Quoting Alizée at:
http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showthread.php?p=93082
"Mp3 players are not at the source of piracy, it's the price of progress and the Internet... we can't do anything about it, we made a lot of laws, it was a battle lost before it [was] begun, unless we go back to vinyl records. I think we should prepare for the death of the CD... I have always liked new things in technology..."
Unlike fixed-content performances, such as are stored on CDs and DVDs, interactive experiences can't be "ripped" and pirated. They provide a revenue stream for as long as there are subscribers. Is it plausible to think that our favorite artist might make a business enterprise in this new venue when it becomes ever less profitable to sell CDs, DVDs and iTunes on account of piracy?
What if one could play a MMORPG version of Assassin's Creed II in which it is possible to stop off in 15th century Verona at the Casa di Giulietta and learn some secret hiding places for artifacts, etc. from our favorite cyber-Mademoiselle?
(See
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/ar...8assassin.html )
This is only the very most rudimentary suggestion, and so I invite your imagination to run wild. Maybe instead you'd like to tour Corsica with a certain native guide and entourage. Or you'd like a "gated community" ($) in "Second Life" to be called Lillytown - the sort of place you could build and furnish a townhouse and later meet with friends at cafes and concert halls to see your favorite shows. What if using alizeeamerica.com was more like REALLY visiting "Lillytown"?
As we move into a majority-broadband cyberspace era, many new things become plausible. If you are here, you probably do not want Alizée to stop creating art and start selling teddy bears by mail order or Nutella on television. Can we use the emergence of "cloud computing" (quo vadis) to help our favorite multimedia artist remain commercially viable in a "post-copyright" world?
A quoi rêve une jeune fille?
...
Et dans les airs...
Survoler la terre...
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Since making this post I came across the following
1. The thread here:
http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5061
"Lilly en 3D"
It explores the related topic of representing an animated Alizée in 3D graphics.
2. The thread segment started 02-14-2009 by Roman here:
http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/show...2&postcount=23
He proposes using Second Life to build a Lilly Town.