What Laskow's 'portable model' relies on is the ubiquity of always-on, 100%-reliable, individual-stream bandwidths in excess of 96kbps PER USER.

Not a problem for cable/DSL users, but wireless/celphone? Ever keep a celcall from dropping or breaking up, and that's small potatoes bandwidth compared to streaming songs! Multiply that by how many thousands of simultaneous streams in any particular cel area? You think there's enough available spectrum to support that?

The systems around these parts often are oversold and can't accept all the voice traffic that wants to get a call through. And I'm in the middle of the desert! You want your 911 call to report your submerged car in the canal slammed back in your ear because 500 people are all listening to the same damn '50 Cent'-mumble on separate individual circuits.

The wireless-phone-driven on-demand streaming-jukebox-network of the same songs over-and-over (ONLY distinguished from each other by their start- and end-times) with each taking up 100kbps of spectrum is a brutally-inefficient waste of telecom resources and a pipe dream at best.

OBTW, a penny a play??? Ever plugged two quarters into a jukebox to hear three songs once, Mikey? Who got the pennies? NOT the artist whose songs you played, because jukeboxes are blanket-licensed, and PROs divvy that money based on radio-chart history. No chart-history, no pennies. But you happily plugged two quarters straight into the bar-owner's pocket nonetheless. Just who are you interested in helping to make a living here? The creator or the facilitator? A penny per play? LAUGHABLE!

Laskow's 'model' sounds like a plan to deliberately DRIVE DOWN what musicians and artists can expect in ROI. Yeah, when you multiply it out by TEN F**KING MILLION (where DID you pull that number out from? How many subs do Sirius and XM have combined?) it sounds like the Yellow Brick Road! It JUST BLITHELY IGNORES that most songs aren't interesting enough to be listened to the FIFTY or SIXTY times that an artist would need to make the streaming/subscription revenue equal to that from ONE SINGLE DOWNLOAD!

Stick to the A&R, Michael. Leave the 'modeling' gig to the free market. People will decide where quality and value meet to make the purchase advantageous on a case-by-case basis. There's Two-Buck Chuck and then there's Château Lafite Rothschild. Neither of 'em are going out of business. Folks buy plenty of both. AND collect the empties. Just no telling what some folks will want to have lying around the living room when the friends drop by!

Give it to Mikey, he hates everything. Mikey! He likes it! Hey Mikey! No thanks.

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[This message has been edited by ed323 (edited 03-05-2004).]

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