Except in this case it's "first they came for the speeders, with fines for speeding".
Seriously, being watched all the time can be abused for all sorts of things. A speed camera taking a single still of a license plate of a speeding vehicle (given that it is not observing anything at any other time, which just so happens to be the case) can almost be likened to a burglary alarm - it calls attention to the presence of someone in a particular place, but only once they've broken a window (or whatever).
I do not understand this ire against speed cameras (and red light cameras to some extent) rather than CCTV cameras. CCTV cameras is Big Brother, surveillance state, intrusion in your life, you privacy, and so on. It is someone watching you. A speed camera only takes a single still if you are speeding. Hence, you only get observed by the speed camera, if you are breaking the speed limit. As such, I find it hard to be violently opposed to speed cameras, whereas CCTV cameras are an altogether different matter...
I don't get how there's necessarily any correlation between people fawning enough over her (in her work clothes or whatever) enough to make "fansites" full of pictures of her, and people thinking she's unqualified. I reckon that, for a lot of people, the whole qualified techie (or psuedo-techie, being a production person, not an actual coder) angle just makes her even better.
The people making Jade Raymond into a sex symbol are the people gawking over some PR photos where she's basically standing with her team in jeans and a plain cotton top, probably the same clothes she wears to the office every day. WTF.
Not everyone fancies (or fantasizes about) porn stars or supermodels. Some blokes like the attractive average women (or men).
Bertrand Cantat? While technically murder, it was "murder committed with indirect intent (dolus eventualis)". He also served closer to four years, not three (albeit only just).
I think it worth noting in this context that "life imprisonment" in a country like Denmark means twenty years - this is the absolute maximum you can serve in prison (or was, until the current government started buying into this whole so-called "war on terror" thing...) and I consider this to be good - can you honestly say you were the same person (in all but a literal sense) twenty years ago?
Where are these places you "cannot go" as a Westerner, then? I've travelled pretty extensively in China, and been many places that are 'off the beaten path', yet have never encountered any problems. I should note that I'm white, and do not speak Mandarin (though I do have a working knowledge of Cantonese).
Mmm, except that last time (last many times, as a matter of fact) I was in Malaysia, you got incredibly convincing pirated copies being sold for between two and six ringit an album. And on top of barely being able to tell the difference between them and the real deal, the pirates often pad out the albums with selected songs from the back catalogue - no point in not filling out the full disc!
Both your examples are signed to an independant label, however (the same one, in fact, specifically 4AD). Also, what makes you think that someone like Brendan Perry is surviving entirely on royalty cheques? Chances are, he has some other revenue stream, like say, a job.
The record companies don't have huge sunk costs in albums, actually, since they tend to make artists pay the vast majority of studio time and staff. All they do is press, distribute, and promote, more or less.
nowadays, the effective price for most new CDs is $10 or $12.
I've just preordered Down and Ulver's latest, and have not found them cheaper (in the UK) than 11 quid each - that's over $22 at current exchange rates. 10 quid for a new CD is really about as cheap as they go in the first few months, at least.
Oddly enough, Denmark has grown from being a fairly poor agriculture-based economy in the post-war years, to having a GDP per capita in the top ten world-wide, with taxes that start at 48%, and work their way up to over 70% marginal (on income). And all this without having any natural resources to speak of. So yeah, why can't we lower our taxes?
If you've just got the radio on in the background, and a "loud" song comes on, it'll catch your attention. Or, if your song isn't "loud", and everything else is, idle listeners won't notice it (they'll tune it out). Or so the theory goes...
That seems fair, fuck the sound engineers, recording studios and EVERYONE ELSE who actually works in the recording of music
Strangely, these people aren't paid by royalties. They get their money at the time or recording (producer possibly excepted) regardless of if the album sells a million units, or never gets released.
Look at the credits for an album (if you actually own any) and you will see how many artists work on a CD who aren't the band or the label.
People constantly use the "well artists have the gigs" defence when pirating their music, I can't think of a better (and more frequently used) example of 'convenient ignorance', your argument works only if you forget how music is actually made.
I own hundreds of albums, actually, just under half of them on vinyl (which I don't feel I should pay for again to get in a digital medium, but I get a strange feeling you'll disagree...). But again, see above.
If you don't want DRM then stop pirating, you can't have it both ways.
Pirating media is probably the most effective way to ensure you get it DRM-free, actually.
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I reckon this is the same affliction that makes people refer to chipping in their ".02 cents".
