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The Culture of CD Burning
An anonymous reader points to this "good article from the Boston Globe about the culture of CD burning, and how hard it will be for the RIAA to stop it. Some interesting quotes: 'There's a "sex appeal" to burning CDs, says [Sheryl] Crow, adding that it is a social event for young people, just as listening to 45s was once a social event for their parents.' An interesting one from Hilary Rosen: "I ask them, 'What have you done last week?' They may say they wrote a paper on this or that. So I tell them, 'Oh, you wrote a paper, and you got an A? Would it bother you if somebody could just take that paper and get an A too? Would that bug you?' So this sense of personal investment does ring true with people." Seems like at least one musician thinks his A paper is being peddled all over town.
'Oh, you wrote a paper, and you got an A? Would it bother you if somebody could just take that paper and get an A too? Would that bug you?'
So is hilary saying that we are allowed to burn CD's of crappy artists?
I SURVIVED THE GREAT SLASHDOT BLACKOUT OF 2002!
I'm waiting ladies! Big spindle o' 100 CDs just waiting to be burned.
You get that many bad burns? Ye-Gods, if I only got one good burn out of every ten CDs I'd return my drive.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
-Oh, you wrote a paper, and you got an A?
-No sir, I wrote a paper and got Slashdotted.
What? No one ever uses CDs for anything other then stealing music.
You people are Killing Kid Rock!
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Would it bother you if somebody could just take that paper and get an A too?
That should read: Would if bother you if someone copied your paper instead of paying me for the paper I coerced you into giving me?
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
It makes me wonder, has she heard the flaw in this analogy pointed out, and ignored it? Or has she not had a real conversation with someone who is on the other side of the fence? Or is she trying to deliberately give a shoddy analogy in the hopes it gets by people?
She might think that she has to pay for advice of this quality.
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway, where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -- Hunter S Thompson
I like this quote, but I think that Thompson was a little too positive. Maybe he was having an excessively good day.
Lets say you buy a 50 pack of CD's....I might burn 5 music CD's from that.
Get yo hands offa mah CDs!
" That's the weird thing about 'N Sync and its rivals: It's impossible to appreciate their staying power, or fully fathom their genius, right down to the seemingly witless banter, unless they make you want to vomit."
--The Washington Post, 4/23/02
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
in other shocking news...
paper outsold books.
Authors everwhere are outraged.
-xmod2@toolazytoolookupmypassword.com
Sure, some piracy is there because of the price (Only the industry's illegal price fixing to blame for that) but a hell of a lot more of it is simply due to the fact that the consumer can't get what he wants any other way. And the industry is clearly not willing to provide it.
You know what the industry wants, what it really wants? It wants to control your entire listening and viewing experience and it wants each person to pay every time he listens to a song or watches a movie. And they want the $30 up front charge which they insist is just for the media and not for the right to view or listen.
They wonder why their sales figures are dropping. Maybe it's because more people like me are becoming unwilling to pay those greedy pig fuckers a single god damned cent. I can't even remember the last time I bought a new CD for my collection (I don't download MP3s off the net either.) I can remember the last time I went to see a movie; Brotherhood of the Wolf (Sucked, but at least it sucked in French) and Mullholland Drive (Kicked ass) before that. Didn't see Harry Potter. Didn't see LOTR. Probably won't see Attack of the Clones. The industry can blow me!
I'm not inclined to be the least bit sympathetic until those whiney fucks get with the technological program and start offering consumers some choice, and I don't mean "Should I buy the latest Britney Spears album or the latest Backstreet Boys album?" They're here to serve us. Not the other way around.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
'There's a "sex appeal" to burning CDs, says [Sheryl] Crow, adding that it is a social event for young people, just as listening to 45s was once a social event for their parents.'
I'm sorry, but my friends and I don't have orgies everytime I toss a CD in the burner..
"My days are less enjoyable because of people." ~ Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
Albhy Galuten, vice president of new media for Universal Records: "I find it incredibly ironic that some people will spend an extra $1,000 on their hard drives just so they can store more music, but they won't pay for the music."
Where does this guy buy hard drives? Seems to me that a 40G HD is $150 Canadian. That's enough to store about 10000 songs, or about 1000 albums. That would cost $18000 dollars to buy those albums new, though, so even if you were paying $1000 for your hard drive, I could still see why you were doing it.
Ah, you're making the same mistake I did long ago when working at a computer shop. You see, the term "hard drive" doesn't just mean the storage device, it's the whole unit!!! Motherboard, CPU, Videocard and all!!
I'll have something intelligent to add one of these days...
You bastard! I hope XYZ doesn't find out! They could really use the money! ;)
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
In the early days, it would mean .3 billion coasters........
There's an obvious reason for blank CD's outselling recorded ones:
The blank ones sound better than the recorded ones.
But masters, remember that I am an ass: though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.
Allow me to introduce myself. I'm a music exec of some sway...
I own a lot of congressmen who support the DMCA.
pleased to meet you, won't you guess my name.
But what's puzzling you, is it's a liscense that I claim.
I'm the one you can thank
for the hip hop and swank.
I'm a corporate pimp
leaching off some young skank.
pleased to meet you
won't you guess my name.
But what's puzzling you, is it's a liscense that I claim.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.