Nah, if what you're saying is accurate then Elvis really has left the building.
Hmm how many record companies were around when Beethoven, Mozart, and many other artists were creating their works?
Record companies are needed for people like Brit Spear, Spice, etc...
But the extent you would refer to them as artists is debatable.
No doubt that there are local bands in my neck of the woods that you have never heard of, however just because YOU have not heard of them yet does not make them non-artists nor does it mean they do not sell any CDs.
It is actually RIAA and the record companies that stand in the way of free market forces. Insteade of funding the developement of a better business model they choose to fund attorneys.
Generally oranizations pursue legal tactics when they have no clue about their own business models or how to evolve them when times change.
How much does all this legal bullcrap add to the overpriced cost of music?
I kinda get the impression that the only reason they do this is to facilitate RIAA's own existance so they can say "see look what we are doing for artists?"
What I say to artists is this... take a look at Janis Ian's website http://www.janisian.com/ she effectively uses the web to to keep her fans in tune to her music long after the recording companies (RIAA) found her to be "unprofitable".
I've said it before and I'll say it again... RIAA and the Record Companies do not make artists into stars, their Fans do.
RIAA bite my dingleberry-crusted ass, i'd rather sit in the dark and hum to myself rather than deal with your crap, that's why your sales have been lagging recently.
Stop hiding behind your lawyers and start listing to the Fans/Customers, peace = contentment, you want peace in the music bus make your customers content. Here's a little clue your attorneys are not the answer, didn't you get the memo?
This has to be one of the funniest episodes in the anals of coporate america.
IBM should pay them because the entertainment value of what these clowns are doing is priceless.
The people at IBM have to be f-ing rolling on the floor laughing their butts off.
This has to be great for IBMs attendance, their employees probably can't wait to get into the office in the morning to see what the clown god has in store for them today...
I can just see it now, the IBM legal department has a scout out front waiting for the FedEx guy to arrive, the P.A. system is tuned in to the legal department, all ears tuned in like the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds.
The package arrives, over the P.A. system you can hear the tantalizing rip as the Priority Letter is opened, papers are shuffled, then a loud thud as broadcasting attorney drops to floor, and laughs hysterically.
Na, that's not an completely accurate characterization...
Roscoe P. Coltrane may have been dumber than a corn cob but he was alive and kickin', SCO is better characterized as the pickled pork knuckles that Boss Hogg liked to suck on.
Actually no, if you are a car designer you'd be set for life... i don't want to drive a car that everyone else drives i'd be willing to pay a car designer to design something a little more custom.
Likewise, the artist would still be supported all we would lose in music is the middle man who's purpose seems somewhat vague and nebulous at this point.
Maybe I'll just go to my neighbor's when he's eating dinner and hop in his idle Lambourghini and drive to South Beach.
While I'm at it I should probably stop at his bank and pick up his money sitting idle in his bank accounts... you know them SoBe babes ain't cheap and they don't do nuttin for free.
Then I'll find a nice condo that's sitting idle and squat there for a week or so...
Dude you're spending way too much time in front of your computer, take a look out your window at the Matrix once in a while eh?
It would be more accurate to say that capitalism and communism are just words.
Our tax rate is an effective and accurate measure of the degree to which Americans are communists (governemnt spending our money).
Back to the topic though, communications companies did flock to foreign countries including China after the first Space shuttle disaster. They have had some hard knocks too but have gained experience.
The US missed the boat when Dennis Tito had to pay the Soviet Union to take him to Space. Imagine that a successful capitalist having to pay a former "communist" country for something that the "leader of the free world?" would not do.
Get off your damn ass NASA take us to into Space, I don't need to go a far as Mars, just a couple of hundred thousand miles... Think you can handle that?
If the media companies would have more brains than attorneys maybe they would see the opportunity here.
How cool would it be to see the media companies enlist the services of service providers to help them distribute their stuff to the customers of the ISPs. Sort of a P2P but one level higher like among ISPs.
Between an ISP and his customers the bandwidth becomes a non-issue, and the ISP already charges their customers on a monthly basis and it would be simple to charge for such a service and pay royalties to the copyright holders.
Hey RIAA and MPAA Wake The Fuck Up Already.
You have hundreds of digital distibutors out there with empty shelves. Stope having your attorneys harass people and start having the Service Providers distribute your stuff...
Are you really that self-absorbed that you think you could possibly be on anyone's list of targets? Puleez. Our RESPONSE to the 9/11 terrorist attack was an over-reaction on an order of magnitude beyond extreme, resulting in more damage to this country and it's constitution than 1,000 airliners could have inflicted.
Once you get out of your little dreamworld you will find that censorship in any form is a policy that has been implemented by 'great' nations such as Nazi Germany, Communist China, the former Soviet Union, and North Korea just to name a few. Americans should not aspire to join that group.
Sorry dude you could not be more wrong!!! You should be willing to give your pitifull life to protect our freedom and the Constitution instead of being such a little coward.
For pedophiles, brainwashing, and pitching a lot of useless crap to kids. This domain is like a candy store for child predators.
It's ironic how the more goverment tries to fix things, the more f@#ed they get. Put another feather in your cap Washington... this is the best thing you've fixed yet.
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Nah, if what you're saying is accurate then Elvis really has left the building.
Hmm how many record companies were around when Beethoven, Mozart, and many other artists were creating their works?
Record companies are needed for people like Brit Spear, Spice, etc...
But the extent you would refer to them as artists is debatable.
No doubt that there are local bands in my neck of the woods that you have never heard of, however just because YOU have not heard of them yet does not make them non-artists nor does it mean they do not sell any CDs.
