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• On the post: Band Gives Away Latest Album After Label Attempts To Shelve It Until 'Sometime Next Year'

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2012 @ 01:11pm

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  Marshall Brain. The guy is pretty well-known so I'm sure if he was being disingenuous someone would find dirt on his article somewhere.
  
  Now who you are? Do you have experience with record label contracts or are you just expecting people to take what you say at face value?

• On the post: Band Gives Away Latest Album After Label Attempts To Shelve It Until 'Sometime Next Year'

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2012 @ 01:04pm

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  Sorry, they're more reliable on this stuff than an anonymous commenter with an agenda.

• On the post: Band Gives Away Latest Album After Label Attempts To Shelve It Until 'Sometime Next Year'

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2012 @ 12:50pm

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  "Also, it must once again be reiterated on this pro-piracy propaganda site, that when a band is dropped from a label, their entire debt is forgiven."
  
  " If the band is not doing well, the label simply terminates the contract, but the lock-out clause prevents the band from re-recording the material. Even if the label has no interest in the band, the label owns all the recordings. There is no way for the band to re-release an album on its own."
  
  http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/recording-contract6.htm
  
  The debt may be forgiven, but they might as well fade into obscurity afterwards.

• On the post: Chris Dodd: Hollywood's Most Predictable Dissembler

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2012 @ 11:55am

  Re: Dodds is doing what he's paid to do.

  "The MPAA is an industry association. It's views and leadership should properly reflect what the members want, and that's what Dodds is delivering. I haven't seen any evidence of the MPAA creating policy and forcing the studios to follow it (unlike the RIAA, where it seems to have bullied labels into following its pronouncements and policies)."
  
  I have not seen the MPAA do that either, however if they reflect the views and leadership of the movie studios then they are doing a terrible job doing so to the public.
  
  The public is the most important asset they have, and by their words and actions they have either destroyed any kind of trust or respect the public could have had for them.

• On the post: Out With The Old, In With The New: How Innovation Has Completely Changed The Music Business

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2012 @ 01:10pm

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  A swing and a miss...

• On the post: Out With The Old, In With The New: How Innovation Has Completely Changed The Music Business

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2012 @ 11:07am

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  It's funny that he is so anti Spotify and anti-Itunes because of the payouts, all the while ignoring the fact that the licensing fees from the labels strip away most of the revenues of both of those services.
  
  His whole blog post directed at Emily White was ridiculous as well. It's the just the murmurings of someone who'd rather push for the consumer to change, then push for a system that benefits both the consumer and the artist.

• On the post: Why The Six Strikes Plan Doesn't Mesh With US Law Or Social Norms

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2012 @ 06:13am

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  I agree, I just think it's scary to give fodder to the RIAA for another lawsuit campaign.

• On the post: Big Name Musicians Threaten To Strike Over Parlophone Sell-Off After Discovering They're 'Just Assets'

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2012 @ 06:06am

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  "They signed the contracts, and yes, as a result, they are assets."
  
  This is the same issue with a lot of actors, for example Mickey Rourke got butthurt because the studios wouldn't allow him to develop his Ivan Vanko character from Iron Man 2. He forgot to realize it wasn't in his contract to do so.
  
  Frankly, a lot of musicians who don't want to deal with this kind of crap start their own labels too. These guys should take a clue from that.
  
  T

• On the post: Why The Six Strikes Plan Doesn't Mesh With US Law Or Social Norms

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2012 @ 12:09pm

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  This system requires the ISPs to share progress reports with Hollywood, here's an interesting tidbit related to that:
  
  "The Content Owner Representatives [MPAA / RIAA] or any other member of the Participating Content Owners Group may use such reports or data as the basis for seeking a Subscriber?s identity through a subpoena or order or other lawful process. For the avoidance of doubt, the Parties agree that the Content Owner Representatives may share such reports with the other members of the Participating Content Owners Group..?
  
  And later on...
  
  ?The Participating ISP will, however, continue to track and report the number of ISP Notices the Participating ISP receives for that Subscriber?s account, so that information is available to a Content Owner Representative if it elects to initiate a copyright infringement action against that Subscriber.?
  
