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Kim Dotcom Just Launched His New Music Service With His Own Album
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Dotcom today released his debut album Good Times, which consists of 17 pretty terrible EDM tracks produced by the Mega mogul himself. According to a press release, 'The music celebrates Kim's ever-present philosophy of inspiring people to feel good, have fun and live life to the fullest. Kim was inspired by the Trance and Dance tracks he listened to during his high-speed driving times on the German Autobahn.' It's anything but subtle, as you might guess from an album advertised on the back of a 100-strong fleet of buses. In an interview with Wired at the end of the year Dotcom admitted he sounded 'like crap, obviously,' but added, 'Fortunately there's a thing called Auto-Tune so they make it sound OK.'"
I don't think he needs any more pie.
I can't help but think of this: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Can%20I%20borrow%20a%20feeling%3F
A lot of artists use Auto-Tune these days.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXK9t4A2PsU
I am not really here right now.
So we Auto-tuned the tunes you listen to in your auto. Now you can listen to useless shit while you shit becomes useless.
Kim Dotcom hasn't been in the news much lately, so I thought it said Kim Jong-Un for a second. "Oppan Pyongyang style"
When the corporate masters hear about this it's going to get dicey.
After listening to a few seconds of a couple of his tunes, I feel that he owes me $20,000 per track. Talk about horrible. His shit makes The Black Eyed Peas sound like Mozart.
"Fortunately there's a thing called Auto-Tune..." Never thought I'd hear someone say that sentence without joking about it.
"Never give up, for that is just the time and place when the tide will change." -Harriet Beecher Stowe ^_^
"Good Times" is widely known as the most dangerous computer virus of all time.
"Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.
"It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car keys when you are late for work.
"Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Discover card."
Seriously, just don't do it.
I hope this is not too off-topic, but Mega has recently (and very quietly, without even a mention on their blog) released a Windows sync client - a significant step in being feature-complete compared to their less-encrypted competition of Dropbox, Google Drive or Microsoft SkyDrive.
The worst I can say is that it sounds generic. If it had a Lil Wayne cameo, it would get plenty of airplay.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
The money's probably going to his legal defense fund. If he told people that, he'd get more Bitcoins than a Matrix cosplay prostitute.
If you see the 60 Minutes he was in a few months ago, it's pretty clear that the man is incapable of projecting anything less than supreme confidence in the belief that he is The Greatest Thing To Happen to whatever he's trying to do this week, particularly if his goal this week is to play Kim Dotcom, Victim of the Oppressive Copyright State who had No Idea what people used MegaUpload for.
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
Because its an interesting variation on the usual delusional megalomaniac pattern. Traditionally, after going through the usual inventing new awards and names for himself, he should be designing his own army uniforms and medals by now.
But this is a whole new virtual world, I guess.
The album was released on his new music service, which you may care about. Did you skip the headline too?
Am I getting grumpier or are you people getting stupider?
The worst I can say is that it sounds generic. If it had a Lil Wayne cameo, it would get plenty of airplay.
And while listening to this crap I immediately thought to myself "How the F*** do we have copyrights for 120 years to protect auto-generated crap like this?"
When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
Pretty much. I'm fairly confident that he still would have made this, even with a meager 3 decade copyright :)
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
You can take the rich boy out of Europe but you can take the Eurotrash out of the boy.
Would somebody please just put it on youtube already. I want to hear how bad it is for myself and post demeaning comments online, but I'm afraid that if I visit this "mega" site I might get put on another terrorist watch list.
It's http://baboom.com/ . Sheesh.
Pretty sure the interesting thing isn't that he made an album - it's whether or not he can make a free music service that artists want to use.
The album was released on his new music service, which you may care about. Did you skip the headline too?
No I do not care about his music service. I assure you that I will never use it. This is barely news for nerds and it certainly isn't stuff that matters.
Am I getting grumpier or are you people getting stupider?
I would guess the reverse is true.
"Fortunately there's a thing called Auto-Tune so they make it sound OK."
No, I don't think Auto-Tune has ever produced that result.
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
And while listening to this crap I immediately thought to myself "How the F*** do we have copyrights for 120 years to protect auto-generated crap like this?"
That's because copyright are protecting an entire *class* of works. In other words: you shouldn't hold up the worst example and then ask that question. We certainly wouldn't want anyone in the government making decisions about "this is good, it gets a long copyright but that is crap it shouldn't get copyright protection".
Considering that his main business isn't making music, I'm sure he'd be fine with people pirating it so that he can become more famous - which makes it easier for him to sell other stuff. Of course, most musicians don't have the large number of "other products" to sell to the world that he does, so he's at a large advantage over them.
Honestly, my first reaction is to be jealous of him, and anyone else who can hold the belief that they're The Greatest Thing To Happen with confidence. I imagine it would be much better than what I have now, that is just enough confidence in myself to get by.
Yup indeed. That album is total crap, just like about any other album output by the music industry.
But at least, unlike others, he openly admits his album isn't that brilliant.
Whereas the other artists usually don't want to, and instead blame piracy for the bad sale of their shit.
At least Kim isn't going to sue PirateBay.
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Is your government still denying benefits to young women that refuse to work in brothels?
Hey, and I heard that circus performer is a legit job in your country, does *your* government still deny benefits to young boy that refuse to work as Circus Lion Tamer and/or Human Cannon Ball ?
Can you please stop perpetrating this stupid urban legend ?
Yes, indeed, Germany, as well as Switzerland here, and Netherlands recognize prostitution as a regular profession.
But no, the state CANNOT force a job-seeker to work as a prostitute in a brothel.
You see, the State recognize the notion of "suitable job". And just like not every single random young man is ready to put his head in jaws of a Lion or jump into a cannon for the entertainment of the audience, the same way not every single random young woman might want to work as a prostitute.
It takes more than simply having a vagina or a penis to work in a brothel.
When you get the status of job-seeker, you define professionnal fields in which you are seeking for jobs. The state might try to give you jobs in your field. And you can get penalize if you refuse to apply for such a job which is in your stated professional field of work.
If you state that you're a teacher, that you're seeking another job in this domain, the state gives you a job offer as a teacher, and you turn it down without reasons, you'll get penalized.
But nobody is going to penalize you for skipping an opportunity to work as a prostitute if you're a teacher.
The only situation would be if you're actually a prostitute (and say, your former brothel went bankrupt, or you had to quit because you moved to a different part of the country), and registered as a job-seeker seeking a new position as prostitute in a new brothel, and you turned down an offer to work as a prostitute in borthel A (for example because you are holding because you would prefer getting an offer from brothel B which is more prestigious), that might be the single situation when the state might penalize you.
(But that isn't likely to happen in real life because the job market for sex workers isn't saturated and thus brothel B would probably hire you as soon as they've recieved your CV/references and interviewed you).
Now, brothel operator still publish job offers, hoping for the rare occasion when a girl might think "Well, why not... it's a job like another", and decide to accept the offer anyway.
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