Microsoft started off creating computer languages.
Intel intended to sell chips to calculator manufacturers.
Apple started as a computer company. Yep, they were actually highly successful in selling shiny computers that sat on your desk.
And believe it or not, Sony once made high quality and useful consumer electronics that people actually wanted to buy. I still think their current model of pissing on customers will fail in the long run, but, maybe they'll prove me wrong one day.
The Sex Pistols were purely a marketing gimmick and a source of revenue committed against this planet by Malcolm McLaren. They were as "punk rock" as Sigue Sigue Sputnik or Frankie Goes to Hollywood, pure fashion and contrived "shock" in lieu of any substance.
To argue that the Sex Pistols were somehow above monetary gain shows you know absolutely nothing about their origins or history.
If such an event ever occurred, life in this universe would end. The universe can only endure so much legal BS directed to one specific point in space and time.
"She is a pretty lean girl, but she seemed to have a pretty evident pot belly"
If that's some sort of problem, (I'm not saying it is, only "if") then photoshop that and only that out. I see no reason to photoshop everything about her out so that she looks unhealthy and malnourished.
Garth Brooks is a retard. He once appeared on either Letterman or Leno and called used CD sales "stealing."
According to Wikipedia Brooks refused to allow his CD In Pieces from being sold in stores which also sold used CDs. His label CBS was sued and eventually the CD was sold everywhere.
I've said it once, I've said it a million times, used game and CD sales do not harm anyone!
Yeah, I noticed that too. Which, if I think about it, is sort of a good thing. This shows he's not a dogmatist fighting a one-sided war. He's human and is sometimes able to see the other side of an issue.
So how does that keep it from being a tax? Almost all of our tax dollars will eventually end up in the hands of non-government entities.
A tax is when the government uses its inherent powers to force citizens and other legal entities to pay up under force of law. That's what's happening here. Whether the money goes to private schools via vouchers, to the military industrial complex, to a company building roads, or to music labels, it's still a tax.
Your implicit premise is that the music labels use payola for the sole purpose of promoting music that could not succeed on its own. And furthermore, that such music is of such poor quality that the ratings of the station would drop if such music was played in too great of a frequency.
I call BS. Give me some facts to support your argument that the history of payola is solely to get crappy music on the radio. I won't be holding my breath.
"it would help you to understand why radio cannot become purely pay for play 24 hour a day musical infomercials"
You're argument is again BS. The same argument could be used against infomercials on TV. Under your argument, TV broadcasters would only play infomercials, ratings would go down, and they'd go out of business.
Yet that has not happened. Broadcasters are smart enough to balance what they air. They're smart enough to not play only crappy advertisements. If payola was legal, radio broadcasters would do the same thing.
"Anyone takings bets on how long it takes for the major radio stations to call for a bailout of their own"
Yeah, nearly every electronic device has a radio in it nowadays. Even the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Why are these electronics companies allowed to rake in money while leaching off the broadcasters? It's only right that Sony, Apple, and Microsoft should pay their fair share.
If you're a copyright holder you can enter into a contract with the radio stations to play your song. If after good faith negotiations they're willing to pay you or if you're willing to pay them, fine. The deed is done. There's simply no need for the government to get involved. None whatsoever.
Listing my entire book on the internet minimized my chances of finding other chances of finding publishers and buyers because they listed the entire book on the internet
Wow with pithy and inventive writing like that sample, I'm shocked he's not already famous!
"He chose 100%, incorrectly believing that 100% meant none of the book would be published"
Seriously, I can't understand why he expects Google to go through the process of scanning his book, only to not publish any of it. Exactly what advantage does that give Google? And what does it do for the author as no one is able to read it he's unable to gain any new fans or publishing deals!
FYI, the internet did not kill off record/music stores. The labels did back in the early 90s. I worked at a small mom and pop music store back in the late 80s/early 90s. Starting in the 90s big box stores such as Best Buy and Walmart were selling CDs for less than we could buy them wholesale. This was a conscious decision on the music industry's part and the internet had nothing to do with it.
The music industry survived the death of the 78, the 45, the 8-track tape, the LP, the mini-disc, the cassette, the 12 single, the mini-CD single, and the cassette single. I'm pretty sure it'll survive the death of the CD too.
And even if it doesn't and the current music industry does die, a new and infinitely more efficient music industry will arise from the ashes.
The notion that all of humanity will suddenly stop creating, playing, and writing new music is simply asinine.
"companies... convince the entertainment and software industries to sign over copyright licenses..."
I know it's been asked, many times, many ways, but if the rights holder is the entity which intentionally places the copyrighted work on a P2P network, how is it illegal for someone else to download it?
