if the music is already in digital form, there's no reason not to sell it in "print CD on demand" format or as tracks. If it isn't, it needs to be put in digital form because there is basically no path to profit for an undigitized analog master taking up space in a vault.
It's time for every RIAA label to make their entire catalogues available for purchase via their websites. Wouldn't it be nice to go onto a major label site and be able to buy anything from an obscure 13th Floor Elevator track to an Edison Wax Cylinder?
I do expect this to happen. Right after the labels go into bankruptcy and their catalogues are sold to entrepreneurs who plan to make money with them.
since "delusional" and "retarded" aren't available.
The Hollywood content cartel company Sony gave us the Sony r00tk1t. The RIAA is trying to get exempted from anti-pretexting laws.
THESE are the people who will protect us from malware? Yeah, right, and Vista DRM is "enhancing" the user experience.
Do humanity a favor. Kill yourself. I recommend a bullet to the stomach, since it's obvious that given your lack of brain cells to rub together, an attempt to blow your brains out will endanger the public without affecting your ability to drool in public in the least. Don't worry about your family, it's better off without you regardless of your delusions to the contrary.
Between DOS and Vista, I've never seen this many bad tech publication reviews of a MS OS. People expect minor driver issues (and occasionally, not so minor) during an upgrade from one OS to a later version, and this is true no matter who makes it. I recently had to change Linux distros from FC6 to Debian Etch over a video driver issue.
However, lots of experienced people are screaming their heads off... and if somebody's actually being paid to write at a tech site, you can assume he's got experience.
MS just put out an emergency patch to cover 6 serious security vulns.
Is all really well in the world of Vista, or have you just been lucky so far?
DISCLAIMER: I'm posting from a Debian Etch box running W98SE in a VMware Server VM... I'd guess I have about 15 minutes worth of "issues" to deal with a week.
could easily push IPTV usage up to 24x7, especially if people in it are downloading to disk for timeshifting.
Bandwidth caps can be lived with as long as the users are told upfront, not with the numbers buried somewhere in an AUP. It's not telling users up front that's going to get the big broadband providers Federal regulation they don't want.
However, to make the next generation of modern Internet services available like IPTV and other mighty suckers of bandwidth, the big carriers are going to have to figure out how to bring their costs down. It would be ironic if we all got FTTH... and all got kicked off after the first month for actually using the service as intended.
they just happen to sell a superior solution. For offsite archiving, I prefer something I can slip into an envelope and mail cross-country without being concerned about it being dropped or subject to magnetic fields.
For workstation-size data sets, I use a drive mirror for short-term and DVD+R for long term... and looking forward to terabyte recordable in 5.25" form factor which should be available in a few years.
So tell them you want to run, not us. You can find out who your local version of "them" is (probably a GOP County Central Committee) through google. Your platform is just fine. Alternately, see if the White House is hiring.
like Google Maps as a source of free, useful, accurate information in order to sell ad exposure. Google's business model is based on "free ride" for consumers... paid for by advertisers like any other "free" commercial service. If Google gets known for inaccurate maps, who's going to buy Google Ads for a service nobody dares use?
The other point is that by and large, the commercial services sold by the software package and the advertiser-paid services often uses the same databases. So if you buy a $50 software package and a GPS and the combination leaves you in the middle of nowhere out of range of a cell phone tower, enjoy your walk to get help. And don't be offended when you complain about it here and people tell you to "get a life".
It looks to me that other than misuses of the rating process over personal dislike of content, I think the system is being gamed by astroturfers. Most of us have lives and can't spend several hours a day every day on slashdot... but if one can spend hours a day every day here, one gets to moderate a lot more often.
Who would have a financial interest in astroturfing the system? Hint: purchase decisions are actually made due to article posts and comments (the same reason why companies buy ads here).
if you find out from your ISP that you're over bandwidth for the month because some wardriving pr0nsurfer grabbed a few G of kiddy pr0n through your wireless AP AND the Feds want a look at your HD, you've got a problem.
Very few people watch youtube as a substitute for TV, which is the basic assumption of the new site's business model. Why should people watch TV on a relatively small video window when TVs are cheap which handle full-screen full motion video content and cable service (or a pair of rabbit ears) isn't that expensive?
People watch youtube for user-created content, which may be their own videos, content derivative from TV shows and modified into something funnier than the original, or a mixture of the two. Or user repackaged content from TV shows, i.e. 30 seconds of something unusually interesting out of a TV show... often the only interesting 30 seconds.
