Posts by giovanni tiso
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But yes Matthew, no one is certain what will happen in the future
but I daresay it must be pleasant to be in the cosy situation of taking that position when your ability to be able to feed and clothe your children is not at stake. Unfortunately, many of us don't have that luxury.And even if you're not in the industry anyone who sees value in the art form ought to be pretty damn concerned too.
Thank you sir.
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And as I asked Kyle, what's good and what's bad? If more people are making a living income, but those who're currently making heaps start making less, is that a net good or a net bad? Because that's what is being seen in music at present. More artists are getting more exposure and making money from what they love doing. The big names are making less, certainly, but those at the bottom are making more. Do we define good as merely what's good for those who've made it to the top? Or do we define it as bringing depth and width to the pool of artists who can live on the income they get from being artists?
See, now you're talking, but in fact it makes no difference if all you're prepared to do is wait for the game to play itself out and see if in fact the good outweighs the bad. We need to be involved and insist that value judgments like the ones you just proposed be made every step of the way, including whether it is right - and not just inevitable - that music films and books should be downloaded for free, or that the key functions of distribution of the content should be transfered wholesale from the publishers that used to move the plastic discs to the telcos that move the digital bits.
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Why not? I don't say the issues are simple, I say there's a simple solution. Your picture is of simple issues, when I can point to unquestionable evidence that counters your argument. Can you point to any evidence to counter my "adapt or die" position?
You make it sound like yours is not an ideological position, but it is. Your rather shrill contention that downloading somebody's music for free isn't a form of theft proves it very conclusively. This ideology worries me just about as much as its opposite, which you cartoonishly identify with evil "media moguls". We need to have a very serious debate about how society and consumers should reward artists, so that we can have a say in the new world order that is around the corner, and not just wait and see what happens, letting technology and the free markets lay an industry to waste in the process.
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That's reality, and that makes for a rather murkier picture than the one you're painting.
Hey, you're the "adapt or die" guy. You don't get to tell people they're being too simplistic.
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Gio, what has been taken? The work is still theirs, still intact, still available for sale.
If there is a channel that enables you to take somebody's work for free, then no, it's no longer accurate to say that it's available for sale. And what's happened is theft, of a worse kind in fact than the mere theft of money or objects.
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And then we get into a whole new can of worms. One of the reasons that I get royally peeved with the downloading==theft argument is that theft, as defined in law, requires that someone be deprived of possession of their property. If I download a copy of a song, who have I deprived of property?
The capitalist credo notwithstanding, your wealth is your work. Take away somebody's work, you've done a damage far more irreparable than if you had deprived them of property (which, after all, can always be replaced).
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I personally think the blogosphere trumps all, because it masquerades psychologically as potentially useful.
It is useful. But then so is gaming.
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My very thought.
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That night, also at James Cabaret, he walked out into the spotlight to start the show, leaned into the mic, said "This is for Dan" and played Bradman for me
What a moment!
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Yes, but even a Kindle is still an object. What a Kindle most decidedly is not is vaguely book-like.
I found it quite book-lilke actually. Certainly more than I expected. The page surface was very impressive.
My mother has a house full of books, but her eyesight has deteriorated to the point that she can't read most of them anymore. If she could just increase the size of the font it would be quite literally a new lease on life.