I ditched mine several years ago. My set-top box broke and I couldn't be bothered getting someone in to look at it. Three months had passed by and I had one of those "wait a minute..." moments.
I don't miss it at all. My entertainment is pretty much radio, cinema and internet. Oh, and my 32Tb media collection.
This is my take also. "...deliberately confront the cop..." this is just plain wrong. Most confrontations are initiated by the police, for obvious reasons.
Just thinking out loud, but I wonder how publishers could prevent authors from re-publishing their work, as you suggest, using freshened up exercises? If this practice works for producers to generate new sales, surely it would work for authors too...
"...the movie and music industry holds all the cards."
I disagree with this statement: it seems to me that the public (as consumers) have the greater power as a) money flows from consumer to producer, and b) they have the means to bypass their distribution.
The producer's power lies chiefly with their ability to influence lawmakers and law enforcers.
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Sorry, but why on earth should Hollywood get preferential treatment? It's bad enough that the USA feels it can foist it's absurd laws across the globe...
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Interesting. So the likely explanation behind this story is that the Dutch & Canadians simply went to the public BES admins (presumably with warrants) and got them to decrypt the phones.
I would expect the definition of intercepting communications to not include wholesale collecting and storing, which will of course be perfectly acceptable. Subsequent analysis of such collections will also be acceptable as long as it's not intercepted in any way.
"just explain how HBO is going to pay to produce Game of Thrones, Netflix makes Daredevil, etc"
It's not so bleak. Personally, I still buy physical media to give as presents. I sometimes watch public broadcasts of content that has been paid for by the advertisers whose content I also (have to) watch. I go to the cinema, oftentimes just to get out of the house.
Not to disagree with you, just pointing out that there are many different revenue streams. And many different moralities; Whisper's is certainly not universal.
I don't get your point - RD is simply stating that RIAA should treat infringers equally, and is expressing a doubt (that I share) that Huckabee will be punished.
I understand and agree, but I'd draw a parallel to what the NSA/GCHQ is doing regarding haystacks, and sorting out the wheat from the chaff. Speaking for myself, I know there's much more music out there, but I'm never quite sure where to go to find new, decent music that I might like, and there are only so many hours in the day.
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Really? Americans pay more for TV than food, transport, holidays, education...?
And ESPN President John Skipper doesn't see a problem with that?
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I don't miss it at all. My entertainment is pretty much radio, cinema and internet. Oh, and my 32Tb media collection.
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My nads are off-limits.
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I disagree with this statement: it seems to me that the public (as consumers) have the greater power as a) money flows from consumer to producer, and b) they have the means to bypass their distribution.
The producer's power lies chiefly with their ability to influence lawmakers and law enforcers.
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Quite simple really.
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It's not so bleak. Personally, I still buy physical media to give as presents. I sometimes watch public broadcasts of content that has been paid for by the advertisers whose content I also (have to) watch. I go to the cinema, oftentimes just to get out of the house.
Not to disagree with you, just pointing out that there are many different revenue streams. And many different moralities; Whisper's is certainly not universal.
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