Most Reps./Senators won't respond to e-mail outside of their district. Find out when your Rep/Senator is going to be in your area, and ask for an appointment to discuss (yoursubject). Ask for his legislative assistant for that type of matter and communicate with them directly, feed them info, make their job easier. You'll find a much more receptive ear, and CAN infulence their decisions. I've done it and it does work. Remember, if they don't get elected, they can't get the payola, errr "Campaign Contributions"
It's not the RIAA, but hired mercenaries
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The RIAA doesn't have the knowledge or the skill to do it themselves so they hire companies who do this sort of thing for a living. They pay a certain amonut per song as a base, so many cents (usually about 1.5 cents) per scan, per protocol, then pay the same amount again when they find the files, then so much to send a Cease and Desist Letter. They scan about every 15 minute, or determined by the label. They can run up huge numbers in just a couple of days for popular acts. Who pays? The artist of course, as it goes into their recoupable account, that never shrinks.
DMusic.com has an article with audio of the California Senate Hearings if you want the lowdown on the labels accounting. (Streaming MP3)it can be found Here
especially enlightning is Don Engel's and Fred Wolinski's testimony.
As an American who spent 2 1/2 years in Malaysia, doing IT work before the Multimedia Super Corridor was started, I can tell you that software is easily available usually on pressed discs at a small portion of the retail price. While not as rampant as music and video copies, it is easily available. The price usually depends of the merchant and if you are local or not. (you may not even be able to purchase it if you are not known or at least of a native ethnic race).
In a country where the cost of Macromedia Director can cost the equivalent of 2 months middle level managers salary, the incentive to "pirate" is high. I spent two months convincing the boss that we had to have a legal version of Director. A better solution would be to produce the software in the native language, (Bahasa Malaysia which is very similar to Indonesian) which limits the outside interest, and ability to use it.
As a Dish Network employee I can tell you for a fact we aren't selling it direct, YET. The plan is to also offer them direct later this year, as I understand it. The primary focus at this point is to get them to the retailers first.
The only models that Dish sells direct are the 301 and 501, but we do support all models.
So, if you don't like paying the millions of dollars to get marginal music shoved down peoples throats, Quit paying. Simple. Clear Channel still has to get its music somewhere doesn't it? SFX (the concert arm still needs to fill the venues. "The cream will rise"
Put those so called Indie promoters of of business, and let the market determine the hits, not the pay. Imagine, only good music gets played, (or stays on the charts), the public buys what they like, and your sales go back up.
Imagine, a business where the consumers actually gets to pick what they want to hear....can't be any worse than the 5% success rate you have now...and you can save millions on payola, and maybe even bribes...err campaign donations....
for most musicans and bands out there trying to make a living. Rather than huge advances, you'll see more people receive just what is needed to get the recording done, and some smaller promotion. If it takes off, the artist recoups faster, and then begins to get royalties.
On the other hand, I've been told by many artists "Get as much as you can upfront, because you'll never see another cent from the labels". I've heard that from too many not to believe it.
The truth of the matter is that musicians have been struggling for years before file sharing came along.(Pause to let that sink in)
If she's not getting airplay on radio (which is unlikely)the file sharing and the net is the great field leveler. Since the majors pay to put their music on the radio, unless daddy is filthy rich, she'll never get on. I know it's been cliched to death but "Think outside the box".
The chances of making a living were small to begin with. Tell your friend to put together a website, put the cd on CDBABY
put a song or two and a sampler of the CD on a Music Community website such as DMusic.Com Get her CD in Amazon.Com's Advantage program.
Put the website on everything, have email list signup sheets every where she plays, and use the things. Promote, promote, promote. Create a small steady market for her work. Contrary to what the major labels would have you beleive, you don't need to sell millions of CDs to make a living. (well, you do if you work for them). If your friend wants to be a "rock star" tell her to hang up the music and concentrate on something that pays, like fry cook at McDonalds, but if she plays for the love of playing, has some talent, and promotes her work, prices her CD reasonably, and treats it like a business (put together a business plan), she'll see progress. The fact that her stuff is being traded on file sharing networks tells you that there is a demand, and that people like her music.
How accessable to those fans to purchase? Can they buy it easily? Can they buy it online? Does she have distribution? Check out Redeye for distribution (although it looks like their website got hacked) they distribute to record stores nationwide, Barnes and Noble, Books a Million, etc....
About 5 years ago there was a mod from the Marine Corps for Doom. Check out the story on Wired. I play it and it was actually more interesting than the original Doom. Me, I'm still waiting for Unreal Doom Quake, with Asia Carrera Skins.......
"Women in particular appreciate SecureTouch, he said, because they don't have to bring in their purses."
So they leave it in plan sight in the car, so they can come back to a broken window and and a missing purse. (not to mention all of those unmentionalbes inside the purse)
More Fast and Furious doesn't have the logo on the outside packaging, but does use the CD Audio Logo on the CD itself. I don't know about others, but this one does.
