Remains to be seen how real the takeover offer was in the first place. Microsoft has thousands of employees and 50 bil in the bank, which pretty much allows them to develop any search technology they want and hire the best people in the industry.
Seems that's not enough for them, since they still can't build good OS...
for sure Robertson has some commercial idea under it, as happens with all his projects. That happened with mp3.com(which was founded by Robertson). mp3.com was completely free innovative place at the beginning, and only after years it it became obvious, that the whole idea of it was to sell it for as big $ as possible...
that's strange... cause if they wanted to hide some information, they'd found a much more effective way to do that. As they are possibly doing with some really important information.
When the technology will be available, they'll find the way to use it against people. It doesn't matter what the law says. They'll just claim other legal reasons to justify rejections, etc.
That's not only about the corporations getting more profits, but also about their products being cheap. If those products were made in the US, they'd be much more expensive, hence there would be less sales, the whole industry wouldn't be developing so fast, and finally even more unemployment. Just a dark side of high-level living.
That was pretty obvious even 10 or more years ago, that the internet, as a media with so high potentials, can not stay free for a long time, can not be not owned/not divided between corporations/businesses. It's already surviving for a surprisingly long time. But sooner or later it will be reduced to the super mega e-shop, and nothing more...
That is one of the examples how any idea could be turned into total nonsense:). You don't even need to convert something, just generate random data... But actually this can be solved quite easily. First, one will be unable to prove his copyright for that as music, as noone will be able to recognize it by ear. Or just get say 15 people, and ask them is that music or noise:). If 14 of 15 say it's noise, then ban it:).
How do companies survive so long after so many people actively loath them?
Because much more people don't know or don't care. Tens of millions people buy what RIAA sells. I think that all this antifilesharing campaign's real purpose is just to frighten the majority of people. They aren't very familiar with the details, what is really legal, what is not, etc. They just hear over and over that downloading of mp3s is illegal and may end up in jail. So they just keep buying...
With a piece of pitch correcting software or hardware, like widely used Auto-Tune, a singer do not even need to have good ears, as all his false tones will be corrected. And software like Band in a box will make all arrangement for ya, just tell it what style you want. Songs can be made like sandwiches at McDonalds, and many are actually done this way. It has nothing to do with music, it's only about business. While people eat this sounding food, it will be so.
Depends what you consider good music. From what I can see, the RIAA and cronies tend to be pushing mass-market pop and easy listening, so they can get their money back and much more.
Absolutely right. Sure the quality (tech side) of what they release is highest, cause they spend so big $ on it. But besides this - it's all the same pop again and again, they don't want to release something really new, cause it's risky. And people (when talking about millions of people, the majority) don't really want something new, they don't care so much about the music and just want it to sound somehow familiar and not bothering...
I don't see any MP3s, and all I see are streams (m3u). It would be more correct to say listen to hundreds of streamed MP3'd albums from our artists.
Well, you can just save an.m3u file, that is actually a text file, look into it and get.mp3 address from there, then go and download mp3. This don't work everywhere, but there it works. Useful for those with slow connection (like me), and mp3s there are at 192 kbps, which is not really lo-fi.
But more to the point, what you'd really want for doing this is a programming language.Well, there are some sound programming languages, for example, CSOUND, which was originally created at MIT, is open source and is being constantly developed for more than 15 years by many people. It's quite complex, but there are GUI and other utilities to make it easier to deal with.
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Remains to be seen how real the takeover offer was in the first place. Microsoft has thousands of employees and 50 bil in the bank, which pretty much allows them to develop any search technology they want and hire the best people in the industry. Seems that's not enough for them, since they still can't build good OS...
indeed you are right... The original story by Herbert Wells (Orson's father) is here ...
for sure Robertson has some commercial idea under it, as happens with all his projects. That happened with mp3.com(which was founded by Robertson). mp3.com was completely free innovative place at the beginning, and only after years it it became obvious, that the whole idea of it was to sell it for as big $ as possible...
that's strange... cause if they wanted to hide some information, they'd found a much more effective way to do that. As they are possibly doing with some really important information.
Napster is dead. One can't step into the same river twice.
When the technology will be available, they'll find the way to use it against people. It doesn't matter what the law says. They'll just claim other legal reasons to justify rejections, etc.
...or perhaps MS just paid them...
That's not only about the corporations getting more profits, but also about their products being cheap. If those products were made in the US, they'd be much more expensive, hence there would be less sales, the whole industry wouldn't be developing so fast, and finally even more unemployment. Just a dark side of high-level living.
That was pretty obvious even 10 or more years ago, that the internet, as a media with so high potentials, can not stay free for a long time, can not be not owned/not divided between corporations/businesses. It's already surviving for a surprisingly long time. But sooner or later it will be reduced to the super mega e-shop, and nothing more...
not sure Beethoven would write his symphonies if he knew what texts in realtime will accompany their performances 200 years later...
Always care to have 2 young girls among these 15 people :)
That is one of the examples how any idea could be turned into total nonsense :). You don't even need to convert something, just generate random data... But actually this can be solved quite easily. First, one will be unable to prove his copyright for that as music, as noone will be able to recognize it by ear. Or just get say 15 people, and ask them is that music or noise :). If 14 of 15 say it's noise, then ban it :).
How do companies survive so long after so many people actively loath them?
Because much more people don't know or don't care. Tens of millions people buy what RIAA sells. I think that all this antifilesharing campaign's real purpose is just to frighten the majority of people. They aren't very familiar with the details, what is really legal, what is not, etc. They just hear over and over that downloading of mp3s is illegal and may end up in jail. So they just keep buying...
With a piece of pitch correcting software or hardware, like widely used Auto-Tune, a singer do not even need to have good ears, as all his false tones will be corrected. And software like Band in a box will make all arrangement for ya, just tell it what style you want. Songs can be made like sandwiches at McDonalds, and many are actually done this way. It has nothing to do with music, it's only about business. While people eat this sounding food, it will be so.
Depends what you consider good music. From what I can see, the RIAA and cronies tend to be pushing mass-market pop and easy listening, so they can get their money back and much more.
Absolutely right. Sure the quality (tech side) of what they release is highest, cause they spend so big $ on it. But besides this - it's all the same pop again and again, they don't want to release something really new, cause it's risky. And people (when talking about millions of people, the majority) don't really want something new, they don't care so much about the music and just want it to sound somehow familiar and not bothering...
I don't see any MP3s, and all I see are streams (m3u). It would be more correct to say listen to hundreds of streamed MP3'd albums from our artists. .m3u file, that is actually a text file, look into it and get .mp3 address from there, then go and download mp3. This don't work everywhere, but there it works. Useful for those with slow connection (like me), and mp3s there are at 192 kbps, which is not really lo-fi.
Well, you can just save an
But more to the point, what you'd really want for doing this is a programming language.Well, there are some sound programming languages, for example, CSOUND, which was originally created at MIT, is open source and is being constantly developed for more than 15 years by many people. It's quite complex, but there are GUI and other utilities to make it easier to deal with.