to something that happened in New Zealand a while ago. The national TV broadcaster (TVNZ) used to air music videos in between scheduled programs, until the local RIAA-equivelant (RIANZ) decided they should have to pay for the rights to do this. Instead of paying, TVNZ stopped the music videos.
CD and cassette sales plummeted. The RIANZ eventually started buying advertisement timeslots to play music videos in an attempt to stimulate sales. The end result was that TVNZ went back to playing music videos for free, and the RIANZ promised to never ever speak of this incident again.
The moral here? Don't confuse free advertising of your product with copyright violation, or you'll have to do the advertising yourself.
"Although the $1.4 million three-year switch - which started last year with the purchase of approximately 500 Macs"
$965 per apple? including the installation, planning etc? Over three years, in which time period the current macs would be outdated and require hardware upgrades in order to use the mac OS that will be in circulation by then?
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to something that happened in New Zealand a while ago. The national TV broadcaster (TVNZ) used to air music videos in between scheduled programs, until the local RIAA-equivelant (RIANZ) decided they should have to pay for the rights to do this. Instead of paying, TVNZ stopped the music videos. CD and cassette sales plummeted. The RIANZ eventually started buying advertisement timeslots to play music videos in an attempt to stimulate sales. The end result was that TVNZ went back to playing music videos for free, and the RIANZ promised to never ever speak of this incident again. The moral here? Don't confuse free advertising of your product with copyright violation, or you'll have to do the advertising yourself.
we know exactly how many sheep we have here in New Zealand, just the same as everyone else in the world knows how many lovers they have too.
fta:
"Although the $1.4 million three-year switch - which started last year with the purchase of approximately 500 Macs"
$965 per apple? including the installation, planning etc? Over three years, in which time period the current macs would be outdated and require hardware upgrades in order to use the mac OS that will be in circulation by then?
Methinks their budget may fall a tad short..
I feel it's only appropriate to add that march 14th is also international steak and blowjob day