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Piracy - a term used by Jack Valenti to criminalize opposition and make it easier to pass laws condemning people for behavior hurting the accounting practices of trade industries.
Look, you can take the same numbers and bias them from Big Media view to "prove" that /they/ are less likely to invest in content because it'll be stolen
Blue, sometimes you can be a piece of work. Next time, read the article to realize that venture capitalists have been helping the US with innovation in the digital era by finding newer and more efficient ways to do business. Other than that, piracy is not theft. In all effect, it's the same as nothing happened in the first place. Potential sales don't get calculated on year end revenue.
The Supreme Court has disagreed with you on this.
The proliferation of mp3s on iPods disagrees with you.
The English language and your continued butchering of it disagree with you.
What I find amazing is how you criticize demand for a product but you've no actual data on which place wants what. Example: China doesn't have Hulu or Netflix, yet they might be interested in Dr. Who or old Babylon 5 episodes. And judging from Tor results, they're also interested in porn (the lack of women thing is really hurting them ya know...).
It's as if you think that the MPAA or the RIAA should control their product for others instead of finding ways to profit.
Oh good, I thought you were going to make this difficult by denying the fact that copyright industries did far better than the entire economy.
Also, I'm just doing one thing that you aren't. Reading the Data in Chapter 3:
The unit of observation in the data extracted from VentureXpert is an investment by a
particular venture capital fund into a particular portfolio company on a particular date. The
dataset contains 2,009 observations on investments by 706 distinct funds into the 243 companies
on 587 different dates. These data were then aggregated by calendar quarter of investment date
by region (U.S., EU, and rest of world).
Appendix A summarizes these quarterly investment-level figures and other data discussed
below, by quarter, for both the U.S. and EU. As Appendix A depicts, total VC investment in the
identified U.S. cloud companies from the first quarter of 1995 to the end of 2010 amounted to
$5.9 billion. This reflects average quarterly investment of $92.3 million over that time period. In
the period immediately preceding the Cablevision ruling (Q1 2006 to Q2 2008), average
quarterly investment in U.S. venture-backed cloud companies was $131.0 million, and
subsequent to the ruling, that figure amounted to $184.7 million. Thus, average quarterly
investment in U.S. cloud computing increased by approximately 41 percent after the Cablevision
decision. Appendix A further depicts that VC investment in the identified EU cloud companies
from the first quarter of 1995 to the end of 2010 amounted to $242.3 million. This reflects average quarterly investment of $3.8 million over that time period. In the period immediately
preceding the Cablevision ruling (Q1 2006 to Q2 2008), the average quarterly investment in EU
venture-backed cloud companies was $7.0 million, and subsequent to the ruling, that figure
amounted to $8.9 million. Thus, average quarterly investment in EU cloud computing increased
by approximately 27 percent, as compared with 41 percent in the U.S., after the Cablevision
decision.
So the question is which do I believe, an AC who can't be bothered to read how his opinion has nothing but faith based economics, or Josh Lerner who used VentureXpert to help collect his data and prove that the US grew more with this legal ruling supporting innovation?
On the net, a copyright holder sees their work being pirated, they get the IP information and others about the users, they file a lawsuit, and then they can fight for years and years and years to try to get a resolution (Thomas, example). By the time resolution is found, the point has long since been rendered moot.
The burden of such an accusation is theirs to bear. So what's the problem? If they have the money for these lawsuits, then they should be able to prove it.
Internet time makes the amount of harm possible be amplified, and the speed of the courts makes it almost impossible to do anything about it.
Well, thank our drug policy for the court system. Also, no economic harm has been found through piracy. So why attack people's civil liberties?
In the case of most crimes, an alleged criminal business would either be padlocked or put into administrative control when everyone was charged.
Except this is a civil complaint. So... How are these businesses (like Google, Yahoo, Topspin, Youtube, Reddit, Stumbleupon, etc) criminal enterprises without any notice of the criminal act they've committed?
Even after addressing these causality concerns, the results suggest that venture funding has
a strong positive impact on innovation. The estimated coefficients vary according to the
techniques employed, but on average a dollar of venture capital appears to be three to four times
more potent in stimulating manufacturing industry patenting than a dollar of traditional corporate
R&D.
