You can't put 20 ads in a 5 minute video. You have to make it 10 minutes, then youtube lets you add as many ads as you want. That's why you see more and more youtubers struggling to get to the 10m mark with their inane content.
ah you see... you have to call the OTHER number... this is your bank, you need to talk to the card ah you see... you have to call the OTHER number... this is the card, you need to talk to your bank...repeat until you're tired of music on hold.
They never pay the fees. They keep appealing for years. It can take decades.
That's why I always say if you really want to punish a business, you have to force them to close their doors for some time. A supermarket for example. You can fine them something they will take years to pay (and probably never will), or you can close them for one single day. They can appeal the closure but the judge can drag their feet for a couple of hours. More than enough to hurt them.
except for hondo, the names you mentioned did come up with a couple albums each. You can sign up for spotify for free (and use the free plan as long as you want) with only an email address. The only difference with the free plan is that it's like FM radio: you can't skip songs and you are forced to listen to ads every few songs. You can also try premium for a month for free if you enter your credit card (and cancel before 30 days).
Also it tries to convince you that you need to download the spotify app, but you can use the spotify web player if you don't want to download the app.
But remember, it will cost me 2.50 but 9.99 for you (same way Adobe Suite costs me $14 and it'll be $50 for you). But then again i make less than $800 a month and my salary is above the average. I whined for a long time that companies try to charge a "one size fits all" price but finally publishers are listening (to piracy).
Sportify doesn't cost 9,99 in my country. It costs 99 pesos or USD 2.40. The family plan is 150 pesos or USD 3.75. CDs start at 650 pesos or USD 16.25, and vinyl records start at 1500 pesos or USD 37,50.
Also, you know how I know you've never used spotify? Because of the bullshit you just said about it being "current pop". I don't know how, but on Spotify I can even find records from local folklore records that were only released in this province.
Anyway, if you think listening for the same music for the rest of your life is fine, good for you. Music is whatever you want it to be. If you want to fetish it and get all snob about it, it's fine. I'm over 15 so I don't really care about listening (or not) to certain kinds of music to feel "in" or to exclude others.
I guess if you're in the hunt for older songs on CDs you can get them for a buck a dozen. Assuming you live in an area with an assortment of flea markets or Goodwill. Otherwise you're out of luck.
It's callled "fetish". People have a fetish for physical things. I know, I've fell for it. And after the couple of times you play that silly record or show it off for friends, you realize it's a stupid purchase. At home I "do" things. I can't sit passively and "listen to music". And if I were the type to do that, I'd have to spend literaly thousands in building a collection of records to keep me busy. I can understand why *some* people do it, but I don't see how "millions of people" could be doing it.
(I haven't fell for the "album fetish", but I have for the "film camera" fetish, which I now hardly ever use, because after the hours of shooting, you have the hours of developing, and the hours of scanning. Which I simply don't have)
I pay $3 a month for millions of songs off Spotify. Anything else I can pirate. I don't give a shit about my "posterity" since I know my children won't give a fuck about about my "old music" as much as i don't give a fuck about my dad's "old records".
Also, How many CDs does $3 get you? That's what I spend in a month for music. $3.
It may suck to be someone who loses thousands of dollars worth of purchases when their gome burns down, a thief stoles their albums, or a child plays with their discs.
No AC, your 1981 CD doesn't work. You know why I know you're full of shit? Because most old CDs, especially the early ones, are being eaten away. Many of my CDs are dying that way. My Michael Jackson's HIStory (two disc, gold color) is unplayable now because it has black spots all over the disc. That was my first CD, from 1996.
Is that really worth saving the bother of ripping your own cds and maintaining your own collection?
Yes. Because I barely have any free time and sure as hell I'm not going to waste int in "ripping my own cds" and "maintaining my own collection". I did that 20 years ago, when i was 15 and had all the time in the world. Now? Not so much. But I still have the "skills" to pirate anything I really want and was "taken away" by some suit who decided I'm not elegible to listen to this song anymore. And lastly:
GET REAL.
A yearly subscription to Spotify gives you access to millions of songs. But only 3 CDs worth of music if you really want to "own" them.
