Posts by Che Tibby
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98% of people don't find their music via Creative Commons sites, or Genius or scouring the net. They find as a result of marketing, hearing it on the radio, recommendations on Pitchfork, front page placing on iTunes, post on blogs and so on. All of which comes from record companies or other marketing organizations.
it would be nice to know exactly how many people within that 98% bittorrent their music.
my experience is that people who discover music via these more conventional means tend to purchase CDs or use itunes.
that in turn would raise questions about how many people actually are dirty, dirty thieving pirates.
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@jeremy. think of me as dancing around the issue a little - what i'm driving at is that there is *no way* that anyone involved in finance over the last few years could not have known that the last month was going to happen.
the problem has been that no-one was willing to stand up and point out that emperor needed a better tailor.
fortunately we here in new zealand have been fortunate to have a saville row guy working in wellington </che really murders the metaphor>
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Have economics circumstances changed in the last month that much? Fuck yes.
you see, i'd say no. they haven't changed. subprime was a nightmare just waiting to happen.
i head over the road to have a coffee went i need to do reading, and 18 months ago i eavesdropped on a financial corporate type explaining to his colleague exactly what was going to happen when the schtook hit the fan. they toned it down when they heard the noise of my jaw hitting the counter in shock.
so economic circumstances haven't "changed" in the last month, they've played out according to projections
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hay-din gree-n.
add-ress? know-n, tick.
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@don & RB thx.
i'll now be quiet on the matter, as this is a policy question...
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i have a serious question. if the cullen fund is invested overseas, and growing, isn't that a bit like drawing foreign money into the country? something we need?
<che exposes his almost complete lack of macro-economic learning>
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it wasn't piracy that took it down but naked competition.
<cough>stupid investments</cough>
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Sorry, Mark, but your old model is gone. I recommend you find a new one that doesn't entail treating your "fans" as criminals before they've done anything. That's what you're defending, in s92a.
meh... cheap electronics and advances in computing these days makes big recording outfits all but obsolete these days anyhow. like i say, if they're focusing their business on unrecoverable costs then, "hello mr darwin."
<che assumes there will still be a free market when wall st stops falling down>
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<produces the book, licks pencil, speaks while writing>
mee-gan, wee-gan.
add-ress? know-n, tick.
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When I had hair, it used to go reddy-auburn in summer. Does that make me a partial ginga?
jesus... you're all going to have to slow down a little people... i'm having trouble getting all these names down in, you know, "the book".
you'll be getting a visit when the anti-ginga revolution finally comes.