At least one expensive (around a grand for a 10 foot pair) speaker cable manufacturer (MIT "Music Hose"d) claims that wire is directional-in other words the audio FLOWS from the amp to the speaker. How this works is beyone me-especially since audio is AC and the speaker come moves in and out in step with the AC voltage applied to it!
Do it like this...
Offer them zero dollars for the album. Download it. Listen to it. THEN "Buy" it again, this time paying them what you truly think its worth.
So?
Yesterday, I SAID that I screwed Brittney Spears! That doesn't mean that I DID! This guy CLAIMS he has patient records-but where is the proof? No Proof, no case! They are trying to get infomation based on hearsay. Figures that in Texas the judges are IGNORANT enough to grant things based upon heresay! Don't they elect their judges there? If so it makes perfect sense-moron judges elected by morons!
The artist gets 7 cents of every song sold-it comes out of Apple's 'cut'.
The credit card companies get 7 cents out of every song sold-it comes out of Apple's 'cut'.
Apple gets 15 cents out of every song sold and out of that they have to pay for bandwidth, web design and 1001 other things. Apple gets the smallest 'cut' of all. They claim they only break even on iTunes; that it exists to benefit the iPod-which is their big cash cow. Of course the record companies are ALSO botching abiut that-they want a 'cut' on every iPod sold!
Out of Apple's *split*, the artists get 7 cents and the credit card companies get another 7 cents. The 15 cents laft goes to Apple who have to pay for bandwidth, servers, web design and a bunch of other things from their cut. The record companies get 70 cents for doing NOTHING!!
Apple has stated in the past that iTunes is a break even for them-it's only reason for existance is to promote the iPod. Of course, the record companies also want a *cut* of each iPod sold, too!
Because they only get *over* 70 cents of every dollar spent for doing NOTHING? Maybe they want the 7 cents each artist gets too? Or perhaps the 7 cents that Mastercard gets? I know-they want ALL of the NOTHING profit that iTunes makes on each song sold! What they really want is to force iTunes to charge 1.49 with them getting 1.20 for doing NOTHING!
Problem is, raising prices would actually REDUCE their profits. Look, so far they've made almost ONE BILLION DOLLARS for doing NOTHING! That's not enough???!!!
Problem is, toys can't replace common sense or good old walking the beat crime fighting.
Besides, many more people get killed in a month from car accidents then all that got killed on 9/11. I'll also bet that property damage in a year from those accidents far exceeds the property damage done on 9/11. Yet we spend BILLIONS on terrorism, and practicallly nothing on making cars safer (in fact, the cars of today are less safe-look at how well the bumpers don't work on new cars).
Or, look at health insurance. If they put those billions into making sure the 30 million uninsured people in this country had health care, many more people would live then died on 9/11.
Look, I'm not trying to devalue what happened on 9/11. It was terrible! BUT our priorities are really f**ked up! The military can't fix the big problems in this country. We need to use our money on basics, not toys! I don't know about you, but my money pays for food and lodging for my family before I buy a wide screen TV with it. Of course, Halliburton isn't in the health care business either.
That's the attitude the RIAA and MPAA have towards their customers-and they wonder why their customers are voting with their feet in droves! Yes, downloading has a small effect on their sales, but it's their complete lack of customer service that's their biggest problem! Look, if I go to a grocery store and time after time either can't find what I want or the it's packaged so I have to buy five pounds of hamburger or rice when I only want one pound of it, and/or am treated rudely by their staff, I'm simply going to say; "Hasta la Vista, baby!" and go to another store. Yet, that's EXACTLY the way the music and movie industries treat me. Big problem for them is there are OTHER things I can spend my money on that I get enjoyment from. Look at iTunes-they provide music in a user friendly way and provide a no hassle way for me to buy EXACTLY what I want-WHEN I want it! No wonder why they've sold over a billion songs in such a short time. If everyone was pirating content, they'd have NO business!
The thing I can't understand is Congress' hard on to pass laws friendly to the music and movie industries. You don't see them passing laws requiring me to shop at Safeway, for example. Are they THAT corrupted?
