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Posted by ingve 7 hours ago

How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video Buddy Holly on the CD?(devblogs.microsoft.com)
107 points | 76 commentspage 2
Philadelphia 4 hours ago|
Apple put Barenaked Ladies’ The Old Apartment video on the Mac OS 8 CD as a QuickTime demo
acomjean 1 hour ago|
I thought it was the song “one week.” But a quick search shows that song was on the MacOS 8.5 disk.

There were always little interesting stuff on those discs. Some music cds at the time came with “macromedia” stuff. Wonder if that still works..

mgerdts 3 hours ago||
Back in 1997 or so I bought an ATI video card that also had a Weezer video on the CD. I remember being amazed that it could play the video at 1024x768 with just a little bit of tearing.
sequin 4 hours ago||
The Weezer video was quirky, funny, creative, catchy and appealing to multiple generations. A stroke of genius by Microsoft.
abtinf 4 hours ago||
IIRC, I was able to watch the videos on my 486. It was quite something being able to do that l, while in Windows 95 and switching between apps. Prior to that, I’d only seen FMV in a few video games.
bluedino 4 hours ago|
We used to see who had the most powerful PC by seeing how many videos we could play at once. Long with Robroy and whatever other video was on there.
zdw 4 hours ago||
It's well known that Bill Gates's favorite band is Weezer, so this feels unsurprising.
pimlottc 2 hours ago|
He’s ride or die
aljaca 3 hours ago||
This is Edie Brickell erasure!
RegnisGnaw 7 hours ago||
Licensing?
ssl-3 5 hours ago||
I read the whole thing (all several paragraphs of it) and the answer is, indeed: Licensing.

It's approximately the least-interesting article I've read this year.

bigstrat2003 5 hours ago|||
I found it somewhat interesting that they had to track down all the actors from Happy Days. You would think that there would be one single point of contact with whomever made the video, cause it's not like they were using the footage of the actors in a new way.

But honestly, I'm ok with it being only somewhat interesting. When you write as many posts as Mr. Chen does, they aren't all going to be bangers.

dylan604 4 hours ago||
> You would think that there would be one single point of contact with whomever made the video, cause it's not like they were using the footage of the actors in a new way.

That depends. Licensing is a weird nuanced beast. The original video could have received a license to broadcast on something like MTV. MS didn't want to broadcast it, but distribute it. That's an entirely different thing in the licensing world. The fees also change depending on broadcast/distribute. The number of units would be considered and fees based accordingly.

kyleee 5 hours ago|||
Is there any way to make this submission even less interesting? Perhaps we can speculate about parts being written by AI. Did you see any em dashes?
giancarlostoro 5 hours ago||
It's just a journal style entry, its not bad that its boring, but its so bland. It will become LLM fodder I'm sure.
bigfishrunning 4 hours ago||
We all will. Ashes to ashes.
barbs 2 hours ago||
"Hey, did anyone try the fish tonight?"

"It's not so good, Al"

wojciii 5 hours ago|
I must confess that these kind of corporate storie make me throw up in my mouth. (Yes, I have karma to burn, hit me)
boca_honey 4 hours ago|
I liked this one because that video on that CD was a big part of my childhood.

But yeah, same here. The worse ones are the ones from Apple / Steve Jobs that are meant to be cute and quirky but are actually just examples of sociopathy.