Those who don't learn from their mistakes are condemed to repeat them.
Only some of the players and times have changed.
Hitting (lawyer, teacher, parent) one kid (defendant) because the kid took something from another kid (plaintiff) is the norm and it still makes noise (news). Sometimes the wrong party is accused (kids and adults). This time the hits are harder and the toys are more expensive. You can see the entire drama time and time again in any pre-school (newspaper/TV/media).
"I dont even have Kazaa installed on my computer"..
A more probable cause is someone used a net sniffing program and changed their IP address hi-jacking her assigned address to protect their identity. On a cable system, it's not too hard to do. It's also possible she has a laptop and has a wide open Wi-Fi. One of her neighbors could have borrowed her connection protected by NAT. I'm sure there will be investigations into this. If I was the wireless neighbor and saw this in the news, I would be ditching all my wireless gear about now and changing out my hard drive.
Umm... wouldn't internet headers play into this some? You get a bunch of spam from SCO but the internet header says comcast.net. Now if it was from sco.com in the header, and the IP address was correct, that would be a tricky spoof. Otherwise it would be easy for SCO to prove they couldn't send that spam from their system.
Or 2 kids sit next to each other in the space it takes to fit me
It would seem better to me to go high tech and put in an RFID system. It could read the chip in the head of the key to your car or some other RFID tag you are likely to have on you. Maybe have his and hers TV remotes with a tag the sofa would recognise. Maybe a scale is cheaper.
My car has a built in NAV system. Recording my location, direction, speed, breaking, time, etc would be trivial. The NAV system orients itself from GPS and uses wheel pulse, gyro, and transmission reverse switch as backup for tunnels, forest, city canyons, and parking structures.
Check out some of the portable GPS units. Some can easly be stashed under the dash and will record a track with speed & elevation info. Tuck it up behind the glove box just under the plastic dash. Set it to record.1 mile intervals. Speed can be calculated from the time between points. Retrieve it later and find out how long they were stopped beside the road instead of being at the movies.. It's great for the for the paranoid parent. A set of batteries are good for up to 12-16 hours for many portable units. A DC adaptor can be used to save batteries. Download it later. If you go this route, there must already be a trust problem that needs confirmed.
Are you kidding? It should be on Pay Per View! They would make a killing. Just stick in some prize fight as a lead act to the real fight. Entertainment doesn't get much better than this.
Currently, I can't play a lot of my "CD"s in my computer or car stereo, because the music industry is deliberatly breaking standards.
I've avoided the problem by simply looking for the red book logo. I won't buy a CD without the Compact Disk logo. I won't vote for the broken CD's with my dollars. Get the word out. Ya gotta have the logo!
My last trip to Wal-Mart's music section was not great. About 3/4's of the stuff did not have a logo. I found some stuff I would like, but it was way overpriced. ($35.00 Phantom of the Opera set) Some other stuff was cheaper, but was missing the logo. I bought some DVD's for under $6 instead.
Sounds like you learned to vote. The dollar is a great vote in a free market. I have voted against the Serial Copy Protection in all forms. I have not bought a DAT, Sony Mini-Disk, Data-Play or anything like it. I intend to continue supporting MP3's, CDR's, Compact Flash, etc.
My last digital camera purchase was based on not only pixel count and reviews (Quality is still important), but also on a standard battery size(AA Ni-Metal Hydride) and DRM free Compact Flash. Don't fall for the hype DRM memory formats are faster than CF. They flaunt speed comparisons to the first generation of CF. It's as fair a comparison as showing a palm is far faster than an Intel desktop by comparing to the PC XT at 8 MHZ or 4.77 MHZ. Don't ignore the improvements in CF cards for high speed photography. I shoot at 1.8 frames / Second with CF. Don't fall for the hype you can encrypt and store faster with less power than you can just store data.
I'm suprised you didn't also mention it's not a good idea to Start up Sound Recorder. It and Hi-Fi have nothing in common. I used to use it to send grandkid noises to distant relatives. I thought the very Lo-Fi sound was due to a cheap sound card. Then I discovered CDeX has a record button under tools. For a no feature capture device, WOW! It is possible to get stereo Hi-Fi recordings on my hardware! It's good enough to use to transfer my LP's. Sound Recorder wasn't even as good as a cheap tape recorder. As for an equivelant recorder to MS sound recorder, I don't know of any that lo-fi.
