Books are already at this point, I read in a report somewhere that 85% of all commercially published books never reach the breaking-even point for the publishing houses. CDs are completely different from books in that the raw materials cost 1/3 as much and the price is 3 times as much. I know that CDs are marketted an insane amount compared to books, but frankly, so what? The question is, and I think the Heinlein quote says this very elegantly, does the industry deserve it? Do corporations deserve the right to buy legislation(through the courts or through elected leaders) to protect their business practices? Furthermore, how much will the judge thrust into the spotlight of having to decide between their morals, the lawyers of the record companies, and the Big 5's influence in the higher tiers of government decide the case? History shows that the vast majority of the time, your superior intelligence and tools(Napster) is no match for our puny weapons(Lawyers). Eventually though, something snaps, and in this case, a decentralized, "underground" network with (mostly) private communications presents the most innovative, cooperative group with the highest probability of success. I think that no matter what happens, the current leaders of the industry are too set in their ways, too outmoded, and have become obsolete in an industry that no longer needs them. Until one or more of them break ranks and stop trying to increase their profits by 10% in order to offset a trend to stop buying their products, they are doomed. I predict that within 5 years, when times really get hard for them, one or more will break ranks and begin selling music online from dedicated, nolag servers, in a perfect copy form, for only 50% cut for the record companies, the rest going to the artists. Things will get worse before they get better though, they always do.
The issue with spam, as with all marketting, is cost vs return.
door-to-door: 1$/person, maybe 2-15% return, depending on product(The local firehouse sells charity jars of jam door to door and they said they get about a 6th of the people to donate)
mass-mailings:.5$/person, maybe 2-10% return, depending on product
opt-in advertising:.05$/person,.1% return
opt-out advertising:.001$/person,.01% return
automated bot searching internet for @ symbol, then spamming:.0000001$/person,.0001% return
Its a matter of cost/return. If they email the whole country once, it might cost them $10000, but it might net them several dozen thousand customers. Unfortunately, it costs the country thousands of dollars in time wasted clicking "delete"
MREs=ready to eat meals
They are talking about microwaving/boiling before vacuum sealing the packages. Apparently, old boiled eggs taste funkier than usual, while old microwaved eggs don't
And what would you say about Dell's position on AMD chips? They have slowly gone from innovative(the first ones with successful web-based 'configure your own' feature) to the most staid Wintel OEM in the industry. Throwing the linux geeks a bone was a move by their marketting department used to try and promote their image to people who actually have an interest in computers, instead of those who endure them as a neccessity. My god, look at their ad campaign.
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Excuse me, but people, have you seen these things? THEY ARE LITTLE PLASTIC "CATS" THAT USED TO READ MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENTS!!! They have no other use. You cannot feed the hungry with them. They cannot be used by corporations. They cannot be USED anymore. They are a relic of the tech bubble, and one of the most useless ones at that. A homeless person is supposed to use these for what- For gods sake, man, their INTENDED use was to help out people who were too lazy to TYPE IN THE WEB ADDRESS OF THE COMPANY. A routers is still a very profitable device. Cuecats were obsolete the moment people realized that all they did was open the advertisers website. The comparisons to food, routers, or any valuable good are complete crap.
I don't know about you, but my local telephone service IS buffet-style. The US turning into a 3rd-world country?
They have sold you unlimited, always-on internet for the purpose of "Downloading music" and "Playing Games" "Up to 50x faster than dialup". If they want to skimp on the bandwidth, and instead of 50x its more like 8x, thats fine by me, but rationing out something that has already been payed for is described by one word: fraud.
Copying money, however, is not a matter of fraud. It is a matter of the Constitution. They are the only ones allowed to create money. Anyone else(and this is important. If an 8-year old copies cash it is the same penaties as a 40 year old) is facing up to 20 years jailtime and several thousand dollars in fines PER NOTE. If your info is searchable, you will be recieving a call from the secret service soon.
Limp bizkit? The ones that went on a Napster-funded tour? Their music tastes rotten(like drinking hotdog flavored water, as a matter of fact), and their self-promotion is just wrong(calling us "his generation"), but remember, they WERE willing to join the bandwagon for the perception of supporting free music. For the right price, at least. Lars however, was a complete ass. Hiring a private company to gather names. I thought they were supposed to leave that to the record companies. Or wait, the other 19/20$ is supposed to go into the Big 5's pockets.
