This could be interesting in the UK, unless they've already bought off the organisations that produce the chart position statistics.
Here, if a CD single (not too sure about albums, but I'd be surprised if they're different) contains anything other than just the audio files - e.g. videos, screensavers, other software - then one sale of the CD is not regarded as equal to one sale of a CD with no 'extras' and so will count less towards their chart position.
As broadcasters base their play lists partly on chart position, this could well backfire on the artists / record labels involved.
where the Automobile Association (AA) was found guilty of copying maps produced by the Ordnance Survey, and fined £20million goes to prove that this still happens, as it was used to prove that the offence had taken place.
There's a story at The Register about Verio's attitude to open relays - and how upset John Gilmore is to have them filtering all SMTP traffic from his servers.
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This could be interesting in the UK, unless they've already bought off the organisations that produce the chart position statistics.
Here, if a CD single (not too sure about albums, but I'd be surprised if they're different) contains anything other than just the audio files - e.g. videos, screensavers, other software - then one sale of the CD is not regarded as equal to one sale of a CD with no 'extras' and so will count less towards their chart position.
As broadcasters base their play lists partly on chart position, this could well backfire on the artists / record labels involved.
where the Automobile Association (AA) was found guilty of copying maps produced by the Ordnance Survey, and fined £20million goes to prove that this still happens, as it was used to prove that the offence had taken place.
Persuade the powers that be to buy you one of these!
There's a story at The Register about Verio's attitude to open relays - and how upset John Gilmore is to have them filtering all SMTP traffic from his servers.