The reason they mark the receipt is to prevent: "Double dipping". Before they marked them, people would buy say a hard drive. Then after they left the store they'd give the receipt to an accomplice, who would go into the store, pick up the identical hard drive off the shelf, and then walk out the door with it. If questioned, they had a receipt to show they 'bought' it. Marking the receipt makes this impossible to do.
Did you know that you can get up from ANY movie within it's first 20 minutes, go the box office and get a 100% refund of your ticket price with no questions asked?
Don't believe me? Try it yourself!
This doesn't seem to hurt the movie industry....why would 30 second clips from songs hurt the music industry-unless their products SUCK?
Maybe the music industry needs to release BETTER records-ones that are so good that listening to 30 seconds of them isn't enough-ones that make me WANT to buy the track based upon the 30 second preview, instead of the reverse!
Want proof? Listen to what this guy's BOSS has to say!
Steve Barnett is nervous about the subscription model. "Smart people have told me if the subscription model is not done correctly," he said, "it will be the final nail in our coffin. I've heard both sides of the argument, and I'm not convinced it's the solution to our problems. Rick wants to be a hero immediately. In his mind, you flick a switch and it's done. It doesn't work like that."
Uhm..HELLO???!!! You've had TEN YEARS to come up with a subscription model! That sure doesn't sound like "flicking a switch" to me!
Barnett has other ideas, which he is discussing with Rubin. For instance, asking Columbia artists to give the record company up to 50 percent of their touring, merchandising and online revenue. This is unprecedented -- even successful artists like the Dixie Chicks make a large percentage of their income from concerts and T-shirts. "Artists should never give that money up," Natalie Maines told me. "The companies are all scrambling because of the Internet, and they will screw the artist to meet their bottom line. I can't imagine Rick will go along with that."
YEAH! THAT'S IT! Screw the artists even more! That's a GREAT business model!!
This is just more of the same one crap thay've been doing all along...
Problem is, instead of actually PRODUCING good music, it's easier and cheaper for them to maintain the status quo, and bribe lawmakers to pass laws that essentially FORCE consumers to buy their products-all the while bleating "piracy" over and over...
This doesn't surprise me. DRM is dead. How could SoundExchange possibly require it when most of the RIAA members now favor retail sales of DRM free music? Even WalMart is getting into the act. Why? because they found that they can charge MORE for DRM free music and the consumer will pay it. It only took the music industry TEN YEARS to figure out what most of US knew all along!
Two weekends ago Bush kept Congress in session all weekend until the effectively eliminated the FISA court. Now all that has to happen is that once a quarter, Alberto "Lies like a rug" Gonzales has to NOTIFY Congress how many people they've spied on without a warrant.
The National Association of Broadcasters lobbying efforts (read: BRIBERS!) have paid off again for them! It would ahve been VERY EASY to buid in a receiver that listens on the channel to make sure nothing's there before transmitting. Twenty dollar WIFI routers even do this. In fact, this would be a DESIRABLE feature. By doing this there would BE no interference-NOTHING!!
Instead, the FCC has once again overprotected the big bucks incumbent users of the PUBLIC airwaves from the PUBLIC!
The FCC needs to be abolished. They are a place where friends of political hacks can get big buck patronage jobs-nothing more. It has long outlived its usefulness.
Imagine that his band signs with a major label and gets treated like this: http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
Or this: http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/l ove/print.html
Just imagine them working for FREE for their first two CD's. Filesharers are not your brother's enemies, the RIAA is! If he wants to make money off his music, have HIM make it available on his OWN web site. He should explain (respectfully) that he loves to make music, but also needs to pay the bills, so will you kindly buy some of his merchandise? Let me say this: if he comes off having YOUR attitude, I can see why no one wants to support him and his band!
Regal and MPAA have just created a public relations NIGHTMARE for themselves! They might win in a court of law, but they'll be CRUCIFIED in the court of public opinion! I suggest we all get together and contribute a dollar each to buy Regal Cinemas a CLUE!
