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Hint | by PvH | 2000-08-27 01:32:10 |
| RE: Hint |
by lcd1701 |
2000-08-27 03:36:35 |
| PvH wrote:
>If you didnīt get the joke,
>please read the following slashdot article:
>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/23/0212232&mode=thread
What is strange after reading this article, is that while Heckler (some last name) vehemently argues how Sony will stop Napster (which, as he explains it reading word for word on how to firewall them to the point of home invasion of your PC is 200% unconstitutional and would throw any regular Joe in jail for years) from providing illegal dups of copyrighted music, in his next breath he acknowledges the fact that older technologies such as the VCR "..will be around for a long time."
Hey Stevie, guess what.. those same VCRs can just as easily duplicate 100-fold moves you guys put out simply via one easy rental from a video store. Plus, those movies sell for anywhere from 2 to 3 times more.
Some people seriously need to just think.
There are even at least one musician who acknowledges that the next step of promoting their new music would be via the Internet. He stated something to the fact that it could be like a "give away 4 songs and sell 5". Or you sell albums for $3. That money would then either all go to the artist or a larger chunk of it (which is more than the *artist* currently gets after it trickles down from the Label). If you paid $3 for the tracks each time, the artist would get the full $3 or maybe $2.50, which is more than the $1 per $10 cd sold at a store that the label sells. (Remember that when you buy a CD, 90%+ of it goes to the label, not the artist.) [paraphrased from an interview I read with Public Enemy's Chuck D.] |
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