At present, UMG, the world's largest record company, gets 0.70 euro ($0.99) out of the 0.99 euro retail price charged by iTunes, Vivendi said.
So UMG gets the fat side of a 70/30 split, and all they have to do is sit on their asses and cash the checks -- and they don't think this is good enough!
And why don't I see them running their own music stores? Because they don't know how to do it profitably. All they know how to do is whine, complain, and demand more money for things they are incapable of ever accomplishing on their own. If there was ever a reason for Big Music to crash and burn, this is it!
Music existed before the music companies, and it will exist after they're gone. With the Internet, artists -- especially the vast hoard of unsigned artists -- don't need Big Music to get their music out. For every big name you've heard of that was signed by the record companies, a thousand others were passed over, and it wasn't because they weren't good enough too. If you want fairness and a level playing field for music, that's what's happening now, and Big Music is terrified. As for those precious recording contracts, you'll have a better chance of hitting it big buying lottery tickets!
Apple has to kill off support for 32-bit systems, and uni-processors for that matter, sometime. AltVec also must be on the eventual chopping block, given that none of their new systems support it.
the bush-like branching structure created by the universe splitting into parallel versions of itself can explain the probabilistic nature of quantum outcomes.
But where are we putting all of them?
What is the name of the space that contains Universes?
Quit making so may decisions/observations lest we run out of space for all the different outcomes.
What I despise is this constant belief that newer interfaces are better and that change is always good. The best interface is the one you're most efficient in using, and that's usually the one you know best. Sad to see Google taking off after Microsoft in this race. Hope they'll let keep the "classic" interface for as long as we want it.
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!
I'd mod the parent Insightful +1 for that point alone.
My university is on the list. What slash/.ers want to give advice for what I can do about it?
Go to Ray's blog and read up on the legal motions filed by students at other universities to challenge the RIAA's misuse of the law and true lack of evidence. And them file similar motions for any students sued at this university.
The day I can use Mickey Mouse in my own work is the day I give a damn about the RIAA's "losses".
This is a very wise, if obscure to many, comment that copyright law has been so skewed towards the big corporations that civil disobedience is more than justified. Study the history of copyrights and you'll understand why the Founders of the USA democracy specified that secure for a limited time was part of the United States Constitution. Unfortunately, Congress (Republicans), the President (Clinton), and most of all, the Supreme Court of the United States have totally let us down on this issue over the last decade. The RIAA is now hard at work to steal back what little of the Public Domain still remains.
At the very minimum, DRM should be legally required to expire on the day that the copyright for the work it's protecting expires!
The RIAA are cowards. The problem is that university administrations by and large are bigger cowards still, hence they act too often as RIAA lapdogs.
The RIAA's growing college problem is that at least 4 groups of students at different universities are fighting back, and creating a info-store of litigation documents that can become a roadmap into defending against future suits. If everyone fought back against the invasions of privacy, and the lack of true evidence at the time the suits are filed, the RIAA couldn't handle the litigation load!
Nice to know that your government, without your consent, has decided for you that you are not allowed to go out and stake your claim anywhere in the Universe. Of course they know what's best for you.
The biggest piece of Crap information supplied by the credit reporting bureaus is when they tell (sell, actually) as part of your credit record, everyone else who has accessed your credit record to date.
I personally know of banks that have refused to extend credit, or even consider applications, when they see a flurry of recent inquiry activity. They'll look for every loophole to deny credit to anyone they feel "is shopping around for credit."
This inquiry history has no bearing on your true credit history and should not be kept at all since it can only hurt the consumer! Obviously this is something that makes the credit report more interesting to those making inquires and creating additional entries in this inquiry history field in the process, but it screws the borrower over royally!
Yes I am upset about this practice, and never hear it discussed!
Does this mean that AT&T will now become personally responsible for every infringing packet that does slip through? And what happens when they block legal content?
This can of worms, which I totally bet was opened without consulting with their engineering and programming staff first, is as ugly as it can possibly get.
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Actually it's much more akin to self-interest and outright survival.
