Bits and Pieces
Well, this is amusing, as it looks like one media cartel is accidentally borking another with copyright. You would have thought with their current habits of fusing all manner of artists they are trying to promote by using their songs in TV shows that they would have worked out a framework for dealing with these kinds of issues more smoothly.
In news that no one should give even a remote damn about (but it amusing enough to mention I suppose), 50 Cent -a rapper whose rhymes are not even worth a wooden nickle and a kick in the crotch- apparently is booting one of his associates out of the homie clubhouse for "disloyalty" (I guess showing intelligence is a handicap in the mainstream hip-hop arena) and not helping him out when he picks fights with other rappers. Hi, I would just like to inform you all, that your careers will all be over the hill shortly anyway, so you really should hold on to each other as a support network while you still can.
In news that should surprise no one but should annoy everyone, the labels are at exactly what folks (myself included) predicted would happen...they are trying to jack the prices of downloads up now that products like iTunes have proven they can have markets worth respecting. Here is what I will tell you:
1. If you do that, you will piss off a lot of the same consumers you are now trying to bilk out of some more cash for yourselves (not the artists, because we know where the money historically goes)
2. Watch P2P trading spike up again, and watch it start to take shape with things like Waste and even Imeem, which make random trawling a bit more difficult/nigh untenable. Aggravate the consumers at your peril.
What the hell am I saying? You idiots haven't understood anything at all for at least the past decade with your idiotic price gouging of cd costs and utterly retarded lawsuits over file sharers, why should I expect anything resembling a clue now is beyond anyones guess.
In news that no one should give even a remote damn about (but it amusing enough to mention I suppose), 50 Cent -a rapper whose rhymes are not even worth a wooden nickle and a kick in the crotch- apparently is booting one of his associates out of the homie clubhouse for "disloyalty" (I guess showing intelligence is a handicap in the mainstream hip-hop arena) and not helping him out when he picks fights with other rappers. Hi, I would just like to inform you all, that your careers will all be over the hill shortly anyway, so you really should hold on to each other as a support network while you still can.
In news that should surprise no one but should annoy everyone, the labels are at exactly what folks (myself included) predicted would happen...they are trying to jack the prices of downloads up now that products like iTunes have proven they can have markets worth respecting. Here is what I will tell you:
1. If you do that, you will piss off a lot of the same consumers you are now trying to bilk out of some more cash for yourselves (not the artists, because we know where the money historically goes)
2. Watch P2P trading spike up again, and watch it start to take shape with things like Waste and even Imeem, which make random trawling a bit more difficult/nigh untenable. Aggravate the consumers at your peril.
What the hell am I saying? You idiots haven't understood anything at all for at least the past decade with your idiotic price gouging of cd costs and utterly retarded lawsuits over file sharers, why should I expect anything resembling a clue now is beyond anyones guess.
posted by theloniusfunk at 9:18 PM
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