Originally posted by tsumake@Jun 26, 2003 @ 08:49 PM
1. Create new forms of music media or promote existing "fringe" ones like SACD or DVD-A :
I like this one because, and I could be way off, MP3's take CDA tracks, which are tens of megs large, and converts them to one-tenth its size. I would assume a track on a DVD-A would be hundreds of megs large, perhaps even bigger. Even if one uses the best compression, they would still be too big to regular download. This is all assumption, I would gladly like to be agreed or disagreed with, if one supplies an answer. Anway, I think SACD or DVD-A should sound better than regular CDs today, so I'm all for it!
2. Go with the flow, start distributing albums over the net:
Companies have all ready started to do this, but not to a large extent. Perhaps a pay-to-download version of napster will be created, e.g. 99 cents per song, discounts on albums, etc. Yes, there will be hacking and "freebies" but at least the companies will be able to control it better. I don't like this option because, as stated before, MP3s suck
That's my two cents. Can anyone verify my DVD-A theory? Thanks.
1. There are new forms of audio compression also. The ACC/MP4 codec covers the dolby digital 5.1 surround sound that SACD or DVD-A provide. These codecs could easily be used to rip any type of audio sound into a file the same size as an MP3, but with much better sound. I think ACC is a lossless compression, so the audio is basically exactly the same.
The size of the audio on this disk is somewhat irrelevant. The duration of the song as well as the fidelity is more of the determining factor for how large the compressed audio file is.
2. Along with Apple's pay-per-song service, more is on the way. I think Napster is even making a come back as a pay service.
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Taelon, I wonder if "Alcohol 120%" would be able to extract those tracks or copy the CD to something "un-"protected?
As for Metallica. I think any artist would be offended to hear that their music was being used as torture devices.
I think it's hilarious. One thing that pisses me off though, is how Bands/artist/actors wait until they are in another country to start Bush/USA bashing. Fucking pricks either don't have the balls to do it here, or they are just kissing ass of the country they're in.
Ok, let me rant and ramble for a second.
I've recently started to think we're halfway through a revolution. During the past 100 or so years record companies have decided what and who we like to listen to. Do you ever get to decide what new band starts to get air time? no.
Also, someone said that downloading music steals from the Artist not just the record company. Do you know that the Artist only recieves something like 5-7% of each album sale? I think the Artist have been ripped off long enough by the record companies themselves!
I look at modern internet piracy and I see the murder of the middle man. With the help from the Internet, Artist now can create, advertise, distribute, and collect royalties all by themselves to a World-wide audience. No need for some Inc. middleman to steal 95% of there hard earned money. Blockbuster movies can now be created on the desktop. Imagination can now take the place of the $$millions it takes now for overpaid actors, scenes and locations.
Record, movie and television producers are worried about what turn the evolution of modern economics is making. I just see a natural change that occurs through human history into a whole new season. I'm sure people freaked out when we stopped using seashells and acorns as currency, but the people at the time didn't try to outlaw metal for the coins. Let's hope big business doesn't influence laws that slow this eventual evolution.
Actually, most big business that we know today should be worried about extinction. If technology doesn't replace petroleum-based fuels, then we'll run out or pollute outselves to death. Power companies are also probably worried about replacement technology. Which have been suspected guilty of working ways to suppress future replacement technology.
I'm not saying it's justifiable to fuck these biz over just because they fuck us over. I'm just saying I hope we don't allow them to continue to control our market, to intrude on our freedoms, and to continue to
steal from US! <-
that is us and not U.S.
Sorry, got a bit off topic. but let me ask 1 more off topic question:
What about dead musicians? I have downloaded lots of John Lennon songs and I feel perfectly satisfied. I have music of his that is not available on ANY album. I have recorded concerts, bootlegs, and off air performances. This is stuff UNAVAILABLE for sale. I also have some commerical albums, but I feel like I'm helping to continue to preserve the art that might have been lost and forgotten. This format is capable of spreading his art to more ears than he could've imagined!
So sure it's illegal! . . but it it? If he's dead, and this is HIS material and not the record co. then who did I REALLY commit a crime against?