Too bad Perez didn't have an Android phone linked up to his Google Plus account. Then the photos are auto-uploaded into the cloud so deleting them off the phone doesn't mean anything.
I'm sure Obama just wishes everyone would shut up about this kind of stuff for a while, specifically until after November. Its not that he doesn't realize the damages are not reasonable or that asking a kid to pay $1.5 million will just mean he declares bankruptcy and the gov't will foot the bill anyways, the reality is that he can't agree with logic, reason, or the public on this one b/c he is OWNED by the MPAA/RIAA. They have actually tried to sue him for using the presidential seal on his letterhead without their expressed written consent (not really). Somehow, if he were to side with reason/public, he would absolutely lose the election. It wouldn't matter if every single person in the country voted for him, it would still go to his opponent (who supports the rule of the MPAA/RIAA). I have absolute confidence in that prediction (b/c he will never risk losing support from those organizations so the prediction won't be necessary).
Dur, of course they're ok with returning the legal files. They are starting to realize that they (they being the Police who apparently work directly for the MPAA) had no legal right to confiscate the files in the first place and that their court case will be dismissed in short order for lack of evidence due to Police/Courts not following proper procedure in obtaining said files. Once this happens, the MPAA and/or government agencies will be inundated with lawsuits from the people who used the service in an unquestionably legal manner and whose property was therefore illegally confiscated to their personal and/or professional detriment. I will be so happy when this happens. Politicians will be outraged though b/c their campaign contributions will be cut in half when the MPAA can't afford to contribute.
This is another example of how backwards our system works these days. As Congress should know, issues like this one are easily controlled by our free market system: LinkedIn already took a hit from users on this issue in terms of cancelled accounts and/or removal of apps from devices. If this happens again to LinkedIn they will become another MySpace that slowly fades away. LinkedIn knows it and will spend the money to ensure the problem doesn't happen again. Wow, the market can fix itself, crazy. This is why we don't need laws that are completely unenforceable, especially in the digital world.
I'm not arguing with you directly but with the logic HBO is using for this decision.
Like all other industries being affected by the digitization of media, HBO is at a critical moment: they must make a choice between sticking with what has been making them money and what the history of other industries in similar situations indicates will happen if they don't adapt right now. While it would certainly be costly to sever their existing contracts with cable companies, it would certainly be more costly if their (paid) viewership declines dramatically due to the massive cord cutting that will happen in the next few years. They must take the loss now and move forward with a new business model or likely go out of business. Granted the latter will take a while to happen but they will start seeing negative subscribers/profits very soon. HBO has always showed a great deal of savvy when it comes to 'knowing what people want to watch' but unfortunately they aren't as skilled at simply 'knowing people'.
Seems to me that the guy on the TPP committee from the USTR should just be fired and replaced with someone who will talk to his superiors and Congress (and preferably the public). Once the new guy is hired, the TPP group will have to accept him as a replacement or face the possibility of the USA not being a supporting member of the TPP. Why can't they just fire him for insubordination?
Also, i just went thru the process of creating a new sprint plan and the options for mobile hotspot are 2gb/month for $20 or 6gb/month for $50. I tried on both the EVO 4G and the iPhone 4S, same result. Maybe they are grandfathering the author in at 5gb/month.
i think the biggest slime factor with this change is that b/c its an add on and not part of the service contract, it doesn't invalidate the contracts terms of service or ETF.
As others have said, i'm hugely disappointed by this. While the article is misleading in saying Sprint no longer offers unlimited mobile data when it is only the hotspot getting capped, the reality is that soon their unlimited data plans will go away as well. I have been waiting for my iPhone contract to expire for 3 years but thanks to their policy of allowing family members to steal upgrades (which extends the contract on the phone number the upgrade was available for, not phone number the upgrade was actually used for). My wife got a Sprint iPhone 4s b/c they were the last to have unlimited data and i planned to join sprint in November when i can ditch big red and greedy data caps. I may not make it in time before they change their actual data plans and not just the feature of them.
Also, to the author - Jailbreak or root your phone and install an app that tells the phone the data is coming from the browser rather than the hotspot and then cancel that extra feature. you'll still have unlimited mobile hotspot and unlimited data but w/o the monthly fee. Most apps available in the unlocked markets work this way.
