Jaylinbridges

Not at the clubs that feature sploders as their main attraction, and the patrons are sploder and contest players that usually don't have the music stream on. They just hop from venue to venue when the contest/sploder starts, and leave when it is over - they have a group to announce the best venues to play their freebie $L games. They do not contribute to the venue or the DJ's. I will never play to these jerks. And contests are easily scammed by clans and friends. IMO they all need to be banned. The same club where the vampire clan scammed the $4000L best-dressed contest, also had the old now illegal sploder. As a DJ I pumped it a for a few sets, and lost about $1000L. Never got tips from the winners, who were not regular patrons.

As I predicted, the CRB (Copyright Royalty Board) which all US broadcasters must pay a fee to broadcast, has just released their fee schedules for the next 5 years, retroactive to Jan 1, 2021. Basic minimum fee is now $1000 USD/year, doubled from prior $500 USD. Other fees on a per song basis also increased. How many SL DJ's are going to pay $1000 USD upfront, to the CRB, before the July deadline? IF you DO NOT broadcast 24/7 on the internet, and have NO web page or other indication of activity, and your stream is private - the answer is NONE. And as Sid points out, this does not cover all countries for USA broadcasters. These fees don't apply to SL-only DJ's, despite what some here are trying to tell you. Their motive is to end DJing in SL, because they couldn't make it years ago, or they live in a country with paranoia as a national trait. Here is the web writeup from: https://www.broadcastlawblog.com The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) released its long-awaited decision on streaming royalties for 2021-2025, finding that the rates applicable to both broadcasters that simulcast their over-the-air signals on the internet and other non-interactive webcasters will go up. The per performance (per song, per listener) royalty rate increases to $.0021 for non-subscription streams, up from the current $.0018. In another change, the minimum per-channel fee is going up to $1,000 for each channel that is streamed (from $500). For each entity that is relying on this compulsory license, their maximum aggregate per-channel minimum fee is $100,000 (up from $50,000). That means that, each January, a company relying on this license will have to pay $1,000 per channel that they stream up to the maximum $100,000. These yearly up-front payments will be credited against actual usage fees, which are paid monthly. Nonprofit webcasters will be subject to the same minimum per-channel fees. However, a webcaster that is a nonprofit entity is permitted to stream on any channel up to 159,140 aggregate tuning hours per month for the yearly $1,000 minimum. That permits a nonprofit webcaster to average approximately 200 simultaneous listeners on a channel before having to pay for streaming at the commercial per performance rate. Webcasters who are affiliated with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are not subject to these fees, as CPB has negotiated a separate blanket license that covers its affiliates. Payments under these new rates will likely be retroactive to January 1 of this year.

you failed to mention who they are suing: Pro Music Rights, LLC (Pro Music Rights) announced today that it has filed 10 separate copyright infringement actions against music streaming services, arising out of the unauthorized public performance of its members’ copyrighted musical works. Lodged with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the bundle of lawsuits names Apple, Google, YouTube, Amazon, SoundCloud, Pandora, Deezer, 7digital, iHeartradio and Rhapsody as defendants. I don't see Second Life or Joe's Bar & Grill on the list. I wonder why? This is a bunch of shady New York lawyers trying to make a buck by suing the largest Internet distributors of music in the world. They will lose, but still collect fees from the artists they claim to protect. This tells me all I need to know about "Pro Music Rights" : PRO MUSIC RIGHTS, LLC Headquarters: Naples, Florida Website: promusicrights.com/ CEO: Jake Noch Employees: 10 Organization: PRI And what artists do they represent? None that I would ever play - mostly Hip-Hop. With an estimated 7.4% market share, Pro Music Rights has rights to license about two million works from top artists including A$AP Rocky, Wiz Khalifa, Pharrell, Young Jeezy, Juelz Santana, Lil Yachty, Soulja Boy, Nipsey Hussle, 2 Chainz, Migos, Gucci Mane and Fall Out Boy, among others.

