And all of this innovation without patents! This is a great example of companies trying to out innovate each other to compete for customers while not doing it the old, dumb way: more bloated features, more money spent, more patents filed.
I can't imagine that Apple and Google's requirements for the carrier would be too different. Unless Verizon has wised up and decided the it will meet the demanding requirements for a good user experience and functionality and features that the expects without stupid restrictions, Google is settling and the GPhone will be inferior to the iPhone.
Of course, this is off the radars of the majors because most new vinyl sales are re-issues, indies, and dance music.
The vinyl experience is definitely a scarce good. CDs, not so much. The CD experience can be replaced with free MP3s, the no scarce good. If the majors and the RIAA really knew what they were doing, they would be pushing the vinyl resurgence and telling everyone to be DJs. Not that we need more DJs but it would give record companies the opportunity to....wait for it....sell records again!
I copied the new Interpol album from my friend. I recently saw that a vinyl version comes with the CD and a 12-inch book artwork for about $20. That seems like it is worth the money.
It sounds like NetSafe was more shocked than anyone to find out that people spend real money in virtual worlds, and then announced that the sky was falling.
Kids growing up today have better BS filters than the kids in the past, and possibly better than some of their parents because they are made to deal with spam and, random friending on social networks. Sensationalizing kidnapping are rapes that were made possible by social networking sites is great media fodder. It gets parents to watch TV which generates ad sales. Like terrorism, the concern is bigger than the actual number of people affected by it first hand. It is only because it (social netowrking sites) are new in that media can take advantage of using it as a scare tactic to increase ratings, and then these tactics get the attention of politicians who then take the opportunity to grandstand on the issues. It's FUD for fun and profit.
It is going to be funny to see what the big labels and RIAA are going to do to try to stay relevant in the next couple years. I hate to say it, but I expect more of the same bad ideas, outrageous claims, dumb rhetoric and failing strategies from them in the near future given the evens of the last two weeks. Soon there will be nothing left for them until all of the senior executives get old and retire or die off.
I think that point is that international licensing regimes are not compatible with the globalized market place. If there were some sort of standardized protocol to handle this instead of havening to negotiate individually with each country, all steak holders (publishers, retailers, and customers) could benefit. Instead they are stuck in a packaged goods mentality.
It will be difficult to try to have some sort of automated, international fast-track licensing system because the organizations that have the power to change it might have less power after the changes are made, and that is not a chance they want to take. I think the old publishing/licensing stake holders will all have to die off before real innovation can happen (since it is pretty clear they would rather risk dying than losing power). But hats off to Apple for being able to work within the confines of the current regime. The stake holders need to keep in mind: you can't compete with free (p2p).
The grandstanding Mike should have mentioned are things like regulating social networking site because of the media frenzied predator cases, violence (freedom of expression/speech) in video games. These are grandstanding tactics with the claim "protect the children" that can have a chilling effect in technological innovation.
-to protect us from terrorists
-fight the war on drugs (Drugs are here to stay)
-to support the troops (It displays ignorance when people mix this up with ending the war)
-protect intellectual property (What about current IP law?)
-to guarantee consumer choice (What about free market economy?)
-to protect against monopolies (What about oligopolies functioning as cartels? They have same impact)
This is could be America: First they beat you, shoot you, and/or accuse you of having a bomb or pretending to have a bomb or allowing stupid people to think you are pretending to have a bomb. Next, beat you, shoot you or kill you for opposing the president or tying to talk to another high-ranking politician in person. Next, they throw you in a prison becuase of your nationality or religion. The police state. Is this what you want the future to be like? Oh wait. We are already there. How the hell did that happen? By allowing personal liberties to fall down slippery slope.
The problem here is the wording of the Massachusetts's Chapter 266: Section 102A1/2 is that it takes us down a slippery slope. It brings us closer to a police state, where we are less free and where our own flare of terrorist has created our own state-sponsored terrorism. It is giving authorities permission to terrorize is in the name of safety, reducing our quality of life, interfering with my life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Fear from of the people who are supposed to protect me is not my idea of freedom.
