Posts by Russell Brown
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New Key:
As Labour has discovered, this sort of thing is expensive and difficult to pull off.
But I wish people would stop talking about a youth crime wave on the basis of the usual January headlines. The youth offending rate has been level for at least the last five years.
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Mad props for Amy, that was hysterical.
I thought about responding in kind, but I lack the education.
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But Craig is once again right, the guy's prose just isn't up to this level of vitriol. Evelyn Waugh? He's not even PJ O'Rourke.
Burn!!
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Bruce Hoult informs me that Olivia Suicide (aka Olivia Ball), the site's former programming lead (and model) is ... ta-da! -- a New Zealander. Kiwi pride.
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Woah. QTrax. Freaky.
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(Memo to Self: practice agreeing with people. You'll get better with practice)
LOL.
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How about zero tolerance for knife-wielding vigilantes, Mr Brown?
That would be Mr Jamieson. But I think he agreed with you too.
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Thats my real world example. it actually happened. I think that trumps your speculation until you can come up with some figures to prove your point.
Well, as I pointed out, major labels now willingly countenance the free delivery of music under circumstances their lawyers still insist amount to theft, because, in the end, it increases sales.
But let's take an example closer to home. I could restrict access to Public Address to paying subscribers -- and call it, say, "Public Address Premium Content". But then I'd devalue my proposition to advertisers, and to the people willing to pay, who would find the community contributing to discussions considerably smaller than had been the case. And someone would just find a way to get around it anyway.
So I give it away. And I actually give it away quite a lot outside Public Address. I talk to five different radio stations (at the same time as I make paid radio content) because it's good marketing. It's just network economics.
If I was in charge of an important New Zealand catalogue, I'd immediately lose any hangup about DRM, get it on emusic, give away a track or two at least once a month, and look at creative ways to add value. I reckon I'd make a decent go of it.
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it was 5 copies and no pirating, then it was wear a few downloaders, ( a few sounds very friendly and non threatening) now its 10,000 downloaders (the correct ratio if we are to believe what we read).
Let's say a million freeloaders, but still 500 vs 50 sales. Same thing. The number of people who get it for free shouldn't matter if it means you sell 10 times as many copies.
And, by their own terms, nearly everyone already gives away music, via YouTube, MySpace, last.fm, etc. It's called marketing.
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I'd agree with the qualification that I don't know anyone who admits to watching Motorway Patrol et. al.
I do! Motorway Patrol is awesome.
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