Don't these people GET IT? I for one am BOYCOTTING the RIAA, MPAA and their members! I'm voting with my feet! I've got the feeling that about fifty million others like me are as well. THAT'S the reason their sales are donw. WE'RE NOT BUYING their CRAP!
As part of the enforcement process, I believe that it would be much more effective if the police could learn to deliver the following phrase with authority:
"YOUR papers, PLEEAS!"
It should be delivered with a 1960's Soviet English accent, as that's where (thanks to inane regulations such as yours) the USA is going....
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At least one expensive (around a grand for a 10 foot pair) speaker cable manufacturer (MIT "Music Hose"d) claims that wire is directional-in other words the audio FLOWS from the amp to the speaker. How this works is beyone me-especially since audio is AC and the speaker come moves in and out in step with the AC voltage applied to it!
Do it like this... Offer them zero dollars for the album. Download it. Listen to it. THEN "Buy" it again, this time paying them what you truly think its worth.
The Supreme Court disagrees with you (see post above).
So? Yesterday, I SAID that I screwed Brittney Spears! That doesn't mean that I DID! This guy CLAIMS he has patient records-but where is the proof? No Proof, no case! They are trying to get infomation based on hearsay. Figures that in Texas the judges are IGNORANT enough to grant things based upon heresay! Don't they elect their judges there? If so it makes perfect sense-moron judges elected by morons!
Texas hasn't entered the 19th century yet, let alone the 21st. Give 'em back to Mexico!
The credit card companies get 7 cents out of every song sold-it comes out of Apple's 'cut'.
Apple gets 15 cents out of every song sold and out of that they have to pay for bandwidth, web design and 1001 other things. Apple gets the smallest 'cut' of all. They claim they only break even on iTunes; that it exists to benefit the iPod-which is their big cash cow. Of course the record companies are ALSO botching abiut that-they want a 'cut' on every iPod sold!Greedy bastards!
Apple has stated in the past that iTunes is a break even for them-it's only reason for existance is to promote the iPod. Of course, the record companies also want a *cut* of each iPod sold, too!
Greedy bastards!
Problem is, toys can't replace common sense or good old walking the beat crime fighting. Besides, many more people get killed in a month from car accidents then all that got killed on 9/11. I'll also bet that property damage in a year from those accidents far exceeds the property damage done on 9/11. Yet we spend BILLIONS on terrorism, and practicallly nothing on making cars safer (in fact, the cars of today are less safe-look at how well the bumpers don't work on new cars). Or, look at health insurance. If they put those billions into making sure the 30 million uninsured people in this country had health care, many more people would live then died on 9/11. Look, I'm not trying to devalue what happened on 9/11. It was terrible! BUT our priorities are really f**ked up! The military can't fix the big problems in this country. We need to use our money on basics, not toys! I don't know about you, but my money pays for food and lodging for my family before I buy a wide screen TV with it. Of course, Halliburton isn't in the health care business either.
That's the attitude the RIAA and MPAA have towards their customers-and they wonder why their customers are voting with their feet in droves! Yes, downloading has a small effect on their sales, but it's their complete lack of customer service that's their biggest problem! Look, if I go to a grocery store and time after time either can't find what I want or the it's packaged so I have to buy five pounds of hamburger or rice when I only want one pound of it, and/or am treated rudely by their staff, I'm simply going to say; "Hasta la Vista, baby!" and go to another store. Yet, that's EXACTLY the way the music and movie industries treat me. Big problem for them is there are OTHER things I can spend my money on that I get enjoyment from. Look at iTunes-they provide music in a user friendly way and provide a no hassle way for me to buy EXACTLY what I want-WHEN I want it! No wonder why they've sold over a billion songs in such a short time. If everyone was pirating content, they'd have NO business! The thing I can't understand is Congress' hard on to pass laws friendly to the music and movie industries. You don't see them passing laws requiring me to shop at Safeway, for example. Are they THAT corrupted?
