RIAA sues another 12-year-old and people keep buying their stuff.. or, people stop buying and RIAA concludes that they must be stealing it off the internet.. and is a perfect digital copy really the same as a crappy mp3, and is copying that file really stealing or is it 'just' breaking a right to copy owned by somebody else than the original source of a song?
I understand people that takes the settelment instead of facing a ten thousand fantasillion claim and an army of lawyers. But this copyright issue will not be solved before something breaks totally down.
oh, by the way. Michael Jackson might not be proven guilty, but he is the victim of a gold digger.:-)
Giving the cars away for free was almost what he did.. he sold them dirt cheap. So cheap, in fact, that the workers on his own factories could buy them.
With music.. well, you gotta invest a few thousand euros or equivalent on equiptment and ISP bills before your are able to download anything.. it's not free.. the money doesn't go to the record industry though. (Therefore THEY will consider what people are doing as getting something for free)
about the timestamp thing... the computer where the IP adress was seen (by RIAA) at a specific point in time, would have to be syncronized to the same NTP server as the ISP's IP logs, for the identification of an actual person to be unique, right?
Ok, that's actually a nice dish, if you bake it in the oven.
Anyway, if you take all the items of a menu at a restaurant, I am quite sure that you could create a new dish (or a few thousand). Getting the right balance is not something that can be done statistically. It's part of the creative process.
The music industry, has already written the creativity out of the process by copying itself to an extend where you can't hear the difference between one band and the other. Kind of like tv-dinners.. They are not good for you but people buy it anyway because they don't know better..
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..yes, the 11 year old asian girl will be better, but will she be thrust aside when she is 32 because she is to old and "not able to learn"? At 32, after 21 years of experience, she will be an valuable asset for any 'outfit'. A personel director dismissing her on basis of her age is making a mistake.
If you keep exercising, you will stay fit. That goes for the brain as well. Programming might be the source of more diverse exercises than than playing a piano, but it takes the same kind of practice and determination to acquire and maintain.
With time, Apple will know their customer's preferences and tastes. It should be a simple matter for them to make VERY targeted marketing. And why not? Amazon has the "If you like that, you might like this" and I can't think that it doesn't work. With music it is much faster (30 second preview) figure out if you really like what they say you might like...
Yes, I think iTMS is a killer app, most definately I do. Apple is selling music now, a lot of music.. and they have a 4% marketshare in the USA.. If they are allowed to expand this to Windows, sales are going to explode. If they are allowed to expand to "the rest of the wood", they better well have the bandwidth to cope!
Add a search, based on lyrics, and give theese as suplements (like the cover art), and iTMS will be the defacto standard for searching for that song that has been nagging the back of your head the last week.
Does having the ability to "facilitate the introduction of an artist to a prospective fan" necesarily mean that you are a record label?
Buying music at Apple music store saves the songs in a folder at Apples servers, right?.. Shit! That will give the company exact knowledge of what music you like.. thereby making it so much easier to suggest other artists to you!
..you do realize, that the reason German and French companies are not allowed to 'help' with the rebuilding of Iraq is, that money is being made from this, right? With talks about rebuilding during the first week of destroying? Don't think for one second, that this war was made for anything but financial gain.
other posts to this story about the financial problems and the probable lack of commercial return from these ventures. I say to that, Who the hell CARES???
I would like to note that China is a communist country.. It doesn't matter if there is no commercial return from theese ventures.
..another point has been made, that the Chineese are the only ones, that could put 1 million engineers in the same (rather big) spot.
..yet another point said, that a large chunk of goverment in China was in fact.. engineers..
Imagine that.. engineers in the goverment.. I asume that 'goverment' means 'the people in charge' (even in China).. wow, engineers in charge?!?.. it also means that if they decide to go to the moon, they might be going for the pure joy of engineric achievement.
.. all from the same year, all exploring the same consepts of reality.
The Third Level of Reality will reveal itself fully in the next installment of The Matrix. This "Third Level" has already shown itself with Neo's last act in 'Reloaded'.
What this guy has found out is, that selling a seat in an out of the way cinema is just the same as selling a seat in a plane going to an out of the way airport.
That's what the airline discount companies (BIG in Europe) are doing. They are generally not going to the big traditional airfields, but smaller out of the way fields. Then they make sure that every plane is fully booked... what the hell, a shopping weekend in London will run you 20£ or less, so you'll go.
The same concept applies to the Cinema Business. Selling 25% at 8 equals selling 100% at 2. So the Distributor needs his cut from that instead of the number of sold tickets. Asuming that the average price is higher than 2 units, the gross earning will be higher.
It's a different business model. Every cinema can folow that or the traditional one.. hell, they could even run the model on monday or tuesday shows with the least (traditional) customers.
WalMart is just a BIG store, right? Large scale production has it's advantages. But in production there are other parameters to play with. Cutting down costs and selling ALL the goods are just some of them.
Actually, I would say that this easyCinema idea can be used to battle DivX versions of movies.. I mean, would you bother to download a crappy version of a movie you could go see for next to nothing?
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ah, there are no limits to the amount of pr0n you can use. :-)
This will look good on Mr. Bradley A. Buckles' curriculum vitae .. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Boy bands .. all things that are not really good for you!
"the SneakerNet" or "just People I Know" comes to mind ..
yep, my bad .. or ..
.. or, people stop buying and RIAA concludes that they must be stealing it off the internet .. and is a perfect digital copy really the same as a crappy mp3, and is copying that file really stealing or is it 'just' breaking a right to copy owned by somebody else than the original source of a song?
