Re: Zoe Keating in NY Times article.@borisfx.com

[JC <jcmg@earthlink.net>]

You don't understand the way that Pandora works.
It's supposed to take you to different artists.
All the music is interconnected through algorithms and careful music 
analysis.
The objective is to connect music in various significant ways.
You may not agree with the connections, but that is the intent: to 
connect music so that the listener may discover music they haven't 
already heard.
Pandora's founder is a musician himself and constantly is trying to make 
sure that the system is fair to musicians like us.

JC Mendizabal
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On 1/30/2013 7:09 AM, Stephen Goodman wrote:
> Even using Pandora is a bad joke.  You can select for example the 
> "Brian Eno Channel" and expect to hear nothing but the work of the 
> Domed One, but no! Very badly organized, you're as likely to hear 
> Vangelis and Manheim Steamroller, for Chrissakes.  They just don't get 
> it.  STILL!  It's therefore evident that denizens of the music 
> industry have infested these companies otherwise they'd be doing 
> something with their systems besides generating income for themselves.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Rick Walker
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:32 AM
> To: LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)
> Subject: Re: Zoe Keating in NY Times article.@borisfx.com
>
> On 1/29/2013 9:39 PM, Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T) wrote:
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/business/media/streaming-shakes-up-music-industrys-model-for-royalties.html?ref=us 
> >
> >
> >
> > *This is one of the most depressing articles I've read in a long time.**
> > **
> > **Does anyone remember when Colonel Tom Parker was revealed to have 
> > cut a deal with Elvis Presley **
> > *
> *so that he would receive a usurious 50% of ALL money that Elvis made?**
> **
> **It was unprecedented and the rest of the music business, artists and
> the public recoiled heavily from the news (though cynics always 
> pointed **
> **out that 50% of $40 million dollars was still vastly better than 0% of
> nothing).**
> **
> **Well folks,   iTunes,  one of the greatest rapists of musical
> artistry, in the world charges 50% of ALL DOWNLOAD SALES.**
> **
> **And they are the good guys compared to Pandora and Spotify, whose
> statistics make iTunes look like positive artistic **
> **philanthropists.**
>
> A new paradigm of selling digital content online needs to assert
> itself.   One that is fair to artists and all the energy
> and time and money they spend trying to create art for people.
>
> There are rumors of this coming.    I can't wait.
>
> Rick Walker
> Fuck iTunes!    Fuck Spotify!     Fuck Pandora!
> Fuck the dominant paradigm that says that downloading other people's
> music is okay as long as you get away with it.
> Theft if Theft, Folks!
> *