The watermarked content mentioned would not be played on a DRM system. It would be played on a typical current generation RIO, PC, DVD player, Etc. The DRM system simply won't be compatible with regular MP3's, expecialy those recorded from content with a watermark. However, everything else would play them no problem.
Anyway I read the article. It's quite clear this the the Microsoft Media PC. It's no more a general use PC than an X Box is. It's a cable subscription box that plays rental and purchase pre-packaged media for general consumption. It is not a create and share or rip, mix, burn platform. It's a subscriber box and nothing more. Those who want a subscription to a service like Cable TV or XM radio will need the subscriber box. This is designed to go in the living room. Everything else will still use your general use computer as always.
The real question is will Microsoft kill the Intel version by not supporting it in the OS and push their own Media Player 9 DRM.net services & certificates instead? Somehow I don't see MS letting control of the DRM run by anybody else. They will be the gatekeeper no exceptions! Having it run on Red Hat and not using Passport and.net server won't be permitted.
I wonder if Linksys will drop the price of their network attached storage appliance. The Linksys EFG80 is close to the same price, looks more useful, it will talk to a UPS, is expandable, and is primarily a network storage device, not a backup solution. I think it will work in a mixed network environment, not just XP boxes. It also does not assume an Internet broadband connection which worries me about this new offering since if I have sensitive stuff on my machines.
begging for a legal and legit music distribution one second and then cursing D/RM the next... you cant have it both ways. this isnt a bad thing.
Umm Apple is selling a package. It works with the I-Pod. What people would like is...
Believe it or not.. MP3's! They can be burned on CD's, will work in Winamp's jukebox, work in DVD players that play MP3's. Take Apple I-Tunes and put it up next to a NON-DRM MP3 site for the same price then see how many Apple folks drop I-Tunes for the other service. It's because they would like to play MP3 CD's in the living room, on their PC, in their car, in their $35 walkman CD/MP3 player, their existing RIO or other MP3 player. I-Tunes is working only due to the lack of a legal DRM-free alternative. Bring on the competition and I-Tunes will feel the force of a free market. Lots of people don't have an I-Pod and don't want to spend the money especialy if they already have another player. (I have all above mentioned players that I don't want to replace due to cost.) Providing media only in formats not compatible with my players is poor marketing. Providing media in the well established standard format will reach a much larger target audiance. Why are they trying to get the market to change instead of selling to it?
Here is an idea.. Just try it.. Put out an XM receiver. Put on an optical output that can be used for ripping to MP3. Make it legal to do so and provide the software with the subscription. Transporting the receiver is not an option for many people. I would love to load a CDR of MP3's to play at work. The receiver doesn't work in the middle of a cubicle farm. Don't make me buy another MP3 type player to deal with DRM. Just give me the affordable MP3's. Getting affordable MP3's is what the whole Napster and Kaza thing are all about. The RIAA still hasn't figured it out. The bucks are out there, cut loose the apron strings a little and see what happens... The MPAA has a head start on this one.
...but when MS controls 85% of the country's desktops
Big deal. Adobe and MS give away e-book readers. AOL gives away access software. Getting people to buy the paid content will be the trick. AOL is losing share. They gained ground as they were pretty much the first national dialup ISP. Now that they have copmetition, free software isn't keeping them from shrinking. Unfortunately paid access stuff has to compete with already in place free stuff. They do not have the only content without free competition. Many early markets were served by AOL only. DRM does not have this headstart in a world of free content. The pay stuff has to advertise heavly to get people to spend the money.
If your company requires DRM or you want to play DRM media (not unlike a DVD, DAT, Sony Mini-Disk) you will need a DRM machine. Due to it's limited capibilities, it should be limited to a single use type function much as a DVD player, or cable TV box is now. For the rest of your computing, use a primary general purpose computer which does not have the serial copy restrictions of DVD, DAT, Sony Mini-Disk, etc. I'll have to use a general use computer to do my editing and creating. This is doubly true if it needs released in an open format. There will be programming that can only be viewed on the TV in the living room. There will be other programming that can be played on your RIO, in your DVD player, in your car.... As long as there is indi content, the DRM stuff will have harder time entering the market. Don't forget the Circuit City DVD experiment, full priced E-Books at Barns and Noble and of course the tiny press play optical. People don't pay full price for perishable media. They know it will go bad and won't invest in it for the personal library. The last DVD I bought, (Jackie Chan flick at Wal-Mart) I spent less than $6 for it. Selling a DRM protected newspaper article for $2 with an experation and with backup problems will be a very hard sell. Some corporate stuff that is sensitive may have a place, but for general consumption entertainment, it won't fly at high prices. Hey RIAA, Why can I find Jackie Chan videos for under $6, but no good music for less? Don't call loss of sales due to competetion for the entertainment buck a loss to piracy.
