The whole media industry is broken, maybe beyond repair. A good example is sports. It used to be that players played for fun and to entertain. It was common to see a baseball player on the same team for 10, 15 or even 20 years. Nowadays you'll be lucky to be rooting for the say guy for 5 (there are a couple notable exceptions). So teams aren't defined by their players anymore which is wrong because the players make up the team. It sure would be nice to see some player loyalty and not people just grabbing the next best offer.
"Open Source" in businesses would be interesting. More transparency could probably help businesses a lot, but at the same time it could kill competitive advantages as well and one company might just steal ideas from another. Maybe something inbetween?
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Auto, real estate, financial?
I guess I can see auto design; post the design and let people modify it. I can't see how the principle would apply to real estate, and I don't think many companies want multiple uncertified strangers cooking the books.
I guess I can see auto design; post the design and let people modify it. I can't see how the principle would apply to real estate, and I don't think many companies want multiple uncertified strangers cooking the books.
i was thinking the same thing. having couple of auto being design the way the customer really wants it and tweaking how we want it would not hurt us all. i think that this could be a really big improvement in the auto industry.
A bit of peer review of their books might have helped.
As soon as you talk open source and media, you go away from the design methodology and get straight into copyright.
The real problem with the RIAA, is that is was a distribution network. It cost serious money to record and then stamp the discs. Then to make that successful, you had music moguls picking what would sell, marketing telling you you must buy it etc.
The media distribution industry is dying, not because of the development model, but because they are no longer necessary. A decent PC and some software you can record your own stuff. Chuck up a website and paypal, you can sell it.
The RIAA and it's ilk are dead D E A D dead, and good f'ing riddance. The only reason they are still in existance at all, is they keep using their remaining muscle, to tar anyone choosing a diffrent model as some nasty terrorist type distributing leaflets, with copies of Pass the Dutchy and YMCA...
RIAA, you are f'ed, Goodbye, see ya.
And take that f'ing awful crap you call pop music with you.
As soon as you talk open source and media, you go away from the design methodology and get straight into copyright.
The real problem with the RIAA, is that is was a distribution network. It cost serious money to record and then stamp the discs. Then to make that successful, you had music moguls picking what would sell, marketing telling you you must buy it etc.
The media distribution industry is dying, not because of the development model, but because they are no longer necessary. A decent PC and some software you can record your own stuff. Chuck up a website and paypal, you can sell it.
The RIAA and it's ilk are dead D E A D dead, and good f'ing riddance. The only reason they are still in existance at all, is they keep using their remaining muscle, to tar anyone choosing a diffrent model as some nasty terrorist type distributing leaflets, with copies of Pass the Dutchy and YMCA...
RIAA, you are f'ed, Goodbye, see ya.
And take that f'ing awful crap you call pop music with you.
What the heck was 'Pass the Dutchy' about? I couldn't make heads or tails of that song. I had the impression I didn't have the background to understand most of the references.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_the_Dutchie
Long story short, it seems as though in trying to avoid using a term referring to happy grass, they ended up creating a new one!
Long story short, it seems as though in trying to avoid using a term referring to happy grass, they ended up creating a new one!
For cooking rice and stews. However the song was a cover for Pass the Kouchie (equally crap song). So of course, british youth picking up from their musical 'heroes' almost immediately started calling joints wapped in cigar papers, dutchies.
Bout the only good thing about it, was it gave you an excuse the get out of your head and leave that terrible music behind, which now of course is tootling away in my head.
Going to drive it out with a quick blast of Motorhead I think, as pot just puts me to sleep now. Well it always did, but now it's quicker.
Bout the only good thing about it, was it gave you an excuse the get out of your head and leave that terrible music behind, which now of course is tootling away in my head.
Going to drive it out with a quick blast of Motorhead I think, as pot just puts me to sleep now. Well it always did, but now it's quicker.
Would you say that it takes a famous person (created by the industry) to be able to succeed in an open source reality?
If I produced, recorded, released a song of some friends of mine, who are very good, it would be quite a risk.
The "industry" has lot of infrastructure and money.
So, do you think the talent will be willing to be patient for success or keep going to the established outlets?
If I produced, recorded, released a song of some friends of mine, who are very good, it would be quite a risk.
The "industry" has lot of infrastructure and money.
So, do you think the talent will be willing to be patient for success or keep going to the established outlets?
Open Source will not fix the recording industry, period. NIN was able to release their album in that format because they already had a built in audience, my unsigned band tried the same thing for years to no avail, I think our largest profit was in the $20 range.
What the recording industry needs to do is stop making cookie cutter clone bands that all sound the same, bleed them for every last cent they can, and then droping the band after they have outlasted their usefulness. While we are at it, take that grand karaoke contest American Idol off of the air, that show has done more to damage the music industry than I care to go into.
I had a friend whose band got signed, their contract required them to write three "radio friendly singles" per album. It all came out sounding like the flavor of the month and they went nowhere, surprised huh?
The music industry used to thrive on real talent, they will never create another Led Zepplin, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Rolling Stones, or any other band with any real staying power and its because they all sound the same. Those bands wrote their own songs, toured, and gained an audience without radio and mass media exposure. Bands nowadays are packaged products with someone with model looks lip synching on stage while the ugly guy with real talent stays behind in the studio writing their next album for them.
Open source, yea right.
What the recording industry needs to do is stop making cookie cutter clone bands that all sound the same, bleed them for every last cent they can, and then droping the band after they have outlasted their usefulness. While we are at it, take that grand karaoke contest American Idol off of the air, that show has done more to damage the music industry than I care to go into.
I had a friend whose band got signed, their contract required them to write three "radio friendly singles" per album. It all came out sounding like the flavor of the month and they went nowhere, surprised huh?
The music industry used to thrive on real talent, they will never create another Led Zepplin, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Rolling Stones, or any other band with any real staying power and its because they all sound the same. Those bands wrote their own songs, toured, and gained an audience without radio and mass media exposure. Bands nowadays are packaged products with someone with model looks lip synching on stage while the ugly guy with real talent stays behind in the studio writing their next album for them.
Open source, yea right.
Here, we will test your little theory:
Heres a link to my former bands myspace page, I am playing bass on the tracks you will hear here (not pictured on the page though). If you like the music enough Ill give you my paypal info and you can pay me what you think the album is worth, Ill send you a copy and you can feel free to edit it in any way you see fit:
http://www.myspace.com/sixfootdeathtrap
Heres a link to my former bands myspace page, I am playing bass on the tracks you will hear here (not pictured on the page though). If you like the music enough Ill give you my paypal info and you can pay me what you think the album is worth, Ill send you a copy and you can feel free to edit it in any way you see fit:
http://www.myspace.com/sixfootdeathtrap
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