And the PSA debuted in July of 2004.
So still within the protected period

Well, there would still be royalties to pay to the songwriter and the publisher if it were a cover, you just wouldn't have to pay the royalty for a specific master. So, not the same

Lololol not in the music business, huh?

Can confirm, Netflix stops working for me when I'm away from my home network for more than a month, which is a problem for me, as I'm on the road 5 months a year.

What's all the information you removed with the ellipses?

While the Solomon Curve would suggest that you were lowering your rate of accident exposure by remaining with traffic (essentially not passing or being passed, as that increases accident incidence), basic physics tells us that the energy invested in the system (in this case, driving your vehicle forward) must go somewhere when that forward progress is impeded. The destruction of the hypothetical accident increases, so even though the incidence of accidents may decrease, the survivability also decreases.

Glad to hear you've never had a catastrophic vehicle failure while driving.

When the drivers side front wheel literally fell off my van at 70 mph (due to improper torque specing by the tire shop), I was glad I was going a sane speed, as I was able to bring the vehicle safely to a halt without striking my fellow drivers or injuring/killing myself.

Then, of course, there's the danger that speeding presents to those stuck on the side of the road, as well. As I lay under the vehicle, slamming studs back into the hub so I could reattach the wheel and limp home, the trucks would whoosh by and rock the vehicle, but the really dangerous ones were the hillrods blowing by me at 80+ mph in their tweaked-up pick-em-ups. Those were the ones that threatened to knock the vehicle off the jack/stands, and crush me as I attempted to get the vehicle fixed enough to remove it from the roadway.

Thus far, I have escaped being killed on the roadway while changing tires (we blow a trailer tire about once every 18 months, usually from road hazards) and I'll never forget the time we were in Nebraska, changing a tire, and a old boy comes roaring around the big rigs that were staying clear of us in the left lane, and came within a few centimeters of clipping my nose with his side mirror as I got up from breaking the nuts loose, so quickly that i hadn't even realized what had occurred until the truck was already 500 ft downroad.

Basic physics tells us the energy invested in driving a multi thousand pound vehicle at high velocity must go somewhere when that progress is impeded. The more energy, the more potentially destructive the transfer. And that's aside from the math that shows that speeding isn't an effective way to get somewhere noticeably faster unless you're dealing with a very long drive indeed.

It's easy to forget why speeding laws exist, even for me, someone who's nearly been killed multiple times by the needlessly excessive speed of a stranger. But I assure you, they are not simply government imposed money funnels.

Can you cite a source for your final claim?

At least it sounds terrible

It's all very well and good to discuss art in a contextual void, but trying to truly consume it in that state leads to ideas that don't attach well to the base observation.

Maximize return on investment by erecting guardrails to insure against catastrophic failure. The music business is a business like any other, big music being big business.

Can't wait to fully input their decision into my lungs.

The irony is so thick as to be palpable.

You said it yourself there, you don't actually own any of the music, you own the durable license for the lifetime of the physical product. Scratched your record and can't play it? Well, you gotta buy it again, because you don't actually *own* the songs, the recording master, or rights to the media past the physical platter. You're purchasing a physical medium and the license to play the items contained on it.

When you remove the physical piece, the only part of the equation that you literally and actually own, you lose ownership, and you end up renting or leasing the part you never had ownership of in the first place, which you were still actually leasing in the first place.

I'm relatively new to the music business in comparison to some, but it's been this way the entire 20 years of my professional life and for multiple decades previous to my professional involvement.

You actually *can't* do as you see fit. Want to play that music in a public place? That's a different license, with different licensees. Want to play that movie for paying customers? That's a different license, with different licensees.

Ownership of the physical media does not grant you these licenses, nor does it mean you own the thing. You buy one of my CDs, you can't collect songwriters royalties on it, because you *don't* actually own the song, you simply own a lease of a license for personal use.

Do you get it now?