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Hey Ed, who pee'd in your Corn Flakes???

No one claimed the model was perfect. It's just that, a model, and, the whole thing is a model in it's infancy. Obviously there will be all kinds of changes to that model in the next short while, and, likely, long while.

Many of your points are valid at this particular time but who's to say where it will be in five years.

Now, I don't know about you, but most times I'm on the computer at home I have on some type of music. It may be the JPF radio station, it may be Radio@Netscape.com, or some other conveyor of non-mainstream music.
In that regard, the time I'm online and listening would garner the artists I've heard, a cent or so, where there would be non via your jukebox model, nor likely via the normal readio airplay model. By the way, I haven't been in a place with a juke box, as a customer, for so many years I can't remember so no establishment has made the quarter from me. I also stopped listening to music radio on the airwaves as a norm. Why? Because it's the same over-compressed crap by the same non-talented 30 or 40. I will check in, now and again, & it's amazing that the stations are playing the same awful tunes today that were being played five years ago. Not in absolutly every instance but enough so that I flip on talk radio after a couple of minutes, or fire up my stash of personal music, all of which was due to my finding the artist via the internet. So, to a point, those cds I play, made those artists a bit of money though if they are from a major label the artist's cut is less than the indie labels I purchase.
Remember the change, for music, from AM to FM?
Well there's a bit of correlation, though slight. The quality of the music was far greater on FM but at a huge loss of listenership. Back in the fifties & sixties, when I was growing up, I could hear via AM radio, music from hundreds of miles away, particularly at night when the signals bounced a long way. There were many nights I listened to music, While in North Dakota, from Texas, California, Tennessee & other places. When most music went to FM that stopped. FM doesn't bounce like the AM band does. What did that do? It stopped me hearing about some new talent that was out there. The internet puts that back into place and though there will be some bugs to work out, it will happen & I for one can only hope sooner than later.

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DakLander

Oh, by the way funkyoop. You're likely a forum member in another guise that doesn't have the guts to sound off under your real handle or name so your diatribe doesn't mean squat. If you're actually another, new poster and you're a one post wonder, the premise is the same. Your opinion ain't worth the time it took for you to write it.


[This message has been edited by daklander (edited 03-07-2004).]