I recently learned about Cosmoquest.org which is a project of the scientists in charge of the New Horizons spacecraft that will go past Pluto and on to the Kuiper Belt. They are crowd sourcing amateur fans of astronomy to look thru tons of photos to spot actual objects in the Kuiper Belt that could be the target of the spacecraft after Pluto. The images users go thru are grainy and confusing to look at b/c of the technology behind the image meshing software. They explain right on the site that they have to use very specific standards to ensure all of the vast quantity of images are produced in a verifiable way. This got me thinking about scientific software and how useless any software written by a private company would be if they would not share the source code. Its sad but also understandable b/c there could never be an 'agreement' with the scientists that they wouldn't share the code, they would have to if they want their results to be verified and that would essentially make the code open source meaning it would retain little value comparatively. I don't know of a solution other than scientists developing their own code, relying on their universities to develop code for them or some generous group of programmers creating the code for them for free. It is good that scientists aren't just assuming all software is created correctly though, there has to remain some semblance of intelligence in our global community.
Being a Star Wars fan, I would love to see his version and doing so would certainly benefit Lucasfilm b/c i would obviously need to watch the last 3 movies immediately afterwards (and eventually i would would the first 3 again, probably followed by the last 3, again). I've been itching for a reason to get the Blu-ray versions of the series..this would put me over the top. But alas, we'll never see it and i still won't be buying those expensive HD versions.. Another demonstration of how copyright makes studios more money - no wait, its just the opposite.
agreed! when i started reading the article, i actually thought it was going to do that sort of comparison.. I don't think its right to 'abuse' the system but honestly, if more individuals tried to do this kind of thing, maybe it would be more abundantly clear to law-makers and/or regular citizens the system is completely screwed up and change would happen. Not to mention there would be more comparisons of cases brought by individuals getting rejected vs similar cases brought by RIAA/MPAA that are awarded damages.
I can see exactly where this is going. Once the networks buy off a judge or 50 and these lawsuits are not only make it to court but go in favor the networks, it will be illegal for anyone to skip commercials, ever. This means that like Hulu and March Madness on the web, whenever commercials come on your tv, not only will you not be able to pause, mute, or change the channel, but you will also not be able to turn the TV off. In fact, even though that law passed making it illegal for commercials to be louder than the tv show itself (which i swear still happens), commercials will now turn up the tv to be the loudest thing in the room (after analyzing current room volume of course). In a few years, your TV may even be required to turn itself on to play commercials for any shows you have ever recorded on your DVR b/c otherwise you're infringing. Heck, lets go 5 years down the road when Google Glass is mainstream and you can watch shows right on that little thing. When that happens, you will have to stop moving, stop talking, stop listening to any real people, and close the eye that's not watching the Glass screen just to watch commercials or you'll be arrested within 30 seconds. Heck, by then, it will be infringement if you don't watch any tv at all in a single day b/c you haven't seen any commercials (Not cool bro!). Every 15 minutes in real life will be mandatory commercial break time for the entire country (soon the world!).
i think you're crossing over into another systemic problem in our country, our addiction to cars. I love driving my own car too but we love it so much that we forget about public transportation which has led to it practically vanishing in all but the few largest cities. What your city needs (and mine) is a better form of public transportation (light rail, trolley) and/or rules governing city driving, not more parking. I always think back to what my friend told me when she visited Germany, the type of car you drive determines how far into the city you can drive it - i.e. Hummers and F150s would have to park on the outskirts, the more fuel efficient SUVs can go a little further than the previous, sedans can make it into the area just outside of hardcore downtown and SMART cars and compact hybrids can go wherever they want. I would like to see an American city try something like this. And now i'll try to loosely tie my response to the topic of the article like you did.
