I would imagine that for-profit pirates would spend their resources pirating major releases, not marginal releases.
Given that the number of CDs sold per release is higher than it was several years ago, I doubt it's because of financial considerations or fear of piracy.
The reasons I can think of are: 1) Decline of independent CD stores, with the shelf space to hold a larger variety of CDs. That decline is not necessarily due to downloaders, but to stores like Best Buy, etc. using CDs as loss leaders and to online sales, and 2) consolidation of radio stations is reducing the diversity of music most people are exposed to. These factors would make it harder for those marginal CDs to get exposure and shelf space.
Remember, we're talking about 100 releases *per day*. 99% of those releases won't come close to being in the mainstream.
Obviously you've never bought a house. The banks and the other customers won't lose a dime if you walk away from the loan.
The bank holds the title to the house. Until you pay it off, *they* own it. Not you. Essentially, they buy the house, and give you a loan with the house as collateral.
The only risk they run is that the resale value of the house goes down. That's why you have to buy PMI (Principal Mortgage Insurance) until you have more than 20% equity in the house; that is insurance that will pay the *bank* if you bail. If your house goes upside down (you owe more than your house is worth), you'll be paying that PMI for a good long time and the banks won't lose a dime if you walk away. Anytime the appraised value of the house gets close to what you still owe, you have to start paying PMI again.
You stop making payments, the bank gets your house, plus they get to keep all the money you put into it, equity and interest. And you spend the next seven years (at least) with a credit rating from hell.
They don't even have the rights to use the Space Quest IP from Vivendi (who bought Sierra). That'll make it a difficult to raise capital. Making this anything other than a fan-created homage type game will likely make it a lot harder to get permission to use the IP.
Actually, it can make it worse. With better heat conduction, you'll be able to clock your processor faster, generating even more heat because the new paste will draw the heat away from the proc faster.
One thing to consider is that when the big labels die, so will the promoters that keep the indies (or for that matter, any songs the the big labels choose not to promote) off the radio. Eventually someone will come up with software/web sites that will look at your musical tastes and suggest to you new music you may like.
People will spend money on music. If guys can't impress chicks by having a nice CD collection, they'll have to pony up the money to take them to concerts.
I have a friend with a lawn care business. When he goes to quote a job, if he sees a couple of teenage boys in the house (usually playing video games) the price to mow the lawn goes up a bit:)
What, they collect 15 years of payment that is mostly interest, and then if the widow can't make the payments, they repo the house (which has probably doubled in value). Sounds like a sweet deal to me. And maybe the buyers were still paying PMI; that'd be icing on the cake.
Actually, after V-E day the Soviets would have resoundingly kicked our ass if we'd gotten into a war with them. They had far more troops in Europe than we did and they had the best tanks in the world. It's a good thing we had the atomic bomb (well, at the time, we were really close to it).
Yeah, we shouldn't allow third world countries to advance at all untill we can figure out how to bring them to first-world living standards and human rights instantaneously. Can you honestly say that the average Chinese citizen is worse off now, both economically and in terms of human rights, than they were twenty years ago?
It took centuries for the first world to get to where they are. It won't take nearly that long for the rest of the world (if it can be done at all). Boycotting and trade barriers will only slow the process.
Yeah, they *do* pay to play music. Not much, but they do pay. There are jobs where people are paid to listen to tapes of radio broadcasts, identify songs, and collate the data so the stations are billed properly. You need to be able to identify a wide variety of songs within ten seconds or so, though.
I don't see Arafat blowing himself up. Do you think it's just a coincidence that ten years after the PLO starts running all the Palestinian schools after the Oslo accords, a bunch of Palestinian kids start blowing themselves up?
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What were Christ's last words on the cross? Depends on which gospel you read.
You'd think they'd at least get *that* right.
Uh, the Liberians are begging US troops to land. It's probably one of the most pro-America countries in Africa.
The reason you don't hear people talking about downloading the top-40 crap is because people like my 16 year old niece don't post on slashdot.
I would imagine that for-profit pirates would spend their resources pirating major releases, not marginal releases.
Given that the number of CDs sold per release is higher than it was several years ago, I doubt it's because of financial considerations or fear of piracy.
