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Did you get out of the Grumpy Bed this morning?
not that Giovanni needs me to speak for him but his comments have never come across as grumpy.
He is focused and direct maybe, but never grumpy, angry or in anyway abusive, and certainly not in comparison to some. -
but let's not ask him...
since when did I wait for you guys to ask me anything before voicing my opinion, like you're in control of the discussion :)
I'm happy to let Giovanni pin you on key points you don't seem to be able to unravel.
Optimal for whom?
Because notoriously nowadays writing a novel or a song is less expensive.
being two good ones.
I've seen the observation that digitisation drastically reduced costs of creating come up again and again. The people who make those comments should ask the people who have been supplying services to creators just how true that is.
Does digitisation allow Islander to write a book any quicker cos one of the main costs for her is covering her living expenses while said book gets written. the only way to reduce the cost of writing the book is to reduce the cost of living expenses.Same with recording. get a comparative budget from a similar level act producing a similar level of expertise album. In this case equipment costs have come down this is true, but expertise costs haven't changed much. A producer is still going to charge the same, a skilled engineer (as opposed to you know it all brother) likewise.
maybe its our expectation of what a recorded work is that has changed. we accept a much rougher level of production, see it as a virtue even. That said there are some appallingly recorded works dumped up on us, all in the name of do it yourself.
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Deal with it instead of resisting it for its own sake.
who's resisting it for its own sake, I think you're imagining my motivation without having the information to make that assumption.
I'm trying to look at the implications of it beyond the simplistic "free equals good". Having conducted a few experiments along these lines in these lines I can tell you its not that simple.
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If you don't adapt, you die.
or in the orchestras case society loses something it sees as important and puts in place measures to preserve.
There is also the notion of directing change so that it best benefits. not all change is good change.
Take ww2 germany, where they were in the process of some really big changes and quite a few people didn't adapt and did die. Pretty hard to argue that change in that circumstance was a good thing.
Change is all well and good, but un-thought out change can be devastating in unpredictable ways.
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Recordings didn't kill live music, neither did radio, television and movies didn't kill live theatre etc.
but they did servery impact on them in a negative way, not dead but a shadow of their former self.
take big bands and orchestras for example. the electric guitar probably impacted directly on that making it easier to produce a big sound for a portion of the cost and people involved.
yet we still have orchestras, heavily subsidized to keep em going, but now pretty much financially un-viable without funding intervention.
apparently that is one piece of progress our governing bodies decided to artificially undo, indicating that perhaps it is ok to take moves to direct progress when the consequence of not doing so would be detrimental to something we see as important. But who's to decide that? -
copyright just means that no-one else can derive that income stream.
or make moves to undermine/circumvent it protection?
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I love trained brains
he is bloody good. I'd buy a book of his musings.
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I think he was pretty clear. Do you think you see some subtext in what Simon said?
I asked specifically assuming legitimate ownership how do you feel about re appropriation.
simon did a paragraph on non legitimate ownership stuff and how he felt it should be returned and then said legitimate owned culture was another matter.
does that mean shouldn't be reclaimed, should be offered to govts first for purchase at market value, should go to the highest bidder, etc etc. -
be much easier to cut the spine off a hardcopy and run it through a scanner.
scan to txt could work but scanning a 500 page book wouldn't be easier unless they've got automated scanning sorted.
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are another matter.
agreed.
care to elaborate?