Just visited Dispair.com and low and behold the Classic Frowny is free to license, for a limited time. No pushing, no shoving, there are plenty to go a round.
The following took place on the tube, not the web:
After the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up, killing the crew and school teacher Chirsta McAuliffe, I saw a news story several times on Headline News where a particular insurance company had issued a 1 Million Dollar policy to her, and would now have to pay off on it. It just so happened that my ex was the executive secretary to the president of the company. I spoke with her by phone shortly after seeing the story, and mentioned it to her. She totally freaked out, "How did you know that?" That's not public knowledge!". I told her I saw it on CNN Headline News, She made a rapid exit and promised she would call me back in a little while. The insurance company concentrated on business insurance and usually didn't handle individual policies. She called back about an hour later thanking me for the heads up. The story never appeared again. I asked her about it and all she would say was "It was handled."
The Music version of this is called Soundscan. In the music industry it's often referred to as "SoundScam", because of the abuses of the system, and the ease in which it can be manipulated to reflect what the label wants it to do. All you need is an indie promoter, a few thousand copies, and one unscruplous store owner or employee.
I live in the district next to his, with Disney payee
Goodlatte. He won't be getting my vote again. However, my mom lives in Boucher's district and I've had the opportunity to sit down with him and discuss the DMCA and Music licensing issues with him, as well as his legislative assitant, Johanna Mikes. He is intellegent, insightful, beleives strongly in copyright, but also beleives in a balance as copyright was intended to be. One of the concerns he has is about copy-protected cds, when they do go into public domain, it would still be illegal under the DMCA to break the encrption to make it publicly available.
Picture of Johanna
Mikes, Rick Boucher's legislative assistant with Fred Von Lohman of the EFF,at the Future of Music Coalition Pho Dinner in Jan. 2002.
I think your sig says it all.... I don't believe any of the crap: Clinton Body Count, Bush Body Count, Micro-biologist body count. It was used to point out the absurdity or all of it, but then again it takes intelligence to figure that out, unless someone take the time to explain it to you.
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Most Reps./Senators won't respond to e-mail outside of their district. Find out when your Rep/Senator is going to be in your area, and ask for an appointment to discuss (yoursubject). Ask for his legislative assistant for that type of matter and communicate with them directly, feed them info, make their job easier. You'll find a much more receptive ear, and CAN infulence their decisions. I've done it and it does work. Remember, if they don't get elected, they can't get the payola, errr "Campaign Contributions"
The RIAA doesn't have the knowledge or the skill to do it themselves so they hire companies who do this sort of thing for a living. They pay a certain amonut per song as a base, so many cents (usually about 1.5 cents) per scan, per protocol, then pay the same amount again when they find the files, then so much to send a Cease and Desist Letter. They scan about every 15 minute, or determined by the label. They can run up huge numbers in just a couple of days for popular acts. Who pays? The artist of course, as it goes into their recoupable account, that never shrinks.
DMusic.com has an article with audio of the California Senate Hearings if you want the lowdown on the labels accounting. (Streaming MP3)it can be found Here especially enlightning is Don Engel's and Fred Wolinski's testimony.
As an American who spent 2 1/2 years in Malaysia, doing IT work before the Multimedia Super Corridor was started, I can tell you that software is easily available usually on pressed discs at a small portion of the retail price. While not as rampant as music and video copies, it is easily available. The price usually depends of the merchant and if you are local or not. (you may not even be able to purchase it if you are not known or at least of a native ethnic race).
In a country where the cost of Macromedia Director can cost the equivalent of 2 months middle level managers salary, the incentive to "pirate" is high. I spent two months convincing the boss that we had to have a legal version of Director. A better solution would be to produce the software in the native language, (Bahasa Malaysia which is very similar to Indonesian) which limits the outside interest, and ability to use it.
Is claim he was looking for files of his that were copyrighted. Hw should get at least a couple of grand from the MPAA and the RIAA for his defense.
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I hope you at least renamed your folder and password to something they don't have the intellegence to figure out (like NQ4).
As a Dish Network employee I can tell you for a fact we aren't selling it direct, YET. The plan is to also offer them direct later this year, as I understand it. The primary focus at this point is to get them to the retailers first.
The only models that Dish sells direct are the 301 and 501, but we do support all models.
So, if you don't like paying the millions of dollars to get marginal music shoved down peoples throats, Quit paying. Simple. Clear Channel still has to get its music somewhere doesn't it? SFX (the concert arm still needs to fill the venues. "The cream will rise"
Put those so called Indie promoters of of business, and let the market determine the hits, not the pay. Imagine, only good music gets played, (or stays on the charts), the public buys what they like, and your sales go back up.
Imagine, a business where the consumers actually gets to pick what they want to hear....can't be any worse than the 5% success rate you have now...and you can save millions on payola, and maybe even bribes...err campaign donations....