The reasons I can think of are: 1) Decline of independent CD stores, with the shelf space to hold a larger variety of CDs. That decline is not necessarily due to downloaders, but to stores like Best Buy, etc. using CDs as loss leaders and to online sales, and 2) consolidation of radio stations is reducing the diversity of music most people are exposed to. These factors would make it harder for those marginal CDs to get exposure and shelf space.
Remember, we're talking about 100 releases *per day*. 99% of those releases won't come close to being in the mainstream.
My theory is that the universe was created 15 seconds ago by Chulthu, with false memories implanted in all humans.
Prove me wrong. I expect to have my theory published in Texas schoolbooks alongside ID next year.
Well, be sure to publish your results in a peer-reviewed journal.
Obviously you've never bought a house. The banks and the other customers won't lose a dime if you walk away from the loan.
The bank holds the title to the house. Until you pay it off, *they* own it. Not you. Essentially, they buy the house, and give you a loan with the house as collateral.
The only risk they run is that the resale value of the house goes down. That's why you have to buy PMI (Principal Mortgage Insurance) until you have more than 20% equity in the house; that is insurance that will pay the *bank* if you bail. If your house goes upside down (you owe more than your house is worth), you'll be paying that PMI for a good long time and the banks won't lose a dime if you walk away. Anytime the appraised value of the house gets close to what you still owe, you have to start paying PMI again.
You stop making payments, the bank gets your house, plus they get to keep all the money you put into it, equity and interest. And you spend the next seven years (at least) with a credit rating from hell.
They don't even have the rights to use the Space Quest IP from Vivendi (who bought Sierra). That'll make it a difficult to raise capital. Making this anything other than a fan-created homage type game will likely make it a lot harder to get permission to use the IP.
Actually, it can make it worse. With better heat conduction, you'll be able to clock your processor faster, generating even more heat because the new paste will draw the heat away from the proc faster.
One thing to consider is that when the big labels die, so will the promoters that keep the indies (or for that matter, any songs the the big labels choose not to promote) off the radio. Eventually someone will come up with software/web sites that will look at your musical tastes and suggest to you new music you may like.
People will spend money on music. If guys can't impress chicks by having a nice CD collection, they'll have to pony up the money to take them to concerts.
I'm sure Disney has at least one employee that votes Democrat.
If they confined activities like that to upper management, like the Republicans do, then they can get away with it fairly easily.
It's a little harder to do that when they ask to see your driver's license.
Find a bunch of like-minded people in your area, get cards, and exchange them occasionally.
Just make sure you don't exchange one with someone who buys a bunch of candy, needles, and razor blades on the afternoon of Oct 31.
I have a friend with a lawn care business. When he goes to quote a job, if he sees a couple of teenage boys in the house (usually playing video games) the price to mow the lawn goes up a bit :)
Obviously you haven't spent much time wondering why the public school unions and the Democrats are so against school vouchers :)
What, they collect 15 years of payment that is mostly interest, and then if the widow can't make the payments, they repo the house (which has probably doubled in value). Sounds like a sweet deal to me. And maybe the buyers were still paying PMI; that'd be icing on the cake.
Yeah, I think we got ourselves a future Warren Buffet here. Not.
How do they stand up to hail?
Feel free to come over to my house and make a copy of some of my CDs.
Actually, after V-E day the Soviets would have resoundingly kicked our ass if we'd gotten into a war with them. They had far more troops in Europe than we did and they had the best tanks in the world. It's a good thing we had the atomic bomb (well, at the time, we were really close to it).
I had a friend with bowel cancer, now he's got a semicolon.
Yeah, we shouldn't allow third world countries to advance at all untill we can figure out how to bring them to first-world living standards and human rights instantaneously. Can you honestly say that the average Chinese citizen is worse off now, both economically and in terms of human rights, than they were twenty years ago?
It took centuries for the first world to get to where they are. It won't take nearly that long for the rest of the world (if it can be done at all). Boycotting and trade barriers will only slow the process.
And maybe you can come back in a country like North Korea that doesn't have free markets; now *that* would be justice.
Yeah, they *do* pay to play music. Not much, but they do pay. There are jobs where people are paid to listen to tapes of radio broadcasts, identify songs, and collate the data so the stations are billed properly. You need to be able to identify a wide variety of songs within ten seconds or so, though.
I don't see Arafat blowing himself up. Do you think it's just a coincidence that ten years after the PLO starts running all the Palestinian schools after the Oslo accords, a bunch of Palestinian kids start blowing themselves up?