"Any college radio station worth their salt wouldn't
play Metallica or Dre to begin with"
Thats the point! By playing nothing but these two bands for
an entire weekend it gives each station the ability to direct
attention to what is going on with Napster. You don't accomplish
a thing by not playing them. You could even create some false
commercials for Napster being the sponsor of the all Metallica
& Dr. Dre weekend!
Please, some college radio people somewhere, try this! You'll
have CNN and MSNBC on the phone immediately!
Maybe the college radio stations at the 11 universities can program a "Rock Block" or "Album Side" weekend and play all the Metallica and Dr. Dre music anyone could ever want to hear... or record.
This would assure both artists that those who wanted their music wouldn't use Napster to get it. Maybe that would make them happy.
Not likely.
-pjc
Yes! Now we're on to something; Meld these Robocup teams with the sawbladed, chainweilding, tougher than nails battlebots, put them under rules of the NHL and you've got a great new violent sport which people can get into. Not sure if the ice is REALLY necessary, but I understand the challenge.
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With regard to your magazines comment; I can remember purchasing the first issue of Wired and thinking FINALLY. A magazine I related to for many years. Then, within the last few years as my Internet usage grew, I noticed exactly what you're referring to. I found myself thinking "well that's old news" or "Christ I knew about this months ago". Today, the Industry Standard has replaced Wired as my bathroom literature (its weekly). While I still read Wired on occasion, I no longer expect them to surprise me... and they haven't.
At the tender age of 18 the compact disc medium (a.k.a. CD) died slowly during the first year of the third millennium. While the medium served many purposes and spawned several thriving offspring (including CDr and DVDs), ultimately mass storage devices, capable of holding trillions of bytes of data and online trading supplanted the CD as the musical medium of choice. During 2001 broadband technology reached more than 10% of US households and small, low-power handheld devices provided storage for hundreds of hours of music and video enjoyment for each user. Compression formats such as MP3, DIVX and Shorten teamed with peer-to-peer trading protocols heightened in reaction to recent corporate attempts by Napster and MP3.com to profit from file exchange. Manufacturers of digital phones and portable digital assistants (PDA's) began to incorporate these microdrives and protocols as "value added" services for their consumers making it very simple to transfer files and create personal playlists.
The compact disc leaves behind many known survivors including large recording companies, CD duplicators, industry trade publications and chain record stores (which at the time of this report, where attempting to solicit CDs, vinyl albums and 8 tracks as collectibles). Condolences should be sent directly to the RIAA.
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"Any college radio station worth their salt wouldn't play Metallica or Dre to begin with"
Thats the point! By playing nothing but these two bands for an entire weekend it gives each station the ability to direct attention to what is going on with Napster. You don't accomplish a thing by not playing them. You could even create some false commercials for Napster being the sponsor of the all Metallica & Dr. Dre weekend!
Please, some college radio people somewhere, try this! You'll have CNN and MSNBC on the phone immediately!
-pjc
Maybe the college radio stations at the 11 universities can program a "Rock Block" or "Album Side" weekend and play all the Metallica and Dr. Dre music anyone could ever want to hear... or record. This would assure both artists that those who wanted their music wouldn't use Napster to get it. Maybe that would make them happy. Not likely. -pjc
Yes! Now we're on to something; Meld these Robocup teams with the sawbladed, chainweilding, tougher than nails battlebots, put them under rules of the NHL and you've got a great new violent sport which people can get into. Not sure if the ice is REALLY necessary, but I understand the challenge.
With regard to your magazines comment; I can remember purchasing the first issue of Wired and thinking FINALLY. A magazine I related to for many years. Then, within the last few years as my Internet usage grew, I noticed exactly what you're referring to. I found myself thinking "well that's old news" or "Christ I knew about this months ago". Today, the Industry Standard has replaced Wired as my bathroom literature (its weekly). While I still read Wired on occasion, I no longer expect them to surprise me... and they haven't.
At the tender age of 18 the compact disc medium (a.k.a. CD) died slowly during the first year of the third millennium. While the medium served many purposes and spawned several thriving offspring (including CDr and DVDs), ultimately mass storage devices, capable of holding trillions of bytes of data and online trading supplanted the CD as the musical medium of choice. During 2001 broadband technology reached more than 10% of US households and small, low-power handheld devices provided storage for hundreds of hours of music and video enjoyment for each user. Compression formats such as MP3, DIVX and Shorten teamed with peer-to-peer trading protocols heightened in reaction to recent corporate attempts by Napster and MP3.com to profit from file exchange. Manufacturers of digital phones and portable digital assistants (PDA's) began to incorporate these microdrives and protocols as "value added" services for their consumers making it very simple to transfer files and create personal playlists. The compact disc leaves behind many known survivors including large recording companies, CD duplicators, industry trade publications and chain record stores (which at the time of this report, where attempting to solicit CDs, vinyl albums and 8 tracks as collectibles). Condolences should be sent directly to the RIAA.