ANNOUNCEMENT: REAL LIFE IS NOT SECOND LIFE, AND SECOND LIFE IS NOT REAL LIFE ! This was all covered in the earlier thread referenced here, but some never learn. Remember, none of the self righteous posters in this thread actually DJ in SL, or understand the broadcast industry, or the struggling artists. It's the blind leading the blind. BTW if I were to obtain a Sound Exchange license to DJ in SL, it would cost me about $1600 USD/year if the new Sound Exchange fees increase retroactively when announced on June 14. I would need about 400,000 Lindens/year from tips to just cover my expenses. And that would not cover the copyrights from the songwriters and bands that created the original song. Most DJ's do NOT broadcast on the internet and their stream is private, and usually turned off. If you can't find me, you can only listen in SL for my 2 hr sets a few times/week. Internet broadcasting means you have a web site, you beg for donations to support your station, with Pay Pal, credit card and even Bitcoin apps to pay. Some even give you a PO Box to send cash, in case your illegally here and have no bank account, or your income is all from selling drugs. And like all DJ's, their music is given to them for promotion for free. That is what radio stations have always done. A DJ is not a radio station.

I found another tune for you, from a Shady boy...

There are new artists and bands in other than pop and metal and hip-hop, none of which I play. By new, I also mean new to SL. A band that has 12 albums that started in 1972, that because it didn't make the top charts for 3 months, no one plays in SL. I have thousands of bands with a dozen albums each that never get played in SL. Why? Because most club owners say play what is popular, what everyone has heard 100 or 1000 times already, because that's why they come here. Some clubs are ONLY top 40 - play a song that didn't make the commercial list and they will fire you. And those clubs are some of the largest. Appeal to the masses, etc. Have you heard of the Atomic 44's? A new group but members from other bands - basically a super group with 100 years total experience. So far they have pre-released one song, and their first album will be released in July of this year. I don't really like their pre-release, but the rest of the album songs look interesting. Just one example. I find these things every day.

Well that depends on your musical genre tastes first of all. My set last night played 1/2 new releases that I have not heard anyone play in SL yet. That is typical of some of my sets - I play new artists, obscure because they are local bands, and new releases in my genre. A lot of Indie bands and labels before they make it to a major label too. There was not a song in my set last night I have heard any other DJ at my club play, although I did play some new cover versions of old songs, just released and worthy of a listen. I have a very deep library with recordings going back 100 years - and it includes full albums, not just the "hit song" from an album. I played 5 songs last night I had never played before in my life, and I been DJing for 15 years on the internet. And they were not new songs. I take requests, and most are the usual top 40 fare, but I play them because they were a request. Nobody plays "stump the DJ" with me, because I can find anything ever released publicly. No sorry I can't play the cassette you made of your high school band graduation party playing "Louie, Louie" in 1978, because you never made any duplicates I voice, work with the crowd, change my playlist on the spot, do themes, and if the music is new or unknown, usually add a few words about it. Sometimes I am just lazy and stick up a good website review to explain a new group or song, depending on the crowd size. The larger the crowd the less talking I do. I have never even heard of "Pour Some Sugar on Me" so that's a plus. It must be Pop, and I don't do Pop music.

"Nothing voluntary or hobby like about working in a club for someone else" Ah I see, well that is my opinion. I am sure some DJ's and entertainers work in clubs only as a hobby so they volunteer their time for free. I am not one of them, unless it is for a good charity cause. If I volunteer to work for a charity I don't expect to get paid. I don't volunteer to work at clubs that want you to promote their businesses, while they pay you nothing for your time, OR where the patrons are too cheap to tip the DJ's and hostesses, but somehow think the club owner should be tipped. Clubs like that usually have a very limited DJ schedule board, often no scheduled events at all. But you can come in and listen to the radio stream and use their Intan dance balls. It's pretty clear that some here think that would be just perfect - no more DJ's or artists, just a building, an internet stream playing, and some dances.

I have had hobbies in real life. I also have done many tax returns. The IRS (our Infernal Revenue Service) defines a hobby as: If you are not in business to make a profit, the IRS considers your activity as not-for-profit for sport or recreation (that is, a hobby), and it says you cannot deduct expenses to get a loss to offset other income. Many legitimate businesses start out with a loss their first few years. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/hobby-or-business-irs-offers-tips-to-decide Is it a Business or a Hobby? A key feature of a business is that people do it to make a profit. People engage in a hobby for sport or recreation, not to make a profit. Consider nine factors when determining whether an activity is a hobby. Make sure to base the determination on all the facts and circumstances. For more about ‘not-for-profit’ rules, see Publication 535, Business Expenses. Maybe your country taxes your hobbies? When a hobby results in a net Profit, it is no longer a hobby but a business.

