I hate to say this, but by now if people are still believing Obama is all good and mighty and will be bringing major changes for the good for the U.S. citizens, they are living in Lala-Land.
Everyone is all hypnotized by the "campaign" and the dream that he built with his "promises". Time to wake up to the morning call.
He promised the world, but in the end, he's just another typical, regular, run-of-the-mill, regular Joe, powerless president entangled in the quagmire of politics, power, greed, money, and big corps that is also known as the Capital Hill.
right... and now let's forget all the times that "real" journalists jump the gun, misrepresent news, heavily biased in their editorials...
AND NOT apologizing (or prints a small correction at the edge of the newspaper, right beside the obituaries) Hooray for the "real" journalists! Hooray for mainstream media! Hooray for Fox Network! Hooray for Glen Beck! for they are the true journalistic heros!
Mike, I usually agrees with you on many issues, but I found this article to be mis-representative of the original blog writer's intent.
If anyone bother opening up the blog post and actually read it, you can see that the author of the post is discussing about his thoughts on DRM as an indie game developer. He is not making a stance on pro or con of this issue but simply stated in RARE CASES, DRM does do what it's intent to do, prevent people from copying. Yes it's by using all those potentially illegal technique but by golly it worked.
If you read between the lines, he's actually a bit CON on using DRM. However, by quoting him on such a short section of his article, it protrait him in the light that he is PRO on using DRM.
uhh... I think the problem here is that those are "non-working fakes", ie. someone bought some cement blocks, paint it black and attach power plug on it and try to sell it to you as power bricks for your laptop...
while half way through the article, I was hoping Mike would bring up the story of Jesus. But he didn't so I'll bring it up here.
Remember the story that some of you heard in Sunday school about the 5 bread and 2 fish? After Jesus blessed and break the bread and fish, he passed them down to his audience (about 2-3000 people) and have everyone take a bit, then pass it down. In the end, they end up with 5 baskets full of leftover fish and bread. It's a miracle!
Same with digital content sharing, as more sources become avaliable, more people have access to it WITHOUT going hungry themselves, since the stuff is infinitely copyable.
I am a regular reader of ars too and I was very surprised to read that article. It sounded like a pastor in a church telling the congregation to donate more money in the sermon... Not sure why but that was the feeling I get.
I don't personally use any additional ad blockers, yet. IE8 and Firefox's own ad blocker so far is good enough for me.
Generally I like how techdirt and ars handle ads, pull down anything that annoys. However, I agree with vivaelamor that javascript/flash security issue is worrisome. I know you guys don't manually pull ads but use a script. There is no way of knowing if one day someone injected a bad ad in the bunch and this worries me. This is a trust issue.
anyways I am just seemingly rumbling on... must be monday...
Being very familiar with Japanese manga, I can tell you that JASRAC has really really tight control over song lyrics in Japan. All the manga I have ever read that has lyrics in the story will have "authorized by JASRAC #000000" on the same page as a foot note.
This is also the reason that no Japanese song lyric site exists (in Japanese). I have been trying to find a good comprehensive online database of lyrics for Japanese pop songs and I can tell you that I haven't found any in the last 10 years. For English pop songs here google will usually turn up something, but that doesn't happen for Japanese lyrics. If there are results, they are usually English fan sites that has some Japanese lyrics for certain artists.
Seeing how this has been happening historically, I can see no reason why JASRAC is not planning to charge people for tweeting lyrics. And trust me, from their track record, they'll probably succeed, thus killing tweeting Japanese lyrics.
"The problem with always giving the people what they want is that you become blind to when they want something different."
really should be
"The problem with always being able to force feed people with what you delivered is that you become lost when they grow a spine and start looking for what they personally wanted."
What happened was the recording industry had the music and the delivery mechanism in a tight grip. There isn't really any "choice" per say for the consumers. Consumers can only get most of their fixing from the big four, when they want to deliver it they way they want.
