When you wrote the song, how did you make sure that it was in fact original and not "substantially similar" to some other song that was popular 30 years ago? Subconscious copying is infringement (Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs). What do you do to prevent yourself from making the same mistake George Harrison made?
PS2 is, by most accounts, a mediocre DVD player at best. Can it do 480p output? Or is it limited to 480i, S-Video?
Xbox can't play DVDs without the extra-cost memory card that contains the DVD player software. It may also wear out faster (see PS1/PS2 comment below) if used as a DVD player.
and two playstation 1s (PS2 can play PS1 games)
PlayStation game consoles contain moving parts. A PS2 console pressed into service to play both PS1 games and PS2 games will wear out faster than a PS2 console that plays only PS2 games.
Optical drives in PS2 consoles playing PS1 games wear out faster than optical drives in PS1 consoles playing PS1 games.
A PS1 and a PS2 can be used on separate TVs, so you still have something to do while somebody else in the household is watching eight Meg Ryan movies in a row.
New Line is distributed by Warner, and Miramax is distributed by Disney. From the quote you gave, it appears all the MPAA distributors except for Paramount have signed onto this.
But where are the independent films? Will studios not affiliated with a Big Seven distributor be able to get movies onto this system?
And how much of a cut will Disney take? I don't want to give any more money to Disney's lobbying department than I absolutely have to, for these reasons.
Why on earth would people buy this...are they really so lazy that driving to the movie store is such an effort (please don't answer that!).
Actually, I will answer this. Some people choose not to own an automobile because they choose not to pay for the expensive high-risk auto insurance that all potential insurers have tried to force on them. Such "risky" customers include males under 25, people who take prescription medications that affect ability to operate heavy machinery, and residents of New Jersey. The price difference between renting a movie through this proposed set-top box and renting a movie at a video rental store is no more than the price of a bus ticket.
In addition, a video on demand system is less likely to run out of copies of a particular title than a video rental store is. Often, video rental stores will run out of undamaged copies of a title that has subsequently fallen out of print *cough*Vault Disney*cough*.
an article that not only is about something different
I've noticed that some Slashdot readers are not skilled at making conceptual leaps of logic, so I'll explain how it relates: As it becomes possible to set up a recording studio in a home, people are going to try to set up such studios in their homes. If home-based recording artists try to publish the music and recordings that they self-produce, they may find themselves easy pickings for established songwriters' lawyers.
but is also absolute rubbish.
Could you please give a rebuttal to the points in "A Chilling Effect on Music" that you find rubbish?
combined with an online music distribution and micropayment model
Would this include payments to the songwriters? Or if you claim that recording artists using this proposed model will write their own songs, would this include payment to the musicologist who certified the underlying musical work as in fact original?
Fact is, you can do with a $2000 collection of gear what most 'pros' would've charged $15,000 to do 'for cheap'... in their big haughty studios.
Problem is, recording artists still need some sort of record label to handle the legal aspects of publishing a recording. Record labels usually retain musicologists who are skilled in discerning whether a particular melody has been used before. Otherwise, they may find themselves subject to lawsuits from a songwriter they've never heard of who claims that their song is "strikingly similar" to a song from 30 years ago that it turns out they "might have heard once" on commercial radio. Most poor songwriters can't afford to defend themselves in court.
It's quite long, but here's the gist: 1. It's unlawful to publish and record music that isn't original. 2. It's likely for a songwriter to come up with a song that isn't original merely by accident.
And here's a short story by Spider Robinson that speculates on the eventual outcome of infringing-by-accident laws and copyright term extensions: "Melancholy Elephants".
I'm guessing a "minicomputer" had more than one CPU. Notice "a running CPU" rather than "the running CPU" in jesup's comment. Lots of mainframes have hot-swappable CPUs.
I've written a simple C program to do something similar, except it generates Netcraft queries of pseudorandom but legit-looking domain names, thus pushing up Apache's Netcraft rank at the expense of IIS. A competent programmer could probably adapt it to generate HTML that requests a PNG image while rewriting it in one of the Three P's of Dynamic Web Pages (Perl, Python, and PHP).
True, Quartz rendering is based on the PDF model, but Mac OS X costs $130 for the OS and $800+ for the proprietary hardware key. Apple chooses to have a low market share because it chooses to ignore the sub-low-end market. I can probably get a "value" x86 box, a Windows license, and Acrobat for that much money, though I acknowledge that such a choice would forgo the other advantages of Mac OS X about which advocates would be quick to reply.
I tend to get screwed a lot by stuff like Slashdot's "wait 2 minutes" limiter
Refresh the "Slow Down Cowboy!" page after a couple minutes, and the comment will be posted intact. Or use Mozilla instead; because it isn't overly eager to expire Slashdot comment pages, it doesn't eat the contents of a form after you Back up to it.
How about the browser used by a person who either doesn't know what a context menu is or doesn't know that the editing commands are found in textareas' context menu in Mozilla and IE?
Slashdot Mirror
Try telling that to Microsoft, whose mascot for its MSN online service is a butterfly.
The point of the consultant is to promote awareness of the album through traditional means
How will a home recording artist be able to afford hiring such an agent?
I wrote, recorded, and mixed down a 40 track song
When you wrote the song, how did you make sure that it was in fact original and not "substantially similar" to some other song that was popular 30 years ago? Subconscious copying is infringement ( Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs ). What do you do to prevent yourself from making the same mistake George Harrison made?
Distribution: Website
So are you going to make your customers go to a public library to gain access to the Web in order to order your records through cdbaby.com?
Promotion: Consultant
How will promotion other than through commercial radio's so-called "indies" reach listeners in moving vehicles?
Now it's available to a home studio for about $1000.
That's at least 50 solid days of flipping burgers after federal and state income taxes. You can see why poor musicians improvise.
