Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Record labels put other talent into the mix: Apple just SITS THERE.
You missed the one that actually would happen, if it doesn't get the people to buy, they will just make a law to get people to pay without buying by adding it to the taxes or with levies or whatever.
Nope, I believe that falls into category B (or maybe A, as they do with music CDs.)
Re: Re: Re: Record labels put other talent into the mix: Apple just SITS THERE.
Or if the RIAA continues crafting the laws in their favor to the point where there is no choice anymore, people will use them instead and congratulate them on their "contribution".
If that happens, if RIAA legislates themselves into a position where there is no choice any more, I suspect that one of two things will happen: A.) People will ignore the law and RIAA will keep pushing for more and more laws to outlaw choice, each which fail to produce results, or B.) The government will be pushed to enforce the law and the public will revolt. Maybe the third thing will happen: C.) Congress will finally ignore the RIAA, but I doubt that will happen as the bag full of benjamins and a system that effectively hides corruption will keep that from ever occurring.
Or cable companies who charge $200 would go out of business because they overvalued their product. I suspect that in a couple years, given the false inflation within the cable companies, the price will be $200 and there will still be commercials, even though the price of the product will be slightly less than it is now. Cable companies don't understand now why their customers are cutting the cable...
What kills me is that customers are cutting the cable, so instead of the companies going "Jeesh, what are we doing wrong...oh, maybe it is because the alternatives are far cheaper and our price is too high, what do we do to fix that," they are pushing for laws to outlaw their competitors and force their customer to pay higher costs (and playing stupid games like restricting alacarte pricing, etc.)
I watch 4 channels on cable. Why should I pay for ESPN when I never watch ESPN? Make ESPN a special package and charge more for it. Allow me to buy the channels I want. At this point, if History, Discovery, and NatGeo were available through some other system, I'd cut the cable too.
I actually had no interest in Angry Birds, until now, that is. I feel the need to reward Rovio for their foresight.
If you have a job, and you value that job, then for the love of FSM, do not download and play angry birds. I swear, eight hours just simply vanished into thin air when I opened that game...Otherwise, it is the best time waster since Microsoft added Freecell to Windows (and minesweeper before that.)
Actually, they do...kinda (in the US, I am not sure about other places.)
They are required to buy a license for the broadcasting of the work. Fees are paid to BMI and ASCAP, and the money to those companies are supposed to go to the artists who wrote the song, not the performer or the distributor. Radio stations pay a yearly license to BMI/ASCAP and in return, they can play music.
Or if you're astroturfing for Big Search, Big Hardware or Big Piracy.
How much money is one supposed to get for astroturfing for Big Search, Big Hardware, or Big Piracy? Since many who voice an opinion contrary to "Big Content's" wishes are accused of doing so here by the IP maximalists, I figure I better get my invoices out. By the way, do you happen to have the address for Big Piracy...they don't appear in my phone-book.
Yet Pirate Mike doesn't see all of the cryptography and clever mathematics behind DRM as innovation. Nope. That doesn't count.
The moment you create DRM which hurts only the pirates and allows the customer to do what they are legally protected to do (including making incidental backup copies and using the software long after the author/content owner disowns the product,) then I'd consider it innovation. So far you screw the customer (I cannot install and use the product I legally purchased under WINE, or on a computer/OS you don't like, and I have no recourse once I paid for the product to use the product I paid for) and the pirate continues to walk away with the family jewels right out from under your nose.
Congress is probably unaware that there's a debate, never mind what it's about.
Hi Mr Senator...I am a lobbyist, calling about this upcoming bill that we want you to vote yes on. There is no debate, as Mr. Benjamin and his twenty brothers we sent you will attest to. If you find out that your constituents don't like it, we can send over a briefcase containing 600 Benjamins to help you with your decision. Thanks, have a nice day. Take the Benjamins we sent out for a night of hookers and blow on us and relax a little.
The entertainment industry doesn't care about my security nor about the ISC's advanced work on my behalf and would prefer they stop and pour their talent into protecting those who benefit from commercial copyright law.
As someone who has been personally affected by the entertainment industry's lack of care about my security, I heartily agree. First Sony threw malicious software on my legally obtained media which made me vulnerable to third party attack, and then they allowed their game network to be subverted and all my personal information compromised (twice.)
I won't go near Sony ever again (although its hard to tell as I just found out another company I was using was part of the Sony conglomerate, and I have now cancelled my account with them and added them to the blacklist.)
I just wish someone would publish a list of all the different companies Sony (or any other entertainment company) owned or was a part of so that I could add them to my blacklist too.
Heh, I always thought CAD was "Canadian Dinar." I have a bunch of Dinar from several countries, and their money is always labelled like BHD and IQD, so I figured CAD was just another type of Dinar.
Then again, I got confused when I saw USD. As far as I am aware, the name of money in the US is either "cash" or "plastic", so United States Dinar doesn't seem to work.
I have two accounts on gmail, one that has all my personal information, and one that doesn't. I've not received any statement from Google yet banning or removing either account even though the one that doesn't have my name is obviously a pseudonym. Not sure if I just flew under the radar or if that means that they aren't as quick to remove accounts (or if it only affects one service and not all of them.)
