Interview with MusicNet Chief

prostoalex writes "Alan McGlade, chief of MusicNet, which sells subscriptions to its digital music catalog, talks about his view of digital music market, expectations and life in general."

Comments

It's simple, really

[Verizon Guy]

This violates our civil liberties, plain and simple. See the following for more information.

Re:LET's RAP!

[Anonymous Coward]

Kick, punch, turn and chop tha door. Muthafuckaz.

Get with the times

[DrSbaitso]

He doesn't address how he will compete with free. If I have to pay for a service, I'll expect the service to have excellent quality mp3s of any song I ask for. If the service doesn't have many of the songs I want, what benefit am I getting choosing him over grokster? Don't tell me compensating the artist - i'd rather send cash via the USPS to the artist than pay them the pittance royalty they'd get from this, or other RIAA sponsored sites.

Until someone gets a universal database that works, with per-song pricing, I don't think anyone will budge.

Re:If you love music you'll pay for it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Music is just bits. Bits are free. The media is cheap. Therefore CDs are cheap to produce. This is simple slashdot logic!

Re:If you love music you'll pay for it.

[Anonymous Coward]

No, buying hookers and cocaine for the 5000 middlemen (lawyers, producers, bus drivers, etc., etc.) costs big dollar.

Bartender, another round of WHORES for my friends!

The greatest love story ever told

[Anonymous Coward]

"Cowboy Neal, you Roxorz my sockorz." Said Commander Taco lovingly as they embraced. People on the street yelled at them to leave, but they wouldn't listen. They loved each other too much. As they hugged, and kissed, and laid to the ground, never letting go. "Commander Taco, you wowzers my trousers." Cowboy Neal said. "You're not wearing any." Commander Taco reminded him. As they hugged, the cars on the road honked at them. Not in support, but rather in a vain attempt to get them to move so they could pass. But Cowboy Neal and Commander Taco did not care about cars. The only form of transportation they cared about was the man train. Weeks upon weeks of playing Cho Anki and watching Men Alone II: The KY connection had come to a boiling point. Cowboy Neal had a big big hunger for man-taco. This would not be fully fulfilled, but he was thankful for the mini-taco anyway.

"Will you marry me, Cowboy Neal?" Commander Taco asked. "Of coarse I will!" he squealed giddily. They stared at each other akwardly for a moment. "Uh... where's the ring?" asked Cowboy Neal. "Oh! Right!" said Commander Taco as he assumed the goatse position. Cowboy Neal was up to his elbow in the spiciest of taco sauces. He never found the ring. That didn't stop him for searching for the next eleven hours.

Then they were both taken to jail for sodomy and raped in jail, much to their delight.

You can not stop us
We have the AC
You die now
Are you afraid?
Death to Commander Taco
Death to Cowboy Neal
EvilBob is Great

Faggot Facts

[Anonymous Coward]

