Comments for FatBusinessman.com http://blog.fatbusinessman.com Sat, 17 May 2008 15:43:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 Comment on Disappointment by Pam http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/04/19/disappointment/#comment-4266 Pam Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:28:25 +0000 http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/04/19/disappointment/#comment-4266 <p>As someone who constantly works and gets fucked over for and by bands and labels. I understand your frustration but hope you can open up to the other side of the spectrum. Not everyone is honest especially in this business. So when they a month early send out their work, and some blogger takes it rips it and uploads it for his 678 subscribers in his RSS, well that is 678 people who don't buy the album, then that is 678 counts off the hit chart, money out of their pocket and generally this business is killing music and bands. I was the absolute queen of illegal download until I realized with the help of a very well known Finnish band I work for how badly this is inhibiting their career. The last album they sent out like this flew like a fire threw the web and ruined their release because all of their fans already had the album. So there was no money for a tour and no money to record again.</p> As someone who constantly works and gets fucked over for and by bands and labels. I understand your frustration but hope you can open up to the other side of the spectrum. Not everyone is honest especially in this business. So when they a month early send out their work, and some blogger takes it rips it and uploads it for his 678 subscribers in his RSS, well that is 678 people who don’t buy the album, then that is 678 counts off the hit chart, money out of their pocket and generally this business is killing music and bands. I was the absolute queen of illegal download until I realized with the help of a very well known Finnish band I work for how badly this is inhibiting their career. The last album they sent out like this flew like a fire threw the web and ruined their release because all of their fans already had the album. So there was no money for a tour and no money to record again.

]]> Comment on First Time by Jason Diamantopoulou http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/08/27/first-time/#comment-3859 Jason Diamantopoulou Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:38:41 +0000 http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/08/27/first-time/#comment-3859 <p>Very pretty design! Keep working. Go on!</p> Very pretty design! Keep working. Go on!

]]> Comment on First Time by Jonty http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/08/27/first-time/#comment-2402 Jonty Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:37:26 +0000 http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/08/27/first-time/#comment-2402 <p>Crikey! Call off the search! He's alive! hehe :) I'm glad all is well, matey. Hopefully catch you on Messenger sometime :)</p> <blockquote cite="Fatty">giving me an opportunity to use XFN’s co-resident attribute</blockquote> <p>Now there's something you don't read every day :p</p> Crikey! Call off the search! He’s alive! hehe :) I’m glad all is well, matey. Hopefully catch you on Messenger sometime :)

giving me an opportunity to use XFN’s co-resident attribute

Now there’s something you don’t read every day :p

]]> Comment on Disappointment by FatBusinessman http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/04/19/disappointment/#comment-1553 FatBusinessman Mon, 07 May 2007 20:46:53 +0000 http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/04/19/disappointment/#comment-1553 <p>Well, what can I say? A pretty interface with a Unix box underneath can do that to a guy…</p> Well, what can I say? A pretty interface with a Unix box underneath can do that to a guy…

]]> Comment on Disappointment by Katharos http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/04/19/disappointment/#comment-1551 Katharos Mon, 07 May 2007 11:57:43 +0000 http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/04/19/disappointment/#comment-1551 <p>I still find the fact that you use a Mac and an iPod now extremely disturbing considering all the stick I used to get at 6th form about being a mac user. I should feel all 'I told you so'-y. But I don't. </p> <p>Stop infringing on my individuality and go back to your PCs you scumbags!</p> I still find the fact that you use a Mac and an iPod now extremely disturbing considering all the stick I used to get at 6th form about being a mac user. I should feel all ‘I told you so’-y. But I don’t.

Stop infringing on my individuality and go back to your PCs you scumbags!

]]> Comment on Disappointment by FatBusinessman http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/04/19/disappointment/#comment-1517 FatBusinessman Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:22:03 +0000 http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/04/19/disappointment/#comment-1517 <p>Ah, ok, I didn’t realise it was the decision of the band rather than the label: apologies for the mistake.</p> <p>And thanks for the offer of sending me fixed MP3 versions of the tracks, but I’ve already re-aligned and ripped the tracks. I have to laugh at the irony that the band’s decision to break the tracks to prevent file-sharing is actually <em>causing</em> people to send the fixed versions to their friends online.</p> Ah, ok, I didn’t realise it was the decision of the band rather than the label: apologies for the mistake.

And thanks for the offer of sending me fixed MP3 versions of the tracks, but I’ve already re-aligned and ripped the tracks. I have to laugh at the irony that the band’s decision to break the tracks to prevent file-sharing is actually causing people to send the fixed versions to their friends online.

