You are missing out the part where this has been the case for, well, ever and still people can sell gig tickets. You want to know why? I am not equally a fan of all musicians in the world and nor is any one else. The value in seeing some one play is seeing that person play, if they are some one unknown or new you tend to offset risk of watching people you don't know if you'll like at a gig by either cheaper prices or by dint of being their for another act or the main performance.
The point is that as a musician you start with out a fan base, no one wants to see you Syracuse no one knows you. You have to make people care, if you are good enough and work hard enough at that then once people care you can't be replaced by some musician your fans don't know saying they'll play your gig for free. It's absurd.
Session musicians are another matter and in this case Amanda wouldn't have hired local session musicians in the first place. This was a move to try and connect more with her fan base by offering people the chance to play a show with her. If one of my favourite bands did the same thing I'd jump at it, not as a musician or as some one in a band but as a fan and as some one who understands what a special thing it is to play with a group of people. To get to play a likely packed out show is always a rush, to do that with a band you love? It's a chance for a unique and shared experience, why else do you think so many people sing and dance along at shows in the first place?
I don't think hardpay walls in them self's are inherently a bad idea so long as they are flagged and optional. Take for example if I'm not interested in the mulitplayer aspect of a game why is it not an option just to buy the single player at a reduced price with the option to add in the mulitplayer as paid DLC later on?
To go a step fuhrer lets look at single player games. Why can't I opt to buy in discrete chunks? Pick up the first 1/4 of the game and pay for the rest when and if I want it? Could be you buy the full lot and get a discount or pay extra but for the control of when you pick up that content. Not sure about a game? buy the first part and see what you make of it.
Hard pay walls are only going to be an issue where a game is trying to hook people in with a free to play lead in.
Seems pretty much in line with the British Party. I'm about to start research on that party with a view to joining it in the near future. I've always been worried I'd be disturbingly good as a politician so I thought I'd start dipping my toes in to the water of a party who's main drive is something I can agree with... in a none hypocritical way :)
She's never going to be paid to write a book again and has effectively destroyed her future as a politician. Even looking purely in financial terms the best can be said is that it was right thing to do for short term gain.
Sad thing is so long as she'd been vocal about reforming copyright rather than it being disgusting, which is likely more in line with German PP policy, this really wouldn't have been as much of an issue.
I was more talking about being the first to the market with the inevitable design that smart phones where going to take. Apple was hugely brave in effectively destroying the market for their major product because they had foresight to see what was coming and decided the only way to compete with it was to beat every one else to the punch. Which they did very effectively... sadly they've been granted idiotic patents across the board an dare using them to screw every one over. Shame really.
And yet they don't go nowhere, they move forward because the market leaders stay market leaders by making those advances. They pick up innovation and new ideas coming out of the young designers and art collages and use that to advance the trend and enshrine them self's as a trend setter which vastly increases the value of their products with in that industry.
That every one else then copies those advances only increases the value of being the one who set that trend while at the same time forcing the trend setters to move on and innovate or end up losing that title.
Apple was granted huge value in being the first to market and in being the ones who set some current trends of design. Now instead of having to put work in to moving that design and trends forward they are just rehashing the same ideas while trying to stop any one competing and forcing them to move on.
The pirate party, at lest in the UK (not read up on the Germans policy) espouses reform of copyright not it's abolition. As such I do not see a problem with members of that party using copyright so long as they do so with in the bounds they'd like to see in reform, such as pledging the copyrighted work to the public domain in the term they think should be set.
So to look at this and say "she can't use copyright and be a PP member" is silly and unhelpful. The issue here is that she's gone against her publicly stated personal beliefs which means that as a member of that party people can rightly no longer trust her to do what she says.
It's not an indictment of the party it's self but of one member. How the party and their members react to this that is what the movement should be judged on.
Hypocrisy of politicians is only relevant to their party when it means going against policies and laws they are pushing for. Which depending on the German PP may or may not be the case here.
I don't think any one is arguing that's what was offensive in his post. Or at lest I hope they are not, it's bad enough as a reminder I live in a place that only have a pretence to free speech because we don't have the balls to have to deal with actual free speech.
