What happens when you look in the mirror?
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Or the seat of your pants?
Is $$ paid for music not on RIAA affiliated label?
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Web Radio and the RIAA
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If a net radiostation plays music from a label, which could care less about the RIAA and is not represented by the RIAA, does the RIAA collect royalties for those streamed songs?
Darn it! I guess I cannot live with my OS X now since its inflexible and requires an army of experts for me to complete tasks. And I just bought the thing.
Gee let's limit 5% of the consumer market. Instead of looking at market share let's look at raw numbers there are 26 million Mac users worldwide. If each one buys a single CD at $15 that works out to $390 million dollars. Either way, even if they had a Mac client, I would not use the service because it plain out sucks.
You know it. In fact Fugazi is what the record companies are afraid of. God help them if it ever catches on. Fugazi, The Greatful Dead, NOFX and many others essentially use the same model and succeed. For Henry Rollins it took relentless touring with Black Flag to become what he is today. Saw his show two weeks ago for $15 and it decent revenue for a night's work.
If the band sucks then touring, record and everything else is a money losing proposition. Fugazi is a band that sets ticket price limits at $5 per person. They make a living. They also produce their own records through Dischord and cap prices at about $9-10. They also allow taping of their live shows. They were named in the VH1 top 100 bands of all time, with no major label support.
If you make records, but don't tour with other more popular bands nobody will hear you, few may know that you have a record. If you don't get your music out there (maybe a free mp3 on a website), you may never be discovered by music listeners.
The statement that Most "artists" make their money from touring, endorsements, and generally working their asses off" is very true. I might add things like t-shirts and the sort are another way to make money. Almost every band that I know who tours relentlessly is making it. Of course a little talent helps too. Not everyone will become a millionaire. Many bands have to go to work every day just like you and me.
Actually I think the theory behind Global Warming is not 100% bunk, but there are valid arguments against it. Ignoring those arguments is part of the problem in understanding the solutions. Nobody wants to do anything to solve the problem, mainly because they cannot accept the fact that the human race craves fuels to power our machines. All fuel sources have environmental impacts - all of them (entropy). Some do less damage than others in providing the amounts of power that we desire. A few gardens in the back yard will help, but not in the needed amounts. Eliminate all coal fired plants and replace with pebble bed nuclear reactors, now we talking.
Yes, I have seen them. A giant one from NASA on Block Island, RI (now dismantled) and groups of smaller ones on a wind farm. The small ones had quickly rotating blades and were spaced pretty close together. Anyhow, birds don't collide with the blades, but collide with the tower just like buildings and steel power line towers. Either way it is not a big problem unless you put the turbines where there are endangered species.
In some locations, primarily the Altamont Pass in California, wind turbines have affected bird populations. East of Oakland, California, the windy Altamont Pass is a popular feeding spot for birds of prey, as well as home to 7,000 wind turbines. In 1992, a study of bird mortality at the Altamont Pass found 182 dead birds over a two-year period, including 119 birds of prey (raptors). About half of the raptor deaths were attributed to collisions with the wind turbines.
You are right, the "Greenhouse Effect" is not a myth, but it is only a theory (the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another - speculation). It is not yet the "Law of Greenhouse Effect".
Additionally, I love rivers. But are not dams partially the result of environmental alternative fuels sources?
This one ticks me off too. Where the heck are they going to put all these windmills (aka bird shredders), and solar panels. I suppose they (environmentalist proponents of solar and wind) will litter the Grand Canyon with their poor energy alternative.
Sometimes I feel that some don't want ANY solution because they might lose their cause. Very frustrating.
I want all entertainment companies to pay a royalty to Internet users. Eventually they will scrape or mine some of my personal data, or surfing habits to spam me. If they haven't yet, they are thinking about it. This makes them guilty. There should also be legislation to ban them from owing servers or speakng to Internet advertisers.. They might use these tools/services to try and violate my privacy.
I have been doing this, though I am worried it will do no good. The last peice of crap legislation the DMCA in 1998 passed the Senate with 99 yeas and 1 abstain see vote record here.
I think the Senators are afraid a vote against one of these bills means they can't hang with hollywood stars. Stars are more fun to hang out with than constituents.
Re:We're missing out on revenues!!!
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It may be more about control than revenues. The record companies would have loved any law that would have prevented the Grateful Dead from freely distributing their music (e.g. gov banning sale of recording devices). That type of action may have forced someone like the Dead to distribute through a big record company.
Entertainment companies like to keep supply down. Too much music easily distributed scares them.
Regardless I believe that free distribution benefits the artists greatly, but not the record companies, because their role is diminished.
Will this PREVENT sharing by artists who WISH TO?
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I am very concerned that the legislation will shape technology so that artists that want to share their work cannot.
Imagine a band wants to set up download of a song in mp3 format for anyone to use any way they wish. Could the government mandated technology effectively prevent that?
I know it is a conspiracy theory, but it looks like the entertainment industry is trying to force artists to distribute through them and limit the technologies that allow them to do it on their own.
Re:Bought and Paid For
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That campaign finance reform, which is weak, will make it very hard to unseat someone as obtuse as Hollings and his staff. It is incumbent protection and not much else.
When you refer to popups or unders are you referring to ones that open automatically? On my site some content is served in a popup when a link is clicked. Usually the window is smaller. With that said my site is not very complex. But I always debate whether or not to keep the popups for serving up some content.
I ski and have never needed a battery heated jacket. Even when it was negative wind chill. But hey $500 is not bad when you consider a gore-tex shell and windproof fleece, and polypro long under wear will set you back at least $600.
I frankly am tired of the middleware that I work with being so complicated and on life support while in production. There is something to be said about software that just plain works, and is well designed. That is what makes it cool.
