If I get this special license when I buy tracks just because I'm a DJ, where is it? What are the terms? Am I agreeing to those terms automatically by purchasing that music?
Lemme let you in on a DJ secret - we play what we get our hands on. Period. I buy acapellas and beats from iTunes and dig for tracks in discount bookstores and flea markets. Where is my license for public performance then?
A DJ that's concerned with the legal status of every little song and sample that they play wouldn't have very many tunes to play. In fact, I own records like "Unknown vs. Gwen Stefani" - Unknown because of the shady nature of an unlicensed sample. Definitely not cleared for public performance, but legitimately purchased from a record store.
In fact, last I heard, sampling anything is illegal in the United States without explicit consent from the copyright holder. Since so many beats used in rap/hip-hop/electronic/industrial are sampled and not cleared, that pretty much makes the records illegal anyway, even if they were sold to you as playable. (BTW, is it illegal to be a cover band? I might just learn to play something...)
But I'm pretty sure you were talking about club DJs and not real DJs... When you go to a club, look around for an ASCAP sticker (usually on the front windows or by one of the bars) - that's a good sign the club payed a licensing agreement -- so you can listen to the same top 50 tunes you hear all day on commercials and radio, and feel good about helping out those poor starving artists.
No one spends resources on you specifically, so it's not theft, right? Those advertising dollars weren't spent directly on you, no big deal. That guy on the CD wasn't rappin' just to me, so I shouldn't have to pay like when I get a haircut.
When someone creates a musical work, there is an actual person that created that work for you. They may not be spending their time catering to you specifically, but they are still actual people doing work. They create a message and sell it. If you run off with a copy of the musical work without paying, then you took the message - you got the product. But the musician didn't get compensation for the effort.
As a musician, a loss of a sale to me means my time was spent for naught. I still had to pay for my materials. I still had to spend all the time to create the tracks. Just now I don't deserve to get paid for it? I am trying to live, just like everyone else. It's real easy to say Jay-Z doesn't deserve another million dollars. Is it so easy to decide that I don't deserve another $2?
People learn things in different ways, jackass. Some people need to see someone do an action correctly to be able to do it themselves.
And pretty much every competitive college has a College Algebra requirement or equivalent.
If you truly believe that everyone needs to have taught themselves know how to find the roots of a binomial to succeed in college, you need a reality check.
You went to a school that required more math, I assume because you did well on that test to be placed in higher classes. If you want that higher education, mathematics (especially geometry) is a necessity. Assuming you can do Trigonometry, you should be able to balance your checkbook or calculate some percentage...
Also, I don't think anyone has mentioned that Trig is *Old School*. It's part of the curriculum because it's historical math - it is some of the first math ever written, studied, and used practically. Examples of it's use pass you by every day, so don't complain if you just ended up not using that skill set. I have learned so much about Existential Philosophy and Art History and other crap getting my degree that I will never use too, I just value those things as part of being "educated".
I watched a kid no older than 10 walk out of a GameStop just yesterday with a copy of GTA:Vice City. His mom had no say in anything, just paid for the game and left, happy to have her child shut the hell up for 5 minutes.
Also, there are a select group of parents that spoil their child and just cannot say no.
Then obviously you have not spent time in a college classroom recently.
I absolutely hate it when the teacher continually answers one person's questions while there are students in the room that do not understand the topic. There's always a suck-up that feels that their A will be determined by how much crap they say in class.
Many people that actually need help are either too shy to ask, or do not feel like interrupting lecture time in order to have a point elaborated on further. Sometimes, I have a really detailed question that may be slightly OT. It would be nice to use the clicker to schedule a discussion with the teacher after class or during office hours.
Another benefit of these 'clickers' is that it allows you to see who is actually paying any attention in the class at all. My mother teaches reading at an inner-city middle school. Generally, she has to repeat herself constantly since no one is listening, and is lucky to get 60% completion on an assignment. Having a data set to back up her claims that the students do not try or do not care would be convienient and helpful. You can also use them to take attendance by using the logs instead of wasting time counting heads or passing around the roll sheet.
Also, remember that a large amount of standardized tests use an A,B,C,D answer scheme. Using a clicker like this is a perfect way to have the class become prepared for those tests. A well-prepared Powerpoint combined with a way to see who gets it and who doesn't could be very useful in a classroom.
It's not our fault the manufacturers sell the product at a loss. They do that for market penetration and competition. If Sony and MS offer a product that is capable of use as a supercomputer, and choose to advertise it on that functionality, then you should expect people to try to use it as a supercomputer.
