Sad. Just sad trolling. Maybe, if you had any sources of this defamation (spin artist? like spinning on his chair, when AC posts an uneducated comment on his blog? Then he is one hellofa spin-master-artist!)
"Don't rip down what did scale just to make your non-scaling idea look better."
Internet as a communication tool is getting "ripped down" by some industry that does little for advancement of humanity. (you know, like education, social wellfare, science). Irony much?
"Actually, Trent is paid license fees, residuals, etc. You know, all those horrible trappings of copyright law and licensing that you hate so much."
Come on, what's with all the character assassination attempts on Mike? Is it that hard to have a debate without all your ad hominems? I am quite sure (i.e. I strongly believe :) ) that this blog is voluntary read by fairy intelligent people - people with technical knowledge that can't be shaken like a simple belief (why? try reading about the differences between gnosticism and theism)
I'll simplify - propaganda does not work here (this goes both ways). This blog is a fine example of "filter out the trash" - mistakes will be pointed out and supported with facts - at least eventually. Trolls just make this process more obvious - spotting the trash gets easier.
I'll compare this with file-sharing in current consumer culture:
With filesharing, people (like me) can view a movie/listen to a track without directly paying for it. Because of this movies and music get a lot more exposure and analysis/judgment of artistic value gets more voices/votes. With it we weed out the trash. Ok, not simple enough, I admit.
Let me put it into practical terms - movie studios with bad movies used the first weekend to make money. They fooled people with trailers and marketing and before internet came along that worked quite well - people saw the movie but word of mouth travelled a lot slower than internet chatter. So a lot of people lost 2 hours of their life for a shitty movie AND gave money for it.
Now we don't have to AND better movies get made because of it. It's a win-win situation (and by win-win I mean the people won twice).
Wow. This project is building up, fast. Its at 15,962
Backers, $651,503 pledged of $400,000 goal at Thursday, 9 February 4:33:25 p.m.(GMT + 0:00). Just wow.
It's not racism, it's nacism. Rase = same colour of skin, Nation = same nationality. You could be polish and black. Or polish and asian. Rare but possible...
And with bringing Germans into this you get an award of being a hypocrite.
But you could be a clever troll...strange are the ways of comment board on techdirt.
Yeah, like American ambassador in Slovenia, who suggested how political coalition should be constructed. I'm quite sure he didn't do that alone, with no instructions whatsoever from natives in America... :>
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(Disclaimer for ACs - I don't actually think that Paul is stupid. In fact I believe in the opposite.)
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I have no clue what you meant by this ;)
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Internet as a communication tool is getting "ripped down" by some industry that does little for advancement of humanity. (you know, like education, social wellfare, science). Irony much?
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Come on, what's with all the character assassination attempts on Mike? Is it that hard to have a debate without all your ad hominems? I am quite sure (i.e. I strongly believe :) ) that this blog is voluntary read by fairy intelligent people - people with technical knowledge that can't be shaken like a simple belief (why? try reading about the differences between gnosticism and theism)
I'll simplify - propaganda does not work here (this goes both ways). This blog is a fine example of "filter out the trash" - mistakes will be pointed out and supported with facts - at least eventually. Trolls just make this process more obvious - spotting the trash gets easier.
I'll compare this with file-sharing in current consumer culture:
With filesharing, people (like me) can view a movie/listen to a track without directly paying for it. Because of this movies and music get a lot more exposure and analysis/judgment of artistic value gets more voices/votes. With it we weed out the trash. Ok, not simple enough, I admit.
Let me put it into practical terms - movie studios with bad movies used the first weekend to make money. They fooled people with trailers and marketing and before internet came along that worked quite well - people saw the movie but word of mouth travelled a lot slower than internet chatter. So a lot of people lost 2 hours of their life for a shitty movie AND gave money for it.
Now we don't have to AND better movies get made because of it. It's a win-win situation (and by win-win I mean the people won twice).
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Hmm... ever heard of file-sharing? ;)
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Backers, $651,503 pledged of $400,000 goal at Thursday, 9 February 4:33:25 p.m.(GMT + 0:00). Just wow.
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And with bringing Germans into this you get an award of being a hypocrite.
But you could be a clever troll...strange are the ways of comment board on techdirt.
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