One example of this issue is the 95% piracy rate where people take the number of unauthorised uses of a game or app and match it up to the number of people who brought it. Yet that utterly ignores the fact that a pirate is going to be counted towards vastly more uses of apps and games than most people can buy. Which weights the numbers and can make a minority of the over all market the majority of a use for any given product.
It's a case where the issue of piracy is a market issue not a product issue and by using metrics produced at the product level you are distorting your reality of the over all market. In the case of iOS we can show this in how piracy happens on jailbroken phones and that is a metric that is measured (10-20% when I last looked) yet app devs talk about a 90-95% piracy rate. How you deal with a market is vastly different when you are looking at most 20% of people who might be pirates then 95% of people.
Or, as I suggested above, proof to those protesting that the US government must have permitted the video in the first place else how else would they have the power to remove it?
Explaining free speech to people who are devoid of it is hard enough as it is. You need to be clear about what is individual action and what is government standing and that they are different things. Seems to me that confusing things only allows the extremists to more easily paint America in a bad light.
If the government can have something removed then you are implying that the government premeditated it in the first place. Which may sound odd to us but it's some times overlooked that some of the people responding to this clip are doing so after being under a system of government that controlled the media. It can be hard to separate out the idea of individual expression from government approval. When you muddy those waters by showing the government can in part sensor individual expression you make it harder to define the difference.
On top of that you are, as other's point out, that violence is a legitimate way to get change you want. "We do not negotiate with terrorist" becomes meaningless if you cave in to demands based on a violent reaction.
Note that I pointed out that if you do open your wifi you are open to people infringing on it and might be caught on the wrong side of the law for doing so given this is yet to be set in stone.
As for the rest of your post it's just an general argument against having open wifi and one that is largely irrelevant while most people are not correctly or fully securing their close ones.
Some ones who knows enough to want to set up open wifi, for any of the number of reasons that lots of people do, knows enough how to correctly protect their privet part of the network.
On the other hand with relatively little time and investment you can in to privet networks who's owners think are secure. Which I'd guess is by far more attractive to criminals for any number of reasons.
I don't see why you should be kidding. If providing a bit of free wifi (a good thing in it's own right) helps to protect you from the scatter shot shake down efforts then why not do it? If you are ever wrongly targeted as a shake down you can point to the fact you wanted to provide a public service :)
Well ok, it's probably best not to do that just for protection if some one does infringe and one lobby or another have forced a change in the law you might get screwed over but I thought it was a point worth making.
Re: Bah. Innovation as defined around here is pretty meh
I currently do half of my consuming of video media (this includes, tv and film) via youtube. And I do not mean I spend a stupid amount of time watching cat videos. Youtube is able to offer me high quality content on subjects I care about but which would never make it to TV.
Let's take for example "Table Top" from the Geek and Sundry channel ( http://www.youtube.com/user/geekandsundry ) it's a studio produced show in an up to 1 hour format that is uploaded in 1080p hosted by Wil Wheaton in which he sits down and plays a different table top game each week with 4 guests. Those guests range from the head of Blizzard to writers artist and actors that I admire. It's funny, well produce, hosted by a guy I like that shows content I enjoy with people I'm interested in.
Geek and Sundry is also currently doing "Written by a Kid" where they create short films based on a story told by a kid. These films are produce each week by a different and wide ranging set of talent and actors. It's also going to be home to the new season of The Guild that is a short form comedy show about an MMO guild that is as good or better than a lot of crappy sitcoms you'll find on TV.
That's just one channel and there are any number of others offering content that is on a par or better with content on TV that would never have been greenlit for production on it.
You want to talk about innovation and yet you simply dismiss the innovation that is coming out of the best of youtube because of the worst of it. If we apply the same logic medium in which you claim to see innovation you should judge the market in which that innovation is coming from by the lest innovative thing in it.
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The point is that as a musician you start with out a fan base, no one wants to see you Syracuse no one knows you. You have to make people care, if you are good enough and work hard enough at that then once people care you can't be replaced by some musician your fans don't know saying they'll play your gig for free. It's absurd.
