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You appear to be promoting the unlicensed distribution of fire. Consuming ones body is a means by which a person seeks to mass distribute one's derivative works. By suggesting the wholesale deconstruction of the above person via immolation you are promoting the violation of said person's biological creators' rights to determine the means by which licensed derivative works of said person may be disseminated. YOU ARE TO CEASE AND DESIST ALL FURTHER PROMOTION OF PERSONAL IMMOLATION UNDER PENALTY OF SUBSTANTIVE HUMOR AT PERSONAL EXPENSE. Please comply within 30 minutes or people may stop caring what you have to say.
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>>> '[Iglauer] proudly states that "about one dollar of ever four that my company takes in is paid to a musician or songwriter."
Is that really something to be proud of?' (Mike asks.)
Well, IS IT, Mike? You should have some general sense by now (ten years or more on this topic) of actual rates and whether worthwhile for musicians. But instead of informing, you leave it a question, so I conclude that you don't KNOW.
If you were trying to sarcastically dismiss a rhetorical question, I'm afraid you didn't. You came off looking like a bitter ass instead.
>>> "Perhaps it beats the much lower royalty rates of the majors, but for artists adopting new platforms like Kickstarter and TopSpin, they can retain the vast majority of money that people pay for their stuff. That seems like a good opportunity for artists. Though, perhaps not for Iglauer."
Here again you're vague even though promoting new media. And while no doubt that returns for artists MIGHT be higher on those platforms, there's a major unknown in that Iglauer or whoever in "old media" might be able to promote them better and break out in wide publicitly so that even if rates are lower, more people throw money at them. Seems to me "old media" methods are more likely to actually do so because know how to do it, who to communicate to, and possibly can even guess which bands have the right sound and personalities to work at it.
That clairvoyance you ascribe to the likes of the RIAA is entirely born of their government subsidized exclusivity. Were they not the sole gatekeepers of the market, they wouldn't have created an inefficient infrastructure to perpetuate their business via hearsay and personal influence.
You rely a heck of a lot on vagueness, Mike, more so than even the uncertainties of the music biz necessitate.
Unfortunately, this sojourn down the path of Heisenberg and Aufbau leaves me pondering the finer nature of whether the combined vagueness of an open market and the government granted monopolies you collectively reference as the "music biz" exceeds that of your means for comparing them. I don't mean to come off as insulting here, but nowhere in your diatribe did you once explicitly mention your direct means of comparison. I submit that there isn't and oughtn't be one as it is of spurious consequence.
Look at your comment, now look at mine, now back to your comment, back to mine. Sadly, your comment is not mine, but if you stopped eating lead paint chips and started using logic, it could look like its mine. Look down. Back up. Where are you? You're on techdirt, viewing the comments your comment could look like. What's in your head? Back to my comment. My comment is. Its a comment with two strawmen that you crave and love. Look again, the strawmen are now cohesively organized thoughts. Anything is possible when your arguments are whole truths and not poorly thought out. I'm on a horse.
Will someone please think of the seeds!!!! Oh, wrong story... Ahem, will someone please think of the rice farmers! People eating apples are cutting into the sales of rice cakes (mostly air). If this scourge isn't stopped, the farmers markets will no longer be able to compete with backyard orange trees and the whole fruit industry will collapse!
He's only lucky for about (250GBcap * 1024MB/GB * 8b/B)/(25Mb/s) = 81920 seconds * 1/(3600s/h) = 22.7556 hours * 1/(24h/d) = 0.948148 days. Then he is screwed for daring to use the internet.
Bear in mind the US is lagging FAR behind other countries in terms of "high speed" broadband connectivity and data transfer rates. Data caps just add insult to injury by telling the customers that they are the reason for the slow internet and/or spontaneous shut off after breaching the data cap and not the company trying to rake in a few more cents before finally trying to compete with cable companies as broadcasters. These people are in the business of providing a communications platform, not a one way crap stream from the richest advertisers.
And this is why I will be trying and then in all likelihood buying the Witcher 2 after I graduate later this month. If I don't like it, I will uninstall and delete it, then recommend it to friends to try out. If I do like it, I will uninstall and delete it, then purchase it and recommend it to friends to try out. Its as simple as that, and as reasonable as trying on a shirt in a clothing store to see if it fits before buying. Pirates indeed.
There's no awesome or BAMF button so I clicked on insightful and funny a few hundred times... which only got you one vote in each, but it was worth it.
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If you feed a man a fish he will become a slave to the fishing line and lure installed to get all those people catching their own fish, if you teach him to fish you immediately get arrested for ruining the fishing industry.
Scary as it may seem to you and your ilk, a sizable presence of nay saying caprophages tends to legitimize a topic more so than does simply having facts and logic on ones side.
I have no idea if Bradbury actually speaks in all caps
I have the distinct feeling that he writes in all capitalized Gothic cursive calligraphy using tea and rust based ink on stretched and dried cow skins using a bent reed that happened to snap off its roots with the right angle to make a usable nib. There's also a high likelihood of grammatical errors everywhere and missing or extra letters. Damn newfangled written word makes communicating a dangerous proposition. People could completely miss the message!
I honestly hope he gets over the hump and begins curiously exploring what is possible with new and evolving technologies rather than continue to stomp his feet and bitch about how no one gets the message of his overrated book. I, too, thought it was about censorship and then I finished the book and sat confused by the lack of any credible resolution. Then that newfangled light bulb clicked on above my head and I realized his book sucked. For a book that so inadequately portrays the wrong message, you would think its continued sales would receive less thought. I almost feel like its becoming a joke with how high the price gap is. There really is no saving grace to his point of view anymore. He is irrelevant, the Ray Charles of luddites, pointlessly complaining about the wrong wrong things luddites complain about. Its good that he got dragged kicking and screaming forward an inch, but the two feet behind and four decades ahead around him speak more to his mastery of humbug than the minor achievements symptomatic of a contract renewal in which he has no choice but to accept progress at no extra effort. If anything, his apparent coming of age will simply add more paradoxical fuel to his pyrrhic cognition misfires.
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Re: The Masnick technique of attack with Questions...
Look at your comment, now look at mine, now back to your comment, back to mine. Sadly, your comment is not mine, but if you stopped eating lead paint chips and started using logic, it could look like its mine. Look down. Back up. Where are you? You're on techdirt, viewing the comments your comment could look like. What's in your head? Back to my comment. My comment is. Its a comment with two strawmen that you crave and love. Look again, the strawmen are now cohesively organized thoughts. Anything is possible when your arguments are whole truths and not poorly thought out.
I'm on a horse.
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(hint: rice cakes = popcorn)
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Good luck. :-D
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Bear in mind the US is lagging FAR behind other countries in terms of "high speed" broadband connectivity and data transfer rates. Data caps just add insult to injury by telling the customers that they are the reason for the slow internet and/or spontaneous shut off after breaching the data cap and not the company trying to rake in a few more cents before finally trying to compete with cable companies as broadcasters. These people are in the business of providing a communications platform, not a one way crap stream from the richest advertisers.
/rant
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(Sorry OOTB, it was too funny not to post. Please don't take it personally.)
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