You grumpy today Sid? What are you talking about? You said enter the url in plain text, so I did, and it worked! Then I said Thanks Sid. I also saw that you entered the same url in your post, then deleted it. One ZZ Top video is enough. I asked you how to delete the Code insert in my later edit comment, since I had tried that before I asked what I was doing wrong. Since you knew the answer to one question, I thought maybe you knew the other too. Why is everyone in this forum a nit picker looking for drama? Well not everyone, but more than normal. Must be a Covid vaccine side effect.

I said, if I am going to play, I would like to break even at least, after my expenses. Where you got the rest of that I have no idea. I just pointed out that it is like any other job - since spending my time to lose money is not a job to me. The clubs are not a charity, nor is the owner. It's just a rather low paying business. I have been working at the same club for the last 10 years, and I stay there because it is not a hobby, that is, I do better than break even after all expenses.

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Say what? Venue's don't pay DJ's because, you know, all we do is play other people's music, which must be somewhere near flushing your toilet after use on the skill level. Live entertainers, learn a song, then sing it 1000 times over at the same venues for years, so they need no preparation, and get paid 4000 $L/ hour for that. That's why DJ's appreciate a tip if you are entertaining the crowd, because otherwise we work for free. Most club owners I know break even most months. That's why they stay in business. We ask that our patrons tip the venue of course. Or we would be fired for not supporting their club. Not many serious SLer's keep any business that is a money pit for long. Only the profitable ones survive.

Any business can be a hobby if you cannot cover your expenses. But the dollar amounts should not be compared to RL vs SL. Why would I rather fry burgers for $15/hr in RL, instead of DJ in SL? There is no comparison, because I get to decide what I do with my retirement time. My RL expenses are covered without SL. However I don't like hobbies in SL. If I am going to spend MY time on a schedule doing real work in SL, I at least want to break even. DJ's usually work for someone else, who makes the rules. If I don't show for my sets, I would lose the sets and be dumped off the staff. Nothing voluntary or hobby like about working in a club for someone else. My monthly SL expenses, including Premium, private lands, stream expenses (I have two streams), and subscriptions to RL music services so I can keep up to date, are around $50 USD/month. My tips amount to about $150 USD/month, so it's not a hobby. But in RL I used to make $150 USD/hour, not a month - but who cares - I am doing what I love to do. I also have another SL "hobby" that is actually a slightly profitable business. It's not supposed to be, but 10 years experience in that business helps. And no, I am not saying what that is, because I don't need any more competition.

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You don't use Mesh to scale large objects, unless you have unlimited LI Usually my Mesh objects use LESS LI than prims. For example:

How about a vampire clan detector? I once played at a club that would have costume contests, and there could be 4000 $L on the board for the winners. One night the costume theme was dress in black. This rather large Bloodlines clan shows up, they all vote for the Queen and King, who take the $4000 and leave once the winners were announced. None of them ever tipped the venue or DJ. I quit that club after I saw that crap, and will never play where money contests are used to bring in a crowd.

But, but, Alts need to dress too. They hated the Lucky chairs though, because they kept getting the same dresses - I didn't need the drama of two alts wearing the same outfit.

Sure I understand it's not that much. But if you Buy out of the market as Malin and I suggested, you will never have to wait 16 hours. That would mean there were no sellers of Lindens for 16 hours, or Tillia was offline. When you have the best Buy price above everyone else, the market software always executes your order at that price, FIFO, first. As my actual real-time fill list shows, Tillia buys and sells dollars for Lindens and vice versa every minute or less. Given that SL is worldwide, there is always someone awake that needs to buy or sell with the Tillia exchange. So 16 hours just is not possible unless the world crashed for that long, in which case we would probably all be dead. It took 1 min and 13 seconds to fill my $256 USD Sell Limit order with 13 smaller Buy orders. I have my Tillia history that goes back several years that always shows the same activity. The fills that took a little over a minute started around 1800 SLT in my example. The smaller your Buy amount, the quicker it will get filled when you force the system to pick you first. If you buy with a non dollar currency, I don't see why there would be any extra delay. If a Market (instant) Buy works for you, than a Limit Buy should also work without any time delay. Note they estimate the time as 10 minutes for a Limit Buy here. If I went through with this order, the actual time to execute would be less than one minute at 0500 SLT. I am not going to buy Lindens, since I have zero reason to pay the fees just to demonstrate that this works. Perhaps someone from the UK or Europe needs to buy lindens and can check how long it takes, when you enter 248 as your Buy price. To Buy quickly use $248 - if you use $249 you might need to wait 10 mins instead of 1 minute. To Sell quickly use $242 - you will get filled in under 2 mins. So to repeat, if you set your Limit Order price correctly, you will not have to wait. As far as the usual suspects refusing to believe this, pfft.

