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Topic History of: Significant story in Mail on Sunday about Keane and iTunes...
Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Kev |
Martin, I would upload to Myspace. That way they're not downloaded but streamed and if someone does manage to get them then the quality isn't great. Plus right now Myspace seems to be the place to be. |
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Martin K |
If for example, I wanted an old Bowie song on my i-pod, which I already only owned on vinyl, could it really been seen as illegal, to go to a file sharing site and download it for free, as opposed to paying for a song which I had already bought in a different format?
I am sure this has come up before, even going back as far when we all re-bought our old collections on cd, but I believe people are justifying illegal downloading armed with this "right". |
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DJKZ |
I used to worry about that but not anymore. I think the whole charts system is so outdated it is now irrelevant. Do i worry about the charts no. Will i put my music on Itunes globally yes, do i care where it charts no. I only care that it makes money and lots of it. If it charts, great if not i wont worry as long as i turn a profit from it and make money from it. If i really need a chart hit, once i've got a fanbase large enough to 'create' a chart hit, then i would re-release a popular song from the download album, package it, add more mixes etc and re-release it.
We are in a global system and the way Lily Allen, Sandi Thom etc are breaking on the net, globally is the way forward. Do we need a worldwide chart or internet chart, possibly but not essentially. What we need are new ways of determining success. I would rather have a record that peaks at no 30 but goes on to sell 50,000 over 20 weeks than a record that goes to no 1 and sells only 20,000 copies. But then again im not a major label and control the rights to all our recordings.
Of course realistically speaking the charts are not going away but getting back to Itunes, it is ridiculous that you can have a song in Itunes UK
(sugababes - someone in my bed) but not available in Itunes Australia, even though the song was released as a b side. I was only able to buy it because i have a brother in the UK and the file sharing bods were too slow. Talk about driving people to Kazaa. |
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DJones |
To me this story stinks, or at least smells like a PR-Stunt
Just look at these other stories on the web today:
Keane Singer Takes Date To Lap-Dancing Bar
http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=17965
and
Paul McCartney Makes Keane's Drummer Squeal Like a little girl....
http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=17944
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Keane: The Komeback
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,20061...3-2006250417,00.html |
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DJones |
territorial rights: Can be enforced (easy) via the payment method and the IP-address
But in a global world or at least in the common european market there should be better solutions.
Do you know the true story of the american, who lost his itunes-bought songs due to a virus?
For this kind of situations Apple lets you download the songs again, without charge.
But this guy had moved to Canada, and Apple refused his request because his l |
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