XYZ is listed as the company being sued in the lawsuit. XYZ is a REAL company in Australia, jointly owned by pay TV providers Foxtel and Austar and runs (among other channels) the music channels "Channel [V]" and "max" (aka "MusicMax") - does this mean they will illegally broadcast the concert on [V]?
Lindy Morrison is relentless. Sere she is representing the PPCA explaining why gymnasiums need to pay more in public performance fees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5AQeAbpjLU from the Channel 7 Australia morning show "Sunrise" (similar show as Good Morning America)
Quoting from the paper in question, this quote itself a quote from John Philip Sousa, writing about the player piano and the the fact that "mechanical music" will kill amateur music:
"under such conditions the tide of amateurism cannot but recede, until there will be left only the mechanical device and the professional executant. Singing will no longer be a fine accomplishment; vocal exercises, so important a factor in the curriculum of physical culture, will be out of vogue!"
Well it wasn't the player piano that did this and I'm pretty sure it wasn't the radio either... But with the abundance of "hit" songs where the "singing" is rapped vocals that are drowned in the AutoTune "Robot" effect over a pitch-manipulated buzz and beat that apparently passes as music. So, yeah, he was right, that is what has become of professional music.
As for amateur and independent music, I am loving it!
"You see the record industry have a drop of 1/3 of their revenues, that was when they decided to stop suing people"
Are you sure these events are related? Because around the same time as they decided to stop suing people, there was also a global economic crisis, HDTV and BluRay took off more (thus people spending money elsewhere) plus the fact that a lot of people have stopped replacing old CD's with new remasters of old album (the Beatles collection is an EXCEPTION to this).
And from where exactly did you get the figure of their revenue dropping by 1/3 at the same time they stopped suing people? Seriously, their revenue might have dropped by 1/3 in 2009 compared to 2000, but in that time CD's had to compete with the DVD's, the PlayStation 2 and 3, the xBox and xBox 360, home TV upgrades to LCDHDTV's, the PC explosion (and PC's aren't all filled with pirated music and software, you buy a PC and Windows ain't free, it is included in the price!)
Take the DVD example: More people were buying CD's than videos in, say, 1995 because videos were relatively expensive compared to CD's whereas now a DVD player is cheaper than a VCR ever was and older DVD releases of movies are way cheaper than the VHS equivalent ever was. So if they are cheaper, could they spend the money they are saving on CD's? Maybe, but they are in the DVD section and not thinking about CD's at all.
If you ask me, the music industry's biggest competitor is itself. Think about why iTunes took off: Convenience? Yeah, but a large part of the reason was after all these years people were no longer forced to but the whole album for the songs they wanted. Yes there are some great albums out there so I will not use the "Albums have two good songs and the rest are crap" argument. Just because an album is a good album, doesn't mean everybody wants the whole album. Why do you think there's so many greatest hits and best of CD's?
I'm in Australia and I don't see any of our local papers carrying a free Prince album - not the last one so I doubt this one - thanks, Ponce! In fact, I didn't even know there had been an album since 2006's "3121".
So I guess I will have to buy it off eBay considering it was only as a giveaway in a newspaper. Oh, wait, Prince says eBay is evil for selling his music without compensating him. Then how the fuzzy am I meant to get it legitimately? Move to England?
This is the second time tonight I've read about this. All I can say is that in MY OPINION (which does not necessarily reflect the opinion of TechDirt although I hope they get a good laugh out of it) the reason Prince is so short is because he's got his head so far up his @$$
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"XYZ" is a real company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYZnetworks
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Mechanical Music
"under such conditions the tide of amateurism cannot but recede, until there will be left only the mechanical device and the professional executant. Singing will no longer be a fine accomplishment; vocal exercises, so important a factor in the curriculum of physical culture, will be out of vogue!"
Well it wasn't the player piano that did this and I'm pretty sure it wasn't the radio either... But with the abundance of "hit" songs where the "singing" is rapped vocals that are drowned in the AutoTune "Robot" effect over a pitch-manipulated buzz and beat that apparently passes as music. So, yeah, he was right, that is what has become of professional music.
As for amateur and independent music, I am loving it!
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Are you sure these events are related? Because around the same time as they decided to stop suing people, there was also a global economic crisis, HDTV and BluRay took off more (thus people spending money elsewhere) plus the fact that a lot of people have stopped replacing old CD's with new remasters of old album (the Beatles collection is an EXCEPTION to this).
And from where exactly did you get the figure of their revenue dropping by 1/3 at the same time they stopped suing people? Seriously, their revenue might have dropped by 1/3 in 2009 compared to 2000, but in that time CD's had to compete with the DVD's, the PlayStation 2 and 3, the xBox and xBox 360, home TV upgrades to LCDHDTV's, the PC explosion (and PC's aren't all filled with pirated music and software, you buy a PC and Windows ain't free, it is included in the price!)
Take the DVD example: More people were buying CD's than videos in, say, 1995 because videos were relatively expensive compared to CD's whereas now a DVD player is cheaper than a VCR ever was and older DVD releases of movies are way cheaper than the VHS equivalent ever was. So if they are cheaper, could they spend the money they are saving on CD's? Maybe, but they are in the DVD section and not thinking about CD's at all.
If you ask me, the music industry's biggest competitor is itself. Think about why iTunes took off: Convenience? Yeah, but a large part of the reason was after all these years people were no longer forced to but the whole album for the songs they wanted. Yes there are some great albums out there so I will not use the "Albums have two good songs and the rest are crap" argument. Just because an album is a good album, doesn't mean everybody wants the whole album. Why do you think there's so many greatest hits and best of CD's?
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"Perhaps someone should tell Prince that his CD's are full of 1's and 0's" ~ Hephaestus, commenting on this story
Does anything else need to be said? Nope: That was brilliant!
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Purple Pain
So I guess I will have to buy it off eBay considering it was only as a giveaway in a newspaper. Oh, wait, Prince says eBay is evil for selling his music without compensating him. Then how the fuzzy am I meant to get it legitimately? Move to England?
This is the second time tonight I've read about this. All I can say is that in MY OPINION (which does not necessarily reflect the opinion of TechDirt although I hope they get a good laugh out of it) the reason Prince is so short is because he's got his head so far up his @$$
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