Kim Dotcom is an evil genius and a remarkable marketing guy. During his whole career no doubts he made a fortune out of other people work BUT, still, he can't be considered responsible for it because - in fact - he had MILLIONS of users who actually used the pirated content megaupload made available (and i dare anyone here to throw the first stone if they never used megaupload). So, while i'm not yet sure i like the guy, i still consider the megaupload affair a huge mistake.<p>What is astonishing anyway is what he made out of the whole situation. No doubt most of the people out there would have been simply destroyed by events. Not only he wasn't, but he managed to launch two different businesses that still surely has a lot to show in the future.<p>Regarding this specific music project, i can only say that i agree with him. Paying for the music you like IS the new model , so far he looks like one of the few who understood it (together with Spotify, which is in fact doing the same).<p>PS: I really like the album he made available for free.
I have an iTunes library of a million bajillion tracks, a habit I picked up back in the 00s when downloading an entire album (or every album!) of an artist you liked was a novel thing and turned everyone into the digital equivalent of hoarders.<p>And guess what? I pretty much listen to none of it anymore.
My daily music dose now comes from Soundcloud, where active artists are putting up new tracks / mixes and giving the equivalent of Facebook likes to tracks that they personally enjoyed. It is a fun way of listening to music, and I often go and buy tracks on iTunes even if they are already free to download (which is the case a lot of the time).<p>This site has me really excited. The player is slick, the presentation is cool. Kim Dotcom's album itself is competently generic club music, which is more than can be said for a lot of club music.<p>Exciting!
Wow, never thought it would be such hate on HN against kim.com?<p>I think he seems to really fight for internet freedom in more ways than the angry commentators in this thread probably will ever do.<p>Who cares if he had a dark past. He's already been to jail for one crime in my knowledge and I think he really deserves his money.<p>It seems you're gonna buy the songs you want to listen to directly from artists with this new service. It can't be anything like pirating? He is really pushing it forward and completes his products with the touch of quality.
Fuck Kim Dotcom. He's a scumbag piece of shit who deserves to rot in prison. He plots and schemes way to put hundreds of millions of dollars into his pocket off of the works of others. Anyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves.
Say what you want about Kim Dotcom, the guy is a marketing genius.<p>Before Megaupload he was virtually unknown out of tech/finance circles. Now my mother knows who he is. Albeit, she calls him Dotcom Internet.
I like the site. Can anyone give a technical synopsis of how this has been made, perhaps the time frame and complexity of an app like this?<p>I'm assuming Kim hasn't coded this himself, anyone know if he outsourced to a company?
I'm not sure if anyone actually listened to his album but the production on it is pretty solid. I would love to know who made most of this. It sounds like all the pop EDM garbage thats out there right now. A lot of the lyrical content is totally in that realm of meaningless phrases about life and partying. Songs like Keep Getting Better could have me fooled that it was a Rihanna song (really both of the girls Amari and Ilati sounded autotuned like her).
The demo site works well and feels slick. It's a pity I had to listen to his music to try it out though.<p>Auto-tune is a cool technology but I liked it better when tone-deaf rich people couldn't flatly sing a poorly-written, over-produced song and call it music.
I might have missed something (if so please tell me), but the only mention of Kim Dotcom is "Check the first album ever released on Baboom,
Good Times by Kim Dotcom", and it's saying what it's saying... and not that Kim Dotcom is actually behind the service.