A simple solution to problems like this in the future...don't keep logs; or if the software you are using insists on keeping logs, save it to /dev/null.
He needs to actually understand what that public tried to tell him back in January. Instead, he seems to be sticking his fingers in his ears and taking random guesses.
He would have to put aside his 30+ years of experience in backroom dealings and lying to/manipulating the public before that can happen. I don't think that's very likely to happen, and is probably why he was given the job as boss of the MPAA in the first place (leaving aside payment for political favors).
If that banal, pedestrian dreck is the absolute best that the labels can produce...
This has been what the recording industry has been doing since day one. In fact almost all mass media does this. Mass media has always been more about generating profit then generating quality. What's more scary is what that banal, pedestrian dreck says about the average media consumer then the industries producing it. If dreck is what sells and makes them a profit, what's wrong with them capitalizing on it?
...because nothing on that show was worth stealing.
A true comment for most mass media today. I haven't seen much of anything lately that I considered worth stealing.
Is anyone else wondering if police testimony in other cases is of the same quality? It's saddening to think that the majority of police who are honest and hardworking are also going to feel the backlash from this.
I doubt it would even matter. EMI has the resources to appeal any judgment against them for what might as well be forever. How long do you think MP3Tunes can?
What this may mean is that a small, rich, vocal cabal of music fans could grow to have an undue impact on the way music progresses, as artists within this direct patronage model have to appease those that put food on their table.
Isn't this what the producers and record labels have done almost since day one? Most art and music throughout history have been done by the artist to put food on the table for payment by some schmoe who wanted it done.
So...Reading between the lines, the RIAA's "evidence" of infringement consists mainly of "'Cuz we said so", then when asked for substantiation, all you hear is the chirping of crickets. Is that about right?
I refuse to buy any books, games, or software without a preview. If there isn't one I assume that the product is crap (because why else wouldn't they want you to try before buying?).
No matter the what the cost of the books, I spend about the same amount per month. I would have no problem spending $20 on 20 DRM free e-books. but would never spend even $1 on any number with DRM. So get rid of the DRM and price it right, and you have a customer, otherwise--no sale.
I know this. All DRM is easily stripped (I think the DRM at all e-book stores and Overdrive for library lending has been cracked). I will not support a company that tries to limit what their paying customers can do with their legitimately purchased product (since it doesn't stop the pirates at all I can't see any other reason for it). At least there are signs that some publishers are understanding this. Tor will be dropping DRM in July ( http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/04/tor-drops-drm-from-ebooks-unlocking-digital-contr ols.html ), so if they don't add ridiculous watermarking they will gain me as a customer again. Baen already has me as one for this very reason.
So the question will be this: Does he get more than 10 times more sales? Otherwise, he just traded dollars for pennies.
That only matters if you see things the way they were during the plant fiber based publishing era, with digital publishing you can "print" and sell as many copies as you like with very little added overhead per unit. Plus with digital publishing, books will never go out of print and can be sold until the heat death of the universe (can you say the same about paper book bestsellers from even ten or twenty years ago?). You have to look at profits over time as opposed to profits on whatever you physically printed. Valve has learned this with their digital game publishing on Steam, the lower the cost of the game the greater the sales--and the greater the profit. Also any profit lost on the sales of current and back catalog books can be regained on increased sales on future books, 99 cent e-books will bring in a ton of new readers (I'd probably pick up some if not all of them if they weren't also riddled with DRM).
I would much rather have digital pennies forever versus physical dollars that will dry up in a couple of years.
the "artist" comes off as more than a bit of a perfectionist prick
I know, god forbid that an artist actually cares about how his work is presented to the public instead of just throwing out some crap knowing that their fans will buy it anyway.
surely it would have been better for her to recommend he spent time in a hospital facility rather than prison proper?
But that would ruin her chances of a future political career (or even keeping her job as a judge), when her opponents bring up that she's "Soft on terrorists".