This streamlined form of city parking and public transportation could be very effective solutions when applied to copyright law as well (use your imagination).
many times corporations (with government assistance) punish people who (arguably) stole $60 worth of IP with fines ranging from $50,000 to $150,000 that the individual will need decades to recover from. It may be a little known fact to some people but businesses (especially big ones) often don't bother pursing debts that go unpaid when the cost of recovering the loss outweighs the amount of the loss itself. These ridiculous cases against individuals are the exception. The reason these companies are doing this is b/c they are working (successfully) to establish a new structure of buying (a new consumerism) for our entire society which is the underlying point of this article. They know that if they can successfully change the laws in favor of corporations over the individual citizen, the future of their business is virtually unlimited. This mentality is prevailing b/c the thought leaders can afford to buy the politicians who don't understand the consequences it will have in the next generation or so. I firmly believe that if the corrupt trends that are trying to emerge today are successful, the entire middle class will be bankrupt before the end of the century, if not well before.
I have a solution to this. Since anything we create in our mind and publish is intelectual property that is protected by copyright, i would like to claim protection on my votes during elections. Its not a big deal though b/c i'd only like to collect $1 from each party interested in seeing my vote. This revolutionary new system of voting will not only guarantee that every citizen will vote, it will earn me enough income that all the lawsuits that are filed against me for violating copyright law will come out even. The best part is that everyone (big business) wins!
If most people recognize that the anti-piracy campaign is all fluff and not actually hurting anyone's business, including the gov't, how do anti-piracy bills not only make it into the House but get passed?
I thought a published writer would have realized by now that pharma companies don't actually want to make people healthier, then their business would dry up. They want to make people sick, or at least believe their sick, so the pharma's can sweep in with their brand new miracle drug and make billions.
Seriously though, are you saying that the current review process for new drugs is some guy reading a report on research conducted by the company making said drug, saying "yah this looks good" and stamping it 'approved'? Thats incredible. Doesn't the FDA do more checking into food products like beef and chicken than what they apparently do for new drugs?
also, how can you create a company in one day? does this mean they hired a guy and put him in charge just so they could sue the company and fire him?
I thought a published writer would have realized by now that pharma companies don't actually want to make people healthier, then their business would dry up. They want to make people sick, or at least believe their sick, so the pharma's can sweep in with their brand new miracle drug and make billions.
Seriously though, are you saying that the current review process for new drugs is some guy reading a report on research conducted by the company making said drug, saying "yah this looks good" and stamping it 'approved'? Thats incredible. Doesn't the FDA do more checking into food products like beef and chicken than what they apparently do for new drugs?
also, how can you create a company in one day? does this mean they hired a guy and put him in charge just so they could sue the company and fire him?
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Like all other industries being affected by the digitization of media, HBO is at a critical moment: they must make a choice between sticking with what has been making them money and what the history of other industries in similar situations indicates will happen if they don't adapt right now. While it would certainly be costly to sever their existing contracts with cable companies, it would certainly be more costly if their (paid) viewership declines dramatically due to the massive cord cutting that will happen in the next few years. They must take the loss now and move forward with a new business model or likely go out of business. Granted the latter will take a while to happen but they will start seeing negative subscribers/profits very soon. HBO has always showed a great deal of savvy when it comes to 'knowing what people want to watch' but unfortunately they aren't as skilled at simply 'knowing people'.
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Also, to the author - Jailbreak or root your phone and install an app that tells the phone the data is coming from the browser rather than the hotspot and then cancel that extra feature. you'll still have unlimited mobile hotspot and unlimited data but w/o the monthly fee. Most apps available in the unlocked markets work this way.
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This streamlined form of city parking and public transportation could be very effective solutions when applied to copyright law as well (use your imagination).
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make people sick
Seriously though, are you saying that the current review process for new drugs is some guy reading a report on research conducted by the company making said drug, saying "yah this looks good" and stamping it 'approved'? Thats incredible. Doesn't the FDA do more checking into food products like beef and chicken than what they apparently do for new drugs?
also, how can you create a company in one day? does this mean they hired a guy and put him in charge just so they could sue the company and fire him?
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make people sick
Seriously though, are you saying that the current review process for new drugs is some guy reading a report on research conducted by the company making said drug, saying "yah this looks good" and stamping it 'approved'? Thats incredible. Doesn't the FDA do more checking into food products like beef and chicken than what they apparently do for new drugs?
also, how can you create a company in one day? does this mean they hired a guy and put him in charge just so they could sue the company and fire him?
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