Now, I don’t actually think this will ever make it, simply because the corporate oligarchy holding the “rights” to the vast majority of creative culture (oops, I mean “product”) are a bunch of technophobic dickheads who think endlessly re-marketing “classic” albums and “authorized” remixes makes a good supplemental income-stream, between their latest manufactured Milli-Vanilli style “talent” and/or drug-whored-of-the-month. (Don’t take that how it sounded — I genuinely feel bad for Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse, but still.)

The corporate media oligarchy shit itself with fear when Dangermouse put out “the Grey Album”, so anybody who thinks they’ll willingly do the technological equivalent of releasing the studio-masters to albums (which is just begging for remixers and mashup artists to go nuts), is giving them WAY too much credit.

Still, the format itself is genius, and would be a total blas

If anyone is interested in the actual company thats working on the Music 2.0 program, theres the addy,
might be interesting stuff, if they can get it up and running before the MAFIASS kill it!

Exactly. The problem is, RIAA and the corporate dinosaurs they represent, have done a really good job of propaganda and disinformation over the last several decades. For example, they’ve been able to transform copy”right” — a government-granted monopoly privilege granted tor a limited time and specific purpose, and INTENDED to expire — into the “Sacred right of property”. They’ve pretty much neutered the public domain, in that whenever anything comes close to expiring, they just buy themselves another term extension which is then applied retroactively.

Then they promote a skewed notion of creativity and innovation, where supposedly stuff just springs fully-formed from the brow of the artist — as opposed to being part of the surrounding culture, influenced by influences, and suchlike.

Then they dangle the stereotypical “celebrity” lifestyle as bait, and presto: Metallica become total corporate whores in the blink of an eye.

The sad part about Metallica is they started out as a taper/bootleg-friendly band, explicitly encouraged people to copy their album and give it to friends, so as to generate a fan-base. Suddenly, when the same exact thing is happening more efficiently (Napster) they turn into whiny little bitches. Corporate Whoredom doesn’t look very “metal”, y’know?

(Personally, I think their bullshit back then is what damaged their career — nobody’s going to take corporate whores seriously.)

But yeah, the first — and most difficult — hurdle is to get people to reconsider how they think about stuff like copyright, creativity, innovation, art, stuff like that.

Hey Jon,
Thought you were taking a day or two off!?

Cheers!