“Think about when you listen to a song on the radio,” he explained. “You are not paying for it, it’s not illegal to do it, because the rights have been paid for on top, beforehand, by the radio station, by the network."
No, the em spectrum, the manufacturers of radio broadcasting and/or receiving hardware do not pay.
The BROADCASTER pays. They pay from ad revenue, which is earned by having tons of people listening.
If the content creators had not by and large(not entirely, granted) been so beholden to idiotic legacy distributors, they could have monetized content in this fashion from the get go online. They were late to the table, someone else ate "their" lunch, and now they whinge. As they say in the Russian Army, "tufki shitski".
The notion that "content creators" need a handout is idiotic. The money made via spotify, youtube, netflix, etc... is huge.
“We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators.”
Define "us", shitbag. If I wanted to listen to idiotic beeps and whistles, I'd put an R2-D2 sound bite on a loop. I use my smartphone to read (techdirt and wikipedia being my two favs), to use facebook and email to interact with friends, family and colleagues.
I have very little music on my phone (all of it purchased) and all the pics and movies on their are taken by me. So am I creator? I suppose I should get the $300-$400 tax levied against my phone, then, since I'm the primary creator of content I consume.
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I regret this as I now see how reporting your deeply insightful and relevant post plays into the larger shadow government conspiracy to resurrect Reagan and take over the world.
First they came for the morons, and I didn't do anything cause I'm not a moron....
Rather than getting lost in analogies, let's look back at what he was focusing on. He pushed through Obama care, closed out Iraq (sorta), and had to deal with the gov't shutdown.
He CLEARLY dropped the ball when it comes to NSA, though I would say he's got a halfway decent excuse in that he was probably lied to by Alexander and co., and the surveillance thing wasn't at the time a squeaky wheel.
For the sake of argument we can give him the benefit of the doubt up to the point when Snowden's leaks came out, because no one, it seems, really knew wtf was going on (this in and of itself is pretty damning for the NSA IMO).
I can give him the benefit of the doubt up to this point because he's trying to manage a MASSIVE federal gov't with an extremely acrimonious senate and congress. It smells a bit, since he was against warrantless wiretapping as an election line-item, but lying to get elected is apparently somewhat minor on the scale of sins in politics.
So benefit of the doubt (stretched, but no unduly ocnsidering it's politics) up to that point.
What punches Obama's ticket is how he's reacted since. He's regurgitated bullshit talking points and flubbed at doing anything to rein in this obviously unconstitutional set of surveillance programs. There is no plausible wiggle room in that for any "I didn't know" or "I was misled by my minions" routine. Since the Snowden leaks he is patently complicit in the surveillance.
I always knew my daughters were up to no good. Here's the proof. Why won't the government DO something about it? I'd blindly vote for any asshole, no matter how transparent and obvious their moral bankruptcy and psychopathy, so long as they make me FEEL safer.
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lolwut
No, the em spectrum, the manufacturers of radio broadcasting and/or receiving hardware do not pay.
The BROADCASTER pays. They pay from ad revenue, which is earned by having tons of people listening.
If the content creators had not by and large(not entirely, granted) been so beholden to idiotic legacy distributors, they could have monetized content in this fashion from the get go online. They were late to the table, someone else ate "their" lunch, and now they whinge. As they say in the Russian Army, "tufki shitski".
The notion that "content creators" need a handout is idiotic. The money made via spotify, youtube, netflix, etc... is huge.
Define "us", shitbag. If I wanted to listen to idiotic beeps and whistles, I'd put an R2-D2 sound bite on a loop. I use my smartphone to read (techdirt and wikipedia being my two favs), to use facebook and email to interact with friends, family and colleagues.
I have very little music on my phone (all of it purchased) and all the pics and movies on their are taken by me. So am I creator? I suppose I should get the $300-$400 tax levied against my phone, then, since I'm the primary creator of content I consume.
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Wrong, all wrong!
FTFY.
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The disconnect between incomprehensible laws and "ignorance of the law is no excuse" is a lynch pin in the prison/surveillance industry.
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Re: Re: Re: This sounds like a job for Anonymous
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Re: This sounds like a job for Anonymous
Todd, suggest you practice "Paper or plastic?"
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Joke?
I don't think it's funny.
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You forgot irradiation.
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Re: Re: Who foots the bill?
I regret this as I now see how reporting your deeply insightful and relevant post plays into the larger shadow government conspiracy to resurrect Reagan and take over the world.
First they came for the morons, and I didn't do anything cause I'm not a moron....
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Re: Re: Re: Caption: "Google Glass wearers, neither of whom are the man who was detained in Ohio."
And now that it's been confirmed by AMC, the MPAA and ICE it's still fishy?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: It's easy to blame....
He CLEARLY dropped the ball when it comes to NSA, though I would say he's got a halfway decent excuse in that he was probably lied to by Alexander and co., and the surveillance thing wasn't at the time a squeaky wheel.
For the sake of argument we can give him the benefit of the doubt up to the point when Snowden's leaks came out, because no one, it seems, really knew wtf was going on (this in and of itself is pretty damning for the NSA IMO).
I can give him the benefit of the doubt up to this point because he's trying to manage a MASSIVE federal gov't with an extremely acrimonious senate and congress. It smells a bit, since he was against warrantless wiretapping as an election line-item, but lying to get elected is apparently somewhat minor on the scale of sins in politics.
So benefit of the doubt (stretched, but no unduly ocnsidering it's politics) up to that point.
What punches Obama's ticket is how he's reacted since. He's regurgitated bullshit talking points and flubbed at doing anything to rein in this obviously unconstitutional set of surveillance programs. There is no plausible wiggle room in that for any "I didn't know" or "I was misled by my minions" routine. Since the Snowden leaks he is patently complicit in the surveillance.
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How to commit company sepuku
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I knew it
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Re: Re: Nothing to hide
The point is, she has nothing to hide, but still has something to fear.
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Right, so...
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Nothing to hide
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