Actually, I'm pretty certain that Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, et al DO get permission from their customers before using their names or pictures in endorsements.
One of the challenges with profiling is that someone has to be monitoring you enough to profile you. Do they monitor your emails/phone calls? Do they monitor who you meet with? Do they monitor your behavior at the airport? Do they look for superficial clues, like appearance, dress, last name, etc.
So profiling does involve a level of observation of you. It may not be as intrusive as the current TSA approach, so maybe you aren't as aware of it, but you are being watched in some fashion, or you couldn't be profiled.
Commensurate scrutiny follows: from the rifle-carrying guards that question the drivers of incoming cars, to the unsmiling sentries who eye passengers as they wheel in their luggage, to the security interrogations in the check-in lines.
As a last resort, on Israeli airlines at least, undercover sky marshals can be seated next to passengers seen as risky."
When a firm has maintained a market share in excess of two-thirds for a significant period and the Department concludes that market conditions likely would prevent the erosion of its market position in the near future, the Department will presume that the firm possesses monopoly power absent convincing evidence to the contrary. http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/reports/236681.pdf
No, the price of that 'copy' is approaching zero. The value of the music is still how the audience values it. I value the music I possess, regardless if it is from a free download or a $15 CD.
However, if you know you can easily and freely replace it whenever you want, you might decide you don't need to possess it. That's what is now happening in music. Streaming is replacing downloading. And as other items become free and constantly available, we are likely to decide we can dispense with ownership of those, too.
I think the whole nature of ownership and work is changing in a massive way right now.
Not only does this destroy China's emerging middle class (there because of manufacturing boon for the past couple of generations) but can you imagine the absolute shock and fear this will have on Unions?
I'm wondering where labor in every country is headed. Automation is eliminating many jobs. We will likely reach a point where we have more people than we need to have working. Abundance is a good thing when we can figure out how everyone can share in that abundance.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Professional musicians, legacy players, and "piracy"
Yes. But if you're looking for someone to blame for this, it's not file sharing "pirates," it's Wall Street bankers.
I guess I joined in on a thread about piracy, but I wasn't trying to make a case for or against that. My thoughts were just on how the economy is impacting music.
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Re: Those friends not even using friend finder
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They definitely do.
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So profiling does involve a level of observation of you. It may not be as intrusive as the current TSA approach, so maybe you aren't as aware of it, but you are being watched in some fashion, or you couldn't be profiled.
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Re: Re: Profiling?
I wasn't talking about it Techdirt. I was talking about in the US. Profiling as a security measure hasn't been a popular concept in the US.
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Profiling?
In Israel profiling is used, but the concept has been widely rejected here.
What can U.S. learn from Israel airport security? - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News: "Israeli intelligence agencies, working in lock-step with airport security, flag travelers deemed potentially dangerous -- a designation applied most readily, and controversially, to Arabs who make up 20 percent of the Jewish state's population.
Commensurate scrutiny follows: from the rifle-carrying guards that question the drivers of incoming cars, to the unsmiling sentries who eye passengers as they wheel in their luggage, to the security interrogations in the check-in lines.
As a last resort, on Israeli airlines at least, undercover sky marshals can be seated next to passengers seen as risky."
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Bad publicity doesn't always result in successful self-policing
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Something to add to the conversation
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Reputation doesn't always work
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Religion
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How the government defines it
http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/reports/236681.pdf
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16 of the Dumbest Things Americans Believe -- And the Right-Wing Lies Behind Them | | AlterNet: "So what to do in a political and cultural landscape in which well-told lies have more validity than fact-based truth?"
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However, if you know you can easily and freely replace it whenever you want, you might decide you don't need to possess it. That's what is now happening in music. Streaming is replacing downloading. And as other items become free and constantly available, we are likely to decide we can dispense with ownership of those, too.
I think the whole nature of ownership and work is changing in a massive way right now.
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Re: Infinite goods ... Gotta llove them
I think we're looking at the prospect of reinventing entire economic systems. Here are a few proposals:
Music and the "Gift Economy" 7: Alternative Economies
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Has anyone already mentioned the 3D printed car?
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I don't know the technology, but why wouldn't it be cast rather than cut from a solid block?
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I'm wondering where labor in every country is headed. Automation is eliminating many jobs. We will likely reach a point where we have more people than we need to have working. Abundance is a good thing when we can figure out how everyone can share in that abundance.
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Re: The end of scarcity
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The end of scarcity
Hypercompetition, Scarcity, and the Economics of Music
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Professional musicians, legacy players, and "piracy"
I guess I joined in on a thread about piracy, but I wasn't trying to make a case for or against that. My thoughts were just on how the economy is impacting music.
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