The music business is an outmoded, outdated model. It needs to die. It MUST die for true innovation in art to continue.
As the article states, music has become a commodity, commercialized to the point that it is used as toilet paper. Use once (or in the case of music, a few times), then discard.
If the commoditization of music continues, then NO ONE will consume it. It'll become so bland, boring, and tasteless that the music will become absolutely secondary to flash and style. This is happening already.
Without the middlemen, artists will have to go back to distributing their own music and making money and fame by working for it, rather than having some group of suits doing the work and reaping the majority of the benefits. This model may start out small and obscure, but will grow as word gets out.
Face it. The RIAA and it's ilk are doomed. In both scenerios I've presented, they lose. You CANNOT force people by legislation to consume. It's IMPOSSIBLE.
"Before you hurrah about how great that would be for the world as all of the independent acts with "much more talent" comes to the forefront, take a peek at your current collection of video and music files. I'll bet a pretty good coinage that it's all Dixie Chicks, Britney Spears and n'Sync."
Generalizing, are we?
I don't know about *you*, but I don't "consume" the crap that you list above. With some exceptions, there hasn't been a movie made in years that is even worth the time to download, much less rent or view in a theatre. And don't EVEN get me started on the overproduced, talentless, sound-a-like crap that took the place of music, oh, say, 7-8 years ago.
Not everyone is a consuming, brainless slob like the type you characterize here.
I have NEVER had a hassle with mine. Although banks would like to see them outlawed (as they are no-profit, and cut into bank business), I will support mine for as long as it's legal. I REFUSE to do business with banks.
... I'm still impatiently waiting for Quartz support for older ATI chipsets. The support page that explains how to speed up OS X on older systems has been changed to say something like "We are looking into supporting older chipsets." Well, how hard is it to write drivers for these chips?
I still think Apple is letting down a large part of its customer base by not keeping their promise of OS X support for older systems. I know that in order for them to survive, people need to buy new systems. But not all of us have a few grand to drop every year!
Battlezone is generally thought of as the first true 3D video game. The hardware consisted of three separate processing units: the main CPU (a 6502), the vector processor (a combination of ICs), and the "Mathbox," which used four- 2901 bit-slice processors for 3D calulations. All previous games we generally illusions of 3D, and in most cases, weren't TRUE 3D (Night Driver and Tailgunner are good examples of this).
Funny you should ask about Death Race. I put out a call a couple of years ago for gameplay information and screenshots of the game in action, and I was going to write a TTL sync simulation that would run the game under MAME. Alas, I never received the information and dumped the project. The schematics would help with the underlying logic and sync timing, but I would need to see how the game actually played to put it together correctly. I've forgotten over the years how the thing actually played.
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"It is truly amazing the amount of people who have spent their time to keep them from dying out."
Not to mention the many arcade game and console collectors who are restoring these monuments to good times and originality in gameplay.
I interviewed some classic game designers, including Al Alcorn, the engineer who worked on the coinop Pong for Atari (then Syzygy). You can read those here.
I also maintain former Atari coinop designer Owen Rubin's (Space Duel, Major Havoc) website. Yeah, I know the tables are screwed up on the pages in anything but IE. Call it my lack of knowing REAL html:)
Pixar is publically traded, and Jobs is the chairman and CEO. I'm not sure if Disney has any investment in the company other than a contract to distribute movies made by Pixar. And it's a great contract, too. Jobs got them to split everything 50/50, an UNHEARD of deal. Steve is widely praised in the Hollywood machine for getting Disney to go along with this deal.
I signed up for local dialup about 5 1/2 years ago. The ISP I used was fairly new, and they had a clause in their Terms Of Service that started that if I didn't pay on or before the 23rd of the month, my service would be shut off. Years went by, I moved, got cable service, and in the interim never cancelled my dialup service (call it laziness). After six months, the ISP sent me a notice that they cancelled my service and that I must pay for the months. I called them and told them that that agreement I signed stated that the service would be shut off if I didn't pay by the 23rd of the following month and I expected (again, laziness) this to happen. They replied that they had changed their TOS to state that I must call to have service shut off. That's not what the agreement *I* signed stated! They then made the claim that they can change their TOS at any time for any reason, without notification. I then told them I not paying, and goodbye.
Fast-forward about two months. I receive a small-claims notice in the mail. They're suing me!
I dig out the TOS that I signed and go to court. I submit the TOS I signed to the judge, which clearly states the service shutoff policy. The ISP makes the same claim to the judge about changing the TOS anytime they want. The judge states that the TOS that *I* signed doesn't contain any clause about changing the TOS at ALL, and dismisses the claim entirely.
