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Comment whata great idea (Score 1) 292

by juslikejesus on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @02:10PM (#32890650) Attached to: The Mouse Vanishes

This is such a great idea you know, because so far in my life my true burden has been my mouse. Mouses are the greatest things ever made I mean it would be kind of nice to have one on my laptop to game on when I wanna lay in bed but I could imagine it being as vulnerable to the age old mouse on uneven surfaces as my elips. $20 to make a makeshift one, but $100 to buy a crap one from Wal-Mart.

RIAA Accounting — How Labels Avoid Paying Musicians 495

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @01:54PM from the hypocrisy-part-deux dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last week, we discussed Techdirt's tale of 'Hollywood Accounting,' which showed how movies like Harry Potter still officially 'lose' money with some simple accounting tricks. This week Techdirt is taking on RIAA accounting and demonstrating why most musicians — even multi-platinum recording stars — may never see a dime from their album sales. 'They make you a "loan" and then take the first 63% of any dollar you make, get to automatically increase the size of the "loan" by simply adding in all sorts of crazy expenses (did the exec bring in pizza at the recording session? that gets added on), and then tries to get the loan repaid out of what meager pittance they've left for you. Oh, and after all of that, the record label still owns the copyrights.' The average musician on a major record deal 'gets' about $23 per $1,000 made... and that $23 still never gets paid because it has to go to 'recouping' the loan... even though the label is taking $630 out of that $1,000, and not counting it towards the advance. Remember all this the next time a record label says they're trying to protect musicians' revenue."

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