For those of us who’re seriously into music, how about the following?
Thats right! The new verion 1.4 of amaroK is finally out, and what’s more? Well, how about these advanced features for some. Honestly, just keep on dreaming till the day your music player/manager — whether Windows Media Player, iTunes, Music Match, Real Player, Winamp or whatever — is able to incorporate these features any time soon. Best of luck to you guys deprived of this awesome technology! Adios!!
That’s Lauren Harris with her father and Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris. Apparently, Lauren is a musician and is touring right now with her band. Her Web site has two of her songs — kinda teen American rock types. Lets see what she’s up to.
Lauren with her band members…
Often the media is so less informed that it’s scary when they try to present a skewed- and poorly-researched opinion/analysis to the masses. Especially, when it comes from a respected newspaper like The Washington Post, it sometimes could have a devastating effect.
Journalists have this big notion of keeping the masses well informed of the events that are on the roll. Isn’t it a pity when these so-called journalists are so less informed about a particular subject and they set on a path to explain it to its readers? I say the journalists should better keep to their news-reporting job, rather than analyzing the effects of a specific news. Give the masses a well-balanced piece with inputs from both sides of the story, and let the reader decide what’s the deal, rather than analyzing it for them. Obviously most of the times they are not really good at it.
This writer opens the story by pinching how the high-bandwidth sites can have a negative impact on the senior citizens. (Read the article, cuz I’m not really in a mood to elaborate on the writer’s point.) My point, however, is the writer doesn’t have a point, cuz he understands “nothing” about the subject. However, if you have read The Post’s piece, read this as a follow up, as the blogger breaks the story step by step to provide counter points to prove the original article’s worth.
My 2 cents on the subject:
The point here is, for the Web, the ISPs are now demanding extra fee from the Web sites. Lets take it this way: the Web sites provide the content, while the ISPs distribute the content demanded by the subscribers. Now lets look at what a leading ISP has to say…
“Why should they be allowed to use my pipes? The Internet can’t be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment, and for a Google or Yahoo! or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes (for) free is nuts!” — AT&T chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre to Business Week, November 2005
Did he say “for free”? Ain’t I as an end user paying for whatever bandwidth I’m using to my ISP? Or ain’t Google paying whatever bandwidth it needs to the Web server hosts? What the fuck’s this dude cribbing about? The question also goes to The Post writer.
Anyway, it seems like the ISPs are basically cheesed off by the empire Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, etc., have made (from their content and/or service) over what the ISPs claim their investment of providing bandwidth and stuff like that. Likewise, it’s trying to set in the exact same trend the Music labels (the distributors) have set over the artists (the content producers). Likewise, as this item notes, they’ve become so powerful that now they actually dictate terms. Looking at it w.r.t. current trends, distributors (Music labels + iTunes) are ripping 95% of the profits, while the artist gets only 5%. Pretty neat eh?
Wanna put the same trend in the newspaper business as well? Lets also pay the newspapers 5%, as a charity token for their content, and let the distributors keep the rest for doing the hard work of providing it to the masses. What say you The Post?
On the contrary, here’s a well-written piece on the same subject published a while back in The Nation. Hey we’ve already lost the Music, lets at least try to Save the Internet. Adios!
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