Sony's problem is that it's both a hardware company and a content company (Sony Pictures and Music). Thus it has a desire to make innovative and useful electronic devices for consumers. But then it also has the contradictory desire to lock them down to ensure that no one can actually use them in any meaningful way.
Sony has released updated Blu-ray, dvd, and audio discs that could not play in Sony's own players. Does that make any sense? Not to a normal person. But the content industry has never been known for its normalcy.
I love this asinine quote from the linked article...
"Sure, it makes sense that fonts are intellectual property..."
How in the frick does the government granting a monopoly on an expressed letter of the alphabet make any fricken sense?! It makes no sense.
An A is merely a letter and should not be monopolized by anyone. If you want to spend your time making an A look pretty, that's fine. But I don't see why the government should grant you a monopoly for your time.
I've probably said this a million times. Why doesn't Google simply pull the plug on all AP and Fox related websites for a couple of weeks? I blog over at dvorak.org and for about three days we went missing from Google. Our numbers died. It was like we didn't exist. Is this really want AP and Fox wants?!
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Intel intended to sell chips to calculator manufacturers.
Apple started as a computer company. Yep, they were actually highly successful in selling shiny computers that sat on your desk.
And believe it or not, Sony once made high quality and useful consumer electronics that people actually wanted to buy. I still think their current model of pissing on customers will fail in the long run, but, maybe they'll prove me wrong one day.
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To argue that the Sex Pistols were somehow above monetary gain shows you know absolutely nothing about their origins or history.
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If that's some sort of problem, (I'm not saying it is, only "if") then photoshop that and only that out. I see no reason to photoshop everything about her out so that she looks unhealthy and malnourished.
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According to Wikipedia Brooks refused to allow his CD In Pieces from being sold in stores which also sold used CDs. His label CBS was sued and eventually the CD was sold everywhere.
I've said it once, I've said it a million times, used game and CD sales do not harm anyone!
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A tax is when the government uses its inherent powers to force citizens and other legal entities to pay up under force of law. That's what's happening here. Whether the money goes to private schools via vouchers, to the military industrial complex, to a company building roads, or to music labels, it's still a tax.
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I call BS. Give me some facts to support your argument that the history of payola is solely to get crappy music on the radio. I won't be holding my breath.
"it would help you to understand why radio cannot become purely pay for play 24 hour a day musical infomercials"
You're argument is again BS. The same argument could be used against infomercials on TV. Under your argument, TV broadcasters would only play infomercials, ratings would go down, and they'd go out of business.
Yet that has not happened. Broadcasters are smart enough to balance what they air. They're smart enough to not play only crappy advertisements. If payola was legal, radio broadcasters would do the same thing.
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Yeah, nearly every electronic device has a radio in it nowadays. Even the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Why are these electronics companies allowed to rake in money while leaching off the broadcasters? It's only right that Sony, Apple, and Microsoft should pay their fair share.
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If you're a copyright holder you can enter into a contract with the radio stations to play your song. If after good faith negotiations they're willing to pay you or if you're willing to pay them, fine. The deed is done. There's simply no need for the government to get involved. None whatsoever.
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Agreed. Mike's rant about not being sympathetic towards Simon's plight is irrelevant. The issue is whether Starbucks breached its contract with Simon.
Mike, we may be in a brave new digital world, but contract law still exists. Maybe if you went to law school you'd know about it.
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Wow with pithy and inventive writing like that sample, I'm shocked he's not already famous!
"He chose 100%, incorrectly believing that 100% meant none of the book would be published"
Seriously, I can't understand why he expects Google to go through the process of scanning his book, only to not publish any of it. Exactly what advantage does that give Google? And what does it do for the author as no one is able to read it he's unable to gain any new fans or publishing deals!
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FYI, the internet did not kill off record/music stores. The labels did back in the early 90s. I worked at a small mom and pop music store back in the late 80s/early 90s. Starting in the 90s big box stores such as Best Buy and Walmart were selling CDs for less than we could buy them wholesale. This was a conscious decision on the music industry's part and the internet had nothing to do with it.
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And even if it doesn't and the current music industry does die, a new and infinitely more efficient music industry will arise from the ashes.
The notion that all of humanity will suddenly stop creating, playing, and writing new music is simply asinine.
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I know it's been asked, many times, many ways, but if the rights holder is the entity which intentionally places the copyrighted work on a P2P network, how is it illegal for someone else to download it?
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Sony has released updated Blu-ray, dvd, and audio discs that could not play in Sony's own players. Does that make any sense? Not to a normal person. But the content industry has never been known for its normalcy.
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How in the frick does the government granting a monopoly on an expressed letter of the alphabet make any fricken sense?! It makes no sense.
An A is merely a letter and should not be monopolized by anyone. If you want to spend your time making an A look pretty, that's fine. But I don't see why the government should grant you a monopoly for your time.
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