The artists may be lucky to get a dollar per record, however: They get fronted money to record - cheapest you're looking at is around 70 thousand pounds in this country for an entire album start to finish, they get free PR plus the contacts to have their music distributed to DJ's, played on the radio, put in the shops. They get Tours organised for them (which virtually always lose money, by the way) plus living money etc etc. So the reason they get so little from the actual record sale is because the record company will have fronted god knows how much money from them and needs to get it back.
Don't kid yourself that the recording companies make all the money from a 15 quid CD either. Most of it (over 50 percent in some cases) goes to the retailer.
Before you rubbish me, I've been there and done it, so I know.
I'm not coming out in support of record companies either, I think Pete Waterman is the human incarnation of Satan in particular, but please try to make the story a little more accurate. I'd love to see the artists get more money. I'd love to steal CD's from a shop and send the artist five quid for every one I take, but I'm allergic to prison.
Be realistic in what you wish for... Life without record companies is possible for bands, but a hell of a lot harder.
Yup, that was how it spoke to the floppy drive, along with up to seven other devices (although you could get a splitter type thingy to increase that) and the devices could be anything - printers (although there were problems if your printer was first in the chain and offline) drives and even other Commodore 64's.
There was a system came out called Dolphin DOS which was an addition to the basic chip (it sat underneath) which used the user port and a conversion to your 5140 egg frying floppy drive which made it a hell of a lot faster... Also gave you shortcut commands on your f-keys.
Seinfeld? A program that, of course, is the height of comedy, is never repetetive and doesn't play on it's popularity to give up being funny and make money at all...
Until they decide that monitors should be storing the decryption side of things (upload a new driver to your monitor anyone?)
Perfectly feasible - only requires a flashable ROM of a reasonable size in the monitor, and seeing as the link will be digital, uploading will be no problem.
What micros*ft are doing is unscrupulous, but legal. Perhaps we need some form of 'right of access' law involving the internet. However you look at it, it's bad karma on the part of micros*ft, but will hopefully come back to haunt them some day.
Imagine if the telephone companies all got together and said 'right, your communications protocol sucks. We have a better one, we've devised new standards which you can emulate, but you still can't send data across phone lines unless you're using our hardware and back end software' People would go apeshit. It caused enough trouble when BT tried enforcing it to a lesser extent with the BABT standard in this country. At least you could still use a modem that wasn't BABT approved.
Maybe try using microsofts ideas against them. Issue W3C compliancy certificates to web sites which could then be searched upon. Set your search engine to ignore anything that isn't.
Maybe I'm covering stuff that's already been done. If so, I apologise. I'm still fairly new to this side of I.T.
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The artists may be lucky to get a dollar per record, however: They get fronted money to record - cheapest you're looking at is around 70 thousand pounds in this country for an entire album start to finish, they get free PR plus the contacts to have their music distributed to DJ's, played on the radio, put in the shops. They get Tours organised for them (which virtually always lose money, by the way) plus living money etc etc. So the reason they get so little from the actual record sale is because the record company will have fronted god knows how much money from them and needs to get it back.
Don't kid yourself that the recording companies make all the money from a 15 quid CD either. Most of it (over 50 percent in some cases) goes to the retailer.
Before you rubbish me, I've been there and done it, so I know.
I'm not coming out in support of record companies either, I think Pete Waterman is the human incarnation of Satan in particular, but please try to make the story a little more accurate. I'd love to see the artists get more money. I'd love to steal CD's from a shop and send the artist five quid for every one I take, but I'm allergic to prison.
Be realistic in what you wish for... Life without record companies is possible for bands, but a hell of a lot harder.
Now you can flame me...
Yup, that was how it spoke to the floppy drive, along with up to seven other devices (although you could get a splitter type thingy to increase that) and the devices could be anything - printers (although there were problems if your printer was first in the chain and offline) drives and even other Commodore 64's.
There was a system came out called Dolphin DOS which was an addition to the basic chip (it sat underneath) which used the user port and a conversion to your 5140 egg frying floppy drive which made it a hell of a lot faster... Also gave you shortcut commands on your f-keys.
Oh I remember the days...
Try swapping your IDE cables about... Or try the (supposedly) duff drive on one of the other IDE channels...
Seinfeld? A program that, of course, is the height of comedy, is never repetetive and doesn't play on it's popularity to give up being funny and make money at all...
Until they decide that monitors should be storing the decryption side of things (upload a new driver to your monitor anyone?)
Perfectly feasible - only requires a flashable ROM of a reasonable size in the monitor, and seeing as the link will be digital, uploading will be no problem.
What micros*ft are doing is unscrupulous, but legal. Perhaps we need some form of 'right of access' law involving the internet. However you look at it, it's bad karma on the part of micros*ft, but will hopefully come back to haunt them some day. Imagine if the telephone companies all got together and said 'right, your communications protocol sucks. We have a better one, we've devised new standards which you can emulate, but you still can't send data across phone lines unless you're using our hardware and back end software' People would go apeshit. It caused enough trouble when BT tried enforcing it to a lesser extent with the BABT standard in this country. At least you could still use a modem that wasn't BABT approved. Maybe try using microsofts ideas against them. Issue W3C compliancy certificates to web sites which could then be searched upon. Set your search engine to ignore anything that isn't. Maybe I'm covering stuff that's already been done. If so, I apologise. I'm still fairly new to this side of I.T.