I am a Mac user and based on these first pictures (if true) I am a bit dissapointed. Why didn't they just reintroduce the cube at lower price levels. Heck they could've even kept the old shape and added a bigger flat CRT and I would have been happy, especially with a superdrive.
Do you feel that forcing MSFT to make versions of Office for other OS's will help? Office seems to be a key business application that is a barrier to IT departments choosing Linux or even the Mac OS (since its new versions often follow windows versions by a significant amount of time).
Depending on what happens I may give it a week for a shutdown. Then I am leaving. The cable service where I live has been quite good. Some freinds with DSL have had a negative experience, but say it is getting better. Whatever happens I don't know if I could go back to 56K. Hey maybe it will be fun being sorta old school.
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Or the seat of your pants?
If a net radiostation plays music from a label, which could care less about the RIAA and is not represented by the RIAA, does the RIAA collect royalties for those streamed songs?
Darn it! I guess I cannot live with my OS X now since its inflexible and requires an army of experts for me to complete tasks. And I just bought the thing.
Gee let's limit 5% of the consumer market. Instead of looking at market share let's look at raw numbers there are 26 million Mac users worldwide. If each one buys a single CD at $15 that works out to $390 million dollars. Either way, even if they had a Mac client, I would not use the service because it plain out sucks.
You know it. In fact Fugazi is what the record companies are afraid of. God help them if it ever catches on. Fugazi, The Greatful Dead, NOFX and many others essentially use the same model and succeed. For Henry Rollins it took relentless touring with Black Flag to become what he is today. Saw his show two weeks ago for $15 and it decent revenue for a night's work.
If you make records, but don't tour with other more popular bands nobody will hear you, few may know that you have a record. If you don't get your music out there (maybe a free mp3 on a website), you may never be discovered by music listeners.
The statement that Most "artists" make their money from touring, endorsements, and generally working their asses off" is very true. I might add things like t-shirts and the sort are another way to make money. Almost every band that I know who tours relentlessly is making it. Of course a little talent helps too. Not everyone will become a millionaire. Many bands have to go to work every day just like you and me.
Actually I think the theory behind Global Warming is not 100% bunk, but there are valid arguments against it. Ignoring those arguments is part of the problem in understanding the solutions. Nobody wants to do anything to solve the problem, mainly because they cannot accept the fact that the human race craves fuels to power our machines. All fuel sources have environmental impacts - all of them (entropy). Some do less damage than others in providing the amounts of power that we desire. A few gardens in the back yard will help, but not in the needed amounts. Eliminate all coal fired plants and replace with pebble bed nuclear reactors, now we talking.
Do you need cooling towers with a nuclear pebble bed reactor?
In some locations, primarily the Altamont Pass in California, wind turbines have affected bird populations. East of Oakland, California, the windy Altamont Pass is a popular feeding spot for birds of prey, as well as home to 7,000 wind turbines. In 1992, a study of bird mortality at the Altamont Pass found 182 dead birds over a two-year period, including 119 birds of prey (raptors). About half of the raptor deaths were attributed to collisions with the wind turbines.
Additionally, I love rivers. But are not dams partially the result of environmental alternative fuels sources?
Sometimes I feel that some don't want ANY solution because they might lose their cause. Very frustrating.
I want all entertainment companies to pay a royalty to Internet users. Eventually they will scrape or mine some of my personal data, or surfing habits to spam me. If they haven't yet, they are thinking about it. This makes them guilty. There should also be legislation to ban them from owing servers or speakng to Internet advertisers.. They might use these tools/services to try and violate my privacy.
I think the Senators are afraid a vote against one of these bills means they can't hang with hollywood stars. Stars are more fun to hang out with than constituents.
Entertainment companies like to keep supply down. Too much music easily distributed scares them.
Regardless I believe that free distribution benefits the artists greatly, but not the record companies, because their role is diminished.
Imagine a band wants to set up download of a song in mp3 format for anyone to use any way they wish. Could the government mandated technology effectively prevent that?
I know it is a conspiracy theory, but it looks like the entertainment industry is trying to force artists to distribute through them and limit the technologies that allow them to do it on their own.
That campaign finance reform, which is weak, will make it very hard to unseat someone as obtuse as Hollings and his staff. It is incumbent protection and not much else.
When you refer to popups or unders are you referring to ones that open automatically? On my site some content is served in a popup when a link is clicked. Usually the window is smaller. With that said my site is not very complex. But I always debate whether or not to keep the popups for serving up some content.
How true. It is funny to listen to Classic Rock Radio. If one is naive enough, one might begin to believe that Led Zepplin only wrote two songs.
I ski and have never needed a battery heated jacket. Even when it was negative wind chill. But hey $500 is not bad when you consider a gore-tex shell and windproof fleece, and polypro long under wear will set you back at least $600.
I frankly am tired of the middleware that I work with being so complicated and on life support while in production. There is something to be said about software that just plain works, and is well designed. That is what makes it cool.
I am a Mac user and based on these first pictures (if true) I am a bit dissapointed. Why didn't they just reintroduce the cube at lower price levels. Heck they could've even kept the old shape and added a bigger flat CRT and I would have been happy, especially with a superdrive.
I use it through classic and it works fine if you are a casual user. Pros may be a little dissapointed.
Do you feel that forcing MSFT to make versions of Office for other OS's will help? Office seems to be a key business application that is a barrier to IT departments choosing Linux or even the Mac OS (since its new versions often follow windows versions by a significant amount of time).
I for one would not hire them over there stupid policy. And I am in a position to do so.
Depending on what happens I may give it a week for a shutdown. Then I am leaving. The cable service where I live has been quite good. Some freinds with DSL have had a negative experience, but say it is getting better. Whatever happens I don't know if I could go back to 56K. Hey maybe it will be fun being sorta old school.