18 1/2 minutes of tape missing....
Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie ) 18 1/2 minutes...
Hmmmmm......... I wonder if brownies were the White House snack that day?
If these were available 5 years ago during the dotcom boom we would all be able to get one on eBay for a couple of hundred bucks.
for most musicans and bands out there trying to make a living. Rather than huge advances, you'll see more people receive just what is needed to get the recording done, and some smaller promotion. If it takes off, the artist recoups faster, and then begins to get royalties.
On the other hand, I've been told by many artists "Get as much as you can upfront, because you'll never see another cent from the labels". I've heard that from too many not to believe it.
Electric pRon!
Battlebots!
The truth of the matter is that musicians have been struggling for years before file sharing came along.(Pause to let that sink in)
If she's not getting airplay on radio (which is unlikely)the file sharing and the net is the great field leveler. Since the majors pay to put their music on the radio, unless daddy is filthy rich, she'll never get on. I know it's been cliched to death but "Think outside the box".
The chances of making a living were small to begin with. Tell your friend to put together a website, put the cd on CDBABY put a song or two and a sampler of the CD on a Music Community website such as DMusic.Com Get her CD in Amazon.Com's Advantage program.
Put the website on everything, have email list signup sheets every where she plays, and use the things. Promote, promote, promote. Create a small steady market for her work. Contrary to what the major labels would have you beleive, you don't need to sell millions of CDs to make a living. (well, you do if you work for them). If your friend wants to be a "rock star" tell her to hang up the music and concentrate on something that pays, like fry cook at McDonalds, but if she plays for the love of playing, has some talent, and promotes her work, prices her CD reasonably, and treats it like a business (put together a business plan), she'll see progress. The fact that her stuff is being traded on file sharing networks tells you that there is a demand, and that people like her music.
How accessable to those fans to purchase? Can they buy it easily? Can they buy it online? Does she have distribution? Check out Redeye for distribution (although it looks like their website got hacked) they distribute to record stores nationwide, Barnes and Noble, Books a Million, etc....
About 5 years ago there was a mod from the Marine Corps for Doom. Check out the story on Wired. I play it and it was actually more interesting than the original Doom. Me, I'm still waiting for Unreal Doom Quake, with Asia Carrera Skins.......
WHAT? And give up my 56kbps MP3 files? OH MY GOD, this is even worse than I thought!
Windux.com
shouldn't we be planning a mission to Venus instead?
"Women in particular appreciate SecureTouch, he said, because they don't have to bring in their purses."
So they leave it in plan sight in the car, so they can come back to a broken window and and a missing purse. (not to mention all of those unmentionalbes inside the purse)
More Fast and Furious doesn't have the logo on the outside packaging, but does use the CD Audio Logo on the CD itself. I don't know about others, but this one does.
Just visited Dispair.com and low and behold the Classic Frowny is free to license, for a limited time. No pushing, no shoving, there are plenty to go a round.
The following took place on the tube, not the web: After the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up, killing the crew and school teacher Chirsta McAuliffe, I saw a news story several times on Headline News where a particular insurance company had issued a 1 Million Dollar policy to her, and would now have to pay off on it. It just so happened that my ex was the executive secretary to the president of the company. I spoke with her by phone shortly after seeing the story, and mentioned it to her. She totally freaked out, "How did you know that?" That's not public knowledge!". I told her I saw it on CNN Headline News, She made a rapid exit and promised she would call me back in a little while. The insurance company concentrated on business insurance and usually didn't handle individual policies. She called back about an hour later thanking me for the heads up. The story never appeared again. I asked her about it and all she would say was "It was handled."
The Music version of this is called Soundscan. In the music industry it's often referred to as "SoundScam", because of the abuses of the system, and the ease in which it can be manipulated to reflect what the label wants it to do. All you need is an indie promoter, a few thousand copies, and one unscruplous store owner or employee.
I live in the district next to his, with Disney payee Goodlatte. He won't be getting my vote again. However, my mom lives in Boucher's district and I've had the opportunity to sit down with him and discuss the DMCA and Music licensing issues with him, as well as his legislative assitant, Johanna Mikes. He is intellegent, insightful, beleives strongly in copyright, but also beleives in a balance as copyright was intended to be. One of the concerns he has is about copy-protected cds, when they do go into public domain, it would still be illegal under the DMCA to break the encrption to make it publicly available.
Picture of Johanna Mikes, Rick Boucher's legislative assistant with Fred Von Lohman of the EFF,at the Future of Music Coalition Pho Dinner in Jan. 2002.
Picture of Rick Boucher and me taken Jun 2001.
I think your sig says it all.... I don't believe any of the crap: Clinton Body Count, Bush Body Count, Micro-biologist body count. It was used to point out the absurdity or all of it, but then again it takes intelligence to figure that out, unless someone take the time to explain it to you.