Rapper 50 Cent Announces Support of File-Sharing Despite the fact that his own label has been affected In a recent interview, rapper and record label owner 50 Cent came out in support of file-sharing. He announced that he doesn’t believe that file-sharing hurts artists. He says that music should be about getting fans and that those fans are important whether they purchase music outright or “steal it” through file-sharing. He does concede that his record label isn’t doing well in the face of file-sharing but says that what’s required is a change in the industry’s approach. He suggests that finding new methods of marketing and merchandising make more sense than trying to hang on to an outdated model which fights file-sharing. 50 Cent joins Radiohead as one of the big names that is supporting trying different approaches to music marketing.
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Oklahoma City, OK | Re: yeah said by vasta:Drink Vitamin Water Vitamin Water is garbage. It has more stuff that's bad for you in it than it does vitamins. | |
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Snohomish, WA | said by MarkyD:said by vasta:Drink Vitamin Water Vitamin Water is garbage. It has more stuff that's bad for you in it than it does vitamins. yeah because healthy people are oh-so-worried about 100 calories and some sugar. You're right... that's outright DANGEROUS!!!  | |
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| Vitamins serve as a substitute or additional vitamins for regular vitality you don't get with the food you're eating, what's wrong with that?
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kudos:7 | Re: yeah There are some vitamins which, when added to a beverage, cannot be absorbed into the body unless accompanied with a meal. So the best place to get your daily vitamins and minerals is actually from food. | |
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Oklahoma City, OK | said by rideboarder:said by MarkyD:said by vasta:Drink Vitamin Water Vitamin Water is garbage. It has more stuff that's bad for you in it than it does vitamins. yeah because healthy people are oh-so-worried about 100 calories and some sugar. You're right... that's outright DANGEROUS!!! it's not that. It's more that it's LOADED with sugar, but not so much with vitamins. Just kind of funny for a product called "Vitamin Water." Look at the amount of vitamins in it...and then get back to me. You're better off drinking a sugar free redbull speaking in terms of strictly vitamins. | |
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Oklahoma City, OK | Re: yeah said by Tzale:Actually, I don't even know if it has 100 calories or sugar in it... If I recall, it's 0 calories... I THINK... -Tzale Serving size: 8 fl oz, Servings per container: 2.5; Amount per serving: Calories: 50; Total fat: 0g, Sodium: 0mg; Potassium: 60mg; Total carbohydrates: 13g; Sugar: 13g; Protein: 0g; Vitamin C: 40%; Vitamin B3: 20%; Vitamin B6: 20%; Vitamin B12: 20%; Vitamin B5: 20%; Potassium: 150mg per bottle...
13 grams of sugar per serving. 2.5 servings per bottle. That's 32.5 grams of sugar for a SINGLE BOTTLE. That's a lot! | |
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| Good to hear This is good to hear, and I hope others do the same. Hell, if they somehow figured out how to integrate ads into an mp3 file that plays on your PC before or during the playing of a music file I would not have a problem with it at all - I'd say it would be a decent exchange.
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kudos:1 | Re: Good to hear said by netwire:Hell, if they somehow figured out how to integrate ads into an mp3 file that plays on your PC before or during the playing of a music file I would not have a problem with it at all - I'd say it would be a decent exchange. Ads in a music file? No thanks, if I want ads, I'll listen to the radio.
The change that really needs to happen is for them to start selling music at reasonable prices that most people can afford. Maybe they could use P2P to do this. | |
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you write off the art of lyricism as "rap not worth hearing".
But I bet your a rocker or something to that extent. An I also bet you hate that bubble gum pop rock. Same as us hiphop heads that listen to the genre...
And trust, you cannot carry on 32 bars of music, keep your flow, and recite every last word so the audience hears you like, say, I can every week at open mics...
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| | | Good for 50 Cent -- we actually agree on something. File sharing is a legit alternative to companies incapability to sell their product and attempt to control the person and medium and not market better.
