In the perfect RIAA world there will be one radio station RIAARADIO and one video station RIAATV which continually play the same single song/video by the RIAATones (the only band in the world) 24/7 and charge $2.99 per minute to watch or listen. Anyone who wants to hear music will listen to The RIAATones. A licence will be required to play music in your own home or sing in the shower (licenses will sell for 14 cents per note per listener direct from authorized RIAA agents of which there will be only one) Concerts will cease to exist.
The point is that P2P created a very organic decentralized method for being exposed to new music. It leveled the playing field and created a distribution network that effectively cut record companies out of the loop. Suddenly listenership was determined more by the quality of music than the quantity of exposure. This is old news but we're finally starting to see the real impact of an industry that's struggling to promote a single genre of music to a single audience for the sake of maximum control. The result: music that truly sucks.
The article hits the nail on the head when it points out that the music industry is choking itself by keeping out the "barbarian hoardes" trying to create fresh music and media. In recent years, the industry's trump card (access to powerful means of production, distribution, and promotion) have all fallen into the hands of the artists themselves. It's no longer necessary to get a recording contract in order to make a studio quality recording, have it pressed to some expensive medium, and then distributed around the world on trucks. If your fans are savvy enough [geeky enough] and your music is good enough, then you can record it in your bedroom and drop it on your filesharing program of choice, or a website, or burn it to cd and pass it amongst your friends or whatever, and be heard by thousands of people in a matter of weeks. Like the people who delivered coal to homes until gas-lines were put in, the recording industry is now obsolete thanks to overwhelming adoption of new technology. There is certainly a role for record companies if they're willing to move quickly to find ways to embrace the new technology for their own benefit.....but I think it'll be a cold day in hell when that happens.
In the mean time, the moral of the story is this: make your own music. Support those who do make their own music. Buy directly from artists (as others have suggested) Share the music that doesn't suck with other fans. Revolutionize the entertainment industry and leave the entertainment industry out of it.
There are plenty of great musicians around and plenty of phenominal music in the world but there's no way for it to flow through the current constapated system engendered by the RIAA to actually get to anyone's ears. This is the true reason for the sucess of P2P music distribution. Variety, personalization, customization. And this is the true reason that internet radio was killed. It terrified the RIAA to think that people could simply tune into a radio station and hear exactly what they wanted to listen to without buying CDs. Imagine that. Platters of plastic no longer necessary.... but that's another rant.
This clearly suggests that IBM is positioning itself to be Micro$oft's primary competition in the professional sector. MS gained marketshare in the 80s by pushing an OS that ran on cheap hardware (which existed because of IBM's failure to close their standard in time, thereby creating a huge wave of cheap hardware including "IBM Clones" but that's another story). Once this OS had gained ground as a desktop environment, MS integrated server behavior to make WinNT an attractive alternative to small businesses that couldn't afford large Unix systems. All on the same OS that the peons use on their desktops.
Now it appears that IBM is attempting the same thing with Linux/Java. Linux is a very flexible and robust OS which will run on anything from ASCII White to your grandmother's toaster oven. It runs equally well as a Server or Desktop environment. And the price makes it very attractive to small businesses.
With Java, IBM obtains a high-level development language to compete in the server development arena with.NET. (yes, linux is already great for development with PHP, Perl, etc. but J2EE is still regarded as a more robust OO dev language I guess)
And it can run big accounting software that formerly only ran on Unix boxes. So the cost of the hardware and OS drops allowing companies to spend more on the software they run and the in-house development they do.
Personally, I think it would be great to see what happens when a huge company with massive wads of cash decides to support a free OS and use it as their primary engine for gaining a foothold on microsoft's monopolistic stranglehold.
Then again, we may be talking about replacing one monopoly with another. Java has become every bit as proprietary as any MS language.
Forgive me for not being better educated on this but can they legally obtain a warrant for suspected copyright infringement? Furthermore, what about the data itself? Specifically, what if it wasn't in MP3 format? Suppose the files were stored via a proprietary file/compression system leaving the data totally useless to anyone who doesn't have a key it can't be proved that anyone has a "key"? Is it still piracy or just useless data? Woud this hold true for streaming data as well? Better yet, why not stego them into client-attorney documents;) thereby rendering them (AFAIK) un-seize-able even with a warrant. This is why projects like Freenet are so vital and intriguing. Does anybody know more about the legality of this or other ways of further muddling the legal issues involved? has anybody ever called 1.800.BAD.BEAT?
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Does this mean that iPods, like serial cables will no longer be allowed in the country by customs?
