Artists are not being ripped off by record labels.
Whilst I'm no great fan of her as a person or a musician, Courtney Love made a great speech about how artists are indeed ripped off by the labels. It makes for depressing reading.
I reckon Spotify is one of the major reasons for the drop in file-sharing of music. On a personal, anecdotal basis, I used to use Limewire A LOT for previewing tracks from artists I'd been recommended. Nowadays, compared with Spotify, filesharing is just too much bloody hard work. If someone's not on Spotify (or YouTube) these days, it's unlikely I'll take the time to find out much about them, and consequently VERY unlikely that I'll actually get round to shelling out for a legit copy.
How do you compete with free ? Make it free and convenient !
I use it as a huge jukebox - i.e. I know what I'm looking for and search for specific artists or tracks. I use old-fashioned methods to discover new music - friends' recommendations, magazine reviews or tips from online forums.
I'm not saying this is the right or only way to do things but Spotify works for me in a way that no other online service does. I don't subscribe currently but would happily pay the £10/month if the free service disappeared.
One of the record industry's complaints about file sharing was that "you can't compete with free". Spotify has shown that if you make it free AND more convenient than file sharing, you can compete and furthermore win. It simply wouldn't occur to me to get music via file sharing these days - it's just too much hard work. Hell, it's easier to fire off a track in Spotify than it is to get a CD out of the rack !
I love music and Spotify makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. Superb !
Slashdot Mirror
If good enough was true in games we would all be playing pong and liking it :)
Hey, I play Pong and I like it, you insensitive clod !
This not a free form stick and sand device.
"GNU/Stick and Sand" has the Four Freedoms.
It's not often I genuinely 'Laugh Out Loud' at a Slashdot post but that my friend was an epic ! +6 Funny
The Rapist Finder
There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup.
Wear the fox hat.
Yeah, but the GP uses a QUERTY !!1!!1!
I used an AZERTY whilst on holiday in France. Egads, it felt like learning to type all over again.
Artists are not being ripped off by record labels.
Whilst I'm no great fan of her as a person or a musician, Courtney Love made a great speech about how artists are indeed ripped off by the labels. It makes for depressing reading.
Hahaha. It's funny because it's true !
I reckon Spotify is one of the major reasons for the drop in file-sharing of music. On a personal, anecdotal basis, I used to use Limewire A LOT for previewing tracks from artists I'd been recommended. Nowadays, compared with Spotify, filesharing is just too much bloody hard work. If someone's not on Spotify (or YouTube) these days, it's unlikely I'll take the time to find out much about them, and consequently VERY unlikely that I'll actually get round to shelling out for a legit copy.
How do you compete with free ? Make it free and convenient !
So that derives to "women cause murder" and hence should be punished each time I masturbate.
Ceiling Cat is watching you.
RIP, Jeff Goldblum.
Uuuuuuuh, he's not dead.
flying the big pink plane
Is this another example of teh "ghey slang" I've been hearing so much about ?
where we cut open pennies
OMG. I read that as "cut open penises".
Is this one of the 4 Freedoms I keep hearing about ?
Q1. Why do elephants paint their 'nads red ?
A1. So they can hide in cherry trees.
Q2. What's the loadest sound in the jungle ?
A2. A giraffe eating cherries.
They should have evolved a bulletproof skin, a gun on their forehead and a lawyer on their back.
ITYM "a frickin' laser beam attached to their forehead".
There's an app for that !
I think you're thinking of stenography.
I don't think he is.
Leave us alone !
Creators Admit UNIX, C Hoax
I know COBOL.
[Lex] "This is a COBOL system - I know this !" [/Lex]
It's saving grace is the fully defined data structure
And its saving Grace is Admiral Hopper.
I use it as a huge jukebox - i.e. I know what I'm looking for and search for specific artists or tracks. I use old-fashioned methods to discover new music - friends' recommendations, magazine reviews or tips from online forums.
I'm not saying this is the right or only way to do things but Spotify works for me in a way that no other online service does. I don't subscribe currently but would happily pay the £10/month if the free service disappeared.
One of the record industry's complaints about file sharing was that "you can't compete with free". Spotify has shown that if you make it free AND more convenient than file sharing, you can compete and furthermore win. It simply wouldn't occur to me to get music via file sharing these days - it's just too much hard work. Hell, it's easier to fire off a track in Spotify than it is to get a CD out of the rack !
I love music and Spotify makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. Superb !
Once you've tried Spotify, you will never ask this question again. It's that good.