Comments on: KOAR News

By: Jon Cole

Jon Cole — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:48:24 +0000

“its incredible that people go and steal it on limewire that is considerably less quality than on the radiohead site itself.”

Given that no one has a copy of the cd to rip at a lower quality, I would imagine the files on limewire are the exact same ones (160kbps) you can download off of radiohead’s site. Things don’t magically becomes less quality when they hit Limewire.

“Free isn’t even a bargain which is another valuable learning lesson.”

Or maybe the lesson is “convenience rules.” The word on my street was that the process on radiohead.com was painfully slow & often dysfunctional. I heard stories of several people giving up completely after 45 minutes or so of trying to pre-order a legitimate copy. No one, especially anyone who wasn’t planning on spending any money to begin with, is going to go through that hassle. Not when you get the same tracks quickly & painlessly off of Limewire. 160kbps is actually pretty poor quality, anyhow. The idea that you can only find comparatively low quality files on Limewire is a myth.

Here’s another point seldom made… legal downloads have to swim upstream against identity theft fears & distrust from years & years of inbox spam. Most people don’t want to give any information over the internet, least of all financial information or their e-mail address. Not unless they absolutely have to, & even then it’s only to the handful of sites they trust (iTunes, Amazon, PayPal, etc).

By: Rejean

Rejean — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:25:49 +0000

Scalpers using Bots is a big problem! I purchased 2 tickets for Elton John and was on the phone with Ticketmaster within 3 minutes of tickets going on sale. Best available seats were ok at best.. Later I found out it had sold out in 35 minutes. Of course a few days later I see tickets galore in the Local newspaper and ebay at 3 times the normal price. Its ridicules..

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:35:18 +0000

And in other news:
Music Sharing Case
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21139965/

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:31:47 +0000

i think (mainly from personal experience and talking to friends) that many people found the queue at radiohead’s website too long and the download process too lengthy, slow loading, and cumbersome to deal with. When rapidshare or mp3blogs can easily be searched and a quick solution can be reached, the official free download doesn’t mean a thing.

By: Stu Gots

Stu Gots — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:32:49 +0000

The people who ‘illegally’ downloaded the Radiohead album weren’t going to pay for it anyway, so it’s not like the band lost money..

By: davey

davey — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:59:37 +0000

ticketmaster could prevent automated bots with improved security measures, but they really don’t care because its not cutting into their profits and they are getting tickets off there plate. Even with thousands of costumer complaints ticketmaster washes the blood from their hand from illegal scalping.

By: lilly

lilly — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:46:30 +0000

The brokers using automated bots to purchase hundreds of thousands of tickets has really crippled the big concert business. What is even more frightening is that many artists are in BED with these slimy brokers and split profits from price gouging.

By: tina

tina — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:41:25 +0000

The big champaign stats are interesting, its incredible that people go and steal it on limewire that is considerably less quality than on the radiohead site itself. Free isn’t even a bargain which is another valuable learning lesson.

By: Tim Towner

Tim Towner — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:03:58 +0000

Thee Armada entered our Top Unsigned list back in May. I announced this signing about a month ago on my site.

These guys work really hard and have some catchy music. Glad to see they are getting some press on other sites.