Given the restrictions on content and user-repackaged material, while I don't think the content providers "get it", I DO expect the content providers will get it. The question isn't whether they'll lose money, the question is how much before they pull the plug.
Remember the difference in profit margin for a band per unit between selling a CD through a label (say, 20 cents, AFTER the money's gone through Hollywood accounting procedures... delivered whenever) and selling one's own CDs (say, at least $5 per unit)... somebody selling 10K records a year probably won't earn out the advance with a label, but someone selling 10K records direct to the public will be making $50K/year off record sales alone. Plus, if one sells on the Net through someone like CDbaby can sell digital tracks through iTunes and MusicPlay as well.
Going through a label is the musical equivalent of playing the lottery... if your record sells multiplatinum, you will make more than you probably could through your own efforts. If it doesn't, you owe the record label money, you STILL have to deliver the records contracted for even if the label isn't going to market them.
I think the successful pop-rock musicians of the future are going to tour and sell recorded music direct to the public into niche markets they do a good job of selling into, and in a few years, the idea of anyone selling a million-plus CDs (or whatever replaces the format) or even a million of the same track is going to be looked at with blank incomprehension by everyone other than music historians.
I suspect that the quality of music will improve when the RIAA business model crashes and the bands who are selling CDs are the ones who take responsibility for their own marketing... and get their CDs pressed 1K at a time... or simply burn them when people order them.
I completely agree with you on sound quality of CD-audio vs 128K (or below) MP3. But for most major label crap, improving the sound quality doesn't help.
radio listenership wouldn't have gone down as well.
What's the difference between a 128K MP3 delivered by P2P and an audio CD track?
SOUND QUALITY.
Not so important if it's background music, but if it's worth consciously listening to, it's worth listening to in a format that will take full advantage of the decent sound quality even relatively inexpensive audio hardware can deliver these days. That's why people buy CDs of the stuff they already downloaded via P2P. Or did.
The declining sales and radio listener numbers reflect the fact that the potential buyers of music can't find anything worth listening to, let alone paying for.
The underlying problem is business model. Record label business models are platinum driven in the face of a reality that says that the music market is fractionating into mini-niches and micro-niches, surviving labels will be the ones who can make money off artists that can consistently sell 10K SKUs/year by taking advantage of people who can sell their music into these niches.
vs permatemp, even using the same temp shop Microsoft is using for contract hires is simply an indicator that since google has gone public, they're on the same road Microsoft took in its becoming a dinosaur. Whether google can do a better job of profiting from its projects not related to its core competency than MS has done with Microsoft Research is yet to be seen. Can google escape the tar pits MS can be reasonably expected to fall into in the next few years?
In a few years, we'll probably lead the rest of the public into google's smaller, nimbler successor as google follows yahoo into also-ran status, as we led the public to discover that google worked better than anything else for search a few years ago. Or maybe search is big enough to sustain multiple big (big in this case means "big enough to snapshot the whole Net") search engines that do things differently to solve different problems.
A good general question is, How can a company evolve in its growth cycle rather than devolve?
The Senators and Congresscritters the Hollywood content cartel bought and paid for in both political parties, presumably. In the form of law that will be even harder for a victim targeted by lawbot to defend against.
While I don't think the guy is necessarily right (he could be, I don't know google's internal numbers), I don't think the opinion deserves troll-rating. This isn't a google fanboy site that I noticed, regardless of what some of the mods think.
Political parodies are protected speech, Apple Legal already said they aren't suing because they think they'd lose. You asserting publically that you know more about copyright law than Apple?
As for why they simply didn't go for a preemptive / baseless DMCA takedown, my assumption is that they knew that this would be the best way to make sure everyone got to see it.
It would make a lot more than just diehards unhappy. Ever migrated from one distro to another on one's primary workstation? Just going from FC6 to Debian Etch was painful. I'd rather not think of going from Linux to *BSD.
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if the music is already in digital form, there's no reason not to sell it in "print CD on demand" format or as tracks. If it isn't, it needs to be put in digital form because there is basically no path to profit for an undigitized analog master taking up space in a vault.
It's time for every RIAA label to make their entire catalogues available for purchase via their websites. Wouldn't it be nice to go onto a major label site and be able to buy anything from an obscure 13th Floor Elevator track to an Edison Wax Cylinder?