Apple did not go after Napster so that it could offer iTMS. Apple just happened to have the right strategy at the right time. If the Napster of 1999 was still around today (because the music industry just ignored it, looked at it as a promotion tool) there is no way to predict at all what the music distribution landscape would look like today.
Although, now I am tempted to take some guesses as to what would have happened: the RIAA would have saves a lot of money and effort suing customers, music fans would have more reason to go out to shows which stimulates the economy, there would be more small business (if look at a working performer as a small business), the market place for music would be more competitive since it would be easier for good acts to get popular. But, the industry would not let their business model die so the are fighting it with the power they have left.
This analogy might not translate so soothly to the porn industry since creating value with live performances might be illegal.
Mike gives away free analysis to acquire paying customers for customized analysis. AC, you know your angle is too extreme and the Founding Fathers would look down on your rhetoric.
I am an audio engineer as well. When I was learning, this was the same school of thought that went into mixing through Yamaha NS-10 speakers. These were not the greatest speakers, but the most closely emulated the listening experiences (as far as the size of the speaker) that most people were going to listen through.
To say that no one wants to listen to new music because of the sound quality is ridiculous. There are lo-fi indie rock and hip hop movements where engineers will purposely make the sound quality bad. This music also appeals on an very emotional level because of the passion of the performance you can feel in the music. On top of this, the very first phonograph recordings sounded terrible compared to what is available today, yet people sill purchased records and phonographs. It was for this very same reason: the emotion of the performance had to appeal to the listener *despite* the poor sound quality.
The nature of recording engineering has changed, as it has for the last 100 years. To say that music is ruined because of the change subjective.
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Vinyl!
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listeningpost/2007/10/listeningpost_1029
Of course, this is off the radars of the majors because most new vinyl sales are re-issues, indies, and dance music.
The vinyl experience is definitely a scarce good. CDs, not so much. The CD experience can be replaced with free MP3s, the no scarce good. If the majors and the RIAA really knew what they were doing, they would be pushing the vinyl resurgence and telling everyone to be DJs. Not that we need more DJs but it would give record companies the opportunity to....wait for it....sell records again!
I copied the new Interpol album from my friend. I recently saw that a vinyl version comes with the CD and a 12-inch book artwork for about $20. That seems like it is worth the money.
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expect more of the same
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simple:
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It will be difficult to try to have some sort of automated, international fast-track licensing system because the organizations that have the power to change it might have less power after the changes are made, and that is not a chance they want to take. I think the old publishing/licensing stake holders will all have to die off before real innovation can happen (since it is pretty clear they would rather risk dying than losing power). But hats off to Apple for being able to work within the confines of the current regime. The stake holders need to keep in mind: you can't compete with free (p2p).
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Re: What's this have to do with Technology?
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-to protect us from terrorists
-fight the war on drugs (Drugs are here to stay)
-to support the troops (It displays ignorance when people mix this up with ending the war)
-protect intellectual property (What about current IP law?)
-to guarantee consumer choice (What about free market economy?)
-to protect against monopolies (What about oligopolies functioning as cartels? They have same impact)
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Yes, a slippery slope
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re: Joel
Although, now I am tempted to take some guesses as to what would have happened: the RIAA would have saves a lot of money and effort suing customers, music fans would have more reason to go out to shows which stimulates the economy, there would be more small business (if look at a working performer as a small business), the market place for music would be more competitive since it would be easier for good acts to get popular. But, the industry would not let their business model die so the are fighting it with the power they have left.
This analogy might not translate so soothly to the porn industry since creating value with live performances might be illegal.
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Re: Get a clue you tool
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sound quality does not sell records
To say that no one wants to listen to new music because of the sound quality is ridiculous. There are lo-fi indie rock and hip hop movements where engineers will purposely make the sound quality bad. This music also appeals on an very emotional level because of the passion of the performance you can feel in the music. On top of this, the very first phonograph recordings sounded terrible compared to what is available today, yet people sill purchased records and phonographs. It was for this very same reason: the emotion of the performance had to appeal to the listener *despite* the poor sound quality.
The nature of recording engineering has changed, as it has for the last 100 years. To say that music is ruined because of the change subjective.
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