Random MSN Gibberings LXXXIX: Off my rocker babbling about nothing

[koneko]

If the 'meteor' was covered in broken lighters with a limply held vaporiser in one hand, then by god I do believe I morphed into a natural phenomenon So sorry if I hit anyone. Twas only wanting to share the love.

I had a feeling it was you

How are you feeling now petal - cooler8):D

 

[effie]

Hehe JSP.. everyone 's DMT! Sounds like you've been having quite the magical time of late :D

Today's not going quite as planned, but nevermind. Cuppa chai and some gabba always makes things better

Happy Sunday everyone!

 

[Shambles]

Happy Sunday, Ms Eff. Chai and gabba sounds like a winner to me.

Back from me shopwalk now - stayed sunny with but a dribble of drizzle in the end. Warm too. If it keeps this up it should be a belter of a summer.

JSPete: Know what you mean with your DMT description. Am not one for god-bothering but a good DMT hit does make you wonder sometimes. Truly is magic, spirit and soul in smellypowdery Elven form

 

[hx_]

I need to go and grab my DMT sometime. It been sitting around for weeks and whenever I attempt to collect it its unavailable -.-


Bit off topic, but I've just been thinking of the positives of piracy:
No DRM
No putting the CD in the drive
Faster installs
Getting HUGE games 2 days before release.

Companies need to realise people ain't gonna pay out the arse for inferior service! They only peopole that suffer from DRM are people that actually pay for the game! Also it keep the crackers/hackers/commercial pirates in a job.

I'll probably buy it eventually to play online, but really, £40 isn't worth a day or twos worth of single player and shockingly repetitive multiplayer.

Mass Effect 3 ftw.


Don't get me wrong, the people who made it should be paid for their work, if it was £20 and not full of DRM crap I'd buy it in an instant.

 

[Myshkin]

Well, I suppose home taping never did quite kill music in the way the skull, cassette and crossbones symbol used to try and claim.

Nobody under thirty will get that, will they?

 

[koneko]

Well, I suppose home taping never did quite kill music in the way the skull, cassette and crossbones symbol used to try and claim.

Nobody under thirty will get that, will they?

No

lol

 

[hx_]

No

lol

I do, but only cause of the Piratebay publicising it

Thing is, if it were £20 and you didn't have to be online/signed into "Origin" every time you wanted to play, I'd buy it. As it is its hassle to use something you pay for, and easier if you pirate it.

 

[Albion]

Home taping saved music IMO.

My greatest early memories are contained in the cut and jostled home-made cassettes of the sounds of Chiltern FM, Classic Gold and game boy recordings that I overlaid over one another as a budding eight year-old DJ.

 

[Shambles]

I honestly think piracy does more good than harm to the music industry. Probably not so great for the game and film industries but still only a tiny nibble from a bloody huge cashpie. My heart bleeds for all those poor starving multi-millionnaire artistes it really does...

I know plenty of peeps who actually do go out and buy CDs, DVDs and stuff after downloading the torrent first though.

 

[Mr Smokes Blunts.]

I used to record the entire top 40 on Sunday, and then proceed to never listen to it lol. Admittedly I did listen to the Will Smith songs

 

[jancrow]

Piracy has made a lot of album acts less profitable and done a lot to rejuvenate the live music scene as bands are forced to perform more because you can't pirate an actual performance. Where this takes music as a whole remains to be seen, but at the moment it's good for fans who like live music. The Ramones are perhaps the best example of a band who could only really earn by touring- and it fucked them (watch 'End Of The Century' if you don't believe me).

The music industry, as well as being brim-full of tossers (on the 45 [daft 90s indie dance reference/joke]) is quite adaptable but it doesn't do it overnight. They find ways to screw money out of things. I think The Ramones were operating on a pre-personal cassette business model and it did them no favours.

 

[Shambles]

It mostly seems to be the big, well-established bands that get pissy about piracy - Metallica trying to sue their own fans being a prime example. Suspect they've just gotten lazy and greedy after becoming so entrenched in the corporate bubble they live in. Newer acts and more niche artists seem less affected cos they're more likely to sell direct to fans and put in the work touring and that. Or I might just have made that up. Dunno but is the impression I get anyway.

