It is ALWAYS better to cannibalize your customers than to let someone else do it. Tho I doubt that this is known or believed by the big media executives.
When we figure out how to jail a business (of any size) not just its workers or execs, then they might, just might, have some rights, not all, that individuals have.
For example, how do you punish a business when you find illegal drugs on its premises or it breaks some other law? Individuals are incarcerated, and property confiscated.
I always thought it was strange that the Cable Co. had to pay for carrying content with advertising. In a real world the content provider would pay the Cable Co. for carrying the content, since the advertising should pay for generating the content.
No, not ignorance. Ignorance is the lack of education. This is stupidity plain and simple. This shows the reason the "average" IQ is only 100, and maybe decreasing. Why is it that MPAA, RIAA, USTR, and other media exec jobs draw from the "I've no clue" pool?
How 'bout a condition that they spin off all content creation, e.g. NBC, Golf Channel, now and forever. This makes them a carrier only and should allow all comers to use their transport.
I've always wondered why cable companies pay content providers for the right to carry content and not vice versa.
Seems to me the content providers should be the side paying.
... let's select the "weekly box office winners" by counting the number of tickets sold, not the sum of the price of all the tickets. Wonder how some of the oldies would come in.
Getting rid of the Oscars would free about 10,000 hours of TV time and think of the newsprint saved.
But removing movies and music from copyright would sure help. They got it wrong in the early 1900s when they added them. When I was a programmer early in my career, I got paid once for the program, not each time it was executed, which is what happens for movies and music.
Copyrights should stop at person's death, 10 years after sale of rights, or 20 years of start of copyright, which ever comes first. No copyright if government funded.
Ditto for patents and no patents for software or living items. Patents should be licensed to all comers at reasonable rates. No patent if government funded.
No, censorship is the so-called "right to forget". Google should have turned over all the requests to the court and not done anything until a court-order was received, then appealed each and every one.
.. and they're terrible in predicting repair times ...
... Parts of No. Va. were out today, 11/19/2014, from about 9AM to 6-6:30 PM but on each of 3 phone calls I got the message "we'll be back up in about an hour" from a live person. I game up about 2ish. And at their request, I left a phone number for them to call when it came back up: no call even not 3 hours after restoration !!
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cannibalizing customers
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Business's Rights
For example, how do you punish a business when you find illegal drugs on its premises or it breaks some other law? Individuals are incarcerated, and property confiscated.
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wrongness
On the post: IOC Forces School To Remove Rings From Crest For Some Reason
Idea for replacement of rings section:
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Charging Cable transport
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PiratesPaying Customers With 3-Month Film Release BoycottRe: Ignorance
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Re:
I've always wondered why cable companies pay content providers for the right to carry content and not vice versa.
Seems to me the content providers should be the side paying.
On the post: Apparently The Best Way To Decrease Movie Piracy Is To Get Rid Of The Oscars
While we're removing the Oscars ...
Getting rid of the Oscars would free about 10,000 hours of TV time and think of the newsprint saved.
But removing movies and music from copyright would sure help. They got it wrong in the early 1900s when they added them. When I was a programmer early in my career, I got paid once for the program, not each time it was executed, which is what happens for movies and music.
On the post: Apple CEO Tim Cook Makes It Clear That He's Not At All Interested In Giving The Government Backdoors To iOS Encryption
Ben Franklin
Benjamin Franklin,
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
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Re: Terrorists use encryption.
Government uses encryption.
Therefore, Government is a Terrorist.
On the post: With Rollover Data, AT&T Just Keeps Walking Face First Into T-Mobile Attempts To Make It Look Stupid
Roots of today's AT&T
Yep, Cellular One has gotten at least a few to forget they just changed names and logo when they bought the real MaBell's mobile.
Hey fellows, today's AT&T is not the same as Ma Bell and the seven dwarfs, it is the [still] stupid renamed Cellular One.
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Re: Re: Why is this idiot still in his position?
Tho he'll probably get re-elected by his more stupid constituents.
On the post: How Copyright Forced A Filmmaker To Rewrite Martin Luther King's Historic Words
long copyrights
Ditto for patents and no patents for software or living items. Patents should be licensed to all comers at reasonable rates. No patent if government funded.
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Google strikes back
http://goo.gl/pn6zHY
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Censorship
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.. and they're terrible in predicting repair times ...
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Not a Monkey selfie
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Monopoly another way
With the VERY large % of the set top boxes provided by Comca$t where is the market for a innovative box?
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