The future of the entertainment industry

[stefancrs]

the future of entertainment is upon us!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... y_brain_dc

Headline:
"Sony Invention Beams Sights, Sounds Into Brain"

From article:
"A Sony Electronics spokeswoman told the magazine that no experiments had been conducted, and that the patent "was based on an inspiration that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us." "

INVENTION MY ASS!

[toine6]

Well, if most people actually already listened to internet based musicians, no doubt they would send links to the more intestering ones to their friends. Two internet musicians I really appriciate:
http://www.scene.org:8080/~radix/mosaik/index.php (the rymdlego ones are my favs)
http://www.sushibrother.se/

They exist. They have lots of listeners. It's just that it's not your or your friends

You send me to a warez site!





Naw this is really great stuff, gonna send the link to a friend or two, although I can pretty much guarantee they won't buy it.

Yup really good

[stefancrs]

Buy what? What warez site? scene.org is a big demoscene site...

[ford442]

hoops.. no tests eh?
well.. there goes my hope for the millennium...

[stefancrs]

hoops.. no tests eh?
well.. there goes my hope for the millennium...

They have patented an abstract idea because something might be doable in the future. So it's not the one that figures out how to do it that gets the patent, sony got it. That patent, as far as I can see, should never have been granted.

[Lawnmower Of The Damned]

There's no reason that we can't retrofit old music technology to make it work for a record industry-less world. Radio could actually become independant again, and stations would scour the net looking for cool new stuff. The aforementioned cool stuff would be aired and people would go buy it from the band's website.

Perhaps there's even room in this world for an independant MTV, who knows?

The system could work. Everyone wins except for the greedy record company mooks, who care more about sales than art.

[emdot_ambient]

There's no reason that we can't retrofit old music technology to make it work for a record industry-less world. Radio could actually become independant again, and stations would scour the net looking for cool new stuff.

And cable TV might be commercial free like everyone said it would be when it first came out, and we might all live in peace and harmony accepting everyone else's religion, culture, skin color and sexual preference . . . and monkeys might fly out my butt!

Sorry, I've been in a real Negative Nancy mood today.

[Meffy]

Would Led Zepplin have become as big if they were internet only, how would you have ever found them?

Well, they'd show up every time I googled for viking kitten...

[herodotus]

Here is the future of music:

Digidesign, Sony and the Antichrist will bond together to create an application that will create entire songs according to a complex series of rules based on market research surveys. This will finally allow them to create Hit songs while bypassing musicians entirely.

They will still have to pay the people in the videos, but you don't have to pay them royalties, so profits will soar.

Of course there will be people talking about the good old days when people made music, but they will be regarded the same way that drummers who hate drum machines are regarded today: as an anachronism to roll your eyes at.

Eventually only a handful of scholars will even remember those quaint times when actual people made music.

But there will still be lots of lawyers.

[pHz]

hmmmnnn ... if it werent for all the big business references that vision of the future might please xoxos somewhat ...

slainte rob