As a consumer, you choose whether you want to give the companies your business. If my University buys all the PS3s off the shelf, I can complain to Sony, I can choose to buy something else, or I can just suck it up and get one when I can.
You mention that you pre-ordered your PS2. Other people that did not had to wait 9 months. Are you saying that they should be pissed at you for preordering? Did they not have the same ability? Maybe they did not have the means at the time, but that is not your fault. I can understand being angry at Sony for not having enough stock ready at launch, for rushing things. Not being prepared enough at launch created artificial scarcity which effected demand. But many of those same people that had to wait still bought the console. They chose to give their business to Sony, even though they had been screwed at launch. Obviously the company's behavior at launch was not enough of a deterrent to buyers for them to decide not to get a PS2.
This country has technology export laws which prevent me from shipping a PS2 to certain countries. Other than that, I can see no reason why any large organization like a university or corporation shouldn't be allowed to buy market-available hardware to construct what ever the hell they want out of it. (DMCA set aside for this discussion, I don't even want to go there.) If I want to make a Beowulf cluster of Super Nintendos, there isn't a law preventing me from purchasing them.
Also, even if I buy an XBox and all the rest of my games and accessories used, MS still makes it's licensing fees. It's the game and accessory manufacturers that get screwed, IIRC.
Both problems are a case of someone on the inside, someone trusted, releasing copywritten information. Then M$ or MPAA goes after the individual downloaders, wins the case and 4. Profit!!!
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If I get this special license when I buy tracks just because I'm a DJ, where is it? What are the terms? Am I agreeing to those terms automatically by purchasing that music?
Lemme let you in on a DJ secret - we play what we get our hands on. Period. I buy acapellas and beats from iTunes and dig for tracks in discount bookstores and flea markets. Where is my license for public performance then?
A DJ that's concerned with the legal status of every little song and sample that they play wouldn't have very many tunes to play. In fact, I own records like "Unknown vs. Gwen Stefani" - Unknown because of the shady nature of an unlicensed sample. Definitely not cleared for public performance, but legitimately purchased from a record store.
In fact, last I heard, sampling anything is illegal in the United States without explicit consent from the copyright holder. Since so many beats used in rap/hip-hop/electronic/industrial are sampled and not cleared, that pretty much makes the records illegal anyway, even if they were sold to you as playable. (BTW, is it illegal to be a cover band? I might just learn to play something...)
But I'm pretty sure you were talking about club DJs and not real DJs... When you go to a club, look around for an ASCAP sticker (usually on the front windows or by one of the bars) - that's a good sign the club payed a licensing agreement -- so you can listen to the same top 50 tunes you hear all day on commercials and radio, and feel good about helping out those poor starving artists.
Well, if MTV wouldn't keep shaking preteen ass in my face I wouldn't be so tempted...
No one spends resources on you specifically, so it's not theft, right? Those advertising dollars weren't spent directly on you, no big deal. That guy on the CD wasn't rappin' just to me, so I shouldn't have to pay like when I get a haircut.
When someone creates a musical work, there is an actual person that created that work for you. They may not be spending their time catering to you specifically, but they are still actual people doing work. They create a message and sell it. If you run off with a copy of the musical work without paying, then you took the message - you got the product. But the musician didn't get compensation for the effort.
As a musician, a loss of a sale to me means my time was spent for naught. I still had to pay for my materials. I still had to spend all the time to create the tracks. Just now I don't deserve to get paid for it? I am trying to live, just like everyone else. It's real easy to say Jay-Z doesn't deserve another million dollars. Is it so easy to decide that I don't deserve another $2?
Define: downfall of modern civilization.
That should be most of your paper right there...
People learn things in different ways, jackass. Some people need to see someone do an action correctly to be able to do it themselves. And pretty much every competitive college has a College Algebra requirement or equivalent.
If you truly believe that everyone needs to have taught themselves know how to find the roots of a binomial to succeed in college, you need a reality check.
Well, there you go...
You went to a school that required more math, I assume because you did well on that test to be placed in higher classes. If you want that higher education, mathematics (especially geometry) is a necessity. Assuming you can do Trigonometry, you should be able to balance your checkbook or calculate some percentage...
Also, I don't think anyone has mentioned that Trig is *Old School*. It's part of the curriculum because it's historical math - it is some of the first math ever written, studied, and used practically. Examples of it's use pass you by every day, so don't complain if you just ended up not using that skill set. I have learned so much about Existential Philosophy and Art History and other crap getting my degree that I will never use too, I just value those things as part of being "educated".