Depends on the music genre too. Blues and classic rock do not need to be tampered with by knob twiddlers (mixing DJ's). My crowd would leave if I messed up a classic, or a new song by some great artist. Mixing was originally done by block street party DJ's s so the cops would not arrest them for playing copyrighted music. These were urban black neighborhoods where arresting folks was considered sport. Hence hip hop street music began. I never have a set playlist, interact with the VIPs, take requests, and would flunk DJ school if ever tried it. But mixing real music is for the kids, unless it is entirely your own composition. I would rather have listeners than tips. There are sometimes wanna be DJ's that send me a request every 5 mins - apparently they think I have never done this before and need help. Of course these multi song requester's seldom tip. Such a business

I was of course talking about the renter, the OP here counting her Land Impact. Not the landlord. So the rest of your comment to me was totally irrelevant. You still like to talk down to people here. Your choice. 😐 I said: "Yes, it's not clear what the OP's real LI was. But the landlord should not use prims, when she is seeing LI in her list, if that was the case. Counting LI can be tricky if you miss a linkset, when clicking on your creations. " The landlord would not click on the OP's creations, since it was the OP's creations. I should have moved the last sentence to the middle, so you would not think I was speaking about the landlord clicking on creations - English is my first language, but my thoughts can run out of order.

Yes, it's not clear what the OP's real LI was. But the landlord should not use prims, when she is seeing LI in her list, if that was the case. Counting LI can be tricky if you miss a linkset, when clicking on your creations. I have been the region administrater for parcel renting land companies, so I have seen the same region info you do and many "unusual" renter builds. But I mainly build and have been using prims, sculpties, and mesh for about 10 years. I also landscape regions. I am sure you have seen more than I have, since I have other businesses besides land and building, but don't assume you are smarter than everyone else here. I'm also one of those communist technocrats with a fancy bunch of degrees in hard sciences - not much use in SL though. My minors were Sociology and Political Science, while most engineers and physics majors chose computer programming as a "minor".

I posted the OP's comment above. Clearly she is saying her Land Impact was 90, and the landlord claims she is over her 100 prim limit. This is because OP reduced her LI by linking some prim and mesh objects - a normal thing to do when it is possible, to REDUCE the LI to less than the internal prims. This not a case of sizing up a mesh object to get a larger LI than prims, It is just the opposite. What the landlord did not say was what the actual LI she was reading for the parcel. But you don't substitute prims when you mean Land Impact. Many of these cut rate sky rentals use old rental boxes that claim 100 prims for XXX $L. Do they mean old prims, or the actual Land Impact? The landlord needs to get a modern LI counter for her parcels - OR state that I only look at prims NOT the LI. So if you have mesh objects that use 20 prims but have a 12 LI, I am charging you for 20 prims. In other words, Mesh objects do not exist in their mind. I call that stupid.

I disagree. If some designer decided to call my GF's see-thru sexy lingerie, Joe's Carwash, and she didn't remember that name because she hadn't worn it since 2007, then putting Joe's Carwash in the Lingerie folder under Clothing would help her find it. And of course BOM now let's her wear it. Here's what I am dealing with: 20,685 Folders in Main Inventory, and when I started she had 30,000 folders, most of them single outfits. Objects started with no folders or subfolders, just 20,000 objects. I am down to about 5000 objects not in subfolders now, but this still takes forever. Lost and Found is only 1,430 objects, no folders yet. It takes 1 min for her to log on now, down from 2 mins. I been working on her inventory for two years now, when I have the time.