The problem with Metallica was that they started the trend to criticize something that had around 50 million people using it to popularise music. Other artists followed their idiotic ideology and decided to get their labels into harassing napster. As to metallica's past, an adapted quote:"Absolute Billboard top 40 numbers corrupt absolutely"
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Books are already at this point, I read in a report somewhere that 85% of all commercially published books never reach the breaking-even point for the publishing houses. CDs are completely different from books in that the raw materials cost 1/3 as much and the price is 3 times as much. I know that CDs are marketted an insane amount compared to books, but frankly, so what? The question is, and I think the Heinlein quote says this very elegantly, does the industry deserve it? Do corporations deserve the right to buy legislation(through the courts or through elected leaders) to protect their business practices? Furthermore, how much will the judge thrust into the spotlight of having to decide between their morals, the lawyers of the record companies, and the Big 5's influence in the higher tiers of government decide the case? History shows that the vast majority of the time, your superior intelligence and tools(Napster) is no match for our puny weapons(Lawyers). Eventually though, something snaps, and in this case, a decentralized, "underground" network with (mostly) private communications presents the most innovative, cooperative group with the highest probability of success. I think that no matter what happens, the current leaders of the industry are too set in their ways, too outmoded, and have become obsolete in an industry that no longer needs them. Until one or more of them break ranks and stop trying to increase their profits by 10% in order to offset a trend to stop buying their products, they are doomed. I predict that within 5 years, when times really get hard for them, one or more will break ranks and begin selling music online from dedicated, nolag servers, in a perfect copy form, for only 50% cut for the record companies, the rest going to the artists. Things will get worse before they get better though, they always do.
MREs=ready to eat meals They are talking about microwaving/boiling before vacuum sealing the packages. Apparently, old boiled eggs taste funkier than usual, while old microwaved eggs don't
And what would you say about Dell's position on AMD chips? They have slowly gone from innovative(the first ones with successful web-based 'configure your own' feature) to the most staid Wintel OEM in the industry. Throwing the linux geeks a bone was a move by their marketting department used to try and promote their image to people who actually have an interest in computers, instead of those who endure them as a neccessity. My god, look at their ad campaign.
Since when is porn "Blatantly Illegal?"
Excuse me, but people, have you seen these things? THEY ARE LITTLE PLASTIC "CATS" THAT USED TO READ MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENTS!!! They have no other use. You cannot feed the hungry with them. They cannot be used by corporations. They cannot be USED anymore. They are a relic of the tech bubble, and one of the most useless ones at that. A homeless person is supposed to use these for what- For gods sake, man, their INTENDED use was to help out people who were too lazy to TYPE IN THE WEB ADDRESS OF THE COMPANY. A routers is still a very profitable device. Cuecats were obsolete the moment people realized that all they did was open the advertisers website. The comparisons to food, routers, or any valuable good are complete crap.
I don't know about you, but my local telephone service IS buffet-style. The US turning into a 3rd-world country? They have sold you unlimited, always-on internet for the purpose of "Downloading music" and "Playing Games" "Up to 50x faster than dialup". If they want to skimp on the bandwidth, and instead of 50x its more like 8x, thats fine by me, but rationing out something that has already been payed for is described by one word: fraud.
Copying money, however, is not a matter of fraud. It is a matter of the Constitution. They are the only ones allowed to create money. Anyone else(and this is important. If an 8-year old copies cash it is the same penaties as a 40 year old) is facing up to 20 years jailtime and several thousand dollars in fines PER NOTE. If your info is searchable, you will be recieving a call from the secret service soon.
Limp bizkit? The ones that went on a Napster-funded tour? Their music tastes rotten(like drinking hotdog flavored water, as a matter of fact), and their self-promotion is just wrong(calling us "his generation"), but remember, they WERE willing to join the bandwagon for the perception of supporting free music. For the right price, at least. Lars however, was a complete ass. Hiring a private company to gather names. I thought they were supposed to leave that to the record companies. Or wait, the other 19/20$ is supposed to go into the Big 5's pockets. The problem with Metallica was that they started the trend to criticize something that had around 50 million people using it to popularise music. Other artists followed their idiotic ideology and decided to get their labels into harassing napster. As to metallica's past, an adapted quote:"Absolute Billboard top 40 numbers corrupt absolutely"
OMG someone bashes any form of linux and gets away with it... this is a first.
Let the Butlerian Jihad commence.