They pay NO performance royalties at all - that's the problem.
Satellite pay 7.5% of revenue as performance royalties
The CRB wanted webcasters to pay around 100-125% of revenue as performance royalties
Radio stations pay 0% as performance royalties.
It sounds pretty much like what the webcasters wanted. They wanted a reasonable percentage of their revenue as the smaller webcasters have had previously. I can't remember exactly what it was previously but it was around the 6-10% mark IIRC.
The problem with the CRBs desire was that they wanted around 110% of the webcasters' revenue.... I looked at the figures, and although the royalty per 'performance' looked teeny, once you added it up it was pretty obvious there was no way that amount could be earned by advertising, the webcasters would have to either have a second method of income (as Yahoo, AOL etc do), or charge a quite large subscription ($20-ish per month)
Personally I don't have a problem with a royalty per performance, but it had to be at least an order of magnitude lower than the proposed royalty scheme. The problem (from RIAAs POV) with 'percentage of revenue' is that a webcaster who has a very low revenue (eg a hobbyist webcaster) essentially pays no royalties at all.
If this "percentage of revenue" proposal does go through, then I hope the RIAA learn (but doubt they will) and the next time this comes up they come up with something more reasonable and less greedy and manipulative. If they'd proposed a royalty per performance scheme of 1/10th their actual proposal, then the chances are most webcasters would have accepted it without much more than a grumble, and the RIAA would get more than they would with a 7.5% of revenue scheme..
The 6502 was a poor comparison to the Motorola 6809 - which was arguably the best 8 bit processor ever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6809.:) It drew on the strengths of the 6502, but then went better - it had many 16 bit registers (D, X, Y, U, S), full 16 bit indexing (unlike the 6502's crude 8 bit indexing), dual stacks, built-in 8 bit multiply operation, and had the 6502's '1 clock cycle per basic operation' speed - and ran up to 2MHz - which was many times faster than a Z80 with its n cycles per operation. (Hitachi's 6309 clone of the 6809 can be reliably overclocked to 5MHz!)
The 6809 "chipset" included the 6883 SAM chip which did the 'graphics uses the RAM whilst doing the refreshing on the back-cycle' stuff years before the C64 came out...
If the 6502 was the 'RISC' chip of the time, the 6809 was definitely a CISC chip (eg the 16 bit indexed compare 'CMP Y, S+523' would be a single opcode), but it ran at the same (or faster) clock speeds as the 6502 with few if any unnecessary cycles.
I never really understood why Commodore chose to use the (by then 'obsolete') 6502 for their computers when the 6809 had been out for a while and was far better. The only reason I can think of is that they knew the 6502 from the Commodore Pet (which came out in 1977) and carried on using what they knew, even though it was outdated by then (the 6809 was released in 1979, 2 years before the VIC-20). (Although Commodore DID add a 6809 to their 'SuperPET' to give it some oomph)
If the new royalty rates come into play, I'd expect your database to shrink considerably..
If you look at the facts of the new royalty rates, there's no way that a 'pure' Internet radio company could exist for anything other than the very short term (as they're spending any reserves), unless they go for a (quite expensive) subscription model (eg $15-20 per user per month), which doesn't really work that well.
Eh? The way I know of to make hydrogen from water is electrolysis. AIUI, that wouldn't care if the water had salt or other solutes in it - in fact, electrolysis NEEDS a solute like salt to make it work, pure water wouldn't work very well.
I think there should be a law against laws/etc which protect the mentally inept.
Survival of the fittest etc..
Unfortunately most of the electorate of any democracy seem to fall into the 'mentally inept' category, so they'll vote for people who claim they'll be able to protect them from having to use their brains.
Any politician who says 'people should think for themselves and be responsible for their own stupid actions' has no chance of being elected nowadays.
"Democracy means getting the government you deserve"
There is already software (eg TuneBite) to let you re-record DRM audio at high-speed - so high-speed dubbing is back!. You can even record DRM video...
That looks like you are blaming Walmart for the behaviour of average American people.
No one is forcing you to buy from Walmart - if you don't like what they do, don't buy from them. If enough people do that, they'll soon go out of business or change their ways.
However, if the populace are hypocritical and berate Walmart one minute, then do their shopping there the next, Walmart will continue to prosper.
The FACT is that "people" (in general) want to buy goods cheaply, and don't really care where they come from. If Walmart didn't supply that need, then someone else would...
Don't blame Walmart for the behaviour of the US population...
They could already lock the filler cap and bonnet if they wanted to. They already have RF controlled door locks & filler cap covers, all they would need to do is require a different coded transmitter to unlock them.
They wouldn't do it (ATM) because no one would buy the cars if they did.
