The price isn't their main problem -- its that all the legit services suffer from being more complicated, less flexible and having a limited library when compared to file sharing. Many suffer from more than one of those.
When the legal alternatives are easier (collect less info, work on all platforms, no DRM), more flexible (variety of formats/codec, choice of download vs stream) and have a MORE complete library of offerings than the file sharing networks, it will be easy to get folks to pay a premium.
Jusy don't ask us to pay without offering better value.
We need to have more rules preventing this kind of behaviour. Government officials should not be allowed to take jobs from companies that were within their scope of responsibility. The mere possibility of corruption simply makes it a losing proposition for the citizenry. We stand to gain nothing, yet lose much.
Part of we worries they are deliberately setting up the argument this way to create a "clean" precedent. If they expect the judge to go with the DOJ, or even just banking on a long shot, getting a ruling on these arguments in their favour would have massive consequences.
Sure, they will undoubtably be challenged, but perhaps they consider the potential reward worth the risk/work involved...
I had this discussion with my friend earlier this week when the wave of news about account closures was cresting.
I was not yet decided on the policy. I wanted to have an experience with clean names (no wacky chracters), but I understand the desire/very real need for anonymity for some people or at some times. his was difficult to reconcile, because it forces Google (or whomever) to draw a line on a large field of gray zones to determine what is acceptable. How can we allow a stalking victim to go by Jane or John Smith, but not let the hacker go by Agent Smith? Or worse -- 4g3n7 5m17h. I wanted both, but it is very tricky.
The real answer is it can't be done. Not in any meaningful way -- it would almost by definition be arbitrary, and it would certainly upset some users and clash with ther use-case needs. Reasonable efforts should be taken to avoid this.
The only real choice then is whether to not care about names at all, or care about names to some degree -- the particular degree isn't that important.
It became clear to me that the right choice was to take a hands-off approach, letting users use any name they wish, much as Google has with gmail for many years. But how to deal with the problem of non-standard names?
I think it's quite easy and is in fact some Google has already solved once in the standalone Google Talk client: allow users to rename their friends/contacts to whatever name they want to use for them. If my friend wants to go by Fartface McGee, that's his choice, but I will be renaming his to Firstname Lastname to simplify my life. Nobody else will see the names I apply to my friends.
Conveniently, this also solves a second problem with aliases: you don't use the same one everywhere. I may use Goorpy here, but another name thorugh another website, and yt another name at work. I would like to be able to present a different alias to different connected users based on some context. How do I know this person? What name do they know me by? I want to connect with people from different parts of the internet, but I don't want to give my real (or even the same!) name to all of them. I have many faces, and many names. Let me use them.
Cliffs:
- Hands off (get your own sandwich)
- Let me rename my friends from my viewpoint only
- Let me present different aliases to different groups
When I have kind of my own, I hope to instill in them a desire to set and reach for personal goals to excel in area they enjoy.
Why should any child be encouraged to slow his pace to "keep back" wih the other children. The proposition is ridiculous on its face. I would want my own child to learn as much as he can stand to learn, regardless of the ability of his peers. Tha goes both ways of course -- can't be good at everything. Understandably, some subject may elude a given child, but those lapses should not prevent him or her from advances through the rest of their education in every other subject.
Its the same saying its ok that north korea just built a hundred more nukes because we build two hundred. Somebody eventually has to ask why we need to build any at all...
Don't forget about adaptation to film of existing material. These days that is most notably coming from comics/graphic novels, but regular novels are getting a decent slice ofaction too.
i presume the dvds he purchased to run their service were licensed. so whats with he unlicensed accusation?
if i buy a dvd or blu ray, i can loan it to whomever i wish. i dont need your permission. and if i want to, i will take money from them for the favour.
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Easier, more flexible, completion.
When the legal alternatives are easier (collect less info, work on all platforms, no DRM), more flexible (variety of formats/codec, choice of download vs stream) and have a MORE complete library of offerings than the file sharing networks, it will be easy to get folks to pay a premium.
Jusy don't ask us to pay without offering better value.
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Should not be allowed.
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The "location" of the domain registration is largely irrelevant. It has nothing to do with the service itself or the users.
Baidu has a .com address. Does the doj think they can just seize that, too? Do you agree with them?
If so, its time for the internet to find a new "main" TLD. If the US plans to be retarded about this crap, let's just not buy .com domains.
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setting up a horrible precedent?
Sure, they will undoubtably be challenged, but perhaps they consider the potential reward worth the risk/work involved...
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Multiple Aliases, applying names to friends
I was not yet decided on the policy. I wanted to have an experience with clean names (no wacky chracters), but I understand the desire/very real need for anonymity for some people or at some times. his was difficult to reconcile, because it forces Google (or whomever) to draw a line on a large field of gray zones to determine what is acceptable. How can we allow a stalking victim to go by Jane or John Smith, but not let the hacker go by Agent Smith? Or worse -- 4g3n7 5m17h. I wanted both, but it is very tricky.
The real answer is it can't be done. Not in any meaningful way -- it would almost by definition be arbitrary, and it would certainly upset some users and clash with ther use-case needs. Reasonable efforts should be taken to avoid this.
The only real choice then is whether to not care about names at all, or care about names to some degree -- the particular degree isn't that important.
It became clear to me that the right choice was to take a hands-off approach, letting users use any name they wish, much as Google has with gmail for many years. But how to deal with the problem of non-standard names?
I think it's quite easy and is in fact some Google has already solved once in the standalone Google Talk client: allow users to rename their friends/contacts to whatever name they want to use for them. If my friend wants to go by Fartface McGee, that's his choice, but I will be renaming his to Firstname Lastname to simplify my life. Nobody else will see the names I apply to my friends.
Conveniently, this also solves a second problem with aliases: you don't use the same one everywhere. I may use Goorpy here, but another name thorugh another website, and yt another name at work. I would like to be able to present a different alias to different connected users based on some context. How do I know this person? What name do they know me by? I want to connect with people from different parts of the internet, but I don't want to give my real (or even the same!) name to all of them. I have many faces, and many names. Let me use them.
Cliffs:
- Hands off (get your own sandwich)
- Let me rename my friends from my viewpoint only
- Let me present different aliases to different groups
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Why should any child be encouraged to slow his pace to "keep back" wih the other children. The proposition is ridiculous on its face. I would want my own child to learn as much as he can stand to learn, regardless of the ability of his peers. Tha goes both ways of course -- can't be good at everything. Understandably, some subject may elude a given child, but those lapses should not prevent him or her from advances through the rest of their education in every other subject.
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Its the same saying its ok that north korea just built a hundred more nukes because we build two hundred. Somebody eventually has to ask why we need to build any at all...
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if i buy a dvd or blu ray, i can loan it to whomever i wish. i dont need your permission. and if i want to, i will take money from them for the favour.
good luck to you if you think otherwise.
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