Buy Brownie Points
Forumwarz is the first "Massively Single-Player" online RPG completely built around Internet culture.

You are currently looking at Flamebate, our community forums. Players can discuss the game here, strategize, and role play as their characters.

You need to be logged in to post and to see the uncensored versions of these forums.

Log in or Learn about Forumwarz

Civil Discussion
Switch to Role-Playing Civil Discussion

Viewing a Post

Shii

Avatar: 23167 2010-01-24 16:31:18 -0500
27

[Phantasmagoric Spl-
endor
]

Level 35 Emo Kid

I haven't seen a bad idea that I didn't like.

CrinkzPipe Posted:

Building a car is way different than music. A car would cost a lot more, and require more work. While anyone who saved up a bit of money, and had talented friends could do music.

Do you have any comprehension of how much it costs to make a CD?

Hiring a studio to record costs $100-200 an hour, for starters. The mechanical license in order to produce it costs $.091 per song, per album. I.E. a 10 song album = $.91. If you’re going to sell 100,000 albums that’s a cool $91,000.

Furthermore, the materials for the CDs themselves cost another dollar per, so tack another $100,000 on there. Add in costs for marketing, publicity, hiring the musicians, covering any legal fees, etc. the grand total is upwards of half a million dollars.

You think that a CD is better to steal than a car? Think again.

EDIT: I’m not saying they’re taking it and saying that they produced it; it’s just another one of the exclusive rights. The only difference is saying you own it infringes all the rights, and stealing copies for yourself just infringes the distribution and reproduction rights.

EDIT: Obviously this is mbum-produced, fullscale professional CDs too. I don’t mean your crappy indy label stuff.

Shii edited this message on 04/18/2009 4:29AM
Internet Delay Chat
Have fun playing!
To chat with other players, you must Join Forumwarz or Log In now!