For real kicks, check out the Discovery Channel's look at FedEX. The have a completely (well, with the exception of loading the packages onto conveyer belts) computer driven system. There are also multiple scanners so that packages do not need to face a select direction... It'll be caught and routed no matter how it's placed.
What a world we live in!
Interestingly, the site mentioned above doesn't seem to take into consideration that artists average about the same 10% margin when their music is sold in a store. The site blames Apple for musicians being treated unfairly, but this has been the case ever since Edison (evil man) sold recordings on lathes and kept ALL the profits.
I would applaud Apple if they kicked more of the cash to artists, but that's like asking Best Buy to pay a share of their profits to the artist. The distribution channel is not responsible to the artist, the record company is. That's where we should look for reform.
Come on, now - read a little more before you post. When we vote we will have ballots that let us vote Davis in or out, but regardless of our prefernce we ALL get to name a successor.
Dan
How do you think it feels to spend hours upon hours laboring over a show that never airs? I have seen too many decent shows bumped for sports. There ought to be sports channels. I'm tired of watching the last four minutes of a game drawn out for an hour as creative television is given a second-class ticket.
I don't think Futurama ever got a fair chance from viewers, who expected "the Simpsons in the future." It's too bad that the series wasn't able to fun for fourteen years, like it's counterpart. I would have watched them all.
BTW - was anyone else repeatedly dismayed to see the show preempted by football ever season?
Interestingly, BuyMusic.com has ripped off every aspect of iTMS EXCEPT for it's usability and success. They copied the advertising, claimed to be the first to market with digital downloads (something that has been available long before even Apple stepped into the ring) and distributed misleading propaganda regarding cost of purchases. When Mac users became irate, they blocked any system but Windows from accessing their website.
Dan
If you read the article, you will see that Apple has filed a CONTINUATION of a patent involving user-switching, originally granted in 1995. This is a completely legitimate move on their part. It is arguable that they have owned this technology for years. As for using SU for user switching, this would be true as an earlier form, however the patent applies to the GUI.
Dan
Artists receive an average 9% of the profits on album sales. $0.12 is actually in line with regular sales.
Standard recording contracts are written to make it impossible for artists to turn a profit. The artist gets 12%, but has to give a quarter of the points to the producer. The record company charges for development of CD technology. There is a clause to prevent pay-outs on 10% of sales based on damaged shipping (this comes from the days of vinyl, when one in ten records really broke in transit). Companies also repackage CDs and sell them at a discount, which stands outside the artist's contract. If you have ever purchased a CD with a small notch in the jewel case, the band didn't see one penny. Outlet stores like Best Buy purchase CDs in bulk to get a discount, so the artist is making an even smaller cut. Whatever discs don't sell get bought back by the record company. They charge the artist for the buyback, notch the discs and sell them in other markets (Europe, India) without crediting the artist with any of the profit.
Artists are being equally screwed by the record companies when we buy music online. It isn't fair, but services like iTMS are not to blame.
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For real kicks, check out the Discovery Channel's look at FedEX. The have a completely (well, with the exception of loading the packages onto conveyer belts) computer driven system. There are also multiple scanners so that packages do not need to face a select direction... It'll be caught and routed no matter how it's placed. What a world we live in!
It's about time.
I would applaud Apple if they kicked more of the cash to artists, but that's like asking Best Buy to pay a share of their profits to the artist. The distribution channel is not responsible to the artist, the record company is. That's where we should look for reform.
Dan
Come on, now - read a little more before you post. When we vote we will have ballots that let us vote Davis in or out, but regardless of our prefernce we ALL get to name a successor. Dan
How do you think it feels to spend hours upon hours laboring over a show that never airs? I have seen too many decent shows bumped for sports. There ought to be sports channels. I'm tired of watching the last four minutes of a game drawn out for an hour as creative television is given a second-class ticket.
I don't think Futurama ever got a fair chance from viewers, who expected "the Simpsons in the future." It's too bad that the series wasn't able to fun for fourteen years, like it's counterpart. I would have watched them all. BTW - was anyone else repeatedly dismayed to see the show preempted by football ever season?
Interestingly, BuyMusic.com has ripped off every aspect of iTMS EXCEPT for it's usability and success. They copied the advertising, claimed to be the first to market with digital downloads (something that has been available long before even Apple stepped into the ring) and distributed misleading propaganda regarding cost of purchases. When Mac users became irate, they blocked any system but Windows from accessing their website. Dan
If you read the article, you will see that Apple has filed a CONTINUATION of a patent involving user-switching, originally granted in 1995. This is a completely legitimate move on their part. It is arguable that they have owned this technology for years. As for using SU for user switching, this would be true as an earlier form, however the patent applies to the GUI. Dan
Artists receive an average 9% of the profits on album sales. $0.12 is actually in line with regular sales.
Standard recording contracts are written to make it impossible for artists to turn a profit. The artist gets 12%, but has to give a quarter of the points to the producer. The record company charges for development of CD technology. There is a clause to prevent pay-outs on 10% of sales based on damaged shipping (this comes from the days of vinyl, when one in ten records really broke in transit). Companies also repackage CDs and sell them at a discount, which stands outside the artist's contract. If you have ever purchased a CD with a small notch in the jewel case, the band didn't see one penny. Outlet stores like Best Buy purchase CDs in bulk to get a discount, so the artist is making an even smaller cut. Whatever discs don't sell get bought back by the record company. They charge the artist for the buyback, notch the discs and sell them in other markets (Europe, India) without crediting the artist with any of the profit.
Artists are being equally screwed by the record companies when we buy music online. It isn't fair, but services like iTMS are not to blame.
Dan