I beg your pardod? Umm say your wedding photos included a less than modest garter shot. I want to own the copyright. I don't want the photographer including the photo in his on line resume. The work for hire should be just the work for hire, the photographer should have sold the copyright with the prints and negatives. I think more is needed in protection than just a standard model release form.
When I used to work for a local ISP doing tech support, most people only checked their ISP e-mail once a month
My ISP only provides one account. My wife uses her school account, I use my work account, the kids don't get mail due to inapropriate unsolicited spam. (my 9 yearold doesn't need Viagra or any alternative.) I can easly understand why the ISP mailbox goes unchecked for long periods of time. ISP's may change often due to service problems, better offers, etc. Who wants to change mail to get a better ISP offer? I've had 3 ISP's in the last 6 years and have not changed e-mail addresses. Others get spammed to death, so they use disposable e-mail accounts. Who wants to change ISP's to get a new account that the marketers hasn't got? Many people only use the ISP provided mailbox for the billing statement because any other use could soon turn it into a spam collection repository. I've never mailed anyone with my ISP provided mailbox for that reason. It's the only way to keep it unlisted. Only the ISP has the address.
I think you're looking at it the wrong way. Sure, if an artist went around *now* saying "I'm not giving exclusive rights to anyone" they wouldn't get published. However, that's only because there are other artists who *will* give exclusive rights. If no artist could give exclusive rights, then what would happen?
Music isn't the only industry where someone tries to get a work for hire to get the copyright. Photography is very much driven by the photographers tring to own the copyright forcing you to buy all prints from them if you use their services. Instead of hiring a photographer for your wedding or event who will attmpt to control distribution, change the terms and take bids for a work for hire. You keep the negatives and copyright. Most photographers won't provide a bid. Stick to your guns and only hire photographers on your terms even if it costs more. Finaly it's legal to e-mail wedding photos to distant relatives in something not super compressed. It's kind of on the other foot wanting to retain copyright, but in some cases work for hire should be just that.
An example of a valid work for hire where the performer gets no copyright is a radio station hiring performers to do a station jingle. The station should pay the performers and the station should get the copyright and not have to pay a royalty each time the station has a station break.
Walt Disney learned this the hard way. His first cartoon mouse was Mortimer Mouse. After Walt changed jobs, he found the studio owned Mort. Walt wisely said never again! Walt Disney had to open his own studio in order to keep his creations from being owned by someone else. Bands should have learned from Walt Disney and ditched RIAA style studios/promoters.
I do think more bands should be self produced and find a distribitor/promoter that will promote the band for a fixed fee and/or a portion of the royalties while the band retains the royalty. If the promoter does a poor job, the band should have the right to fire the promoter and hire someone else. The RIAA model is obsolete.
Someone has a serious marketing problem. I looked at your list and I recognise only 3 artists and none of the albums. Since I don't hear them on the radio how am I supposed to have any idea if I am going to like any of them well enough to spend $10 or more plus S&H? Nothing sours buying CD's more than buying an unknown and finding you didn't like it. I have some Christmas music that was cheap (under $5) and I still feel ripped off. It was bad. When I was in the service, barracs life was the best thing for record sales. I got to hear much stuff they didn't play on the radio. When I got out of the service, my music spending dropped. I just wasn't exposed to good music anymore.
Artists like Eagles, Carpenters, REO Speedwagon, ELO, ABBA, Aerosmith, Cars, Alabama, Badfinger, Beach Boys, Emimen, System of a Down, Toxicity, etc. are more likely to be recognised on a shelf.