Now they're trying to sue me in a different county. All of this wasted time and expense for $100. Business must not be as good as it used to be.
"Miles Copeland, chairman of Ark 21 Records, predicts that passage could significantly harm 'the entire music business because of the very visible complaining by a few successful recording artists. If the mega artists succeed with this effort, I feel strongly that it would be at the expense of those artists who have not made it yet.'"
This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Sure, it might be bad to an executive like Copeland, who relies on sub-talented "artists" like Britney Spears to generate income for that new yacht. But this actually be the wakeup call needed to actually *develop* new artists, rather than toss them out there like so many Big Macs for huge immediate profits.
The whole industry needs an enema, and I am very happy to see some *real* artists starting to voice their concerns. There may be hope after all:)
I find it funny how you so-called champions of intellectual rights always post your self-righteous, condescending crap. Like you're really that important, that I want to spend more than the minute it took for me to write this post to point out why people like you are idiots.
Think about it. Is anyone stealing from you? And don't lie.
Not completely on-topic, but interesting nevertheless...
There is a story and pictures about Kermit, the Grass Valley-designed (Grass Valley was the original Atari's research facility) robot that former Atari coin-op designer/programmer Owen Rubin rescued after it was abandoned. You can read the story and view the pictures here.
I suggest the iPod. With MacOS, *nix (if you can get XTunes to compile; holy crap what a nightmare), and (soon) Windows support, you can't go wrong. The price is a bit higher than other mp3 players, but you get the added bonus of having a portable hard drive for moving files around, if you need it.
On that note, are there portable players with Vorbis support?
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The music business is an outmoded, outdated model. It needs to die. It MUST die for true innovation in art to continue.
As the article states, music has become a commodity, commercialized to the point that it is used as toilet paper. Use once (or in the case of music, a few times), then discard.
If the commoditization of music continues, then NO ONE will consume it. It'll become so bland, boring, and tasteless that the music will become absolutely secondary to flash and style. This is happening already.
Without the middlemen, artists will have to go back to distributing their own music and making money and fame by working for it, rather than having some group of suits doing the work and reaping the majority of the benefits. This model may start out small and obscure, but will grow as word gets out.
Face it. The RIAA and it's ilk are doomed. In both scenerios I've presented, they lose. You CANNOT force people by legislation to consume. It's IMPOSSIBLE.
It's only a matter of time.
Actually, Nolan is Mormon and has eight kids. 'Tis true :)
"Before you hurrah about how great that would be for the world as all of the independent acts with "much more talent" comes to the forefront, take a peek at your current collection of video and music files. I'll bet a pretty good coinage that it's all Dixie Chicks, Britney Spears and n'Sync." Generalizing, are we?
I don't know about *you*, but I don't "consume" the crap that you list above. With some exceptions, there hasn't been a movie made in years that is even worth the time to download, much less rent or view in a theatre. And don't EVEN get me started on the overproduced, talentless, sound-a-like crap that took the place of music, oh, say, 7-8 years ago.
Not everyone is a consuming, brainless slob like the type you characterize here.
"No, I think the US should just stick with Dick Cheney."
The guy wouldn't live long enough.
I think we've had enough backwards- ass dinosaurs running this country.
Two words:
"Credit Union"
I have NEVER had a hassle with mine. Although banks would like to see them outlawed (as they are no-profit, and cut into bank business), I will support mine for as long as it's legal. I REFUSE to do business with banks.
My bad. The code is 6502, not Z80.
In fact, someone is doing this very thing.
:)
Me
Also, check out Vantris at Emucamp. It's a Tetris clone programmed on Vanguard hardware, and includes the Z80 source code.
... I'm still impatiently waiting for Quartz support for older ATI chipsets. The support page that explains how to speed up OS X on older systems has been changed to say something like "We are looking into supporting older chipsets." Well, how hard is it to write drivers for these chips?
I still think Apple is letting down a large part of its customer base by not keeping their promise of OS X support for older systems. I know that in order for them to survive, people need to buy new systems. But not all of us have a few grand to drop every year!
C'mon Apple! Get on the ball!
Battlezone is generally thought of as the first true 3D video game. The hardware consisted of three separate processing units: the main CPU (a 6502), the vector processor (a combination of ICs), and the "Mathbox," which used four- 2901 bit-slice processors for 3D calulations. All previous games we generally illusions of 3D, and in most cases, weren't TRUE 3D (Night Driver and Tailgunner are good examples of this).
