Will these lawsuits ever cease ? There may be a few people who have stopped sharing because of RIAA's campaign, but I guess most have done it because of legal and affordable alternatives. It's sad how the industry can't admit being slow in reacting to on-line music, and now blames the consumers. CD has been the format for music about 20 years, and it's getting impractical as a medium nowadays. Meanwhile, P2P usage has been steadily growing..
I wonder if a system could be established, where all the songs and films had a unique watermark data in them, which is then read by the software and the hardware, and the creators would be compensated for any use of any portion of the products by a third party, who would keep track of the usage ? The more you share or listen, the more the creators would be compensated. You could sample or remix freely, and the original watermarks would still be retained along with your own. This sort of system is quite utopistic, and the source of the funds is a bit of a mystery, but the culture would flourish and the people would get rid of these stupid lawsuits.
The lawyers get richer, people get pissed and RIAA sinks deeper in its mire.
I don't understand the situation much, but it would be nonexistent had the RIAA declined to begin its suing spree. I'd like to know what's the net balance of the expenses of all the processes and compensations they've won.. When the disco fever went pop in the end of the 70s the coin operated arcade games were accused of stealing all the youth's change. Millions of records had been pressed and no one wasn't interested anymore. The same mentality seems to be alive and well..
I wish we would send out robots/nukes/humans to create billions of dust and rock sized particles out of the asteroids, for a great display.. Imagine the sky full of shooting stars streaking from a single point in the sky, wow ! Now, attach a few elements to the dust and there will be colors. All you need is a shovel up there, and precise knowledge of the mechanics of space.
Isn't it a problem that you can buy yourself out in certain cases if you present enough money and authority ? It's not an equal system for everybody, and certain entities or persons willingly use it to just for the financial benefit, at their price.
Universal is seeking $150000 for each song and video posted on the site. If the basis of these claims is never researched and tested in the courts, the system will go on forever by the fiddle of the corporations. The court becomes a financial tool.
The corporations need to be kept in check, for the integrity of the juridical system.
Another angle in censoring the sensitive political topics is that it leads to more concentrated efforts on culture, arts and sciences... which themselves are the creations of free societies. Criticism can be masked in articles seemengly not on sensitive topics - history provides great references and people are able to read between lines and think for themselves. The Chinese may well change the world we live in, not their government.
Your saliva may not be psychoactive but your urine is, because of DMT produced naturally by your brains. The concentration must be extremely low, or else the culture would have taken quite a different twist..
The major record labels (which in turn operate hundreds of minor labels) are a part of the the German, British, French or Japanese media conglomerates. The nationalism is the least plausible reason for the RIAA attack on AllofMp3, but the financial interests of international and American share holders. The RIAA could be seen as securing the living for a recording engineer of some american studio, but that's hardly the case.. The artist royalties they are speaking of are only a tiny fraction of the money demanded, which for the most part would flow to cover the overly bloated expenses of the record production nowadays.. The business is being fractured and miniaturized, and it's becoming more and more impossible for the Majors to hold it back and by themselves.. The frustration is understandable.
The Eurovision song contest webcast used shared streaming technology by Octoshape. You needed to download their software from the ESC site, and the software then managed the stream to your media player and connected with the peers. I don't know any actual statistics, but the best quality stream was over 1 Mbit/s. The webcast was all fine, and I was able to enjoy the ESC in all it's glory... Although I did have it muted for most of the show:)
Free marketing, anyone ? Considering the fact that the artists may not get (probably the video expenses are part of their advance payment, which they sort of owe the recording company) any royalties out of the videos, it's pretty clear (as if it wasn't earlier..) RIAA is not about music and artists, but for wider profit margins. The worse still, a recording deal may have a clause for royalty deduction from the album sales while the album is being promoted on television - a music video being in circulation.. What's with the greed nowadays ?
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Will these lawsuits ever cease ? There may be a few people who have stopped sharing because of RIAA's campaign, but I guess most have done it because of legal and affordable alternatives. It's sad how the industry can't admit being slow in reacting to on-line music, and now blames the consumers. CD has been the format for music about 20 years, and it's getting impractical as a medium nowadays. Meanwhile, P2P usage has been steadily growing..