• On April 25, 2001, the CDC reported that "We are seeing substantial increases in sexually transmitted diseases among men who have sex with men in multiple locations across this country."
• Fags are responsible for the "first sexually transmitted outbreak of typhoid fever" in the history of the United States. This disease is caused by ingesting human feces.
• More than 10% of fags in major U.S. urban areas are infected with HIV. To this day, they still make up more than 50% of reported AIDS cases in the United States.
• Fags fellate almost 100% of their sexual contacts and ingest semen from about half of those. Semen contains virtually every germ carried in the blood stream, so this is about equivalent to ingesting raw human blood.
• One study reports 70% of fags admitting to having sex only one time with over 50% of their partners.
• One study reports that the average fag has between 20 and 106 partners per year.The average heterosexual has 8 partners in a lifetime.
• Sperm readily penetrates the anal wall (which is only one cell thick) and gains direct access to the blood stream. This causes massive immunological damage to the body's T- and B-cell defensive systems.
• 50% of male syphilis is carried by fags as a rectal infection and can enter through the urethra of another fag during anal sex.
• Around 67-80% of fags lick and/or insert their tongues into the anuses of their partners (called "rimming", anilingus, fecal sex, etc.) and ingest biologically significant amounts of feces, which is the chief cause of hepatitis and parasitic infections among fags.This practice is called the "prime taste treat in sex" in the bestseller The Joy of Gay Sex.
• 33% of fags admit to fisting (inserting the hand, sometimes part of the arm, into the rectum of his partner).
• Urinating on each other ("golden showers") and torture has doubled among fags since the 1940s, and fisting has increased astronomically.
• 17% of fags eat and/or rub the feces of their partners on themselves .
• 12% of fags give/receive enemas as part of sexual pleasure .
• In one study, the average fag fellated somewhere between 20 and 106 men, swallowed 50 seminal discharges, had 72 penile penetrations of the anus, and ingested feces of 23 different men EVERY YEAR.
• Many fag sexual encounters occur while drunk, high on drugs, or in an orgy setting.
• Many fags don't pay heed to warnings of their lifestyles: "Knowledge of health guidelines was quite high, but this knowledge had no relation to sexual behavior".
• Activities of fags involve rimming (anilingus), golden showers, fisting, and using "toys".
• Fags got homosexuality removed from the list of mental illnesses in the early 70s by storming the annual American Psychiatric Association (APA) conference on successive years. "Guerrilla theater tactics and more straight-forward shouting matches characterized their presence". Since homosexuality has been removed from the APA list of mental illnesses, so has pedophilia (except when the adult feels "subjective distress").
• Fags account for 3-4% of all gonorrhea cases, 60% of all syphilis cases, and 17% of all hospital admissions (other than for STDs) in the United States.They make up only 1-2% of the population.
• Fags live unhealthy lifestyles, and have historically accounted for the bulk of syphilis, gonorrhea, Hepatitis B, the "gay bowel syndrome" (which attacks the intestinal tract), tuberculosis and cytomegalovirus.
• 73% of psychiatrists say fags are less happy than the average person, and of those psychiatrists, 70% say that the unhappiness is NOT due to social stigmatization.
• 25-33% of fags and dykes are alcoholics.
• Of fags questioned in one study, 43% admitted to 500 or more partners in a lifetime, 28% admitted to 1000 or more in a lifetime, and of these people, 79% said that half of those partners were total strangers, and 70% of those sexual contacts were one night stands (or, as one fag admits in the film "The Castro," one minute stands). Also, it is a favorite past-time of many fags to go to "cruisy areas" and have anonymous sex. See www.cruisingforsex.com (NOTE: this site may contain pornographic images - please don't go to it if you are under age or don't want to see this type of material. This site is referenced only for illustrative purposes.)
• 78% of fags are affected by STDs.
• Judge John Martaugh, chief magistrate of the New York City Criminal Court has said, "Homosexuals account for half the murders in large cities".
• Captain William Riddle of the Los Angeles Police says, "30,000 sexually abused children in Los Angeles were victims of homosexuals".
• 50% of suicides can be attributed to fags.
• Dr. Daniel Capron, a practicing psychiatrist, says, "Homosexuality by definition is not healthy and wholesome. The homosexual person, at best, will be unhappier and more unfulfilled than the sexually normal person". For other psychiatrists who believe that homosexuality is wrong, please see National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality.
• It takes approximately $300,000 to take care of each AIDS victim, so thanks to the promiscuous lifestyle of fags, medical insurance rates have been skyrocketing for all of us.
• One study reports that 90% of fags have engaged in anal sex, and 66% engage in anal sex regularly.
• Fags were responsible for spreading AIDS in the United States, and then raised up violent groups like Act Up and Ground Zero to complain about it. Even today, fags account for well over 50% of the AIDS cases in the United States, which is quite a large number considering that they account for only 1-2% of the population.
• Fags account for a disproportionate number of hepatitis cases: 70-80% in San Francisco, 29% in Denver, 66% in New York City, 56% in Toronto, 42% in Montreal, and 26% in Melbourne.
• 10% of fags admit to eating feces and/or drinking contaminated enema water.
• 29% of fags engage in urine sex ("golden showers").
• 37% of fags engage in sadomasochism, which accounts for many accidental deaths. In San Francisco, classes were held to teach fags how to not kill their partners during sadomasochism.
• In large cities, hospitals are often called on to remove objects from the rectums of fags. Sometimes, the fags do so much damage that they have to wear colostomy bags for the rest of their lives.
• 41% of fags say they have had sex with strangers in public restrooms, 60% say they have had sex with strangers in bathhouses, and 64% of these encounters have involved the use of illegal drugs.
• Depending on the city, 39-59% of fags are infected with intestinal parasites like worms, flukes and amoebae, which is common in filthy third world countries .
• The median age of death of fags is 42 (only 9% live past age 65). This drops to 39 if the cause of death is AIDS. The median age of death of a married heterosexual man is 75.
• The median age of death of dykes is 45 (only 24% live past age 65). The median age of death of a married heterosexual woman is 79.
• Fags are 100 times more likely to be murdered (usually by another fag) than the average person, 25 times more likely to commit suicide, and 19 times more likely to die in a traffic accident.
• 21% of dykes die of murder, suicide or traffic accident, which is at a rate of 534 times higher than the number of white heterosexual females aged 25-44 who die of these things.
• 50% of the calls to a hotline to report "queer bashing" involved domestic violence (i.e., fags beating up other fags).
• About 50% of the women on death row are dykes.