if you make copies of my music which I am charging for download of then your diluting the market price I can charge for a song.
Who's going to buy something that they can exactly copy with no consequences for exactly copying? Shall we rely on the moral fortitude of society;-).
What you produce are just notes. Notes are the same as code to a computer. You can NOT own them. They are just speech/ideas, NOT intellectual property! You can only share ideas.
What you stated above is your particular conception of reality, but society is a consensual reality.
What you produce are just atoms. Atoms are the same as energy to the universe. You can NOT own them. They are just vibrations/waves, NOT . . . By extension of your logic I developed the later is it valid as well? Can we own anything?
Let's not confuse where you want us to be with where we are at. I actually own the copyright to my music by consenual decree of our society! (Assuming you live in the US) Consciousness is shifting but in this current space and time I do own them;-).
Sublime was independent and had earned over a million dollars prior to signing with a major label. Bradley was dead when the record came out though.
I am fairly certain Ani Di Franco has some commercial success, but I don't know if she's signed yet.
Would you rather make $2.00/ea off of 100,000 albums or.10/ea off of 1,000,000 . . . one of the general licensers gives you major distribution but you don't have to sign with one to make it. http://www.indiebiz.com
Think of books for example. O'rielly technical publications is independent and they do well! The record industry is no monopoly . . . highly consolidated yes, monopoly no.
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Well actually there are pay modules for the sun edition which won't necessary play nice with netbeans . . . but yes basically they are the same.
I use forte at work on p3 933 (I think) with 256mb and it does fine. Granted its not as responsive as a native windows app but most of my coding time involves staring at the code, tweaking code, and its a rare case that it can't handle my keystrokes fast enough;-).
Nice one on the emacs line! You should see it once its got all the modules added on . . . looks like the antagonist from akira!!!
Are you saying artists should not be able to generate revenue from future album sales?
Who says you've got to be old. I'm an independent musician who'd like to make a living at recorded music, but with my wife and child am not necessarily interested in spending a whole lot of time touring.
If I spend 6 - 8 months writing and recording material shouldn't I have the right to sell the product I've created in the market place?
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but its based on netbeans so that might work nicely as well.
Great thing with it is you can just mount directories correctly and you don't have to f#$k with your classpath:-). One key compile and your classes are dropped in the right place . . .
Show me a viable business model where an artist can be compensated for a recording which is freely copied. I don't think you can. The closest thing I've seen was the idea of albums being commissioned . . . this idea was presented here in a comment some time ago. The The Street Performer Protocol.
And of course they are. Look at the profits of the major labels.
If you read the article above from 'Miles Copeland' you'll see that Courtney Love is the exception in that most (19/20) albums don't make there money back.
If you read the 'Courtney Love' article you'll see that artists like Don Henley feel that fewer new artists should be brought on board:-(.
I think folks should be very conscious about what they ask for here . . . bottom line with napster is that the artist was not getting compensated!
So somebody tell me which is better:
1) not getting paid at all for a recording
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2) getting a small percentage of a bigger pie which is shared between the recording artist, songwriter, executive producer, & distributor?
This is so true. Sadly, it's the piracy of the recording industry - which has, among other things, managed to have artists' work reclassified as work for hire (!) - that is responsible for artists living in poverty while simultaneously having millions of CD sales.
This is a very sad situation, but again you've manipulated it. Artists have the right to be independent and don't have to sign every contract that's put in front of them. The flip side is that without a big labels marketing and promotion its very difficult to get decent market penetration. Let's take 'Ani Di Franco' she doesn't have any crazy contract that she's signed but I doubt she wants her music freely distributed without receiving compensation for her hard work. She's got some great verbage on her cd's saying something like while copying of the material may some times have cause its never the 'best' choice.
We all make are choices and they all come back around.
The bottom line is your/mp3 directory provides absolutely no direct compensation to the artist for the procurement of that music.
Some people (like me:-) ) are interested in being 'recording' artists, but not necessarily in live performances, or merchandise. Totally unrestricted digital transfer of files really undermines the possibility of that. Personally I think studio music has a place and I am not interested in destroying that market place.
As poor as the relationship is between many recording artists and the major record labels, the record label foots the bill! The record companies only recoup on 1/20 of all the cds they release. READ THE SOBERING REALITY
Research this thoroughly . . . not all artists are ready to have their revenues totally driven by live performances and merchandise.
As an independent artist I simply didn't use napster, because I didn't see a way for the artist to be compensated. Only mp3s I have are for albums which I've purchased a license to via tape, CD, etc. or I created the content;-).
it has to do with the way there psyche is set up to nurture a child while doing other things . . . apparently women use both hemisphere's more efficiently while men have a neutralized left hemisphere allowing for decreased sensitivity ( and hence bravery:-) ) and also gearing them towards more linear thought.
You can find studies that point in all directions on this, but do some of your own observational research on this and see what you come up with.
I've come to think of women and men as different yet complimentary rather than ==:-)
According to this platinum and gold status is relative to the number of albums shipped.