Now comes along the Internet and a whole new way of marketing and distributing products. They are completely lost. Suddenly, they are not the only voice in town (for marketing) and they sure aren't the only distributor in town (for music). What do you do then? Basically, they tried to kill this Internet thing so they'll remain in power. No company or companies can stop the force of market and technology.
Up to this day, they are still trying to kill it, while this "new" technology is no longer new but just a common consumer products. However, this time they are trying to get the government on their side to try to kill it.
Eventaully, it'll still fail.
Now publishers are basically at the cross road of where recording industry is about 10-12 years ago and it's looking like they are taking the wrong side of the camp...
If iiNet is smart, they should start a marketing campaign right away with the line like, "We don't just bent over when others accuse of you violating the law, unlike other ISPs". Combine that with a slight price drop would probably cause massive customer conversions from other ISPs.
Basically, I am already not that interested in Olympics.
Now, to limit streaming so I have even less access to stuff? Hello? People have to work around here? It's not like we all take 2 week vacation at the same time so we can watch TV all day long and do nothing else.
For people with little interest in the games, if they can't watch something conveniently at the time they want, they are just not going to watch it. That group includes me. This group growing since in recent years, the Olympics are slowly sinking in obscurity. Good job on NBC digger the grave faster.
It really idiotic how they are already losing 300 million dollars on the olympics and still closing down the online revenue they could potentially get.
On the post: Despite Plenty Of Warning EA Still Decides To Follow Ubisoft Down The Wrong Path With DRM
why do they keep on insisting punching themselves in the face with their own fist?
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Re:
mwahahahahahaha!
On the post: Apparently The Word 'Piracy' No Longer Sufficiently Derogatory For Entertainment Industry
oh yeah~
On the post: Australian Trademark Tribunal Tells Apple That It Can't Stop Other Products From Using The Letter 'i'
good way to start a Friday. :)
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Re: Re: I wish I could say I was surprised
He's worse because he's doing all these with a straight face while telling you "this change is for the better."
On the post: Obama: We Must Move Forward On ACTA
Obama is a bust
Everyone is all hypnotized by the "campaign" and the dream that he built with his "promises". Time to wake up to the morning call.
He promised the world, but in the end, he's just another typical, regular, run-of-the-mill, regular Joe, powerless president entangled in the quagmire of politics, power, greed, money, and big corps that is also known as the Capital Hill.
On the post: Since Three Strikes Went Into Effect, Unauthorized File Trading Has Increased In France
and we already know what will happen here in north america
On the post: Can You Still Say DRM Is Effective When It Creates Security Vulnerabilities, Performance Degradation, Incompatibilities, System Instability And 'Other Issues'? [Update]
Re:
AND NOT apologizing (or prints a small correction at the edge of the newspaper, right beside the obituaries) Hooray for the "real" journalists! Hooray for mainstream media! Hooray for Fox Network! Hooray for Glen Beck! for they are the true journalistic heros!
On the post: Can You Still Say DRM Is Effective When It Creates Security Vulnerabilities, Performance Degradation, Incompatibilities, System Instability And 'Other Issues'? [Update]
all over nothing?
If anyone bother opening up the blog post and actually read it, you can see that the author of the post is discussing about his thoughts on DRM as an indie game developer. He is not making a stance on pro or con of this issue but simply stated in RARE CASES, DRM does do what it's intent to do, prevent people from copying. Yes it's by using all those potentially illegal technique but by golly it worked.
If you read between the lines, he's actually a bit CON on using DRM. However, by quoting him on such a short section of his article, it protrait him in the light that he is PRO on using DRM.
so really, this post is all about nothing...
On the post: Fake Processors, Passing The Blame, Legal Nastygrams And More...