It is actually RIAA and the record companies that stand in the way of free market forces. Insteade of funding the developement of a better business model they choose to fund attorneys.
Vielen dank, many thanks. Gee I thought the place to look was ATI.com - silly me.
Yeah now if ATI would just get off their butts and publish the drivers for XFree86 4.3 I could actually avail myself of the release.
Sorry about the troll but darn it I wish ATI would stop playing games so I could.
Generally oranizations pursue legal tactics when they have no clue about their own business models or how to evolve them when times change.
How much does all this legal bullcrap add to the overpriced cost of music?
I kinda get the impression that the only reason they do this is to facilitate RIAA's own existance so they can say "see look what we are doing for artists?" What I say to artists is this... take a look at Janis Ian's website http://www.janisian.com/ she effectively uses the web to to keep her fans in tune to her music long after the recording companies (RIAA) found her to be "unprofitable".
I've said it before and I'll say it again... RIAA and the Record Companies do not make artists into stars, their Fans do.
RIAA bite my dingleberry-crusted ass, i'd rather sit in the dark and hum to myself rather than deal with your crap, that's why your sales have been lagging recently.
Stop hiding behind your lawyers and start listing to the Fans/Customers, peace = contentment, you want peace in the music bus make your customers content. Here's a little clue your attorneys are not the answer, didn't you get the memo?
This has to be one of the funniest episodes in the anals of coporate america.
IBM should pay them because the entertainment value of what these clowns are doing is priceless.
The people at IBM have to be f-ing rolling on the floor laughing their butts off.
This has to be great for IBMs attendance, their employees probably can't wait to get into the office in the morning to see what the clown god has in store for them today...
I can just see it now, the IBM legal department has a scout out front waiting for the FedEx guy to arrive, the P.A. system is tuned in to the legal department, all ears tuned in like the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds.
The package arrives, over the P.A. system you can hear the tantalizing rip as the Priority Letter is opened, papers are shuffled, then a loud thud as broadcasting attorney drops to floor, and laughs hysterically.
Are these guys for real???
What a joke.
Na, that's not an completely accurate characterization...
Roscoe P. Coltrane may have been dumber than a corn cob but he was alive and kickin', SCO is better characterized as the pickled pork knuckles that Boss Hogg liked to suck on.
Actually no, if you are a car designer you'd be set for life... i don't want to drive a car that everyone else drives i'd be willing to pay a car designer to design something a little more custom.
Likewise, the artist would still be supported all we would lose in music is the middle man who's purpose seems somewhat vague and nebulous at this point.
How bout a nice porn site... it's a fun project and really profitable too.
Maybe I'll just go to my neighbor's when he's eating dinner and hop in his idle Lambourghini and drive to South Beach.
While I'm at it I should probably stop at his bank and pick up his money sitting idle in his bank accounts... you know them SoBe babes ain't cheap and they don't do nuttin for free.
Then I'll find a nice condo that's sitting idle and squat there for a week or so...
Dude you're spending way too much time in front of your computer, take a look out your window at the Matrix once in a while eh?
That's right and the new media giants (see yesterdays' FTC Ruling) aren't going to broadcast propaganda, they'll broadcast virtually real news...
There isn't a recession, people are just on a well deserved sabatical.
No really... this stuff really will make your member 3 inches thicker and 8 inches longer.
That's the ticket!!!
It would be more accurate to say that capitalism and communism are just words. Our tax rate is an effective and accurate measure of the degree to which Americans are communists (governemnt spending our money). Back to the topic though, communications companies did flock to foreign countries including China after the first Space shuttle disaster. They have had some hard knocks too but have gained experience. The US missed the boat when Dennis Tito had to pay the Soviet Union to take him to Space. Imagine that a successful capitalist having to pay a former "communist" country for something that the "leader of the free world?" would not do. Get off your damn ass NASA take us to into Space, I don't need to go a far as Mars, just a couple of hundred thousand miles... Think you can handle that?
Hey do you think they would sell me one of those things so I can toss my big fat greek mother-in-law into one of them.
It would have to be a big one not a small one like the article mentions.
With my luck the other dimension on the other end would send her back, and she'd fall on top of me...
If the media companies would have more brains than attorneys maybe they would see the opportunity here. How cool would it be to see the media companies enlist the services of service providers to help them distribute their stuff to the customers of the ISPs. Sort of a P2P but one level higher like among ISPs. Between an ISP and his customers the bandwidth becomes a non-issue, and the ISP already charges their customers on a monthly basis and it would be simple to charge for such a service and pay royalties to the copyright holders. Hey RIAA and MPAA Wake The Fuck Up Already. You have hundreds of digital distibutors out there with empty shelves. Stope having your attorneys harass people and start having the Service Providers distribute your stuff...
Are you really that self-absorbed that you think you could possibly be on anyone's list of targets? Puleez. Our RESPONSE to the 9/11 terrorist attack was an over-reaction on an order of magnitude beyond extreme, resulting in more damage to this country and it's constitution than 1,000 airliners could have inflicted.
Once you get out of your little dreamworld you will find that censorship in any form is a policy that has been implemented by 'great' nations such as Nazi Germany, Communist China, the former Soviet Union, and North Korea just to name a few. Americans should not aspire to join that group.
Sorry dude you could not be more wrong!!! You should be willing to give your pitifull life to protect our freedom and the Constitution instead of being such a little coward.
For pedophiles, brainwashing, and pitching a lot of useless crap to kids. This domain is like a candy store for child predators.
It's ironic how the more goverment tries to fix things, the more f@#ed they get. Put another feather in your cap Washington... this is the best thing you've fixed yet.