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mircea_popescu: and now it will be taken from them .as it fucking should.
mircea_popescu: THAT is why the telcos want a slice of the pie. because google and co managed to fuck the internet
mircea_popescu: stuff like "net neutrality" aren't occuring in a vacuum. people have in fact managed to narrow it enough that by now managing sites on a per site basis is fewasible, just like channels on cable
mircea_popescu: people who came of age in the 90s imagine this is still that unlimited field of endlessness, and long tails and all that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform quite. and speaking of which... anyone's given a look at the internet, recently ?
mircea_popescu: and just like that, we can't live in the same world, ever.
mircea_popescu: to them it seems fucking natural they may use the words they're licensed to use
mircea_popescu: kids active today grew up in a world of computer game word filters
mircea_popescu: nubbins` lemme tell you something. i grew up in a world where owning the words was implicit. so i neatly expect any system ever devised to recognise my sovereign right to use any word i fucking choose. period.
mircea_popescu: they'd be selling aluminum siding just as well if they felt like it
mircea_popescu: promotion business is a promoter's business. has jack shit to do with music.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves that's not the problem. the problem is that you're insistent on discussing the topic on insanely unrelated priors.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` protip << yeah i said it above too, but somehow it dun stick.
mircea_popescu: so what are you proposing, ways for apple to optimize its being apple ?
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves you sounded like you were, at least to me.
mircea_popescu: the "artists" get jack, and the idea that they're selling anything is ludicrous
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves notrly. they only appear to be, to the people captive.
mircea_popescu: it's like imagining the talking heads are the owners of the network. no, they're just hired labour. like the janitors, exactly.
mircea_popescu: these aren't artists and they aren't selling anything.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves nah listen, these promotion things, are their own promotion thing. take inna, some romanian ex-highschool ho. got promoted for a summer.
mircea_popescu: that's your future. a million people all doing a million weird things like ancient inuit "revivals" and so on.
mircea_popescu: it's a social behaviour, music. technology gets removed out of the equation all the damned time.
mircea_popescu: it'll re-hash starting from its roots as entertainment, you'll go back to the performer, back to the instrument,
mircea_popescu: but it will die at the hands of kids who won't pay for music and the people serving them, who will do essentially stuff like sexy saffron
mircea_popescu: yes, apple will go bankrupt. yes, the music distribution model of dino de laurentiis will die.
mircea_popescu: and the non-apples aren't players now nor will they be players ever, that "market" lived its time and is now in the final phase.
mircea_popescu: so what exact problem do you figure "ipoing" will solve ? apple needs your ipo like i need a beard implant.
mircea_popescu: apple sells 25bn songs and if you put one for sale it suddenly gets five views and a candian quarter.
mircea_popescu: like, say, couple next door does A LOT OF FUCKING. so i go over, let's see. well, they're shy now.
mircea_popescu: look at what the "computer security" market is at, sometime.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves you're confusing this situation where large companies play their own game with this situation where "someone's buying".
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's because you have canadiancare, which is really just nationalised obamacare. you're socialists over there, not like the true capitalists down south. that's why.
mircea_popescu: people still do it for the concerts, because you can generally pick a chick in the crowd to fuck.
mircea_popescu: nobody's sold anything since 1999. ticket sales work exactly like political campaign contributions, the ticket agencies get most of the dough.
mircea_popescu: that's the crux. nothing is getting solved around that.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves you're missing the part about how someone, somewhere, sometime HAS TO PAY SOMETHING
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you laugh, sir, but once they find a way to allow personality implants, most housewives will be running stoya 1.0
mircea_popescu: course the videos with applegate and tyler's young hottie are not bad, but they're not really good, either.
mircea_popescu: nah, the band formed in the early 70s, did it';s stuff by the end of the decade. then fairbairn pumped some life into it enough to get permanent vacation out and that's about it.
mircea_popescu: i don't think they ever did something i didn;t like. but then mtv came out and i stopped following.
mircea_popescu: o yeah. always been. this is what i used to answer when 12 yo girls asked a 11 yo me what music i listen to
mircea_popescu: heck, he forgot too, leading to some animosity down the road. but anyway
mircea_popescu: kinda underrated because people are idiots and since tyler was such a magnetic frontman they forgot perry's even there
mircea_popescu: anyway, perry is imo the best guitar player of all time.
mircea_popescu: anyway. yeah, they did ok, 1 lb of cocaine a month for 40 years
mircea_popescu: there isn't even a process to turn mooing into blueprints.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: so basically concert organizers change to appease crowd, no one comes. wisdom of the crowd! << quite. the worst thing you can do is listen to the idiots. just because they do with the mouth doesn't mean they actually want any of it implemented. what's next, cow barns made according to cow moos ?
mircea_popescu: course you were hacked, you're the fucking government, everyone's principal enemy.
mircea_popescu: im sure the argument will be brought on any future "onoes we were hacked" trials.