Paypal has in many countries also ways to connect it to your bankaccount. (or fill it up like a pre-paid system) You could look into that. You don't HAVE to use a credit card to use Paypal.
Don't you see? This is great. Techdirt puts up a paywall, and up and coming copyright blogs can now fly under its wings, by stealing that paywall content! And then sue Techdirt later on, when they post the same article verbatim.
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Because 1) this is not a paywall, subscribers merely get access to the stuff that hasn't been posted yet, which I'm sure will also be content that's still a bit in flux.
and 2) pah, stealing and suing, el oh el!
It sucks that you don't ship internationally. I understand the reasons, but still it sucks.
Otherwise I would have gotted the $35 package. But I'm not going to pay for products I won't get, so it'll be the $15 option.
Do you perhaps have an amazon.com affiliate link for the book? :) At least I could get the book that way. Shame about the t-shirt, though. :)
I love that radio station, and would hate it, if they go under because of plain and simple greed and the shortsightedness from the labels.
And if anyone of those labels start crying about "Think of the poor artists." I'd suggest they do the same, and sell off their cars and second and third houses, and give that money to those 'poor' artists.
BTW, MTV Cribs is really a nail in the coffin of that argument. "Poor" artists indeed.
It was bloody stupid plan to begin with, but it was brought forward as a viable business model to save the newspapers. So that's the news.
Just that it got stopped doesn't negate the fact that the plan was written and that it was stupid.
Does Moby offer his own albums on his own website?
I'm tempted to buy all of them again but then directly from him, to give a message that I support and respect Moby.
But I'll bet there is a label in between that will then give that money to the RIAA.
Exposure is everything in this day and age. Even if your music is played at an event to mock you, it at least gets played and you (should) get money from it. That's how it should be.
For my work I create testscripts, but I don't get to dictate how those scripts are used after I've made them. For all I care, people use it as toilet paper... it's their papercuts, not mine.
Ah yes of course, killing your own mother is an integral part in video games.
And listening to Rock and Roll will have you worship the devil.
And reading comic books will lead you to a life of sexual depravity and other perversity.
And video clips will make kids yearn for sex at a much younger age.
And Barney the Dino is a healthy way of raising kids.
I have to think that terrestrial radio negatively effects music sales. Many people who use that service probably don't see the need to own the music when they have constant access to new music.
See what I did there? Do you also see what a silly proposition yours is?
As a lot of people have pointed out in the past, radio actually serves as a marketing platform for music.
Besides that, radio stations, whether they are online, via the air, or via satellite, pay fees to the record industry. So the music bizz is already getting money through that revenue.
But there are a lot of factors at play here:
1) while music quantity is going up, the quality that is being spewed out by these music-factories, is going down. Thus less incentive for people to buy new albums. Quality sells better than crap.
2) you can only spend your money once. And if you have to choose between a CD/DVD/game/food/rent/bills, you are going to look what you like best. (it's a financial crisis after all)
3) the music business has a lot of PR-problems, which they caused themselves, by suing customers, or would-be customers into bankruptcy. That's called biting the hands that feed you, though in their case, it's more like them biting the hand, then killing the person the hand belonged to, and the shooting the corpse to make sure.
The act of downloading movies/games/music is not theft, no matter how you spin it.
Yes it's annoying for businesses, and yes it's illegal.
But lawsuits are not the way to solve that problem.
The only way is to make enough incentive for prospective buyers to buy the product. And you don't do that by suing those prospective buyers, nor do you do that by annoying them with DRM crap. They need to compete with the pirates, offer the customers something that the pirates can't offer.
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Re: Sweet, Nice, but...
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[/joke] (just in case it wasn't obvious enough)
Because 1) this is not a paywall, subscribers merely get access to the stuff that hasn't been posted yet, which I'm sure will also be content that's still a bit in flux.
and 2) pah, stealing and suing, el oh el!
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Re: Re: Connect to US fans only apparently :(
This is really putting [y]our money where your mouth is. ;)
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Connect to US fans only apparently :(
Otherwise I would have gotted the $35 package. But I'm not going to pay for products I won't get, so it'll be the $15 option.
Do you perhaps have an amazon.com affiliate link for the book? :) At least I could get the book that way. Shame about the t-shirt, though. :)
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Re: Re: Re: Pandola? Copyleft?
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That makes sense
I thought EMI was going to do things differently?
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I will keep up my financial support for Soma.FM
And if anyone of those labels start crying about "Think of the poor artists." I'd suggest they do the same, and sell off their cars and second and third houses, and give that money to those 'poor' artists.
BTW, MTV Cribs is really a nail in the coffin of that argument. "Poor" artists indeed.
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Re: Pandola? Copyleft?
Unless you make specific deals with each and every artist you play, you have to pay SoundExchange these insane royalty-fees.
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Re: Against the Award, not the RIAA
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Just that it got stopped doesn't negate the fact that the plan was written and that it was stupid.
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Re: Check facts first
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I'm tempted to buy all of them again but then directly from him, to give a message that I support and respect Moby.
But I'll bet there is a label in between that will then give that money to the RIAA.
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For my work I create testscripts, but I don't get to dictate how those scripts are used after I've made them. For all I care, people use it as toilet paper... it's their papercuts, not mine.
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From the myths-R-us department
And listening to Rock and Roll will have you worship the devil.
And reading comic books will lead you to a life of sexual depravity and other perversity.
And video clips will make kids yearn for sex at a much younger age.
And Barney the Dino is a healthy way of raising kids.
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s/revenue/avenue/
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See what I did there? Do you also see what a silly proposition yours is?
As a lot of people have pointed out in the past, radio actually serves as a marketing platform for music.
Besides that, radio stations, whether they are online, via the air, or via satellite, pay fees to the record industry. So the music bizz is already getting money through that revenue.
But there are a lot of factors at play here:
1) while music quantity is going up, the quality that is being spewed out by these music-factories, is going down. Thus less incentive for people to buy new albums. Quality sells better than crap.
2) you can only spend your money once. And if you have to choose between a CD/DVD/game/food/rent/bills, you are going to look what you like best. (it's a financial crisis after all)
3) the music business has a lot of PR-problems, which they caused themselves, by suing customers, or would-be customers into bankruptcy. That's called biting the hands that feed you, though in their case, it's more like them biting the hand, then killing the person the hand belonged to, and the shooting the corpse to make sure.
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Yes it's annoying for businesses, and yes it's illegal.
But lawsuits are not the way to solve that problem.
The only way is to make enough incentive for prospective buyers to buy the product. And you don't do that by suing those prospective buyers, nor do you do that by annoying them with DRM crap. They need to compete with the pirates, offer the customers something that the pirates can't offer.
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