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Re: Use A YubiKey For PGP Signing, Encryption, And Authentication

alexthecamel — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 09:42:07 -0000

Hi Nic, appreciate I'm a year late here, spent fully 4 hours trying to make this work last night and just got over the line thanks to your piece. The second computer needing to already have the Public key for the 'gpg --card-status' to work properly and create the stubs for the sub keys was the secret sauce.

Thanks for your help!

Re: Music 2.0 and the Dance Music Industry

alexthecamel — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:20:31 -0000

Just had a chance to read through some of the links that you have extremely thoroughly provided.

I feel that the DJ exclusivity situation is making things worse. I can only comment about the UK, not sure the situation in the states or anywhere else, but we have a pretty mature scene here, with National Radio providing excelent coverage of both new releases and providing near blanket coverage of events such as MWMC and Ibiza. I appreciate not all tracks are available for broadcast, but often unreleased tracks are. If I really want that track, I'm able to rip it one way or another, tidy it up in any one of a number of programs and it's in my set. I assume you deliberatley avoided wading into the rights and wrongs of this sort of activity, but the fact is it happens, and no, it's not as good as high quality WAV but it will do.
I have money in my pocket, I'm quite happy to pay, but even if I want to I'm unable to buy the track right now. By the time it comes round to release it's old news so I'm less likely to pay. You might have gathered i'm not a big fan of majour labels, but they shoulder most of the blame. We have the technology for you to make a track this week, make it available on Friday, and me be playing it out Saturday night whilst hopefully your spending my $2 on Cuban cigars and looking at buying new kit for your studio.

I think we could learn a little from the Movie industry, where simultaneous global releases at least take away the moral arguament that downloading a movie from a torrent site is the only way some of can get to see it for a defined time period.

Re: Music 2.0 and the Dance Music Industry

alexthecamel — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:07:36 -0000

I bedroom Dj and have bought quite a lot lately from Beatport, having not actually paid for a CD for years, prefering live mixes from some questionable sources round and about.

I'm much more likely to buy from a producer who either has his/her own label or is closely affiliated to a non-major. I'd be even happier again if I could just go straight to randomproducer.com and paypal him/her my money. I apprecite the value of labels in terms of genre and promotion, but in such a fast moving and mostly self sufficient industry, why do we need branding at all? I actively seek out the music I like, and I think we have a growing generation of consumers who see this as the norm.