Do the car companies not know of the World Wide Web?
Maintenance cost are a big factor for a lot of Auto review sites. It is also known as TCO. Total Cost of Ownership.
So by doing this they are shooting themselves in the foot. People (even those with a lot of smart money) look at the true cost of owning a vehicle.
When you force people to pay more to maintain their vehicle you make them less happy. And less likely to buy your model.
I buy new every 3 years. And I pick my vehicles based on features and also cost. All things equalized to a low differentiation factor I will always pick the one with an overall lower cost of ownership.
So let's go at it this way. The cost of the vehicle is 65K. During that 3 years of ownership I will spent above and beyond the loan value 6% or 9% of the purchase price to maintain it properly.
I will always decide to buy on the TCO. Always. And anyone that likes to keep their money looks at it the same way. That 3% is not trivial. Not a huge deal but still not a amount of money I would be willing to drop on the street and forget about.
Someone is going to set up a service like On Live virtual desktop where the servers are outside the affected countries.
You log in to your virtual desktop and then hit the torrent sites and start downloading whatever you want. Disconnect and then check back in later to see if they have finished.
Then download those files via an encrypted connection and file sync program like what is used with Dropbox or Box.net
Set that up, charge a reasonable fee for bandwidth used and I bet you get a million subscribers in weeks.
Because all the files and users' account are encrypted you as the operator have no idea what the people are doing with your service. Legally you are in the clear.
Use "international privacy laws" as the reason you keep no logs of anything that the users access and that all user data is encrypted with a password that only the user knows and that you have no way to bypass.
Done and done.
Now where is my business plan software and my log in info for gust.com
The words we write are owned by the organization we write them during any type of association? But yet the property (i.e. land, house, invention) we "own" is only ours by the grant of ownership (i.e. patent) provided by the government.
This makes zero sense.
Wow. The words we have uttered are at only the most basic (i.e. word order) creative works. Yes if someone would like to use the words in the exact placement that your did and you were the first to every say/write those words you should get at the bare minimum a nod. But what is the worth of that?
The worth is in the idea behind the words. If I tell you that "Life is a sum of ideas and your effort to execute those ideas to fruition" I think that is creative but not worth much. Why? Because it took little effort to create.
But if I took the time to explain what the effort might be and then give you step by step instructions then that would be worth a lot more.
Copyright as it stands assumes a value that is not verifiable or truly substantiated.
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Ok you are right I did unfairly make a blanket statement that was not valid.
I posted first because I had the time and also TechDirt Crystal Ball. Which AC's generally don't. I also did not say the First commenter I said the first commenter's which I agree is not a good way to word my statement.
What I meant in my haste was that I found it funny that those that commented after me were a higher than normal percentage of people that did not post with a handle.
SS, they are not looking to hire an experienced and qualified person they are looking to get software produced for them by some inspired young coder that lives and breathes code because they enjoy it.
And then reward them in a way they have not been rewarded before.
If all you have ever gotten from your coding is a wow cool then $10-$25K is pretty large.
You think last time was Mega's fault that people lost content? Mega is just trying to not get shut down again right out of the gate with no legal recourse and no appeal before they are shut down.
CNET reviews have for over 10 years been a sponsored joke among us that know better. Sure they get it close to right every now and then, but most times they are just nodding in the direction of their biggest advertiser.
And so companies have to act to protect themselves. Rightly or wrongly. Because the government has a lot more tax payer money to waste taking them to court than any private company has to fight.
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Do the car companies not know of the World Wide Web?
So by doing this they are shooting themselves in the foot. People (even those with a lot of smart money) look at the true cost of owning a vehicle.
When you force people to pay more to maintain their vehicle you make them less happy. And less likely to buy your model.
I buy new every 3 years. And I pick my vehicles based on features and also cost. All things equalized to a low differentiation factor I will always pick the one with an overall lower cost of ownership.
So let's go at it this way. The cost of the vehicle is 65K. During that 3 years of ownership I will spent above and beyond the loan value 6% or 9% of the purchase price to maintain it properly.
I will always decide to buy on the TCO. Always. And anyone that likes to keep their money looks at it the same way. That 3% is not trivial. Not a huge deal but still not a amount of money I would be willing to drop on the street and forget about.
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Re: Re: Here is the next big Mega idea
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Here is the next big Mega idea
You log in to your virtual desktop and then hit the torrent sites and start downloading whatever you want. Disconnect and then check back in later to see if they have finished.
Then download those files via an encrypted connection and file sync program like what is used with Dropbox or Box.net
Set that up, charge a reasonable fee for bandwidth used and I bet you get a million subscribers in weeks.
Because all the files and users' account are encrypted you as the operator have no idea what the people are doing with your service. Legally you are in the clear.
Use "international privacy laws" as the reason you keep no logs of anything that the users access and that all user data is encrypted with a password that only the user knows and that you have no way to bypass.
Done and done.
Now where is my business plan software and my log in info for gust.com
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Guess we should all be glad he wasn't elected
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Re: Re: Mike, Mike,... You are confused...
I was just raising the stupidness of current law.
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Mike, Mike,... You are confused...
So the case of better safe than sorry is not a bad thing...Since nothing will be gained by just agreeing or not.
Or we could just say we try to not violate copyright but if we do you get $1. Period.
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1984
Newspeak is alive and defining the US news.
Please enjoy to your satisfaction.
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Ownership has limitations.
The words we write are owned by the organization we write them during any type of association? But yet the property (i.e. land, house, invention) we "own" is only ours by the grant of ownership (i.e. patent) provided by the government.
This makes zero sense.
Wow. The words we have uttered are at only the most basic (i.e. word order) creative works. Yes if someone would like to use the words in the exact placement that your did and you were the first to every say/write those words you should get at the bare minimum a nod. But what is the worth of that?
The worth is in the idea behind the words. If I tell you that "Life is a sum of ideas and your effort to execute those ideas to fruition" I think that is creative but not worth much. Why? Because it took little effort to create.
But if I took the time to explain what the effort might be and then give you step by step instructions then that would be worth a lot more.
Copyright as it stands assumes a value that is not verifiable or truly substantiated.
So lets work towards a true value.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I am the anti-AC comment provider
I posted first because I had the time and also TechDirt Crystal Ball. Which AC's generally don't. I also did not say the First commenter I said the first commenter's which I agree is not a good way to word my statement.
What I meant in my haste was that I found it funny that those that commented after me were a higher than normal percentage of people that did not post with a handle.
So enough of the BS. Let's discuss the issue.
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Re: Cost$
And then reward them in a way they have not been rewarded before.
If all you have ever gotten from your coding is a wow cool then $10-$25K is pretty large.
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Re:
they really do.
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So...
Am I missing some importance that is hidden in this article?
IMHO a wasted page on TechDirt's server.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: I am the anti-AC comment provider
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Re: Re: I am the anti-AC comment provider
It means you just like all trolls and shills are unwilling to debate and instead prefer to just state BS as facts.
Techdirt loves to debate and loves to present facts. AC's do not.
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Re: Re: I am the anti-AC comment provider
The point is that with a very vibrant community that loves to express it's opinions it is very suspicious that the top/first commenter's are ACs.
It raises my troll meter to new high levels and makes your comments about as valid as a joke lottery ticket.
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I am the anti-AC comment provider
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Re: Re: Re: Sad...
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Re: CNET now has no creds at all
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I have an idea...Let's report John Morton for Intellectual Property Rights
http://www.ice.gov/exec/forms/hsi-tips/tips.asp
File a claim.
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Re: Sad...
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