Word: listenability
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...free chapter of the Madoff whistleblower's story No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller...
...people just worried about nothing? Every time these technological advances came along, the people invested in the music business at the time took it as a threat to their livelihoods. If you had a phonograph player in your house, why would you ever go outside of your house to listen to live music again? In the 1980s the music industry took out full-page ads in Billboard and other magazines saying, "Home taping is killing music." They thought that because people had cassette tapes, they would just tape their friends' music and never buy albums again...
...because of the Internet. This seems contradictory to me. I intentionally included that guy in my book to indicate that for some people, [stealing music] is really out of hand. This guy has clearly exploited the system. The flip side of the model is you have people who listen to a sample, like it and buy it. Just because a listener downloads a piece of music doesn't mean the industry has a lost sale...
...start exemplifying the importance of building those bridges, in real meaningful ways, so that when you come - when young people come here, they don't have to come here and be something they're not. They can come here and be who they are, and the folks here will listen. And we can go out and be ourselves and listen in their communities as well...
...Hysen ’11, “Now I think that’s something we can leverage.”“The best thing we can do is bring together students, staff, faculty, and alumni. If we can bring together all those forces, they will listen,” he said. Several students in attendance seemed optimistic that members of the Faculty would take their side in the struggle to give student voice more sway in College budget decisions. In an e-mail sent to the student body, Flores wrote that the budgetary decisions?...