Like I said, marketing firms will end up helping with server hosting and things of that nature - something that not only is a legitimate business venture but also long-term.
what the heck? Are you implying that child porn pictures is a gateway to rape?
People that are psychologically set to child abuse will arrive at that destination with or without child porn. Otherwise it's like implying that we never had child porn before we never had the internet.
It's taken a while ti come full circle but I think it was here or some other site that mentioned that noncompetes are the equivalent of human DRM.
Not many people notice when they come around. I had a sound talk with my legal department and CEO when they tried to make me sign that crap...ultimately it was take the job or don't sign the noncompete.
Right now, it's a really bad thing for innovation but an easy way for some companies to hold leverage.
See, it doesn't. You're making cash off promotional value.
That's a double bonus right there. Selling something online free or not, to increase your audience and market a side-product. This philosophy has been used for years for tons of business models, its just the music industry that fights it.
How do I suspect the music industry will get back in the game eventually on this? I suspect the labels will get into the business of hosting the servers that take the massive download requests when big artists put files up under a pay-as-you-choose....requesting a cut of the sales, of course. This would be my guess if they embrace it, not that it's a great idea. I just can't see the music industry willign to come up with a model other than "I get my cut".
With that said, marketing an alternate item via a free one has been around forever in many businesses. An example is a location that has no fee for admission but sells souveneirs (say a museum with free admission) and/or food (museum restaurant), or sells alcohol (bar with no cover).
Or how about free concerts where they ask people to donate, for a music example?
If people really look for examples, it's out there. Just music industry screaming and kicking, and the artists doing just fine.
Myspace is included in this guy's mention because its one of the hardest places to make a direct profit off the music, also because you cannot offer it as an mp3 on the site.
You can only let people view it in a flash player, and the "download" icon conspicuously has never worked. Also myspace is turning into a facebook clone, and myspace is riddled with bot accounts.
Even with that said, I can name plenty of artists who make a living off promoting solely off myspace regardless that are indie.
in many forms they already have this, people just complain because of a few stations that they just don't want. In reality though, as they say, costs will go up dramatically. Ala carte would basically shut down TV as we know it, or all stations would have to be public/national and we wouldn't really be able to have a non public system due to costs.
My parents are drastically opposed to technology, they barely use internet and can't troubleshoot their computers. However, I being the tech savvy person, still never says that stuff in public (any messaging program sure, but not verbally)
I don't think in any of the games I played I ever heard anyone speak it aloud in vent/teamspeak/etc
Although I agree people think lawyers will eat all the money and leave you nothing, from what I had understood they typically ask for a portion of the successful prosecution amount (Say 30%-50% range), no?
I agree, and I am glad that at least in principal Wiki attempts to keep all things unbiased, which can of course be tough on issues that draw opinions such as political matters. However, they do seem to do a pretty darn good job.
pretty accurate to me, sites like fark and google and digg, even msn and yahoo represent probably 50% of the internet users worldwide.
How these people even get paid for ads is beyond me, since almost nobody in their right mind even looks at ads as well even assuming that they aren't blocked....which makes me question why people even put up such ads.
Reminds me of an article someone did a while ago where they showed a snapshot of a news site with and without ads (I think it was cnn.com)...and it looked GREAT without ads, and with them it was just a horrible jumble of navigation.
here is the response I got back from their corporate when I inquired about why they did it and that it's a bad idea.
Verbatim: "“A&P management’s position on this matter should be self explanatory. Producing a video that intentionally and unjustly depicts our company in a negative light, and utilizing company facilities without management knowledge of the specific content involved, is obviously a blatant violation of our policy.
Accordingly, the company has dismissed both employees, and is exploring legal avenues for the recovery of damages, and the removal of any and all videos about the Company from the website where it has been posted by the individuals.
We will continue to work through our store management, labor union and legal process to bring this unfortunate series of events to an appropriate conclusion, and will have no further public comment while that process continues.
(name protected for the company's own protection),
Senior Director, Corporate Affairs"
beyond this doing absolutely nothing, what it basically represents is indirectly torrentspy saying "use a proxy". Obviously they ar enot recursing who accesses through an anonymous proxy or tor, which is about a 5 minute set up.
I feel sorry for torrentspy for losing some of their webtraffic due to overzealous mpaa/riaa.
So yes, a LOT of people know about proxies, and merely mentioning them in an article like this educates even more individuals on how to get around being tracked.
Given that tracker websites are very low demand (read: mostly text/dialup is almost fast enuff), a proxy would be a non issue most likely.
Word for word you are 100% accurate. That is what I do and for the same reasons and so does everyone at my workplace (a worldwide known business) who reads the NYT. If they hadn't been this retarded in the first place they wouldnt' have such problems, but now that they have done so, it is extremely unlikely that unless a NYT article is linked from fark that it will ever in my lifetime become a go-to site for me or ever be given such favor when mentioned to others.
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like I said the other day
On the post: Supreme Court To Investigate If AT&T Is Violating Antitrust Laws With Wholesale DSL Pricing
caps = bad, at all times
Introduce cap, competition introduces cap.
Instead of offering better service the new competition becomes who offers a better cap instead of who offers a better service.
I'd rather they compete on better service than "less restrictive".
