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YAHOO LYRICS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Perils of Online Song Lyrics<\/a>
(watch the video in the center of the page for the essence)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Whenever I speak at a conference, I analogize the online music sphere to the wild west.\u00c2\u00a0 Robbers have removed all the assets from the local bank and have ridden off into the sunset.\u00c2\u00a0 What to do?<\/p>\n

Well, first you form a posse.\u00c2\u00a0 (Marky Mark and Snoop have a leg up here, as do so many of today’s artists, they ALREADY have a posse.)\u00c2\u00a0 And, after collecting your group of like-minded citizens, what do you do?\u00c2\u00a0 Do you get a really large megaphone and yell to the criminals COME BACK?<\/p>\n

Of course not.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ve seen a million westerns.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s always someone in the group who says they should CUT THEM OFF AT THE PASS!<\/p>\n

A simple concept.\u00c2\u00a0 One those in the entertainment industries would be wise to apply if they weren’t so damn worried about having their assets STOLEN!\u00c2\u00a0 But, as you can see in the example above, the money’s ALREADY GONE!\u00c2\u00a0 Lamenting its loss does you no good, what are you going to do in this CRISIS!<\/p>\n

You’ve got to think quickly.\u00c2\u00a0 With every minute that goes by, the gang is further away, harder to find in the vast landscape.<\/p>\n

The music business has had eight years to deal with P2P.\u00c2\u00a0 And what solutions have they come up with?<\/p>\n

Well, just look at their bottom lines.\u00c2\u00a0 If they had any good ideas, they’ve yet to employ them.<\/p>\n

But now we’re talking about music publishers.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve got to keep lyrics LOCKED UP, so people don’t steal them.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of facing reality and realizing lyrics are already FREE!\u00c2\u00a0 This is akin to having the posse protect the bank AFTER it’s been robbed!<\/p>\n

You can get lyrics for seemingly every song on the Web.\u00c2\u00a0 But, are they accurate?\u00c2\u00a0 Do they come with spyware?<\/p>\n

Yahoo has come up with a solution.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll offer legitimate lyrics, sans spyware, and we’ll share advertising revenue!<\/p>\n

Reasonable, wouldn’t you think?\u00c2\u00a0 But, not every publisher has signed up.\u00c2\u00a0 But what’s worse, you can’t COPY THE LYRICS!<\/p>\n

This is a big crisis.\u00c2\u00a0 People stealing lyrics.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve got to STOP THIS!<\/p>\n

Only fans are searching for lyrics, as Jason Fry points out in his article.\u00c2\u00a0 You want to keep fans HAPPY!\u00c2\u00a0 Give them MORE, not LESS!<\/p>\n

This is no solution at all.\u00c2\u00a0 This just hurts Yahoo’s efforts to help the publishers.\u00c2\u00a0 How many times will surfers go back to Yahoo to find lyrics once they find they can’t copy them?<\/p>\n

I search for lyrics all the time, and copy them too.\u00c2\u00a0 I listen to the song before I print them, checking for inaccuracies, which are prevalent.\u00c2\u00a0 But to type from scratch, that’s a huge PAIN IN THE ASS!<\/p>\n

Or do we need lyric licenses?\u00c2\u00a0 Or do you want to sell them to me at iTunes?\u00c2\u00a0 God, can’t advertising work in ANY sphere?<\/p>\n

Bottom line, if your business is threatened by the Net, give your customers MORE than they presently want NOW!<\/p>\n

ALPINE iDA-X001<\/strong><\/p>\n

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iDA-X001 Digital Media Receiver<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I won’t buy anything else.<\/p>\n

Oh, I used Blaupunkts in the seventies, but after a bad experience with Concord, and a less than perfect Kenwood, I’ll only buy Alpine head units.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve had a zillion of them.\u00c2\u00a0 Got one in my car right now, a top of the line unit with Slide Glide, a hard to use search technology that they’ve now phased out.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, my Alpine provides everything the publishers DON’T!\u00c2\u00a0 Graphic AND parametric EQ.\u00c2\u00a0 Downloadable time delay…\u00c2\u00a0 It would flummox an engineer.<\/p>\n

But even though I’m not constantly tweaking it, I’m happy.<\/p>\n

But I’d be happier with this brand new unit.\u00c2\u00a0 Which forgoes the CD COMPLETELY!<\/p>\n

Yup, I’ve had my unit for almost two years.\u00c2\u00a0 I can count the number of times I’ve played CDs on it on…ONE HAND!\u00c2\u00a0 Why do I need CD capability?<\/p>\n

I don’t.<\/p>\n

But a readout just like the one on my iPod…\u00c2\u00a0 That would be GREAT!\u00c2\u00a0 Furthermore, it even plays USB THUMB DRIVES!\u00c2\u00a0 Yup, don’t send me a disc anymore, but a DRIVE!<\/p>\n

Isn’t it funny how every asshole wants to send me a CD I’ll never listen to so THEY can feel good, that their career is on track when it’s really nowhere, when I, and almost everybody else who LISTENS to music, am done with round plastic and only want the FILE!<\/p>\n

CD sales are not going to resuscitate.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re going to drop even further, soon.\u00c2\u00a0 The majors are not prepared for this.<\/p>\n

I’m down with Fifield’s plan for EMI.\u00c2\u00a0 Sell off the publishing and give up on new artists.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the only one that makes sense.\u00c2\u00a0 Until the labels (AND PUBLISHERS) wake up to the new reality, that everybody in the future will own more music, AND EVERYBODY PURVEYING TUNES WILL MAKE MORE MONEY!\u00c2\u00a0 But you’ve got to sell buckets of unprotected tunes at a low price.\u00c2\u00a0 Until this happens, the labels are fucked, they’re gonna remain in a death spiral.<\/p>\n

iPod jacks entered cars YEARS ago (first seen in the Honda Element).\u00c2\u00a0 And now the car stereo manufacturer of record DROPS the CD…\u00c2\u00a0 How much more evidence does the industry NEED?<\/p>\n

WATCH THIS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Steal This Disc<\/a>
(via Les Garland)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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