What you get with the crystal ball is an opportunity to see (before the rest) what stories they are working on.
It's not artificially created in as such, that the release times of the stories themselves haven't changed at all, subscribers merely get to see stories as they are being written. A paywall as many would describe it, means that no-one else gets access, unless they pay. But everyone gets access here.
Would you say that a restaurant-owner, who allows certain customers, who pay extra, a peek into his kitchen to show them how their food is being prepped, also creates an artificial scarcity, or would you call that extra service?
If you clearly mark it as 'unedited/incomplete', and I dunno, maybe even ask readers for help (which would be the CwF part), then you might even get better reporting instead of a legal risk.
The media industry were requested by the Dutch minister (of economy, I believe) to first make a valid and legal alternative to combat against this so-called piracy, before asking politicians to write laws banning said behaviour.
Right after that announcement by the minister, BREIN started attacking Mininova and TPB.
Meanwhile BREIN was also complaining (presumably falsely) that their website was/is under attack by hackers who were DDOS-ing their website. (though there is evidence that this was false, as only the frontpage wouldn't load, the rest of the site loaded just fine).
They are flailing, as they don't want to offer alternatives, but are only looking to put the P2P-genie back in the bottle.
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Nope. :P If you look hard enough you can find it. (quite easy even, took me two clicks, but I knew where to look of course)
btw, nice find about me going to Sensation White, which was awesome, if you can, and like dance/trance music, I'd say go to a Sensation party. :)
Only downside for me was that I picked up the flu there. (luckily not the mexican version of it)
Meh, as Steve Rambam said at a HOPE conference: "Privacy is dead, get over it."
"Your honour, I wasn't stalking $person_X, I was merely making sure that [s]he didn't go on a crime spree or steal a car. I don't really care about the person, hir privacy is garanteed."
It's absurd "We'll record everything, but don't worry, if you got nothing to hide, there won't be any trouble."
Besides what will happen if there is a coupe on the government, and we end up in a totalitarian state for real (which I think most of 'The West' already is) / dictatorship. Suddenly, everybody has something to hide.
Actually Truth seems to be right on the money here, as much as I don't like to hear it.
Just watch the Daily Show to see examples of everything Truth mentioned. (I know The Daily Show is a comedy show, but it does show the news, and they have (recently) pointed out that The White House is actually decreasing transparency, and how they haven't ended the war in Iraq, or how they haven't closed Guantanamo yet and how they are bungling up National Health Care.)
Yes, but IP isn't always a patent.
Copyright is IP too.
So basically the labels should start paying taxes for their copyright. Let's see how long it'll take before they want none of it anymore.
they torrent, because there isn't a global way of getting the content legally and hassle free.
I wish there was an online store where I could easily pay for and download shows like House, NCIS, Doctor Who and QI, in a format that I can play on my Popcorn Hour media center, relatively cheap and hassle free.
I'm willing to pay for my content, as long as it follows these three things:
1) DRM free (as DRM has NEVER stopped any so-called 'piracy' and only annoys paying customers)
2) in a ubiquitous format. (I don't want to play it in $special_player on my computer, that's incredibly buggy and only runs in Windows, I want to be able to watch it on my tv, thus mpeg4 or h.264)
3) cheap. (I want to pay for my content, but not through the nose. I'm not willing to pay $25 for a movie, if I can get the same movie on DVD for $15. $5-10 sounds more like it. Similar for tv-shows. $1-2 per episode sounds more reasonable than $5-10 does.)
That is btw, also the way to compete with 'free'. Deliver it in the same formats as the pirates, less the legal hassles and gray areas, offer it up for cheap, and you have floored most of the downloaders' arguments.
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Re: Re: Re: Scarce?
It's not artificially created in as such, that the release times of the stories themselves haven't changed at all, subscribers merely get to see stories as they are being written. A paywall as many would describe it, means that no-one else gets access, unless they pay. But everyone gets access here.
Would you say that a restaurant-owner, who allows certain customers, who pay extra, a peek into his kitchen to show them how their food is being prepped, also creates an artificial scarcity, or would you call that extra service?
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Re: As long as we're at it ...
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Competition is bad m'kay
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Nice idea, but...
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Re: Other idiotic sayings
Clearly it's only mayonnaise that goes well with fries.
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Re: Thank You / Flash / Copyright Law
It should be this: http://www.ipcolloquium.com/mobile
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BREIN is flailing around.
Right after that announcement by the minister, BREIN started attacking Mininova and TPB.
Meanwhile BREIN was also complaining (presumably falsely) that their website was/is under attack by hackers who were DDOS-ing their website. (though there is evidence that this was false, as only the frontpage wouldn't load, the rest of the site loaded just fine).
They are flailing, as they don't want to offer alternatives, but are only looking to put the P2P-genie back in the bottle.
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For those of us who also don't like Flash
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btw, nice find about me going to Sensation White, which was awesome, if you can, and like dance/trance music, I'd say go to a Sensation party. :)
Only downside for me was that I picked up the flu there. (luckily not the mexican version of it)
Meh, as Steve Rambam said at a HOPE conference: "Privacy is dead, get over it."
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Besides that, it gets stored in a central database, that should then also be publically available...
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would make a case for stalkers everywhere
It's absurd "We'll record everything, but don't worry, if you got nothing to hide, there won't be any trouble."
Besides what will happen if there is a coupe on the government, and we end up in a totalitarian state for real (which I think most of 'The West' already is) / dictatorship. Suddenly, everybody has something to hide.
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Corruption, however, is and conflicts of interest, and how lobbyists have the power now instead of the actual elected officials.
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Re: Re: Isn't it obvious?
Just watch the Daily Show to see examples of everything Truth mentioned. (I know The Daily Show is a comedy show, but it does show the news, and they have (recently) pointed out that The White House is actually decreasing transparency, and how they haven't ended the war in Iraq, or how they haven't closed Guantanamo yet and how they are bungling up National Health Care.)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Intellectual Property
Copyright is IP too.
So basically the labels should start paying taxes for their copyright. Let's see how long it'll take before they want none of it anymore.
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Re: mass market entertainment
I wish there was an online store where I could easily pay for and download shows like House, NCIS, Doctor Who and QI, in a format that I can play on my Popcorn Hour media center, relatively cheap and hassle free.
I'm willing to pay for my content, as long as it follows these three things:
1) DRM free (as DRM has NEVER stopped any so-called 'piracy' and only annoys paying customers)
2) in a ubiquitous format. (I don't want to play it in $special_player on my computer, that's incredibly buggy and only runs in Windows, I want to be able to watch it on my tv, thus mpeg4 or h.264)
3) cheap. (I want to pay for my content, but not through the nose. I'm not willing to pay $25 for a movie, if I can get the same movie on DVD for $15. $5-10 sounds more like it. Similar for tv-shows. $1-2 per episode sounds more reasonable than $5-10 does.)
That is btw, also the way to compete with 'free'. Deliver it in the same formats as the pirates, less the legal hassles and gray areas, offer it up for cheap, and you have floored most of the downloaders' arguments.
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