Dan Bull Recaps How Home Taping Killed Music With His Latest Song
from the sing-along-everyone dept
Dan Bull, who wrote, recorded and made videos for his brilliant open letters to both Lily Allen and Peter Mandelson, was asked by UK ISP TalkTalk if he would be interested in creating a new song concerning the Digital Economy Bill. In response, Bull created this lovely song reminding us all about the old home taping is killing music argument:
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Not bad
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Utterly superb.
Consider it viralled... :)
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No, the best line was...
It's funny, but it's also an insightful possibility into why we go to war at all....
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Re: No, the best line was...
It's funny, but it's also an insightful possibility into why we go to war at all....
In the 'ideal' world for politicians / corporate lackeys - all this would apply.
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Subtle
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Home Sleeping is Killing Hotels. LOL.
Amazing Dan Bull, amazing.
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Love it
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I wonder why...
Oh, this was great stuff and the girl was cute to boot!
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In case you haven't already found it: you may be interested in her YouTube channel.
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Very funny, but not quite right.
While it certainly never harmed the music industry (quite the opposite, in fact), home taping (i.e. piracy) is not analogous to home cooking or home sewing. Those activities have more in common with forming a band, than taping tunes off the radio. When you cook, you’re not making infinite free copies of something someone else has already produced. You’re making your own version that costs you effort and money.
Still, kudos to Dan and TalkTalk for making noise about all this.
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Re: Very funny, but not quite right.
Err, blank tapes weren't free.
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Re: Very funny, but not quite right.
Did I invent Beef Stroganoff? Nope. When I cook it, I am copying somebody else's recipe creation in my home for the consumption of me and a few close kin...but I am not diminishing the recipe "inventor" the ability to also cook their own Stroganoff and sell it at market. Yep, I AM making infinite free copies of a recipe someone else has already produced.
To me, that sounds a lot like home taping. In both, I am "making [my] own version that costs [me] effort and money."
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Re: Didn't quite get it
As I remember it the VCR created the Movie rental market, and cassettes just forced me to re-purchase music I had paid for but in a different format.
The point of the song is to remind us that home taping didn't kill music and neither will file sharing kill music. The industry just needs to adapt, although this time it may not be as easy as in the past; but that's just the nature of technological advancement.
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So...
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Of course! If it weren't for the RIAA, there would be no music!
/s
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It is generally accepted that the incumbent has the (unfair) advantage.
If fashion came after home sewing, then what you are saying is that a market-driven commercial industry can form EVEN AFTER a long-standing cottage market exists.
Thus, surely an entrenched commercial industry can survive a nascent cottage industry.
Bottom line here, 25 years later, is that none of these killed the other. They all grew.
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DIE LAZY PRICKS
haha i you alien garbage have lawyerspeak resistance at level 20
YOU now may TAM away no one here is listening to you
haha
here people laughing...bet you think its at you
and the only thing that harmed the music industry was allowing 4-5 big labels to horde all the rights and get stupid on the rest of the world by way of terrorising young kids with lawsuits
YOU DID IT TO YOURSELVES RIAA
NOW SUCK DIRT
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So Prophetic
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The Rick-roll reference was more than cute, it was genius. It's the answer to the question of 'How's Rick ever going to maintain fame?', thrown into a satirical suggestion that we'll never hear from him again. It's beautiful irony.
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