File-Sharing

With all the fire sharing stuff up in the media lately. (Pirate Bay Trial here in Sweden). I'm curious... what is coming now. What is the future for access to music and the like? I don't really think that shutting down pirate bay would change ANYTHING.

When I think of my friends who I would call artists... the ones who live and breath art. They aren't out there to become rich. They want to survive on their music and have the time to continue to make more music. They won't say no to becoming rich, but that isn't their goal.

More and more I think the money artists earn will not be from the songs themselves, but instead based on the popularity of their songs. Getting sponsors, advertising contracts, giving concerts, and selling things that have to do with them and their music. If you want to sell an actual CD. Package it with an art book, a special physical object of some sort that your loyal fans will WANT. If you want to sell music. Price it at a price that keeps your servers going, but not much more. Beyond that have a donate button on your website for people to donate to your music if you want to collect loyalty things. And reward donations with things like free tickets, or a chance at free tickets to hear you play. Or be ready to actually mail out a fancy art book to someone.

I'm starting to feel the end of super stars like Britney Spears... although who would say she's an actual artist? She doesn't write her own music, doesn't play any instruments or anything. She sings what she's told to sing. I've no problems with crushing more careers like hers and instead going for the truly creative small bands. The songwriters themselves might become more important in the future! You never know!

Meanwhile, support the nice guys at Pirate Bay that are really just trying to make artist music free. And support your favorite ARTIST. Brag about them on your blog, go see a concert, and hey, let them know that you like their music. And for god's sake... do we really want more britney spears running around? :P

Math Failure =(

Well... I failed Math 2. Bleh. I only got 10 points on the final... plus my one point from the quiz... so I had 11 points. 14 is a pass. There were 30 points possible on the final with up to two points from the quiz for a total of 32 points. Only three of my classmates that I've asked so far have passed. Everyone else has failed, so I guess I'm not alone in my fail. But I'll just have to work extra extra hard and try to pass the retest next month (as well as my Math 3 test which is a week later). If I work hard enough I SHOULD be able to pass these last two math tests. Then I'm done with math! Forever! Mwahahahaha. Or until I get distracted and wander off in search of new educational opportunities.

In other news. I'm home sick today. My tummy hurts, I didn't sleep well last night, I've got a bit of a fever, and my throat REALLY REALLY hurts. I might try to drag myself to my 14.15 physics lecture, but we'll see if I'm feeling better. Mostly I'm just sitting in bed trying to get through a few more math problems, increase my understanding of complex numbers a bit more, and see if I can't finish off the entire section on complex numbers today. We've got a quiz coming up next week so it'd be great if I could have one of the two sections we've covered so far mostly understood today. Then I just have to review it before the quiz next Wednesday.

I'm also looking at summer classes since I've not had much luck finding a summer job. There's a C++ distance class that I want to take.