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| From | Michael Myers <mmyers1446@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Apple purchases Lala.com |
| Date | Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:13:39 -0800 (PST) |
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Scott, regarding your thoughtful reply... I am also coming from the point of "different strokes" when I offer the following
- I'm not at all concerned that Lala's founder was a capitalist, not an artist... I rarely need to feel comfortable that a person involved with a corporate enterprise has atruistic beliefs or ideals or even if they line up with mine
- I use Lala situationally... I own thousands of "real" CDs and depending on the artist, my choices for obtaining new material basically boil down to the following (legal) choices: buying the physical CD, getting digital copies of songs from eMusic (I think it's about $.40 per song) that I can store and burn, getting "web copies" from Lala for $.10 each that I can listen to when I want to, or going to someplace like myspace where I can sample things but are restricted by the artist (and by myspace) as to what song are listed there.
So, as a consumer, it works for me. You mention "a cheap MP3 player (or these days an iPod) provides an encyclopedia of
songs available anytime anywhere with no limitations to whether or not
lala had a license".... I'm pretty sure you're talking about a scenario where I ALREADY HAVE the CD , right? Because I have about 13,000 songs on mine, but when I want to ADD something to it......
So, if I read about a new CD that was just released and I'm somewhat interested but don't want to pay say $5-13 for some version of it and want to legally obtain a copy of it, where would I go to get a copy of the entire CD? I guess I'm missing something here but if you have other cheap methods of getting legal copies of new music, I'm sincere in saying that I'd love to know...
thanks!
Mike
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From: "scotthomewood@cs.com" <scotthomewood@cs.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 9:14:29 AM
Subject: Re: Apple purchases Lala.com
I had a pre-interview-type conversation with Ng back when Lala was in beta for a magazine which is now defunct and it was transparently obvious it was the cash, not any sort of supposed love for music that was driving him. From the Coke-font original logo to the empty promises, Lala was a company made solely for a profit with Ng trying to ride on anyone else's back he could. Now that he has finally gotten the only thing he ever really wanted, maybe he'll leave the music industry alone.
Scott Homewood
-----Original Message-----
From: Holmes Online <bholmes_fm@msn.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Sent: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 4:02 pm
Subject: Re: Apple purchases Lala.com
>>I have been on the ride with Lala for a bunch of years, starting from the >>point when their main business model was acting as a sort of broker for >>people who wanted to trade their unwanted CDs (I think I had about 300 >>trades). As you probably know, when that business model fell apart, Lala >>switched to basically an on-demand streaming model.
I bailed when they switched from their altrusitic model to other events (wanting to showcase radio transmissions of bands they liked) and it became apparent that their plans to compensate musicians and/or fund an insurance collective was a bag of hogwash.
>>I made the choice to pay $.10 per song to have a "web copy" of that song >>made available to me when and where I wanted it.
Different strokes, etc., but a cheap MP3 player (or these days an iPod) provides an encyclopedia of songs available anytime anywhere with no limitations to whether or not lala had a license. I found it typical that they wanted the user base to upload and create their online music library for them.
But it appears Bill Ng got what he wanted out of the deal - cash. Sounds like everybody's happy!
b
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