[plug] Online music services and Linux?

[Mr Shayne]

It was something I commented on on slashdot that seemed to send the 
punters fairly jumping there once, that probably the original P2P was 
infact music lessons and hand written music scores.

Mozart was employed by the government (the king) to write tunes that would 
keep the plebs happy (and put a smile on the kings dial). These would be 
performed on commissioned events. Then sheet music would of been sold for 
various of his most popular tunes, and most likely hand transcribed, often 
badly, around the place, and with people teaching each other tunes they 
could play of his.

Just like P2P. Except with perhaps a little more labor (and as a musician 
I'd suggest a little more joy ;)

--
Freedom's just another word for something new to regulate

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Rod wrote:

>
> heh, I have thoguht for a while now that the ability to record and then
> sell ONE performance is the historical anomoly, the glitch in reality.
>
> for thousands of years (before 1950ish) every artist on the planet
> survived on their daily performance, but with the advent of recording..
> you can do a handful of performances, record them, and live off them the
> rest of your life.. this is nonsense.. no other industry operates on
> those levels....
>
> maybe its just the correction back to reality (file sharing making
> recordings worthless, the pressure goes back onto your day to day
> performances, infront of real people with real money)
>
> just a thought.
>
>
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