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So, if they now only have to pay 7.5% of revenue, I think they'll be quite happy (and the RIAA will be spitting...)
Satellite pay 7.5% of revenue as performance royalties
The CRB wanted webcasters to pay around 100-125% of revenue as performance royalties
Radio stations pay 0% as performance royalties.
The problem with the CRBs desire was that they wanted around 110% of the webcasters' revenue.... I looked at the figures, and although the royalty per 'performance' looked teeny, once you added it up it was pretty obvious there was no way that amount could be earned by advertising, the webcasters would have to either have a second method of income (as Yahoo, AOL etc do), or charge a quite large subscription ($20-ish per month)
Personally I don't have a problem with a royalty per performance, but it had to be at least an order of magnitude lower than the proposed royalty scheme. The problem (from RIAAs POV) with 'percentage of revenue' is that a webcaster who has a very low revenue (eg a hobbyist webcaster) essentially pays no royalties at all.
If this "percentage of revenue" proposal does go through, then I hope the RIAA learn (but doubt they will) and the next time this comes up they come up with something more reasonable and less greedy and manipulative. If they'd proposed a royalty per performance scheme of 1/10th their actual proposal, then the chances are most webcasters would have accepted it without much more than a grumble, and the RIAA would get more than they would with a 7.5% of revenue scheme..
The 6502 was a poor comparison to the Motorola 6809 - which was arguably the best 8 bit processor ever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6809. :) It drew on the strengths of the 6502, but then went better - it had many 16 bit registers (D, X, Y, U, S), full 16 bit indexing (unlike the 6502's crude 8 bit indexing), dual stacks, built-in 8 bit multiply operation, and had the 6502's '1 clock cycle per basic operation' speed - and ran up to 2MHz - which was many times faster than a Z80 with its n cycles per operation. (Hitachi's 6309 clone of the 6809 can be reliably overclocked to 5MHz!)
The 6809 "chipset" included the 6883 SAM chip which did the 'graphics uses the RAM whilst doing the refreshing on the back-cycle' stuff years before the C64 came out...
If the 6502 was the 'RISC' chip of the time, the 6809 was definitely a CISC chip (eg the 16 bit indexed compare 'CMP Y, S+523' would be a single opcode), but it ran at the same (or faster) clock speeds as the 6502 with few if any unnecessary cycles.
I never really understood why Commodore chose to use the (by then 'obsolete') 6502 for their computers when the 6809 had been out for a while and was far better. The only reason I can think of is that they knew the 6502 from the Commodore Pet (which came out in 1977) and carried on using what they knew, even though it was outdated by then (the 6809 was released in 1979, 2 years before the VIC-20). (Although Commodore DID add a 6809 to their 'SuperPET' to give it some oomph)
If the new royalty rates come into play, I'd expect your database to shrink considerably.. If you look at the facts of the new royalty rates, there's no way that a 'pure' Internet radio company could exist for anything other than the very short term (as they're spending any reserves), unless they go for a (quite expensive) subscription model (eg $15-20 per user per month), which doesn't really work that well.
The point is - he won't mind if he's proved wrong...
Eh? The way I know of to make hydrogen from water is electrolysis. AIUI, that wouldn't care if the water had salt or other solutes in it - in fact, electrolysis NEEDS a solute like salt to make it work, pure water wouldn't work very well.
I think there should be a law against laws/etc which protect the mentally inept.
Survival of the fittest etc..
Unfortunately most of the electorate of any democracy seem to fall into the 'mentally inept' category, so they'll vote for people who claim they'll be able to protect them from having to use their brains.
Any politician who says 'people should think for themselves and be responsible for their own stupid actions' has no chance of being elected nowadays.
"Democracy means getting the government you deserve"
There is already software (eg TuneBite) to let you re-record DRM audio at high-speed - so high-speed dubbing is back!. You can even record DRM video...
Have a look at TuneBite - that DOES do recording at fast speed. (Latest versions can also record DRM protected video the same way..)
That looks like you are blaming Walmart for the behaviour of average American people.
No one is forcing you to buy from Walmart - if you don't like what they do, don't buy from them. If enough people do that, they'll soon go out of business or change their ways.
However, if the populace are hypocritical and berate Walmart one minute, then do their shopping there the next, Walmart will continue to prosper.
The FACT is that "people" (in general) want to buy goods cheaply, and don't really care where they come from. If Walmart didn't supply that need, then someone else would...
Don't blame Walmart for the behaviour of the US population...
They could already lock the filler cap and bonnet if they wanted to. They already have RF controlled door locks & filler cap covers, all they would need to do is require a different coded transmitter to unlock them. They wouldn't do it (ATM) because no one would buy the cars if they did.