I'm curious - does anyone know wht the royalties on one CD are - 1%? 5%? 10%? Because it seems to me, with these mp3-man's around and so on, that in the future, it may very well be possible to distribute music over the 'net, a very cheap mode of distribution, which would allow new startup's to distribute the music charging far less surprice for the distribution and yet still making profit. For arguments sake let say each artist wants 1$ per CD, and only 1/3 of the songs will really be sold if sold as singles (lets face it - CD's are full of bad songs). 1$/(12/3) is 0.25$ per song, plus marketing factor - here only times two. So thats 50c per song! I'd pay that every time instead of pirating if jest for the ease of finding something of a commercial, legal, site.
To what problems of NFS3 are you referring? Though I can't claim to have enough experience to be truly qualified to say so, it seems that windows tends to have more of a feature-stuffing disease than linux (notably the enitrely useless active desktop). I would be genuinely interested in anyone who sees merit in the active desktop.
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I'm curious - does anyone know wht the royalties on one CD are - 1%? 5%? 10%?
Because it seems to me, with these mp3-man's around and so on, that in the future, it may very well be possible to distribute music over the 'net, a very cheap mode of distribution, which would allow new startup's to distribute the music charging far less surprice for the distribution and yet still making profit.
For arguments sake let say each artist wants 1$ per CD, and only 1/3 of the songs will really be sold if sold as singles (lets face it - CD's are full of bad songs). 1$/(12/3) is 0.25$ per song, plus marketing factor - here only times two. So thats
50c per song! I'd pay that every time instead of pirating if jest for the ease of finding something of a commercial, legal, site.
To what problems of NFS3 are you referring? Though I can't claim to have enough experience to be truly qualified to say so, it seems that windows tends to have more of a feature-stuffing disease than linux (notably the enitrely useless active desktop). I would be genuinely interested in anyone who sees merit in the active desktop.