Ahh man, Blaming the failing of an entire industry on one college kid, that happened to meander back into a record store... who was probably looking to buy something. Now I see your logic...fail.
In My Opinion, all of the record stores in my area that have closed (and we still have 3-4 around) provided nothing more than the box stores, or amazon (was around in 2004, and sold CDs, btw). they hired the cheapest high school help that knew nothing about music outside their own interest and basically ran register and stocked things... If you were lucky they would actually know where a CD was that you were looking for, but often not. Same level of service as box stores and the internet.
As far as kids illegally downloading music, yea it happened, a lot. But the number of legal sites to download from were extremely limited. Failure of the industry to provide service, so innovative kids did instead.
This is the exact idea that we dreamed about as kids... And I bet that these artists did too...
Instant Delivery, 'Wonka-Vision' for those that are old enough to remember the 1971 movie. No more waiting for UPS/Fedex, you want something, you print it, at home... products, toys, food, whatever. Apparently while engineers were moving forward at break neck speed with new technologies that allowed instant home delivery (of content in this case) the business majors were in their dorm rooms playing X-Box and getting drunk (my own real life observations, and I am neither an engineer or business major).
"Even the store that sold me my last pair of Rossignol skis – EVO – keeps trying to show me every kind of ski except Rossignol skis. "
Well if your back to buy skis again in less than a year, maybe EVO thinks you dont like your rossignol's and are offering something different to try?
or maybe if you search for ski's they know you already bought skis and are less likely to buy again in a short period of time so they show ads for hats / gloves / jackets / thule roof racks etc. Your google search is suppose to yield what your looking for, the ads are delivering the "accessories" that the stores try to get you to ADD on to your order, because they know you're already going to buy a set of skis... lets jump on the attaching the high-profit items. Just food for thought.
I dont think the EFF is necessarily advocating that a human needs to review every takedown notice, just that companies should be held responsible for all the mistakes of their automated systems. And I would advocate for Rich Kulawiec's remedy (first comment above) as the sanction.
Re: Re: That's how search engines already work - unless you want child porn or how to kill Danny
I totally agree,
As such, since I think all online retailers are ripping off state economies by avoiding sales tax. Google should block all searches related to products.
You dont even have to do that... this isn't something the consumer chooses to be a part of. the Developer chooses to pay for the data that his installs uses. As a developer simply choose not to support this by not building in / paying for this AT&T service.
Hi this is your cousin kim dotcom you probably didn't know I was related to you, but desperate times have caused me to reach out to you.
I have millions of money stored in secret accounts that the both the Austrailian and US governments couldn't find. I need your help to smuggle the funds out of the country. All I need is your bank account and routing number and I can deposit [insert rediculous amount here] and once I am able to get out of the country all I ask is you return $1.53 to me.
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Although the spelling would be all horrible and there would be links to domain names consisting of random strings of letters and numbers and ending in .cn
meh, we started chipping away at that amendment a while ago... in some states you can't even bear arms (open carry restricted, hand gun restrictions by area, etc.)
Who would the police blame each and every time Wal-Mart called for another robbery? Wal-Mart, of course.
Unless your police force was ICE... then the customer would be wrong, 150% of the time. (Additional 50% is for the people that would be arrested without Walmart making an actual claim, and even then that number might be grossly underestimated.)
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This is not english, and google translate didn't help when I plugged it in... can anyone translate this into something that makes sense?
What is an illegal comment? Is that like an libelous comment? and what does that have to do about a music sale?
*Head Explodes*
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In My Opinion, all of the record stores in my area that have closed (and we still have 3-4 around) provided nothing more than the box stores, or amazon (was around in 2004, and sold CDs, btw). they hired the cheapest high school help that knew nothing about music outside their own interest and basically ran register and stocked things... If you were lucky they would actually know where a CD was that you were looking for, but often not. Same level of service as box stores and the internet.
As far as kids illegally downloading music, yea it happened, a lot. But the number of legal sites to download from were extremely limited. Failure of the industry to provide service, so innovative kids did instead.
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This is the exact idea that we dreamed about as kids... And I bet that these artists did too...
Instant Delivery, 'Wonka-Vision' for those that are old enough to remember the 1971 movie. No more waiting for UPS/Fedex, you want something, you print it, at home... products, toys, food, whatever. Apparently while engineers were moving forward at break neck speed with new technologies that allowed instant home delivery (of content in this case) the business majors were in their dorm rooms playing X-Box and getting drunk (my own real life observations, and I am neither an engineer or business major).
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Re: Who's "Stealing" your stuff?
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Sharing is Caring,
Sharing is Digital Copying
Copying is like Stealing (Their Definition not mine)
Do the quick algebra,
Cross-cancel things out...
Stealing is Digital Caring.
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Well if your back to buy skis again in less than a year, maybe EVO thinks you dont like your rossignol's and are offering something different to try?
or maybe if you search for ski's they know you already bought skis and are less likely to buy again in a short period of time so they show ads for hats / gloves / jackets / thule roof racks etc. Your google search is suppose to yield what your looking for, the ads are delivering the "accessories" that the stores try to get you to ADD on to your order, because they know you're already going to buy a set of skis... lets jump on the attaching the high-profit items. Just food for thought.
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It's not any better, and i invite you to go after the individual that uploaded that content, not the 3rd party platform it was placed on.
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Re: Re: That's how search engines already work - unless you want child porn or how to kill Danny
As such, since I think all online retailers are ripping off state economies by avoiding sales tax. Google should block all searches related to products.
See I can make up extreme cases too.
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Sorry about that
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Re: Push Back
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Hi this is your cousin kim dotcom you probably didn't know I was related to you, but desperate times have caused me to reach out to you.
I have millions of money stored in secret accounts that the both the Austrailian and US governments couldn't find. I need your help to smuggle the funds out of the country. All I need is your bank account and routing number and I can deposit [insert rediculous amount here] and once I am able to get out of the country all I ask is you return $1.53 to me.
_______________________________________________
Although the spelling would be all horrible and there would be links to domain names consisting of random strings of letters and numbers and ending in .cn
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Re: Go Daddy
Yes.
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FTFY
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Unless your police force was ICE... then the customer would be wrong, 150% of the time. (Additional 50% is for the people that would be arrested without Walmart making an actual claim, and even then that number might be grossly underestimated.)
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