Kim Dotcom Just Launched His New Music Service With His Own Album 69
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Dotcom today released his debut album Good Times, which consists of 17 pretty terrible EDM tracks produced by the Mega mogul himself. According to a press release, 'The music celebrates Kim's ever-present philosophy of inspiring people to feel good, have fun and live life to the fullest. Kim was inspired by the Trance and Dance tracks he listened to during his high-speed driving times on the German Autobahn.' It's anything but subtle, as you might guess from an album advertised on the back of a 100-strong fleet of buses. In an interview with Wired at the end of the year Dotcom admitted he sounded 'like crap, obviously,' but added, 'Fortunately there's a thing called Auto-Tune so they make it sound OK.'"
Re:Smart (Score:4, Funny)
I don't think he needs any more pie.
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Re:Smart (Score:4, Funny)
The worst I can say is that it sounds generic. If it had a Lil Wayne cameo, it would get plenty of airplay.
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The worst I can say is that it sounds generic. If it had a Lil Wayne cameo, it would get plenty of airplay.
And while listening to this crap I immediately thought to myself "How the F*** do we have copyrights for 120 years to protect auto-generated crap like this?"
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Pretty much. I'm fairly confident that he still would have made this, even with a meager 3 decade copyright :)
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Would somebody please just put it on youtube already. I want to hear how bad it is for myself and post demeaning comments online, but I'm afraid that if I visit this "mega" site I might get put on another terrorist watch list.
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And while listening to this crap I immediately thought to myself "How the F*** do we have copyrights for 120 years to protect auto-generated crap like this?"
That's because copyright are protecting an entire *class* of works. In other words: you shouldn't hold up the worst example and then ask that question. We certainly wouldn't want anyone in the government making decisions about "this is good, it gets a long copyright but that is crap it shouldn't get copyright protection".
Unlike the others... (Score:2)
Yup indeed. That album is total crap, just like about any other album output by the music industry.
But at least, unlike others, he openly admits his album isn't that brilliant.
Whereas the other artists usually don't want to, and instead blame piracy for the bad sale of their shit.
At least Kim isn't going to sue PirateBay.
Simpsons reference (Score:4, Interesting)
Auto-Tune (Score:3)
A lot of artists use Auto-Tune these days.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXK9t4A2PsU [youtube.com]
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A lot of artists use Auto-Tune these days.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXK9t4A2PsU [youtube.com]
Yes, I would agree that a lot of artists use Auto-Tune.
And as long as you don't call them musicians or singers, you won't offend those who actually have talent.
Pop music is not music. It's a product. The evidence lies within the constant confusion trying to determine which artist is on the radio, for they all sound the same. Same stolen bass track with non-stop repetitive lyrics that can be best summarized as a pointless YOLOesque tirade.
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Correction, very few "Artists" use autotune... lots of attractive people hired by music producers to pretend to be artists find it very handy however.
Yo dawg we heard you were an attention whore (Score:1)
So we Auto-tuned the tunes you listen to in your auto. Now you can listen to useless shit while you shit becomes useless.
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Tune tune tune with the Autotune!
Thought it said Kim Jong-Un for a second... (Score:5, Funny)
Kim Dotcom hasn't been in the news much lately, so I thought it said Kim Jong-Un for a second. "Oppan Pyongyang style"
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Kim Dotcom hasn't been in the news much lately, so I thought it said Kim Jong-Un for a second. "Oppan Pyongyang style"
No, Kim Jong-Un's album has been delayed after he accidentally killed all of his bandmates. Because the traitorous bastards said Kim was out of tune! Some nerve..
Inc CIA operatives (Score:4, Interesting)
When the corporate masters hear about this it's going to get dicey.
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Urban legends die hard (Score:2)
Is your government still denying benefits to young women that refuse to work in brothels?
Hey, and I heard that circus performer is a legit job in your country, does *your* government still deny benefits to young boy that refuse to work as Circus Lion Tamer and/or Human Cannon Ball ?
Can you please stop perpetrating this stupid urban legend ?
