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Amazon's Special Thank-You
theodp writes "To commemorate its 10th Anniversary, Amazon.com announced that on July 16th customers will receive a special thank-you - a concert featuring Bob Dylan and Norah Jones. Of course, customers will be squinting at streaming video while Amazon employees actually attend the concert at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, but isn't it the thought that counts?"
now stop trying to patent mouse clicking, you noob.
I would've accepted a coupon or something.
Man if only i could be that lucky to be a amazon.com customer!
I gave the bat commader a high five.
A free concert I can't goto and with 2 people I probably wouldn't go see anyway! Gee wiz Amazon you really pulled out the stops on this one!!
Seriously wouldnt offering free 2 or 3 day shipping on all items for the weekend have been better?
Some sites embed it in their own pages (like this) and others just point to the remote URL, (like this). Obviously, Amazon has done the latter.
Is Bob Dylan trendy again or is he so untrendy that it's cool to like him? Or was he just cheap and available? They should have at least tried to get an 80's band.
That's one thing I hate, corps rewarding their employees and making it seem like they're doing it for the consumer. Why don't they post pictures of the company picnic too.
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Well I guess Amazon's servers have nothing to worry about. But those poor employees....
-R
That would have cost them money.
Streaming a video, on the other hand, only costs them about $50 in bandwidth.
I suggest purchasing the services of exotic dancers for an "Amazonian" themed brouhaha. Certainly nobody would turn down a live feed of the cultural tribute...
I almost died when I saw him do those horrible Klein commercials. Or was it the GAP?
Worse.
Tambourine man....(buffering)...(buffering)....play a song...(buffering)...(buffering)...for me. I'm not slee...(buffering)...(buffering)...py and there is no...(buffering)...(buffering)...place I'm going to.
--Residential Interior Design
Don't try to side-step the question Mr. Bezos!!!
--Residential Interior Design
For real, why is everyone bashing Amazon? I buy stuff from them all the time. The prices are very competitive on most items, and the selection of stuff is hard to beat. I've been a pretty loyal customer since 1998, and unless something is significantly cheaper somewhere else, I almost always buy anything I need that they sell there.
If you don't like Bob Dylan or Norah Jones, then don't watch the frickin' concert! Jesus, you'd think that they were having John Ashcroft in concert or something, the way everyone is reacting! ("Let the eagle soar!..." Ugh.)
My company, a large Fortune 100, does this periodically. For special occasions, it will sponsor a concert for the employees and VIPs. Chances are that Amazon was going to have the concert anyway, and decided to Webcast it just to be nice, so give 'em a frickin' break, already!
Sheesh, talk about no good deed going unpunished...
Amazon puts up a free concert, and Slashdot idiots go nuclear. What a surprise.
This isn't deserving of thanks or, 'gee look how kind they are' -- I think of it as an extra service provided by a company. Some will enjoy it, some won't. Why is it deserving of such scorn?
When AOL did this several times over the past years, with the Rolling Stones, for example, did that deserve scorn?
Music is highly subjective, but it's the height of adolescent immaturity to slag off Bob Dylan and Norah Jones as crap if you don't like their style of music.
Get the fuck over yourselves.
(It was time to burn the karma anyway)
-Stu
I love it. Amazon and Victoria's Secret are THE MAN. I can't wait till one of you geniuses notice the JP Morgan Chase involvement. I suppose every one of you has a $7-an-hour "activist" job. If I must endure more self-righteous priggishness about Dylan taking money from big corporations, I'd like to see full disclosure of each critic's sources of income.
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Personally, I think that copyrights on music should last until the writer dies, and they should only be given to the song writer.
Let me say that again. You never never never want to base the length of copyright on someones death. There are enough things that makes passing on hard enough. We don't need to put the added stress on people with the idea that "every day I stay alive is another residue check my family can receive." Or worse "if we unplug dad from the respirator out estate has to give up our copyright." Linking financial matters (even more than we already have) with the process of dying is inhuman. This is one of those cases where something sounds like a good idea but the consequences are disgusting.
Actually, the reason has little to do with Amazon's policies, and more with any company that publically masterbates in front of a croud, and tells us that it's a present for us. If this was just a company party, that'd be one thing. Pushing it as a "Show of Thanks" or gift to the customers is a joke, and they're getting called on it, big time.
Imagine it on a personal level. Imagine that your wife or whoever your significant other is comes home, and you invite them into the bedroom. Tell them "This is to say thank you for all you've done for me," then proceed to masterbate. If they don't get hit/slap/leave/laugh at/divorce you, I'd be suprised (some have kinkier partners).
This is what Amazon did. It could have given away tickets to 100 lucky customers. It could have given away other prizes. It could have done ANYTHING that actually gave some benefit to the customers. I don't even like American Idol, but I'd rather watch it on TV than a junk streaming concert. If I'm going to sit for 2+ hours to watch something, I want some chips, a drink, and a sofa. That's just me, but I would assume this is true of the average Amazon shopper as well.
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There is some interesting information on this topic at Telegraph:
Asked in 1965 what might tempt him to sell out, Dylan replied: "Ladies undergarments".
Call the bookstore.
"Hey, can you order title X,yan z for me?"
BOokstores are 90% of the time willing to order books they dont have in stock for you, espscially the smaller ones. Yeah, its not gonna beat amazon on price or speed, but at least youre helping out someone besides a faceless corporation.
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