During the cold war, the "first world" countries were the ones aligned with the US; the "second world" countries were the ones aligned to the USSR (that's why you don't hear that name nowadays). "third world" countries were the ones that didn't take a position but wanted to keep both sides happy.
The US is only friends with "first world" countries (AKA the NATO thugs). With the US you are either a friend, or the enemy. There is no middle ground. So basically the US is only friends with their blood relatives (UK and their whiter colonies), and their loyal thugs. Everyone else is the enemy and the US has worked for decades to keep the status quo. The objective is to keep latin america as a minerals reserve so keeping LATAM undeveloped is their priority. Why do you think no LATAM country ever develops? Because we're all corrupt? We can't all be corrupt honestly. There is an external force (the CIA) destabilizing governments here. Tinfoilhattery aside, this has been confirmed by declassified documents. Kissinger's doing. This is no secret.
Argentina is the worst child. We didn't declare war against Germany until the last day. We received nazi officials. And we declared war on the empire for some stupid islands. There will never be forgiveness for us.
Plenty of people (especially in poor countries) see iphones as status symbols. I have a friend shallow enough to pay $$$ for the latest and greatest iphone, because he NEEDS that to stay at his social circles. We live in a third world country where apple doesn't sell its products. He paid about 4 to 6 times his MONTHLY SALARY to get that phone. Hell, an iphone X costs probably 1/4th to 1/3rd the price of a small car here in Argentina.
Then my idea of "use it or lose it" is the best for all. Disney, and everyone else, can keep their copyright if they keep their work alive. If a company has the rights for a book they haven't published in 50 years... tough shit.
By disney employing thousands of people at their mickey parks? And generating millions in revenue and taxes? And investing that money into newer productions, some that bomb, some that are huge successes?
The only difference would be a spike in mickey mouse merchandise being sold on Etsy for nothing, because now mickey mouse is worth nothing. Disney loses its revenue, the government loses tax money (I know disney avoids taxes but for the sake of argument let's assume they pay).
Copyright is NOT a patent. Mickey mouse is entertainment. The world doesn't become a better place if Mickey goes into public domain. And patents going into public domain... we could make the argument, too, that GIFs being protected by patents actually got us the superior PNG format. But in general, the world does benefit from PATENTS going public. Not so much from entertainment.
That's my point. Is the copyright holder sitting on his rights, or is he exploiting it? If he's exploiting the work, publishing, whatever... let him have the copyright. Is he just keeping the license in a freezer? To public domain it goes.
Really? You should. Copyright should not be some eternal thing. They should have to keep inventing new works instead of milking work done by people who have been dead and buried for decades.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK are you talking about? Disney keeps pumping out new characters every fucking year!
Disney has made a killing off of taking public domain works and making proprietary versions of them. Should work the other way around too. They've had 90 years to do something interesting/useful/valuable with it. Time to let others work on it.
Others have had the same fucking opportunity to. But they haven't. Releasing disney's work in the public domain won't change that.
Disney shouldn't enjoy some special status not available to anyone else and the ENTIRE point of copyright and patents is that they provide TEMPORARY protection.
So comrade, if you have an apartment building, you have only 20 years to rent it. Then you got to give it away to anyone who wants to also rent it, or live there for free. No thanks.
I'm going to play devil's advocate here. I have no problem with Disney's most popular characters NOT going into public domain. Disney actively exploits its brand. Good for them. They've kept Mickey Mouse alive for 90 years. They're not patent trolls sitting on copyrighted or patented stuff with the only objective of suing everyone who uses their brand or patent.
How does the world benefit from Mickey Mouse going into public domain? In no way. The world doesn't become a better place. If anything, all that happens is that Disney loses licensing money. Yes, disney IS an evil corporation, but this isn't the point here.
On the other hand, "abandonware", such as older games, SHOULD go into public domain because no one is exploiting them. If no one cares about them, why not release them? That's a good example of stuff going into public domain.
If the person or company who owns the copyright uses it, gives work to other people, and isn't being a dick about suing everyone for patent troll reasons, why take it away from them?
First you need a project leader that doesn't think "two people working on the same ticket is a waste of resources because only one is pressing the keys, the other just looks".
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Who gives a fuck about product placement?
It's the annoying breaks that bother everyone.
