Yeah, I took issue with him associating streaming services with Free Culture. Streaming services are trying to position themselves between listeners and their content for the sake of alleged convenience.
And that's where I thought the author had a nice heart but very little understanding of the scarcity issue. It's not hard to get music anymore. Yeah, it really stinks that artists are starving. But the bottom has just fallen out of that market. I agree with him that The Cloud isn't the vaunted next step, but I think the better solution is just sharing peer to peer.
Especially on stations that (still) have live DJs! There's something about someone in your geographic area talking to you over the airwaves while picking out music to broadcast that still makes me happy. I like that my local LPFM that you can only hear from 5 miles away runs ads for the tire store down the street and plays requests from people who work in the building next door, regardless of how questionable their taste might be.
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Yeah, I took issue with him associating streaming services with Free Culture. Streaming services are trying to position themselves between listeners and their content for the sake of alleged convenience.
And that's where I thought the author had a nice heart but very little understanding of the scarcity issue. It's not hard to get music anymore. Yeah, it really stinks that artists are starving. But the bottom has just fallen out of that market. I agree with him that The Cloud isn't the vaunted next step, but I think the better solution is just sharing peer to peer.
Agreed, especially when looking at some of the random bands I may have liked on MySpace back in the day who have simply disappeared.
Agreed. And as wireless providers are already starting to phase out unlimited data plans, the party for streaming is about to end, I do believe.
Especially on stations that (still) have live DJs! There's something about someone in your geographic area talking to you over the airwaves while picking out music to broadcast that still makes me happy. I like that my local LPFM that you can only hear from 5 miles away runs ads for the tire store down the street and plays requests from people who work in the building next door, regardless of how questionable their taste might be.
Hence I'd much rather have a friend toss me their USB drive or a DVD they burned with all the mp3s on it...