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www.youtube.com/bestbuy - Musician and Best Buy employee, Keith Parsons, rocks his Best Buy holiday campaign audition.
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- inactive, on 02/26/2009, -1/+104Will the people who owe me money please stand up?
- statik99, on 11/03/2009, -6/+60Time for companies like those represented by the RIAA to wake up and embrace the internet. How ironic this sort of suit coming from Eminem.
- drlha, on 02/26/2009, -0/+46When you consider that record companies still screw their artists royalties over ***** stuff like "breakage", I think this lawsuit is a long time coming.
- funkedup, on 02/26/2009, -2/+45Record companies get .70 of a .99 single.
- Crazysticks, on 02/26/2009, -9/+50Eminem is amazing with rhyming and syncopating words. His hooks are very catchy. And he has made many amazing songs with the amazing vocals and beats of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog. If hip hop isn't your thing, that doesn't mean you have to knock it.
- Kravin, on 02/26/2009, -6/+44***** the riaa?
- p341250n, on 02/26/2009, -1/+32Why is that ironic?
- SoCalDissident, on 02/26/2009, -1/+32It's like rain. You know, on your wedding day.
Ironic like that. - Uchikoma, on 02/26/2009, -0/+27Time for artists to get a bit more of the pie that they should have been entitled to, to begin with. They should do something about CD sales too...or stop doing it through studios and distribute their music entirely online.
...and for the person who recommends just downloading for free...while the studio's are douches and out-of-touch, it does not mean that we are automatically entitled to free music. Support the artists that you claim to like. Go to a live concert, donate some money (to the artist), or suck it up and buy the CD/digital copy. If you can't do any of that, then don't download it. - serif69, on 02/26/2009, -0/+21That is possibly the best anti-piracy ad I have ever seen.
- SpectralSounds, on 02/26/2009, -4/+23Are you implying that Eminem or the people who listen to him are gangstas? That is amusing.
- AndrewLeon, on 02/26/2009, -5/+21The Slim Wallet LP
- borez, on 02/26/2009, -0/+15Make your own mind up ( pre digital distribution contracts i.e. before itunes etc. existed, and not covered in most existing artist contracts up until a few years ago )
Distribution = manufacture of physical product to be shipped to a market place directly via physical means. ( a 70/30 label/artist split )
Licence = sell to a third party who package and distribute via their own means. ( a 50/ 50 split )
Eminem has a great case here, without doubt. His label are definitely ( in my book ) licensing the product off to itunes etc. with no manufacturing or distribution costs to themselves. Period.
Another prime example of a major record company playing the corrupt greedy pigs that they are. - inactive, on 02/26/2009, -0/+15Don't be shy
- mysn239, on 02/26/2009, -0/+15***** THE RIAA
- dsmx, on 02/26/2009, -0/+15Have a look at the top of the page and yo'll see a link to tthis news article which actualy tells you.
- tehxen3, on 02/26/2009, -1/+16Nah son, real G's flash their legal iTunes songs next to $1000 I'm rich iPhone app while standing on a m#^$&in boat.
Believe that. - BedPost, on 02/26/2009, -0/+14Killing Napster set us on the path to better sharing technologies... it was the best thing that ever happened to file sharing.
- roxgod666, on 02/26/2009, -0/+13Gangstas don't know what the hell a torrent is.
- 1longtime, on 02/26/2009, -1/+13Not so sure about this. Suing a label for more money might be... good? I mean, in general I support more power to the artist and ***** the label. But then, the label will probably just squeeze consumers and the channels for digital distribution.
Plus this involves Dre, who (along with Metallica) killed Napster and set us all back about 5 years...
I have no idea anymore. - Rockyn, on 02/26/2009, -1/+12Yes. Yes indeed.
- MrZop, on 02/26/2009, -1/+9apparently you haven't heard much of Eminem's tracks if you think he raps about rims and grillz.
but hey, if blindly bundling things together is your thing, have fun with it. - LilRabbitFooFoo, on 02/26/2009, -2/+10The artists are getting RIPPED OFF on a daily basis.
Recording = Chump change now. The studios still charge recording costs and % as if it was the 1960's. When everything went digital and desktop decades ago.
Marketing = Really? You see the occasional add for someone like Radiohead's new album.
How about the other 9000 artists each studio represents?
Distribution = Really? The studios charge the SAME price for a CD as they have for 20+ years, and yet ALL COSTS have dropped to almost nothing. Their cost for distribution online is ZILCH, NADA, NOTHING.
Like most racketeering enterprises, the five studios are in collusion, not capitalist competition, and since they control and own all ends of the music spectrum, from the artists, to all the radio stations, to Clear Channel (which creates the playlists AND advertising for all radio stations).
They've just squeezed and squeezed more profit, failing to pass these on to the artists who actually CREATE the content or to the consumers in the form of lower prices. - inactive, on 02/26/2009, -1/+9You're an idiot. The man has sold over 80 million records, he's one of the wealthiest rappers alive. This is about principles, not about money.
- HyperJack, on 02/26/2009, -2/+9Spoon's and knive's mate. Spoon's and knives.
