jimmydroptables

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Lovely story. Wouldn't call this taunting a hater at all, if I had to guess I would say that the person was happy that the magazine acknowledged him and created an inside joke together with him. This is how you make super fans for your brand.

I wish more brands interacted with their audience in this human-like, friendly banter, playful sort of way, instead of the sterile corporate happy-speak as if the reply is a way to perform for an audience, or instantly trying to sell you multiple calls to action if you interact with them.

Comment · 2 years ago

Interesting topic and article. I agree with the author, that it's useful to read this information and keep it in the back of your head in case you ever need it, before you actually find yourself in a stressful situation like this.

But one thing I don't understand every time there's a C&D story is why leave a paper trail to send the C&D to in the first place if doing something in a gray area? If I was creating some piece of software that is designed to give the middle finger to the man or facebook or whoever and/or benefit the public, I would just release the source anonymously on some random forum and it can't be stopped. Why create an official github repo with your real email and everything just to take credit?

To clarify, I mean cases like youtube vanced or the recent valve/nintendo portal mod issue, where its obvious some company might not like it, but I don't see why the projects couldn't have continued anyway if the authors didn't expose themselves to litigation. Or am I being naive about this?

Comment · 2 years ago

To explain more clearly why people are saying spotify payments are unfair and what they want instead:

Lets say I pay $10 for spotify premium and listen to nothing else on spotify except my favorite {indie band}. If spotify is paying out 70% to artists, both me and surely the {indie band} would prefer that my $7 (after spotify takes $3) go directly to the {indie band}. This would be fair, as I would know that listening to my favorite artists directly supports them (also nice incentive to buy spotify premium).

What spotify is doing instead (AFAIK), is basically taking the $7 and giving $6.99999999 to {top artist on spotify} because {top artist on spotify} has 100 millions of streams and listeners and giving $0.000000001 to {indie band} because it has maybe 1-3 listeners and 10 streams.

But wait, it's even worse after recent spotify changes, because now they can just go ahead and give {top artist on spotify} the whole $7 and give the {indie band} absolutely nothing if it doesn't hit the 1000 listens for a song threshold.

That's not fair because if you are pooling everything together and then going solely based on percentages of listen counts, its easy to game the system with bot farm listeners. [1]

I understand this likely won't change, because if spotify doesn't bend over backwards to please the big labels of top artists with these obviously skewed systems where big labels get everything and small artists get nothing, the big labels would just pull their catalogue out of spotify and kill it.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8R5i5UEjY

Comment · 3 years ago

I frequently use a similar online demixer and am always worried that they will eventually remove the free option, so was excited to try this one out. When uploading couple different 2 minute song mp3s it didn't work and would always produce 5 identical wavs that just contain some audio pop/click sounds. It worked when i cut out a 30s section of the song. So some indicator if the process failed or not or what are the length limits would be appreciated. Still nice work, will be keeping an eye out for any updates to this, keep going!