So privacy issues aside (but not forgotten), how often are these machines calibrated and inspected? The article says the image quality suffers due to a misalignment in the machine. How long did that persist? Were people exposed to higher doses of radiation as a result? Why should we trust security guards to run what basically amounts to adapted medical equipment? If we are going to have these machines, shouldn't they be operated by trained radiologists who have some hope of recognizing when the machine is not working in spec and understand the potential consequences?
The work of the artist is the service of creating art. Should a film producer, who wants to incorporate the musical work of an artist be able to use it for free in his own work, or should he have to license that musical work. Sounds like you are arguing for the later,but would you allow that director to film in your home for free, just because he thought your place had the perfect look for his film, or would you expect to be paid for providing that service to him? As to your last point that nothing new is created, you are wrong. A new film is created that derives some of its emotional power from the previously created song.
Your argument also completely ignores the intrinsic value of art itself. A society that does not value art (and which does not support artists) is a soulless society.
So when you hear people complain about there being nothing good on TV which to record - yeah, I can see that. I don't know when I last turned on the television here but I don't think it even has the rabbit ears hooked up!
Your name wouldn't happen to be Jonathan Green now would it?
He then shared quotes from executives at Sony and Microsoft talking about games as a serious artistic medium, and then a quote from a Nintendo executive saying the company only wanted to make "fun" games. Interestingly I'm really only interested in playing games that are fun, and sick of wandering thorugh endless levels of art looking for a save point.
For some reason, these parents think ignorance is better for their children than knowing about and understanding an issue. No its just easier for the parents.
No matter how many more songs there are on a disc, an album is nearly always defined as containing 10 songs in a recording contract. And payment is based on that figure to the artist, which means the labels do a good deal better on CD sales than online downloads, though that doesn't account for materials costs I suspose.
The demand for music wouldn't vanish, and in fact it's not all clear that the average professional musician would be any worse off in a model that favored performance over recording.
I didn't say the demand would diminish. I question why anyone would invest the time and money into making the high quality recordings that are presently presented to the buying public if there is no money to be made from it. They can just skip that part and go on tour according to the model you suggest, perhaps at most giving you their song-writing demos instead, which may be incomplete, poorly recorded and mixed. Why should they do any more than that? After all, that sketch of the song should be enough for you to judge the merits of the song, you just might not enjoy the recording as much, but hey that would give you more incentive to go see the live show because that would be the only way for you to get a really complete listening experience.
But more to the point, why shouldn't you pay a musician for their recordings? Forget about the riaa and labels. Why doesn't a musician deserve to be paid for their recorded works?
As much as idealistically it sounds, I think such model can work: only way for artists to profit is to perform.
Really? You think that would work? What about artists whose art is the recording itself?
I think you underestimate the amount of work that goes into a good recording. I also think you over-estimate the amount of revenue that can be generated touring if the artist doesn't have major marketing dollars behind them. For example, Barbara Morgenstern just played here a week ago. She is an amazing artist, both live and recording. But no one here knows who she is and maybe 20 people showed up. I would bet she lost money on that show. The only way she broke even/made money was by selling her recordings to people afterwards. Some artists never tour, they only record. Under your system, how do they get paid? Merchandising? Are they supposed to hawk t-shirts and mugs because the recordings aren't worth anything?
I think the all story with "recorded music" is just bluff. Now how do I understand the russian copyright law. The law is quite simple. The performace is what artist is paid for. I can record the performance and (granted that I have paid artist the fee for performance) I would own the recording I did (with copyrights etc). It's my recording of her/his performance. I can make money selling the recording. Artists can go on doing money by performing. It's easy as that. Nobody is robbed, as RIAA/BPI/IFPI/friends try to tell everybody. Artist has to pay taxes from the profits s/he makes performing. If I would be distributing recording, I would need a license for that from gov't and of course I will pay taxes too. (*)
Oh so its your recording and you have the right to sell it? How is this different than the artist making the recording and wanting to sell it? If you have that right when you make it, how can you say that they don't? In fact, given that you don't seem to be the artist yourself, it sounds like you are considering getting into the buisness of becoming a record label. Perhaps you should join the RIAA?
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Sounds like a job for Andy Griffith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_1
Mine would always be on Thanksgiving to which I also say, fuck that.
Back in Nov I wrote my rep about the TSA's scanners. Here is a copy of his letter to the TSA. http://markey.house.gov/docs/homeland_security/markey_letter_to_fda_11.23.10.pdf
So privacy issues aside (but not forgotten), how often are these machines calibrated and inspected? The article says the image quality suffers due to a misalignment in the machine. How long did that persist? Were people exposed to higher doses of radiation as a result? Why should we trust security guards to run what basically amounts to adapted medical equipment? If we are going to have these machines, shouldn't they be operated by trained radiologists who have some hope of recognizing when the machine is not working in spec and understand the potential consequences?
Oh, if only...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGxdgNJ_lZM&eurl=http://lj-toys.com/?journalid=837632&moduleid=9&auth_token=sessionless:1206637200:embedcontent:837632%269iurl=http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OGxdgNJ_lZM/default.jpg
This is a sure sign of the apocalypse...
The work of the artist is the service of creating art. Should a film producer, who wants to incorporate the musical work of an artist be able to use it for free in his own work, or should he have to license that musical work. Sounds like you are arguing for the later,but would you allow that director to film in your home for free, just because he thought your place had the perfect look for his film, or would you expect to be paid for providing that service to him? As to your last point that nothing new is created, you are wrong. A new film is created that derives some of its emotional power from the previously created song. Your argument also completely ignores the intrinsic value of art itself. A society that does not value art (and which does not support artists) is a soulless society.
These are not the droids you are looking for.
Agreed. What's next? A ride on the probulator and a career chip in their hand? You got to do what you got to do...
This guy hates cans... er I mean buttons!
One could make that argument but it would be a specious argument in the context of the topic at hand.
Enjoy your stay in gitmo!
Um, Red Book CD's don't employ data compression...
...please, think of the bee's
What no mention of Space 1999? They very acurately predicted the paper tape printout I get at the grocery store computer.
No matter how many more songs there are on a disc, an album is nearly always defined as containing 10 songs in a recording contract. And payment is based on that figure to the artist, which means the labels do a good deal better on CD sales than online downloads, though that doesn't account for materials costs I suspose.
You should check out Path Finder. It is way beter than Apple's finder!!
Are you kidding? Time spent sleeping has to be the happiest six - eight hours of my day!
But more to the point, why shouldn't you pay a musician for their recordings? Forget about the riaa and labels. Why doesn't a musician deserve to be paid for their recorded works?
I don't know. I have been playing around with the demo for Quantrix Modeler and I think I like it a lot more than Excel.