Posts by Che Tibby
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Holy crap, Che, some warning?
whoops. i just googled, whacked that shi+ out then disappeared to a couple of hours of meetings.
apologies to all involved.
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</che quietly reflects on the wisdom of the phrase, quit while you're ahead>
but answers question via google
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Usually towards Tibby
</patronising pat on coppery noggin>
it's nice when this sort of native try to speak real good.
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that slagging off blondes mostly applies to women.
you know, when i first read that, it said "shagging off bondes"?
</sexist dyslexia>
the only reasonably funny joke i've heard recently is:
Q. why did palin take her gun to new york?
A. she heard it was a bear market. -
A group of Good People (TM) in Wellington have been working on a project called Freethenet.
link don, link. i've heard rumblings around this idea for awhile now.
i'd gladly put some of this public service paycheque and my spare data cap to that project.
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Now I will say that if you find yourself laughing at the joke for hours and saying things like "yeah, take that Jews" then you maybe missed the joke and should rethink your position.
i still say we lynch the fast-talkin' ginga.
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there have to be some people in the music industry who get the net, on sheer weight of numbers
i think you'll find that they will be the companies that make money because they aren't carrying rights-enforcement costs, or spending money trying to ensure they can externalise to ISPs...
that hype machine example of RBs is a great example of the approach i was hypothesising.
all the bloke has done is changed his business model from "distribution" to "collation". sounds to me like the brother read here comes everybody.
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time spent finding the album, slow download speeds, low quality encoding, incomplete album art and album metadata, all contribute to the "cost" of the download.
damn right. let alone dealing with fake torrents, spyware, malware, etc...
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record labels are still the engine that drives new and established acts.
yeah, i wasn't at all suggesting that you stop recording music. there will probably always in money in distribution. do you have projections on how much the distribution market will shrink if people are downloading your recordings for free?
which takes me to:
The thing that drives me on this is that I fundamentally believe that no one has the right to steal my property, and these bands recorded music is exactly that
again, the problem is the attempted control of the product. you've acknowledged that piracy is a problem, so obviously there is demand for recordings.
this is very left field, but... the pirated recordings must be sourced from legally distributed material (which i acknowledge is a shrinking pool of money). once it's past that point of origin what you actually have is a market that is distributing your recordings for you, at no cost.
personally i don't see that as theft, i see it as suckers saving me money.
the trick is, as you say, monetising the activity an entire generation of internet users takes for granted.
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Do moral pygmies outnumber gingas, then?
depends. how important is morality to pygmies, anyhow?