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• On the post: 'Free' Culture Folks Discuss Models For Sustainable Creativity

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2011 @ 12:02pm

  As a former indentured servant of a couple of majors, the chart is quite typical of the distribution of money in a major label deal. My management and I have piles of contracts and receipts to prove it.

• On the post: Music Publishers Settle With Limewire; Afraid To Have To Prove They Actually Owned Copyrights In Question

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2011 @ 03:41pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  +1

• On the post: Music Publishers Settle With Limewire; Afraid To Have To Prove They Actually Owned Copyrights In Question

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2011 @ 11:30am

  Mike,
  Can you please block IP for the ACtRollbots? They don't contribute to the discussion, they get everyone off topic, and they are a waste of pixels.

• On the post: Getting Ready For When The Industry Tries To Kill 3D Printers

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2010 @ 11:46am

  You know, the naysayers crack me up on this one. 20 yrs ago I used a dot matrix monochrome printer and there was effectively no internet, 20 yrs from now, all you will need is the digital file of the object you want to create and the raw materials. $30K is out of the price range of the ordinary consumer, sure. But the cost of electronics always goes down. My dad paid over $1000 for our first vcr in 1979. So if you can get a vcr now for $40, then in 20 years you should be able to get a very nice 3d printer for under $1000.

• On the post: How Cooks Source Magazine Learned That Reputation Is A Scarce Good… As Reddit Applies The Social Mores Of Justice

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2010 @ 09:00pm

  Hah, a link to a Facebook page of all of their plagiarized content.
  
  http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=196994196748&topic=23238

• On the post: RIAA Insists That Musicians Can't Make Money Without The RIAA

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2010 @ 09:38pm

  Re: More web 2.0 snake oil, must be Tuesday...

  Where are they? Radiohead? NIN? You think the Rolling Stones make their money from disc sales these days?

• On the post: Obvious News Is Obvious: Polls That Only Call Landlines May Be Biased

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2010 @ 09:05pm

  Re: But will the cellphone holders vote?

  I agree with your reasoning, but I think the demographic dissonance expressed by the poll figures needs to be scrutinized in detail.

• On the post: Senate Passes Bill To Try To Quiet TV Commercials

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2010 @ 09:01pm

  Re: Re:

  Let's compare stupid TV to sexual harassment and workplace intimidation... yeah.

• On the post: Justin Bieber Connects With His Fans Via Shiny Nail Polish

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2010 @ 08:52pm

  Times change my friend. It's not like musicians had it better in "the good ol' days". Frankly, most artists never made much money from disc sales anyway. Now, at least, there are more options for non-superstar musicians to make a living too.

• On the post: Obvious News Is Obvious: Polls That Only Call Landlines May Be Biased

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2010 @ 03:20pm

  Re: Re: I have always beleived...

  In addition to the demographic of who has landlines anymore, I believe there is also a psychological component. As in, who takes the time to actually be polled? I know that most people I know wouldn't.

• On the post: Senate Passes Bill To Try To Quiet TV Commercials

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2010 @ 09:12pm

  BTW, you people need to quit whining. This is absolutely NOT the sort of thing the government needs to be involved in. Nobody forces you to watch TV, plus you have a remote and a DVR. Our government has much more important issues to mess up.

• On the post: Senate Passes Bill To Try To Quiet TV Commercials

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2010 @ 09:00pm

  This going to be harder to enforce than people think, unless congress consults with audiologists and acoustic engineers to craft a very technically concise bill.
  If all of the commercial is only as loud as the loudest parts of a TV show or movie, is it really louder? Will they have a clause specifying whether the volume is averaged or RMS? Different people's ears perceive different frequencies as louder or more annoying. How loud is a commercial in relation to say, a Lifetime movie as compared to Terminator 2? If they don't put in precise technical language, it's perhaps possible that a commercial could just stay at a sustained volume slightly (.01db?) below that of the loudest parts of the adjacent programming and still be in compliance.

• On the post: Social Mores At Work: Sigur Ros Calls Out Commercials With 'Similar' Music

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2010 @ 08:34pm

  been saying it for years

  Haha, I have been telling people for years that all of these new commercials sound like they are ripping off Sigur Ros. That being said, they might have a case, at least as much as Satriani supposedly has-I don't know what the legal threshold is for appropriating someone else's vibe...

• On the post: The Insanity Of Music Licensing: In One Single Graphic

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2010 @ 12:49pm

  Re: Re:

  He obviously doesn't really know what a CC license really is. His generalized assumptions are not based in fact. That said, another legacy player who feels entitled to the status quo in a disrupted marketplace.

• On the post: Hulu Finally Announces Subscription Plans: $10/Month To Still Get Advertisements

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2010 @ 02:54pm

  Re: Re:

  haha... TPB

• On the post: Iceland Unanimously Approves Wikileaks Bill To Establish Free Speech Press Haven

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2010 @ 02:37pm

  Re: Epiphyte

  As an employee of Epiphyte corporation, I can say that, yes we have been looking into Iceland as a data haven.

• On the post: Mom Who Used Son's Facebook Account Found Guilty Of Online Harassment

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 28 May, 2010 @ 12:56pm

  Hey, I'm not a lawyer, but how do you get from a lawsuit to jailtime? Isn't this a civil matter, or did the son file charges too?

• On the post: University Sues GM For Using Einstein In An Ad Without Paying Up

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 27 May, 2010 @ 04:30pm

  It isn't even a photograph

  Mike, All,
  Here is a link to an article about this from Israel:
  http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/hebrew-university-sues-gm-over-topless-einstein-ad-1.292570

• On the post: A Look At Just How Much The RIAA Clogged The Court System With Mass Copyright Suits

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 20 May, 2010 @ 02:26pm

  Re: Anyone else?

  DH,
  did you read about this?
  
  
  http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/copyright-violation-alert-ransomware-in-the-wild/6095

• On the post: Middle School Principal Tells Parents To Ban Facebook And Spy On Text Messages

  

  mrharrysan ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2010 @ 01:34pm

  I wonder how old the principal is? That may be telling... "The Facebook and the email are hurting our kids!"

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