The reason they mark the receipt is to prevent: "Double dipping". Before they marked them, people would buy say a hard drive. Then after they left the store they'd give the receipt to an accomplice, who would go into the store, pick up the identical hard drive off the shelf, and then walk out the door with it. If questioned, they had a receipt to show they 'bought' it. Marking the receipt makes this impossible to do.
The police state has arrived here in the Corporate States of America!
Did you know that you can get up from ANY movie within it's first 20 minutes, go the box office and get a 100% refund of your ticket price with no questions asked? Don't believe me? Try it yourself! This doesn't seem to hurt the movie industry....why would 30 second clips from songs hurt the music industry-unless their products SUCK? Maybe the music industry needs to release BETTER records-ones that are so good that listening to 30 seconds of them isn't enough-ones that make me WANT to buy the track based upon the 30 second preview, instead of the reverse!
Want proof? Listen to what this guy's BOSS has to say!
Steve Barnett is nervous about the subscription model. "Smart people have told me if the subscription model is not done correctly," he said, "it will be the final nail in our coffin. I've heard both sides of the argument, and I'm not convinced it's the solution to our problems. Rick wants to be a hero immediately. In his mind, you flick a switch and it's done. It doesn't work like that."Uhm..HELLO???!!! You've had TEN YEARS to come up with a subscription model! That sure doesn't sound like "flicking a switch" to me!
Barnett has other ideas, which he is discussing with Rubin. For instance, asking Columbia artists to give the record company up to 50 percent of their touring, merchandising and online revenue. This is unprecedented -- even successful artists like the Dixie Chicks make a large percentage of their income from concerts and T-shirts. "Artists should never give that money up," Natalie Maines told me. "The companies are all scrambling because of the Internet, and they will screw the artist to meet their bottom line. I can't imagine Rick will go along with that."YEAH! THAT'S IT! Screw the artists even more! That's a GREAT business model!!
This is just more of the same one crap thay've been doing all along...Problem is, instead of actually PRODUCING good music, it's easier and cheaper for them to maintain the status quo, and bribe lawmakers to pass laws that essentially FORCE consumers to buy their products-all the while bleating "piracy" over and over...
This doesn't surprise me. DRM is dead. How could SoundExchange possibly require it when most of the RIAA members now favor retail sales of DRM free music? Even WalMart is getting into the act. Why? because they found that they can charge MORE for DRM free music and the consumer will pay it. It only took the music industry TEN YEARS to figure out what most of US knew all along!
Two weekends ago Bush kept Congress in session all weekend until the effectively eliminated the FISA court. Now all that has to happen is that once a quarter, Alberto "Lies like a rug" Gonzales has to NOTIFY Congress how many people they've spied on without a warrant.
Did anyone see Ethan Harris in the area?
When you own the politicians and courts?
Instead, the FCC has once again overprotected the big bucks incumbent users of the PUBLIC airwaves from the PUBLIC!
The FCC needs to be abolished. They are a place where friends of political hacks can get big buck patronage jobs-nothing more. It has long outlived its usefulness.Who knows...maybe older guys have made appointments to have sex with underage girls at Defcon. Ya think?
Imagine that his band signs with a major label and gets treated like this: http://www.negativland.com/albini.html Or this: http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/l ove/print.html
Just imagine them working for FREE for their first two CD's. Filesharers are not your brother's enemies, the RIAA is! If he wants to make money off his music, have HIM make it available on his OWN web site. He should explain (respectfully) that he loves to make music, but also needs to pay the bills, so will you kindly buy some of his merchandise? Let me say this: if he comes off having YOUR attitude, I can see why no one wants to support him and his band!
Don't these people GET IT? I for one am BOYCOTTING the RIAA, MPAA and their members! I'm voting with my feet! I've got the feeling that about fifty million others like me are as well. THAT'S the reason their sales are donw. WE'RE NOT BUYING their CRAP!
Remember the movie Minority Report? Well, it's HERE!
"YOUR papers, PLEEAS!"
It should be delivered with a 1960's Soviet English accent, as that's where (thanks to inane regulations such as yours) the USA is going....