Yoda
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I think mine is "prettiest" of them all!
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Welcome to Beatmeking.. hehe beatking!
Have fun and post away! We don't charge unless you break something. But even then its ok.
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Well sense its fixed I have to bring up this point. Maybe its been posted before or maybe i just drank to many Red Bulls this morning but why is Kooperman have his own group?!
Is this like him starting his own country to take us over. We learned about that in American history! Need more Bull!
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dang dudeasincool is such a spammer :P j/p but dang thats alot of post good job!
I of course will stay in that top 10! No one can knock me out muahahahaha
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Janet Jackson's mouse is history.
Disney has quietly gotten rid of a 6-foot statue of Mickey Mouse that was dressed like Jackson.
The statue was one of 75 unveiled at Disney World last fall to celebrate the 75th birthday of Mickey Mouse.
They were inspired by celebrities such as Andre Agassi, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ellen DeGeneres.
Disney spokesman Gary Foster told the Orlando Sentinel considering all the controversy it drew, they decided to replace Jackson's Mickey with a new one.
It's been replaced by a spare statue designed by an in-house Disney artist. The statues -- minus the Jackson one -- have been shipped to a convention center in Philadelphia, for investors to see at Disney's annual shareholder meeting.
Jackson has been criticized for her breast-baring Super Bowl halftime show
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wtf..
**Confused
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I haven't heard anything about this and I watch the news all the time. I'm surprised they haven't jumped on this like flies on shit like they normally do.
They are mostly on about John Kerry and all that political hubbub
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Ken I need my tin foil hat back to, and while your at it can you give me back my pants please.
anyway screw metallica the sell outs. Right after the napster ordeal they are a bunch of greedy money hogs! So i don't care what crap they offer I will never ever ever buy any of there crappy music. Anyway there new music is the worst shit i ever heard.
Now let me go sit and a corner and sway back and forth as you can tell Im no metallica fan.
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R.I.P Ol' buddy
You are what got us here today now go away quietly while your ahead.
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p2pnet.net Issues:- If a well-known independent online music store was having non-stop staff, financial and marketing troubles, the headline would be, "Death knell tolls for Slapster". Or some such.
So what about corporate stores backed by Big Music?
When Napster was disinterred by Roxio last October, bits of it were offered up as a " legit, for-pay online music site" which Roxio ceo Christopher Gorog believed, "could be every bit as influential as the infamous file-swapping site of old, largely because he felt the Napster name would quickly put Roxio on a par with digital music superstar Apple," says a BusinessWeek online story here.
Napster II launched on sad little teaser cartoons which were meant to show future punters how very cool it was going to be.
And that was the good part.
Today, "Napster remains a distant second in market share to Apple's popular iTunes service," says the report. "And management upheaval at Roxio has raised fears about Napster's future once again. Just days after the launch, respected Universal Music executive Lawrence Kenswil resigned his seat on Roxio's board. Since then, a stream of executives - including Roxio Chief Financial Officer Elliot Carpenter and Napster division President Mike Bebel - have left as well.
"All this has spooked investors, who have driven Roxio's shares from $10.50 at the time of the launch to around $3.80 as of Feb. 26," says BusinessWeek, going on to quote Gartner G2 analyst Mike McGuire as saying, "I'm not willing to say Napster is toast, but there's certainly a lot of smoke."
Hewlett-Packard dropped Napster like a hot potato, its top execs have hit the road and share price has plummeted.
What could be wrong?
Things may look a little untoward, but "The cat in the Napster logo hasn't run out of lives just yet," says the BW report. "It sells far fewer songs at its online store than Apple, which sells roughly 75% of the 3 million songs that are sold online each week. But Gorog points out that based on the latest weekly data from Neilsen SoundScan, Napster's share equals all other rivals combined, including services from Wal-Mart, MusicMatch, and Best Buy. He says the data show that Napster 2.0 is holding its No. 2 position against Apple in this music-download business."
The question is, however, what does this mean? The answer is, very little. And that's because no matter how much bragging and posturing there is - and there's an awful lot of it going around - the corporate music stores don't even begin to come near the number of downloads enjoyed, if that's the right word, by the major commercial p2p apps.
Where Napster brags about selling five million tunes over a five month period, the p2p apps accounted for five billion downloads.
OK - they weren't 'legal' a la music industry definitions. But they were real. The downloaders had no trouble finding what they wanted and they had millions (not 250,000) of possibilities to choose from. And they got what they wanted with no fuss and no muss.
If the songs had been sold from corporate stores at 15 cents a pop, say - or even through as-much-as-you-can-eat for $5 a month, as per a recent EFF Voluntary Collective Licensing suggestion - how much money would the music industry have earned? Not that much of that would have reached artists' pockets, of course. But that's normal.
Instead, the labels are moaning and whining and losing millions of dollars suing teenagers, at the same time trying to convince people that they're right to be doing it.