Funny you should ask about Death Race. I put out a call a couple of years ago for gameplay information and screenshots of the game in action, and I was going to write a TTL sync simulation that would run the game under MAME. Alas, I never received the information and dumped the project. The schematics would help with the underlying logic and sync timing, but I would need to see how the game actually played to put it together correctly. I've forgotten over the years how the thing actually played.
"It is truly amazing the amount of people who have spent their time to keep them from dying out." Not to mention the many arcade game and console collectors who are restoring these monuments to good times and originality in gameplay.
:)
And then there are the MAME cabinets
I interviewed some classic game designers, including Al Alcorn, the engineer who worked on the coinop Pong for Atari (then Syzygy). You can read those here.
:)
I also maintain former Atari coinop designer Owen Rubin's (Space Duel, Major Havoc) website. Yeah, I know the tables are screwed up on the pages in anything but IE. Call it my lack of knowing REAL html
"Step 3: There is no step 3..."
:)
Sure there is.
Step 3: Profit!
Pixar is publically traded, and Jobs is the chairman and CEO. I'm not sure if Disney has any investment in the company other than a contract to distribute movies made by Pixar. And it's a great contract, too. Jobs got them to split everything 50/50, an UNHEARD of deal. Steve is widely praised in the Hollywood machine for getting Disney to go along with this deal.
Now... how about telling us how you REALLY feel.
:)
Don't hold back on us!!
I have a good example to add to this.
I signed up for local dialup about 5 1/2 years ago. The ISP I used was fairly new, and they had a clause in their Terms Of Service that started that if I didn't pay on or before the 23rd of the month, my service would be shut off. Years went by, I moved, got cable service, and in the interim never cancelled my dialup service (call it laziness). After six months, the ISP sent me a notice that they cancelled my service and that I must pay for the months. I called them and told them that that agreement I signed stated that the service would be shut off if I didn't pay by the 23rd of the following month and I expected (again, laziness) this to happen. They replied that they had changed their TOS to state that I must call to have service shut off. That's not what the agreement *I* signed stated! They then made the claim that they can change their TOS at any time for any reason, without notification. I then told them I not paying, and goodbye.
Fast-forward about two months. I receive a small-claims notice in the mail. They're suing me!
I dig out the TOS that I signed and go to court. I submit the TOS I signed to the judge, which clearly states the service shutoff policy. The ISP makes the same claim to the judge about changing the TOS anytime they want. The judge states that the TOS that *I* signed doesn't contain any clause about changing the TOS at ALL, and dismisses the claim entirely.
Now they're trying to sue me in a different county. All of this wasted time and expense for $100. Business must not be as good as it used to be.
Better yet... Aube or Black Leather Jesus.
Merzbow is overrated.
At one time you could write Woz and ask him yourself, but he's a bit swamped at the moment. You might want to read his answers to other letters to see if the answer is there.
"Miles Copeland, chairman of Ark 21 Records, predicts that passage could significantly harm 'the entire music business because of the very visible complaining by a few successful recording artists. If the mega artists succeed with this effort, I feel strongly that it would be at the expense of those artists who have not made it yet.'"
:)
This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Sure, it might be bad to an executive like Copeland, who relies on sub-talented "artists" like Britney Spears to generate income for that new yacht. But this actually be the wakeup call needed to actually *develop* new artists, rather than toss them out there like so many Big Macs for huge immediate profits.
The whole industry needs an enema, and I am very happy to see some *real* artists starting to voice their concerns. There may be hope after all
Yeah hahahahaha!
:)
Shane is the Howard Stern of classic gaming radio
I find it funny how you so-called champions of intellectual rights always post your self-righteous, condescending crap. Like you're really that important, that I want to spend more than the minute it took for me to write this post to point out why people like you are idiots.
Think about it. Is anyone stealing from you? And don't lie.
Not completely on-topic, but interesting nevertheless...
There is a story and pictures about Kermit, the Grass Valley-designed (Grass Valley was the original Atari's research facility) robot that former Atari coin-op designer/programmer Owen Rubin rescued after it was abandoned. You can read the story and view the pictures here.
I suggest the iPod. With MacOS, *nix (if you can get XTunes to compile; holy crap what a nightmare), and (soon) Windows support, you can't go wrong. The price is a bit higher than other mp3 players, but you get the added bonus of having a portable hard drive for moving files around, if you need it.
On that note, are there portable players with Vorbis support?
Some sites have begun fighting back against anti-popup software. There is now anti-anti-ad software. A good example of this script is here.
Bingo on the first guess. I'm no karma whore. I just figured that most AC posts get 0 score, so noone would see it :)
:)
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