Great we will be one step closer to one of many Phillip K Dick short stories about the humans building robots to fight their wars for them, but the robots always seem to wise up and stop fighting against each other, and start destroying the humans. Read the Second Variety
Huge Ass Houses? Are you shitting me, only the top bands make enough to retire on, most bands have day jobs. How many.com millionairs are there? A whole lot more than musicians millionairs. So you listed three bands, that have a huge following, that all play the same crappy music, three bands. Boys I guess that is choice.
Touring makes NO FUCKING MONEY, it sucks your life away. Respect the Artist's rights, until everyone does so, we have absolutely no right to say anything bad about the RIAA. At least they are paying the artist SOMETHING, which is more than napster does. If you want to chage this, start up your own record company, sign some bands and distribute their music however you choose. I presume if you demand they get all their money from touring you will sign nobody, if you pay them hoping to recoup on touring only. you will go belly up within a year.
You deal! Don't expect to get the artist to lose their rights, which is exactly what Napster does.
Read the Steve Albini Baffler article it has been posted here repeatedly, and Coutney Love restated much of it. Read the part about Touring, how much money the artist made. for a six week tour, the artist worked every day and night (the bus doesn't drive itself) and lost $2500, NO PROFIT. Touring SUCKS BALLS, there are some artists who can't do it at all anymore because the the Anxiety that it causes. The point is the music was released under a specific license, in hopes to make somewhat of a living making music for your enjoyment, these people aren't getting rich.
You are free to sign the artists to whatever deal you think is fair and distribute it yourself. There are antitrust laws to protect you from anyone preventing competition.
Touch and Go does have a great deal, but many bands UO, Man or Astroman?, and Butthole Surfers to name a few have decided that they make a better living with a Major Label than they do with Touch and Go. By this reasoning you shouldn't trade Touch and Go artists on Napster, however I found plenty of Touch and Go songs available.
You all miss the point here. Although the industry makes profits, at least the artist is paid something. Notice that the "Tour" ends up in the red. Somewhere the artist needs to be paid or else the creation of music will end. Napster doesn't pay the artist a cent, so as far as I am concerned they are completely wrong. The record companies at least pays the artists something, if you want to pay the artist more, you are free to come up with a business plan that pays them more. BTW checkout Atomic Pop, they were paying something on the order of 50% royalties to their artists, where are they now?
You mean when she plagiarized Steve Albini see Some of your friends are already this fucked!. By the way this article had been posted on Slashdot, with proper citation, repeated before Courtney Love ripped it off.
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It looks like they simply pass the order to someone else.
Actually the recording industry is paid twice for recording a song off the radio. Once when the radio pays BMI or ASCAP. Twice when the cassette tape manufacturer pays the per cassette royalty to the RIAA for expected piracy. It is LEGAL to make mix tapes and record off the radio. Unless you are talking imports, any CD can be had for under $12. Most of the time you can find things used for $6.
Read the Bruce Perens article about napster. Something along these lines WILL be in effect unless we police ourselves. Why do you think some of us care if people are pirating music? A) musicians will stop making music, and B) all forms of media will be something like Circut City's DivX, encrypted and requiring a bank card to use.
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Alexa also promises not to give out personal information to third parties (including Amazon, as Alexa is independant of Amazon)
This "news" is older than Saturn.
This is an election quicky, maybe if it had been posted as an article I wouldn't be forced to promote every chance I get.
Shameless self promoter:-D I only put it in election items and this is the best spot I have gotten thus far.
Choose One as we still have to choose....
When was the last time we didn't get lazy when we could. Like I said it is one step closer, and I expect the other steps to come eventually.
Great we will be one step closer to one of many Phillip K Dick short stories about the humans building robots to fight their wars for them, but the robots always seem to wise up and stop fighting against each other, and start destroying the humans. Read the Second Variety
www.geocities.com/smushmoth What the candidates are really made of, be sure to click on them to see more clearly!!
The debt was inflated by Ronald Reagan, The deficit became a surplus durring the Clinton Administration
http://www.geocities.com/smushmoth Be sure to click on an image for a clearer view.....
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Huge Ass Houses? Are you shitting me, only the top bands make enough to retire on, most bands have day jobs. How many .com millionairs are there? A whole lot more than musicians millionairs. So you listed three bands, that have a huge following, that all play the same crappy music, three bands. Boys I guess that is choice.
Who cares if Sun honors the GPL? Same argument.
Someone give me the name of ONE band that has broken through stictly using napster. Just one band.
Touring makes NO FUCKING MONEY, it sucks your life away. Respect the Artist's rights, until everyone does so, we have absolutely no right to say anything bad about the RIAA. At least they are paying the artist SOMETHING, which is more than napster does. If you want to chage this, start up your own record company, sign some bands and distribute their music however you choose. I presume if you demand they get all their money from touring you will sign nobody, if you pay them hoping to recoup on touring only. you will go belly up within a year.
Read the Steve Albini Baffler article it has been posted here repeatedly, and Coutney Love restated much of it. Read the part about Touring, how much money the artist made. for a six week tour, the artist worked every day and night (the bus doesn't drive itself) and lost $2500, NO PROFIT. Touring SUCKS BALLS, there are some artists who can't do it at all anymore because the the Anxiety that it causes. The point is the music was released under a specific license, in hopes to make somewhat of a living making music for your enjoyment, these people aren't getting rich.
Touch and Go does have a great deal, but many bands UO, Man or Astroman?, and Butthole Surfers to name a few have decided that they make a better living with a Major Label than they do with Touch and Go. By this reasoning you shouldn't trade Touch and Go artists on Napster, however I found plenty of Touch and Go songs available.
You all miss the point here. Although the industry makes profits, at least the artist is paid something. Notice that the "Tour" ends up in the red. Somewhere the artist needs to be paid or else the creation of music will end. Napster doesn't pay the artist a cent, so as far as I am concerned they are completely wrong. The record companies at least pays the artists something, if you want to pay the artist more, you are free to come up with a business plan that pays them more. BTW checkout Atomic Pop, they were paying something on the order of 50% royalties to their artists, where are they now?
You mean when she plagiarized Steve Albini see Some of your friends are already this fucked!. By the way this article had been posted on Slashdot, with proper citation, repeated before Courtney Love ripped it off.
the speed of sound is much faster under water than in air.
Isn't the mach 1 more along the lines of 750 miles/hour?
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It looks like they simply pass the order to someone else.
Actually the recording industry is paid twice for recording a song off the radio. Once when the radio pays BMI or ASCAP. Twice when the cassette tape manufacturer pays the per cassette royalty to the RIAA for expected piracy. It is LEGAL to make mix tapes and record off the radio. Unless you are talking imports, any CD can be had for under $12. Most of the time you can find things used for $6.
err many if not most of the /. readers and contributors still sustain themselves by the grace of their parents.
Moron, radio stations PAY to play music.
Read the Bruce Perens article about napster. Something along these lines WILL be in effect unless we police ourselves. Why do you think some of us care if people are pirating music? A) musicians will stop making music, and B) all forms of media will be something like Circut City's DivX, encrypted and requiring a bank card to use.