 

[Albion]

If anything, the public have found a way to reward the artists whilst sidestepping the fat-cat record companies who take advantage of them. The fans want the music. They pay for the gigs, they pay for the festivals, they download the music. Their input is entirely focused on the artist, and a lot of artists now focus their output on the fans directly, ala radiohead who now operate outside of any record label. Obviously not every band has the platform required to pull of complete independence, but being able to make most profit through direct interaction with the people via gigs, tours and festivals, they're now finding that they're most rewarded by connecting at the most primal, core level that music is enjoyed on: The experience of the music itself.

 

[Allein]

I've been a serial offender of online piracy for music, film and software from the very early days, being involved in technology I am a right miser when it comes to buying stuff. All the laptops in the house (4) are second hand and the main desktop which acts as a file server and has all the data drives attached to it is never replaced i just add bits to it occasionally I'll get a bare bones case and motherboard built up but th new machine will still use parts of the old one.

For every person i know that downloads all their music illegally I know at least 20 or more that use I-tunes or some other paid service, the big record companies like to moan and complain about piracy as they have done since the compact cassette the same goes for film and the VHS video. The need to shut up moaning and start thinking about ways to lure people away from piracy and back into paying a reasonable price for downloading, you can't fight the tide of progress.

This seems to be happening with music a bit quicker then with film, its about time the film makers released the films online, DVD and Cinema all at the same time and at a cost that attracted people.

 

[Mr Smokes Blunts.]

Has anyone seen the new 3D printers, which will allow us to actually download and print any item we want? We're talking about being able to download the blueprints for an ipod, then print it out for free :D

 

[jancrow]

Actually download prices are coming down and companies are starting to offer more and more incentives to buy physically packaged products, eg deluxe versions of albums which come with (sometimes bizarre) extras. It's in its infancy but it'll be interesting to see where it goes.

Personally I pirate the fuck out of most things but buy stuff when an artist matters for whatever reason. If I need to listen to a U2 song (for example, this very rarely actually happens) I'll steal it. UK Hip Hop, for example, I tend to buy because it's a stupidly unprofitable scene and a really hard slog for artists who are involved with it.

 

[watsons torment]

Has anyone seen the new 3D printers, which will allow us to actually download and print any item we want? We're talking about being able to download the blueprints for an ipod, then print it out for free :D

We're many many many years off being able to print out anything anywhere near as complicated as an ipod, at the moment the technology is more at the stage of printing simple plastic things like dildos

 

[Shambles]

Sod the iPod - give me the placcyfanny printer anyday.

 

[Mr Smokes Blunts.]

We're many many many years off being able to print out anything anywhere near as complicated as an ipod, at the moment the technology is more at the stage of printing simple plastic things like dildos

O I know we aren't going to see it, even in the next decade, but by 2030 this technology will be in full swing. If we manage to make self replicating nano bots and perform nuclear fission, we won't be talking about making ipods for nothing, we'll be talking about making entire buildings for free. I've been reading this book:

It is totally sick what some scientists are working on now. By 2100 the world is going to be a strange place!

 

[hx_]

Has anyone seen the new 3D printers, which will allow us to actually download and print any item we want? We're talking about being able to download the blueprints for an ipod, then print it out for free :D

You might be able to print an ipod case, but printing circuitboards is slightly out of the price range of your average consumer

I've been a serial offender of online piracy for music, film and software from the very early days, being involved in technology I am a right miser when it comes to buying stuff. All the laptops in the house (4) are second hand and the main desktop which acts as a file server and has all the data drives attached to it is never replaced i just add bits to it occasionally I'll get a bare bones case and motherboard built up but th new machine will still use parts of the old one.

For every person i know that downloads all their music illegally I know at least 20 or more that use I-tunes or some other paid service, the big record companies like to moan and complain about piracy as they have done since the compact cassette the same goes for film and the VHS video. The need to shut up moaning and start thinking about ways to lure people away from piracy and back into paying a reasonable price for downloading, you can't fight the tide of progress.

This seems to be happening with music a bit quicker then with film, its about time the film makers released the films online, DVD and Cinema all at the same time and at a cost that attracted people.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

It is totally sick what some scientists are working on now. By 2100 the world is going to be a strange place!

And this, I was reading through recent history on wikipedia last night and googling to try and work out whats gonna happen in the future.

Technology is at a stage where we're about to be able to easily manipulate and understand the very particles that make up everything.

Nanotech is scary and amazing at the same time. There's allegedly discussions in the food industry whether or not to let the public know that they plan to use it in food, in order to sidestep another "GM" style outrage/limiting of technology.