I wonder if a system could be established, where all the songs and films had a unique watermark data in them, which is then read by the software and the hardware, and the creators would be compensated for any use of any portion of the products by a third party, who would keep track of the usage ? The more you share or listen, the more the creators would be compensated. You could sample or remix freely, and the original watermarks would still be retained along with your own. This sort of system is quite utopistic, and the source of the funds is a bit of a mystery, but the culture would flourish and the people would get rid of these stupid lawsuits.
The lawyers get richer, people get pissed and RIAA sinks deeper in its mire.
I don't understand the situation much, but it would be nonexistent had the RIAA declined to begin its suing spree. I'd like to know what's the net balance of the expenses of all the processes and compensations they've won.. When the disco fever went pop in the end of the 70s the coin operated arcade games were accused of stealing all the youth's change. Millions of records had been pressed and no one wasn't interested anymore. The same mentality seems to be alive and well..
I wish we would send out robots/nukes/humans to create billions of dust and rock sized particles out of the asteroids, for a great display.. Imagine the sky full of shooting stars streaking from a single point in the sky, wow ! Now, attach a few elements to the dust and there will be colors. All you need is a shovel up there, and precise knowledge of the mechanics of space.
Isn't it a problem that you can buy yourself out in certain cases if you present enough money and authority ? It's not an equal system for everybody, and certain entities or persons willingly use it to just for the financial benefit, at their price. Universal is seeking $150000 for each song and video posted on the site. If the basis of these claims is never researched and tested in the courts, the system will go on forever by the fiddle of the corporations. The court becomes a financial tool. The corporations need to be kept in check, for the integrity of the juridical system.
What's the problem with having a secure name then ?
Another angle in censoring the sensitive political topics is that it leads to more concentrated efforts on culture, arts and sciences... which themselves are the creations of free societies. Criticism can be masked in articles seemengly not on sensitive topics - history provides great references and people are able to read between lines and think for themselves. The Chinese may well change the world we live in, not their government.
Your saliva may not be psychoactive but your urine is, because of DMT produced naturally by your brains. The concentration must be extremely low, or else the culture would have taken quite a different twist..
The future seems to be 6 months away: http://about.blyk.com/ Nokia envisioned this in 2000, and some people behind Blyk are ex-Nokia executives.
The society seems to have closen a circle when you can afford to line up for a product designed to waste time.
Slashdot's good water flow is great for the tubes !
Coincidentally, Kilju means homebrewn/moonshine alcohol in Finnish, you sure it was a nuke that exploded ?
The applications of an intergalactic drive seem plentiful.
so long and thanks for all the fish !
For some strange cosmic reason, Orkut means 'orgasms' in Finnish slang.. might explain why it hasn't really gotten off here :)
The major record labels (which in turn operate hundreds of minor labels) are a part of the the German, British, French or Japanese media conglomerates. The nationalism is the least plausible reason for the RIAA attack on AllofMp3, but the financial interests of international and American share holders. The RIAA could be seen as securing the living for a recording engineer of some american studio, but that's hardly the case.. The artist royalties they are speaking of are only a tiny fraction of the money demanded, which for the most part would flow to cover the overly bloated expenses of the record production nowadays.. The business is being fractured and miniaturized, and it's becoming more and more impossible for the Majors to hold it back and by themselves.. The frustration is understandable.
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." ~ George Bush
The Eurovision song contest webcast used shared streaming technology by Octoshape. You needed to download their software from the ESC site, and the software then managed the stream to your media player and connected with the peers. I don't know any actual statistics, but the best quality stream was over 1 Mbit/s. The webcast was all fine, and I was able to enjoy the ESC in all it's glory... Although I did have it muted for most of the show :)
Free marketing, anyone ? Considering the fact that the artists may not get (probably the video expenses are part of their advance payment, which they sort of owe the recording company) any royalties out of the videos, it's pretty clear (as if it wasn't earlier..) RIAA is not about music and artists, but for wider profit margins. The worse still, a recording deal may have a clause for royalty deduction from the album sales while the album is being promoted on television - a music video being in circulation.. What's with the greed nowadays ?