The truth about Disney
How is this any diffrent from a cable box with a built in DVR.
Because with this box, Sonny Bono owns you.
three DVD players (DVD,PS2,XBox)
PS2 is, by most accounts, a mediocre DVD player at best. Can it do 480p output? Or is it limited to 480i, S-Video?
Xbox can't play DVDs without the extra-cost memory card that contains the DVD player software. It may also wear out faster (see PS1/PS2 comment below) if used as a DVD player.
and two playstation 1s (PS2 can play PS1 games)
PlayStation game consoles contain moving parts. A PS2 console pressed into service to play both PS1 games and PS2 games will wear out faster than a PS2 console that plays only PS2 games.
Optical drives in PS2 consoles playing PS1 games wear out faster than optical drives in PS1 consoles playing PS1 games.
A PS1 and a PS2 can be used on separate TVs, so you still have something to do while somebody else in the household is watching eight Meg Ryan movies in a row.
New Line is distributed by Warner, and Miramax is distributed by Disney. From the quote you gave, it appears all the MPAA distributors except for Paramount have signed onto this.
But where are the independent films? Will studios not affiliated with a Big Seven distributor be able to get movies onto this system?
And how much of a cut will Disney take? I don't want to give any more money to Disney's lobbying department than I absolutely have to, for these reasons.
Why on earth would people buy this...are they really so lazy that driving to the movie store is such an effort (please don't answer that!).
Actually, I will answer this. Some people choose not to own an automobile because they choose not to pay for the expensive high-risk auto insurance that all potential insurers have tried to force on them. Such "risky" customers include males under 25, people who take prescription medications that affect ability to operate heavy machinery, and residents of New Jersey. The price difference between renting a movie through this proposed set-top box and renting a movie at a video rental store is no more than the price of a bus ticket.
In addition, a video on demand system is less likely to run out of copies of a particular title than a video rental store is. Often, video rental stores will run out of undamaged copies of a title that has subsequently fallen out of print *cough*Vault Disney*cough*.
it would be the MPAA. Music is the RIAA.
Who is music videos?
an article that not only is about something different
I've noticed that some Slashdot readers are not skilled at making conceptual leaps of logic, so I'll explain how it relates: As it becomes possible to set up a recording studio in a home, people are going to try to set up such studios in their homes. If home-based recording artists try to publish the music and recordings that they self-produce, they may find themselves easy pickings for established songwriters' lawyers.
but is also absolute rubbish.
Could you please give a rebuttal to the points in "A Chilling Effect on Music" that you find rubbish?
Songwriting and playing talent is a lot more important than what mic you're using.
Songwriting "talent"? You mean pure dumb luck that you don't get sued by some songwriter you've never heard of? See my other comment.
combined with an online music distribution and micropayment model
Would this include payments to the songwriters? Or if you claim that recording artists using this proposed model will write their own songs, would this include payment to the musicologist who certified the underlying musical work as in fact original?
Fact is, you can do with a $2000 collection of gear what most 'pros' would've charged $15,000 to do 'for cheap' ... in their big haughty studios.
Problem is, recording artists still need some sort of record label to handle the legal aspects of publishing a recording. Record labels usually retain musicologists who are skilled in discerning whether a particular melody has been used before. Otherwise, they may find themselves subject to lawsuits from a songwriter they've never heard of who claims that their song is "strikingly similar" to a song from 30 years ago that it turns out they "might have heard once" on commercial radio. Most poor songwriters can't afford to defend themselves in court.
Read it and weep.
Please tell me this is some kind of black humor or give us some links.
Here's a link, although it relates more to the NMPA/Harry Fox (sheet music publishers) than to the RIAA (record labels):
A Chilling Effect on Music
It's quite long, but here's the gist: 1. It's unlawful to publish and record music that isn't original. 2. It's likely for a songwriter to come up with a song that isn't original merely by accident.
And here's a short story by Spider Robinson that speculates on the eventual outcome of infringing-by-accident laws and copyright term extensions: "Melancholy Elephants".
I'm guessing a "minicomputer" had more than one CPU. Notice "a running CPU" rather than "the running CPU" in jesup's comment. Lots of mainframes have hot-swappable CPUs.
I've written a simple C program to do something similar, except it generates Netcraft queries of pseudorandom but legit-looking domain names, thus pushing up Apache's Netcraft rank at the expense of IIS. A competent programmer could probably adapt it to generate HTML that requests a PNG image while rewriting it in one of the Three P's of Dynamic Web Pages (Perl, Python, and PHP).
True, Quartz rendering is based on the PDF model, but Mac OS X costs $130 for the OS and $800+ for the proprietary hardware key. Apple chooses to have a low market share because it chooses to ignore the sub-low-end market. I can probably get a "value" x86 box, a Windows license, and Acrobat for that much money, though I acknowledge that such a choice would forgo the other advantages of Mac OS X about which advocates would be quick to reply.
unless anyone thinks "Click here for help" at the very top of the form is too obscure
It might have been confused with an advertisement. Please read Google's top results on "banner blindness" and "box blindness."
How would you implement an undo function in a web app that is presented through an HTML form rather than through a Java applet?
I tend to get screwed a lot by stuff like Slashdot's "wait 2 minutes" limiter
Refresh the "Slow Down Cowboy!" page after a couple minutes, and the comment will be posted intact. Or use Mozilla instead; because it isn't overly eager to expire Slashdot comment pages, it doesn't eat the contents of a form after you Back up to it.
What browser were you using?
How about the browser used by a person who either doesn't know what a context menu is or doesn't know that the editing commands are found in textareas' context menu in Mozilla and IE?
Time to get moving, and fund Nasa appropriately.
Time to convince taxpaying citizens that Nasa doesn't mean "foolish".