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TMBG on DRM
scootr1 writes "John and John from They Might Be Giants speak to Newsweek about, amongst other things, digital rights management. My favorite exchange? 'How would you eat, then?' 'That's my problem.' When are record companies going to realize that DRM isn't going to help them sell more of the bad music that dominates the airwaves?"
Triangle, man
Triangle, man
Triangle man hates DRM man
They have a fight, triangle wins
Trinagle man
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
My head a-splode.
Why do Slashdotters like TMBG so much?
For the same reason they keep coming here, despite the overwhelming flood of crap posts like this one. In other words, there's no accounting for taste. People like what they like.
in related news, people care about what TMBG has to say.
Only liberals are allowed to call things "hate groups."
I'm sorry, but have you listened to some of the crap that is getting a lot of airplay? I mean, a week ago, one of the record stations played the first single off of some blonde pop-tart's new album, and it was a cover song. (What does it say about the rest of the album if the first single pushed is a cover? To me it says the rest of the album reaks.)
Quite frankly, after hearing Hoobastank's "The Reason" for the 157th time in a week, I am tired of hearing it. Or any of the other "we must play this song every couple of hours" hits.
And if there's one good song on an album, and the rest of it sucks liquid monkey ass through a straw, then there is damn little reason to buy the entire CD. And unless that one good song is available through iTunes or any of the other legitimate music download services, I don't honestly expect most people to pony up $17-$20 for one song.
Just because he hates it doesn't mean it's bad music. But it doesn't make it good music either.
Kierthos
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Except that conservatives are allowed to call liberal organizations "hate groups".
No dipshit.
They are complaining lack of records sales on bad music.
Not very many people want to buy the crap that the record industry puts out.
But according to the record companies, the reason that the songs don't sell is because of piracy and they never mention about the general huge decline in good original music put out by artists.
All we get is another Korn-clone, or a Metalica re-release that blows goats. Or one the other end of the spectrum it's "Oh, another boy band", or rap artists singing about how cool their pants and cars are and how they fuck the shit out of random females because they dropped out of school to pursue fruitfull carreers as rap artists and drug dealers.
Who wants put up with that crap?
But it sold hardcore 2 years ago! Why isn't it same tired formulas selling this year?
It's Piracy DAMMIT! Fuck the P2P, we need to get the FBI in on this one. The RIAA says this, while yet again this year is more profitable then the last.
It's greed pure and simple.
Fuck the RIAA.
Random passerby: "What a beautiful day"
rd syrings: "Why is it beautiful just because you like it? Huh? Huh? You looking for a fight?"
My only complaint was that they were a bit loud
;-)
If it's too loud, you're too old.
Lost: Sig, white with black letters. No collar. Reward if found!
They all began working most diligently
creating programs which behaved intellegently
But these programs were lacking still.
For when prompted they would only say or .
Yet a researcher in the great white north continued on
Feeding song after song into to his very own atomiton
Then at last one tiresome night in 84
he played a track he never played before.
And queried the program: To which it responded /wanting to work that last line into a joke for years
Wow, if your economic theories are correct, people should start leaving the keys in the Porsches with the doors unlocked and installing really good security systems in the crappy cars that no one would want. I mean, someone's likely to steal my beat up piece of crap car that's not worth the couple of thousand dollars they'd have to pay to get their own, but they'd never steal a good quality sports car.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Then how come Metallica, Brittney Spears, Madonna (or whatever she's calling herself these days), etc. are against giving their music away for free?
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
My favorite exchange? 'How would you eat, then?' 'That's my problem.'
Am i the only one that read that as "How would you eat them?"
I kept looking for some point in the interview where TMBG talked about eating this abstract concept...
i'm...so sorry
i hotdog.
Damn right!
...Hitler was actually elected.
(It's just a joke!)