I thought it was interesting that when asked about Steve Jobs and the apple team's famous rip off of the GUI idea from Xerox, and how Microsoft in turn stole the idea from Apple, Gates says that there is some element of truth to the story, but seems to imply that Apple borrowed the idea from Microsoft instead. I would love to see Gates vs. Jobs on celebrity boxing.
First off, even on my crappy AIWA stereo I can hear the difference between a 256k mp3 and a losseless file. I am by no means an audiophile, but I am a musician. Mp3 compression has a very noticible impact on the highs and lows of an audio track. The cymbals sound tinny and the bass muddy. This is noticible with standard audience recordings of live music, as well as with professionally produced tracks.
The livephish series are soundboard recordings of the concerts, which make compression loss even more apparent.
The band is doing the fan's a service by allowing free trade of concert recordings (audience sources). It's certainly not to much of them to ask that people who post their music and other related material to refrain from using advertising (i.e. making money on THEIR intellectual property). Phish has a very loyal fanbase, and 99% of the time respect the bands wishes with regards to distributing content. This policy is not enforced with an iron fist either. For the most part the phish orginization doesn't take any action on sites that violate their terms, and when they do, they simply write a polite email asking that said content be removed, and the fans are happy to comply.
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I thought it was interesting that when asked about Steve Jobs and the apple team's famous rip off of the GUI idea from Xerox, and how Microsoft in turn stole the idea from Apple, Gates says that there is some element of truth to the story, but seems to imply that Apple borrowed the idea from Microsoft instead. I would love to see Gates vs. Jobs on celebrity boxing.
First off, even on my crappy AIWA stereo I can hear the difference between a 256k mp3 and a losseless file. I am by no means an audiophile, but I am a musician. Mp3 compression has a very noticible impact on the highs and lows of an audio track. The cymbals sound tinny and the bass muddy. This is noticible with standard audience recordings of live music, as well as with professionally produced tracks. The livephish series are soundboard recordings of the concerts, which make compression loss even more apparent.
The band is doing the fan's a service by allowing free trade of concert recordings (audience sources). It's certainly not to much of them to ask that people who post their music and other related material to refrain from using advertising (i.e. making money on THEIR intellectual property). Phish has a very loyal fanbase, and 99% of the time respect the bands wishes with regards to distributing content. This policy is not enforced with an iron fist either. For the most part the phish orginization doesn't take any action on sites that violate their terms, and when they do, they simply write a polite email asking that said content be removed, and the fans are happy to comply.