A short bit from John Donne's "Meditation 17" (which you might know as "For Whom the Bell Tolls" -- used without permission . . . )
----- No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. -----
It is not in the best interest of the rich record label execs to change a system that overcharges the consumer and screws the musicians so they can make extra $$ for themselves.
Similar to how it is in the best interest of the consumer to not pay for a product when they can get it for free -- that way they hold on to their hard-earned (?) money.
After all, isn't it the American Dream(tm) to provide for yourself at the expense of anyone and everyone else?
It's my opinion that the RIAA/record labels continue to shove a mediocre product down our throats and that's why I hardly buy any music anymore. I also don't go about downloading it because there is just not much out there that is worth the effort.
But before I stray too far let me say this: as long as people continue to download music for free the RIAA and co. will focus on that instead of accepting that the music they sell us is mostly crappy. It'll go something like this, "people want copies of these songs so we just have to stop them from getting the songs illegally."
If we want to show them that CDs are overpriced and full of awful music then I suggest we stop buying CDs and stop downloading songs from fill-in-system-of-choice.
Show them we have zero interest in the current product. (Current product being the music itself and not the medium it is distributed on.)
What is the good of posting this bit of "news"? It will only serve to get people all riled up about how awful MS is as a company. Just how many "but with Microsoft you are even more boxed in and trapped" comments are going to show up?
Without a call to action regarding how we can un-FUD what MS feeds the media this will only serve to give/. lots of hits on this story.
Had one of those ads appeared I would think this was posted just to get a lot of hits on an ad page. Maybe it's just proof-of-concept so that more ads get sold.
Having said that, I'm not helping by just complaining here that no one does anything.
Where's my call to action?
And for the record, I'm no fan of MS and this is not a pro-MS post.
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A short bit from John Donne's "Meditation 17" (which you might know as "For Whom the Bell Tolls" -- used without permission . . . )
-----
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Questions?
It is not in the best interest of the rich record label execs to change a system that overcharges the consumer and screws the musicians so they can make extra $$ for themselves.
Similar to how it is in the best interest of the consumer to not pay for a product when they can get it for free -- that way they hold on to their hard-earned (?) money.
After all, isn't it the American Dream(tm) to provide for yourself at the expense of anyone and everyone else?
It's my opinion that the RIAA/record labels continue to shove a mediocre product down our throats and that's why I hardly buy any music anymore. I also don't go about downloading it because there is just not much out there that is worth the effort.
But before I stray too far let me say this: as long as people continue to download music for free the RIAA and co. will focus on that instead of accepting that the music they sell us is mostly crappy. It'll go something like this, "people want copies of these songs so we just have to stop them from getting the songs illegally."
If we want to show them that CDs are overpriced and full of awful music then I suggest we stop buying CDs and stop downloading songs from fill-in-system-of-choice.
Show them we have zero interest in the current product. (Current product being the music itself and not the medium it is distributed on.)
Just a thought or two.
Just after submitting my comment the story loaded up with a big ol' ad for IBM.
Things that make you go 'hmmmm.'
r.
What is the good of posting this bit of "news"? It will only serve to get people all riled up about how awful MS is as a company. Just how many "but with Microsoft you are even more boxed in and trapped" comments are going to show up?
/. lots of hits on this story.
Without a call to action regarding how we can un-FUD what MS feeds the media this will only serve to give
Had one of those ads appeared I would think this was posted just to get a lot of hits on an ad page. Maybe it's just proof-of-concept so that more ads get sold.
Having said that, I'm not helping by just complaining here that no one does anything.
Where's my call to action?
And for the record, I'm no fan of MS and this is not a pro-MS post.
Just pointing out that we could be doing more.
But I suppose this is "offtopic" now isn't it?
r.