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Online Business Model for a Band?
Backes asks: "I've seen a lot of submissions about P2P, iTMS, DRM, piracy, and the RIAA, lately. Apparently everyone has an opinion on this and most seem think that the recording industry are a bunch of greedy people that stick it to the consumer as well as their own artists. After hearing some of the stories, I'm not even sure that getting signed to a label would be the best course of action for an aspiring musician or band. So what is a better option? What would you, the Slashdot community, do to make it big on your own using the Internet?"
"What kinds of features would a site need? Would you pay for downloads of MP3s from a band's site or not? At what price? Would donations work, or would everyone just freeload? How often would you need updates or new songs to keep you coming back? If downloads were free, would you then buy a full length album from the site just to get the CD? What special features should the CD include? How would you get your name out? What do you think is the best course of action for a band that wants to completely circumvent the whole music industry process and do it themselves?"
here's one: first you make a myspace music account, then you plug it as often as possible. Like the one for my band, The Apples tee hee hee
Hey, I thought they said the same thing about Ronald Reagan?! Now who's not telling the truth here?
Naaa...couldn't be the fault of the individual. Let's blame it on the big guy. After all...they followed his instructions to the letter. No condoms, and go screw your brains out with anyone and everyone.
Yes...it's all the Pope's fault.
How would Communism, even the corrupted pseudo-communism of the USSR, have fared if it wasn't under constant attack from the Corporate Reich of America (USA)? We'll never know if the problems that set in in the USSR would have happened if they hadn't had to remain constantly militarised thanks to the USA's aggression, having to devote millions of man-hours to defence because the fascist (read up on Roosevelt) USA was constantly threatening them?
We _know_ the USA worked to corrupt and undermine communism in the USSR. How much of the crap that happened in the USSR was thanks to people having to fight off the USA instead of working together on more useful stuff? (personally, I think Lysenko did most to damage the USSR, not the USA, but that's a separate rant).
Hell, the US Corpies won't let free market capitalism exist either (see their "free" trade agreements which ALWAYS extend the scope of patent applicability, by definition antithetical to free markets)
He might be a troll, but he's right nevertheless.
Or alternatively we could all just read Noam Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival" ourselves.
Let's not kid ourselves here. Much as I hate corporate America, Stalin is vastly responsible for the buildup of weapons in the USSR post war, and indeed the regime was simply a dictatorship as fascist as any other.
The problem is that people (the U.S.) ascribe the fascism as being the result of communism in an attempt to victimise left-wing ideas...
I believe this is one of the best posts I ever read on /.
Linux is not Windows
>>responsible for more deaths and other atrocitys than any other
That is a load of bovine excrement. you are apparently one of those primitive christophobes, and a buffoon.
Regardless of my opinion of the Pope, Catholicism, and Boy-Buggering Papists in general..
More people have been killed/tortured in the name of the secular state/communism/fascism/godless humanism in the first half of the last century than by any other entity in the history of man.
"the 20th Century state has proved itself the great killer of all time." --Historian Paul Johnson
Stalin, over 40 million (purges, forced de-kulakification, de-cossacifiation, forced labour camps, re-education camps, etc). Mass deportations for the various baltic states and other soviet satellites to the Soviet Gulag archipelago, and let us not forget the many cut down crossing the Berlin wall or any other point on the Iron Curtain,
Mao Tse Tung's Cultural Revolution, estimated at 72 million plus,
Pol Pot's Cambodia, 3 million plus (close to one out of three people)
The there is the perennial favorite, Nazi Germany (6 million plus), the Japanese Rape of Nanking (300,000), North Korea, Vietnam, The Armenian genocide in Turkey (1.5 Million), the communist rampages through post WWII albania/yugoslavia.
m ... geez, i don't understand how people can mix up words written in a brain-dead language that is only spoken in a few places over this world ... may be there are actually people living outside the US?. I heard once about them on the CNN. A magic race of people that are not US Citizens, how weird!.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
What's wrong with screwing your brains out? Because the bible says not to?
That isn't a very convincing argument in my book.
Your ignorance is infinitely greater than you realize.
No, not because the bible tells you not to. Because a) it does create children, and b) today it carries a significant risk (in some areas) of serious/fatal disease.
2 very, very serious consequences. Are you willing to take those risks and live with (or die with) the results for an afternoon of fun?
Yes, he is a troll, and no, he is not right.
My uncle was part of an Air Force contingent that flew Vatican-approved birth control devices to Catholic nuns in a war-torn part of Africa. The nuns refused to leave because of their dedication to the people they served there. Yet constant rapes from the militant fighting groups in the region were getting some of the nuns pregnant. So the USAF, with the approval of the Vatican, flew missions to deliver contraceptives to them.
Second, the only contraceptive device that can be used to counteract AIDS is the condom. But in most parts of Africa, using condoms is not socially acceptable due to old pagan customs. Most African men will not wear condoms, and prefer "dry" sex, so most women will swab the moisture out of the their vaginas before having sex. This makes bleeding much more prevalent, increasing the risk of AIDS transmission even more. So the Catholic stance on condom use in Africa has absolutely no bearing on the state of AIDS there.
Anybody who tells you that the Catholic Church is even remotely responsible for the state of AIDS in Africa is full of shit.
It's so fun when US Citizens talk about mass murder. They are the biggest killers ever, but seems to allways remember masacrees done by others. Oh, i forgot, they masacrees are "Crusades for world peace", like their sponsorhip of the dictatorships in Latin America, The masacree Nicaragua, or the was of Iraq.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Sorry to be O.T., but the Pope is the leader of the Catholic religon, not Christianity. Get it right.
"Often immitated, never duplicated"
there is only one The Church, dude.
And how would free market Capitalism have fared if it wasn't under constant attack from the Soviet states? Oh wait - it was. Face it: it was a competition between two economic models. Both of them tried to trip each other up. And Capitalism won, by a landslide. Seriously; even feudal states have lasted longer than the Communist record of 71 years (1917 - 1991). Communism required that the state create an artificial market, it required that people give up their individuality, and it required that mediocrity be idealized. It never stood a chance against Capitalism, which allows the market to do what it wants, requires that people act as individuals, and requires that exceptional ability be idealized. Even a totally corrupt Capitalist country (as many would argue is the case in the USA) was more than a match for all of the Soviet Republics.
**** You never REALLY learn to swear until you own a computer. ****
You could write a virus that has your music in the payload...think of the exposier!
yes.