Re: Re: This could be fun
On the post: RIAA Takes The Cake: Equates File Sharing To Children's Fairy Tale
Re: Ouch
Remember the story that some of you heard in Sunday school about the 5 bread and 2 fish? After Jesus blessed and break the bread and fish, he passed them down to his audience (about 2-3000 people) and have everyone take a bit, then pass it down. In the end, they end up with 5 baskets full of leftover fish and bread. It's a miracle!
Same with digital content sharing, as more sources become avaliable, more people have access to it WITHOUT going hungry themselves, since the stuff is infinitely copyable.
It's a miracle too! ;-)
On the post: Don't Blame Your Community: Ad Blocking Is Not Killing Any Sites
I don't personally use any additional ad blockers, yet. IE8 and Firefox's own ad blocker so far is good enough for me.
Generally I like how techdirt and ars handle ads, pull down anything that annoys. However, I agree with vivaelamor that javascript/flash security issue is worrisome. I know you guys don't manually pull ads but use a script. There is no way of knowing if one day someone injected a bad ad in the bunch and this worries me. This is a trust issue.
anyways I am just seemingly rumbling on... must be monday...
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
@_@
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Steve, har har?
On the post: Japanese Collection Society Wants To Charge You For Tweeting Lyrics
Being very familiar with Japanese manga, I can tell you that JASRAC has really really tight control over song lyrics in Japan. All the manga I have ever read that has lyrics in the story will have "authorized by JASRAC #000000" on the same page as a foot note.
This is also the reason that no Japanese song lyric site exists (in Japanese). I have been trying to find a good comprehensive online database of lyrics for Japanese pop songs and I can tell you that I haven't found any in the last 10 years. For English pop songs here google will usually turn up something, but that doesn't happen for Japanese lyrics. If there are results, they are usually English fan sites that has some Japanese lyrics for certain artists.
Seeing how this has been happening historically, I can see no reason why JASRAC is not planning to charge people for tweeting lyrics. And trust me, from their track record, they'll probably succeed, thus killing tweeting Japanese lyrics.
On the post: No, Having To Pay To Downgrade From Vista To XP Is Not An Antitrust Violation
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: No "Free" Operating System
"your wife are now free to take any one of those cars"
and not
"your wife are not free to take any one of those cars"
On the post: Former Music Exec Tells Book Publishers They're Acting Just Like The Recording Industry 10 Years Ago
Re: Cocoon
"The problem with always giving the people what they want is that you become blind to when they want something different."
really should be
"The problem with always being able to force feed people with what you delivered is that you become lost when they grow a spine and start looking for what they personally wanted."
What happened was the recording industry had the music and the delivery mechanism in a tight grip. There isn't really any "choice" per say for the consumers. Consumers can only get most of their fixing from the big four, when they want to deliver it they way they want.
Now comes along the Internet and a whole new way of marketing and distributing products. They are completely lost. Suddenly, they are not the only voice in town (for marketing) and they sure aren't the only distributor in town (for music). What do you do then? Basically, they tried to kill this Internet thing so they'll remain in power. No company or companies can stop the force of market and technology.
Up to this day, they are still trying to kill it, while this "new" technology is no longer new but just a common consumer products. However, this time they are trying to get the government on their side to try to kill it.
Eventaully, it'll still fail.
Now publishers are basically at the cross road of where recording industry is about 10-12 years ago and it's looking like they are taking the wrong side of the camp...
On the post: Australian ISP Stops Kicking People Off The Internet Following iiNet Ruling
On the post: NBC Continues To Do The Exact Wrong Thing When It Comes To The Olympics Online
not interested already
Now, to limit streaming so I have even less access to stuff? Hello? People have to work around here? It's not like we all take 2 week vacation at the same time so we can watch TV all day long and do nothing else.
For people with little interest in the games, if they can't watch something conveniently at the time they want, they are just not going to watch it. That group includes me. This group growing since in recent years, the Olympics are slowly sinking in obscurity. Good job on NBC digger the grave faster.
It really idiotic how they are already losing 300 million dollars on the olympics and still closing down the online revenue they could potentially get.
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