I've never bought the "stealing" mentality, as I've recorded music on cassettes and CDs since the late late 80s. The recording industry just convinced a lot of people to buy into their view, one which I've never supported, and never will. | |
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1 edit |  Radiohead's approach
Buyers can pay zero or whatever they please up to £99.99 (about $212) for the album in MP3 form.
After fulfilling its contract in 2003 with its last album for EMI, “Hail to the Thief,” Radiohead turned down multimillion-dollar offers for a new major-label deal, preferring to stay independent.
The Eagles and Madonna, both with sales that dwarf Radiohead’s, also abandoned major labels in 2007, as did songwriters as influential as Joni Mitchell and Paul McCartney, who moved to Hear Music, the independent label partly owned by Starbucks.
The band and its managers are not releasing the download’s sales figures or average price, and may never do so. “It’s our linen,” Mr. Hufford said. “We don’t want to wash it in public.” A statement from the band rejected estimates by the online survey company ComScore that during October about three-fifths of worldwide downloaders took the album free, while the rest paid an average of $6. Factoring in free downloads, ComScore said the average price per download was $2.26.
Under a typical recording contract, a band receives royalties of about 15 percent of an album’s wholesale price after expenses are recovered. Without middlemen, and with zero material costs for a download, $2.26 per album would work out to Radiohead’s advantage — not to mention the worldwide publicity.
Radiohead has not abandoned the physical disc. A mail-order deluxe version of “In Rainbows” — the album and a bonus CD, two vinyl albums, artwork and a fancy package for $80 — went on sale alongside the downloaded version on Oct. 10. The music business awaits results on how the worldwide downloads of “In Rainbows” will affect disc sales. This type of business model may work for well known stars well in to their careers. It has yet to vault an unknown in to star status. The major label system still has a lock on that, with their massive publicity and advertising budgets.
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1 edit | Re: Radiohead's approach said by Linklist:This type of business model may work for well known stars well in to their careers. It has yet to vault an unknown in to star status. The major label system still has a lock on that, with their massive publicity and advertising budgets. You've never heard of Colbie Caillat, I take it? She started on Myspace as an unknown, posted her music, became number one on the charts without a record deal. She sells her music directly, not sure if she's signed yet or not, but I don't believe she is. ( I could be wrong. ) Record companies are becoming obsolete.
*edit*she is recently signed to a record label.
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kudos:5 | Re: Radiohead's approach said by TwKs:said by Linklist:This type of business model may work for well known stars well in to their careers. It has yet to vault an unknown in to star status. The major label system still has a lock on that, with their massive publicity and advertising budgets. You've never heard of Colbie Caillat, I take it? She started on Myspace as an unknown, posted her music, became number one on the charts without a record deal. She sells her music directly, not sure if she's signed yet or not, but I don't believe she is. ( I could be wrong. ) Record companies are becoming obsolete. *edit*she is recently signed to a record label. » colbiecaillatmusic.com/ Never heard of her.
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kudos:12 | said by TwKs:said by Linklist:This type of business model may work for well known stars well in to their careers. It has yet to vault an unknown in to star status. The major label system still has a lock on that, with their massive publicity and advertising budgets. You've never heard of Colbie Caillat, I take it? She started on Myspace as an unknown, posted her music, became number one on the charts without a record deal. She sells her music directly, not sure if she's signed yet or not, but I don't believe she is. ( I could be wrong. ) Record companies are becoming obsolete. *edit*she is recently signed to a record label. » colbiecaillatmusic.com/ Me either and I listen to music from the time I wake up until the time I go to bed.
Egads, after listening to her music I see why. Not my style at all.
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| | Wow Wow. Who woulda thought 50 cent would be one of the smarter artists and advise that the current direction the RIAA is going is flawed. I wonder how many other artists support his view.
It just goes to show how much say the artists have. He believes another approach is needed. Hopefully someday one of the big labels will take note and bring something to the table that pleases all parties.
