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Severed Fifth launched to shake up the music industry
severedfifth.com — Severed Fifth is the anticipated project by Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager and co-founder of LugRadio. Severed Fifth is "a music project designed to explore how far a musician can take his music with the new economics of the music industry". Bacon plans to release an album under a free license and promote it under the "new music economy".
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- Snokage, on 06/09/2008, -2/+14it will be fine as long as it doesn't suck.
- michaelGregoire, on 06/09/2008, -11/+2"Real music fans"? As opposed to free culture fans? WTF? Jono is making some wild assumptions about people who have heard of free culture music. I've been a REAL music fan for 36 years...and yet.... I listen to freely available music as well. So now that I listen to freely available music and am a "free culture fan", I don't count? Screw Jono Bacon and his sad gimmick of self-promotion.
- marshallk, on 06/09/2008, -1/+2some details can be found starting in 9th paragraph of this page http://www.severedfifth.com/news/ sheesh!
- michaelGregoire, on 06/09/2008, -6/+2Specifically:
"Importantly, this project is not designed to be primarily of interest to free culture fans - if it were, the results and expectations would be inaccurate; Severed Fifth is targeting real music fans, people who have probably never heard of free culture, and to really see if the economy works in a realistic setting." - jonobacon, on 06/09/2008, -1/+14michaelGregoire - sorry you took offense at that - it was really not intended. My intention was to clarify that this is a project that is not specifically limited to those who have an interest in free culture - it is intended to be of interest to general music fans as well as those who believe in free culture. I by no means want to infer that free culture fans are either (a) irrelevant or (b) are not real music fans.
It is also not a "gimmick of self-promotion" - sure my music is the music that I am working on, but I am genuinely wanted to explore what is possible when an unknown musician such as myself tries to approach his music with the free culture approach.- michaelGregoire, on 06/09/2008, -0/+11Then sir, I apologize to you for my comment. Perhaps rewording your news release? Good luck to you.
- TheRealToma, on 06/10/2008, -0/+1Who did the art for your webpages Jono? Its kind of a look that we're trying to slap together for UbuntuStudio...
- michaelGregoire, on 06/09/2008, -0/+11Then sir, I apologize to you for my comment. Perhaps rewording your news release? Good luck to you.
- jonobacon, on 06/09/2008, -2/+5michaelGregoire - thanks for the apology - with the announcement already recorded and written up, I can't really change it - but I promise you that I will endeavor to clarify the message. :)
- EmitStop, on 06/10/2008, -1/+2I have high hopes for this. I'm really starting to love how this whole new free music thing is beginning to catch on.
Power to the artists! ***** the RIAA, IFPI, CRIA, etc. - macabaret, on 06/10/2008, -1/+2Severing a fifth seems like a great way to waste precious liquor.
- borez, on 06/10/2008, -0/+4I run a British Breakbeat record label ( no I won't link for obvious reasons on Digg ) I'm pretty well clued up on the ins and outs of digital marketing/distribution/competition/evaluation etc.etc .etc.
My question to you therefore is this : Where's the music mate? All you're saying is common knowledge but doesn't mean ***** without the music and, to be honest, you've just missed a massive opportunity by launching your product with well...no ***** product!
Why would you do that? - Iluvator, on 06/10/2008, -0/+1I was a little disappointed. It sounded, from the intro, that he had a plan. All he really said was "Blah Blah, DRM sucks, Blah Blah, I'm going to try non-traditional ways of publishing music." Well that's great - everyone wants to do that. The implementation details, though, which are the sticking point, are lacking.
Will his approaches be practical?
Will they scale up?
Will they work when it's no longer a novelty, and the rest of the music industry is using them too?
Maybe he has these answers. Maybe he doesn't. Without them, though, he's just another anti-drm activist. - polis74, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1mp3vox.com-On our site you can find and download any music in mp3 format
http://www.mp3vox.com/ - warezzona, on 08/22/2008, -0/+0Severed Fifth launched to shake up the music industry http://cpmusicpub.com/
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