[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:i69jg8$2muo$1 at digitalmars.com...
> retard wrote:
>> I doubt they have any power to fight the record company in these kinds of 
>> issues. A friend of a friend signed a deal with a record company owned by 
>> a multinational mother record company. Now they are told where to play 
>> concerts, how the cd distribution is organized, and when they are 
>> supposed to release the next two albums. That's like slavery.
>
> To put it mildly, to say such a thing is like slavery is patently absurd. 
> Contract or no, a record company cannot make you do anything, regardless 
> of what you signed. (Sign a contract with the military, however, and they 
> *can* make you.)
>
> Secondly, people ought to read contracts before they sign them. It's their 
> own fault if they don't.

Until recent years, if you wanted to be a successful musician (aside from 
scoring, and there's really only so much demand for that) you *had* to sign 
one of those constracts. There was no choice - they had an oligopoly on the 
entire market, and if you wanted in they had you by the balls.

> Contracts with children aren't legally binding because children are not 
> considered legally competent. Adults are.
>

I've seen very few adults I'd consider "competent", but oh well ;)

>
> I always get the old versions of CDs before they were remastered :-) as I 
> don't care for the audio leveling.

I've always been unclear on what that is. Is that where they make the 
volume-level relatively consistent? (If so, then I wish the DVD companies 
would start doing it. I hate when I have to turn the volume *waaay* up just 
to hear the dialog and then *waaay* down again to not bust my eardrums as 
soon as music or sound effects come on. And then tough shit whenever a 
character talks during an action scene. Never had to deal with that crap on 
VHS.)