Session musicians are another matter and in this case Amanda wouldn't have hired local session musicians in the first place. This was a move to try and connect more with her fan base by offering people the chance to play a show with her. If one of my favourite bands did the same thing I'd jump at it, not as a musician or as some one in a band but as a fan and as some one who understands what a special thing it is to play with a group of people. To get to play a likely packed out show is always a rush, to do that with a band you love? It's a chance for a unique and shared experience, why else do you think so many people sing and dance along at shows in the first place?
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To go a step fuhrer lets look at single player games. Why can't I opt to buy in discrete chunks? Pick up the first 1/4 of the game and pay for the rest when and if I want it? Could be you buy the full lot and get a discount or pay extra but for the control of when you pick up that content. Not sure about a game? buy the first part and see what you make of it.
Hard pay walls are only going to be an issue where a game is trying to hook people in with a free to play lead in.
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Sad thing is so long as she'd been vocal about reforming copyright rather than it being disgusting, which is likely more in line with German PP policy, this really wouldn't have been as much of an issue.
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That every one else then copies those advances only increases the value of being the one who set that trend while at the same time forcing the trend setters to move on and innovate or end up losing that title.
Apple was granted huge value in being the first to market and in being the ones who set some current trends of design. Now instead of having to put work in to moving that design and trends forward they are just rehashing the same ideas while trying to stop any one competing and forcing them to move on.
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So to look at this and say "she can't use copyright and be a PP member" is silly and unhelpful. The issue here is that she's gone against her publicly stated personal beliefs which means that as a member of that party people can rightly no longer trust her to do what she says.
It's not an indictment of the party it's self but of one member. How the party and their members react to this that is what the movement should be judged on.
Hypocrisy of politicians is only relevant to their party when it means going against policies and laws they are pushing for. Which depending on the German PP may or may not be the case here.
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It's a case where the issue of piracy is a market issue not a product issue and by using metrics produced at the product level you are distorting your reality of the over all market. In the case of iOS we can show this in how piracy happens on jailbroken phones and that is a metric that is measured (10-20% when I last looked) yet app devs talk about a 90-95% piracy rate. How you deal with a market is vastly different when you are looking at most 20% of people who might be pirates then 95% of people.
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Explaining free speech to people who are devoid of it is hard enough as it is. You need to be clear about what is individual action and what is government standing and that they are different things. Seems to me that confusing things only allows the extremists to more easily paint America in a bad light.
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On top of that you are, as other's point out, that violence is a legitimate way to get change you want. "We do not negotiate with terrorist" becomes meaningless if you cave in to demands based on a violent reaction.
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As for the rest of your post it's just an general argument against having open wifi and one that is largely irrelevant while most people are not correctly or fully securing their close ones.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/wireless-password-easily-cracked/
Some ones who knows enough to want to set up open wifi, for any of the number of reasons that lots of people do, knows enough how to correctly protect their privet part of the network.
On the other hand with relatively little time and investment you can in to privet networks who's owners think are secure. Which I'd guess is by far more attractive to criminals for any number of reasons.
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Well ok, it's probably best not to do that just for protection if some one does infringe and one lobby or another have forced a change in the law you might get screwed over but I thought it was a point worth making.
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Re: Bah. Innovation as defined around here is pretty meh
Let's take for example "Table Top" from the Geek and Sundry channel ( http://www.youtube.com/user/geekandsundry ) it's a studio produced show in an up to 1 hour format that is uploaded in 1080p hosted by Wil Wheaton in which he sits down and plays a different table top game each week with 4 guests. Those guests range from the head of Blizzard to writers artist and actors that I admire. It's funny, well produce, hosted by a guy I like that shows content I enjoy with people I'm interested in.
Geek and Sundry is also currently doing "Written by a Kid" where they create short films based on a story told by a kid. These films are produce each week by a different and wide ranging set of talent and actors. It's also going to be home to the new season of The Guild that is a short form comedy show about an MMO guild that is as good or better than a lot of crappy sitcoms you'll find on TV.
That's just one channel and there are any number of others offering content that is on a par or better with content on TV that would never have been greenlit for production on it.
You want to talk about innovation and yet you simply dismiss the innovation that is coming out of the best of youtube because of the worst of it. If we apply the same logic medium in which you claim to see innovation you should judge the market in which that innovation is coming from by the lest innovative thing in it.
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