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That statement is quite inaccurate.
if you pay for a download its playable on the platform you down load it on. its copying it to other platforms that is the issue, correct?
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Zune
smirk
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and your mention of disc covers, have you seen the new redesign?
There are no track listings on the outside of the cover. If you've got the disc in the player and want to know what track 10 is you have to either eject the dic and read it on the label or pull the booklet out of the slimline tray and locate it inside the sleeve. Slim line booklets being much more irritating to slide in and out.
They do however have a giant NZ on air logo on the outward facing page in the booklet, where customarily you would have the tracklistings for easy access, and I would have thought easy access was way up on the list so as not to piss off programmers delicate sensibilities. That's a free pointer for the hitdisc people.I've just seen the new hit disc and low and behold they redesigned it to remove the giant logo and install an easily readable track list on the inside cover.
Why is it it took em 5 months to fix this mistake, was it anything to do with me mentioning it? and if so why am I not on the payroll? -
you don't have to screw over your hardware to play the thing.
you can play the thing just fine, its copying it that's difficult. for the one small advantage to some legit purchasers it causes a very large disadvantage to the music producer.. I would think that was an easily acknowledgeable point, but apparently not.
but more importantly, who wants to see some early eighties RB footage? I've been digitising my long treasured vhs (DRM Free) and heaven knows why but there are 2 chunks of RB interview on there, leather jacket cool, attitude set to 11 etc.
I could be persuaded to 'lose' them if RB admits he loves drm. -
DRM-free
you say that like its some kind of selling point advantage to the legitimate purchaser.
DRM Free is for those who avoid paying and the odd person with multiplatform listening devices. but we know this don't we russell.Aside from that I've got a present for you, RWP, interview with dick driver ring any bells?
coming to a you tube near you soon, in glorious DRM free 80's damaged VHS. you can start the hatin' now. -
doesn't it knock your efforts for six
What also might knock someone for six is how you even know about this guy?
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You take that and multiply it by the free Pitchfork sampler on Emusic ...
What were the figures on the PA /Amplifier comps? those 2 you did.
I've found download sales to me fairly disappointing. for my 40 albums it was a mere couple of hundred dollars over 2 and a half years.
I guess we're not quite at 'digital downloads wipes out real world sales' just yet, maybe its different for different genres. -
I wonder what a good review on Pitchforkmedia sells
disturbingly few for some.
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Small Wonder 7''s you mentioned earlier.
they acted as a distributor for a lot of indie labels at the time. not just their own releases. I used to get a nice 8 pg catalogue with every order.
I'm much rather have a solid copy too, i'm not into the download thing much at all. but then what to do with a life time of collected records and discs. pretty hard to travel with that lot unless you've got a nice mum who lets you store em at her house.definitely internet sales have increased overseas purchases but not exponentially, and funnily enough the people that are mostly buying them are ex pat kiwis searching the net for slices of their home country.
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except now you can sell it to the world. 6 billion sets of ears over 3 million works for me anytime.
true that, that other market was always there though, contactable through reviews in foreign mags and mail order. That's how I bought my rare discs. sent away for them.
And all it takes is a website and a bit of creative marketing.
you say that last bit (creative marketing) like its easy :)