You can't put 20 ads in a 5 minute video.
You have to make it 10 minutes, then youtube lets you add as many ads as you want.
That's why you see more and more youtubers struggling to get to the 10m mark with their inane content.
They claim to do it when you enable ads in the middle of your video.
ah you see... you have to call the OTHER number... this is your bank, you need to talk to the card ...repeat until you're tired of music on hold.
ah you see... you have to call the OTHER number... this is the card, you need to talk to your bank
They never pay the fees. They keep appealing for years. It can take decades.
That's why I always say if you really want to punish a business, you have to force them to close their doors for some time. A supermarket for example. You can fine them something they will take years to pay (and probably never will), or you can close them for one single day. They can appeal the closure but the judge can drag their feet for a couple of hours. More than enough to hurt them.
except for hondo, the names you mentioned did come up with a couple albums each. You can sign up for spotify for free (and use the free plan as long as you want) with only an email address. The only difference with the free plan is that it's like FM radio: you can't skip songs and you are forced to listen to ads every few songs. You can also try premium for a month for free if you enter your credit card (and cancel before 30 days).
Also it tries to convince you that you need to download the spotify app, but you can use the spotify web player if you don't want to download the app.
But remember, it will cost me 2.50 but 9.99 for you (same way Adobe Suite costs me $14 and it'll be $50 for you). But then again i make less than $800 a month and my salary is above the average. I whined for a long time that companies try to charge a "one size fits all" price but finally publishers are listening (to piracy).
Sportify doesn't cost 9,99 in my country. It costs 99 pesos or USD 2.40. The family plan is 150 pesos or USD 3.75. CDs start at 650 pesos or USD 16.25, and vinyl records start at 1500 pesos or USD 37,50.
Also, you know how I know you've never used spotify? Because of the bullshit you just said about it being "current pop". I don't know how, but on Spotify I can even find records from local folklore records that were only released in this province.
Anyway, if you think listening for the same music for the rest of your life is fine, good for you. Music is whatever you want it to be. If you want to fetish it and get all snob about it, it's fine. I'm over 15 so I don't really care about listening (or not) to certain kinds of music to feel "in" or to exclude others.
is it not niche? How many records per capita are being sold now, and how many in the 80s?
I guess if you're in the hunt for older songs on CDs you can get them for a buck a dozen.
Assuming you live in an area with an assortment of flea markets or Goodwill. Otherwise you're out of luck.
Vinyl is a fad. It will go away and become a "niche" again. Only "hipster" types and curious kids are buying them.
It's callled "fetish". People have a fetish for physical things. I know, I've fell for it.
And after the couple of times you play that silly record or show it off for friends, you realize it's a stupid purchase. At home I "do" things. I can't sit passively and "listen to music". And if I were the type to do that, I'd have to spend literaly thousands in building a collection of records to keep me busy.
I can understand why *some* people do it, but I don't see how "millions of people" could be doing it.
(I haven't fell for the "album fetish", but I have for the "film camera" fetish, which I now hardly ever use, because after the hours of shooting, you have the hours of developing, and the hours of scanning. Which I simply don't have)
I pay $3 a month for millions of songs off Spotify. Anything else I can pirate. I don't give a shit about my "posterity" since I know my children won't give a fuck about about my "old music" as much as i don't give a fuck about my dad's "old records".
Also, How many CDs does $3 get you? That's what I spend in a month for music. $3.
It may suck to be someone who loses thousands of dollars worth of purchases when their gome burns down, a thief stoles their albums, or a child plays with their discs.
No AC, your 1981 CD doesn't work. You know why I know you're full of shit? Because most old CDs, especially the early ones, are being eaten away. Many of my CDs are dying that way. My Michael Jackson's HIStory (two disc, gold color) is unplayable now because it has black spots all over the disc. That was my first CD, from 1996.
Yes.
Because I barely have any free time and sure as hell I'm not going to waste int in "ripping my own cds" and "maintaining my own collection". I did that 20 years ago, when i was 15 and had all the time in the world. Now? Not so much.
But I still have the "skills" to pirate anything I really want and was "taken away" by some suit who decided I'm not elegible to listen to this song anymore.
And lastly:
GET REAL.
