"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:i69jg8$2mu...@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.)