performances

This is totally untrue, on the contrary, recorded music has always been a way to promote music performances.

Then they hire other people to play those parts at live performances, or just leave some parts out.

Yes, some performances this year have been dramatic such as Froome's acceleration on that first proper climb.

Obviously, recording the raw studio performances directly onto the masters that were to be reproduced would be a waste of resources.

That screenshot also highlights the problem that shitty performances rank highly in the search.

Agreed, but before the explosion of recording technology, indie artists made money from performances.

Especially studies that measure the performance of teams over time (vs virtuoso performances).

You would think with such a performances boost they would have put it first in the change-log, but no it's hidden at the end.

Live coding in the whiteboard performances are not part of the work.

Out of curiosity, why not compiling the C algorithm with emcc into asm.js and probably get better performances (but a much larger js file)?

We should have copyright exemptions for non-commercial performances and derivative works.

For the most part there will be more performances for a given work than all the recordings a single orchestra can record in it's life time.

They received performances bonuses of between $z and $q this year", etc.

You're telling me with confidence that you can search for "Canzona in D", which is ridiculous, it only finds performances that used that particular mix of English and Italian to title a piece written by a German speaker.

Performances are also art in their own right.