This is true regardless of your route to getting your music published, being successful with a label has always been the exception--the rule is you are never going to be discovered in the first place (regardless of talent); and even if you are lucky enough to be signed by a label (if you call that luck), you most likely would never recoup and be in debt to the label forever. Those successful with a label are the one percent of the one percent. If Kickstarter can help more artists (or even some) make a living doing their art, then what's the problem you have with it? Do you work for a label and are afraid for your job or something?
Wow, to say traditional publishing is like installing Wordpress and clicking a button, is saying all it takes to publish the old way is to turn on a printing press. The actual physical act of publishing something (printing), is the easiest of a long line of steps that you need to take before you publish anything profitably (or just to get it read by someone). First off you need to create or find something you think people want to read, then you need to edit and proofread it so it doesn't read like it was written by an amateur (or an idiot), then you need layout and graphic design so it doesn't look like it was published by an amateur (and to get it noticed), then you can print it (push the button)...but wait theres still more...you pushed the button, now what? how are you going to get people to read what you wrote? For that you still need marketing and distribution. All these steps exist regardless if your publishing method is physical or digital. Some may be easier with digital publishing (the printing and distribution part), but some are harder (the marketing and design, there's a lot more similar works out there all vying for the publics' attention).
That being said, I'm all for the bad things about the gatekeepers going away, but many of the jobs they perform in publishing are still going to exist whether they do them or you do it yourself or hire someone else to do it for you.
[DISCLOSURE] I do work in digital publishing (e-book design), and I can't tell you how many independent authors I've heard complaining that they can't sell many e-books (that are full of spelling and grammatical errors, and worded in a way that you can't understand what they are trying to say, and with a layout that looks like they just used a word processor for the first time).
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A simple solution to problems like this in the future...don't keep logs; or if the software you are using insists on keeping logs, save it to /dev/null.
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Is anyone else wondering if police testimony in other cases is of the same quality? It's saddening to think that the majority of police who are honest and hardworking are also going to feel the backlash from this.
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I doubt it would even matter. EMI has the resources to appeal any judgment against them for what might as well be forever. How long do you think MP3Tunes can?
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So...Reading between the lines, the RIAA's "evidence" of infringement consists mainly of "'Cuz we said so", then when asked for substantiation, all you hear is the chirping of crickets. Is that about right?
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This is their ultimate goal, to turn the internet into a broadcast medium with themselves being the sole beneficiaries.
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I refuse to buy any books, games, or software without a preview. If there isn't one I assume that the product is crap (because why else wouldn't they want you to try before buying?).
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No matter the what the cost of the books, I spend about the same amount per month. I would have no problem spending $20 on 20 DRM free e-books. but would never spend even $1 on any number with DRM. So get rid of the DRM and price it right, and you have a customer, otherwise--no sale.
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Kindle's DRM is just as easy to strip as the nook's.
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I would much rather have digital pennies forever versus physical dollars that will dry up in a couple of years.
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(If I was a pirate)
That's OK, there's other much better sources for pay TV content on the internet ;)
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Wow, to say traditional publishing is like installing Wordpress and clicking a button, is saying all it takes to publish the old way is to turn on a printing press. The actual physical act of publishing something (printing), is the easiest of a long line of steps that you need to take before you publish anything profitably (or just to get it read by someone). First off you need to create or find something you think people want to read, then you need to edit and proofread it so it doesn't read like it was written by an amateur (or an idiot), then you need layout and graphic design so it doesn't look like it was published by an amateur (and to get it noticed), then you can print it (push the button)...but wait theres still more...you pushed the button, now what? how are you going to get people to read what you wrote? For that you still need marketing and distribution. All these steps exist regardless if your publishing method is physical or digital. Some may be easier with digital publishing (the printing and distribution part), but some are harder (the marketing and design, there's a lot more similar works out there all vying for the publics' attention).
That being said, I'm all for the bad things about the gatekeepers going away, but many of the jobs they perform in publishing are still going to exist whether they do them or you do it yourself or hire someone else to do it for you.
[DISCLOSURE] I do work in digital publishing (e-book design), and I can't tell you how many independent authors I've heard complaining that they can't sell many e-books (that are full of spelling and grammatical errors, and worded in a way that you can't understand what they are trying to say, and with a layout that looks like they just used a word processor for the first time).