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In the perfect RIAA world there will be one radio station RIAARADIO and one video station RIAATV which continually play the same single song/video by the RIAATones (the only band in the world) 24/7 and charge $2.99 per minute to watch or listen. Anyone who wants to hear music will listen to The RIAATones. A licence will be required to play music in your own home or sing in the shower (licenses will sell for 14 cents per note per listener direct from authorized RIAA agents of which there will be only one) Concerts will cease to exist.
The point is that P2P created a very organic decentralized method for being exposed to new music. It leveled the playing field and created a distribution network that effectively cut record companies out of the loop. Suddenly listenership was determined more by the quality of music than the quantity of exposure. This is old news but we're finally starting to see the real impact of an industry that's struggling to promote a single genre of music to a single audience for the sake of maximum control. The result: music that truly sucks.
The article hits the nail on the head when it points out that the music industry is choking itself by keeping out the "barbarian hoardes" trying to create fresh music and media. In recent years, the industry's trump card (access to powerful means of production, distribution, and promotion) have all fallen into the hands of the artists themselves. It's no longer necessary to get a recording contract in order to make a studio quality recording, have it pressed to some expensive medium, and then distributed around the world on trucks. If your fans are savvy enough [geeky enough] and your music is good enough, then you can record it in your bedroom and drop it on your filesharing program of choice, or a website, or burn it to cd and pass it amongst your friends or whatever, and be heard by thousands of people in a matter of weeks. Like the people who delivered coal to homes until gas-lines were put in, the recording industry is now obsolete thanks to overwhelming adoption of new technology. There is certainly a role for record companies if they're willing to move quickly to find ways to embrace the new technology for their own benefit.....but I think it'll be a cold day in hell when that happens.
In the mean time, the moral of the story is this: make your own music. Support those who do make their own music. Buy directly from artists (as others have suggested) Share the music that doesn't suck with other fans. Revolutionize the entertainment industry and leave the entertainment industry out of it.
There are plenty of great musicians around and plenty of phenominal music in the world but there's no way for it to flow through the current constapated system engendered by the RIAA to actually get to anyone's ears. This is the true reason for the sucess of P2P music distribution. Variety, personalization, customization. And this is the true reason that internet radio was killed. It terrified the RIAA to think that people could simply tune into a radio station and hear exactly what they wanted to listen to without buying CDs. Imagine that. Platters of plastic no longer necessary.... but that's another rant.
Thanks for reading. Go find some music that doesn't suck and tell me about it.
This clearly suggests that IBM is positioning itself to be Micro$oft's primary competition in the professional sector. MS gained marketshare in the 80s by pushing an OS that ran on cheap hardware (which existed because of IBM's failure to close their standard in time, thereby creating a huge wave of cheap hardware including "IBM Clones" but that's another story). Once this OS had gained ground as a desktop environment, MS integrated server behavior to make WinNT an attractive alternative to small businesses that couldn't afford large Unix systems. All on the same OS that the peons use on their desktops.
.NET. (yes, linux is already great for development with PHP, Perl, etc. but J2EE is still regarded as a more robust OO dev language I guess)
Now it appears that IBM is attempting the same thing with Linux/Java. Linux is a very flexible and robust OS which will run on anything from ASCII White to your grandmother's toaster oven. It runs equally well as a Server or Desktop environment. And the price makes it very attractive to small businesses.
With Java, IBM obtains a high-level development language to compete in the server development arena with
And it can run big accounting software that formerly only ran on Unix boxes. So the cost of the hardware and OS drops allowing companies to spend more on the software they run and the in-house development they do.
Personally, I think it would be great to see what happens when a huge company with massive wads of cash decides to support a free OS and use it as their primary engine for gaining a foothold on microsoft's monopolistic stranglehold.
Then again, we may be talking about replacing one monopoly with another. Java has become every bit as proprietary as any MS language.
just my $0.02
Forgive me for not being better educated on this but can they legally obtain a warrant for suspected copyright infringement? Furthermore, what about the data itself? Specifically, what if it wasn't in MP3 format? Suppose the files were stored via a proprietary file/compression system leaving the data totally useless to anyone who doesn't have a key it can't be proved that anyone has a "key"? Is it still piracy or just useless data? Woud this hold true for streaming data as well? Better yet, why not stego them into client-attorney documents ;) thereby rendering them (AFAIK) un-seize-able even with a warrant. This is why projects like Freenet are so vital and intriguing. Does anybody know more about the legality of this or other ways of further muddling the legal issues involved? has anybody ever called 1.800.BAD.BEAT?
Does this mean that iPods, like serial cables will no longer be allowed in the country by customs?