  Source: http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-riaa-ponder-suing-persistent-bittorrent-pirates-120618/
  
  So this system has the potential to be used for legal action.

• On the post: PC Rental Companies Agree To Not Watch You Have Sex

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2012 @ 09:13am

  Tim, I think you need to be introduced to dildonics (Google it).

• On the post: Absurdity Of Copyright Policy Leaves Dutch Supreme Court Confused

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2012 @ 11:53am

  Yo Ben, I'm really happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but I think you meant to put "Absurdity" instead in the title.
  
  Signed,
  Kanye West.

• On the post: Entertainment Industry Flips Out At The Good Parts Of Canada's New Copyright Law, Demands Changes Via TPP

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2012 @ 08:04am

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  I think it's more a matter of governmental "peer pressure."
  
  I'm not sure if money is involved, but that's the main factor for why the American government let's the RIAA/MPAA turn their butt into a diddle factory.

• On the post: Entertainment Industry Flips Out At The Good Parts Of Canada's New Copyright Law, Demands Changes Via TPP

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2012 @ 08:02am

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  Sarcasm?

• On the post: When Captain Picard Loses Patience With Your Cable Service, You Need To Run A Tighter Ship

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2012 @ 06:06am

  Did anybody else read the tweet int heir mind with Picard's accent?

• On the post: Unfortunate: Kickstarter's Overaggressive Reaction To DMCA Notices

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2012 @ 01:39pm

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  Joe, its time to redo your reputation around here.
  
  I suggest making a hilarious mspaint design for the TD shop that adequately sums up your distaste for pirate apologists.

• On the post: Unfortunate: Kickstarter's Overaggressive Reaction To DMCA Notices

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2012 @ 01:33pm

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  I really hope they are keeping detailed reports about this kind of thing.
  
  Copyright law may not be the factor causing this, but it's definitely being used to cultivate this kind of mentality.

• On the post: NZ Prime Minister Admits That The Government Illegally Wiretapped Megaupload Employees

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2012 @ 01:31pm

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  "What does this have to do with all the evidence in the superseding indictment?"
  
  Those new charges haven't been backed up, have they?

• On the post: Unfortunate: Kickstarter's Overaggressive Reaction To DMCA Notices

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2012 @ 01:02pm

  The real problem lies in the copyright lawsuits being throw out all will-nilly. Companies like Kickstarter, Google and Zazzle which operate on constantly changing content have to bend over backwards for a group of corporations that use the government as a handpuppet.
  
  I guess that means the government is also getting diddled.

• On the post: Publishers Can't Seem To Celebrate The Ebook Boom Without Slipping In Odes To Copyright

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2012 @ 12:54pm

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  My point is the music labels did this to themselves, plus they haven't collapsed at all, in fact in 2011 sales had gone up by about 3.2%.
  
  That may seem paltry, but the fact remains that the market goes up and down. The problem is stabilizing so that you're not losing an obscene amount of money. The record labels ruined this for themselves by trying to control the market with price fixing and refusing to adapt to the digital age.
  
  Let me ask you this...
  
  Would the music industry be in the shape it is now if it had adopted newer technology to deal with digital music?
  
  And, just as a sidenote, a few economists have speculated that the labels could have cashed in on early technologies like Spotify (which happens to be their 2nd biggest revenue stream next to Itunes). You could say that given the time for development, Spotify's revenues could have increased and maintained the labels the same way Itunes has.
  
  Also, publishers are not on the verge of collapsing either. According to this link - http://musingsandmarvels.com/2012/07/18/bookstats-what-happened-in-the-publishing-industry-in-2011/ - ebook sales doubled between 2010 and 2011 while the overall revenues increased by .5 %.
  
  Adjustments are going to be made and competition is going to increase because technology allows authors to get their own work out there.
  
  Piracy is always going to be an issue the same way thatc rime will always be an issue, but there's ways to minimize the impact.

• On the post: Publishers Can't Seem To Celebrate The Ebook Boom Without Slipping In Odes To Copyright

  

  Lowestofthekeys ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2012 @ 09:49am

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  Omg, you're becoming a pirate apologist!

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