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I haven't had a chance to rant about this in a while, so, I'll warn you that a rant is ahead. I get the sense that the pendulum is going to start swinging back

I haven't had a chance to rant about this in a while, so, I'll warn you that a rant is ahead. I get the sense that the pendulum is going to start swinging back again soon. The media companies have almost won control again, and they're going to repeat the same mistakes that they made before. The difference now is that they have the internet under fuller control. PirateBay, Grooveshark, Limewire, Napster. Those are the music distribution channels that I grew up with because the media companies squeezed too hard. I'm happy to pay for music, but I'm not happy to pay 5 different subscriptions to listen to a small amount of their libraries. When I buy music, I want it to be mine. I don't want to have access to someone else's music. It's my collection. My impression is that people haven't realized this yet, but they will. Soundcloud is a zombie - effectively dead. They abandoned their business model so they could grow more, and ceded power to the large record labels. Try looking for Jay-Z's "The Blueprint" on Spotify. How many people do you know who have a Deezer account? SiriusXM's acquisition of Pandora is like Verizon's acquisition of AOL. They're grabbing the long tail of users and platform integrations so that they have the negotiating power with Universal, WB, and Sony to push out the same music that our parents (and now, even their parents) listened to. I, for one, welcome the consolidation. The harder you lock the sidewalks down, the richer the underground becomes. And the underground is where creativity thrives. The solutions to illegally acquired music will have different technical implementations, but the same effect (ipv6 feels like it will be necessary in this), and my suspicion is that we'll start heading back that way in the next few years.

squiguy7 8y ago
> When I buy music, I want it to be mine. For me, Bandcamp has been the best site that holds true to this idea. My favorite band started releasing all of their music through Bandcamp because the pricing is fair for artists. And as a listener, I can download the music to my machine or stream it from the app after I have purchased it.
- WorldMaker 8y ago
  Yeah, I try to search artists I find on Bandcamp first. Also, CDBaby and Magnatune are still great sites for their respective niches. (CDBaby started as a more traditional CD distributor and has moved increasingly into digital distribution, as opposed to Bandcamp starting with digital distribution and moving to physical distribution. Anyway, CDBaby has a larger back catalog of "older" stuff, and still some cases of for instance bands don't have digital distribution rights to their own stuff, but piles of old CDs to sell.) (Magnatune is a "not evil" record label. So their content is limited to just stuff they've "signed", but it's a beautiful, eclectic mix of stuff. Much of which you'll see reused in small to medium projects such as the videogame Braid's soundtrack, because their licensing has a good spectrum from non-commercial Creative Commons usage to relatively affordable commercial usage.)
- jsgo 8y ago
  One of my favorite musicians (Rhys Fulber, mostly due to Conjure One and Delerium for me) started releasing music on Bandcamp. Admittedly, the new cd really isn't my cup of tea, but I bought it from there anyway. Can't remember what the minimum price was, but I bumped it up to $20 US (think it was calculating in euros, iirc. I do remember having to use a currency converter on another site to pick the amount when buying it). I really prefer that model, if we're being honest. I like bands, but not a huge fan of labels (and unfortunately, whereas they were helpful for discovery before, they really aren't anymore). Would rather my money go to them with a smaller cut to platforms hosting it.
StudentStuff 8y ago
IPv6 fixes the problem of NAT, and for now most of the copyright spam bots have no support for IPv6. On mobile, IPv6 provides connectivity that is tens of milliseconds better, and wireline providers like Centurylink have direct peering only on IPv6 to Hurricane Electric and other price oriented, IPv6 first mover transit providers On the topic of DMCA notice bots, they fail to respond to DMCA counter notices FYI, and both Comcast and Centurylink do not handle counter notices properly (despite the latter claiming to). IMO a DMCA notice that gets counter noticed (where the receiver of the DMCA notice asks for more details, as they are unable to verify any infringement) and doesn't get responded to should go as a black mark against the group that sent the original DMCA notice, as it was a plainly fraudulent DMCA notice.

squiguy7 8y ago

> When I buy music, I want it to be mine. For me, Bandcamp has been the best site that holds true to this idea. My favorite band started releasing all of their music through Bandcamp because the pricing is fair for artists. And as a listener, I can download the music to my machine or stream it from the app after I have purchased it.

WorldMaker 8y ago
Yeah, I try to search artists I find on Bandcamp first. Also, CDBaby and Magnatune are still great sites for their respective niches. (CDBaby started as a more traditional CD distributor and has moved increasingly into digital distribution, as opposed to Bandcamp starting with digital distribution and moving to physical distribution. Anyway, CDBaby has a larger back catalog of "older" stuff, and still some cases of for instance bands don't have digital distribution rights to their own stuff, but piles of old CDs to sell.) (Magnatune is a "not evil" record label. So their content is limited to just stuff they've "signed", but it's a beautiful, eclectic mix of stuff. Much of which you'll see reused in small to medium projects such as the videogame Braid's soundtrack, because their licensing has a good spectrum from non-commercial Creative Commons usage to relatively affordable commercial usage.)
jsgo 8y ago
One of my favorite musicians (Rhys Fulber, mostly due to Conjure One and Delerium for me) started releasing music on Bandcamp. Admittedly, the new cd really isn't my cup of tea, but I bought it from there anyway. Can't remember what the minimum price was, but I bumped it up to $20 US (think it was calculating in euros, iirc. I do remember having to use a currency converter on another site to pick the amount when buying it). I really prefer that model, if we're being honest. I like bands, but not a huge fan of labels (and unfortunately, whereas they were helpful for discovery before, they really aren't anymore). Would rather my money go to them with a smaller cut to platforms hosting it.

StudentStuff 8y ago

IPv6 fixes the problem of NAT, and for now most of the copyright spam bots have no support for IPv6. On mobile, IPv6 provides connectivity that is tens of milliseconds better, and wireline providers like Centurylink have direct peering only on IPv6 to Hurricane Electric and other price oriented, IPv6 first mover transit providers On the topic of DMCA notice bots, they fail to respond to DMCA counter notices FYI, and both Comcast and Centurylink do not handle counter notices properly (despite the latter claiming to). IMO a DMCA notice that gets counter noticed (where the receiver of the DMCA notice asks for more details, as they are unable to verify any infringement) and doesn't get responded to should go as a black mark against the group that sent the original DMCA notice, as it was a plainly fraudulent DMCA notice.