It is if it sits on the shelf unsold. There is competition for the disposable income. You may think it's worth $15 - $20, but it's hard to make your costs if you only sell 10K of them. How about selling them for $3 - $5 and selling 100K of them? Duplication is the inexpensive part of production. Don't try to convince me otherwise. Hire some of the overseas pirates. They will do the duplication cheap including the cover art for a good price. Ask for bids. I hate to say compete with pirates, but they know what price points the product sells quanity. Maybe they don't want to sell quanity a-la De Beers.
You don't have kids do you? I have a couple grandkids. I've lost count of how many times I've watched Monsters Inc. Too bad stuff on TV has gotton so bad that it's almost never on. most of it is not suitable for kids except some stuff on PBS and FOX. I remember when all broadcast TV was suitable for all ages. (except the cig adverts.)
So why can't I rent Dark Side of the Moon at Blockbuster or the RIAA equivlant for $3 for the week? The RIAA should get a clue. (Just for the clueless, I wouldn't rent it for $3 per week unless I was legaly permited to rip it.) CD's just are not worth the same as a movie. They won't sell or rent for the same rate movies will. Someone would try to open a music rental store. Maybe the RIAA should try it. They will find out how they stack up against Blockbuster.
Still, I think a lot of the packaging of the CD set was deceptive. I got a 3 CD set whose contents will fit on a CD and a half. Why did they bother to put it on 3 CD's except for deceptive marketing? They didn't do it because making another CD was horribly expensive.
I certanly felt ripped off. The implication was there was enough material there to fill the 3 CD's, not the 95 minutes it contained.
In the early 50's, Radio was just getting into VHF. Very little stuff used UHF except for some television. I don't think any of the tests were done on the 800, 900Mhz and gigahertz bands. Other than Radar, there just wasn't much in the Gigahertz bands. I don't think a VHF 160 MHZ or UHF 460 MHZ police radio has the same heating as a microwave PCS phone of the same power to organic tissue.
Do you know what frequency was tested? Was it HF (3-30 MHZ), VHF (30-300 MHZ) or any UHF? I don't think they had any reason to test microwave frequencies. That was strictly Radar and not communication equipment that anybody would carry with them.
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We will still nail her when we prove she or her neighbor has a PC behind that WI-FI NAT router.
Of course it's re-runs. Repeat after me...
Those who don't learn from their mistakes are condemed to repeat them.
Only some of the players and times have changed.
Hitting (lawyer, teacher, parent) one kid (defendant) because the kid took something from another kid (plaintiff) is the norm and it still makes noise (news). Sometimes the wrong party is accused (kids and adults). This time the hits are harder and the toys are more expensive. You can see the entire drama time and time again in any pre-school (newspaper/TV/media).
"I dont even have Kazaa installed on my computer"..
A more probable cause is someone used a net sniffing program and changed their IP address hi-jacking her assigned address to protect their identity. On a cable system, it's not too hard to do. It's also possible she has a laptop and has a wide open Wi-Fi. One of her neighbors could have borrowed her connection protected by NAT. I'm sure there will be investigations into this. If I was the wireless neighbor and saw this in the news, I would be ditching all my wireless gear about now and changing out my hard drive.
Umm... wouldn't internet headers play into this some? You get a bunch of spam from SCO but the internet header says comcast.net. Now if it was from sco.com in the header, and the IP address was correct, that would be a tricky spoof. Otherwise it would be easy for SCO to prove they couldn't send that spam from their system.
Or 2 kids sit next to each other in the space it takes to fit me
It would seem better to me to go high tech and put in an RFID system. It could read the chip in the head of the key to your car or some other RFID tag you are likely to have on you. Maybe have his and hers TV remotes with a tag the sofa would recognise. Maybe a scale is cheaper.
My car has a built in NAV system. Recording my location, direction, speed, breaking, time, etc would be trivial. The NAV system orients itself from GPS and uses wheel pulse, gyro, and transmission reverse switch as backup for tunnels, forest, city canyons, and parking structures.
Anybody know if the Toyota Prius records this?
Check out some of the portable GPS units. Some can easly be stashed under the dash and will record a track with speed & elevation info. Tuck it up behind the glove box just under the plastic dash. Set it to record .1 mile intervals. Speed can be calculated from the time between points. Retrieve it later and find out how long they were stopped beside the road instead of being at the movies.. It's great for the for the paranoid parent. A set of batteries are good for up to 12-16 hours for many portable units. A DC adaptor can be used to save batteries. Download it later.