Yes, indeed, Germany, as well as Switzerland here, and Netherlands recognize prostitution as a regular profession.
But no, the state CANNOT force a job-seeker to work as a prostitute in a brothel.
You see, the State recognize the notion of "suitable job". And j
"Fortunately there's a thing called Auto-Tune" (Score:2)
"Fortunately there's a thing called Auto-Tune..." Never thought I'd hear someone say that sentence without joking about it.
It's a trap! (Score:5, Funny)
"Good Times" is widely known as the most dangerous computer virus of all time [rutgers.edu].
"Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.
"It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car keys when you are late for work.
"Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Discover card."
Seriously, just don't do it.
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After I got infected by the Good Times virus my compiler stopped pre-computing constant value functions.
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MEGA Windows sync client (Score:4, Interesting)
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I wouldn't store my shopping list on this crook's servers, let alone anything of value.
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I see, so I cannot possibly despise RIAA and Dotcom. I must pick either.
How about this, they're all a pack of crooks and I wouldn't piss on a RIAA lawyer or Dotcom if they were on fire.
Re:MEGA Windows sync client (Score:4, Funny)
or Dotcom if they were on fire.
That would take a LOT of piss...
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Not even if it was flaming sulphurous urine? [coldfront.net]
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I don't store my important data anywhere that I can't look straight at the server. I don't trust Google or Dropbox either.
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My offsite backups compromise both data being pushed to our branch offices via VPN and encrypted tapes in a safety deposit box.
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I have copies of my insurance certificates on Dropbox, Google Drive and Sky Drive. They are pretty important, but the NSA will already have a copy of the email the insurer sent to me enclosing them as pdf attachments, and while there is some risk that someone else could use them for a spear phishing attack on me, I figure it is less risk than the risk to me of losing them, and there is a good chance that the circumstances that could cause me to lose them might also be circumstances that cause me to have to
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Storing something somewhere implies trust to some degree.
And I wouldn't trust Kimmie Schmitz an inch further than I can throw him.
Why should I care? (Score:1)
Dotcom today released his debut album Good Times...
Please explain to me why on earth I should care? Seriously. Does this guy have any actual discernible musical ability or are we just seeing another talentless hack with a gift for self promotion?
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The money's probably going to his legal defense fund. If he told people that, he'd get more Bitcoins than a Matrix cosplay prostitute.
If you see the 60 Minutes he was in a few months ago [cbsnews.com], it's pretty clear that the man is incapable of projecting anything less than supreme confidence in the belief that he is The Greatest Thing To Happen to whatever he's trying to do this week, particularly if his goal this week is to play Kim Dotcom, Victim of the Oppressive Copyright State who had No Idea what people use
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Honestly, my first reaction is to be jealous of him, and anyone else who can hold the belief that they're The Greatest Thing To Happen with confidence. I imagine it would be much better than what I have now, that is just enough confidence in myself to get by.
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Because its an interesting variation on the usual delusional megalomaniac pattern. Traditionally, after going through the usual inventing new awards and names for himself, he should be designing his own army uniforms and medals by now.
But this is a whole new virtual world, I guess.
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The album was released on his new music service, which you may care about. Did you skip the headline too?
Am I getting grumpier or are you people getting stupider?
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The album was released on his new music service, which you may care about. Did you skip the headline too?
No I do not care about his music service. I assure you that I will never use it. This is barely news for nerds and it certainly isn't stuff that matters.
Am I getting grumpier or are you people getting stupider?
I would guess the reverse is true.
As the old saying goes... (Score:2)
You can take the rich boy out of Europe but you can take the Eurotrash out of the boy.
No link to the music service? (Score:2)
It's http://baboom.com/ [baboom.com] . Sheesh.
Pretty sure the interesting thing isn't that he made an album - it's whether or not he can make a free music service that artists want to use.
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With a business model including substituting ads on websites with ones served by them, thereby taking revenue away from small website publishers and giving it to his criminal enterprise, the interesting thing will be how long before he is sued out of existence. Ugh.
Auto-Tune (Score:2)
No, I don't think Auto-Tune has ever produced that result.
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