When you upload a song, you indicate whether it has copyright and who owns it, Then, whenever its played they pay the copyright owner based on an audience size basis, similar to Spotify.

If you don’t, the copyright owner informs Google, and they close that link.

Even if you have music playing in the background of an instructional video, the copyright holders will go after you.

A punchcard is two dimensional. Actually you can have multiple dimensions on a punch card, the positions of the card can store different data and you can determine what that is by the position of holes on another part of the card.

Whereas a paper tape, or a magnetic tape is serial and has only one dimension (you can divide the tape into different bands though).

Commodore 65.

Intellivision computer.

Commodore SuperPET based on the Zilog Z8000.

• All vapourware.

deleted by creator

Seems more like a standard CD. It can only be written on once.

Its because of the way they are funded.

Films are funded through venture capital, and investors are looking for the biggest profit. So modest films struggle to get funding, because investors believe size=quality.