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Radiohead Open Sources Music Video
ruphus13 writes "Following up their 'pay what you like' music album, Radiohead is once again pushing forward with trying to innovate in an industry that has typically innovated with lawsuits alone. Radiohead has now decided to open source a music video. According to the article, 'Its new single "House of Cards" has a video that was created using advanced visualization techniques and various computer-rendered models. The band has teamed up with Google to release the data for the promo as open source using a Creative Commons license.'" The article links a making-of video on YouTube. The music of "House of Cards" was not open sourced, just the visual data. according to a story in the UK Guardian, people are beginning to play around with the data.
Fuck radiohead, all I need is goatworship:
http://www.youtube.com/G0ATW0RSHIP
they're also like Anti-metallica in the sense that their new music sucks.
They're attention whores trying to get a rise out of the technophile market. The 'In Rainbows' release was a PR stunt and so it this. Lame.
I love how someone always feels the need to throw Metallica into the mix on conversations like these too. That's how you win 'teh internets' these days apparently.
All this Slashtardian talk of Open Source and its alleged transformative effects on the music industry is a self masturbatory excerise in futility.
Lets see you may a pimple sized dent in the software industry and it still looks like the "open source" economic model means that no one really makes any money while working this so called collaborative effort, and then you all just congratulate yourselves in a circle jerk of self serving techno mumble about how successful it will all eventually be.
As for Music,
Historically musicians have always been at the bottom of the music industry supply chain despite being the producers of the very commodity that serves as the basis for the industry.
So now you Slashtards are telling me, and I am using some of your buzz terms, that musicians "sharing" their wares via "open source" is going to transform the biz and allow them to practice and perpetuate the art form, providing them the means to simply EAT, fidn Water and Shelter let alone an instrument or the time to pursue it.
You couldn't be more wrong dipshits, and if anything "open source" will only lead to "open sores" as artists who once eeked out a living in the industry now find themselves sleeping in the gutters, and all because dickwads like you all think your entitled to the fruits of their labor for free.
Enter the Randian Apocalypse
Then of course you all will follow once your movement runs out of steam and you all realize you need to eat and there is nothing left to sustain your delusions of granduer and once that happens, the Opens Source Utopia you created will discard you like yesterdays trash and you will now really be living "Open Sores".