Has a band or musician’s presence on social media sites altered your view of them? I think it’s an interesting question. Everybody knows what the stereotypical image of a rockstar is through movies and TV shows, and for the most part that’s how people viewed them prior to the social media age. They were these mysterious, god-like badasses that were great artists and poets who could do anything (and anybody) they wanted to. They set trends and told you what was cool. People would do anything to be like them, see them, and would clamor to just touch their hand or make eye contact with them at shows. They were rockstars.
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Will Anti-Piracy Enforcement Curtail in the Near Future?
Here’s a thought that popped into my mind: with music getting cheaper and cheaper to consume (in lots of ways, free), will we see a decline in the attempted enforcement of anti-piracy laws? For instance, say you’re a label owner, and ten years ago there’s a blog posting your music online for free. The assumption is that each download was a potential $15-20 loss, because that was what a CD retailed for. When doing a cost-benefit analysis, it was worth paying a lawyer probably hundreds of thousands of dollars to get the offenders taken down. Fast-forward a bit to where the net loss is less (potentially ~$10), and unless it’s a rather large site, you don’t hear a lot about pirate blogs being taken down.
So now that Spotify, Rdio, Mog, Pandora, and all these other services are suddenly free and opened up while revenue streams from them are down, are we likely to see a decline in the enforcement of anti-piracy laws because of the cost-benefit swing? Continue Reading…
Open Brainstorming Session: A Crowd-Funded Tour
I thought I’d throw some ideas out and see if anybody else had any input to it to help brainstorm this idea that I have… I’m thinking of a way to put together a tour, but have the whole thing pre-funded through Kickstarter or a similar platform. Here’s what I had so far, and please leave comments with any thoughts or constructive ideas. Continue Reading…
