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Post by nica575 on Nov 29, 2011 18:18:35 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2011 18:19:02 GMT -5
I find it interesting that because there is currently no way to regulate illegal downloads which makes it hard to get "caught" makes it okay to do it. But, what about one's conscience? Just because something is possible doesn't make it right. We can all make up excuses to ease our conscience but in the end, no matter how you want to look at it, we've performed an illegal act. , if you ever want to read something interesting along these lines, check out a book I just love, "Deep Survival" by Laurence Gonzales. It looks like an outdoors book, but what it's really about is the science of risk-taking. One of the things he writes about is how, when we get away with something ... whether it is running a traffic light, downloading a file, or hotdogging on the ski slopes ... we create a neural pathway in the brain that says, "That went OK." Pretty soon, we're doing it all the time without a second thought. Nonotme -- I hate the "content provider" thing too. Besides writing for peanuts, I work in a library ... where the reference desk is now called "Information Services." Library degrees are now "Information" degrees. My main job there is also to write historical materials highlighting our collections. I have been asked to create a procedures manual for my writing. As in what? STEP 1: Start Microsoft Word. STEP 2: Write a bunch of stuff. I feel like starting with STEP 1: Acquire critical thinking skills, the ability to gather and synthesize knowledge, and the ability to reshape that knowledge into verbal form for a specific audience within set parameters. STEP 2: Start Microsoft Word. LOL. I think to the record company, Adam and other artists are just "content providers." As if their talent is only incidental to the product being sold. Well, in some ways in may actually be a survival guide  I'll try and find a copy. Now the question is, "Library? Bookstore? Digital Download?" Someone once used this analogy with me when it came to my swearing. I had picked up and become very comfortable using the f**k word. A word that my parents most definitely had never used and one that I never dared to say out loud. But, once I did start using it (all the time) I found that nothing bad came of it -- an eye roll once in a great while -- nothing really. So, I used it ALOT. I found it was harder to try and stop using it then it ever was to start using it. |
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Post by animated on Nov 29, 2011 18:19:30 GMT -5
If you want to ponder more on illegal downloading and effect on Music industry sales. you might want to read this article: Although published in 2004 , still makes some sense. In the world I am in, IPR ( Intellectual Property RIghts ) is a reality and part of the business core , and we have discussed this .... and policing is good ... but the best is to keep your business ahead by being the first to come up with unique ideas, unique looks and unique sounds... pretty soon after your idea is on the market, someone other folks will reproduce permutations of it... but being first will have its windfall .... . hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4206.htmlMusic Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?Internet music piracy not only doesn't hurt legitimate CD sales, it may even boost sales of some types of music.
Those were the counterintuitive findings released in March by Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and his co-author Koleman SHeWhoCannot amedf, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their paper, "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales," caused a ruckus in the music industry not seen since the British invasion of the Beatles
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Our research shows that people do not download entire CDs. They download a few songs, typically the hits that one would also hear on a Top 40 station. This suggests that P2P is much like the radio, a great tool to promote new music. The music industry has of course long recognized that giving away samples of music for free over the airwaves can stimulate sales. The same seems to hold for P2P.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2011 18:22:11 GMT -5
Peeps on Twitter are happy bc apparently that tkradio twitter or the hot 99.5 twitter is from a DC station PD and that DC basically shunned WWFM until it peaked or something. Sooo I guess this is good then? IDK I didn't follow tat crap last go around.. YESSS. I was JUST about to post about this, because I used to live in DC and that DJ basically freakin hated Adam's music the first era. So that's a good sign. ReallY? Wow! That is so great to hear. I am definitely feeling less resitance to Adam Lambert this go round! |
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Post by nica575 on Nov 29, 2011 18:26:39 GMT -5
all categories in one place: page 1: Best Festival Performance - I wrote Adam Lambert - Moscow, Maxidrom page 2: Best Awards Show Performance - Adam Lambert with Queen, EMAs (Most Overrated Artist - Justin Bieber) Best Fashion - Adam Lambert Hottest Couple - Adam Lambert and Sauli Koskinen Most Anticipated Album of 2012 - Adam Lambert unlimited voting? - urggg...  |
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Post by adamfanem on Nov 29, 2011 18:37:11 GMT -5
Sort of OT, but I would be super happy to buy a cd, dvd or download of the Adam/Queen performance, and I'm sure a few thousand others would, too. It's a shame all the suits can't figure out a way to do this. With today's technology, a first class edited version could have been available within hours, perhaps from MTV, but what do I know?Drive by post here but this sums up part of the problem with illegal downloads IMHO. If I could have purchased such a thing I would! But alas, no... so what to do. Let it die away unheard or appreciated or jump fast while the gettin is good. I hope there gets to be a better balance. TPTB put up good HD content fast so people can have access in a timely manner - instead of how is it now where if you don't find a way to download it could be lost forever. The Adam/Queen EMA is an example. How can people share with new potential fans or listen on their MP3 player when there is not channel with which to purchase. I think the blame lies both with people who do non-sactioned DL but also TPTB that don't yet know how to make smaller sums of money but more often by being faster on the draw - so to speak. I have no problem purchase music when there is the outlet for said purchase. But when history is being made and will vanish because there is no purchase outlet - well the people fastest to the scene will be the one who help preserve the moment for others to share in. Right or wrong? The pendulum seems to swing far and wide before landing somewhere reasonable. I love the gifting thread idea. I too now have means to gift and share but was not always the case. RE: Adam and Olympics - agree if the opportunity came along it would be foolish to let it slide. And yes I think it is possible *fingers crossed* |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2011 18:53:01 GMT -5
all categories in one place: page 1: Best Festival Performance - I wrote Adam Lambert - Moscow, Maxidrom page 2: Best Awards Show Performance - Adam Lambert with Queen, EMAs (Most Overrated Artist - Justin Bieber) Best Fashion - Adam Lambert Hottest Couple - Adam Lambert and Sauli Koskinen Most Anticipated Album of 2012 - Adam Lambert unlimited voting? - urggg... ME TOO! ME TOO  |
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Post by adamfanem on Nov 29, 2011 18:55:12 GMT -5
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.  THIS is what I was getting at up-thread but you said it so much better:-) |
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Post by adamme on Nov 29, 2011 19:02:52 GMT -5
milestougeaux Miles Tougeaux @adamlambert don't forget if U R coerced into an Xmas song go with O Holy Night & th big note - none of that wimpy secular shit OMG... not sure what Dadbert mean with this, and I'm not a Christian... BUT.. BUT.. I would cry (happy cry) if he sings O Holy Night or Santa Comes to Town 8-) |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2011 19:07:48 GMT -5
milestougeaux Miles Tougeaux @adamlambert don't forget if U R coerced into an Xmas song go with O Holy Night & th big note - none of that wimpy secular shit OMG... not sure what Dadbert mean with this, and I'm not a Christian... BUT.. BUT.. I would cry (happy cry) if he sings O Holy Night or Santa Comes to Town 8-) My guess on this would be that Adam might be doing some Christmas show. OR, Dadbert is just being a wise ass! Probably the latter! |
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I'll try and find a copy. Now the question is, "Library? Bookstore? Digital Download?" Someone once used this analogy with me when it came to my swearing. I had picked up and become very comfortable using the f**k word. A word that my parents most definitely had never used and one that I never dared to say out loud. But, once I did start using it (all the time) I found that nothing bad came of it -- an eye roll once in a great while -- nothing really. So, I used it ALOT. I found it was harder to try and stop using it then it ever was to start using it. 
seem stuck on wanting to charge more for less than charging less for much much more.
