"The statistic about *ONE* unsigned artist is particularly sobering..... And you aren't the least bit suspicious that that number is cooked up?"
It makes sense though. Given a palette of a hundred bands that are widely hyped, household words, and a thousand complete unknowns, what will the average consumer on a dialup connection download? Whose got time to read ALL the Slashdot comments?
I can usually tell a song I'll like 10 seconds into it. But it's the whole file or nothing. So do you bet on the unknown?
"Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member."
The net should have provided for charging small (or large) amounts for access to some content from the beginning.
The difference between 1000 and 10,000 accesses is that you can make the same profit with 10,000 accesses at 1/10 the price.
Here's the deal the Net has to make with publishers: you will no longer have the overhead of physical reproduction. In return, you will pass those savings along to those who use and those who support the Net.
In order to make that deal, the Emerging Global Netocracy needs leaders and negotiators. It already has the Power.
"Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member."
Nazism happened, and recently. It can't just be papered over and forgotten. It will take a long time to learn from what happened, and we don't learn by pretending. Forbidding momentos is wrong-headed. I won't throw away all the Nazi-era stamps in my collection!
The momentos exist because Nazism happened. Their existence is an important reminder of the dangers of ideology. We need them to discuss, to consider, to learn from... if we are concerned that such a tragedy should never happen again. That there are those who embrace Nazism means the task of education is far from done. If they collect these momentos, then they have revealed themselves. Ignoring the symptoms won't cure the disease.
"Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member."
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And you aren't the least bit suspicious that that number is cooked up?"
It makes sense though. Given a palette of a hundred bands that are widely hyped, household words, and a thousand complete unknowns, what will the average consumer on a dialup connection download? Whose got time to read ALL the Slashdot comments?
I can usually tell a song I'll like 10 seconds into it. But it's the whole file or nothing. So do you bet on the unknown?
"Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member."
The difference between 1000 and 10,000 accesses is that you can make the same profit with 10,000 accesses at 1/10 the price.
Here's the deal the Net has to make with publishers: you will no longer have the overhead of physical reproduction. In return, you will pass those savings along to those who use and those who support the Net.
In order to make that deal, the Emerging Global Netocracy needs leaders and negotiators. It already has the Power.
"Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member."
The momentos exist because Nazism happened. Their existence is an important reminder of the dangers of ideology. We need them to discuss, to consider, to learn from... if we are concerned that such a tragedy should never happen again. That there are those who embrace Nazism means the task of education is far from done. If they collect these momentos, then they have revealed themselves. Ignoring the symptoms won't cure the disease.
"Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member."