well said! thanks again for the Universal Indicator Green!
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> From: Jeff/Ninja Tune
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 3:39 PM
> Cc: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] re: napster
>
> Reading to much into the whole thing. It's just another form of
> distribution
> that probably won't rock the boat much more then it has already has (which
> has been significant but hasn't exactly killed record/cd sales).VHS didn't
> kill off the movie theatre. You know when you see a trailer for a mediocre
> movie and say "that's a rental", well mediocre records will be "that's a
> download".
>
> As a record label owner I sat on the fence with Napster. I could
> appreciate
> it on a lot of levels, but thought that the glorification of what it
> supposedly "stood for" was pretty lame. How was it again that all record
> labels became "bad people" yet Napster was "cool". I don't have a CEO. I
> didn't sell my company to BMG (Although in fairness a lot of people seemed
> to be able to figure out there was a difference between labels like Ninja
> and labels like Universal). That's bit harsh and I'm sure the Napster
> people
> are okay people, but I was a bit miffed at public reaction to a lot of
> things.. I think they could have gone about the whole thing a lot better
> and
> managed to survive. Oh well we'll see what happens.
>
> Sorry to drag it out again. Think I'll go home and crank out some Slim
> Gailard 78's on the 'ol Victorolo
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> on 2/13/01 4:00 PM, ...(Sunsp0t)... at sunspot@subdimension.com wrote:
>
> > At 2/13/01 10:27:00 AM you wrote:
> >> Could you kindly repeat all this (bullshit) to the 99.5% of "idm"/indie
> >> artists who work dayjobs to support themselves so that they can
> continue to
> >> make (good) music for your enjoyment?
> >
> >
> >
> > I see, so when the the automobile came out, we should have suppressed it
> for
> > the sake of the horse-carraige drivers, eh?
> >
> >
> > I think you just don't realize, that making music is not a way to make
> money
> > anymore. At least it won't be. ..And if you step back and look, it
> really
> > never was. I'm sure I offended many of your with that statement, but....
> >
> >
> >
> > The INEVITABLE change in music (and most if not all other forms of
> > intellectual property) will be both good and bad. Good, because all the
> > half-assed rockstars will be quickly weeded out, leaving people who
> truly make
> > music for music's sake. Bad because the equipment and expenses needed to
> make
> > a record will hinder talented people from creating.
> >
> > Perhaps the "revolution" greratest asset has been to shed light on the
> true
> > bastards of the industry - the record label moguls themselves.
> Artificially
> > inflated prices, and obvious trust policies are only now being exposed
> to the
> > public.
> >
> > As we have seen with the drug war legislation is simply not effective
> when
> > even just 10% (picked the number out of the air, but the point is clear)
> of
> > the population disobeys it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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