All depends on the costs of the servers and hosting arrangements in place, it does seem like rather a lot of cash though given the fact that no files where hosted and they were operating as nothing more that a link site with embedded videos... I can't remember the site too greatly as I was never bothered with shite quality streams, they had some system for playing streams that I didn't like and even though they briefly affiliated with a documentary release team that I had involvement in I never liked the admins or the site much.
What about the many companies that provide rest rooms with pool, snooker, ping pong tables, arcade machines, tablets loaded with games, free fizzy drinks and snack machines that can be used at any time... how much is lost to those businesses?
I'd love to buy what your selling but I think my universal translater/word resorter is fubar as I cannot make out what you are talking about to any great degree.
They may not be covered by copyright but I'd like to bet money that just inside that book it says something along the lines of "no copying of this book is permitted without authorisation from the publisher".
Good Grief! Barnes and Noble are obviously guilty of facilitating copyright infringment... quick someone get ICE to closedown their website and all bookshops.
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Yes ootb you seem to be missing the point, they come and go, so worrying about this decades "big four" is a bit pointless, kids are sitting in houses, dorms, garages, offices right now working on next decades "big four".
ahhhh.. the "it costs so much to monitor files that we don't want to, we'd rather someone else do it and pay for it" chant of the billion dollar entertainment industries....
ahhhh.. the "it costs so much to monitor files that we don't want to, we'd rather someone else do it and pay for it" chant of the billion dollar entertainment industries....
Don't forget the free bandwidth and advertising of said music... Anyone got any stats on the revenue created by Youtube since they started monetizing clips?
A public performance occurs whenever music recordings are played outside the domestic or family circle. Whenever a music recording is played in a commercial environment, even if only one person can hear it, it becomes a public performance and a fee is payable to PPL.
And this album "Watch The Throne" broke the iTunes opening week record with 290,000 digital sales doubling the previous record and is on sale for about $15, so yes selling at a $1 is going to boost sales significantly but even at $15 with large scale infringement artists can still sell large quantities as long as the album is worth the purchase.
Even though it has been downloaded thousands of times from numerous p2p networks, Usenet, File lockers etc... interesting that in this case "piracy" doesn't seem to have made much difference to the overall sales...
What's funny is that this has been available on Usenet for the last 9-10 days... so all that to stop it leaking early may have prevented the initial leak but did nothing to stop it being ripped once it became available. I'd imagine it is available on p2p networks as well so would be interesting to see how many it sells given the availability from "illegal" sources.
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What is a public performance?
A public performance occurs whenever music recordings are played outside the domestic or family circle. Whenever a music recording is played in a commercial environment, even if only one person can hear it, it becomes a public performance and a fee is payable to PPL.
So I'm assuming similar to the US.
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