The RIAA awards its gold (500,000 units shipped) and platinum (1,000,000 units shipped) certifications after an independent audit is conducted by the accounting firm Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman. Record companies typically must pay a fee to the RIAA before the audit is conducted, so an album's certification level doesn't necessarily track sales levels exactly.
Unlike other sales-tracking services like SoundScan, which tracks retail sales, the RIAA's certification process counts all units shipped--including those distributed through record clubs--minus returns and promotional copies.
Consider that your 5 senses each capture small ranges of the infinite electro magnetic spectrum. There is more there then you've tuned your self into.
You have a finite consciousness which has an infinite capacity. Math will prove this eventually in a structured way in which your mind can follow. This may take a while. I challenge you to engage in a meditative practice and to approach consciousness with the rigor of a strict scientific discipline. You will find something . . . eventually:-).
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not todate . . . I have read the work of sri ramakrishna, sri easwaran, some upanishads, bhagavad ghita, dhamapada, and a few others.
In the end it seamed that I should probably just start meditating and achieve the experience which all of these try to describe:-) . . . still working on it hence my handle.
While not really much more than a baby hacker I am a yogi. Yoga is often referred to as the supreme science. It is the science of consciousness.
I sent a letter to larry wall today on the subject:-). Got an auto-reply too . ..
I have read that "y(j)esu christos" can be translated as I am conscious . . . I don't know if that's true but it sure does sound alot like buddha translating to "I am awake."
I pay my bills as a web developer but my conscious pursuit is infinity or bust;-). I mean what will all of this mean in 5,000 or 10,000 yrs anyway? I perceive the possibility of more.
Here is a book from my yoga teacher and mentor . . . if any of you come to grasp all that's in this book, I imagine your life will be very fulfilling.
I seek to experience and merge consciously with that which rotates this earth.
I recommend developing a meditative practice. I like to make an analogy to meditation as being like defraging the hard drive, flushing memory cache, and throwing out temporary files. Personally I practice kundalini yoga to address some of the exact issues you raised.
We'll be seeing more and more of this, information overload and burnout.
Now we've all seen plenty of movies and read books relating to the myth of dragons . . . so maybe there were some very ancient humans that thought of the dinosaurs as dragons. But then that would mean some of the evolutionary time lines that have been set up regarding when the dinosaurs died and humans first came into being would have to be wrong!
. . . a system that gives consumers instant access, perfect quality, convenience, and acknowledgement, and the artists the satisfaction of being heard, being paid, and being loved
I think my.mp3.com has been a great attempt at this . . . although they just got housed in court and I don't think its perfect quality.
-yogi
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I've been taught by my yoga teacher that many peoples nervous systems will fail under the burden of information and that in order to sucessfully navigate the sea of information it is necessary to develop the meditative mind.
I practice Kundalini yoga to strengthen my nervous system, increase the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood, and balance out my glandular secretions. Meditation is kind of like defraging the hard disk . . . and scanning the surface for errors while flushing all caches:-) (that's rough but work with me people).
There's a great article about the use of mantra to fortify the mind.
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Who's going to buy something that they can exactly copy with no consequences for exactly copying? Shall we rely on the moral fortitude of society
What you stated above is your particular conception of reality, but society is a consensual reality.
What you produce are just atoms. Atoms are the same as energy to the universe. You can NOT own them. They are just vibrations/waves, NOT . . . By extension of your logic I developed the later is it valid as well? Can we own anything?
Let's not confuse where you want us to be with where we are at. I actually own the copyright to my music by consenual decree of our society! (Assuming you live in the US) Consciousness is shifting but in this current space and time I do own them
Sublime was independent and had earned over a million dollars prior to signing with a major label. Bradley was dead when the record came out though.
.10/ea off of 1,000,000 . . . one of the general licensers gives you major distribution but you don't have to sign with one to make it. http://www.indiebiz.com
I am fairly certain Ani Di Franco has some commercial success, but I don't know if she's signed yet.
Would you rather make $2.00/ea off of 100,000 albums or
Think of books for example. O'rielly technical publications is independent and they do well! The record industry is no monopoly . . . highly consolidated yes, monopoly no.
Well actually there are pay modules for the sun edition which won't necessary play nice with netbeans . . . but yes basically they are the same.
;-).
I use forte at work on p3 933 (I think) with 256mb and it does fine. Granted its not as responsive as a native windows app but most of my coding time involves staring at the code, tweaking code, and its a rare case that it can't handle my keystrokes fast enough
Nice one on the emacs line! You should see it once its got all the modules added on . . . looks like the antagonist from akira!!!
Are you saying artists should not be able to generate revenue from future album sales?
Who says you've got to be old. I'm an independent musician who'd like to make a living at recorded music, but with my wife and child am not necessarily interested in spending a whole lot of time touring.
If I spend 6 - 8 months writing and recording material shouldn't I have the right to sell the product I've created in the market place?
but its based on netbeans so that might work nicely as well.
:-). One key compile and your classes are dropped in the right place . . .
Great thing with it is you can just mount directories correctly and you don't have to f#$k with your classpath
Miles Copeland rebukes the super rich record company myth.
If you read the article above from 'Miles Copeland' you'll see that Courtney Love is the exception in that most (19/20) albums don't make there money back.