Re: Re: "majority of games ... had fewer than 50,000 unique peers"
Taking a random survey on The Pirate Bay for the only game that came to mind (because someone who grasps figures knows a sample size of 1 is all you need right?), "Call of Duty", showed one torrent with 402 SEEDS, though only 140 leeches. I say that indicates pretty insignificant losses in the big picture.
And how many of those were people who legitimately purchased Call of Duty, but couldn't install it because the DRM provider didn't like how cheap their computer was?
It's NOT a guilty conscience. It the fear of the bully that is larger and much more powerful than you. You hope all you lose is your lunch money.
Exactly.
If I was contacted by HADOPI and accused of stealing my first impulse would be to call them and get as much information I can to be used against them during a legal defense (or just to tell them "Come at me Bro" because I live in another country.) When I see something wrong on a bill, I tend to call the company immediately and let them know that there is a problem. I would certainly get hit by these scammers calling for more information, not because I have a guilty conscious.
Re: Re: Response to: Ima Fish on Oct 14th, 2011 @ 5:16am
Take down your mailbox if you don't like USPS property in your yard. Problem solved.
However, be forewarned. If you have anything that fits within the regulation of a mailbox, the letter carrier will deliver your mail to that receptacle (and it becomes your mailbox, and immediately gets the mailbox restrictions.) If you do not have anything like that on your property, then the letter carrier will return your mail to the post office where it will be held for a short period before being returned to sender. They will not tell you that they are holding your mail, so you'll have to go to the post office daily for pickup. Standing at the long lines at the post office or waiting for a long period while the post office "finds" your mail might make this get old...but at least you don't have their property on your property.
My sister lives in a rural location where the post office won't deliver to her house. She has to drive to the post office daily to pick up her mail...but luckily she falls under the limited 4.9.3b category and they give her a free post office box to deliver her mail to. Sucks when she has a company that won't send mail to a P.O. Box though.
Funny thing, UPS and FedEx have no problem delivering to her house though.
I have a game I bought that the DRM wouldn't play nice with my computer. It now sits on my shelf while I play the same pirated version.
Same here, except for the pirated part (well, ok, I did use software to strip the DRM off when I made an iso copy of the disk.) I've noticed that running the iso in VirtualBox, SafeDisk doesn't seem to complain any more about it.
I've been spending quite a bit of money re-buying games off of GOG just because I want to play the game, and because the company who originally sold me the game years ago decided that the game should only play on Windows95. For $5.95/$9.95, it is worth the added investment to re-buy the game once and have it work on any platform I want without the DRM. Just wish GOG had a bigger selection of old games though...I was buying stuff through Steam for the same reason, but Steam has their own issues with DRM (though, I've found their DRM to be far more palatable especially since I can still play in "off-line" mode without problems.)
Next person who gets the insightful post of the week spends the following week at Gitmo. This is exactly why we cannot have insightful posts...they incite people to learn. +1 for removal of the insightful buttons, they only incite people to be insightful!
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Record labels put other talent into the mix: Apple just SITS THERE.
Nope, I believe that falls into category B (or maybe A, as they do with music CDs.)
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Re: Re: Re: Record labels put other talent into the mix: Apple just SITS THERE.
If that happens, if RIAA legislates themselves into a position where there is no choice any more, I suspect that one of two things will happen: A.) People will ignore the law and RIAA will keep pushing for more and more laws to outlaw choice, each which fail to produce results, or B.) The government will be pushed to enforce the law and the public will revolt. Maybe the third thing will happen: C.) Congress will finally ignore the RIAA, but I doubt that will happen as the bag full of benjamins and a system that effectively hides corruption will keep that from ever occurring.
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
Or cable companies who charge $200 would go out of business because they overvalued their product. I suspect that in a couple years, given the false inflation within the cable companies, the price will be $200 and there will still be commercials, even though the price of the product will be slightly less than it is now. Cable companies don't understand now why their customers are cutting the cable...
What kills me is that customers are cutting the cable, so instead of the companies going "Jeesh, what are we doing wrong...oh, maybe it is because the alternatives are far cheaper and our price is too high, what do we do to fix that," they are pushing for laws to outlaw their competitors and force their customer to pay higher costs (and playing stupid games like restricting alacarte pricing, etc.)
I watch 4 channels on cable. Why should I pay for ESPN when I never watch ESPN? Make ESPN a special package and charge more for it. Allow me to buy the channels I want. At this point, if History, Discovery, and NatGeo were available through some other system, I'd cut the cable too.
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Re: Angry Birds
If you have a job, and you value that job, then for the love of FSM, do not download and play angry birds. I swear, eight hours just simply vanished into thin air when I opened that game...Otherwise, it is the best time waster since Microsoft added Freecell to Windows (and minesweeper before that.)
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Re: Re: Re: Radio causes lost sales
Actually, they do...kinda (in the US, I am not sure about other places.)
