That wouldn't be the same Hollywood that moved to the west coast to make it difficult for Edison to collect royalties?
Or the Hollywood that uses "Hollywood" accounting to make all-time box office successes into financial disasters to avoid paying people a percent of net.
Or the music company that can't pay artists their royalties because they can't track them down?
Or the music company that deems the purchase of a track via iTunes to be a purchase of a licence not a purchase of a song (aka a sale) meaning way less royalties for the artist.
Hollywood and the media companies are very effective at leeching off others.
By dragging the government and the ISPs into this, the media companies are able to reduce their costs of enforcing silly IP laws. DOJ, FBI and police forces love it because it gives them a new hammer they can use for additional funds, especially if they can tie it back to organized crime or terrorism (or both).
"If it pays no taxes, year to year, then it doesn't support the nation and as such doesn't qualify for consideration."
I so despise that statement. Yes, because companies don't employ people and don't buy goods or services from other companies. Companies shouldn't be paying taxes on income in the first place.
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One more thing. Comcast is not owned by Vivendi. It is a publicly traded corporation with its headquarters in Philadelphia. Vivendi did own part of NBCUniversal until Comcast purchased NBCUniversal. If Vivendi is French, then Comcast is American.
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News Corp is an American company with its headquarters in New York. It was reincorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law and is a publicly-traded corporation. Murdoch became a naturalized citizen in 1985.
It's not really secret if an article about the place was published a year ago and if you have a sign that has your agency's logo on it. And apparently, it's not very secure either.
This is an area where you cannot get figures, period. There is no such thing as "losses due to piracy" on any Consolidated Financial Statement anywhere. At best, any "loss due to piracy" represents a lost opportunity of making a sale.
I was just about to say this. Someone needs to add up the 'numbers' from various pro-copyright studies and see how much money and jobs the economy has lost.
NASCAR's intentions were not true and honest. Instead of abusing the DMCA, they could have contacted the poster of the video and asked him to remove it out of respect of the people injured.
It's unlikely that another bank would use the term "Virtual Wallet" because that term is already associated with PNC. Companies tend to overvalue their trademarks. Is it a bad thing for Kimberly-Clark when people use the term Kleenex instead of tissue?
Microsoft didn't trademark the word Windows. It did get a trademark on a stylized version of the word "Windows" and a trademark on "Microsoft Windows".
Except that the potential 'loss' from having your trademark become generic has been overstated. No other photocopier manufacturer uses Xerox and no other tissue manufacturer uses Kleenex.
Criminals have to be found guilty after some sort of due process to earn a strike. You have a lawyer. There are procedures and minimum standards that are supposed to be followed. There is a judge and/or jury.
A strike in the ISP world means receiving a DMCA complaint from a third-party on behalf of a copyright owner because the third-party detected supposed-infringing data being sent to or from an IP address. There is no due process.
So I have to agree with any original poster: kick HBO off the Internet and let them follow your mythical Six Strike appeal process.
Or how about the movie and TV industry do what David Grohl did with his new Sound City Movie: sell it DRM-free for a low price that includes both streaming and download (in four different versions). I got it for $10 via Paypal. No hassle. No complications. No FBI/Interpol warning. Just a digital file of the movie in 1080p.
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Or the Hollywood that uses "Hollywood" accounting to make all-time box office successes into financial disasters to avoid paying people a percent of net.
Or the music company that can't pay artists their royalties because they can't track them down?
Or the music company that deems the purchase of a track via iTunes to be a purchase of a licence not a purchase of a song (aka a sale) meaning way less royalties for the artist.
Hollywood and the media companies are very effective at leeching off others.
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I so despise that statement. Yes, because companies don't employ people and don't buy goods or services from other companies. Companies shouldn't be paying taxes on income in the first place.
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Enough said.
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Enough said.
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A strike in the ISP world means receiving a DMCA complaint from a third-party on behalf of a copyright owner because the third-party detected supposed-infringing data being sent to or from an IP address. There is no due process.
So I have to agree with any original poster: kick HBO off the Internet and let them follow your mythical Six Strike appeal process.
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