Windows only, but ALL the major labels are supporting it. If they don't have an album for on demand listening, they probably have it on one of their radio stations. You can look up an artist you like then here a radio station that is customized for that artist. Great way to find new bands. Rhapsody is THE only app that I miss when I'm not running Windows.
I've perused these Napster discussions and have not noticed any mention of how the "jambands" are doing things. For those not familiar with this method, here is the 2 sentence version. The bands tour as much as humanly possible. Fans tape the shows and trade them for free amongst themselves. It's not much more complicated than that. Most of these bands have some sort of Grateful Dead influence because they were the ones who started this whole thing back in the sixties. In truth, they got the idea of allowing bootleggers from the bluegrass festivals that Jerry Garcia would go to in the fifties.
The point is this. Their fans, for the most part, are music lovers. The issue of copyrights only comes up when some jerk tries to sell the bootlegs, but this is so heavily frowned upon that it is really not that big of an issue. The bands are compensated for performing their music and hocking their wares at the shows or off their website. Sounds good in theory, but does it work? Well if you look at Phish, the most popular of the bunch, only 10% of their gross revenues come from album sales. The other 90% comes from concerts and paraphernalia. As a side note, jambands are just the most commonly acknowledged group that does this. DJs, for example, have relatively few album sales and make most of their money by performing music.
I would hope he could come up with a better publicity stunt than a well formed and thought provoking article about an abusive system that has been going on for the past 80+ years!
I can't believe it, I read the whole article!
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You don't NEED a mac. But you would probably be happier with one.
I thought .NET was the supposed to be the end of DLL Hell. Whatever, I just got my PowerMac, so let them rot in in DLL Hell.
Windows only, but ALL the major labels are supporting it. If they don't have an album for on demand listening, they probably have it on one of their radio stations. You can look up an artist you like then here a radio station that is customized for that artist. Great way to find new bands. Rhapsody is THE only app that I miss when I'm not running Windows.
I've perused these Napster discussions and have not noticed any mention of how the "jambands" are doing things. For those not familiar with this method, here is the 2 sentence version. The bands tour as much as humanly possible. Fans tape the shows and trade them for free amongst themselves. It's not much more complicated than that. Most of these bands have some sort of Grateful Dead influence because they were the ones who started this whole thing back in the sixties. In truth, they got the idea of allowing bootleggers from the bluegrass festivals that Jerry Garcia would go to in the fifties.
The point is this. Their fans, for the most part, are music lovers. The issue of copyrights only comes up when some jerk tries to sell the bootlegs, but this is so heavily frowned upon that it is really not that big of an issue. The bands are compensated for performing their music and hocking their wares at the shows or off their website. Sounds good in theory, but does it work? Well if you look at Phish, the most popular of the bunch, only 10% of their gross revenues come from album sales. The other 90% comes from concerts and paraphernalia. As a side note, jambands are just the most commonly acknowledged group that does this. DJs, for example, have relatively few album sales and make most of their money by performing music.
I would hope he could come up with a better publicity stunt than a well formed and thought provoking article about an abusive system that has been going on for the past 80+ years!
Nuff said!