A yearly subscription to Spotify gives you access to millions of songs. But only 3 CDs worth of music if you really want to "own" them.
During the cold war, the "first world" countries were the ones aligned with the US; the "second world" countries were the ones aligned to the USSR (that's why you don't hear that name nowadays). "third world" countries were the ones that didn't take a position but wanted to keep both sides happy.
The US is only friends with "first world" countries (AKA the NATO thugs). With the US you are either a friend, or the enemy. There is no middle ground.
So basically the US is only friends with their blood relatives (UK and their whiter colonies), and their loyal thugs. Everyone else is the enemy and the US has worked for decades to keep the status quo. The objective is to keep latin america as a minerals reserve so keeping LATAM undeveloped is their priority. Why do you think no LATAM country ever develops? Because we're all corrupt? We can't all be corrupt honestly. There is an external force (the CIA) destabilizing governments here. Tinfoilhattery aside, this has been confirmed by declassified documents. Kissinger's doing. This is no secret.
Argentina is the worst child. We didn't declare war against Germany until the last day. We received nazi officials. And we declared war on the empire for some stupid islands. There will never be forgiveness for us.
Unless uncle Xi takes over the world.
Either option is scary for me.
Plenty of people (especially in poor countries) see iphones as status symbols. I have a friend shallow enough to pay $$$ for the latest and greatest iphone, because he NEEDS that to stay at his social circles. We live in a third world country where apple doesn't sell its products. He paid about 4 to 6 times his MONTHLY SALARY to get that phone. Hell, an iphone X costs probably 1/4th to 1/3rd the price of a small car here in Argentina.
Then my idea of "use it or lose it" is the best for all. Disney, and everyone else, can keep their copyright if they keep their work alive. If a company has the rights for a book they haven't published in 50 years... tough shit.
Like I said: use it or lose it. If you've been sitting on an old game for 20-30 years maybe it's time to give it away.
By disney employing thousands of people at their mickey parks? And generating millions in revenue and taxes? And investing that money into newer productions, some that bomb, some that are huge successes?
The only difference would be a spike in mickey mouse merchandise being sold on Etsy for nothing, because now mickey mouse is worth nothing. Disney loses its revenue, the government loses tax money (I know disney avoids taxes but for the sake of argument let's assume they pay).
Copyright is NOT a patent. Mickey mouse is entertainment. The world doesn't become a better place if Mickey goes into public domain. And patents going into public domain... we could make the argument, too, that GIFs being protected by patents actually got us the superior PNG format. But in general, the world does benefit from PATENTS going public. Not so much from entertainment.
That's my point. Is the copyright holder sitting on his rights, or is he exploiting it? If he's exploiting the work, publishing, whatever... let him have the copyright.
Is he just keeping the license in a freezer? To public domain it goes.
Use it or lose it.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK are you talking about? Disney keeps pumping out new characters every fucking year!
Others have had the same fucking opportunity to. But they haven't. Releasing disney's work in the public domain won't change that.
So comrade, if you have an apartment building, you have only 20 years to rent it. Then you got to give it away to anyone who wants to also rent it, or live there for free. No thanks.
How does the world become a better place with Mickey Mouse going public domain?
I'm going to play devil's advocate here.
I have no problem with Disney's most popular characters NOT going into public domain. Disney actively exploits its brand. Good for them. They've kept Mickey Mouse alive for 90 years. They're not patent trolls sitting on copyrighted or patented stuff with the only objective of suing everyone who uses their brand or patent.
How does the world benefit from Mickey Mouse going into public domain? In no way. The world doesn't become a better place. If anything, all that happens is that Disney loses licensing money. Yes, disney IS an evil corporation, but this isn't the point here.
On the other hand, "abandonware", such as older games, SHOULD go into public domain because no one is exploiting them. If no one cares about them, why not release them? That's a good example of stuff going into public domain.
If the person or company who owns the copyright uses it, gives work to other people, and isn't being a dick about suing everyone for patent troll reasons, why take it away from them?
First you need a project leader that doesn't think "two people working on the same ticket is a waste of resources because only one is pressing the keys, the other just looks".
What kind of "freedom" exactly do you get from "everyone swears they're not collecting MUH DATA"