- Matri, on 02/27/2009, -1/+8Killing Napster brought us P2P technology and BitTorrent, while at the same time setting the recording industry back at least a whole decade.
- inactive, on 02/26/2009, -1/+7Yeah, I read it on Digg.com
- dazparkour, on 02/26/2009, -0/+6Wow, you went from 1 to minus 7 in the 30 seconds it took me to read you and digg you down.
- jjamminjon, on 02/27/2009, -0/+6There are a lot of bad artist in every genre, rap/hip-hop just happen to have the highest percentage for some blatantly obvious reasons. That being said, Digg is primarily comprised of rock heads both figuratively and literally.
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 02/26/2009, -0/+5The artists are getting RIPPED OFF on a daily basis.
Recording = Chump change now. The studios still charge recording costs and % as if it was the 1960's. When everything went digital and desktop decades ago.
Marketing = Really? You see the occasional add for someone like Radiohead's new album.
How about the other 9000 artists each studio represents?
Distribution = Really? The studios charge the SAME price for a CD as they have for 20+ years, and yet ALL COSTS have dropped to almost nothing. Their cost for distribution online is ZILCH, NADA, NOTHING.
Like most racketeering enterprises, the five studios are in collusion, not capitalist competition, and since they control and own all ends of the music spectrum, from the artists, to all the radio stations, to Clear Channel (which creates the playlists AND advertising for all radio stations).
They've just squeezed and squeezed more profit, failing to pass these on to the artists who actually CREATE the content or to the consumers in the form of lower prices. - zambuka, on 02/26/2009, -0/+5Right there in the article
"under distribution rates they often earn less than 30%"
"they" refering to the artist. - MrZop, on 02/26/2009, -0/+5the lawsuit is over two years old, it's just now going to court. keep up, dumbass.
- inactive, on 02/26/2009, -4/+8Even Eminem recognized intellectual property rights. He recognizes that he puts a lot of HARD WORK and he wants to be COMPENSATED.
- amawg9, on 02/26/2009, -1/+5alive and breaking records http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.8553/title.- ...
- wilcocola, on 02/26/2009, -0/+4nothing you idiots dr. dre's dead he's locked in my basement. Feminist women love eminem look-a-look-a-look-at slim shady i'm sick of him look at him walkin around grabin his you know what... you know the rest
- mysn239, on 02/26/2009, -1/+5***** THE RIAA
- joelcass, on 02/26/2009, -2/+6It wouldn't surprise me..... but is there a source for this info?
- Rockyn, on 02/26/2009, -1/+4Damn kids!
- Burnsee, on 02/26/2009, -3/+6Spaghetttti Spaghettttti
- wilf_brim, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4Neither Apple nor the labels have every disclosed the exact split on your 99 cents. However, several different sources have said that the labels get between 60 and 70 cents. So, for doing (basically) nothing, they take 70%, leaving the Apple (or whoever) with the remaining 30% to cover infrastructure, processing, promotion, and everything else. And of this the artist usually gets a cent or two.
The entire point here is that the "you are stealing from the artist" line, is just that. A line. You are stealing mostly from the record label (as this lawsuit kind of proves). So, yea, ***** the RIAA. - SkittlesUSA, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4true uchikoma,
Maybe it is "Time for artists to get a bit more of the pie that they should have been entitled to, to begin with."
However, I have heard this as an excuse for pirating music also and it does not follow. Eminem may be getting the short end of the deal, but the point is he entered a bilateral voluntary and informed contract. Nobody forced him to sign on with the RIAA, and the RIAA took a risk in the market by endorsing his music.
Please stop blaming the RIAA for everything, they are a COMPANY, you are not FORCED to give money to them, and Eminem wasn't FORCED to work with the RIAA. This does not mean you have the liberty to steal music Digg, so please stop rationalizing your habits. - TheKingOfGames, on 02/26/2009, -0/+3You like getting dugg down?
- jkmyoung, on 02/26/2009, -0/+3And Dr. Dre said...
- winmywii, on 02/26/2009, -0/+3Cam people are paying for these tracks already. We're just pointing out that the artists deserve a bigger cut than what the labels are giving them.
- BurnTees, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4i COULD NOT agree more
- AndrewDB, on 02/26/2009, -0/+3Hopefully other artists will follow suit.
- getbusyliving, on 02/26/2009, -2/+5Bratterscain you took the words right out of my mouth. Some of Eminem's old ***** was funny as hell but the past two records have been him taking himself way to ***** seriously.
- sretrtwe54t, on 02/26/2009, -1/+4"Hear me out before I get burried instantly."
He doesn't say anything interesting after this. - scriptcoder, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4Exactly. People say that the artists are being screwed when the artists entered into an agreement with the company.
- valarking, on 02/26/2009, -1/+4YES cam0, finally someone said it! I've been telling my car mechanic all along that he shouldn't charge me for labor!
All /s aside, you seem to have no idea how things work. People don't always pirate things because they're not worth paying for. They pirate them because it's extremely easy and by definition is cheaper than the alternative. -
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