So UMG gets the fat side of a 70/30 split, and all they have to do is sit on their asses and cash the checks -- and they don't think this is good enough!
And why don't I see them running their own music stores? Because they don't know how to do it profitably. All they know how to do is whine, complain, and demand more money for things they are incapable of ever accomplishing on their own. If there was ever a reason for Big Music to crash and burn, this is it!
Music existed before the music companies, and it will exist after they're gone. With the Internet, artists -- especially the vast hoard of unsigned artists -- don't need Big Music to get their music out. For every big name you've heard of that was signed by the record companies, a thousand others were passed over, and it wasn't because they weren't good enough too. If you want fairness and a level playing field for music, that's what's happening now, and Big Music is terrified. As for those precious recording contracts, you'll have a better chance of hitting it big buying lottery tickets!
Apple has to kill off support for 32-bit systems, and uni-processors for that matter, sometime. AltVec also must be on the eventual chopping block, given that none of their new systems support it.
But where are we putting all of them?
What is the name of the space that contains Universes?
Quit making so may decisions/observations lest we run out of space for all the different outcomes.
Time again to throw out last month's hardware and get the new, all the same things as before, but now with Tint Control model.
What I despise is this constant belief that newer interfaces are better and that change is always good. The best interface is the one you're most efficient in using, and that's usually the one you know best. Sad to see Google taking off after Microsoft in this race. Hope they'll let keep the "classic" interface for as long as we want it.
I'd mod the parent Insightful +1 for that point alone.
I read this and end up believing that my next radio will be delivered to me as a software printout on a sheet of paper.
I find it a little shocking that a Democratic Congress would participate in the covering up of what has been going on.
Not any more.
Go to Ray's blog and read up on the legal motions filed by students at other universities to challenge the RIAA's misuse of the law and true lack of evidence. And them file similar motions for any students sued at this university.
"Irregardless" isn't a real valid word. I think you mean "regardless".
This is a very wise, if obscure to many, comment that copyright law has been so skewed towards the big corporations that civil disobedience is more than justified. Study the history of copyrights and you'll understand why the Founders of the USA democracy specified that secure for a limited time was part of the United States Constitution. Unfortunately, Congress (Republicans), the President (Clinton), and most of all, the Supreme Court of the United States have totally let us down on this issue over the last decade. The RIAA is now hard at work to steal back what little of the Public Domain still remains.
At the very minimum, DRM should be legally required to expire on the day that the copyright for the work it's protecting expires!
The RIAA's growing college problem is that at least 4 groups of students at different universities are fighting back, and creating a info-store of litigation documents that can become a roadmap into defending against future suits. If everyone fought back against the invasions of privacy, and the lack of true evidence at the time the suits are filed, the RIAA couldn't handle the litigation load!
Nice to know that your government, without your consent, has decided for you that you are not allowed to go out and stake your claim anywhere in the Universe. Of course they know what's best for you.
This goes to show that the Canadian people are overtaxed, and that Canada is doing nothing significant to rectify that.
I personally know of banks that have refused to extend credit, or even consider applications, when they see a flurry of recent inquiry activity. They'll look for every loophole to deny credit to anyone they feel "is shopping around for credit."
This inquiry history has no bearing on your true credit history and should not be kept at all since it can only hurt the consumer! Obviously this is something that makes the credit report more interesting to those making inquires and creating additional entries in this inquiry history field in the process, but it screws the borrower over royally!
Yes I am upset about this practice, and never hear it discussed!
And it makes a great Slashdot Tag too.
Wouldn't that be even more illegal than what they're already doing?
This can of worms, which I totally bet was opened without consulting with their engineering and programming staff first, is as ugly as it can possibly get.
Great! Now I can open my casino in a more tolerant place.
The solution is simple. Just make integrated circuit dies twice as big every two years.
Blame everyone and everything else for your failures. Couldn't possibly be your own decisions that are at fault for a now failing business model.
That's a Hobson's Choice., or in other words: total B.S.
Excuse me, but, shouldn't that be They're PlaysForSure except on Microsoft Zune DRMed WMAs.