Apple takes a 35% cut from every song and every album sold, a huge amount considering how little they have to do. Record labels receive the other 65% of each sale. Of this, major label artists will end up with only 8 to 14 cents per song, depending on their contract
hmm... apple and the record companies take 100% cut yet the artists still get 8 to 14 cents per song. I'm not saying this is a fair to the artists but I don't like it when sites have such obviously wrong statistics.
It isn't political because the program is simply teaching people what the law is. You can go into a school and teach that abortion is currently legal but you can't go into a school and say abortion is morally justified.
just like if the book publishing industry tried to make it illegal for me to share my books and magazines.
Actually, what is being done is like if the book publishing industry tried to make it illegal for you to copy the book and distrubute those copies to your friends. Oh my god, they already do this. What has this cruel world come to?
Is it possible to make patent approvals open-source?
No
I can hardly believe somebody could seriously sugest this. There is no way that everybody is going to agree on whether or not every patent is valid. In fact, a bigger problem is what would stop people with a conflict of interest in getting involved. I could just imagine Microsoft or another company paying people to "volunteer" and aprove every one of their patents. Or you could look at it the other way. I'm sure that slashdot and a bunch of other anti-microsoft sites could go and invalidate every one of microsoft's patents.
The problem is there is a main difference in a phone and a videogame console. With a phone it doesn not really matter if you have the newest model, a videogame console on the otherhand requires the newest model to play the newest games.
If sony or nintendo did release a new console every year only a few people would buy it every year while everybody else is stuck with the old system. Game makers would then have to decide which console to develop the game for. My guess is they would go for the old system that has more people using it. If the system was backwards compatible this would be even more likely. The fact that not many games are released for the new system would cause sales for the newer system to dwindle to fall even more. The company would then be in serious trouble because no if Microsoft released the a console after waiting multiple years people would most likely switch over to this because they now that new games will be geared towards the newest x-box instead of the old one.
The first screenshots of the remakes also indicate that the original Final Fantasy will have a different magic system. Instead of the Dungeons & Dragons-style spell level system from the original game, it seems to use the magic point system from later games in the series.
This seams like a weird thing to do. The original magic system was not confusing, just different then the current one. I think doing this would completly reshape how magic is used in the first final fantasy. Since there was not an actual picture of the screenshot, I am wondering if perhaps they saw a picture of final fantasy II which did have the MP magic system. I hope so because I would hate it if a major gameplay feature was altered.
Ads already are targeted. The advertisers choose which shows to put their ads on based on who they think are watching. Plus, tivo has nothing to do with chosing which ads are shown. Would you really want to buy a product that inserts ads into your TV watching
in the end you would still have a hard disk with no songs to beat them over the head with
What are you talking about. I bet that almost everybody that is getting sued does have music and/or movies on their hardrives. The reason they are settling is because they are guilty and settling will make them pay a smaller fine without the cost of a lawyer.
There is a flaw in one of your assumtions they keep up their current trend of filing that many lawsuits every 8 months.
Right now the courts have no precedence on how to handle cases like filesharing. Once it is decided what evidence is needed for the RIAA to get the names of filesharers from the ISPs each case will take a lot less time which will allow them to sue more people. This in turn will cause some people to stop filesharing so the odds of you being sued when you share files will increase. This will cause more people to stop filesharing.
I beleive the RIAA is going to stop large scale filesharing. The only question is how long it will take.
I would not be surprised if 84% of users said that it was not controversial and evil. But 84% said it was HELPFUL. I am very doubtful that that high of a percentage of users even knew of the existance of site finder.
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just like if the book publishing industry tried to make it illegal for me to share my books and magazines.
Actually, what is being done is like if the book publishing industry tried to make it illegal for you to copy the book and distrubute those copies to your friends. Oh my god, they already do this. What has this cruel world come to?
The problem is there is a main difference in a phone and a videogame console. With a phone it doesn not really matter if you have the newest model, a videogame console on the otherhand requires the newest model to play the newest games.
If sony or nintendo did release a new console every year only a few people would buy it every year while everybody else is stuck with the old system. Game makers would then have to decide which console to develop the game for. My guess is they would go for the old system that has more people using it. If the system was backwards compatible this would be even more likely. The fact that not many games are released for the new system would cause sales for the newer system to dwindle to fall even more. The company would then be in serious trouble because no if Microsoft released the a console after waiting multiple years people would most likely switch over to this because they now that new games will be geared towards the newest x-box instead of the old one.
The first screenshots of the remakes also indicate that the original Final Fantasy will have a different magic system. Instead of the Dungeons & Dragons-style spell level system from the original game, it seems to use the magic point system from later games in the series.
This seams like a weird thing to do. The original magic system was not confusing, just different then the current one. I think doing this would completly reshape how magic is used in the first final fantasy. Since there was not an actual picture of the screenshot, I am wondering if perhaps they saw a picture of final fantasy II which did have the MP magic system. I hope so because I would hate it if a major gameplay feature was altered.
Ads already are targeted. The advertisers choose which shows to put their ads on based on who they think are watching. Plus, tivo has nothing to do with chosing which ads are shown. Would you really want to buy a product that inserts ads into your TV watching
in the end you would still have a hard disk with no songs to beat them over the head with
What are you talking about. I bet that almost everybody that is getting sued does have music and/or movies on their hardrives. The reason they are settling is because they are guilty and settling will make them pay a smaller fine without the cost of a lawyer.
There is a flaw in one of your assumtions
they keep up their current trend of filing that many lawsuits every 8 months.
Right now the courts have no precedence on how to handle cases like filesharing. Once it is decided what evidence is needed for the RIAA to get the names of filesharers from the ISPs each case will take a lot less time which will allow them to sue more people. This in turn will cause some people to stop filesharing so the odds of you being sued when you share files will increase. This will cause more people to stop filesharing.
I beleive the RIAA is going to stop large scale filesharing. The only question is how long it will take.
I would not be surprised if 84% of users said that it was not controversial and evil. But 84% said it was HELPFUL. I am very doubtful that that high of a percentage of users even knew of the existance of site finder.