Of course, that's in a perfect world... | |
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kudos:5 | Re: Wow said by MrRuckus:Wow. Who woulda thought 50 cent would be one of the smarter artists and advise that the current direction the RIAA is going is flawed. I wonder how many other artists support his view. It just goes to show how much say the artists have. He believes another approach is needed. Hopefully someday one of the big labels will take note and bring something to the table that pleases all parties. Of course, that's in a perfect world... Wow, a drug dealing criminal supports stealing music. What a shock. I wonder how much of the drugs he was selling he gave away for free? Probably only enough to get his marks hooked.
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I personally don't. Jackson is right regardless of what you think of him personally. The current direction of the music industry is misguided just like the movie industry was misguided when they were fighting Betamax decades ago. Now home video is a multi-billion dollar industry but if the movie studios had their way back then, there would be no such thing as home video today. | |
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1 edit | Re: Wow said by openupshop:Why does he have to be a drug dealer? Because he's black...or because you say so you Uh, because he was a drug dealer and glorifies it in his music. Let's not get Al Sharpton on this.
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He also took guns and drug money to school. In the tenth grade, he was caught by metal detectors at Andrew Jackson High School. He later stated, "I was embarrassed that I got arrested like that... After I got arrested I stopped hiding it. I was telling my grandmother [openly], 'I sell drugs.'"[8]
On June 29, 1994, Jackson was arrested for helping to sell four vials of cocaine to an undercover police officer. He was arrested again three weeks later when police searched his home and found heroin, ten ounces of crack cocaine, and a starter gun. He was sentenced to three to nine years in prison, but managed to serve six months in a shock incarceration boot camp, where he earned his GED. Jackson said that he did not use cocaine himself, he only sold it.[1][13][14] --
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| | | | | | | Re: Wow HCT by your consistent (?) logic (?) it is the people who bought the drugs fault. In the case of copyright infringement you blame the consumer for supporting the so called bad music and say nothing to chastise the labels for producing crap quality. In other words you blame the demand and not the supply. Well what is 50 cent doing wrong here by providing supply (sure he is doing something illegal, which our government had no constitutional control over in the first place). It's the drug users faults for wanting the drugs in the first place! | |
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kudos:5 | said by openupshop:Why does he have to be a drug dealer? Because he's black...or because you say so you Already answered you once, before they modded your post out of existence. You either reposted or they put your post back up.
But here is your answer - AGAIN:
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kudos:2 | Duh Most up and comers already think this way. The more people that hear your music, the higher attendance at the shows. Live performance is where artists make most of their money. It's not from record sales by any stretch of the imagination. The ones who benefit from record sales are the guys in suits with no talent in their bodies.
There are so many online outlets where you can sell your music and advertise it for free, that record labels are shaking in their boots. They should be. But they should have started preparing for this years ago. | |
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| Re: 50 cent rules! gene simmons sucks! said by fonzbear2000:as much as i hate cRAP, i have to give 50 cent a LOT of credit fot this! and a BIG F.U. to gene simmons!!! for those of you who don't know, he is VERY much against file sharing and said radiohead was on crack for offering their album for free 2 Words. KISS coffin.
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| pirates help touring acts if an artist tours and does a lot of live performances, then file sharing is a great way for them to market their music so people will pay a fortune to see them live. but artists who don't tour, or perform on TV shows (for the marketing exposure) do suffer from file sharing, since pay to play fees are the lions share of their income potential. | |
| | | | Re: pirates help touring acts I totally agree. And I kind of wonder, what if digital song files became promotional vehicles, instead of being seen as revenue generating products?
Meaning, artists (who tour a lot) encourage the free distribution of their digital songs? Couldn't that perhaps gain them a larger audience, thus filling their performances more?
