er, it's been a long day at work and am just catching up on my reading. and i'm a little tired so maybe i'm ot here.
at the risk of sounding like making money is an ok thing, why not create a bunch of local "radio" staions in every town. instead of delivering the internet via yer spanking new airport express, why not sell local adverts?
provide the hosting for the each local wifi connection centrally (hosted on the internet, turn key), and use the same scheme as any of the subscription services use to encourage those who discover their networks from hotelrooms or parks or driving thru to deliver the adverts.
make it turn key for the local entrep. anyone remember a classifieds scheme in the usa called penny something, where every locality had a franchise selling lines to local business vendors and garage sellers? maybe it still exists. maybe they should do this scheme.
buy an airexpress and if you are delivering in the deadzone you have a captive audience. and wifi channel surfers will find you as signals wobble, simply discovering your beautiful signal.
and everyone in the know can chec you out on the internet befire hitting town, or "see" your localxxx-r-us.com while passing thru, maybe finding a cheap hotel or a cheap...
ok, i'm tired, maybe this is a dumb idea or maybe i just don't frequent the right neighbourhoods with my laptop.
1) music's been around forever, only in relatively recent history has it been controlled (by people who purchased the rights from artists) and regulated (via copyright). it could again change in the future, if peeps feel strongly enough to help evolve the process
2) a while back some very cool things began to evolve such as radio, enabling peeps to passively LEARN what they like. recording technology evolved, vinyl became CDs which were more portable and didn't damage as easily. CDs became, well you know
3) the owners of the music developed and influenced the LEARNing process by instilling play-for-pay, station/venue ownership and such, helping to sell their recordings.
4) being intelligent creatures, the record industry figured out "distribution" controls were also key to making money, as is controlling price
5) copying of physical media (i.e., making mix cassettes of hormone-elevating tunes for prospective girlfriends) was a problem in that it created "illegal" copies of recording however the problem was not as massive as what was to come (*genuflects to Karlheinz Brandenburg*)
6) enter the Internet and a data compression routine. it's becomes easy to make digital mixes (and be a...magnet because you can deliver more easily and widely than casettes:), and precious resources such as disk space and bandwidth are cool with that, as is happy our throbbing, music-lovin members (note to self: isn't sex why p2p happened anyway, it had no real roots in music)
7) the recording industry, rightly so, becomes unnerved - not only because the copying problem has worsened but also because their distribution scheme is jeopardised. by halting the copying they might preserve control over distribution - key btw, because distribution control helps price control (will Apple et al get squeezed into raising retail download prices?) as well as audio-format control: "When the old format has lost enough ground, the industry will drop it as a supported format and we'll be stuck with the new. Everyone on/. can see this coming ". the old labels are not dumb at all as perhaps implied by many in "what they should do" comments posted on every music board and blog
8) in a perfectly natural reaction the record industry, that is to say the big old labels, band together to fight off a nasty challenge from an environment that suddenly technologically evolved the rug out from under them.
so what does it all mean? who is right?
a) it only takes one bad guy to break the "protection" technology, enabling others to have music for which they would have otherwise had to pay the record labels. given the inability of a technical solution to sustain the record industry's economic motives, they need an alternative
b) since technical doesn't work, try suing (LEARNing) those who threaten by going after uploaders (and downloaders). fear is a great motivator, it works on many, however not all. it only takes one bad guy to enable those who would rather not pay (for whatever reason, from criminal instinct to inability to pay to pathological addicts). given the inability of a judicial system to sustain the record industry's economic motives, they need an alternative
c) alternatives such as reducing retail prices, and whatever else a reasonable person might consider may be pursued by the record industry, it's their business and it's their call. they know the peeps would like lower prices, that's a given. they just don't believe the model. if they deny this option and they are correct and manage to maintain their economy via technical, judicial and psychological methods then they are smart, by definition. they survived.
d) it's easy to forget that the record industry is made up of a small handful of deep-pockets companies who can act in league via the riaa. these companies own copyrights to a lot of music (and like properties). if we stop the clock for a moment and have another look we can see that this is all history. whereas in he past the
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er, it's been a long day at work and am just catching up on my reading. and i'm a little tired so maybe i'm ot here. at the risk of sounding like making money is an ok thing, why not create a bunch of local "radio" staions in every town. instead of delivering the internet via yer spanking new airport express, why not sell local adverts? provide the hosting for the each local wifi connection centrally (hosted on the internet, turn key), and use the same scheme as any of the subscription services use to encourage those who discover their networks from hotelrooms or parks or driving thru to deliver the adverts. make it turn key for the local entrep. anyone remember a classifieds scheme in the usa called penny something, where every locality had a franchise selling lines to local business vendors and garage sellers? maybe it still exists. maybe they should do this scheme. buy an airexpress and if you are delivering in the deadzone you have a captive audience. and wifi channel surfers will find you as signals wobble, simply discovering your beautiful signal. and everyone in the know can chec you out on the internet befire hitting town, or "see" your localxxx-r-us.com while passing thru, maybe finding a cheap hotel or a cheap... ok, i'm tired, maybe this is a dumb idea or maybe i just don't frequent the right neighbourhoods with my laptop.
got this idea once to market crimped bread sandwiches containing a bean spread. glad i didn't do it now knowing there's prior fart
1) music's been around forever, only in relatively recent history has it been controlled (by people who purchased the rights from artists) and regulated (via copyright). it could again change in the future, if peeps feel strongly enough to help evolve the process :), and precious resources such as disk space and bandwidth are cool with that, as is happy our throbbing, music-lovin members (note to self: isn't sex why p2p happened anyway, it had no real roots in music) /. can see this coming ". the old labels are not dumb at all as perhaps implied by many in "what they should do" comments posted on every music board and blog
2) a while back some very cool things began to evolve such as radio, enabling peeps to passively LEARN what they like. recording technology evolved, vinyl became CDs which were more portable and didn't damage as easily. CDs became, well you know
3) the owners of the music developed and influenced the LEARNing process by instilling play-for-pay, station/venue ownership and such, helping to sell their recordings.
4) being intelligent creatures, the record industry figured out "distribution" controls were also key to making money, as is controlling price
5) copying of physical media (i.e., making mix cassettes of hormone-elevating tunes for prospective girlfriends) was a problem in that it created "illegal" copies of recording however the problem was not as massive as what was to come (*genuflects to Karlheinz Brandenburg*)
6) enter the Internet and a data compression routine. it's becomes easy to make digital mixes (and be a...magnet because you can deliver more easily and widely than casettes
7) the recording industry, rightly so, becomes unnerved - not only because the copying problem has worsened but also because their distribution scheme is jeopardised. by halting the copying they might preserve control over distribution - key btw, because distribution control helps price control (will Apple et al get squeezed into raising retail download prices?) as well as audio-format control: "When the old format has lost enough ground, the industry will drop it as a supported format and we'll be stuck with the new. Everyone on
8) in a perfectly natural reaction the record industry, that is to say the big old labels, band together to fight off a nasty challenge from an environment that suddenly technologically evolved the rug out from under them.
so what does it all mean? who is right?
a) it only takes one bad guy to break the "protection" technology, enabling others to have music for which they would have otherwise had to pay the record labels. given the inability of a technical solution to sustain the record industry's economic motives, they need an alternative
b) since technical doesn't work, try suing (LEARNing) those who threaten by going after uploaders (and downloaders). fear is a great motivator, it works on many, however not all. it only takes one bad guy to enable those who would rather not pay (for whatever reason, from criminal instinct to inability to pay to pathological addicts). given the inability of a judicial system to sustain the record industry's economic motives, they need an alternative
c) alternatives such as reducing retail prices, and whatever else a reasonable person might consider may be pursued by the record industry, it's their business and it's their call. they know the peeps would like lower prices, that's a given. they just don't believe the model. if they deny this option and they are correct and manage to maintain their economy via technical, judicial and psychological methods then they are smart, by definition. they survived.
d) it's easy to forget that the record industry is made up of a small handful of deep-pockets companies who can act in league via the riaa. these companies own copyrights to a lot of music (and like properties). if we stop the clock for a moment and have another look we can see that this is all history. whereas in he past the