This was nothing but regular bullying done over the internet.
The equivalent of this is the popular girls in high school convincing the local star to be friendly with the ugly girl, only to humiliate her in the most public fashion possible.
And then the ugly girl takes her glasses off and takes her hair out of the pony tail and she ends up being a stone cold fox and goes to the prom with the local star.
The popular girls are exposed for being mean, cruel bitches and may even end up with a drink being "accidentally" spilled on their dresses at the prom.
Yeah Paul, just like all those ingrate thieving pirate bastards were stealing those $250+ concert tickets over the past few tours!!
And on a side note - for a band who's very carefully crafted their public perception as being a band for social justice and sticking it to the man, do you really want to draw more attention to the fact that U2 are extremely rich and wealthy individuals who really are even more "the man" than some of "the man" they like to point their preachy fingers at from time to time?
Do you really think whining about the fact that your giant pile of money used to be a lot bigger is going to endear U2 to it's fanbase?
The value proposition when it comes to digital music is not exclusively defined by "owning the music" or music files being "DRM free".
The value propositions of a subscription service are:
1) Having access to a vast catalogue of music 2) All you can download 3) Transportable to my portable media player 4) For a low monthly fee
What does $12.99 get you on itunes in one month? 12-13 songs? Songs that you own? Pfft, I go through that many songs in an hour or two.
I have over 1,000 CD's that I "own" and are "DRM free" yet I barely ever listen to them when I can just fire up Napster on my laptop, search the artist and play the album, or, download them to my MP3 player and play them in the car.
I've traded ownership for convenience and I'd hate to see that choice go away.
You can listen to the same music whenever you like? I'd like to hear Lucinda William's "Righteously." The version from "Live at the Filmore", not the studio release. Right now. Where do I tune in to hear that?
I did it in 20 seconds.
Launched Napster and logged into Napster to Go Searched track "Righteously" Search result turned up "Righteously [Live (2003/The Fillmore, San Francisco)]" Clicked play
Thanks for the prod to try this out btw - I hadn't heard the live version of that fabulous song.
And how much was the ipod when it first came out? Wasn't it viewed as a "high end" MP3 player compared to players like Rio etc.? How about the historical price progression of flat panel TV's?
Cutting edge products like this always start out on the low end of the demand curve at high price points. Over time, prices come down and demand picks up.
The key right now is not how many can Apple sell, but can it win the competitive battle in the Swiss-phone market so that when the time comes where price and demand are more properly aligned, it has the mindshare of the market as being the product in the market
to buy.
It's just like the progression with the ipod really.
1) Post new Weird Al video on YouTube
2) ????
3) Profit!!
Except they actually have a #2 here!!
The cancellation of the premiere will likely generate more headlines and more attention (and subsequent searches for the video on YouTube itself) than the actual premiere of the video on AOL itself would have.
Or perhaps I'm giving the marketing folks at the label waaaay to much credit here?
So does that mean your ISP offers you a plan where you can refuse to accept civil proceedings?
Let me guess, the pricing starts at $150,000 per infringement?
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer by some accident starts getting calls for the Movie Phone guy and when after a few attempts he can't figure out the name of the movie George is entering on the phone he says "Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you selected?"
Sounds like these analysts.
They've had a go at actually doing the hard work of coming up with estimates and they were way off on their projections (as anyone who has done financial modelling and forecasting will tell you, that isn't very hard to do) so now they just want Google to tell them what the target numbers should be.
"Why don't you just tell us what your quarterly earnings will be".
And to think that these firms are able to sell their research services for up to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year!!
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This was nothing but regular bullying done over the internet.
The equivalent of this is the popular girls in high school convincing the local star to be friendly with the ugly girl, only to humiliate her in the most public fashion possible.
And then the ugly girl takes her glasses off and takes her hair out of the pony tail and she ends up being a stone cold fox and goes to the prom with the local star. The popular girls are exposed for being mean, cruel bitches and may even end up with a drink being "accidentally" spilled on their dresses at the prom.
Yeah Paul, just like all those ingrate thieving pirate bastards were stealing those $250+ concert tickets over the past few tours!! And on a side note - for a band who's very carefully crafted their public perception as being a band for social justice and sticking it to the man, do you really want to draw more attention to the fact that U2 are extremely rich and wealthy individuals who really are even more "the man" than some of "the man" they like to point their preachy fingers at from time to time? Do you really think whining about the fact that your giant pile of money used to be a lot bigger is going to endear U2 to it's fanbase?
Do you enjoy eating donuts and have a son named Bart and two daughters name Lisa and Maggie?
The value proposition when it comes to digital music is not exclusively defined by "owning the music" or music files being "DRM free".
The value propositions of a subscription service are:
1) Having access to a vast catalogue of music
2) All you can download
3) Transportable to my portable media player
4) For a low monthly fee
What does $12.99 get you on itunes in one month? 12-13 songs? Songs that you own? Pfft, I go through that many songs in an hour or two.
I have over 1,000 CD's that I "own" and are "DRM free" yet I barely ever listen to them when I can just fire up Napster on my laptop, search the artist and play the album, or, download them to my MP3 player and play them in the car.
I've traded ownership for convenience and I'd hate to see that choice go away.
You can listen to the same music whenever you like? I'd like to hear Lucinda William's "Righteously." The version from "Live at the Filmore", not the studio release. Right now. Where do I tune in to hear that?
I did it in 20 seconds.
Launched Napster and logged into Napster to Go
Searched track "Righteously"
Search result turned up "Righteously [Live (2003/The Fillmore, San Francisco)]"
Clicked play
Thanks for the prod to try this out btw - I hadn't heard the live version of that fabulous song.
And how much was the ipod when it first came out? Wasn't it viewed as a "high end" MP3 player compared to players like Rio etc.? How about the historical price progression of flat panel TV's?
Cutting edge products like this always start out on the low end of the demand curve at high price points. Over time, prices come down and demand picks up.
The key right now is not how many can Apple sell, but can it win the competitive battle in the Swiss-phone market so that when the time comes where price and demand are more properly aligned, it has the mindshare of the market as being the product in the market to buy.
It's just like the progression with the ipod really.
1) Post new Weird Al video on YouTube 2) ???? 3) Profit!! Except they actually have a #2 here!! The cancellation of the premiere will likely generate more headlines and more attention (and subsequent searches for the video on YouTube itself) than the actual premiere of the video on AOL itself would have. Or perhaps I'm giving the marketing folks at the label waaaay to much credit here?
So does that mean your ISP offers you a plan where you can refuse to accept civil proceedings? Let me guess, the pricing starts at $150,000 per infringement?
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer by some accident starts getting calls for the Movie Phone guy and when after a few attempts he can't figure out the name of the movie George is entering on the phone he says "Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you selected?"
Sounds like these analysts.
They've had a go at actually doing the hard work of coming up with estimates and they were way off on their projections (as anyone who has done financial modelling and forecasting will tell you, that isn't very hard to do) so now they just want Google to tell them what the target numbers should be.
"Why don't you just tell us what your quarterly earnings will be".
And to think that these firms are able to sell their research services for up to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year!!