Except in this case it's "first they came for the speeders, with fines for speeding". Seriously, being watched all the time can be abused for all sorts of things. A speed camera taking a single still of a license plate of a speeding vehicle (given that it is not observing anything at any other time, which just so happens to be the case) can almost be likened to a burglary alarm - it calls attention to the presence of someone in a particular place, but only once they've broken a window (or whatever).
I do not understand this ire against speed cameras (and red light cameras to some extent) rather than CCTV cameras. CCTV cameras is Big Brother, surveillance state, intrusion in your life, you privacy, and so on. It is someone watching you. A speed camera only takes a single still if you are speeding. Hence, you only get observed by the speed camera, if you are breaking the speed limit. As such, I find it hard to be violently opposed to speed cameras, whereas CCTV cameras are an altogether different matter...
They claim to log nothing. So there'd be no logs to hand over, even if they were subpoenaed.
I don't get how there's necessarily any correlation between people fawning enough over her (in her work clothes or whatever) enough to make "fansites" full of pictures of her, and people thinking she's unqualified. I reckon that, for a lot of people, the whole qualified techie (or psuedo-techie, being a production person, not an actual coder) angle just makes her even better.
Pasties? What?
Bertrand Cantat? While technically murder, it was "murder committed with indirect intent (dolus eventualis)". He also served closer to four years, not three (albeit only just). I think it worth noting in this context that "life imprisonment" in a country like Denmark means twenty years - this is the absolute maximum you can serve in prison (or was, until the current government started buying into this whole so-called "war on terror" thing...) and I consider this to be good - can you honestly say you were the same person (in all but a literal sense) twenty years ago?
Where are these places you "cannot go" as a Westerner, then? I've travelled pretty extensively in China, and been many places that are 'off the beaten path', yet have never encountered any problems. I should note that I'm white, and do not speak Mandarin (though I do have a working knowledge of Cantonese).
"Punching the monkey" is probably already a euphemism for something, and while it does involve oneself, I probably wouldn't class it as "abuse"...
Mmm, except that last time (last many times, as a matter of fact) I was in Malaysia, you got incredibly convincing pirated copies being sold for between two and six ringit an album. And on top of barely being able to tell the difference between them and the real deal, the pirates often pad out the albums with selected songs from the back catalogue - no point in not filling out the full disc!
Both your examples are signed to an independant label, however (the same one, in fact, specifically 4AD). Also, what makes you think that someone like Brendan Perry is surviving entirely on royalty cheques? Chances are, he has some other revenue stream, like say, a job.
The record companies don't have huge sunk costs in albums, actually, since they tend to make artists pay the vast majority of studio time and staff. All they do is press, distribute, and promote, more or less.
If vets are involved, I'll choose to believe you...
Or, alternatively, you just don't buy anything at all by them due to them being horrible, their one hit included.
I have yet to see Lynx actually render any images. As such, the time it takes to do so is infinite.
I dunno, I find Opera to be much faster at rendering the images on many websites...
Oddly enough, Denmark has grown from being a fairly poor agriculture-based economy in the post-war years, to having a GDP per capita in the top ten world-wide, with taxes that start at 48%, and work their way up to over 70% marginal (on income). And all this without having any natural resources to speak of. So yeah, why can't we lower our taxes?
If you've just got the radio on in the background, and a "loud" song comes on, it'll catch your attention. Or, if your song isn't "loud", and everything else is, idle listeners won't notice it (they'll tune it out). Or so the theory goes...
"This was about the MPAA. Movie stars have gigs now?"
Movie stars are ARTISTS, now?
That seems fair, fuck the sound engineers, recording studios and EVERYONE ELSE who actually works in the recording of music
Strangely, these people aren't paid by royalties. They get their money at the time or recording (producer possibly excepted) regardless of if the album sells a million units, or never gets released.
Look at the credits for an album (if you actually own any) and you will see how many artists work on a CD who aren't the band or the label. People constantly use the "well artists have the gigs" defence when pirating their music, I can't think of a better (and more frequently used) example of 'convenient ignorance', your argument works only if you forget how music is actually made.
I own hundreds of albums, actually, just under half of them on vinyl (which I don't feel I should pay for again to get in a digital medium, but I get a strange feeling you'll disagree...).
But again, see above. If you don't want DRM then stop pirating, you can't have it both ways.
Pirating media is probably the most effective way to ensure you get it DRM-free, actually.
your "wonderful" solution involves artists [who are at the bottom of the money foodchain] not getting paid.
Artists actually have a revenue stream the record companies don't tend to decimate; it's called the "gig".