Would you like to begin showing how PIPA doesn't kill innovation? Or do I have to begin citing the article and show how you're wrong?
Vote reform comes in finding a better process to elect people in office than the current First to Post system that allows for attacks on them to add votes without receipts.
Electoral reform allows for less money in politics so everyone can get a shot. It would restrict gerrymandering, allow for competitive races and not allow for safe campaigns that are currently the norm in this country. You have a 50-50 shot at being the next person in office. Why are the odds so far against a third party in this country? Get the money out of politics. Make it a requirement that only a certain amount can go in for all sides, and the federal government is barred from assisting anyone in the interest of fairness.
Here's hoping the OWS crowd exposes these two major problems that continue to plague the US. I have a strong feeling if you make one (voting) to work, everything else will line up.
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Last I checked, prisoners were in.. ya know... PRISON because of public policy changes causing more prison sentences and lengthening time served, e.g. through mandatory minimum sentencing, "three strikes" laws, and reductions in the availability of parole or early release.
But feel free to actually have a point rather than this BS you're spouting.
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That's the basis for most of my information.
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Blue, sometimes you can be a piece of work. Next time, read the article to realize that venture capitalists have been helping the US with innovation in the digital era by finding newer and more efficient ways to do business. Other than that, piracy is not theft. In all effect, it's the same as nothing happened in the first place. Potential sales don't get calculated on year end revenue.
The Supreme Court has disagreed with you on this.
The proliferation of mp3s on iPods disagrees with you.
The English language and your continued butchering of it disagree with you.
And finally, a few extra names to the list:, Stefan Larsson, Patri Friedman, Notch, Joe Karaganis, The Salted Solution, Greg Cooper, and the rest of the internet disagree with you.
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Remember, these are the same people that want to criminalize streaming content for watching it once.
[dose of reality needed]
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It's as if you think that the MPAA or the RIAA should control their product for others instead of finding ways to profit.
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Hadopi
Music
e-Books
Media in general
You might want to study up before trying to talk down others with false threats of force.
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Also, I'm just doing one thing that you aren't. Reading the Data in Chapter 3:
So the question is which do I believe, an AC who can't be bothered to read how his opinion has nothing but faith based economics, or Josh Lerner who used VentureXpert to help collect his data and prove that the US grew more with this legal ruling supporting innovation?
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The burden of such an accusation is theirs to bear. So what's the problem? If they have the money for these lawsuits, then they should be able to prove it.
Internet time makes the amount of harm possible be amplified, and the speed of the courts makes it almost impossible to do anything about it.
Well, thank our drug policy for the court system. Also, no economic harm has been found through piracy. So why attack people's civil liberties?
In the case of most crimes, an alleged criminal business would either be padlocked or put into administrative control when everyone was charged.
Except this is a civil complaint. So... How are these businesses (like Google, Yahoo, Topspin, Youtube, Reddit, Stumbleupon, etc) criminal enterprises without any notice of the criminal act they've committed?
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a strong positive impact on innovation. The estimated coefficients vary according to the
techniques employed, but on average a dollar of venture capital appears to be three to four times
more potent in stimulating manufacturing industry patenting than a dollar of traditional corporate
R&D.
Would you like to begin showing how PIPA doesn't kill innovation? Or do I have to begin citing the article and show how you're wrong?
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But there's less than 100 this time around, whereas before, it was just about 850 people.
So you might want to change the good paying jobs bit. The company isn't bleeding money except to the CEO who is gutting it.
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Radicalism or reform? You decide
Vote reform
Electoral reform
Vote reform comes in finding a better process to elect people in office than the current First to Post system that allows for attacks on them to add votes without receipts.
Electoral reform allows for less money in politics so everyone can get a shot. It would restrict gerrymandering, allow for competitive races and not allow for safe campaigns that are currently the norm in this country. You have a 50-50 shot at being the next person in office. Why are the odds so far against a third party in this country? Get the money out of politics. Make it a requirement that only a certain amount can go in for all sides, and the federal government is barred from assisting anyone in the interest of fairness.
Here's hoping the OWS crowd exposes these two major problems that continue to plague the US. I have a strong feeling if you make one (voting) to work, everything else will line up.
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