I do expect this to happen. Right after the labels go into bankruptcy and their catalogues are sold to entrepreneurs who plan to make money with them.
Simply inform all users of campus e-mail that Rogers Cable is NOT supported, and that any students who want to use it need to switch providers.
After Rogers loses 10K customers or so, perhaps they'll think about bringing their service into the 21st Century.
since "delusional" and "retarded" aren't available.
The Hollywood content cartel company Sony gave us the Sony r00tk1t. The RIAA is trying to get exempted from anti-pretexting laws.
THESE are the people who will protect us from malware? Yeah, right, and Vista DRM is "enhancing" the user experience.
Do humanity a favor. Kill yourself. I recommend a bullet to the stomach, since it's obvious that given your lack of brain cells to rub together, an attempt to blow your brains out will endanger the public without affecting your ability to drool in public in the least. Don't worry about your family, it's better off without you regardless of your delusions to the contrary.
Between DOS and Vista, I've never seen this many bad tech publication reviews of a MS OS. People expect minor driver issues (and occasionally, not so minor) during an upgrade from one OS to a later version, and this is true no matter who makes it. I recently had to change Linux distros from FC6 to Debian Etch over a video driver issue.
However, lots of experienced people are screaming their heads off... and if somebody's actually being paid to write at a tech site, you can assume he's got experience.
MS just put out an emergency patch to cover 6 serious security vulns.
Is all really well in the world of Vista, or have you just been lucky so far?
DISCLAIMER: I'm posting from a Debian Etch box running W98SE in a VMware Server VM... I'd guess I have about 15 minutes worth of "issues" to deal with a week.
they did advertise it honestly, would anyone buy it?
could easily push IPTV usage up to 24x7, especially if people in it are downloading to disk for timeshifting.
Bandwidth caps can be lived with as long as the users are told upfront, not with the numbers buried somewhere in an AUP. It's not telling users up front that's going to get the big broadband providers Federal regulation they don't want.
However, to make the next generation of modern Internet services available like IPTV and other mighty suckers of bandwidth, the big carriers are going to have to figure out how to bring their costs down. It would be ironic if we all got FTTH... and all got kicked off after the first month for actually using the service as intended.
they just happen to sell a superior solution. For offsite archiving, I prefer something I can slip into an envelope and mail cross-country without being concerned about it being dropped or subject to magnetic fields.
For workstation-size data sets, I use a drive mirror for short-term and DVD+R for long term... and looking forward to terabyte recordable in 5.25" form factor which should be available in a few years.
So tell them you want to run, not us. You can find out who your local version of "them" is (probably a GOP County Central Committee) through google. Your platform is just fine. Alternately, see if the White House is hiring.
because of a news story discussing how Google Maps is known to be wrong in a chunk of the USA?
You use Vista, right?
like Google Maps as a source of free, useful, accurate information in order to sell ad exposure. Google's business model is based on "free ride" for consumers... paid for by advertisers like any other "free" commercial service. If Google gets known for inaccurate maps, who's going to buy Google Ads for a service nobody dares use?
The other point is that by and large, the commercial services sold by the software package and the advertiser-paid services often uses the same databases. So if you buy a $50 software package and a GPS and the combination leaves you in the middle of nowhere out of range of a cell phone tower, enjoy your walk to get help. And don't be offended when you complain about it here and people tell you to "get a life".
It looks to me that other than misuses of the rating process over personal dislike of content, I think the system is being gamed by astroturfers. Most of us have lives and can't spend several hours a day every day on slashdot... but if one can spend hours a day every day here, one gets to moderate a lot more often.
Who would have a financial interest in astroturfing the system? Hint: purchase decisions are actually made due to article posts and comments (the same reason why companies buy ads here).
shoots itself repeatedly in the same foot, whether they notice they've got a problem or not, everybody else will notice.
Their PR damage is self-inflicted.
How many people are running out-of-the-box RH7?
How many tens of millions of people are running out-of-the-box XP?
they simply don't have computers at home. IMO, the Baby Boomer generation is the last one this is going to be true of.
if you find out from your ISP that you're over bandwidth for the month because some wardriving pr0nsurfer grabbed a few G of kiddy pr0n through your wireless AP AND the Feds want a look at your HD, you've got a problem.
