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kids get music for free but would rather pay for a ringtone...
not giving a shit enough to change the tone my phone rings from a standard vintage bell thing can't you just record a bit of any song into a phone and make that you're ring tone. why would you want to pay for one, or is that not how it works?
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...why not ask a downloading kid what they want and where they see the future, find out if they care about morals and ethics of recordings industry and artists, that sort of shit ???
ther's a minor flaw in that. what downloading kids want and what downloading kids can actually have may well be 2 different things.
what I wanted as a kid was to drink raspberry soft drink and play video games all day. apparently that's not a sustainable career.
and that's what its all about ain't it. sustainability. downloading is all well and good but is it a sustainable model, regardless of what some kid wants to do?most kids won't care about ethics and morals unless they've been bought up to care about such things.
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BTW robbery whatever happened to kevin stokes ???
Robert? I thought that might have been you. :)
That's him on the right in his band souther still. Mostly kiwis in the london singing alt country songs of urban longing. -
Bats did a spectacular set.
They're pretty consistent too, no wasn't at that gig, did minisnap (3/4 bats plus bobs bro and 1 more) the other night though. exceptionally good songs. quintessentially nz as viewed by the outside world.
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And you only spieled about NZ on Air once.
funnily enough a lot have musicians have said that they have been feeling bugged about the state of funding for a long time and after reading that paragraph it suddenly made sense why. it must be true cos its in print, right?
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I don't know who that guy is, honest, he looks far too polite to be me.
speaking of bats, minisnap (minibats) are a self distributed poor artist not eligible for rianz awards and too cheap to fork for the fee,
possibly russells fav the LEDs are in the same boat, and one of my fav's the enright house too, just if you want real world examples of regular kiwi music not in the pot for award recognition. and if I was that guy I would also be too skint to put my own (kimo) work in either, not that we're competing with advert sound tracks anyway. -
comment from the metallica article page :)
screw you metallica. after victimizing your listeners through legislation who 'stole' your music, you want to provide unprotected files for a membership price? I can't wait to download this album for free. hypocrites.
that whole suing your fans thing is misdirected.
stealing from the buy my music article that's like saying the guy trying to shop lift a bottle of wine from your corner store is just a fan or what you stock :)
that's ok though, you can make up for it buy selling some more crisps.
just cos you like something doesn't mean you're in the right when you take it for free. -
On a related note, Metallica who were so abrasive about downloading in the past have a new strategy
Thy don't really have a choice tough as they said in an interview, things are different now, and for a band releasing an album at the end of 2008 this is how it has to be, they're just trying to find their way through it.
They mentioned they were pleased the album was only leaked 2 weeks before release date, meaning it could have been worse.
its the sound of grinning resignation, and slight desperation. -
just saw the NZ Musician thing online..nice
:) ssshhh
you may not have noticed but my full name and gravatar of me as a teenager isn't on here. was a fun article though. -
Are you willing to consider a solution of which DRM is not a part?
that would be this comment here up a few posts.
That said, its all null and void under an isp subscription scheme.
I'm not necessarily pro drm, or anti it. I understand what it's trying to achieve and I can't rightly object to that, which is why I took Russell to task for it, cos if he's so with the musicians then he's making comments and inflaming resentment that hurts those musicians.
here's a pretty accurate link to a quite funny article on an verage musicians perspective on the joy of trying to keep doing what they do.
please buy my musicThat's pretty harsh, I'm willing to bet they are good developers with a very hard, possibly unsolvable problem to solve. At the very least there are too many conflicting stakeholder requirements.
Well they have seemed to have made matters worse, and dvd drm seems to work better, at least on the james bond disc and some other one I rented from alices. Its a tough gig I agree but that's what they're getting paid $150 for two 45 minute sets for, if they want good money they should work in the film industry :)