The bands can make money touring if they sell enough tickets to cover the costs of touring, but they need money up front to book the venues, arrange for equipment, etc. This is where the record companies usually come in (they *do* have deep pockets, after all). In this case, the fans provided the up front money necessary to book the tour, when the record company wouldn't.
Don't know anything about forming an LLC for a tour, but maybe it has more to do with things like insulating the band members from personal liability if something happens on the tour (look for reports about the who concert in cinncinnati back around 1982 for what can happen), than it does with protection from creditors.
As to them being wankers, I've never met them (and I don't really like their music) so I can't speak about that. Frankly, that comment is quite off topic.
My pleasure. I've been wracking my brain since reading your post to remember where I first read the story about Marillion. Spent a few minutes on google tonight and just came across the answer: it was in the book "Next", by Michael Lewis (who also wrote "Liar's Poker"). The part of the book that covers the Marillion story goes into much greater depth than the CSM link I found earlier today. Interesting read, even if I don't agree with his conclusions.
And the model presented (in such a long winded way) is even proven to work! The band marillion has used the method described by crosbie to fund a tour and at least one new album. See this article for more details. I realize they're an exception for now, but couldn't more bands use this method to achieve success and bypass the RIAA?
Wouldn't surprise me that that was taking place. However, I do know that yahoo's "block email address" function works on specific email addresses. I thought i'd be sneaky and sign up for POP access and then block their spam partners. didn't work out that way. the people who seem to be their partners are varying their email addresses by 1 character (e.g. sports-line01@blah.com then sports-line02@blah.com) which makes the blocking moot.
Plus, you're limited to 100 blocked addresses so you can't get them all.
Oh well.
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The ideal world for the MPAA and RIAA is one in which you NEVER have physical access to the work, and you pay them every time you use it. The SSSCA is just another step in that direction for them.
I do have a question, though: Who really cares if you can view movies on demand over the internet? I can already view movies on demand over a broadband connection. it's called comcast cable pay per view, and it works great.
I mean, do you REALLY want to watch movies on your 17" monitor in your office? If so, why?
What if they added a section called MS-bugs or BorgBugs (tm)? That way you could filter it out in your preferences if you so chose, and people who want to see them still can. People who work in mixed environments and need to know about this stuff.
Soe
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 03:14:44 UTC
Soe (?), n. [Scot. sae, say, saye; cf. Icel. sar a large cask, Sw. s a tub.]
A large wooden vessel for holding water; a cowl.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Dr. H. More.
What does that have to do with software development?
No, it's a way of listening to the viewpoint of the special interest group that's paying for the lobbyist. Which is entirely different than listening to your consitituents. All the comments about how the reps are too busy right now to communicate with their constituents are absurd. Take away the lobbyists, and you'll have more time to listen to the people that count "the guy back home".
"..and other people who are generally more important than the guy back home who wants an audience of some sort to talk about things that any ACLU lobbyist knows more about."
Since we live in a representative democracy, there is NO ONE more important than "the guy back home". It's their job to listen to us, even though most of them seem to not understand that.
In addition to the above, people should try to remember that the fact that he is not a citizen of the U.S. has NO BEARING AT ALL in this matter. He commited a crime on U.S. soil (well, sort of - his company offered the program he wrote for sale in the U.S.), they arrested him for it. Pretty simple, really. No different than if he came to this country and sold crack.
Download Mozilla M14 and set up the proxy support in it. Then when you run the Netscape 6 installer, it picks up the proxy info from M14 and works just fine.
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Trol..er..Robyn,
The bands can make money touring if they sell enough tickets to cover the costs of touring, but they need money up front to book the venues, arrange for equipment, etc. This is where the record companies usually come in (they *do* have deep pockets, after all). In this case, the fans provided the up front money necessary to book the tour, when the record company wouldn't.
Don't know anything about forming an LLC for a tour, but maybe it has more to do with things like insulating the band members from personal liability if something happens on the tour (look for reports about the who concert in cinncinnati back around 1982 for what can happen), than it does with protection from creditors.
As to them being wankers, I've never met them (and I don't really like their music) so I can't speak about that. Frankly, that comment is quite off topic.
My pleasure. I've been wracking my brain since reading your post to remember where I first read the story about Marillion. Spent a few minutes on google tonight and just came across the answer: it was in the book "Next", by Michael Lewis (who also wrote "Liar's Poker"). The part of the book that covers the Marillion story goes into much greater depth than the CSM link I found earlier today. Interesting read, even if I don't agree with his conclusions.
And the model presented (in such a long winded way) is even proven to work! The band marillion has used the method described by crosbie to fund a tour and at least one new album. See this article for more details. I realize they're an exception for now, but couldn't more bands use this method to achieve success and bypass the RIAA?
Wouldn't surprise me that that was taking place. However, I do know that yahoo's "block email address" function works on specific email addresses. I thought i'd be sneaky and sign up for POP access and then block their spam partners. didn't work out that way. the people who seem to be their partners are varying their email addresses by 1 character (e.g. sports-line01@blah.com then sports-line02@blah.com) which makes the blocking moot.
Plus, you're limited to 100 blocked addresses so you can't get them all.
Oh well.
The ideal world for the MPAA and RIAA is one in which you NEVER have physical access to the work, and you pay them every time you use it. The SSSCA is just another step in that direction for them.
I do have a question, though: Who really cares if you can view movies on demand over the internet? I can already view movies on demand over a broadband connection. it's called comcast cable pay per view, and it works great.
I mean, do you REALLY want to watch movies on your 17" monitor in your office? If so, why?
What if they added a section called MS-bugs or BorgBugs (tm)? That way you could filter it out in your preferences if you so chose, and people who want to see them still can. People who work in mixed environments and need to know about this stuff.
Okay, I know this is off-topic, but look at the headlines on the main page of space.com:
"NASA Report: Space Travel 'Inherently Hazardous' to Human Health"
Well, duh.
..have the ability to scan for "virus-like" behaviour and point it out to the user? If so, how would they prevent that from seeing the FBI's malware?
Thanks to both of you.
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Soe
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 03:14:44 UTC
Soe (?), n. [Scot. sae, say, saye; cf. Icel. sar a large cask, Sw. s a tub.]
A large wooden vessel for holding water; a cowl.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Dr. H. More.
What does that have to do with software development?
Seriously, can anyone 'splain what SOE is?
Doesn't it infringe on the NYT's copyright to reproduce the article in a slashdot post?
No, it's a way of listening to the viewpoint of the special interest group that's paying for the lobbyist. Which is entirely different than listening to your consitituents. All the comments about how the reps are too busy right now to communicate with their constituents are absurd. Take away the lobbyists, and you'll have more time to listen to the people that count "the guy back home".
"..and other people who are generally more important than the guy back home who wants an audience of some sort to talk about things that any ACLU lobbyist knows more about."
Since we live in a representative democracy, there is NO ONE more important than "the guy back home". It's their job to listen to us, even though most of them seem to not understand that.
What does a sushi restaurant on Cape Cod have to do with Apple computer?
In addition to the above, people should try to remember that the fact that he is not a citizen of the U.S. has NO BEARING AT ALL in this matter. He commited a crime on U.S. soil (well, sort of - his company offered the program he wrote for sale in the U.S.), they arrested him for it. Pretty simple, really. No different than if he came to this country and sold crack.
is Dmitry protesting running? I thought that was good for you.
Lokks just like the keyboard I had on my old Atari 400. It sucked then, probably still sucks now.
Download Mozilla M14 and set up the proxy support in it. Then when you run the Netscape 6 installer, it picks up the proxy info from M14 and works just fine.