinced. Google it and most of the hits are from game magazines or tech sites reporting on how fast the funding's going. There's probably an element of "let's be the first to hit a million" going on as well
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skip straight past
Some of them will access not just your details but your friends details. Now I'm comfortable with everything I put up on the web, but I'm pretty certain that none of my friends have given me permission to go spreading their details around like this, so any app that works in this way gets two fingers from me.
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So in summary...
2- It will only work for X
3- It's not really working for X because X is having to do loads of other stuff
4- X would never have made it without the record label in the first place
5- People will never pay for anything if they can get it for free
6- I've never heard of X so X is not a proper musician anyway
7- Kickstarter is fine for the small stuff but you'll never raise any serious money on it
I think that's the usual list of complaints isn't it?
Now let's translate that
1- You need us! No-one's worked out how to make money on the web!
2- You're too small and insignificant to try this yourself, come to our welcoming embrace.
3- Because in the old model everyone instantly becomes a millionaire and never has to work again.
4- Because there's no way to get your CDs into the record shops. You remember them don't you?
5- All your fans are criminal scum, you'd be better off arresting them in advance really, it will save on the court time later.
6- Because we define what music is culturally relevant, don't forget that, we bought the rights...
7- Pay no attention to the old man behind the curtain!
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So here's a suggestion
They want to know, so tell them, see how long they still want to know for...
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Heirarchy
Countdown to the appeal starts here: 10...
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Actually I reckon "Pirate Mike" is a pretty cool nickname. How many folks would have loved to have that as a nickname at school?
Instead I was called Captain Pugwash :¬(
I realise now that I should simply have sued the name-callers for copyright infringement...
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"dear net community"...
Oh yes, and a massive 8 comments before we have someone conflating infringement with theft and completely missing the point of the article. Good work there.
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Doubtless the next step is trafficking in counterfeit medicines then child pornography and then, next thing you know, it's international terrorism.
Won't somebody please think of the profits?
Er, children, think of the children, forget the bit about the profits.
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Or maybe i'll keep using the unlisted sites like bandcamp and soundcloud so that the artists maybe actually see some of the money...
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Welcome to the wonderful world of community. The site was a blog, complete with comments and interactions from fans and artists (have a shufti at their facebook page, that's still up, apparently Usher is a fan), all of whom have been censored without due process. It's not just the site owners who've been affected.
"My conclusion is that Mike is a worthless, pirate-loving sack of shit. YMMV."
You're right, my milage does vary, in two years of reading this blog I've never seen Mike endorse illegal file-sharing. What I have seen is him demonstrating more options to minimise its adverse affects than anything from the major rights-holders.
All without the need for prior restraint or the presumption of guilt.
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you forget
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* hmm, presumably I should be paying Fox a licensing fee for writing this?
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Doesn't mean there's any value in it either.
Thing is, via the old model, a very small number of people got stupidly rich* and that's always going to appeal to a pretty broad segment of the population who've bought into the myth.
An increasing number of people have done the reading and done the maths though, and they're looking at the old model and working out that, unless they're really, really lucky, there are better models out there.
If you're a music fan and want to support musicians you should be pretty happy about this. If you're connected to the legacy businesses you wouldn't be. Where are you?
* some of them were even artists
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I ask because i want to make damn sure i stay the right side of it.
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Or are you asking for charity?
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Over $900,000
Maybe they decided they could afford a publisher now?
But i'm unconvinced. Google it and most of the hits are from game magazines or tech sites reporting on how fast the funding's going. There's probably an element of "let's be the first to hit a million" going on as well
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