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Ring Tones Will Save the Music Industry
tabdelgawad writes "Well, not quite, but according to Jay A. Samit, senior vice president for new media at music label EMI Group PLC, quoted in this Washington Post article, "This is huge. This is the largest growth area for music companies and our artists". The article goes on to prove two facts we already know: that the music industry is greedy (already asking for a bigger slice of this pie!) and that the porn industry is a prime innovator in marketing and technology :-)"
But will you have to pay royalties if your phone rings in a crowd, and others hear it?
Going off in a theatre is bad enough, but just imagine if it rang in a taxi-cab!
What worse way to become musically recognized:
"I take good songs, and translate them into annoying beeps. I'm proud of that and would like to publicly take credit for it."
Then again, with the general level of quality that the music industry expects of it new up-and-coming groups, he just may be able to get that fat record deal he's always been hoping for.
The Rise and Fall of Online Community
ring tones become p2p ware and the music industry use this as a new excuse to close down p2p.
Alcohol and Calculus don't mix. Don't drink and derive.
Expect a phone call from the RIAA When you answer it, you get threatened with a DCMA lawsuit for infringing the intellectual property of a long dead classical composer.
"Ownership" is a legal concept
.don't tell the objectivists that. They call that "Stolen Concept".
sssshhhh. .
All I want is my car alarm to scream out, ala James Brown "HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY"
My phone's ring is The Liberty Bell March, also known as the theme to Monty Python's Flying Circus. It came built in to my phone. I don't confuse my phone ringing with anybody elses, and I get a secret little geek thrill every time my phone rings.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
Our cellphones need subwoofers as bad as our cats need bricks tied to their heads.
I think, therefore I am an Atheist.
Two years ago: Nobody would pay for this shit
Now: Some people would.
Percent incrase: ((Now/Then) * 100) - 100
WARNING: DIVIDE BY ZERO!
INFINITE GROWTH!!!!!!
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
When I'm in public, I set my phone to emit a piercing high pitched whine (not unlike a jet engine) for several seconds that makes it sound like a capacitor charging. If I don't pick up the phone in 5 seconds, my phone explodes in a dramatic shower of sparks. This way I can tell what phone is mine. It's the one that sounds like a plasma rifle.
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Ok the subdermal phone is a great idea, right up until you decide to change providers. Considering the service I get from SprintPCS, the idea of them pulling bits out of any part of me (my wallet excepted), is frightning.
Heay, Thanks for that link to 17 USC 106!
It's chock full of usefull definitions! Check this one out:
A person's ''children'' are that person's immediate offspring, whether legitimate or not, and any children legally adopted by that person. (Score: +5 informative)
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Oh, admit it, you're lagging behind in all kinds of useless technologies! If you were with the times, you could be transmitting the smell of your flatulence over the airways to your also-up-to-date cellphone-weilding buddy!
Or you could be using a tiny joystick to paint tiny little pictures on your tiny little phone to send to some tiny little friend. Isn't that USEFUL?!