On the post: California To Copy NY's Bad Plan Forcing ISPs To Block Sites
for the children is not an excuse
People that are psychologically set to child abuse will arrive at that destination with or without child porn. Otherwise it's like implying that we never had child porn before we never had the internet.
Your analogy is not even close to accurate here.
On the post: People In Massachusetts Pushing To Get Rid Of Noncompetes
noncompete = human DRM
Not many people notice when they come around. I had a sound talk with my legal department and CEO when they tried to make me sign that crap...ultimately it was take the job or don't sign the noncompete.
Right now, it's a really bad thing for innovation but an easy way for some companies to hold leverage.
On the post: Less Well Known Musicians Embracing 'Pay What You Want'
Re: Re: Re: Re: no
That's a double bonus right there. Selling something online free or not, to increase your audience and market a side-product. This philosophy has been used for years for tons of business models, its just the music industry that fights it.
How do I suspect the music industry will get back in the game eventually on this? I suspect the labels will get into the business of hosting the servers that take the massive download requests when big artists put files up under a pay-as-you-choose....requesting a cut of the sales, of course. This would be my guess if they embrace it, not that it's a great idea. I just can't see the music industry willign to come up with a model other than "I get my cut".
With that said, marketing an alternate item via a free one has been around forever in many businesses. An example is a location that has no fee for admission but sells souveneirs (say a museum with free admission) and/or food (museum restaurant), or sells alcohol (bar with no cover).
Or how about free concerts where they ask people to donate, for a music example?
If people really look for examples, it's out there. Just music industry screaming and kicking, and the artists doing just fine.
On the post: Why Is ACTA Being Negotiated In Secret?
maybe we can find out
We'll see if anything comes out, although I'm rather skeptical.
On the post: Pro-Copyright Strawmen Won't Protect You From Real Economics
myspace is included for the "magic bias"
You can only let people view it in a flash player, and the "download" icon conspicuously has never worked. Also myspace is turning into a facebook clone, and myspace is riddled with bot accounts.
Even with that said, I can name plenty of artists who make a living off promoting solely off myspace regardless that are indie.
On the post: We Need More Sunlight On ACTA: Where Is The Mainstream Press?
mainstream press is busy being censored
Sheesh....and people wonder why this isn't kicking and screaming....I'm sure it is, just squelched just as fast.
On the post: A Little Sunshine Brings Out Rapid And Well Deserved Anger Towards ACTA Treaty
how many more?
Is there any way to look at all of the trade agreements the US is a part of, to examine what else is faulty?
I remember when the Us shoved our copyright policy down australia's throats among other countries, so this is just as disappointing as ever.
On the post: Microsoft: It's Not The Broadcast Flag, It's A Different Flag
or build a pc
and skip step of stripping OS (and include step of saving money)
On the post: Why A La Carte Cable Will Probably Cost You More
Re: they already have this
On the post: Family Conversations More Likely To Include 'LOL' Than 'Pass The Butter, Please'
speak vs read
I don't think in any of the games I played I ever heard anyone speak it aloud in vent/teamspeak/etc
On the post: Autodesk Sued By eBay Seller For Pretending Right Of First Sale Doesn't Exist
Re: Re: Lawyers
On the post: Wikipedia Edits Show How Important The Site Has Become
Re:
On the post: People Are Promiscuous In Their News Sources
yep
How these people even get paid for ads is beyond me, since almost nobody in their right mind even looks at ads as well even assuming that they aren't blocked....which makes me question why people even put up such ads.
Reminds me of an article someone did a while ago where they showed a snapshot of a news site with and without ads (I think it was cnn.com)...and it looked GREAT without ads, and with them it was just a horrible jumble of navigation.
On the post: Supermarket A&P Makes Sure That People Associate Mock Gangsta Rap Video With A&P
oh yeh
As you can see from their response, they're pretty ignorant.
On the post: Supermarket A&P Makes Sure That People Associate Mock Gangsta Rap Video With A&P
Verbatim: "“A&P management’s position on this matter should be self explanatory. Producing a video that intentionally and unjustly depicts our company in a negative light, and utilizing company facilities without management knowledge of the specific content involved, is obviously a blatant violation of our policy.
Accordingly, the company has dismissed both employees, and is exploring legal avenues for the recovery of damages, and the removal of any and all videos about the Company from the website where it has been posted by the individuals.
We will continue to work through our store management, labor union and legal process to bring this unfortunate series of events to an appropriate conclusion, and will have no further public comment while that process continues.
(name protected for the company's own protection),
Senior Director, Corporate Affairs"
On the post: TorrentSpy Cuts Off US Users, Rather Than Tracking Them
for the geniuses out there
I feel sorry for torrentspy for losing some of their webtraffic due to overzealous mpaa/riaa.
So yes, a LOT of people know about proxies, and merely mentioning them in an article like this educates even more individuals on how to get around being tracked.
Given that tracker websites are very low demand (read: mostly text/dialup is almost fast enuff), a proxy would be a non issue most likely.
On the post: NYTimes Values Tracking Over Visitors; Keeps Freakonomics Feeds Crippled
Re: I pretty much ignore the NYT ...
On the post: More Linux Firms Standing Up To Microsoft
reply to myself
turned out that was a 1 or 2 day thing.
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