We were all wondering if this step would be taken by TPTB after setting up the audio vault. We've all seen the Hotline. (And Moonstone did the best with it, graphics-wise!)
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Double locked behind a 32 inch thick steel door……
Found only at the end of a narrow tunnel….
Carved by hand from the overhead tons of granite.
THE VAULT
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Protected by the sub zero temperatures…..
Watched by an elite cadre of trained commandos…..
THE VAULT
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Every concert…..
Every interview…..
Every guest appearance…..
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The emphasis above is added.
I'm looking forward to this - lots of good stuff out there that got missed so if it's not going up for sale or on iTunes, I'll plant myself in front of the 'puter once in a while (outside of work) to enjoy it.
I have enough friends, acquaintances, and clients in various branches of the music industry to understand the emphasized "For cryin' out loud, don't bootleg this"statement. TPTB ran into this issue with the audio vault; many innocent fans didn't realize that it wasn't OK to save the MP3s and got themselves into crosshairs they didn't expect.
There's a way around this in four little words: Adobe. Flash. Video. Encoder.
In the Web CS3 edition, it's a separate software program. In the latest and greatest CS4, it's incorporated into the Flash Professional application. Link to info.
I've been playing with animation and video since Flash was on the drawing board and the state of the art was the ShockWave plugin (remember browser plugins??) created by Macromedia (which eventually got bought up by Adobe and made a bunch of little nerds very rich.) The process has gotten a lot easier and cheaper (less than $2K US for a complete web package) so you can stream your video and prevent downloads/bootlegging at the same time.
First, you have to reeeeeallllly know what you're doing to even find the flash file on your Temporary Internet Files directory. Then, you can't burn it onto a DVD and expect to play it on your TV. Even if you could, the quality would suck anyway because the data would be compressed for streaming. This is how YouTube works, this is how your favorite TV station archives show episodes for viewing, etc. So subscribers get their video legally, it's streamed on demand, and nothing gets bootlegged. Win-win all around.
But that's just me. I'm sure TPTB already know this and are encoding their little fingers off with that huge vault full of video. ;-) I'll be watching to see when this launches - hopefully soon after the Convention.
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