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Local DJ sells iPods with custom playlists

updated 04:20 pm EDT, Fri June 13, 2003

A local Philidelphia DJ is selling to various clubs, restaurants, and other businesses, according to the Philadelphia City Paper: "Armed with a small fleet of iPods, Porter's embarking on a one-of-a-kind business venture: filling the little mp3 players with a specially created musical catalog and renting them out to area businesses. 'Instead of going in with my vinyl and DJing for four hours, I can DJ for them for the whole month.' As far as he knows, he's the first to come up with this particular business model....For a couple hundred dollars a month, he comes in to switch up the playlists, and he provides the iPods."

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06/13, 04:29pm | report spam | close Reply |
isn't that illegal?

How is it that he can give an iPod with music that HE owns to other people who don't own the said music?

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06/13, 04:32pm | report spam | close Reply |
He renting the music

He's not GIVING he's RENTING for a FEE.

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06/13, 04:32pm | report spam | close Reply |
hmm

It sounds very clumsy. renting an iPod? just buy it and add your own music. If you want DJ, turn on a radio and listen a live broadcast, why settled with canned programming?

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The guy got sued by the RIAA as soon as this story hit the presses is my guess... to the guy who recommended the radio, well, radio has commercials, which the iPod does not. Still, this is an illegal business model, or soon will be. He just killed his own idea by advertising it the mainstream.

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dumb a**

think it will last for long since the club can just sink his iPod up to a computer and grab his mixes?

dumb a** will put himself out of business

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joker

The guy is a joker. He can't mix so he rents music out on an iPod. I know him personally and he sucks as a dj. Oh well sucker.

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From the article

Because many businesses already pay licensing companies like ASCAP and BMI for the right to play the radio in their establishments, Porter doesn't have to worry about licensing issues. And most places already have some kind of sound system in place, meaning they just have to plug the iPod in and press play.

The renting of pre-loaded iPods customized per location actually sounds like a good idea.

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Djing

I assume that DJs buy differently licensed music than the $10-$20 CD you buy at Best Buy and that they are licensed to play them in public.

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06/13, 05:36pm | report spam | close Reply |
sounds good...

only if you need background music. The other guy is right, since it is the responsibility of the bar/club to pay the ASCAP/BMI/SESAC fees, that never falls on the DJ unless he is doing mobile work. The RIAA would not get involved in this. But the whole thing being pre-recorded is just stupid since it removes the one element that a DJ provides, the human connection with an audience through music. After 30 years of spinning, I can safely say this guy is not a premier DJ.

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Re: DJing

DJ's usually do not buy music, we belong to record pools where we receive free promotional music, mostly vinyl, which is paid for out of the artists' promotional budget. Still it really doesn't matter where we get our music, the whole playing in front of a live audience means the club is responsible.

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'blind' DJing?

stoopid idea for a club.. good for restaurants or anywhere that would want good music, but as a background only.

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how exactly do you mix on an ipod?? Where's the crossfader??

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It's not about clubs

What this guy is doing is providing a form of Muzak or elevator music to local businesses. It's a brilliant idea and he ought to franchise it. This has got to be superior to eight hours of "The One Hundred Strings Play The Motown Songbook" or "Swing and Sway With Sammy Kaye."

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NOT ILLEGAL

I just love it when people who know nothing about the law declare some business model "illegal." Any business can play canned music for their customers. You just have to buy a performance license from each of the major music publishers -- ASCAP and BMI. How do you think Muzak has stayed in business all these years? Sheesh. Engage brain before keyboard.

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Good idea

A lot of clubs use a computer to play MP3's on weekdays, when I visited Chico, CA, a number of them did this. I cannot see why an iPod would not do better.

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Renting Music

Even if you own the CDs you cannot rent them!
Is clearly stated on the CD.
All right reseved etc.etc.
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Great idea

This is a great idea. Many bars and restaurants already have a computer playing playlists. This save one person constantly changing CD:s. Obviously not for clubs and cannot be meant to actually replace a pro DJ. Let me predict that within a few months we will see a mailorder service. You subscribe to playlists. Every month or so you will be sent either an iPod (send back your old one) or even a whole iTunes-like library which will be sent on a DVD for syncing with the iPod. The legal stuff can be handled one way or another.

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Apple

Aple should do this. They have the record store now, they have everything to do this, they could probably undercut this guy and make millions doing it nationally! I'm sure apple will send you an e-mail thank you card...

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Re: Apple

Except Apple has terrible taste in music...

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re: Apple should do this

quote--Aple should do this. They have the record store now, they have everything to do this, they could probably undercut this guy and make millions doing it nationally!--quote

Here we go again. Isn't it a GOOD THING that we have a lot of different companies offering a range of solutions? Why does every good idea have to be controlled by a huge international corporation? I like Apple products, but they don't have to do *everything*.

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renting music

He isn't renting the CDs, he's renting the iPod. There's not issue about whether the music is being rented.. the music is not being rented, the hardware is being rented. The music is covered by the venue's license.

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read the friggin' articl

All these people saying what a crappy idea this is because the music is pre-recorded....If you actually read the article you'd know that he says himself he would not use the iPod for a night club or take it to a gig himself. This is for restaurants and such, and is a great idea IMO

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Local DJ sells iPods with custom playlists

updated 04:20 pm EDT, Fri June 13, 2003

isn't that illegal?

He renting the music

hmm

lol

dumb a**

joker

From the article

Djing

sounds good...

Re: DJing

'blind' DJing?

um

It's not about clubs

NOT ILLEGAL

Good idea

Renting Music

Great idea

Apple

Re: Apple

re: Apple should do this

renting music

read the friggin' articl

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isn't that illegal?

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sounds good...

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