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Comment on Digital Economy Bill: How did Scottish MPs vote? by Downfall: Tom Harris MP « Tim Dobson

Downfall: Tom Harris MP « Tim Dobson — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:14:53 +0000

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Comment on Best of 2009: Top 5 Games by Top 5 Games of 2011 - Thoughts of a Bearded Gent

Top 5 Games of 2011 - Thoughts of a Bearded Gent — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:00:22 +0000

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Comment on Is Spotify Bad News for Independent Record Labels? by michael

michael — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:13:22 +0000

the problem with spotify for artists is not that it will detract even more from physical record sales *though this obviously is somewhat of a problem, physical record sales are going down for good anyway). the problem is that the contracts that they negotiate cut artists out of profits almost entirely. you pretend as though independent artists ought to be happy that spotify will encourage digital sales, and this would be the case if spotify paid the artists anything like a reasonable rate. However, put your music on spotify and you can expect, as the artist to get a cut of something like $.0004 per play. This is a laughably low payment rate and its easy to see that no artist will receive significant financial benefit at such a rate without getting MANY MILLIONS of plays. spotify (owned by major record labels) is another way for people who have NOTHING to do with makeing music (e.g. lawyers, marketing goons, middle management at columbia, disgusting record executives, etc…) to make money off of the LONG AND DIFFICULT HOURS put in by musicians to produce the work that enriches your life. If you support independent musicians GET OFF OF SPOTIFY NOW, THEY DO NOT PAY ARTISTS AT ANYTHING APPROACHING A FAIR OR PRACTICAL RATE. Id rather that 10000000 people download my music illegally and i dont receive a dime, than have the same number of people buy my music through spotify netting me something like $10 and enriching music industry fucking assholes who have nothing to do with making music while supporting a system designed to lock artists out of the profit generated from their own work. DO NOT USE SPOTIFY IF YOU CLAIM TO GIVE A RAT’S ASS ABOUT MUSICIANS.

Comment on Is Spotify Bad News for Independent Record Labels? by Elinor

Elinor — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:23:43 +0000

thanks for the response! I’m 2 weeks away from handing in my MA dissertation about digitisation and how it’s affected independent and major labels differently, so your article has proved invaluable x x x

Comment on Is Spotify Bad News for Independent Record Labels? by Jodi Mullen

Jodi Mullen — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:15:17 +0000

Hi Elinor, the graph is sourced from:

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/021711disruption

My bad, I thought I had linked for attribution – will edit that in now!

Comment on Is Spotify Bad News for Independent Record Labels? by Elinor

Elinor — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:29:31 +0000

Hi, where is your graph/diagram sourced from please?

Comment on Is Spotify Bad News for Independent Record Labels? by Arlandria

Arlandria — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:11:48 +0000

I totally agree! I do doubly support my fave bands by purchasing albums, but listening them on Spotify, since my music collection becomes so compact and easy to access. Such a shame Century Media pulled out their catalog…I want my Pain Of Salvation songs back (moreover I had a bunch of songs in my intended wedding playlist that do not exist there anymore) ((((

Comment on Consumer’s guide to RMA by The Master

The Master — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:30:54 +0000

Richard N,

Quite sobering as I had exactly the same problem with Overclockers in 2006. Motherboard kept freezing in BIOS so sent it back at my cost, with all cables ect that were included in the box. They said there was no fault at all and sent the motheroard back 12 days later. Fitted again the same day and except this time, its failure to complete POST. RMA again, motherboard sent back with all cable etc. Again “no fault found”. They didnt send it back until 6 weeks later minus all the cables. Not even securely packaged, just loose in the box. Usning parts from other PC’s I assemble again to tget exactly the same again. After writing 2 written complaint letters, 17 emails, I received a handful of mish mash cables in a jiffy bag 12 weeks after receving the mobo from last time. The email responces were incredible “We have a policy not to reply to complaints” “we havent got cables so we cant send them” and the best one was “I cant see what the big problem is”….

I returned the motherboard to gigabyte directly who confirmed the fault and replaced it the same week.

I accept that faults happen but the attitude from the compnay on the service side was absolutely appalling. I used to write for a PC magazine at the time and had great pleasure in listing the problems I had with that company. Got a flood of responces from readers and one of our own staff who had had similar issues. Stay well clear from shoddy service.