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Comment How much is Sound Exchange skimming off the top? (Score 1) 124

How much of the money Sound Exchange collects goes to the artists, how much of the money Sound Exchange collects goes to music publishers? How much of the money Sound Exchange collects goes to song writers?

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The money trail in the music industry is long, crooked and complex. Unless you are a big enough act that the records companies accept the contract you write, the only money you will see appears in your upturned hat.....

Comment It made a lot of sense... (Score 4, Insightful) 86

... "Those who predicted Wheeler would favor industry interests 'misunderstood him from the beginning — the notion that because he had represented various industries, he was suddenly in their pocket never made any sense,' ...

Given that Mr. Wheeler is more of an outlier than a norm, it made a lot of sense to presume Mr. Wheeler would favor industry interests.

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I, for one, am glad he broke from the mold.

Comment A pretty UAC (Score 1) 190

This sounds like new lipstick on the Windows UAC pig. From the UAC page:

User Account Control (UAC) helps defend your PC against hackers and malicious software. Any time a program wants to make a major change to your computer, UAC lets you know and asks for permission.

This new "feature" looks like yet another security prompt that the user is going to click through.

Comment Re:Help me out here a little... (Score 1) 533

...As the amount of electricity you draw from their generators goes down, they're going to reach the point of needing to charge you a flat fee just for the connection to the power lines, plus the usual fees for actually using their electricity....

I already pay separately for delivery (i.e., connection to lines) vs. generation (i.e., use of electricity). so no change needed here.

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Having said that, I do have some agreement with the utilities on this item: utilities say that solar-generated electricity flowing out of houses and into a power grid designed to carry it in the other direction has caused unanticipated voltage fluctuations that can overload circuits, burn lines and lead to brownouts or blackouts.

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