MegaUpload Shut Down Because of Megabox Jukebox Service?

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bustapr

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I can see both the good and the bad in this, but its mostly bad. Basically the ones that benefit from this are consumers and current artists. But future musicians would have a very hard time getting noticed because of this. for new artists, their success depends largely on being signed.

This service would put off alot of people from buying music and publishers will fall. And there will be noone to sign and invest in new bands. Therefore these bands will have to get by on word of mouth alone and gigs. And eventually retire before doing anything big. And then the music industry would be doomed.

Im glad this Megabox was never final, but sadly I think its innevitable for another similar service to appear.
 
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tell that to a family who has had a loved one captured by those pirates, and held hostage for years for a payout.
Im glad we are happy to send the navy out to protect ships rather then decide their lives arnt worth spending your tax dollars on
 

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[citation][nom]bustapr[/nom]I can see both the good and the bad in this, but its mostly bad. Basically the ones that benefit from this are consumers and current artists. But future musicians would have a very hard time getting noticed because of this. for new artists, their success depends largely on being signed.This service would put off alot of people from buying music and publishers will fall. And there will be noone to sign and invest in new bands. Therefore these bands will have to get by on word of mouth alone and gigs. And eventually retire before doing anything big. And then the music industry would be doomed.Im glad this Megabox was never final, but sadly I think its innevitable for another similar service to appear.[/citation]

I think you'll find your lines crossed here. Most upcoming artists with anything of note to offer get over looked by the music industry in favor of an ever growing popularity to sign mediocre talent which they can manipulate using auto tune and then continually feed the garbage out to gullible tone deaf people for maximum profit.
 

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[citation][nom]bustapr[/nom]I can see both the good and the bad in this, but its mostly bad. Basically the ones that benefit from this are consumers and current artists. But future musicians would have a very hard time getting noticed because of this. for new artists, their success depends largely on being signed.This service would put off alot of people from buying music and publishers will fall. And there will be noone to sign and invest in new bands. Therefore these bands will have to get by on word of mouth alone and gigs. And eventually retire before doing anything big. And then the music industry would be doomed.Im glad this Megabox was never final, but sadly I think its innevitable for another similar service to appear.[/citation]

and un proven band getting signed is just giving them a debt, and letting them have VERY little leverage.

the best thing a band can do is get a studio recording for their best song, and youtube it, get adds off it and put it up on a distribution platform like itunes, and try to get the word out.

if you can plan your own tours, you can make even more money, and wont be screwed by record companies.

most people wont even break even on their debt with the record companies till their 3rd cd if they are lucky.
 
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I dont know. what else I can say about it. love megaupload and hate it. I m a megaupload user and I m also knowing it is gonna to hurt the music. and movie and the software in the futurebut I just can't offer too much things I want. . who else will go into bestbuy straightto the CD section or the movie section after knowing megaupload.
RIP. megaupload, fileserve. filesonic.
 
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Sucks they had some decent tv programs (with commercials) on mega upload. Like the TV people, don't get enough money???
 

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[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]i heard that they were also planning to sell music and given 90% of the money to artists.[/citation]
That's 85% more what the record labels currently give to the artists. As always the music industry screws the people and the artists
 

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This IP/copyright nonsense is getting way out of control. No law maker has the consumer's best interest in mind, it's all about the big companies with all the lobbyists. I want people to get paid for their work, but we need some compromise. I just don't think you can treat digital content the same as a regular product, it just isn't.
 

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I am amazed at how people still use traditional services such as RIAA. Why bother, when you can go straight to the distributors? Same with movies. Why go through a studio, if you've already got the capitol to make the movie, just sell online. Perhaps it'd be good if there were an easy way to get it to theaters too...

I was contemplating the trick of getting an Ebook on to Nook and Kindle just yesterday. Not the devices, I mean the service. Why sell your rights to some company who only puts them in the same distribution as you would? It's not like you need to print an actual book anymore. In the same way, you no longer need to cut a CD. Just record using your high end computer gadgets. Either distribute via YouTube, or some other ad supported service. You'll end up with the same revenue, but keep all your rights.
 

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[citation][nom]bustapr[/nom]I can see both the good and the bad in this, but its mostly bad. Basically the ones that benefit from this are consumers and current artists. But future musicians would have a very hard time getting noticed because of this. for new artists, their success depends largely on being signed.This service would put off alot of people from buying music and publishers will fall. And there will be noone to sign and invest in new bands. Therefore these bands will have to get by on word of mouth alone and gigs. And eventually retire before doing anything big. And then the music industry would be doomed.Im glad this Megabox was never final, but sadly I think its innevitable for another similar service to appear.[/citation]

Artists would get by on popularity and gigs, actual talent and effort instead of hand picking acts based on their image and synthesizing them some talent? Sounds like the best thing that could ever happen to consumers.

Kim Dotcom's really not that great of a guy either though, kind of guilty of money crimes in the past and would probably have taken a lot of people's money. He has a point, this is just as much about the war he's had with the industry as it is any crimes he's committed. I mean, there's plenty of criminals around the world. Plenty of large counterfeiting rings in China, actual ripping off physical products and selling bootlegs. Or they could have went in to grab one of the many drug cartel kingpins in South/Central America. Or perhaps one of the multiple child prostitution rings around the world and even in the US. No? Our biggest priority is a copyright infringer?

Odds are he'll get 10x the sentence most child rapists/murderers do.
 

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[citation][nom]jjtober1[/nom]This IP/copyright nonsense is getting way out of control. No law maker has the consumer's best interest in mind, it's all about the big companies with all the lobbyists. I want people to get paid for their work, but we need some compromise. I just don't think you can treat digital content the same as a regular product, it just isn't.[/citation]
Even in worst case scenario with the cost of piracy being as they say (jobs, quality etc. something for the common people that is, because we all know they billionaires are selfless and don't think of their own profit and their third pool or second helicopter) the value I think is in the enjoyment of freedom to use the free internet as it was meant to be, freely.

Can you put a price and value on peace of mind?
 

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p.s. wouldn't it be great if instead of putting effort into controlling the way users chose to use the copyrighted material, they put effort into providing users with the best experience and reliability possible compared to the price?
Like Steam vs. Sony's rootkits vs. torrenting the unpatched and potentially trojan-ed version?
 

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The RIAA may in the long run kill itself.
Technology has come to the point where even a garage band with little financial backing can 'produce' top quality sound; never mind the fact that prob 99.9% of pirated music is MP3 format anyway, something that is not even remotely CD quality; and CD quality is the low end of music production these days.
bottom line, the 'need' for an expensive studio and for a record producer is vanishing and the more acts that find out about it the better. Let's give them a way to self publish; and make a living doing so and before you know it the RIAA can call it a day.
 
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