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Re: [microsound] law and order at last.fm



Hello,

I am glad that when I upgraded to Leopard, the Last.FM software did not work.

In theory, Last.FM seems to be an excellent idea. But one has to truly wonder where statistics are going and how they are being used. To me, Last.FM seems like an ideal model for tracking trends in all areas of music. How many varieties of people use this service? I have kids at my college listening to John Mayer, or Kanye West, or Rolling Stones, and now even in the last year experimental acts are being streamed. I was actually kind of shocked that microsounders were so open to this level of database participation.

I am not one to drum up outrage over communication technology, but the uses and gratifications within people who use Last.FM are clearly worth studying in my opinion. Evidently there exists a psychological attachment in knowing what other people are listening to. I would be most fascinated to learn if the people who use Last.FM would be willing to sign up for the same kind of service, but rather for advertisers and tracking trends in purchasing statistics at grocery stores? Or how about everywhere you drive each day?

Enough dribble.

Cheers,

Dominic Tetmyer
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On Jan 30, 2008, at 7:59 AM, john saylor wrote:

hola

On 1/30/08, reSet Sakrecoer <sakrecoer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm just sensing that they are trying to inverse the industry, but on our level: the indpendent level. Making us pay for distribution, where the music
should pay the artist AND the distributor.... not only the
distributor.(hobby or not it is ALOT of time and energy we spend right?) And it is important that we stay aware of the undefinable value of our art!

a very insightful analysis.

of course, turning music into money is not an exact algebra.
['undefinable value of our art'] and i don't know how much money there
is in the last.fm pie. i think there is money in the myspace pie, but
this is in many ways because it is a date service as well as a music
service [still, music viewers bring eyeballs to the site].

what would be better?

some kinda microcurrency? [0.01 cent per click]
non monetary value? [free downloads every N clicks]
profit sharing per download [$.20 per song downloaded]

something else?

i think it is a good use of some of our valuable time to think about a
better way to organize this kinda thing. the old music industry is
dieing- but it's fighting all the way down. what does the new music
industry look like?

as political activists i know say, 'another world is possible!'

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