"However, the force admits the true total cost is likely to be significantly greater than disclosed because it did not keep records of normal hours spent on the case, or the involvement of other forces."
"Had the industry not been decimated by a lack of vision caused by corporate bean counters obsessed with the bottom line, musicians would have been able to stick with creating music rather than trying to market it as well."
"Record companies soon discovered that because of BDS, they only needed to concentrate on about 12 radio stations; there was no longer a business rationale for working secondary markets that were soon forgotten -- despite the fact that these were the very places where rock and roll was born and thrived. Why pay attention to Louisville -- worth a comparatively few potential listeners -- when the same one spin in New York, Los Angeles or Atlanta, etc., was worth so many more potential listeners? All of a sudden there were #1 records that few of us had ever heard of. At the time we asked ourselves, "Am I out of touch?" We didn't realize that this was the start of change that would grow to kill, if not the whole of the music business, then most certainly, the record companies."
Taken from his Huff Post piece dated 22nd March 2009
My local MP informed me that the whole act would be looked at after the election, with the current coalition government and what they are proposing with regards to financial cuts etc I doubt though it will ever happen. Hopefully the ISPs can get some judicial clarification as it may be the only hope we have in the UK.
Does this make all our current HD enable devices obsolete? will we now be expected to buy new DRM crippled systems to continue watching HD content aired on the BBC HD channel?
If the venue had a valid entertainments license and was up to date with his payments this is just a case of a band with probably left leaning liberal tendancies being a bit miffed that the song got used by the Tories..... Would they have complained if Nick Clegg used it as a backing track to his latest Youtube vid?
I just love that the chart reproduced by Mike shows just how much revenue goes to the artist when signed to a label compared to going it alone.. I must use this the next time someone tells me that Labels are the best deal for any upcoming artist/band.
The "TV Channel" is almost dead, you can hear it taking its last lingering breaths, I can watch any BBC channel, some ITV and Channel 4 online via a webpage or in the case of BBC iPlayer streamed to my Humax FreeSat settop box. All I want now is the ability to add content to my own "Channel" so I can set up the whole evenings viewing before I get home.
The sooner these companies transition into simple content providers and give us the ability to choose how we watch their content the better in my opinion.
As the Aussies point out, they are pirates because there is no services available, they are forced to wait months, like the UK and Europe, for shows airing in the US, the sooner we have global releases and someone produces a service at a decent price the sooner those numbers of "pirated" shows will drop.
Which is daft isn't it, they stopped bookstores from importing books that their customers wanted... bookstores acting as an example of how a business should be, providing a services based upon it's customers wants and needs, not dicatating how it's customers can buy its product.
No wonder the third part has been available via the bittorrent protocol for 6 months...
All just part of the cycle, unfortunately for us here in the "first world" before long we will become part of the "third world" as we lose our skills and global conglomerates move their industries offshore to save money. Hopefully in about 100 years the part of the cycle China and India are on will come back round to the US/UK/Europe again.
Governments no longer represent the people, whether you are forced (Australia) or not forced (UK) to vote.
The people have a much harder time getting their voice loud enough for it to be heard over the racket from paid lobbiests. Lobbiests who because of the large companies they represent are able to get the ear of a politician by slipping his campaign fund a few thousand in crisp notes.
An oversized and extremely expensive iPhone when thinking of the 3G model.
Targetted as the netbook killer it fails to even match a netbook. No outputs, no inputs as standard, 4:3 resolution, no true OS, no multitasking, no ability to handle Flash (yet supposedly the best way to view the web)... the list is endless. The Apple Fans will be all over it like a rash but so far nearly everyone I've spoken to who initially raved about it have since cooled off.
For less money you can buy a nice shiny 12" dual core Atom running Windows 7. I'll be waiting to see what happens with the HP Slate.
The Swiss do make me chuckle... before long they'll be giving every man over 18 a gun to keep at home to defend his country from the hoards of cheese eating, cuckoo clock loving waiting at the border... oh they already do that!
errr... maybe they'll ban the building of minarets on Mosques... bugger!
does this mean we can now sue car makers who don't have airbags in the back or side impact protection? The patents exists surely every car maker should be using them.
Value? no not neccesarily, some copyright prohibits format shifting so they HAVE to buy it again, so now we have the same person paying for, in essence, the same product twice. They don't value it any more just they want to listen to it in a different way.
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So that £29k /$45k is only additional costs, and the day to day costs (read greater) of the whole investigation aren't included.
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"Had the industry not been decimated by a lack of vision caused by corporate bean counters obsessed with the bottom line, musicians would have been able to stick with creating music rather than trying to market it as well."
"Record companies soon discovered that because of BDS, they only needed to concentrate on about 12 radio stations; there was no longer a business rationale for working secondary markets that were soon forgotten -- despite the fact that these were the very places where rock and roll was born and thrived. Why pay attention to Louisville -- worth a comparatively few potential listeners -- when the same one spin in New York, Los Angeles or Atlanta, etc., was worth so many more potential listeners? All of a sudden there were #1 records that few of us had ever heard of. At the time we asked ourselves, "Am I out of touch?" We didn't realize that this was the start of change that would grow to kill, if not the whole of the music business, then most certainly, the record companies."
Taken from his Huff Post piece dated 22nd March 2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-mellencamp/on-my-mind-the-state-of-t_b_177836.html
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/heads off to alt.binaries.......
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The sooner these companies transition into simple content providers and give us the ability to choose how we watch their content the better in my opinion.
As the Aussies point out, they are pirates because there is no services available, they are forced to wait months, like the UK and Europe, for shows airing in the US, the sooner we have global releases and someone produces a service at a decent price the sooner those numbers of "pirated" shows will drop.
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No wonder the third part has been available via the bittorrent protocol for 6 months...
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The people have a much harder time getting their voice loud enough for it to be heard over the racket from paid lobbiests. Lobbiests who because of the large companies they represent are able to get the ear of a politician by slipping his campaign fund a few thousand in crisp notes.
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An oversized and extremely expensive iPhone when thinking of the 3G model.
Targetted as the netbook killer it fails to even match a netbook. No outputs, no inputs as standard, 4:3 resolution, no true OS, no multitasking, no ability to handle Flash (yet supposedly the best way to view the web)... the list is endless. The Apple Fans will be all over it like a rash but so far nearly everyone I've spoken to who initially raved about it have since cooled off.
For less money you can buy a nice shiny 12" dual core Atom running Windows 7. I'll be waiting to see what happens with the HP Slate.
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Telesync = crudish.
Telecine = ok'ish.. if you really have to watch it now.
R5 = ok, normally let down by audio.
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errr... maybe they'll ban the building of minarets on Mosques... bugger!
Oh the Swiss... they just mad.
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Sooooo...
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