It strikes me as an almost Objectivist fantasy where there are special "Creator" individuals who bless the rest of us with their works. The threat always seems to be that if we don't appreciate and nurture them appropriately ($$$) they'll all disappear...
I think you've spoken before about the difficulty of assigning a price to infinitely abundant goods.
Many of the people involved in this scheme are woefully ignorant of the real value of their movies.
It may be legal to link to someone's site, but that doesn't mean people won't threaten to sue anyway.
A teacher I had in high school 2005 once taught a brief introduction to internet usage and avoiding plagiarism etc.
He told us about how he used to use a certain copyright lawyer's blog as a reference, until receiving a threat from the lawyer for linking to the site. My teacher settled.
They're also making the fans compete against each other. That isnt' a good feeling. To have paid into something, and then be reminded that there's this other group of people who already paid into the same thing, but they disagree with you... and there's MORE of them...
There is some strategic advantage to leaving domain registration info outdated when you want to protect the current registration from takedowns and interruptions.
I mean, in the same way that you shouldn't be able to patent something that is already patented, couldn't this make a faster or simpler way of checking if someone is submitting repetitively?
Lol stick it to them.
I'd say it's easy to predict how "cool" something will be on a given day. You can just shallowly declare everything to be lame and you'll be correct most of the time.
This is the lazy person's approach. Lazy tech bloggers do it. But someone devoted to one platform tends to do so also. Steve Jobs will trash anything his company doesn't provide, even if he's secretly trying to produce his own version of it at the time.
It's a good sign of when someone's wasting your time.
The studios are basically taking bids from any company that Netflix is going to kill. Whoever pays up gets to stay in business for just a little bit longer.
Maintaining the delayed release agreement with Netflix is key for them. As long as they can go to Blockbuster and say "Now you pay MY price for these rentals, or you won't have anything to offer that Netflix doesn't do better."
How many of McDonald's customers do you think took that "concern" any more seriously than Molly? 0.00002 percent? More? I doubt anywhere close to that.
No one was offended who wasn't trying to inspire a blog post.
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Many of the people involved in this scheme are woefully ignorant of the real value of their movies.
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A teacher I had in high school 2005 once taught a brief introduction to internet usage and avoiding plagiarism etc.
He told us about how he used to use a certain copyright lawyer's blog as a reference, until receiving a threat from the lawyer for linking to the site. My teacher settled.
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It would effectively un-patent that concept. For good?
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I'd say it's easy to predict how "cool" something will be on a given day. You can just shallowly declare everything to be lame and you'll be correct most of the time.
This is the lazy person's approach. Lazy tech bloggers do it. But someone devoted to one platform tends to do so also. Steve Jobs will trash anything his company doesn't provide, even if he's secretly trying to produce his own version of it at the time.
It's a good sign of when someone's wasting your time.
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When that is in place, it is easier to put pressure on the companies/websites that are abusing individual's information.
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Maintaining the delayed release agreement with Netflix is key for them. As long as they can go to Blockbuster and say "Now you pay MY price for these rentals, or you won't have anything to offer that Netflix doesn't do better."
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They're liars.
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No one was offended who wasn't trying to inspire a blog post.
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