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I lost my breath laughing at this. As much as I agree, Ice-T didn’t have to go New Jack City on Soulja Boi like this - LMAO.
Looks like a few really good albums hit the shelves today. Could be a crossroads at the record store today! I need them all - lol.
Tha Carter III by Lil Wayne
Flavors Of Entanglement by Alanis Morissette
Seeing Sounds by N.E.R.D.
19 by Adele
Loverly by Cassandra Wilson
Which one(s) will you pick up?
Although I consider myself a leader in a lot of things, I am definitely a lemming when it comes to technology (especially all things Apple).
Yesterday’s announcement of a new iPhone that is thinner, faster and cheaper made me restless. After giving my current iPhone that cold, we-just-broke-up grimace, I got to thinking of what this can mean for 8trk.
At a $199 price tag, more people will start to have them. With faster web speeds (3G), the web browser becomes more powerful. And, with the open API, it is now easier than ever to write software that resides on the phone.
All that sounds like a great environment to extend the 8trk platform. As we are completing the desktop browser version of the platform, we are already thinking of the future.
I recently posted this comment to an article (and comments) addressing what’s on the horizon in the music business. I want to preface it by saying that I am very optimistic about the future of music - I just think the most of these people have got it all wrong. Let me know what you think!
I think most of these comments are top-down instead of bottom-up. Piracy is about one thing: rebellion. Not convenience. Not access. Not control.
Piracy is a response to feeling taken advantage of and that’s not something that “streaming music” will fix. The artists will still get the smallest share of the pie (pirates hate that). Labels will still collect royalties just for saying “yes, you can have it,” or “no, you can’t” for years to come (pirates really hate that). Labels will start double-dipping by charging pay-per-play fees to the streamers as well as take cuts of the likely to increase bandwidth fees from cable, DSL and WiMax companies (pirates are smarter than you think). And so remains the feeling of manipulation. And so remains piracy.