If you read the 'Courtney Love' article you'll see that artists like Don Henley feel that fewer new artists should be brought on board
I think folks should be very conscious about what they ask for here . . . bottom line with napster is that the artist was not getting compensated!
So somebody tell me which is better:
1) not getting paid at all for a recording
-or-
2) getting a small percentage of a bigger pie which is shared between the recording artist, songwriter, executive producer, & distributor? This is a very sad situation, but again you've manipulated it. Artists have the right to be independent and don't have to sign every contract that's put in front of them. The flip side is that without a big labels marketing and promotion its very difficult to get decent market penetration. Let's take 'Ani Di Franco' she doesn't have any crazy contract that she's signed but I doubt she wants her music freely distributed without receiving compensation for her hard work. She's got some great verbage on her cd's saying something like while copying of the material may some times have cause its never the 'best' choice.
We all make are choices and they all come back around.
The bottom line is your /mp3 directory provides absolutely no direct compensation to the artist for the procurement of that music.
:-) ) are interested in being 'recording' artists, but not necessarily in live performances, or merchandise. Totally unrestricted digital transfer of files really undermines the possibility of that. Personally I think studio music has a place and I am not interested in destroying that market place.
;-).
Some people (like me
As poor as the relationship is between many recording artists and the major record labels, the record label foots the bill! The record companies only recoup on 1/20 of all the cds they release. READ THE SOBERING REALITY
Research this thoroughly . . . not all artists are ready to have their revenues totally driven by live performances and merchandise.
As an independent artist I simply didn't use napster, because I didn't see a way for the artist to be compensated. Only mp3s I have are for albums which I've purchased a license to via tape, CD, etc. or I created the content
it has to do with the way there psyche is set up to nurture a child while doing other things . . . apparently women use both hemisphere's more efficiently while men have a neutralized left hemisphere allowing for decreased sensitivity ( and hence bravery :-) ) and also gearing them towards more linear thought.
:-)
You can find studies that point in all directions on this, but do some of your own observational research on this and see what you come up with.
I've come to think of women and men as different yet complimentary rather than ==
vinny the vampire link in your sig is dead.
Look for the quality logo . . . might work. I had a CD player that wasn't playing cheap-o CD-Rs but will play the one that sport the quality logo.
Online Book
just an fyi, this is a salon piece.
Consider that your 5 senses each capture small ranges of the infinite electro magnetic spectrum. There is more there then you've tuned your self into.
:-).
You have a finite consciousness which has an infinite capacity. Math will prove this eventually in a structured way in which your mind can follow. This may take a while. I challenge you to engage in a meditative practice and to approach consciousness with the rigor of a strict scientific discipline. You will find something . . . eventually
not todate . . . I have read the work of sri ramakrishna, sri easwaran, some upanishads, bhagavad ghita, dhamapada, and a few others.
:-) . . . still working on it hence my handle.
In the end it seamed that I should probably just start meditating and achieve the experience which all of these try to describe
While not really much more than a baby hacker I am a yogi. Yoga is often referred to as the supreme science. It is the science of consciousness.
:-). Got an auto-reply too . . .
;-). I mean what will all of this mean in 5,000 or 10,000 yrs anyway? I perceive the possibility of more.
I sent a letter to larry wall today on the subject
I have read that "y(j)esu christos" can be translated as I am conscious . . . I don't know if that's true but it sure does sound alot like buddha translating to "I am awake." I pay my bills as a web developer but my conscious pursuit is infinity or bust
Here is a book from my yoga teacher and mentor . . . if any of you come to grasp all that's in this book, I imagine your life will be very fulfilling.
I seek to experience and merge consciously with that which rotates this earth.
I recommend developing a meditative practice. I like to make an analogy to meditation as being like defraging the hard drive, flushing memory cache, and throwing out temporary files. Personally I practice kundalini yoga to address some of the exact issues you raised.
We'll be seeing more and more of this, information overload and burnout.
Lecture on the subject.
are two excellent ones.
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Fist of the north star is old school but still worth it just for posterity sake.
Angel Cop is a six tape series that has some pretty sweet animation . .
Ha,
Now we've all seen plenty of movies and read books relating to the myth of dragons . . . so maybe there were some very ancient humans that thought of the dinosaurs as dragons. But then that would mean some of the evolutionary time lines that have been set up regarding when the dinosaurs died and humans first came into being would have to be wrong!
-yogi
. . . a system that gives consumers instant access, perfect quality, convenience, and acknowledgement, and the artists the satisfaction of being heard, being paid, and being loved
I think my.mp3.com has been a great attempt at this . . . although they just got housed in court and I don't think its perfect quality.
-yogi
I've been taught by my yoga teacher that many peoples nervous systems will fail under the burden of information and that in order to sucessfully navigate the sea of information it is necessary to develop the meditative mind.
:-) (that's rough but work with me people).
There's a great article about the use of mantra to fortify the mind.
I practice Kundalini yoga to strengthen my nervous system, increase the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood, and balance out my glandular secretions. Meditation is kind of like defraging the hard disk . . . and scanning the surface for errors while flushing all caches