11.29.11 Demo leaks, tour buzz rumors, more news

LOL yeah, I love how all these sites rreeeaaaaally want Adam to be the "sex" guy as they are all running with the sex/S&M meme. Hey, better than the "gay" guy's CD!

To clarify my post about illegal dl-ing: I didn't mean to say it has no negative consequences for the industry - of course it does - just for the person doing it. As in, the fear of being fined/prosecuted in non-existent.

To me, that is a big differentiator of why people do it more than shop lifting, for instance. Nowadays stores have video cameras, systems that beep when you walk out the store, etc. Even if the chances are small that you'll be caught, they do exist, and nobody wants to be put to shame like that. Same with swiping a couple of grapes - the shop keeper can see you, or other people (the shame of other people seeing you is a big deterrent, IMO). Chances that anyone will fine/prosecute you for illegally dl-ing music are basically 0. And you do in the privacy of your home where nobody knows what you're doing. So that's why it happens - and hence my suggestions in the earlier post of how the system should/could crack down on this. Frankly, I do not understand why there isn't some bigger effort to stop this. It would be impossible to completely stop it, but I think you could at least put a dent in it. For instance, music dl-ing is much easier to do now than dl-ing movies illegally, because at least there was a concerted effort against that (like I said, DVDs are protected against making copies unless you have a special program, movies come with a written copywright warning, and so on).

I'm not saying it's right. It isn't. I'm offering an analysis of why this is happening.

I suspect we are in the peak heyday of illegal downloading and that soon a method will be developed to charge, even minimally or more probably minimally, for digital music. Take the EMA Queen performance for example, I believe most of the HD and best musical quality downloads stem from the MTV recording that was broadcast to television. If they can't attach a marker which identifies and perhaps degrades the sound, they will be able to soon. Hell, I get adds based on the last item I view at Amazon. And once they do that then the only way to get a decent download will be to charge. Given the amazingly large volume of illegal downloading, if they charged only a nominal fee, say 5 or 10 cents the profit would be huge.

I don't think they have made the switch in their economy of scale reasoning. Record companies and "aural content providers" seem stuck on wanting to charge more for less than charging less for much much more.

Although it has been shown that current music listeners are willing to hear poorer quality recordings, that may be because it is cheap, adequate and they don't have the funds to buy the equipment that produces high fidelity sound. If music companies could develop a way to provide high quality digital sound for use with cheap earbuds then everyone would drop a few pennies and the previous argument would apply; economy of scale.

This, of course, would not stop fan videos at concerts but really, how many artists are actually better in concert than in a recording studio. Those videos are advertising for the artists.

mwp wrote: illegality on its own has close to no impact on an action's moral worth, as far as I'm concerned.

Whew! Now, THAT opens another interesting discussion! Some years back a town in Georgia, in protest to something or other, passed a law that required every household to own a gun. (Foggy on the details, but that is the gist of it.) So, now that the law is on the books, is it immoral/unethical to refuse to own a gun in that city? But not in the city next to it? What about the places where owning a gun is illegal? Does that reverse the morals and ethics involved? And what about our highways, where it is illegal to drive above 55 mph, yet, a vast majority of cars speed by at at least 10 miles above that limit? Is that immoral? Unethical?

The fact is, it is almost impossible to legislate morals and values. IMO, that fact is the starting place if one wants to change behaviors, not the legislative docket. Always has been, and always will be. But, that is a discussion for another forum, not Adamtopia, so I will just stop here.

It's really late here , I have to sleep.


Good night guys!

I expect to see more articles tomorrow about that "sex music" !
There is a new genre coming! SEX MUSIC!