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Ideas for a Recording Industry Alternative?
icewalker asks: "There has been a lot of news (here, here, and here) lately about music, copy protection, and other related issues. What I find interesting is that there are literally thousands of free bands out there that are more than worthy of listening too. Free as in they have not sold their souls (not to mention music rights) away to the devils of the music industry. But how does one get to listen to these pioneers of music? The solution could be sites like mp3.com (until the mp3 royalties are forced). But what people want is a locals only site that streams, guess what, the music from free local bands only. Not just for your community but local bands from all over the US (and the world). We need a site that collects these bands and we need a streamer that plays them. No CARP royalty problems since these bands are unsigned and own the music themselves. Make it so that the artists can hopefully sell their own CD's or single songs from the same site. Anyway, mix and bake at multiple bit rates and you have a solution to the copy protected CD (I haven't bought one yet from an Indie Band). The big guys go down because they can't compete with free, better than great music on the web with a low cost distribution. So, where is this utopia? Oh! And dump the necessary registration required to listen (are you listening mp3.com?)."
Sign me up to be a "local band from all over the US (and the world)."
OddManIn: A Game of guns and game theory.
"popular format like OGG".
Kinda like a mainstream desktop operating system like Linux?
- oZ
// i am here.
You saying you can dance to Tori Amos?
That's something I'd love to see.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
Campaigns against general purpose MV's (motor vehicles) are the best way to control roadway property. You can instead sell a device that only goes to the places you allow, which no one can steer to another place. Then you allow the device to download new destinations from certain sites on the internet, store those sites in a format like MSWord .Doc format, and put in so many features that the user is perfectly happy to go only where they are told.
-- Until someone hacks the destination server and sends tons of "happy" people flying off the 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) into the sea.
- Sighuh?