Other ways to potentially make money could be: merchandise, ringtones, commercial licensing, and corporate sponsorships, though only the most popular bands would be able to do that profitably. | |
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Second, his act is running thin. Yes, we heard a million times that you got shot 9 times and survived. Yes, we know you ran a small strip for drug dealing at a young age in Queens, NY. Yes, we know you just about ended Ja Rule's career via your first album and various remixes.
How many times you are going to talk about guns, b*tches, drugs, killing, guns, b*tches, drugs, killing? Kanye outsold him big time because he actually has something other than that to speak about and his albums are better.
50 have no choice but to try and revive his ailing rap career by hoping people share his crap (craft?) with each other in hopes of others buying it.
Yes, he is sitting on Vitamin Water money and has other investments so he doesn't have to rap again. However, his passion is for the music and looks like he may be a few cents closer to not having a rap career anymore.
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M1S-1B3 | Studios suck It just goes to show the Studios are making the Artist out to be starving acts ... but to the contrary artists to some degree acknowledge that P2P is a necessary evil ... it builds the hype. A film like Beawolf I could sit at home and watch, but to gain to full scope of the CGI used ... I went to the Movies to watch it. Rappers pump out 100's of Mixtapes ... each of those Mixtapes are to some degree freebies if you know how to get them ... but on the net anyone and everyone can get them. It keeps the fans keyed in on what the artist is currently doing or if they are about to release an album (well atleast in the rap world). The studios still want the status quo, although they pretend to embrace open concepts. | |
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I might listen to his music if he rapped about the size of his stock portfolio rather than the size of his (insert gun, car, bling, bitches booty here).
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1 edit | 50 Cent - THANK YOU I'm not a fan of his music, but it's obvious when we have someone who is famous and intelligent...
So 50 Cent is added to my list of people who are worthy of my money (though he probably won't be seeing mine anytime soon)... Western Digital (added yesterday to my shitlist) will never see another penny from me.
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Silver Spring, MD | Re: 50 Cent - THANK YOU YouTube some of his interviews, an I mean the ones where the topics go in depth, not about his past life, but business.
You'll find he can teach YOU gals an guys a thing or two on how to sell your services, music, product, etc.
Hes a very intelligent business man with his own Record label. His first album was recorded in 6 days, outsold everyone its first week, setting records also.
Of course yall wont like his music though, you think a 25-55 year old IT guy's gonna be his target audience?!?!
LOL. OOOOOOOOk!
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As a person who puts getting money as the ultimate priority... this is somewhat of a shock. Regardless... its a good shock.
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| | wow haters it amazes me how people on here put down RAP music all the time, yet their daughter is loading her ipod up with it. Face it RAP/HIP HOP isn't going anywhere, let it go already. This has nothing to do with the Genre of music, it is talking about what needs to be done in the music industry, the changes it needs. " I hate rap that no talent blah blah" you have no idea how ignorant you are do you? | |
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it amazes me how people on here put down RAP music all the time, yet their daughter is loading her ipod up with it. Face it RAP/HIP HOP isn't going anywhere, let it go already. This has nothing to do with the Genre of music, it is talking about what needs to be done in the music industry, the changes it needs. " I hate rap that no talent blah blah" you have no idea how ignorant you are do you?
I dont have a daughter. Mr QQQ
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1 edit | Vitamin Water I don't know why I can't reply to the Vitamin water comments above, so I'll do it here. MarkyD, Please don't act like you know anything about human biology by reading a label. By your critique of Vitamin water it shows that you don't. The sugar in vitamin water is required for the transport of vitamins into your body. Sugar which is fructose which is has the same chemical composition as glucose is only different from glucose in molecular structure. The sugars found in Vitamin Water are HFCS (High fructose corn syrup). Do you know where that comes from? Fruit, vegetables, and many other plants. HFCS is a mixture of glucose and fructose. Last time I checked your body needed glucose for energy. Now as for the fructose, I believe it was around 2000-01 that the American Heart Association concluded that, for most individuals, consuming fructose either pure or in the form of sucrose has neither beneficial nor adverse effects. Many but not all tissues take glucose and fructose form the blood for energy. The only difference is that fructose doesn't require insulin to metabolize itself. Even if it was just all fructose it wouldn't matter. Hell, they'd just market it to diabetics then. The fact of the matter is that there has never been any scientific proof that any sugar leads to obesity. Any carbs in this drink are caused purely by the sugars. They are not bad. As there are no specific dietary requirements or recommendations for fructose. Please MarkyD learn something before you show us all how uneducated you are. | |
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1 edit | Re: Vitamin Water But there's another reason to avoid HFCS. Consumers may think that because it contains fructose--which they associate with fruit, which is a natural food--that it is healthier than sugar. A team of investigators at the USDA, led by Dr. Meira Field, has discovered that this just ain't so.
Sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose. When sugar is given to rats in high amounts, the rats develop multiple health problems, especially when the rats were deficient in certain nutrients, such as copper. The researchers wanted to know whether it was the fructose or the glucose moiety that was causing the problems. So they repeated their studies with two groups of rats, one given high amounts of glucose and one given high amounts of fructose. The glucose group was unaffected but the fructose group had disastrous results. The male rats did not reach adulthood. They had anemia, high cholesterol and heart hypertrophy--that means that their hearts enlarged until they exploded. They also had delayed testicular development. Dr. Field explains that fructose in combination with copper deficiency in the growing animal interferes with collagen production. (Copper deficiency, by the way, is widespread in America.) In a nutshell, the little bodies of the rats just fell apart. The females were not so affected, but they were unable to produce live young.
"The medical profession thinks fructose is better for diabetics than sugar," says Dr. Field, "but every cell in the body can metabolize glucose. However, all fructose must be metabolized in the liver. The livers of the rats on the high fructose diet looked like the livers of alcoholics, plugged with fat and cirrhotic."
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What It Means to You and Your Diabetes
As a person with diabetes, you know how important it is to control your blood glucose and insulin levels to avoid complications. So, it would seem that a lack of glucose and insulin secretion from fructose consumption would be a good thing.
However, insulin also controls another hormone, leptin, so its release is necessary.
Leptin tells your body to stop eating when it’s full by signaling the brain to stop sending hunger signals. Since fructose doesn’t stimulate glucose levels and insulin release, there’s no increase in leptin levels or feeling of satiety. This can leave you ripe for unhealthy weight gain.
The Fate of Fructose in the Body
Fructose requires a different metabolic pathway than other carbohydrates because it basically skips glycolysis (normal carbohydrate metabolism). Because of this, fructose is an unregulated source of “acetyl CoA,” or the starting material for fatty acid synthesis. This, coupled with unstimulated leptin levels, is like opening the flood gates of fat deposition.
To make matters worse, fructose consumption is tied to insulin resistance in rodents and increased triglyceride secretion (suggesting that it may have the same effect on humans, too). Considering that type 2 is a common co-morbidity of overweight and obesity, insulin resistance is common. Therefore, if fructose does, in fact, have the same insulin-resistant effect in humans as it does in rodents, individuals would be exacerbating the issue by consuming too much of it.
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Orlando, FL
1 edit | im proof that sugar doesnt lead to obesity, i drink ~5.3 sodas per day (657 since Aug 7th 2007) and im not fat, sure i could lose a sawbuck but i mean come on
maybe im immune because i seem to be able to eat anything and not gain a pound, i ate McDonalds once per week for like a year and nothing happened
(blood sugar=94) | |
| | | GooberPremium
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL
kudos:5
1 edit | Re: Vitamin Water 94 is your fasting blood sugar?
That's a tad on the high side if it is. Normal average fasting blood sugar is in the mid-80's. | |
| | | ShamayimI already have a Messiah.Premium
join:2002-09-23
2 edits | Vasta, what you're proof of is that good gene combinations can triumph over just about anything
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edit: Goober's right btw. A fasting blood sugar in the 90s would be considered "pre-diabetic" in some medical circles. | |
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