Comments on: In this corner…Hans Pandeya http://musicquench.com/garrison_blog/2009/07/29/in-this-cornerhans-pandeya/ The music industry today Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:42:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Jaysen http://musicquench.com/garrison_blog/2009/07/29/in-this-cornerhans-pandeya/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Jaysen Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:11:16 +0000 http://musicquench.com/garrison_blog/?p=120#comment-38 Well, after his failed attempt at The Pirate Bay, it seems Hans is venturing yet further into the digital media world. Check this article out at The Music Void to see what he is up to - http://bit.ly/choRbr Another failed attempt? Well, after his failed attempt at The Pirate Bay, it seems Hans is venturing yet further into the digital media world. Check this article out at The Music Void to see what he is up to – http://bit.ly/choRbr Another failed attempt?

]]> By: garrisongs http://musicquench.com/garrison_blog/2009/07/29/in-this-cornerhans-pandeya/comment-page-1/#comment-32 garrisongs Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:44:46 +0000 http://musicquench.com/garrison_blog/?p=120#comment-32 There are historic realities about the lack of success in going from illegit to legit. First of all, there's the fickleness of the users themselves. Once the freebies go away, so do those who frequent these sites. That migration takes away the bargaining chips of these illicit online service providers who are trying to win over the record industry execs and join the good ole boys. We've seen how hard it was for the likes of Napster, iMesh and eDonkey to build profitable business models after branding themselves with free music. Pirate Bay as well as Kazaa and LimeWire face an uphill climb to becoming licensed service providers. There's more to just declaring, "OK, we're good guys now. Everything's fine and we're legitimate. " It takes a whole lot of business savvy to build a competitive online network. We don't even know yet what fee Global Gaming will charge. I for one, don't know if I want to give the step parent of Pirate Bay the right to use their computers to store my online data and optimize my bandwidth in exchange for lowering that fee. Nor am I comfortable with Kazaa merging my billing (let alone having access to it) with my mobile carrier. It's partly a security issue with me, given these providers' roots, but even more than that it's an ethical issue. I will not give these suddenly sincere services the time of day until all reparations are made for the royalties they've ripped off from the artists. There are historic realities about the lack of success in going from illegit to legit. First of all, there’s the fickleness of the users themselves. Once the freebies go away, so do those who frequent these sites. That migration takes away the bargaining chips of these illicit online service providers who are trying to win over the record industry execs and join the good ole boys. We’ve seen how hard it was for the likes of Napster, iMesh and eDonkey to build profitable business models after branding themselves with free music. Pirate Bay as well as Kazaa and LimeWire face an uphill climb to becoming licensed service providers. There’s more to just declaring, “OK, we’re good guys now. Everything’s fine and we’re legitimate. ”

It takes a whole lot of business savvy to build a competitive online network. We don’t even know yet what fee Global Gaming will charge. I for one, don’t know if I want to give the step parent of Pirate Bay the right to use their computers to store my online data and optimize my bandwidth in exchange for lowering that fee. Nor am I comfortable with Kazaa merging my billing (let alone having access to it) with my mobile carrier. It’s partly a security issue with me, given these providers’ roots, but even more than that it’s an ethical issue. I will not give these suddenly sincere services the time of day until all reparations are made for the royalties they’ve ripped off from the artists.

]]> By: Ed http://musicquench.com/garrison_blog/2009/07/29/in-this-cornerhans-pandeya/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Ed Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:12:58 +0000 http://musicquench.com/garrison_blog/?p=120#comment-31 You don't think that these free sites can become legitimate? You don’t think that these free sites can become legitimate?

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