"Napster could start to increase market share in the more profitable business of selling monthly subscriptions, where customers can listen to - but not own - as many songs as they want each month for $9.95," says BW
Listen to, but not own? Like, you give it back to Big Music when you've heard it? And you pay $9.95 a month for the privilege? And the 'music' is mostly 'product'?
"While Napster is far behind RealNetworks' Rhapsody service, AOL's MusicNet, and others, it's taking the lead again in the old Napster's stomping ground: college campuses," says BusinessWeek.
Yes - but the original Napster was taken seriously by the music loving public. It was real. Napster II, on the other hand, is a mockery.
Nor is it on the campuses because students want it there. It was thrust upon them by the music labels' enforcement organ, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
The way it goes is: if students download 'authorised' (that's to say produced and marketed by the Big Five labels) music from online 'stores' the Big Five labels approve, everything is peachy. Then the labels won't have to sue students into buying 'product'.
And with Napster II breaking the trail, the way is now wide open for the music to force-feed American students under the pretext of saving them from having to go to court - to answer charges brought by the music industry in the first place.
Coming up? A Sony university service.
In the meanwhile, "Penn State University and the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music intend to offer free Napster subscriptions to thousands of students in coming months," says the report. "These are just pilot programs, and Roxio granted big discounts that will keep profits negligible at best, say insiders.
"But the hope is that the students will become paying customers for years to come."
"Smart," Kenswil is quoted as saying.
You'll recall Kenswil resigned from Roxio's board days after Napster II was launched.
"Insiders say the main reason for Kenswil's departure was that Universal did not want a seat on Roxio's board, for fear other music services would be concerned it was playing favorites," says BW.
And, "Other recent executive departees left because Gorog consolidated music operations that had been spread between Los Angeles, New York, and Silicon Valley into the L.A. area, to be closer to the record labels, he says. And former CFO Carpenter had planned on leaving for personal reasons for months. 'It's a tempest in a teapot,' insists Gorog, who says layoffs cut less than 10% of the staff."
"We've created a hell of a defensible position." Gorog says at the end of the article.
Is 'defensible' a Napster II marketing term?
"I couldn't be more pleased," he says, going on that depending how the 'deals' with colleges work out, the music business will grow to anywhere from $20 million to $40 million in sales in 2004.
However, concludes BusinessWeek, there's a problem. And that is, "Roxio doesn't expect profits any time soon, and the competition is only going to get tougher.
"Worse, Roxio's core business of selling CD-copying software to PC makers is hurting, as well. In the quarter ended Dec. 31, Roxio lost $25 million on revenues of $18.8 million, with software revenues contributing to that loss. Roxio predicts that the PC software business should turn profitable this quarter, based on a new product release.
What happened to the Cat in the Can?
Be that as it may, "That leaves Gorog with little room for error as he pursues his grand music ambitions. Cats may indeed have nine lives, but ultimately, Roxio - or somebody else - will have figure out how to leverage Napster's valuable brand and innovative services into a business model that turns a profit."
(Wednesday 3rd March 2004)
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hehe :P
actually I got it from ScarFace. I have that whole part memorized. Best part.
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We should just use #Zeropaid on p2pchat.net instead of opening another room just for maybe 5 people will show up. Most of us/were Zeropaid users at one time so why not just go there? I'm sure MoonMan wouldnt mind.
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Yes for all of lifes problems just blame me!
I broke MakoSolutions just so i could get a discount which I never get :(
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Well lets see how long it lasts. But really if he doesn't wanna end up like ozzy he should quit pretty soon he isn't gonna be able to put a sentence together.
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Good we don't need that jack ass on there anyway. He is just a sore loser. If he cant take it go jump of a damn cliff and make sure you break every bone in your body and take pictures. You whiney ass.
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Welcome SexyTom hehe ;)
its a chat thing..
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Yep i checked it out :)
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but I will find a dislike. I know its the kind of music your playing (poision the well you remind me of) but I did not like that type of punk rock volcals. But thats the direction your aiming (i guess) so keep going.
Also props to the drummer that is good.
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kick ass stuff and your still young!
which reminds me i gotta get going someday on my project. My friend has a band with no singer ;)
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Welcome and whats his band?
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KEN!!!!
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The Passion of Howard Stern
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see what i dont understand is how they are booting him now.. Once in the car on a trip my dad was listening to Howard Stern and i was taking a snooze.. all of a sudden i hear them talkin about this Johnny Rebel person and then they played his songs and did not take one word out. Now if you listened to Johnny Rebel's work you would understand.
Johnny Rebel is a racist country song singer who rips old country songs and turns them into racist songs by dropping the N word about 50 times through the song.
They did not edit one word out of that and they didn't get in trouble. Now here as Im getting it somebody called in and said something and Howard Stern show didnt edit it like they should of but atleast that was a caller..
I will never understand