"Sharing personal information is much like sex. It can be great fun when done voluntarily. When it's forced upon you however, it's one of the worst crimes we know of."
Dunno, Nercrocracy has it's points. It's the only form of government that acknowledges the age old fact that the only good politician is a dead politician.
I do agree with you. Spotify replaces radio, though mainly through the benefit of twitter and blogs as the further away from whatever is considered mainstream at the moment you are the less use you get from their totally un-doctored tips you get.
But, what I still can't understand is why Spotify won't take their product further and actually sell me the CD's. Get a deal together with Amazon or some other large worldwide distributor and let me buy the fricking CD's with a mouse click. And sell me t-shirts and other merch while you're at it. Let every band have a portal for merch and CD'sales inside Spotify. Monetize, people... monetize!
... nothing really new there to be honest. But it is worth noting that while copyright infringement is still probably punishable by bought law, the registration of kopimism as a religion actually would still make it possible to discuss copying and possibly as well linking to texts about copying (or god forbid copies themeslves), under the protective umbrella of freedom of religion absurdly enough, something that the copyright industry rather much not have you doing.
While this might not change anything, it does prepare the ground for some pretty interesting debates. And it makes a pretty nifty publicity stunt.
That people immediately start pulling out the "murder as religion" or "paedophilia as religion" cards all over the internet, kind of proves that it's a stunt that was needed.
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"Sharing personal information is much like sex. It can be great fun when done voluntarily. When it's forced upon you however, it's one of the worst crimes we know of."
Dunno, Nercrocracy has it's points. It's the only form of government that acknowledges the age old fact that the only good politician is a dead politician.
Where Spotify fails...
I do agree with you. Spotify replaces radio, though mainly through the benefit of twitter and blogs as the further away from whatever is considered mainstream at the moment you are the less use you get from their totally un-doctored tips you get.
But, what I still can't understand is why Spotify won't take their product further and actually sell me the CD's. Get a deal together with Amazon or some other large worldwide distributor and let me buy the fricking CD's with a mouse click. And sell me t-shirts and other merch while you're at it. Let every band have a portal for merch and CD'sales inside Spotify. Monetize, people... monetize!
I think a lot of people might be missing the point...
... nothing really new there to be honest. But it is worth noting that while copyright infringement is still probably punishable by bought law, the registration of kopimism as a religion actually would still make it possible to discuss copying and possibly as well linking to texts about copying (or god forbid copies themeslves), under the protective umbrella of freedom of religion absurdly enough, something that the copyright industry rather much not have you doing.
While this might not change anything, it does prepare the ground for some pretty interesting debates. And it makes a pretty nifty publicity stunt.
That people immediately start pulling out the "murder as religion" or "paedophilia as religion" cards all over the internet, kind of proves that it's a stunt that was needed.