I fully agree. I'm an A/V dork myself and hang out with the local big-name production company people. Most people are amazed at what the tech's can do to improve the sound quality on the end product. It's all great fun.
I think you missed the point. Most times people are angered because they must pay $15-20 to obtain a CD with possibly 1 or 2 songs they like. Online music stores such as iTMS have helped solve this problem by allowing people to download music for about $1 per song or $10 per album, which I find to be reasonable. HOWEVER, when big business basically goes out and says "The artists aren't making money anymore" I get somewhat angry. First of all, whenever I see the artists, they seem to have plenty of money, and are doing very well with more money than i could ever hope to accumulate. Second of all, how much of my $15 goes to the artist? I would rather download 15 songs from the artist and directly wire them $15. I'm sure that they would make a LOT more money this way. Who's making money from CD sales?
Corporate executives CD Publishers Recording studios Art designers Music Artists
But wait! Who came up with the music and actually sings it? Just the music artists...iTMS cuts out the need for the overpricing of media and completely eliminates the CD publisher and Art designer from the money and somewhat reduces the income of these executives (because of not overpricing the material). From iTMS, you can listen to music on your iPod, your computer (whether it be windows, mac, or *nix (use HYMN)), and any other device you so wish to record over to. CDs are capable of the same, but, they're overpriced IMO.
The only objection I really have to your post is that the post you responded to said that they didn't condone the breaking of licenses, whether it be the GPL or regarding copyrighted music.
What has changed since then to make them want to get back in the game?
The bought out an AV company. It was GeCAD, a medium-sized vendor that provided the market's current 'best solution' in terms of price, quality, and reliability for *nix networks. They both acquired AV technology and removed a key market stronghold for the *nix community. Go here for more info.
I experienced similar things with my school (except that we're a high school in florida, which means there's almost no education money. bastard politicians.). I found a multitude of insecure things in the workstation setup (including being able to edit file shares between machines from a non-admin account). So, I made a report for them and gave it to my computer teacher. The first IT person that got ahold of my report wanted me suspended and barred from all on-campus computer labs. The second one finally fixed everything that I'd mentioned and now we're running much more securely (although there are still problems that I'm NOT going to bother filing a report about as it won't do any good, I don't plan to exploit them, and I'll just get suspended). But, I haven't gotten any thanks from the IT department. Honestly, I'd rather take it to the deans first as an issue of personal privacy vs. network security. You're probably safer that way as you'll be above the IT people and won't get owned hardcore by them.
Exactly. The more public attention something recieves, the more scrutiny it is under. If some international organization were to form on the basis of Certification, you would have to pull strings with multiple countries to get a fake certificate. That's one thing most people can't do: fool or persuade multiple governments. Hopefully it wouldn't fall under monetary control.
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Surely we will see a USB2.0 Toilet dubbed iPee. This will be the beginning of the end.
Given money and a sufficient supply of pizza and dew, I imagine most coders would code whatever you wished, beautiful women aside.
I fully agree. I'm an A/V dork myself and hang out with the local big-name production company people. Most people are amazed at what the tech's can do to improve the sound quality on the end product. It's all great fun.
I think you missed the point. Most times people are angered because they must pay $15-20 to obtain a CD with possibly 1 or 2 songs they like. Online music stores such as iTMS have helped solve this problem by allowing people to download music for about $1 per song or $10 per album, which I find to be reasonable. HOWEVER, when big business basically goes out and says "The artists aren't making money anymore" I get somewhat angry. First of all, whenever I see the artists, they seem to have plenty of money, and are doing very well with more money than i could ever hope to accumulate. Second of all, how much of my $15 goes to the artist? I would rather download 15 songs from the artist and directly wire them $15. I'm sure that they would make a LOT more money this way. Who's making money from CD sales?
Corporate executives
CD Publishers
Recording studios
Art designers
Music Artists
But wait! Who came up with the music and actually sings it? Just the music artists...iTMS cuts out the need for the overpricing of media and completely eliminates the CD publisher and Art designer from the money and somewhat reduces the income of these executives (because of not overpricing the material). From iTMS, you can listen to music on your iPod, your computer (whether it be windows, mac, or *nix (use HYMN)), and any other device you so wish to record over to. CDs are capable of the same, but, they're overpriced IMO.
The only objection I really have to your post is that the post you responded to said that they didn't condone the breaking of licenses, whether it be the GPL or regarding copyrighted music.
What has changed since then to make them want to get back in the game?
The bought out an AV company. It was GeCAD, a medium-sized vendor that provided the market's current 'best solution' in terms of price, quality, and reliability for *nix networks. They both acquired AV technology and removed a key market stronghold for the *nix community. Go here for more info.
You could always take your free time and contribute programming abilities to an open source project :)
I experienced similar things with my school (except that we're a high school in florida, which means there's almost no education money. bastard politicians.). I found a multitude of insecure things in the workstation setup (including being able to edit file shares between machines from a non-admin account). So, I made a report for them and gave it to my computer teacher. The first IT person that got ahold of my report wanted me suspended and barred from all on-campus computer labs. The second one finally fixed everything that I'd mentioned and now we're running much more securely (although there are still problems that I'm NOT going to bother filing a report about as it won't do any good, I don't plan to exploit them, and I'll just get suspended). But, I haven't gotten any thanks from the IT department. Honestly, I'd rather take it to the deans first as an issue of personal privacy vs. network security. You're probably safer that way as you'll be above the IT people and won't get owned hardcore by them.
Exactly. The more public attention something recieves, the more scrutiny it is under. If some international organization were to form on the basis of Certification, you would have to pull strings with multiple countries to get a fake certificate. That's one thing most people can't do: fool or persuade multiple governments. Hopefully it wouldn't fall under monetary control.