F*** the theatres then. It's not like I can get the time to go, or raise a mortgage every time I want to in order to pay for the 'experience'...
Infinite goods, why should I wait? Provide me something affordable now, which wouldn't 'cost' you anything, and might gain you something you wouldn't have had. Or keep whining and losing out...
Solutions like Hulu - wait a moment, that's not available outside the US. Netflix is barely available in the UK. HBO and numerous other channels aren't terribly available either. Where's the 'effort' to make these things available?
And once again, it's really not Google's job to prop up legacy players any more than it is Apple's. DRM is a poor technological fix that is simply a waste of time. How long did DVD DRM last? Blu-Ray? It's nothing to do with your BS 'big search' and everything to do with technological progress and human innovation.
Ever since region-coding on DVDs (and even some release windows on movies), a 'war' on customers has been evident. Virtually no other industry plays these games or ignores customers to this extent, let alone the people generating their content. The legacy players reap what they sow...
Maybe they aren't actually 'evil'. For instance, they aren't starting illegal wars or removing people's ability to survive without jobs or have affordable healthcare. But they appear to be wilfully blind to what they are doing, more than happy to make up vastly wrong numbers that they keep spouting, and the annoying habit of blatantly buying laws and politicians. So while they may not be Satan himself, they do qualify as one of his boils ;)
Or as Kipling put it (from the article):
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"
And nothing to do with their staggering sense of entitlement to keep using failed windowing methods and earn silly money?
Why not explain how we are all 'staggeringly entitled' for wanting the banks not to be run by bandits? They at least run a useful, relevant and evolving service...
Precisely! I have a small child and usually no babysitters. So my wife and I can't go to the cinema more than about once a year. Additionally, she's on call all the time, so there's a 50/50 chance if we were out she'd get a call then. So it would be much easier to be able to get a movie when it's actually coming out - I don't really want to have to miss all the 'batman' buzz, for instance, just because I can't go to the cinema. So what if I were willing to pay to see it at home? No chance! Even though the producers might make more money than if I saw it at the cinema...
It's more like you can't 'legitimately' buy the Prius in Wyoming. But they do sell them in Nebraska. Trouble is, only Nebraska residents can buy them. But you have a cousin in Nebraska...
False limits lead to creative ways around problems. Is someone 'breaking the law' by getting their Nebraskan cousin to purchase that Prius? Or is it just another element of the 'free' market?
Sometimes I wish Ayn Rand were around to go and beat the content industries around the head. Because that would be the only use for her asinine and inhuman economic philosphy.
We already rely on th 'benevolence' of the private sector and whichever laws/lawmakers they choose to buy. They are already abusing a due, legal process to falsely take down legitimate content under pain of perjury, while still whining on about their 'moral rights' being 'hurt' by 'pirates'. They are abusing a due, legal process to falsely take down competitors' products under pain of perjury, while stilll whining on that everyone else but them is 'anti-competitive'.
Oh do grow up and grow a pair. And finally admit that piracy has always happened, will always happen, and the most important thing is learning to adapt to it. Because the march of technology will go on, and people will expect more and more that the legacy industries are consistently failing to deliver.
How about false notices bump the target back up the search rankings? That would encourage accuracy a bit more than a false threat of perjury that would only be bought off anyway.
And the thing is, everyone IS making money with the Imaginary Property, including the cartels, but they a) don't think they are making enough, b) want more control, and c) don't like anyone else benefitting from their 'property'.
"Hey look, an airline is making money flying over my property. Get orf my land!!!"
Ok, I thought I was totally up on little grammatical nitpicks of that nature, but that one had eluded me. Thanks!
Of course, I'm having to keep track of not only British English, but American English and the internet brand: Stupid English. So my grammar is a bit polluted...
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Infinite goods, why should I wait? Provide me something affordable now, which wouldn't 'cost' you anything, and might gain you something you wouldn't have had. Or keep whining and losing out...
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And once again, it's really not Google's job to prop up legacy players any more than it is Apple's. DRM is a poor technological fix that is simply a waste of time. How long did DVD DRM last? Blu-Ray? It's nothing to do with your BS 'big search' and everything to do with technological progress and human innovation.
Ever since region-coding on DVDs (and even some release windows on movies), a 'war' on customers has been evident. Virtually no other industry plays these games or ignores customers to this extent, let alone the people generating their content. The legacy players reap what they sow...
Maybe they aren't actually 'evil'. For instance, they aren't starting illegal wars or removing people's ability to survive without jobs or have affordable healthcare. But they appear to be wilfully blind to what they are doing, more than happy to make up vastly wrong numbers that they keep spouting, and the annoying habit of blatantly buying laws and politicians. So while they may not be Satan himself, they do qualify as one of his boils ;)
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Or as Kipling put it (from the article):
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"
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What about Seagate etc?
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Why not explain how we are all 'staggeringly entitled' for wanting the banks not to be run by bandits? They at least run a useful, relevant and evolving service...
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False limits lead to creative ways around problems. Is someone 'breaking the law' by getting their Nebraskan cousin to purchase that Prius? Or is it just another element of the 'free' market?
Sometimes I wish Ayn Rand were around to go and beat the content industries around the head. Because that would be the only use for her asinine and inhuman economic philosphy.
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Oh do grow up and grow a pair. And finally admit that piracy has always happened, will always happen, and the most important thing is learning to adapt to it. Because the march of technology will go on, and people will expect more and more that the legacy industries are consistently failing to deliver.
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"Hey look, an airline is making money flying over my property. Get orf my land!!!"
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Of course, I'm having to keep track of not only British English, but American English and the internet brand: Stupid English. So my grammar is a bit polluted...
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And how can you 'copyright' a simplified subset of an existing language?
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