[ale] bleeding edge (was why so difficult) <--OT

[Frank Zamenski]

Well, that, and price-gouging. While subjective and argumentative, IMO
commercial music in it's present incarnation is just too expensive. Artist's
of course deserve to be paid, and sure, some are often paid very well
(that's show biz), but the industry as a whole takes a seemingly big profit
margin. When a popular, quality CD goes for $10-12, instead of the
ridiculous $18 or more many places charge, at that point I personally don't
think it worth downloading, but buying, the latter which I prefer for the
obvious sound quality. And regardless of what Metallica and company claims,
when I really like something, I will buy it, sometimes even for inflated
prices. When the industry finally 'gets all that', and as you say rethinks
it's model, is when it will finally curtail pirating. Can't hardly beat mp3
for reviewing new rising stars, though. But BECAUSE of the internet and
mp3's, I've spent MORE money on legit CDs than I have in many many years,
because I had chance to preview many artists. In many cases, a lot of music
I originally found mediocre or blase or whatever had insidiously grown on me
after listening to it awhile. They don't seem to get that, either.

-fgz


> From: "Jim" <jcphil at mindspring.com>
> To: <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 1:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] bleeding edge (was why so difficult)
>

> The MP3 debate could drag on a long time. But the reason there are so
> many "illegal" copies of songs today is that the recording industry
> tried to kill the technology first instead of working with it. The
> entertainment industry fell behind the same way with videocassettes in
> the 70's and they used the same rhetoric then that they use against
> MP3's now. Clearly, videocassettes did not kill the movie industry and
> MP3's won't kill the music business either. What they will do--and are
> doing--is force some lazy executives to rethink their business model.
> But there is no guarantee--legal or otherwise--that any one business
> model will last forever. That's one of the exciting things about the
> evolution of Linux and open source programming.
>
> Agent Durga wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, jiin wrote:
> >
> > > Bleeding edge stuff? hell I am just trying to play mp3's on my box.
> >
> > -mp3s, while a great compromise between quality and file size, are still
> > worthless and unless you own a copy of an album containing the tracks,
are
> > illegal....but i'm very anti-mp3 but it's simply because I have a fairly
> > large music collection....and have spent quite a bit of money on it...
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