Righthaven has consistently missed deadlines and always has basically the same lame excuse. If they miss Monday's deadline and Judge Pro does nothing it will be a severe miscarriage of justice on his part.
Copyrights take the creations away from the creators and but them in the hands of the non-creators. No laws are necessary to protect the creative because they will keep creating. It is the non-creative that require the protection to stay in business.
Who is the most likely to watch a game on tv but the local market and in numbers usually far more than those that go to the game? The leagues are giving up their most important revenue stream on a false idea that running the games locally will effect ticket sales.
Local sports blackouts have always irritated me because so often it was the local community that put up the money to build the stadium in the first place so it is really the leagues telling the community that supports them to screw you.
The leagues worry that showing a local game on TV will cause people to not buy tickets for the game which is total bunk. The two events are a completely different experience. It's just like theaters who worry that releasing a movie on video at the same time as the theatrical release will cut into movie attendance which is also total bunk because they are two completely different experiences.
When ever something is abused or treads into the realm of extreme ridiculousness there comes the inevitable backlash. The more copyright holders push to the extremes the more the pendulum will swing back.
Righthaven has contended all along that the appeals court would undo all the rulings against it by the lower courts but now they are not even bothering to show up to them.
Righthaven CEO Steve Gibson has a court date on January 5th in a Federal Court in Las Vegas. If he fails to show up for this one he will be considered a fugitive from justice.
Every time we sit down to watch a movie the first thing we see is a threat of imprisonment. This doesn't seem to stop piracy even though everyone is being "educated" about the penalties.
Too much "education" causes people to tune out and ignore the thing they are being "educated" for.
Just like newspapers blackout on the entire Righthaven affair except for some noteworthy exceptions like the Las Vegas Sun. The news media has shown they will not report on stories that effect them. It is an inherent conflict of interest.
"These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy...in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal cord left. The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape." ~John Philip Sousa
How can you call them "unintended consequences" when the consequences have been well laid out before hand? When you know going in that the intent of the legislation will not work but will break the Internet and put a break on free speech then we must assume they are all intended consequences and possibly even the primary intent of the legislation.
This from a man who destroyed his flagship paper the Times of London and to this day will not admit it was a mistake even after causing the Times to lose all relevance in world news and even hurt the dead tree addition. Many reporters have jumped ship because why write for a paper no one is reading.
Murdock says he will break the concept of fair use through the courts so we know where he is coming from.
As you can see I came up with this idea first and therefore you are infringing upon my Intellectual property. Expect to hear from my lawyers at Righthaven.
Theaters owners need to realize that watching a movie in a theater and on DVD are completely different experience and neither takes away from the other. In fact I would be much more LIKELY to buy a video directly after walking out of a theater than I would buying the video a couple of months later after watching it in a theater. Having the DVD available would not impact my decision in any way whether to see it in a theater and I don't think I am alone in that.
Wouldn't it be great if theaters themselves could sell the DVD while the movie was running? What a marketing opportunity and revenue stream for them.
On the post: Righthaven Fails To Show Up In Court As Ordered... When Confronted Says It Got Confused Over The Date
Miscarriage of Justice
On the post: It Is Time To Stop Pretending To Endorse The Copyright Monopoly
On the post: Dear Pro Sports Leagues: Can I Watch The Game Please?
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On the post: Dear Pro Sports Leagues: Can I Watch The Game Please?
The leagues worry that showing a local game on TV will cause people to not buy tickets for the game which is total bunk. The two events are a completely different experience. It's just like theaters who worry that releasing a movie on video at the same time as the theatrical release will cut into movie attendance which is also total bunk because they are two completely different experiences.
On the post: The Insanity Of Copyright Law: When Even Professionals Have No Idea They're Breaking The Law
On the post: Righthaven Screws Up (Again); Appeal Dismissed
Righthaven CEO Steve Gibson has a court date on January 5th in a Federal Court in Las Vegas. If he fails to show up for this one he will be considered a fugitive from justice.
On the post: The Myth That SOPA & PIPA Will Stop Infringement By 'Educating' The Public
Too much "education" causes people to tune out and ignore the thing they are being "educated" for.
On the post: Big Entertainment Companies Issuing Wrongful YouTube Claims On Public Domain Works
On the post: Cable News Finally Realizing That SOPA And PROTECT IP Are Bad News
On the post: Alan Greenspan: Failed To Predict Bubble Popping... And Failed In Predicting Home Taping Would Kill Music
On the post: Alan Greenspan: Failed To Predict Bubble Popping... And Failed In Predicting Home Taping Would Kill Music
On the post: Alan Greenspan: Failed To Predict Bubble Popping... And Failed In Predicting Home Taping Would Kill Music
John Philip Sousa Said Recording will Kill Music
"These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy...in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal cord left. The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape." ~John Philip Sousa
On the post: SOPA Markup Runs Out Of Time; Likely Delayed Until 2012 [Update: Or Not...]
Re: SOPA/PIPA unintended consequences
On the post: How SOPA 2.0 Sneaks In A Really Dangerous Private Ability To Kill Any Website
On the post: Rupert Murdoch Personally Lobbies Congress For SOPA And PROTECT IP
Murdock says he will break fair use.
Murdock says he will break the concept of fair use through the courts so we know where he is coming from.
On the post: Shockingly Unshocking: Two Congressional Staffers Who Helped Write SOPA/PIPA Become Entertainment Industry Lobbyists
No conflict here folks.
On the post: RIAA Really Planning To Join Righthaven Fight
On the post: RIAA Really Planning To Join Righthaven Fight
Not just fight expanding fair use but eliminate it all together at all costs.
On the post: Yet Another Study Shows That Hollywood's Own Bad Decisions Are Increasing The Amount Of Infringement
Re: A business plan
On the post: Yet Another Study Shows That Hollywood's Own Bad Decisions Are Increasing The Amount Of Infringement
Theater owners missed opportunty
Wouldn't it be great if theaters themselves could sell the DVD while the movie was running? What a marketing opportunity and revenue stream for them.
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