If you go this route, there must already be a trust problem that needs confirmed.
Are you kidding? It should be on Pay Per View! They would make a killing. Just stick in some prize fight as a lead act to the real fight. Entertainment doesn't get much better than this.
Currently, I can't play a lot of my "CD"s in my computer or car stereo, because the music industry is deliberatly breaking standards.
I've avoided the problem by simply looking for the red book logo. I won't buy a CD without the Compact Disk logo. I won't vote for the broken CD's with my dollars. Get the word out. Ya gotta have the logo!
My last trip to Wal-Mart's music section was not great. About 3/4's of the stuff did not have a logo. I found some stuff I would like, but it was way overpriced. ($35.00 Phantom of the Opera set) Some other stuff was cheaper, but was missing the logo. I bought some DVD's for under $6 instead.
Sounds like you learned to vote. The dollar is a great vote in a free market. I have voted against the Serial Copy Protection in all forms. I have not bought a DAT, Sony Mini-Disk, Data-Play or anything like it. I intend to continue supporting MP3's, CDR's, Compact Flash, etc.
My last digital camera purchase was based on not only pixel count and reviews (Quality is still important), but also on a standard battery size(AA Ni-Metal Hydride) and DRM free Compact Flash. Don't fall for the hype DRM memory formats are faster than CF. They flaunt speed comparisons to the first generation of CF. It's as fair a comparison as showing a palm is far faster than an Intel desktop by comparing to the PC XT at 8 MHZ or 4.77 MHZ. Don't ignore the improvements in CF cards for high speed photography. I shoot at 1.8 frames / Second with CF.
Don't fall for the hype you can encrypt and store faster with less power than you can just store data.
I'm suprised you didn't also mention it's not a good idea to Start up Sound Recorder. It and Hi-Fi have nothing in common. I used to use it to send grandkid noises to distant relatives. I thought the very Lo-Fi sound was due to a cheap sound card. Then I discovered CDeX has a record button under tools. For a no feature capture device, WOW! It is possible to get stereo Hi-Fi recordings on my hardware! It's good enough to use to transfer my LP's. Sound Recorder wasn't even as good as a cheap tape recorder. As for an equivelant recorder to MS sound recorder, I don't know of any that lo-fi.
The watermarked content mentioned would not be played on a DRM system. It would be played on a typical current generation RIO, PC, DVD player, Etc. The DRM system simply won't be compatible with regular MP3's, expecialy those recorded from content with a watermark. However, everything else would play them no problem.
.net services & certificates instead? Somehow I don't see MS letting control of the DRM run by anybody else. They will be the gatekeeper no exceptions! Having it run on Red Hat and not using Passport and .net server won't be permitted.
Anyway I read the article. It's quite clear this the the Microsoft Media PC. It's no more a general use PC than an X Box is. It's a cable subscription box that plays rental and purchase pre-packaged media for general consumption. It is not a create and share or rip, mix, burn platform. It's a subscriber box and nothing more.
Those who want a subscription to a service like Cable TV or XM radio will need the subscriber box. This is designed to go in the living room. Everything else will still use your general use computer as always.
The real question is will Microsoft kill the Intel version by not supporting it in the OS and push their own Media Player 9 DRM
I wonder if Linksys will drop the price of their network attached storage appliance. The Linksys EFG80 is close to the same price, looks more useful, it will talk to a UPS, is expandable, and is primarily a network storage device, not a backup solution. I think it will work in a mixed network environment, not just XP boxes. It also does not assume an Internet broadband connection which worries me about this new offering since if I have sensitive stuff on my machines.
begging for a legal and legit music distribution one second and then cursing D/RM the next... you cant have it both ways. this isnt a bad thing.
Umm Apple is selling a package. It works with the I-Pod. What people would like is...
Believe it or not.. MP3's! They can be burned on CD's, will work in Winamp's jukebox, work in DVD players that play MP3's. Take Apple I-Tunes and put it up next to a NON-DRM MP3 site for the same price then see how many Apple folks drop I-Tunes for the other service. It's because they would like to play MP3 CD's in the living room, on their PC, in their car, in their $35 walkman CD/MP3 player, their existing RIO or other MP3 player. I-Tunes is working only due to the lack of a legal DRM-free alternative. Bring on the competition and I-Tunes will feel the force of a free market. Lots of people don't have an I-Pod and don't want to spend the money especialy if they already have another player. (I have all above mentioned players that I don't want to replace due to cost.) Providing media only in formats not compatible with my players is poor marketing. Providing media in the well established standard format will reach a much larger target audiance. Why are they trying to get the market to change instead of selling to it?