I watched a kid no older than 10 walk out of a GameStop just yesterday with a copy of GTA:Vice City. His mom had no say in anything, just paid for the game and left, happy to have her child shut the hell up for 5 minutes.
Also, there are a select group of parents that spoil their child and just cannot say no.
Then obviously you have not spent time in a college classroom recently.
I absolutely hate it when the teacher continually answers one person's questions while there are students in the room that do not understand the topic. There's always a suck-up that feels that their A will be determined by how much crap they say in class.
Many people that actually need help are either too shy to ask, or do not feel like interrupting lecture time in order to have a point elaborated on further. Sometimes, I have a really detailed question that may be slightly OT. It would be nice to use the clicker to schedule a discussion with the teacher after class or during office hours.
Another benefit of these 'clickers' is that it allows you to see who is actually paying any attention in the class at all. My mother teaches reading at an inner-city middle school. Generally, she has to repeat herself constantly since no one is listening, and is lucky to get 60% completion on an assignment. Having a data set to back up her claims that the students do not try or do not care would be convienient and helpful. You can also use them to take attendance by using the logs instead of wasting time counting heads or passing around the roll sheet.
Also, remember that a large amount of standardized tests use an A,B,C,D answer scheme. Using a clicker like this is a perfect way to have the class become prepared for those tests. A well-prepared Powerpoint combined with a way to see who gets it and who doesn't could be very useful in a classroom.
For real! So the cost for us to use Logic went up from $999 to about $3999 in a day. Jeez...
Funny though....
Does your VH1 show music videos? They used to really late at night, but I don't know if they do anymore.
Where is VH1's Headbanger's Ball? Is it Celebrity Fit Club? The Surreal Life? Hogan Knows Best?
Did you watch the VH1 coverage of Live8? It was the exact same feed as MTV. All the proof I need that VH1 is MTV.
I remember when you could turn on the TV at 3:00pm and watch a music video. The whole thing, start to finish, the way the band wanted you to see it.
Now I feel old...
The one that tried to kill him? No, I'll pass. Not my ideal woman.
Sharon Stone is old anyway.
Yeah, because Apple wouldn't use any of that evil DRM stuff.
Down with Microsoft!!!
Where are my mod points, dammit!!!!
Actually, the UK is working on doing just that.
It's not our fault the manufacturers sell the product at a loss. They do that for market penetration and competition. If Sony and MS offer a product that is capable of use as a supercomputer, and choose to advertise it on that functionality, then you should expect people to try to use it as a supercomputer.
As a consumer, you choose whether you want to give the companies your business. If my University buys all the PS3s off the shelf, I can complain to Sony, I can choose to buy something else, or I can just suck it up and get one when I can.
You mention that you pre-ordered your PS2. Other people that did not had to wait 9 months. Are you saying that they should be pissed at you for preordering? Did they not have the same ability? Maybe they did not have the means at the time, but that is not your fault. I can understand being angry at Sony for not having enough stock ready at launch, for rushing things. Not being prepared enough at launch created artificial scarcity which effected demand. But many of those same people that had to wait still bought the console. They chose to give their business to Sony, even though they had been screwed at launch. Obviously the company's behavior at launch was not enough of a deterrent to buyers for them to decide not to get a PS2.
This country has technology export laws which prevent me from shipping a PS2 to certain countries. Other than that, I can see no reason why any large organization like a university or corporation shouldn't be allowed to buy market-available hardware to construct what ever the hell they want out of it. (DMCA set aside for this discussion, I don't even want to go there.) If I want to make a Beowulf cluster of Super Nintendos, there isn't a law preventing me from purchasing them.
Also, even if I buy an XBox and all the rest of my games and accessories used, MS still makes it's licensing fees. It's the game and accessory manufacturers that get screwed, IIRC.
Which totally explains why "Tennessee IT Ninjas" is the hottest show with women 18-30 right now!
I think it gives a whole new meaning to the phrase: "My balls just dropped!"
Something that you just admitted to previously doing in the past, Mr. High & Mighty?
I guess hypocrisy is another thing you gain when you "grow up"...
Maybe his future psychologist will tell him it's not a bug, it's a feature...
I buy vinyl, you insensitive clod!
Both problems are a case of someone on the inside, someone trusted, releasing copywritten information. Then M$ or MPAA goes after the individual downloaders, wins the case and 4. Profit!!!
Nevermind who leaked it, let's arrest them all!!!
It works both ways, my friend.
Get out of the freakin house and hump something living, dammit!