I respectfully request a "Report dumbass comment" button be added alongside the "Insightful" "Funny" and "Report" buttons.
Blue you are a fool. The unintended consequences and collateral damage that this bill would bring if passed are far too numerous to count and if you don't know this or worse, don't care. Then I have no sympathy at all for any of you when it all comes crashing down on you.
Why not stop reading this site then? If it bothers you so much that you feel the need to skewer Mike for every article he writes maybe it's high time for a time out.
The isp's can't even give us a bandwidth meter that works and reliably tracks our CAPPED services and we have seen numerous examples of how clueless the entertainment industry is about technology and their ham fisted clueless attempts to control it!
There is no way that they have come up with a reliable and ACCURATE system to don what they claim it does. The proof is in the pudding and the simple fact that they dont want tp provide pudding to anyone speaks volumes.
If they truly had something they would be shouting it to the rooftops and demonstrating some sort of verifiable data to everyone they could in triumph!
The music industry in it's current form just needs to be put out of it's misery.
The idea of a group of major tech companies buying the music industry sounds good to me. Better to have one last windfall of money and get out with whatever shred of dignity they might still have.
It's just painful and embarrassing to watch the music industry die a slow and painful death the way it is right now. It's pretty obvious by now that the music industry would rather litigate than innovate so it's not like they are really in the business of music anymore.
It's like they are a brain-damaged version of Elmer Fudd. Any type of innovation that would actually help them and bring them a little closer to "getting it" when it comes to the digital world is met with cries of "Kill the innovation!" "Kill the innovation!".
I mean, the freaking work is being done FOR them! All they have to do is got to the table and negotiate RATIONALLY and they would more than likely make money from this and then look at there! Another revenue stream for them that requires no effort other than basically cashing a check.
(That is their favorite thing to do right?)
Money for nothing, innovation for free. Get on board you big dummies!
Re: It all depends what level of proof that you want
You and your industry should take your own advice. "Be careful what you wish for" Too dumb and shortsighted to realize that it's killing your industry I guess.
Every reaction seems to be defensive, every decision that is made seems to be defensive. All resources are being poured into protecting a business model that is becoming less relevant by the day.
Play offense for once and compete. Try something different for a change.
"More than anything she is sounding much more dangerous that your typical Washington type with no tech knowledge: She sounds like she has just enough knowledge to be dangerous, and not enough to know why."
AC - look in the mirror as this basically describes you. I will concede that you seem more close minded and ignorant though.
There is no doubt in my mind that they will kill the golden goose. They simply do not get it and sadly they do not seem to care. Shortsightedness is a bitch.
I just can't see the justification for making your content less accessible since it seems ultimately to lead to it being less valuable. It makes absolutely no sense at all.
I guess they just fail to see the larger picture or maybe they even refuse to acknowledge it with hopes that it will go away somehow. Who knows? The simple fact of the matter is that media of all type is moving to digital format and away from physical format.
They are rapidly gettting left behind and they are either too ignorant to realize it or too stupid to acknowledge what is happening and adjust accordingly.
It sucks that he more than likely won't see much, if any, profits from the State of Texas for use of his image, but that's life and it's way unfair most of the time.
Hopefully, he can make something positive out of this and at least use the publicity in some way to make money in other ways as a photographer.
In reality, expecting to get paid everytime for usage of something that you create is a pretty unrealistic expectation that is next to impossible to attain.
It's simple really. You pay money for a service that you want. It's not like Google will do it for free because I am sure there are very real costs involved in doing that type of thing.
For a group so determined to make sure they are paid for everything, they sure don't seem to care about paying others as much. Not too surprising I guess when you consider who we are talking about.
My State is on a roll when it comes to embarrassing itself lately. This stupid Law seems much less important than say the MAJOR OIL SPILL or our state budget that is in turmoil.
The irony in all this to me is the fact that they just don't seem to understand that getting what they want is only going to make things worse for them. Much worse.
They truly don't seem to understand how bad their ideas are and how negatively it will affect their industry if they are actually implemented.
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Re: You've become sheerly fear-monger, Mike.
Blue you are a fool. The unintended consequences and collateral damage that this bill would bring if passed are far too numerous to count and if you don't know this or worse, don't care. Then I have no sympathy at all for any of you when it all comes crashing down on you.
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Please!
There is no way that they have come up with a reliable and ACCURATE system to don what they claim it does. The proof is in the pudding and the simple fact that they dont want tp provide pudding to anyone speaks volumes.
If they truly had something they would be shouting it to the rooftops and demonstrating some sort of verifiable data to everyone they could in triumph!
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Nothing if not consistent
Let's hope they are smart enough to cut their losses and move onto something else - preferably something they are good at...
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The idea of a group of major tech companies buying the music industry sounds good to me. Better to have one last windfall of money and get out with whatever shred of dignity they might still have.
It's just painful and embarrassing to watch the music industry die a slow and painful death the way it is right now. It's pretty obvious by now that the music industry would rather litigate than innovate so it's not like they are really in the business of music anymore.
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Elmer Fudd
I mean, the freaking work is being done FOR them! All they have to do is got to the table and negotiate RATIONALLY and they would more than likely make money from this and then look at there! Another revenue stream for them that requires no effort other than basically cashing a check.
(That is their favorite thing to do right?)
Money for nothing, innovation for free. Get on board you big dummies!
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Re: It all depends what level of proof that you want
Every reaction seems to be defensive, every decision that is made seems to be defensive. All resources are being poured into protecting a business model that is becoming less relevant by the day.
Play offense for once and compete. Try something different for a change.
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AC - look in the mirror as this basically describes you. I will concede that you seem more close minded and ignorant though.
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I wonder if and when this will all come crashing down on Homeland Security? Hopefully, soon.
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I guess they just fail to see the larger picture or maybe they even refuse to acknowledge it with hopes that it will go away somehow. Who knows? The simple fact of the matter is that media of all type is moving to digital format and away from physical format.
They are rapidly gettting left behind and they are either too ignorant to realize it or too stupid to acknowledge what is happening and adjust accordingly.
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Hopefully, he can make something positive out of this and at least use the publicity in some way to make money in other ways as a photographer.
In reality, expecting to get paid everytime for usage of something that you create is a pretty unrealistic expectation that is next to impossible to attain.
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For a group so determined to make sure they are paid for everything, they sure don't seem to care about paying others as much. Not too surprising I guess when you consider who we are talking about.
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Silly-Ness
I'm with Nina - the Media and the Entertainment Industry are one and the same basically these days.
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Change
It can't happen fast enough for me. Good riddance.
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*Sigh*
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They truly don't seem to understand how bad their ideas are and how negatively it will affect their industry if they are actually implemented.
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