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Amazon & TuneCore To Cut Out the RIAA Middleman
eldavojohn writes "So you're an aspiring band and you haven't signed with a record label. Maybe you've got a fan base interested in purchasing your stuff but you're not really into accounting? Enter Amazon's partnership with TuneCore, a CD printing and music distribution service. You want to sell a full album on Amazon of you brushing your teeth? $31. And you get about 40% back on sales, so selling nine digital copies of your CD will put you back in the black. There you have it, public availability on one of the largest online commerce sites for $31 — no RIAA involved!" TuneCore's CEO put it this way: "As an artist, you have unlimited physical inventory, made on demand, with no [sic] upfront costs and worldwide distribution to anyone who orders it at Amazon.com."
I for one wait to see the lawsuit the RIAA is drawing up to bring down upon Amazon for squelching their draconian business practices by violating their 'copyright' on 'distribution of artistic works of an audio based nature'
There are lots of elements used in the "Music Engine." One of those crucial elements is radio play. Another is wide-spread marketing. And still another is hiring girls to scream during performances. (Didn't you know? Get a handful of girls to scream during a performance causes other females to start screaming and they begin to believe they "love" this music and/or the performers. I know this flies in the face of common sense, but it works.)
Of course they still have meaning. We need them to maintain the RIAA equalization standard.
It was my understanding that the band paid $31 as sort of a "starting fee". After that initial $31, there is nothing more to pay (that is, if I understood what I read correctly). They're not trying to -sell- the discs for $31 a pop.
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Who's going to feed all of these underprivileged lawyers once they stop being hired to sue students, 10 year old girls and dead grandmothers? Think of the henchmen! Won't somebody pleeeeeeeeeeease think of the henchmen!
Maybe they should hire editors to clean up the summaries, verify links, and check for duplicate stories.
This is America, my friend. It can't be MY fault that I didn't read the article and misunderstood the summary. The article and summary were poorly written and therefore confused me. The writers should be forced to pay me for the time it took me to reply in error and for the public humiliation of being a victim of their poor writing. ;-)
from pressing to delivery
Maybe they mean pressing the "burn" button in Nero.
Too bad RTFS is retarded.
Dear drinkypoo,
As the author of the summary, I would like to respond to your statement of "Too bad read the read the fucking summary is retarded." I assume that you are referring to the quality of the summary although your sentence is a bit difficult for me to parse. In that case, I appreciate your constructive criticism and would like thank you for making me a better person and Slashdot user.
I hope that someday I might become as gifted at using the word "fuck" as you and perhaps I can beat my apparent bout with down syndrome that you so generously apply to every user of this entire site.
I'm sorry my stories don't pass 'journalistic muster.' I read the entire FAQ and didn't see anything about said muster, could you please expound upon that claim that submissions must pass it?
Also, I believe you are misplacing your disgust with the Firehose and directing it at users. This confuses me, as the users did not implement it. What confuses me even more is that it takes an action by you, drinkypoo, to get to said Firehose in order to 'rate' stories. You curse this UI yet you obviously used it and saw my story in Firehose.
As always, I love you dearly with all my heart and remember to tell drinkyurine that I miss him. Please accept my apologies for such a bad summary and don't let this obstruct our friendship which is sometimes as delicate as a flower covered in dew on a crisp summer morn.
Yours in song and dance,
eldavojohn
My work here is dung.
I love to see an artist (eldavojohn) work in his preferred medium (wit). Smartly done.
We need them to maintain the RIAA equalization standard.
You mean the one that says "set all levels to 90% then compress the crap out of the result"? Because that's the only one anyone seems to use these days.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Congratulations on living up to the minimum possible standards. Making slashdot grate ...
I can't tell which part of my daily duties you're referring to here, is it the endless sets of metal sheets that I cut slashes and dots into that are later installed in the streets to prevent debris from entering and clogging my fair city's sewer system? Or are you referring to my ability to cause friction between Slashdot and another object/site by rubbing them together forcefully? I must say, I'm guilty of both!
No, no. The firehose sucks, AND the people using it suck.
Something about this sentence is very peculiar considering that in your prior post you say:
I sometimes use the firehose, but it is WAY too fucking painful these days.
I'm not a logician but if all who use the firehose suck ... and you yourself use it ... Wait, I think I've got it but I'm not sure. I shall construct a predicate calculus of these two rules and get back to you once I can conclude something from them.
My work here is dung.
Fifteen RIAA execs just died laughing at the idea of giving artists 40% of the gross.
Good work.
WTF - are you new here? :D
That would be too much like work and we're here to avoid THAT!
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips
a music video on MTV
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-deep breath-
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It's spelled "grammar."
-- Boycott Shell
That's not even the worst of it- My band name (and potentially, our upcoming album's name too) is a URL!
Everywhere I go, I run into this problem. I'm going to have to take my business elsewhere, but I'm starting to think that goatse.cx just wasn't meant to be released upon the world just yet.
Perhaps this is just too easy, but I find I cannot resist the low-hanging fruit...
So perhaps I once sucked, but have given it up.
No, my friend, I don't think you've quite kicked that habit yet. Perhaps a 12-step program is in order?