Some of you may be interested in this.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
The gov't still needs a warrant to get info on you, but the entertainment industry shouldn't need one... Does that answer your question on distrust, Greg ?![]()
Some of you may be interested in this.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
The gov't still needs a warrant to get info on you, but the entertainment industry shouldn't need one... Does that answer your question on distrust, Greg ?![]()
Last edited by Blodrast; 04-29-2007 at 21:18.
Therapy helps, but screaming obscenities is cheaper.
Would anyone like a copy of Spiderman 3?![]()
Their about already.
But to me their crying over nothing the greedy bastards. Like their not making enough money?
Dont they get paid up front by their record company? After that they get a percentage of the sales but its really small.I know we've been over this repeatedly in the past; but just to level out the discussion, I'll re-point out that the original content maker (writer, musician, filmer, coder) ought to be compensated for his/her effort.
I work for CD distributer and were hurting bad. Everyones going to IPODs and MP3s. Who wants to lug a cd player and a ton of CDs around with you? I would suppose the artists also get a percentage of the download money.
As long as people dont set up factories like here in NYC to produce these things I dont think they should worry about individual people copying things.
Fighting for Truth , Justice and the American way
The advance usually needs to be paid back to the company. Say you get a $1 million advance. Your album sells x copies for y profit. You get z% (minus a,b,c,d,e for travel, a&r costs, production, etc).Dont they get paid up front by their record company? After that they get a percentage of the sales but its really small.
The Problem with Music
Label Contracts
People don't trust the music industry because it has stagnated and not produced music recently. Ever since the punks proved that new and vibrant music could be made without the help of the big 5 bands have been drifting away from them. The internet and computer technology have made the big 5 obsolete, they just don't know it yet. Bands can now record, promote, distribute, and tour without some a&r man to tell them what to do.
Sometimes I slumber on a bed of roses
Sometimes I crash in the weeds
One day a bowl full of cherries
One night I'm suckin' on lemons and spittin' out the seeds
-Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Lemons
I think the entertainment industry can be rightly accused of acting as a cabal in setting prices around the world. Introducing so-called protection mechanisms to artificially inflate costs. DVD regions for instance is purely a mechanism to gouge the consumers and stifle free trade.
Quoted for truth.Originally Posted by Papewaio
Yes, the artists should be fairly compensated for their work. But is that what happens under the current system? My understanding is that the studios take the lionshare of the money for themselves and only give the artists a small percentage. Maybe that made sense in the good ole'days, but today with the many marketing and distribution avenues available, it's starting to seem like they're screwing the artists (and consumers) just to line their own pockets.![]()
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
Quite true. CDs are incredibly expensive here. So expensive in fact that it is often cheaper to order direct from the US even with postage and import tax!Originally Posted by Papewaio
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