Very few people watch youtube as a substitute for TV, which is the basic assumption of the new site's business model. Why should people watch TV on a relatively small video window when TVs are cheap which handle full-screen full motion video content and cable service (or a pair of rabbit ears) isn't that expensive?
People watch youtube for user-created content, which may be their own videos, content derivative from TV shows and modified into something funnier than the original, or a mixture of the two. Or user repackaged content from TV shows, i.e. 30 seconds of something unusually interesting out of a TV show... often the only interesting 30 seconds.
Given the restrictions on content and user-repackaged material, while I don't think the content providers "get it", I DO expect the content providers will get it. The question isn't whether they'll lose money, the question is how much before they pull the plug.
Remember the difference in profit margin for a band per unit between selling a CD through a label (say, 20 cents, AFTER the money's gone through Hollywood accounting procedures... delivered whenever) and selling one's own CDs (say, at least $5 per unit) ... somebody selling 10K records a year probably won't earn out the advance with a label, but someone selling 10K records direct to the public will be making $50K/year off record sales alone. Plus, if one sells on the Net through someone like CDbaby can sell digital tracks through iTunes and MusicPlay as well.
Going through a label is the musical equivalent of playing the lottery... if your record sells multiplatinum, you will make more than you probably could through your own efforts. If it doesn't, you owe the record label money, you STILL have to deliver the records contracted for even if the label isn't going to market them.
I think the successful pop-rock musicians of the future are going to tour and sell recorded music direct to the public into niche markets they do a good job of selling into, and in a few years, the idea of anyone selling a million-plus CDs (or whatever replaces the format) or even a million of the same track is going to be looked at with blank incomprehension by everyone other than music historians.
stop pressing CDs a million at a time.
I suspect that the quality of music will improve when the RIAA business model crashes and the bands who are selling CDs are the ones who take responsibility for their own marketing... and get their CDs pressed 1K at a time... or simply burn them when people order them.
I completely agree with you on sound quality of CD-audio vs 128K (or below) MP3. But for most major label crap, improving the sound quality doesn't help.
radio listenership wouldn't have gone down as well.
What's the difference between a 128K MP3 delivered by P2P and an audio CD track?
SOUND QUALITY.
Not so important if it's background music, but if it's worth consciously listening to, it's worth listening to in a format that will take full advantage of the decent sound quality even relatively inexpensive audio hardware can deliver these days. That's why people buy CDs of the stuff they already downloaded via P2P. Or did.
The declining sales and radio listener numbers reflect the fact that the potential buyers of music can't find anything worth listening to, let alone paying for.
The underlying problem is business model. Record label business models are platinum driven in the face of a reality that says that the music market is fractionating into mini-niches and micro-niches, surviving labels will be the ones who can make money off artists that can consistently sell 10K SKUs/year by taking advantage of people who can sell their music into these niches.
vs permatemp, even using the same temp shop Microsoft is using for contract hires is simply an indicator that since google has gone public, they're on the same road Microsoft took in its becoming a dinosaur. Whether google can do a better job of profiting from its projects not related to its core competency than MS has done with Microsoft Research is yet to be seen. Can google escape the tar pits MS can be reasonably expected to fall into in the next few years?
In a few years, we'll probably lead the rest of the public into google's smaller, nimbler successor as google follows yahoo into also-ran status, as we led the public to discover that google worked better than anything else for search a few years ago. Or maybe search is big enough to sustain multiple big (big in this case means "big enough to snapshot the whole Net") search engines that do things differently to solve different problems.
A good general question is, How can a company evolve in its growth cycle rather than devolve?
The Senators and Congresscritters the Hollywood content cartel bought and paid for in both political parties, presumably. In the form of law that will be even harder for a victim targeted by lawbot to defend against.
While I don't think the guy is necessarily right (he could be, I don't know google's internal numbers), I don't think the opinion deserves troll-rating. This isn't a google fanboy site that I noticed, regardless of what some of the mods think.
Political parodies are protected speech, Apple Legal already said they aren't suing because they think they'd lose. You asserting publically that you know more about copyright law than Apple?
As for why they simply didn't go for a preemptive / baseless DMCA takedown, my assumption is that they knew that this would be the best way to make sure everyone got to see it.
Only if one gets all one's news from the GOP propaganda channel that calls itself FoxNews.
It would make a lot more than just diehards unhappy. Ever migrated from one distro to another on one's primary workstation? Just going from FC6 to Debian Etch was painful. I'd rather not think of going from Linux to *BSD.