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Instant Live Concert Recordings
WebGangsta writes "The AP is reporting that there's a new device out that allows you to record a concert... legally. It works because it's run by the venue, direct from the mixing board. After the show, concert-goers visit an on-site kiosk and purchase a 128MB keydrive (which may or may not be proprietary to the system). Then they swipe their credit card again to download the concert they just attended to the keydrive. The MP3 can then be shared with whoever they'd like (no restrictions on copying the show to friends)." We've had some previous stories about a different system with CD-R's available after the show.
...I'll be the one with the CD duplicator selling blank CDr's for $1 each.
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$45 for a T-shirt, $8 - Coke, $500 - for a Pen drive - showing your friends you can't manage money....priceless
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I've always liked the term write-only. I'm pretty sure the poster meant "write-once", but it's just one of those ideas I find wonderfully useless.
Actually, I just burned a few el-cheapo CDRs that were apparently write-only, 'cause I couldn't read them afterwards.
> Depends on the band really. Some bands like The
> Greatfull Dead used to let you hook right into
> the mixing board to record the concert...which
> is why there are so many good Dead bootlegs out there.
Good news for all the Brittney Spears and Justin Timberlake fans! You can now own a CD copy of the concert you have just seen!
Trick is its the CD that you already own that the artists have just spent the last 74 minutes miming to.
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While we're being elitist technophiles, let me just say that digital recording is crap. Everybody knows that the Music Fairy lives inside the 97khz frequency, and "CD quality" digital recordings cut off anything above about 22khz, thereby killing the Music Fairy. Without the Music Fairy around to sprinkle it's magical Pixie Dust on the track, the music is practically unlistenable and totally unacceptable.
That's right. Until now you could only get instant recordings of pre-recorded concerts. Now, with our cutting-edge "live concert" technology you can get instant recordings of live concerts.
I think it's time to get a new retarded monkey to write the headlines. This one's busticated.
-Peter
Great so let's see...
Before: I won't buy music unless it's cheap and without DRM.
Now: Oh you got that? But it's mp3. I won't buy music unless it's cheap, without DRM and in FLAC.
Next: Oh you got that? But it's not on a purple Bluetooth drive. I won't buy music unless it's cheap, without DRM, in FLAC and on a purple Bluetooth drive.
Later: Oh you got that too? Um, damit... anybody has a good excuse I can use?
Not good enough. The 128MB drives should be included with an 80% discounted ticket, and everyone who records the concert should get a free roast beef sandwich.
Remember, anything that can be copyrighted should be free, and anyone who tries to make a living writing, singing, performing, doing research, directing, producing, engineering, editing, designing, painting, sculpting or building should be driven out of business and live in a cardboard box until they throw away all their education and experience to find another line of work.
I hear they're building a new Wal-Mart soon.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
I've seen over 50 Dead concerts
Wow, and you can still remember how to use a tape recorder? ;-)
I always get "Geddy" when I hear people mention Rush.
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Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche