"The reason why the record companies are scared of Apple is that they might become too big. Not because they will usurp the record companies "role,""
Yes and no. You are right Apple is a reseller of music but there is a subtle difference. Increasingly Apple are building tools for creating digital music and putting them in the hands of musicians for ever decreasing prices. You don't need a studio to create your DDD master anymore. When the day comes that the artists can create content for cheap, and Apple can provide them with a cheap distribution method, they have become something more than just a reseller.
Artist takes his album to Apple (possibly created on a Mac with Logic and other tools) and says "Can you sell this for me?". Apple can take that one file and sell it an infinite number of times, no studio was required, no physical media was required, no record executive was required.
Yes you are right that Apple may become too big for the label's liking, but the labels should also be scared that Apple are slowly but surely removing the need for physical media - unless you count the iPod of course;-) If you don't think the record labels have a vested interest in physical media why do you think they are called "labels"?
There were always other places to get legal files for your iPod, why you could have even made your own with Garage Band.
Or you could have purchased DRM-free 192K VBR MP3s from emusic.com which keeps getting better by the day. Even with the least volume plan songs are only 25 cents each (33 Aussie cents!)
Even if you use the Aussie iTMS check emusic first, you might be surprised.
Actually he might be more clued up than you think.
TWO GigE ports means that you could assign two IP addresses on each PowerMac, one for the "real" network and one for the "grid" network. Assuming these are separate layer-3 networks. Your Mac Will then be able to talk to both networks simultaneously. If the Mac had one GigE port only then you would in-fact need a router between the two networks to do that.
So the original poster is quite right. The two GigE ports allow you to set up a second "grid" network for cheap, without the need for a router.
The RIAA today announced that they will be demanding royalties from every RIAA related story appearing on slashdot.
An RIAA spokesman today announced "These slashdot stories are related to us and we should have a cut and anyway you could be buying CDs instead of reading this story so you owe me $13.99 and if you don't pay that then I'll take you to court and sue for 20 Million dollars and if you don't pay that then I'll sue your kids and your dog too."
I'm a 38 year old who has worked in IT for 20 years now and have a fair idea about how a lot of technology works.
Having said that if technology was limited to ONLY what I understand then the current "tech-tree" would not be any near as large as it is today. I would consider myself expert in some fields but in others, I'm just a user.
I think "techno-geezers" may be over estimating exactly how much of the technology they understand. You get the impression from some of these comments that us old guys built the Internet and all related technologies with our bare hands.
The world moves on, feel great about contributions you have made in the past and then go make some more. Wishing for things to stay the same is like hoping your own achievements will remain the pinnacle of technology, well they won't be. Whinging about how things were better in the past is only an excuse to let yourself live there. Continue to learn and continue to try new tech, you never know it might be useful.
No I'm not confusing the act of duplication with original creation. My point was that there did use to be value in the media itself, now there is not.
A fair point about the inflation but my original point still stands. The Music industry chose the path of digitization because it offered a premium over vinyl. In fact initial CD prices were closer to $20! (See http://www.azoz.com/riaa/pr/CDValueStudy2002.pdf ) when Vinyl was about $8. I'm not sure I would call the CD in "freefall" but you are right that it has decreased in real terms. Probably to the point of what Vinyl would be today which at the time of CD release was around the $8 mark. In real terms that would be close to $13 by now.
The thing is the price of creating digital music has been in freefall too. In 1983 virtually no one could digitally create a professional album in their home. Now almost anyone can create a DDD master with a PC or Mac!
No, these guys saw a chance to charge more for digital format and they took it. They let the genie out of the bottle and now want the law to protect them from this shortsightedness. It would be like displaying your content in the sky and expecting people not to look up unless they had paid. It's digital, it's virtually in the air.
Yes, thank goodness for Apple who has shown them that there is a better way, notice that the geniuses at the record companies want to change the pricing model for greater profits now.
The RIAA are attempting to contain the uncontainable - and it's their own fault.
No matter what they like to say many, many people do not believe that copyright infringement is the same as theft.
Combine this with a media format that can be copied in seconds and you have a problem.
How did the poor recording industry end up in this mess? Greed and shortsightedness.
They had a format that could not be copied easily. Vinyl was the clearly superior sounding format of the day. For music lovers a tape copy simply would not do. People could not afford to create their own records. Even the inferior tape copies could only be created from the vinyl in actual time. So people bought the original. They weren't buying the "rights to the song", they were buying the media!
Enter the CD. Better sound quality but people did not have the capability to copy it perfectly - at first. The CD came out at a price that was a PREMIUM over vinyl. Why? Because the format was BETTER QUALITY, we were told. The recording industry was happy to be selling "media format" when it suited them. We the consumers were told that the price would drop as the production costs of CDs came down. Well, I can produce a CD for about 25 cents in my house now. So why am I paying at least 50 times the price that I could produce the thing for? Where is the price reduction that was promised? It never came.
So now the RIAA have a problem. The media is now worth squat and we can make our own perfect copies for virtually nothing. Plan B - copyright violation and suing 13 year olds.
Great idea guys, sue your user base. Worse still, sue the user base who couldn't afford to buy the stuff now anyway but may be inclined to in the future IF you hadn't completely soured their musical experience when they were young by taking them to court for listening to Jay-Z.
Get a clue. Reduce your prices. Encourage artists to make money from concerts (wow, imagine, performers, performing!). Find a superior format again and make it worth buying. You are trying to contain a product that can be perfectly reproduced in seconds, from anywhere in the world, to anywhere in the world, for free. People find it hard to believe it's stealing. Good luck with your business.
This new Ditty is a great addition to Dell music player line up. It manages to capture all the style of it's larger siblings whilst being small enough not to consume too much warehouse space it is destined to need...
Actually Apple have a history of being closely involved in processor design. They were part owners of ARM and had hands-on involvement in design. They were also part of the original PowerPC consortium along with IBM and Motorola.
As for what Apple knows about music production, everyday that passes sees more Apple hardware and software being used in music production. In fact you could create an album entirely on a Mac and distribute it exclusively on iTunes. No traditional record company required.
"Who would really be interested in Captain France? A guy that dresses up like a croissant, runs away from German bad guys and blames all his problems on Captain America. Would make for a short, annoying movie..."
I guess that makes Captain America the guy who uses his powers of obesity and mastery of the cable television remote control to smite the evil copyright infringers by securing enough oil for his superpowers through offering democracy or a hell of a good spanking with his oversize bible. Would make for years and years of content on CNN.
I'm not sure the CEOs will be too concerned about 1/2 a dozen slashdotters not investing their hundreds of dollars in their billion dollar corporations either...
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"The reason why the record companies are scared of Apple is that they might become too big. Not because they will usurp the record companies "role,""
;-) If you don't think the record labels have a vested interest in physical media why do you think they are called "labels"?
Yes and no. You are right Apple is a reseller of music but there is a subtle difference. Increasingly Apple are building tools for creating digital music and putting them in the hands of musicians for ever decreasing prices. You don't need a studio to create your DDD master anymore. When the day comes that the artists can create content for cheap, and Apple can provide them with a cheap distribution method, they have become something more than just a reseller.
Artist takes his album to Apple (possibly created on a Mac with Logic and other tools) and says "Can you sell this for me?". Apple can take that one file and sell it an infinite number of times, no studio was required, no physical media was required, no record executive was required.
Yes you are right that Apple may become too big for the label's liking, but the labels should also be scared that Apple are slowly but surely removing the need for physical media - unless you count the iPod of course
"Send them a message: do not use this service. Buy a physical CD instead"
Actually that is EXACTLY the message they want...
IF you want to send them a message go and buy DRM-free 192K VBR MP3s from emusic.com for 33 Aussie cents each.
There were always other places to get legal files for your iPod, why you could have even made your own with Garage Band.
Or you could have purchased DRM-free 192K VBR MP3s from emusic.com which keeps getting better by the day. Even with the least volume plan songs are only 25 cents each (33 Aussie cents!)
Even if you use the Aussie iTMS check emusic first, you might be surprised.
Actually he might be more clued up than you think.
TWO GigE ports means that you could assign two IP addresses on each PowerMac, one for the "real" network and one for the "grid" network. Assuming these are separate layer-3 networks. Your Mac Will then be able to talk to both networks simultaneously. If the Mac had one GigE port only then you would in-fact need a router between the two networks to do that.
So the original poster is quite right. The two GigE ports allow you to set up a second "grid" network for cheap, without the need for a router.
A good observation and a good feature.
Correct me if I'm wrong but DVDs do have DRM don't they?
They have region control and encryption.
It's just that it's trivial to break.
Maybe we should have a second category, A-DRM for ATTEMPTED DRM.
DVDs have A-DRM. I'm sure the ITunes episodes will also have A-DRM before too much longer as well.
... or are you just happy to see me?
Don't forget to take the "pyramid like object" off the PSP before putting back in your pocket.
The RIAA today announced that they will be demanding royalties from every RIAA related story appearing on slashdot.
An RIAA spokesman today announced "These slashdot stories are related to us and we should have a cut and anyway you could be buying CDs instead of reading this story so you owe me $13.99 and if you don't pay that then I'll take you to court and sue for 20 Million dollars and if you don't pay that then I'll sue your kids and your dog too."
You know iPod works with MP3 too. Good old fashioned, grab from and play.
iPod has over 80% of the player market.
You might like to think about that before removing your only avenue for a DRMed version of your product that works with iPod.
I'm a 38 year old who has worked in IT for 20 years now and have a fair idea about how a lot of technology works.
Having said that if technology was limited to ONLY what I understand then the current "tech-tree" would not be any near as large as it is today. I would consider myself expert in some fields but in others, I'm just a user.
I think "techno-geezers" may be over estimating exactly how much of the technology they understand. You get the impression from some of these comments that us old guys built the Internet and all related technologies with our bare hands.
The world moves on, feel great about contributions you have made in the past and then go make some more. Wishing for things to stay the same is like hoping your own achievements will remain the pinnacle of technology, well they won't be. Whinging about how things were better in the past is only an excuse to let yourself live there. Continue to learn and continue to try new tech, you never know it might be useful.
Appreciate the past, but don't live there.
No I'm not confusing the act of duplication with original creation. My point was that there did use to be value in the media itself, now there is not.
A fair point about the inflation but my original point still stands. The Music industry chose the path of digitization because it offered a premium over vinyl. In fact initial CD prices were closer to $20! (See http://www.azoz.com/riaa/pr/CDValueStudy2002.pdf ) when Vinyl was about $8. I'm not sure I would call the CD in "freefall" but you are right that it has decreased in real terms. Probably to the point of what Vinyl would be today which at the time of CD release was around the $8 mark. In real terms that would be close to $13 by now.
The thing is the price of creating digital music has been in freefall too. In 1983 virtually no one could digitally create a professional album in their home. Now almost anyone can create a DDD master with a PC or Mac!
No, these guys saw a chance to charge more for digital format and they took it. They let the genie out of the bottle and now want the law to protect them from this shortsightedness. It would be like displaying your content in the sky and expecting people not to look up unless they had paid. It's digital, it's virtually in the air.
Yes, thank goodness for Apple who has shown them that there is a better way, notice that the geniuses at the record companies want to change the pricing model for greater profits now.
The RIAA are attempting to contain the uncontainable - and it's their own fault.
No matter what they like to say many, many people do not believe that copyright infringement is the same as theft.
Combine this with a media format that can be copied in seconds and you have a problem.
How did the poor recording industry end up in this mess? Greed and shortsightedness.
They had a format that could not be copied easily. Vinyl was the clearly superior sounding format of the day. For music lovers a tape copy simply would not do. People could not afford to create their own records. Even the inferior tape copies could only be created from the vinyl in actual time. So people bought the original. They weren't buying the "rights to the song", they were buying the media!
Enter the CD. Better sound quality but people did not have the capability to copy it perfectly - at first. The CD came out at a price that was a PREMIUM over vinyl. Why? Because the format was BETTER QUALITY, we were told. The recording industry was happy to be selling "media format" when it suited them. We the consumers were told that the price would drop as the production costs of CDs came down. Well, I can produce a CD for about 25 cents in my house now. So why am I paying at least 50 times the price that I could produce the thing for? Where is the price reduction that was promised? It never came.
So now the RIAA have a problem. The media is now worth squat and we can make our own perfect copies for virtually nothing. Plan B - copyright violation and suing 13 year olds.
Great idea guys, sue your user base. Worse still, sue the user base who couldn't afford to buy the stuff now anyway but may be inclined to in the future IF you hadn't completely soured their musical experience when they were young by taking them to court for listening to Jay-Z.
Get a clue. Reduce your prices. Encourage artists to make money from concerts (wow, imagine, performers, performing!). Find a superior format again and make it worth buying. You are trying to contain a product that can be perfectly reproduced in seconds, from anywhere in the world, to anywhere in the world, for free. People find it hard to believe it's stealing. Good luck with your business.
Gee, if they don't want people to use Limewire why don't they just stop making it?
Wow.
The terrorist no longer need to target the tube, the police have taken over the job of scaring the general populace.
This new Ditty is a great addition to Dell music player line up. It manages to capture all the style of it's larger siblings whilst being small enough not to consume too much warehouse space it is destined to need...
I didn't say they were capable of designing a processor. However they clearly know something about processors.
I didn't say they would produce hit artists. However they clearly understand the music market quite well.
Actually Apple have a history of being closely involved in processor design. They were part owners of ARM and had hands-on involvement in design. They were also part of the original PowerPC consortium along with IBM and Motorola.
As for what Apple knows about music production, everyday that passes sees more Apple hardware and software being used in music production. In fact you could create an album entirely on a Mac and distribute it exclusively on iTunes. No traditional record company required.
The world is changing.
That's not a Mac-Bash at all. It's a succinct description of one reason why it's great to be a Mac owner.
When the Mac Market share hits, say 25%, I'll re-evaluate my platform choice.
They have one, it's called a "one botton mouse" :-)
"Who would really be interested in Captain France? A guy that dresses up like a croissant, runs away from German bad guys and blames all his problems on Captain America. Would make for a short, annoying movie..."
I guess that makes Captain America the guy who uses his powers of obesity and mastery of the cable television remote control to smite the evil copyright infringers by securing enough oil for his superpowers through offering democracy or a hell of a good spanking with his oversize bible. Would make for years and years of content on CNN.
As a Mac user I have always been impressed with Blizzard. Some of the greatest games of all time and all available as dual format Windows/Mac.
Congratulations on their WOW success.
I'm not sure the CEOs will be too concerned about 1/2 a dozen slashdotters not investing their hundreds of dollars in their billion dollar corporations either...
...there is a good chance he is wrong
"I don't mean to spoil the joy"
Yes you do.
No, you are looking at that the wrong way. The coffee is what is keeping these incredibly unhealthy people in cubicles alive!