They are required to buy a license for the broadcasting of the work. Fees are paid to BMI and ASCAP, and the money to those companies are supposed to go to the artists who wrote the song, not the performer or the distributor. Radio stations pay a yearly license to BMI/ASCAP and in return, they can play music.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
How much money is one supposed to get for astroturfing for Big Search, Big Hardware, or Big Piracy? Since many who voice an opinion contrary to "Big Content's" wishes are accused of doing so here by the IP maximalists, I figure I better get my invoices out. By the way, do you happen to have the address for Big Piracy...they don't appear in my phone-book.
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Re: Re: Re: What is the proper recourse?
The moment you create DRM which hurts only the pirates and allows the customer to do what they are legally protected to do (including making incidental backup copies and using the software long after the author/content owner disowns the product,) then I'd consider it innovation. So far you screw the customer (I cannot install and use the product I legally purchased under WINE, or on a computer/OS you don't like, and I have no recourse once I paid for the product to use the product I paid for) and the pirate continues to walk away with the family jewels right out from under your nose.
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Re: Re: Faith in Congress
Hi Mr Senator...I am a lobbyist, calling about this upcoming bill that we want you to vote yes on. There is no debate, as Mr. Benjamin and his twenty brothers we sent you will attest to. If you find out that your constituents don't like it, we can send over a briefcase containing 600 Benjamins to help you with your decision. Thanks, have a nice day. Take the Benjamins we sent out for a night of hookers and blow on us and relax a little.
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Re: Aha!
Yup. Anti-IP (as in Internet Protocol.) It's a push by Lucent to bring back ATM.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: @ " pulling down your pants, twirling your penis around"
You won't get a response...that is why most of us ignore him. He is here for the lulz, and once he says his piece he moves on.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
As someone who has been personally affected by the entertainment industry's lack of care about my security, I heartily agree. First Sony threw malicious software on my legally obtained media which made me vulnerable to third party attack, and then they allowed their game network to be subverted and all my personal information compromised (twice.)
I won't go near Sony ever again (although its hard to tell as I just found out another company I was using was part of the Sony conglomerate, and I have now cancelled my account with them and added them to the blacklist.)
I just wish someone would publish a list of all the different companies Sony (or any other entertainment company) owned or was a part of so that I could add them to my blacklist too.
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Re: Re: I had no idea...
Heh, I always thought CAD was "Canadian Dinar." I have a bunch of Dinar from several countries, and their money is always labelled like BHD and IQD, so I figured CAD was just another type of Dinar.
Then again, I got confused when I saw USD. As far as I am aware, the name of money in the US is either "cash" or "plastic", so United States Dinar doesn't seem to work.
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Re: Re: Alternative Solution
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Re: Re: "majority of games ... had fewer than 50,000 unique peers"
And how many of those were people who legitimately purchased Call of Duty, but couldn't install it because the DRM provider didn't like how cheap their computer was?
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Re: Re: facts
Hey Pot, your black is showing.
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Re: Re: Oh, that's low. /Pirates/ getting scammed.
Exactly.
If I was contacted by HADOPI and accused of stealing my first impulse would be to call them and get as much information I can to be used against them during a legal defense (or just to tell them "Come at me Bro" because I live in another country.) When I see something wrong on a bill, I tend to call the company immediately and let them know that there is a problem. I would certainly get hit by these scammers calling for more information, not because I have a guilty conscious.
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Re: Re: Response to: Ima Fish on Oct 14th, 2011 @ 5:16am
However, be forewarned. If you have anything that fits within the regulation of a mailbox, the letter carrier will deliver your mail to that receptacle (and it becomes your mailbox, and immediately gets the mailbox restrictions.) If you do not have anything like that on your property, then the letter carrier will return your mail to the post office where it will be held for a short period before being returned to sender. They will not tell you that they are holding your mail, so you'll have to go to the post office daily for pickup. Standing at the long lines at the post office or waiting for a long period while the post office "finds" your mail might make this get old...but at least you don't have their property on your property.
My sister lives in a rural location where the post office won't deliver to her house. She has to drive to the post office daily to pick up her mail...but luckily she falls under the limited 4.9.3b category and they give her a free post office box to deliver her mail to. Sucks when she has a company that won't send mail to a P.O. Box though.
Funny thing, UPS and FedEx have no problem delivering to her house though.
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Re: Re: Duh
Same here, except for the pirated part (well, ok, I did use software to strip the DRM off when I made an iso copy of the disk.) I've noticed that running the iso in VirtualBox, SafeDisk doesn't seem to complain any more about it.
I've been spending quite a bit of money re-buying games off of GOG just because I want to play the game, and because the company who originally sold me the game years ago decided that the game should only play on Windows95. For $5.95/$9.95, it is worth the added investment to re-buy the game once and have it work on any platform I want without the DRM. Just wish GOG had a bigger selection of old games though...I was buying stuff through Steam for the same reason, but Steam has their own issues with DRM (though, I've found their DRM to be far more palatable especially since I can still play in "off-line" mode without problems.)
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Re: Re:
Next person who gets the insightful post of the week spends the following week at Gitmo. This is exactly why we cannot have insightful posts...they incite people to learn. +1 for removal of the insightful buttons, they only incite people to be insightful!
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