Saturday, February 1, 2003

What a great level-headed essay. I would gladly pay a fee to download albums--with no time or fair use limitations. A tiered system with higher cost getting higher quality would be great. Embrace file-sharing, or die. A record executive and his son make a formal case for freely downloading music. The gist: 50 million Americans can't be wrong. [Salon.com] An excerpt: It could be argued that MP3s are the greatest marketing tool ever to come along for the music industry. If your music is not being downloaded, then you're in trouble. If you can't give it away, you certainly can't sell it. Daniel Bedingfield recently had a top 3 song on the radio, with "Gotta Get Thru This." However, his music was hardly available through any of the P2P networks. His record lasted on the Billboard Top 200 for less than a month, even though the single had been on radio playlists all over the country for several months. It's also been widely reported that the most downloaded album of all time was "The Eminem Show," by Eminem. It was downloaded so heavily that Interscope took the unusual step of releasing the album a week early due to the rampant online sharing of tracks from the album. Fast-forward to the end of 2002, and "The Eminem Show" is the best-selling album of the year. This seems to indicate the opposite of what the RIAA would have you believe. When people share MP3s, more music is sold, not less. 6:25:08 PM    comment

This is, quite simply, the best motorcycling story I've read in the mainstream press in years. Monster: Two wheels, one life 5:41:34 PM    comment

Gerry Spence. "I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." [Motivational Quotes of the Day] 5:24:45 PM    comment

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