]]> Comment on Disappointment by David Emery http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/04/19/disappointment/#comment-1504 David Emery Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:32:45 +0000 http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/04/19/disappointment/#comment-1504 <p>Hi David.</p> <p>Sorry about the misaligned tracks - it really has nothing to with us, it's all about the bands management/the band who are super-mega-ultra paranoid about things like leaking. As the album in question isn't out for another month it's the only version of it I can get my hands on - that's why the other cd I sent you wasn't crippled in the same way.</p> <p>I completly agree that it's a bit shit, but I thought a promo cd with misaligned tracks was better then no promo cd :-) If you drop me a mail I can send you mp3s of it instead.</p> <p><a href="http://de-online.co.uk/2007/04/06/experiment" rel="nofollow">I've blogged a bit</a> about the reasons behind sending out cds to bloggers - hopefully it makes the reasoning behind doing it a little bit clearer. The reasons could probably be summed up as: I'm a blogger. I'd like to get free cds. I assume everyone else feels the same.</p> <p>Hope to see you a the gig in May...</p> Hi David.

Sorry about the misaligned tracks - it really has nothing to with us, it’s all about the bands management/the band who are super-mega-ultra paranoid about things like leaking. As the album in question isn’t out for another month it’s the only version of it I can get my hands on - that’s why the other cd I sent you wasn’t crippled in the same way.

I completly agree that it’s a bit shit, but I thought a promo cd with misaligned tracks was better then no promo cd :-) If you drop me a mail I can send you mp3s of it instead.

I’ve blogged a bit about the reasons behind sending out cds to bloggers - hopefully it makes the reasoning behind doing it a little bit clearer. The reasons could probably be summed up as: I’m a blogger. I’d like to get free cds. I assume everyone else feels the same.

Hope to see you a the gig in May…

]]> Comment on SXSW Part 2: Return by FatBusinessman http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/03/25/sxsw-part-2-return/#comment-1487 FatBusinessman Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:50:33 +0000 http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/03/25/sxsw-part-2-return/#comment-1487 <p>Yeah, sorry to have missed you too. Probably one of the near-inevitable consequences of the event becoming so much bigger in scale. Still, I hope to be at next year’s <abbr title="South by Southwest">SXSW</abbr>, so with a bit of luck and – you never know – maybe even some advance planning, our paths may end up crossing then.</p> Yeah, sorry to have missed you too. Probably one of the near-inevitable consequences of the event becoming so much bigger in scale. Still, I hope to be at next year’s SXSW, so with a bit of luck and – you never know – maybe even some advance planning, our paths may end up crossing then.

]]> Comment on SXSW Part 2: Return by vantan http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/03/25/sxsw-part-2-return/#comment-1479 vantan Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:34:11 +0000 http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/03/25/sxsw-part-2-return/#comment-1479 <p>Sorry to have missed you at this year's SXSW!</p> Sorry to have missed you at this year’s SXSW!

]]> Comment on Good starts by Meri http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/04/04/good-starts/#comment-1475 Meri Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:52:47 +0000 http://blog.fatbusinessman.com/archives/2007/04/04/good-starts/#comment-1475 <p>I think that the best businesses have always known that shafting your consumers is not a good idea. As a long term strategy it sucks, frankly. What IS changing is the ability of those consumers to organise and to collectively tell those companies that they're feeling shafted. </p> <p>I'm sure that whoever originally cooked up DRM thought that it was a perfectly reasonable restriction** -- they thought the consumers would understand that they just owned that copy, not the right to the media in any ongoing way. After all, media companies had made a FORTUNE from format changes over the years - people bought records, then they bought tapes and then they bought CDs. People bought VHS (sometimes even betamax) and then replaced them with DVD. The format offered enough new features (smaller size, convenience, better quality) for consumers to make the switch. I'm sure there are some companies relying on HD to save their failing pension schemes too.</p> <p>What has changed is that the companies have started to realise that small groups of consumers (which potentially could have just been ignored in the past as statistically insignificant) are becoming much more important -- they can band together on the internet, share their concerns, gather momentum, get on the news and most of all EXERT PRESSURE.</p> <p>** Please note I don't agree with this AT ALL, I just think it was a likely conversation somewhere along the line at the media corps headquarters</p> I think that the best businesses have always known that shafting your consumers is not a good idea. As a long term strategy it sucks, frankly. What IS changing is the ability of those consumers to organise and to collectively tell those companies that they’re feeling shafted.

I’m sure that whoever originally cooked up DRM thought that it was a perfectly reasonable restriction** — they thought the consumers would understand that they just owned that copy, not the right to the media in any ongoing way. After all, media companies had made a FORTUNE from format changes over the years - people bought records, then they bought tapes and then they bought CDs. People bought VHS (sometimes even betamax) and then replaced them with DVD. The format offered enough new features (smaller size, convenience, better quality) for consumers to make the switch. I’m sure there are some companies relying on HD to save their failing pension schemes too.

What has changed is that the companies have started to realise that small groups of consumers (which potentially could have just been ignored in the past as statistically insignificant) are becoming much more important — they can band together on the internet, share their concerns, gather momentum, get on the news and most of all EXERT PRESSURE.

** Please note I don’t agree with this AT ALL, I just think it was a likely conversation somewhere along the line at the media corps headquarters

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