[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[BCS]

Hello Nick,

> "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.)
> 

Subtitles, man. Subtitles. Heck, even at the right volume, I still can't 
understand what they are saying(/mumbleing) some of the time. (And my hearing 
is just fine.)

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