Here is an idea.. Just try it.. Put out an XM receiver. Put on an optical output that can be used for ripping to MP3. Make it legal to do so and provide the software with the subscription. Transporting the receiver is not an option for many people. I would love to load a CDR of MP3's to play at work. The receiver doesn't work in the middle of a cubicle farm. Don't make me buy another MP3 type player to deal with DRM. Just give me the affordable MP3's. Getting affordable MP3's is what the whole Napster and Kaza thing are all about. The RIAA still hasn't figured it out. The bucks are out there, cut loose the apron strings a little and see what happens... The MPAA has a head start on this one.
...but when MS controls 85% of the country's desktops
Big deal. Adobe and MS give away e-book readers. AOL gives away access software. Getting people to buy the paid content will be the trick. AOL is losing share. They gained ground as they were pretty much the first national dialup ISP. Now that they have copmetition, free software isn't keeping them from shrinking. Unfortunately paid access stuff has to compete with already in place free stuff. They do not have the only content without free competition. Many early markets were served by AOL only. DRM does not have this headstart in a world of free content. The pay stuff has to advertise heavly to get people to spend the money.
If your company requires DRM or you want to play DRM media (not unlike a DVD, DAT, Sony Mini-Disk) you will need a DRM machine. Due to it's limited capibilities, it should be limited to a single use type function much as a DVD player, or cable TV box is now. For the rest of your computing, use a primary general purpose computer which does not have the serial copy restrictions of DVD, DAT, Sony Mini-Disk, etc. I'll have to use a general use computer to do my editing and creating. This is doubly true if it needs released in an open format.
There will be programming that can only be viewed on the TV in the living room. There will be other programming that can be played on your RIO, in your DVD player, in your car.... As long as there is indi content, the DRM stuff will have harder time entering the market. Don't forget the Circuit City DVD experiment, full priced E-Books at Barns and Noble and of course the tiny press play optical. People don't pay full price for perishable media. They know it will go bad and won't invest in it for the personal library. The last DVD I bought, (Jackie Chan flick at Wal-Mart) I spent less than $6 for it. Selling a DRM protected newspaper article for $2 with an experation and with backup problems will be a very hard sell. Some corporate stuff that is sensitive may have a place, but for general consumption entertainment, it won't fly at high prices.
Hey RIAA, Why can I find Jackie Chan videos for under $6, but no good music for less? Don't call loss of sales due to competetion for the entertainment buck a loss to piracy.
I beg your pardod? Umm say your wedding photos included a less than modest garter shot. I want to own the copyright. I don't want the photographer including the photo in his on line resume. The work for hire should be just the work for hire, the photographer should have sold the copyright with the prints and negatives. I think more is needed in protection than just a standard model release form.
When I used to work for a local ISP doing tech support, most people only checked their ISP e-mail once a month
My ISP only provides one account. My wife uses her school account, I use my work account, the kids don't get mail due to inapropriate unsolicited spam. (my 9 yearold doesn't need Viagra or any alternative.) I can easly understand why the ISP mailbox goes unchecked for long periods of time. ISP's may change often due to service problems, better offers, etc. Who wants to change mail to get a better ISP offer? I've had 3 ISP's in the last 6 years and have not changed e-mail addresses. Others get spammed to death, so they use disposable e-mail accounts. Who wants to change ISP's to get a new account that the marketers hasn't got? Many people only use the ISP provided mailbox for the billing statement because any other use could soon turn it into a spam collection repository. I've never mailed anyone with my ISP provided mailbox for that reason. It's the only way to keep it unlisted. Only the ISP has the address.
I think you're looking at it the wrong way. Sure, if an artist went around *now* saying "I'm not giving exclusive rights to anyone" they wouldn't get published. However, that's only because there are other artists who *will* give exclusive rights. If no artist could give exclusive rights, then what would happen?
