Revelation and Denouement

[lunasantin]

Those doggone mp3s!

I keep thinking of something I posted on a forum just shy of two years ago -- April 6, 2004, to be exact.

Comments

[allvah]

Damn, dude. :/ Hope it all works out for you.

As to the contents of the post you linked to, I always thought it would be great for music artists if there was some sort of open-source DRM standard. That way artists could create and sell their own DRM-protected music on ad-funded personal websites as well as networks like iTunes (through some sort of affiliate program, iTunes would of course get a cut). Cuts out the middle man without all the mess. Of course that limits you to the digital format unless you're also planning on making your own CDs, thanks to rights laws concerning record labels, but hey, these days I think digital music is big enough for it to work.

[lunasantin]

Yeah, I'll be alright. I think! ^_

[allvah]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. It'd be like selling shirts on Cafe Press. "We charge this much, and you can markup however you like."

[lunasantin]

Mmmm. Very nice way of putting it, yeah.

[thenameisbam]

at the time how many files were you shareing? cause if its only one song, thats a fuck load of money!

[lunasantin]

Their attorneys tell me I had somewhere between two and three thousand files, not counting whatever wasn't shared at the time.

[thenameisbam]

see, now we know that sharing and helping others was your downfall! heh

[lunasantin]

Hahaha. I oughta go back and sue the shit out of my kindergarten teacher.

[suvann]

Well, I'm glad it will soon be over. We going to start seeing you again?

[lunasantin]

Thanks. I'm not sure -- life's been getting busier and busier; the priorities are difficult to choose.