good points - I think the industry worries based on a view that soon the
file structure will allow for files that ARE as good as cd's - that
technology is moving forward faster and is more widely available than it's
traditional media adversaries the CD and DVD - cd's won't ever be of a
different quality, but DVD's are of a MUCH higher quality, but there is no
market yet for music DVD's, and that is not as near on the horizon as the
advent of mp3 type files and such that are of the same or better quality as
CD's - I think that's the major worry - it's all a bunch of fear borne
greed, really - but as a musician I can understand the fear - I'm constantly
afraid I'll never be able to make ends meet with album sales and
performances - of course I never have made ends meet, let alone made
millions of dollars - I'm waiting to see what will happen when I have huge
success - whether I'll feel generous about the music, or whether I'll want
to horde my art for only those who pay - as it is right now, I might be
wiser to demand my fare pay more often, but on the other hand, maybe my
tendency to just give away music will lead to fame - it's a crazy economic
question that some people would say is ridiculous - ask some farmers whether
they think people should be allowed to make their living simply by making
music, and you'll get a different answer than a poet would give...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Static Beats" <static@staticbeats.com>
To: <brianm@kuci.org>
Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] copy protection (rant)
Well actually my reference to the quality of 128K MP3's was in relation to
all these companies trying to fight the battle. It is not cd quality. It
does not replace the original. It also does not keep me from buying the CD !
Maybe I'm in the minority but I'm listening to an MP3 rip of Fila
Brazillia's - Black Market Gardening. It's in my very high-end car stereo
and it just sounds so DULL!
It's a great album and having the MP3's *before* I bought it (since you can
no longer listen to music before you buy it OR return opened music) means
that I can decide whether or not I want the original...
Im not referring to the creation of MP3's - I'm referring to the industries
view that somehow downloadable MP3's can *replace* traditional media.
This rolls in to the DIVX;-) debate as well. Movie houses are now getting
*worried* because of all the freely available movies out there.... Do they
really think compressed movies are going to replace DVD, VHS, or even the
Movive Screen?
And now, to top it all off - post Napster - the record companies are all
scuttling to be the first to roll out some kind of "subscription" service
for downloadable music.
Bastards!
Shimone/Justes
http://www.staticbeats.com | Electronic Music For The Mind
http://www.shimone.org | Pictures From The Soul
On 08/14/01, Brian MacDonald wrote:
>
> Heh. If I'm not mistaken, wasn't this one of the main motifs of having
a
> compressed, downloadable music file format? I'm not an RIAA
apologist --
> but I think it would be naive to think that Mp3s were created for the
> purpose of digitally archiving music at high quality. (Not to call you
> one of those naive people, Mista Beats... just speaking rhetorically)
>
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