Same chance of coincidence that you were here to give him a hard time about it.
That company, from a glance, is an independant music distributor, including one (assuming truth in his post) that is part of the iTunes network, which would suggest to me that he doesn't exactly need any corporate clients, nor would you expect to find any on Slashdot.
Just because someone mentions their company doesn't mean they are trying to sell something to you. This post was actually quite informative, and I'm sure any independant musicians who read it would find it quite a useful service.
Not that you can't get the same service elsewhere, but if you're going to bag out on someone who's trying to promote the independant music industry in an iTunes related thread for 'advertising'.. then you obviously need to find out what real advertising is.
Are those forms to sign up a pop3 box for spam lists around?
I say patenting software is OK, as long as the patent law only allows you to patent certain things in your software that will stay unique to it, so that it doesn't become a case of 'I can't use this function in my competing program because (x) patented it'
Scenes From A Memory is the only DVD (yes, I bought the live version DVD) that I've ever bought, and it was well worth my $40 AUD.
We're talking about an album that you cannot listen to your favourite track from. This is the type of album where every song is a perfect change from the last one. You simply can't listen to it unless you listen from the start.
This is the kind of music I pay for. Not only that, it's in 5.1 Dolby Surround. The RIAA really needs to stop complaining about CD sales, and come up with better quality stuff, maybe then they would sell more. This album is available on CD, but it's not the live version, nor is it 5.1 surround, nor does it come with behind the scenes, nor does it come with extra tracks (might I add, one of the extra tracks is 28 minutes long. I love Change of Seasons.), nor does it sound as good.
The RIAA is old and outdated, can't they accept it?
Artists get an extremely small portion of the revenue but are still somewhat greedy, probably because of the small amount they make. It's more because they've signed for a record label rather than producing and distrubuting themselves.
RIAA is definately a lot greedier, no doubt about that. They're probably the reason that most bands -ARE- bankrupt.
No, it's not pepsi. It's the ridiculously shocking music taste of the shops and the greediness of the artists nowadays.
I don't know about any of you guys, but I wouldn't know of half the artists I do now, nor have anywhere near the diversity in my music collection if it weren't for P2P. If I had of been down at the record store browsing, I'd probably end up listening to Spears or Timberlake, or something as equally shocking.
I said to myself once, I really like this artist, I'm going to go buy his CD so I can contribute to him. Alas, I couldn't find any release with his name on it in my capital city. It's sort of apauling in a way.
I go around to my friends houses and browse through their CD collections, looking for a track that I like, but have trouble finding anything I could remotely listen to. I end up getting pissed off enough that I go back home, and bring my laptop around just so we have decent music to listen to.
What more, most people whom buy CDs couldn't figure out how to turn a computer on, let alone setup a P2P program and download a music track.
We need to stop blaming P2P for the loss of profit, and start providing the quality and diversity of music that P2P does. No wonder P2P is more popular.
Maybe someone wants to do some number crunching on how much bandwidth P2P generates compared to how much music is sold on CD. Maybe also what it is, I'm sure more Spears CDs get sold than Spears MP3s get downloaded.
Side note, the only thing I've ever bought, and that I -HIGHLY- recommend, is Dream Theatre's 'Scenes From A Memory', though I bought the DVD of their live gig in NY 2000. Best money I've ever spent.
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Same chance of coincidence that you were here to give him a hard time about it. That company, from a glance, is an independant music distributor, including one (assuming truth in his post) that is part of the iTunes network, which would suggest to me that he doesn't exactly need any corporate clients, nor would you expect to find any on Slashdot. Just because someone mentions their company doesn't mean they are trying to sell something to you. This post was actually quite informative, and I'm sure any independant musicians who read it would find it quite a useful service. Not that you can't get the same service elsewhere, but if you're going to bag out on someone who's trying to promote the independant music industry in an iTunes related thread for 'advertising'.. then you obviously need to find out what real advertising is. Are those forms to sign up a pop3 box for spam lists around?
I say patenting software is OK, as long as the patent law only allows you to patent certain things in your software that will stay unique to it, so that it doesn't become a case of 'I can't use this function in my competing program because (x) patented it'
I'll bet this is somehow related to the RIAA.
Scenes From A Memory is the only DVD (yes, I bought the live version DVD) that I've ever bought, and it was well worth my $40 AUD. We're talking about an album that you cannot listen to your favourite track from. This is the type of album where every song is a perfect change from the last one. You simply can't listen to it unless you listen from the start. This is the kind of music I pay for. Not only that, it's in 5.1 Dolby Surround. The RIAA really needs to stop complaining about CD sales, and come up with better quality stuff, maybe then they would sell more. This album is available on CD, but it's not the live version, nor is it 5.1 surround, nor does it come with behind the scenes, nor does it come with extra tracks (might I add, one of the extra tracks is 28 minutes long. I love Change of Seasons.), nor does it sound as good. The RIAA is old and outdated, can't they accept it?
Artists get an extremely small portion of the revenue but are still somewhat greedy, probably because of the small amount they make. It's more because they've signed for a record label rather than producing and distrubuting themselves. RIAA is definately a lot greedier, no doubt about that. They're probably the reason that most bands -ARE- bankrupt.
CD sales are down because the atomic weight of boron is ten.
I just can't wait to be walking down the street and seeing someone swinging from a lamp post. Then I'll know the world is crazy.
No, it's not pepsi. It's the ridiculously shocking music taste of the shops and the greediness of the artists nowadays.
I don't know about any of you guys, but I wouldn't know of half the artists I do now, nor have anywhere near the diversity in my music collection if it weren't for P2P. If I had of been down at the record store browsing, I'd probably end up listening to Spears or Timberlake, or something as equally shocking.
I said to myself once, I really like this artist, I'm going to go buy his CD so I can contribute to him. Alas, I couldn't find any release with his name on it in my capital city. It's sort of apauling in a way.
I go around to my friends houses and browse through their CD collections, looking for a track that I like, but have trouble finding anything I could remotely listen to. I end up getting pissed off enough that I go back home, and bring my laptop around just so we have decent music to listen to.
What more, most people whom buy CDs couldn't figure out how to turn a computer on, let alone setup a P2P program and download a music track.
We need to stop blaming P2P for the loss of profit, and start providing the quality and diversity of music that P2P does. No wonder P2P is more popular.
Maybe someone wants to do some number crunching on how much bandwidth P2P generates compared to how much music is sold on CD. Maybe also what it is, I'm sure more Spears CDs get sold than Spears MP3s get downloaded.
Side note, the only thing I've ever bought, and that I -HIGHLY- recommend, is Dream Theatre's 'Scenes From A Memory', though I bought the DVD of their live gig in NY 2000. Best money I've ever spent.
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