Topic: Another stupid idea to cash in on live shows

[andrewkw]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040429/ap_on_hi_te/music_on_a_stick

with this you don't have to worry about people converting to mp3 it gives it to you straight on mp3!

My favorite part of this article is "For Scott Ambrose Reilly, president of eMusic Live, the idea is to let fans have a legal copy of a live show, which gives smaller artists and their labels creative control over the quality of the recording and a commercial stake in its distribution. "

wow it lets fans have a "legal" copy and gives aritsts AND their labels quality control.

[JasonSobel]

This was my favorite part of the article:

"I'm very excited to be a part of this incredible and sexy technology," she said between songs. "It makes us feel very James Bond. You can have your little pens — wow, beam me up Scotty."

[jpschust]

yah its up in the open forum

[Elana]

$20 for 128mb drive is pretty good right now... forget about the files  

[creekfreak]

control of the quality by using an inferior compression scheme..nice, idiots

[tim in jersey]

Sadly, a very large chunk of the concert-going population (as a whole) would probably think that this is mana from heaven, having never heard a great, or even good AUD tape.  

Yeah, an .mp3 of a SBD that fits on a USB flash drive is the ultimate in sound quality.  

Uggh, glad I'm overly tired and half shit-faced and don't have the energy to tap out a truly nasty, overly-rehashed diatribe against the recording industry...

[melmac]

i'd personally buy a copy. maxwell's is extremely strict about their soundboard feeds (can't even think of one maxwell's sbd recording), and the acoustics at the place are nothing to be proud of. given, it's probably not as nice as a quality dat audience to the trading community, but for johnny q public i'm sure it will work out just fine.