Music isn't the only industry where someone tries to get a work for hire to get the copyright. Photography is very much driven by the photographers tring to own the copyright forcing you to buy all prints from them if you use their services. Instead of hiring a photographer for your wedding or event who will attmpt to control distribution, change the terms and take bids for a work for hire. You keep the negatives and copyright. Most photographers won't provide a bid. Stick to your guns and only hire photographers on your terms even if it costs more. Finaly it's legal to e-mail wedding photos to distant relatives in something not super compressed. It's kind of on the other foot wanting to retain copyright, but in some cases work for hire should be just that.
An example of a valid work for hire where the performer gets no copyright is a radio station hiring performers to do a station jingle. The station should pay the performers and the station should get the copyright and not have to pay a royalty each time the station has a station break.
Walt Disney learned this the hard way. His first cartoon mouse was Mortimer Mouse. After Walt changed jobs, he found the studio owned Mort. Walt wisely said never again! Walt Disney had to open his own studio in order to keep his creations from being owned by someone else. Bands should have learned from Walt Disney and ditched RIAA style studios/promoters.
I do think more bands should be self produced and find a distribitor/promoter that will promote the band for a fixed fee and/or a portion of the royalties while the band retains the royalty. If the promoter does a poor job, the band should have the right to fire the promoter and hire someone else. The RIAA model is obsolete.
Ever heard of a silo? ;-)
Someone has a serious marketing problem. I looked at your list and I recognise only 3 artists and none of the albums. Since I don't hear them on the radio how am I supposed to have any idea if I am going to like any of them well enough to spend $10 or more plus S&H? Nothing sours buying CD's more than buying an unknown and finding you didn't like it. I have some Christmas music that was cheap (under $5) and I still feel ripped off. It was bad. When I was in the service, barracs life was the best thing for record sales. I got to hear much stuff they didn't play on the radio. When I got out of the service, my music spending dropped. I just wasn't exposed to good music anymore.
Artists like Eagles, Carpenters, REO Speedwagon, ELO, ABBA, Aerosmith, Cars, Alabama, Badfinger, Beach Boys, Emimen, System of a Down, Toxicity, etc. are more likely to be recognised on a shelf.
It is if it sits on the shelf unsold. There is competition for the disposable income. You may think it's worth $15 - $20, but it's hard to make your costs if you only sell 10K of them. How about selling them for $3 - $5 and selling 100K of them?
Duplication is the inexpensive part of production. Don't try to convince me otherwise. Hire some of the overseas pirates. They will do the duplication cheap including the cover art for a good price. Ask for bids. I hate to say compete with pirates, but they know what price points the product sells quanity. Maybe they don't want to sell quanity a-la De Beers.
You don't have kids do you? I have a couple grandkids. I've lost count of how many times I've watched Monsters Inc. Too bad stuff on TV has gotton so bad that it's almost never on. most of it is not suitable for kids except some stuff on PBS and FOX. I remember when all broadcast TV was suitable for all ages. (except the cig adverts.)
So why can't I rent Dark Side of the Moon at Blockbuster or the RIAA equivlant for $3 for the week? The RIAA should get a clue. (Just for the clueless, I wouldn't rent it for $3 per week unless I was legaly permited to rip it.) CD's just are not worth the same as a movie. They won't sell or rent for the same rate movies will. Someone would try to open a music rental store. Maybe the RIAA should try it. They will find out how they stack up against Blockbuster.
Still, I think a lot of the packaging of the CD set was deceptive. I got a 3 CD set whose contents will fit on a CD and a half. Why did they bother to put it on 3 CD's except for deceptive marketing? They didn't do it because making another CD was horribly expensive.
I certanly felt ripped off. The implication was there was enough material there to fill the 3 CD's, not the 95 minutes it contained.
In the early 50's, Radio was just getting into VHF. Very little stuff used UHF except for some television. I don't think any of the tests were done on the 800, 900Mhz and gigahertz bands. Other than Radar, there just wasn't much in the Gigahertz bands. I don't think a VHF 160 MHZ or UHF 460 MHZ police radio has the same heating as a microwave PCS phone of the same power to organic tissue.
Do you know what frequency was tested? Was it HF (3-30 MHZ), VHF (30-300 MHZ) or any UHF? I don't think they had any reason to test microwave frequencies. That was strictly Radar and not communication equipment that anybody would carry with them.