Ben Strom’s Comments

• Oct 16th, 2011 @ 11:58am

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  on US Postal Service Sends Postage Due Bill To Guy Who Put Block Party Invites Into Neighbors' Mailboxes
  where in the bill is this? i did a cursory reading and couldnt find it.
• May 11th, 2011 @ 10:53pm

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  on NHL Says It's Infringing To Use The Keyword NHL In Your App About The NHL
  It's kind of sad considering how digital-friendly the NHL has been recently in terms of allowing game clips on youtube, posting all their highlights and allowing remixes, etc. etc.
• Jan 4th, 2011 @ 10:44pm

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  on Case Study: How Dave Matthews Band Has Embraced The Modern Music Industry In Extraordinarily Profitable Ways
  its odd because i heard the 80k warehouse members back in 2003.
  
  http://www.antsmarching.org/forum/showpost.php?p=469748&postcount=20
• Jan 4th, 2011 @ 10:33pm

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  on Case Study: How Dave Matthews Band Has Embraced The Modern Music Industry In Extraordinarily Profitable Ways
  it is free to tape and distribute (for free) ALL concert shows.
• Jan 4th, 2011 @ 10:27pm

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  on Case Study: How Dave Matthews Band Has Embraced The Modern Music Industry In Extraordinarily Profitable Ways
  thats true that the GD were there first in terms of fan taping. but i was talking about an artist approved repository of shows. do grateful dead fans have one?
• Jan 4th, 2011 @ 4:34pm

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  on Case Study: How Dave Matthews Band Has Embraced The Modern Music Industry In Extraordinarily Profitable Ways
  They sell a shit ton of merch. it is ridiculous.
  
  Also, every show has its own unique poster. This follows the scarcity idea. I believe that the average run of a poster is about 500 per venue. The really big shows have 1,000 tops I think. Each poster is high quality, silk screened & signed and numbered by the artist. People have been known to line up 3 hours early to make sure that they get a poster.
  
  They also have a series of Live Albums (19 albums at the moment) that with the exception of 2 volumes is only available from their website.
  
  There is also a DMBLive series that is only available for download from their site.
  
  Coran Capshaw is a genius when it comes to merch and i wouldn't be surprised if the $200,000 is much much higher these days.
• Jan 4th, 2011 @ 4:28pm

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  on Case Study: How Dave Matthews Band Has Embraced The Modern Music Industry In Extraordinarily Profitable Ways
  the band has always allowed taping of all of their shows for their entire history. if you look at dreamingtree.org you will find nearly EVERY show EVER performed. named me another band where you can find that.
  
  ps. they had grass roots support long before they got a record deal. they self-released a ep and a album before they got their record deal.
• Oct 14th, 2010 @ 10:44pm

  used the same paper at least 5 times

  on What's Wrong With Students Reusing Papers?
  i wrote a paper on the tuskegee airmen that i used in high school history (12th grade), high school english (12th grade), college composition, college history class, and adapted it to a speech for speech class.
  
  Each time i added to it and changed things, but the basic framework was there.
• Nov 17th, 2009 @ 8:56pm

  good for a laugh

  on Poet's Son Says No One Can Quote Father Without Paying Up... Even Academic Dissertations...
  so the full notice was hilarious. I kind of want to email and ask for permission and see where we go from there. too bad i know squat about poetry.