:-)
RIAA sues another 12-year-old and people keep buying their stuff
I understand people that takes the settelment instead of facing a ten thousand fantasillion claim and an army of lawyers. But this copyright issue will not be solved before something breaks totally down.
oh, by the way. Michael Jackson might not be proven guilty, but he is the victim of a gold digger.
and people keep buying his music ..
What's wrong with the world?
with 45 fucking seeds, how the hell am I going to get my sharing rate up from 0.028 ???
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woops, 47, no 48
Giving the cars away for free was almost what he did.. he sold them dirt cheap. So cheap, in fact, that the workers on his own factories could buy them.
.. well, you gotta invest a few thousand euros or equivalent on equiptment and ISP bills before your are able to download anything .. it's not free .. the money doesn't go to the record industry though. (Therefore THEY will consider what people are doing as getting something for free)
With music
about the timestamp thing ... the computer where the IP adress was seen (by RIAA) at a specific point in time, would have to be syncronized to the same NTP server as the ISP's IP logs, for the identification of an actual person to be unique, right?
oh, joy!
Ok, that's actually a nice dish, if you bake it in the oven.
.. They are not good for you but people buy it anyway because they don't know better..
Anyway, if you take all the items of a menu at a restaurant, I am quite sure that you could create a new dish (or a few thousand). Getting the right balance is not something that can be done statistically. It's part of the creative process.
The music industry, has already written the creativity out of the process by copying itself to an extend where you can't hear the difference between one band and the other. Kind of like tv-dinners
..yes, the 11 year old asian girl will be better, but will she be thrust aside when she is 32 because she is to old and "not able to learn"?
At 32, after 21 years of experience, she will be an valuable asset for any 'outfit'. A personel director dismissing her on basis of her age is making a mistake.
If you keep exercising, you will stay fit. That goes for the brain as well. Programming might be the source of more diverse exercises than than playing a piano, but it takes the same kind of practice and determination to acquire and maintain.
naaa, tastes like chicken
Then Apple is not a record label, even if they let unsigned artists into the iTMS.
With time, Apple will know their customer's preferences and tastes. It should be a simple matter for them to make VERY targeted marketing. And why not? Amazon has the "If you like that, you might like this" and I can't think that it doesn't work. With music it is much faster (30 second preview) figure out if you really like what they say you might like...
.. and they have a 4% marketshare in the USA .. If they are allowed to expand this to Windows, sales are going to explode. If they are allowed to expand to "the rest of the wood", they better well have the bandwidth to cope!
Yes, I think iTMS is a killer app, most definately I do. Apple is selling music now, a lot of music
Add a search, based on lyrics, and give theese as suplements (like the cover art), and iTMS will be the defacto standard for searching for that song that has been nagging the back of your head the last week.
THAT is what a killer app is!
Does having the ability to "facilitate the introduction of an artist to a prospective fan" necesarily mean that you are a record label?
.. Shit! That will give the company exact knowledge of what music you like .. thereby making it so much easier to suggest other artists to you!
Buying music at Apple music store saves the songs in a folder at Apples servers, right?
I think they have struck the mother loade...
Next thing we'll see is probably "unsigned artists" in the music store. The first step for Apple to become a record label, or?
Fortune cookie: "You have come a long way"
..you do realize, that the reason German and French companies are not allowed to 'help' with the rebuilding of Iraq is, that money is being made from this, right?
/klang
With talks about rebuilding during the first week of destroying? Don't think for one second, that this war was made for anything but financial gain.
other posts to this story about the financial problems and the probable lack of commercial return from these ventures. I say to that, Who the hell CARES???
.. It doesn't matter if there is no commercial return from theese ventures.
..another point has been made, that the Chineese are the only ones, that could put 1 million engineers in the same (rather big) spot.
..yet another point said, that a large chunk of goverment in China was in fact .. engineers..
.. engineers in the goverment .. I asume that 'goverment' means 'the people in charge' (even in China) .. wow, engineers in charge?!? .. it also means that if they decide to go to the moon, they might be going for the pure joy of engineric achievement.
/klang
I would like to note that China is a communist country
Imagine that
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Now THAT's Irony for you!
/klang
.. all from the same year, all exploring the same consepts of reality.
/klang
The Third Level of Reality will reveal itself fully in the next installment of The Matrix. This "Third Level" has already shown itself with Neo's last act in 'Reloaded'.
What this guy has found out is, that selling a seat in an out of the way cinema is just the same as selling a seat in a plane going to an out of the way airport.
.. what the hell, a shopping weekend in London will run you 20£ or less, so you'll go.
.. hell, they could even run the model on monday or tuesday shows with the least (traditional) customers.
/klang
That's what the airline discount companies (BIG in Europe) are doing. They are generally not going to the big traditional airfields, but smaller out of the way fields. Then they make sure that every plane is fully booked.
The same concept applies to the Cinema Business.
Selling 25% at 8 equals selling 100% at 2. So the Distributor needs his cut from that instead of the number of sold tickets. Asuming that the average price is higher than 2 units, the gross earning will be higher.
It's a different business model. Every cinema can folow that or the traditional one
WalMart is just a BIG store, right? Large scale production has it's advantages. But in production there are other parameters to play with. Cutting down costs and selling ALL the goods are just some of them.
during the last 20 years .. It must be part of their business plan.
/klang
Ryanair, another of those discount airline companies, is already selling CD's at 9£ (that's cheaper than the 'normal' rate, by the way)
/klang
Actually, I would say that this easyCinema idea can be used to battle DivX versions of movies .. I mean, would you bother to download a crappy version of a movie you could go see for next to nothing?
/klang