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How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by jedberg »

Any time you get mad about a streaming service who seems to have changed music or a credits clip for a TV show or movie, this is basically why.

To get the rights to use things in technologies that didn't exist when the media was created, you often have to go back to everyone involved and get their permission. Sometimes they don't say yes, or they aren't findable, or just aren't alive, and it's not clear who owns the rights anymore.

This isn't as much of a problem with newer media, because contracts now specify what happens with new technologies, but old contracts were often limited to specific technologies.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by yoz »

tantalor wrote: post #58

This is quite short and doesn't really contain any insights or details that aren't simply obvious or easily assumed.

Yeah, it's a shame. I usually enjoy Raymond Chen's posts, but this doesn't tell me anything particularly interesting other than that the band didn't know. The main question I have is: why this video? What's the story behind the choice?

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by adventured »

netsharc wrote: post #6

Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…

'Consensual' sex between a 50 year old President - the most powerful man in the world - and a 21 year old intern. Yeah right.

Clinton had a decades-long history of being a sexual predator. He was repeatedly accused of rape. He was also active with his friendship with Epstein during those years, which I think everybody understands what that means at this point.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by chihuahua »

to11mtm wrote: post #49
Brian_K_White wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sony wasted several gigs of the very small (32g to 120g) and very expensive ssds of the time with 2 copies of a Spider Man 3 movie pre-loaded onto several different laptops. One copy in the normal installed fs, another copy in the recovery partition. And you couldn't even watch the movie unless you also paid to unlock it. You could delete the normal copy if you even knew it was there and then also used a disk usage u…

... That is the most Sony thing ever lol

Indeed.

I don't know how Sony could top this, except possibly by also suing everyone.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by direwolf20 »

adventured wrote: post #64
netsharc wrote: post #6

Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…

'Consensual' sex between a 50 year old President - the most powerful man in the world - and a 21 year old intern. Yeah right. Clinton had a decades-long history of being a sexual predator. He was repeatedly accused of rape. He was also active with his friendship with Epstein during those years, which I think everybody understands what that means at this point.

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Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by direwolf20 »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #42
netsharc wrote: post #6

Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…

> let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actually a scandal You're right: now we learned that same ex-president was frequenting Epstein's island. Did that ex- president have sex with trafficked women (Ghislaine Maxwell is in jail for sex-trafficking and she was a known friend of the Clintons btw) on Epstein's island? Was it consensual?

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Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by UqWBcuFx6NV4r »

netsharc wrote: post #6

Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…

That’s a very confident recount given that it’s completely false. Good for you that you’ve memory-holed it. But don’t turn around and act like everyone else was insane.

Maybe you don’t remember iTunes mechanics at the time, but this “gift” as you call it would get in the way all the time. I’d always end up accidentally playing it. It’d always be present in library views when I did not care for it. It couldn’t be truly removed until Apple built a custom web page where you could request it to be removed from your account.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by UqWBcuFx6NV4r »

digiown wrote: post #29
netsharc wrote: post #6

Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…

Imagine that's the worst that happens to "your" library. Good times. We really need to bring the idea of ownership back. https://www.howtogeek.com/playstation-is-deleting-tv-shows-f... https://www.npr.org/2009/07/24/106989048/amazons-1984-deleti...

Yes, yes. Everything comes back to personal property and freedoms. Whatever. Americans are so tiring.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by bityard »

Our family's Packard Bell in 1996 came with a full-motion video game called Silent Steel. Coming from a 486, FMV video games sure felt like the future.

It was pretty much Choose Your Own Adventure, but with video. You had to know the exact sequence of actions to get to a "good" ending, and apparently there were several endings. For the mid 90's, the script, acting, and sets (and CGI) were actually not half-bad. But mapping out all the choices that didn't kill you while watching the same set of clips over and over was not as much fun as it sounds.

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