Gotta love when they get high profile people without noticing it. Then it's all apologies and actions and no after-truth favorable facts later. But get your lowly average citizen arse in such encounters and that phone might have been broken right in the beginning. Bonus points if you are black, hispanic, poor or from some minority.
It's a matter of how you market things. "Our products are compliant with Consumer Standard X in terms of security and privacy. The product, your network and your data are behind strong security protocols that help prevent them from falling in the hands of criminals via hacking and your privacy is safeguarded by stringent standards we are committed to."
In this day and age of fears this can be a selling point.
There are plenty of open initiatives to build free open source books out there. Youtube is full of people teaching stuff for free. There are plenty of news of scientists, researchers sharing academic articles and pushing to make them free from the likes of Elsvier (for instance). And libraries of course.
There are incentives other than money to write books. And in fact, from my academic experience, one is much more willing to share their work than to keep it locked.
Your apocalyptic scenario hasn't happened so far even though copying and libraries are rampant. Why would it happen now?
- You'd have to pay hidden tolls every now and then. - You'd have to pay big money to have the highway connected to your home even though it's 50 meters away from an access - You'd be limited in how many kilometers you could run unless you coughed more money because the road might be congested - The road would still be congested at peak times because everybody would be using their kms to use the road at the same time (except not, there is plenty of spare capacity) - You already paid for the road and your toll, FedEx already paid for their toll but it would still have to pay a second toll because it was going to deliver to you effectively making you pay an extra toll (because Fedex isn't stupid and it's going to pass the cost to you) - UPS would be forced to use a lane that's congested because fedex paid for priority - Fedstarter could offer much cheaper delivery services but it would be killed in the craddle because it wouldn't be able to pay the double toll and people wouldn't use it because Fedex is so much faster - You'd be unable to get your car in the highway for days because the company couldn't care less with the maintenance of your access. But you'd still have to pay. - You'd be forced to rent the gate to the highway from the company even though your gate is better and more secure
Ask any local musician or your friends that get anything from music and you'll quickly realize the exception are the hugely successful, label signed artists.
Re: Two-hundred and thirty-three counter-examples and counting...
This comment section would be incredibly huge if everybody reading this who identifies with your case some way replied with "me too". In any case, same here with different sources.
Bravo! Hopefully other countries join the party and put this joke to rest. Someone once wisely said that if you want to hold something under your grip don't press to hard or it will leak through your fingers. That's what Hollywood is getting from multiple fronts.
Unfortunately I can't find some famous quote because looking for some has yielded articles about sausage stuffing so I'll take credit as the first one saying. For future reference please use the following example:
"Beware of exerting too much control over something. If you tighten your grip too much the contents will leak. Because sausages." - Techdirt's Ninja
It's an inaccuracy that happens frequently when reporting things. I think the worst the guy will have to deal with is a request to clarify the piece. He isn't even going to have to deal with most of the legal fees since his fund raising campaign seems to be doing great (I'm thinking of helping too).
The company on the other hand is going to take a whole load of negative PR. Whether this will be effective and hurt it is another issue for another discussion.
I kind of would do the same. I explain: if the guy is an idiot, what better way to screw him than to promise to remove the articles when the acquisition is completed and then do it. Tons of money to me and a bankrupt company in terms of trust to the idiot. Actual bankruptcy would eventually come. Said the devil in me.
While Google is the target here maybe we must remember this would impact everybody and the smaller players could be killed making Google much more dominant. Even then, we should be cheering it (Google) is big enough to give them the finger and simply pull the plug making them actually lose money. Not that it's good they have such power but in this specific case they (Google) are actually helping to stop the legacy players bullshit. Of course the same result could be achieved by search engines collectively purging the snippets from the complaining parties but I suspect it would have been harder to get a coalition.
Not all they can but rather all they believe they can do to sustain the dying cash cow. If they had already accepted it isn't going to stop and the cow is going to die they'd be offering streaming a la carte (for channels or individual content) to whoever wants to throw money their way with added functionality to make them stand in the crowd and have people prefer their services. As the Kodak and Blockbuster examples above, if one went down the digital cameras path and the other embraced streaming earlier they'd be the dominant players. Instead they are dead.
"By email on September 26, 2014, plaintiff responded that he was willing to narrow his request to only investigations with findings of misconduct," to which the NSA found "approximately 8,488 pages of potentially responsive documents."
8488 pages of potential misconducts. This is rather telling about the agency.
I agree his requests shouldn't be prioritized. Instead the judge should tell the NSA to shut up, respect the law and hire goddamn employees to deal with the added load if needed. The public must be served accordingly. And the NSA does a piss poor job in almost many other aspects (such as respecting the Constitution) aspects to be complaining like that.
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In this day and age of fears this can be a selling point.
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There are incentives other than money to write books. And in fact, from my academic experience, one is much more willing to share their work than to keep it locked.
Your apocalyptic scenario hasn't happened so far even though copying and libraries are rampant. Why would it happen now?
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Re: Aha.
In retrospect, if this analogy could be applied, the ISPs would be the ones charging tolls not to screw the lawns themselves.
"We-promise-we-won't-mess-with-your-lawn" fee: $30. (From Comcast billing)
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AR&R
Like Roadcast and Veriroad?
How would that road work?
- You'd have to pay hidden tolls every now and then.
- You'd have to pay big money to have the highway connected to your home even though it's 50 meters away from an access
- You'd be limited in how many kilometers you could run unless you coughed more money because the road might be congested
- The road would still be congested at peak times because everybody would be using their kms to use the road at the same time (except not, there is plenty of spare capacity)
- You already paid for the road and your toll, FedEx already paid for their toll but it would still have to pay a second toll because it was going to deliver to you effectively making you pay an extra toll (because Fedex isn't stupid and it's going to pass the cost to you)
- UPS would be forced to use a lane that's congested because fedex paid for priority
- Fedstarter could offer much cheaper delivery services but it would be killed in the craddle because it wouldn't be able to pay the double toll and people wouldn't use it because Fedex is so much faster
- You'd be unable to get your car in the highway for days because the company couldn't care less with the maintenance of your access. But you'd still have to pay.
- You'd be forced to rent the gate to the highway from the company even though your gate is better and more secure
Whew. I probably forgot something.
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Ask any local musician or your friends that get anything from music and you'll quickly realize the exception are the hugely successful, label signed artists.
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Re: Two-hundred and thirty-three counter-examples and counting...
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Sausages got mixed and I forgot part of the phrase.
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Unfortunately I can't find some famous quote because looking for some has yielded articles about sausage stuffing so I'll take credit as the first one saying. For future reference please use the following example:
"Beware of exerting too much control over something. If you tighten your grip too much the contents will leak. Because sausages." - Techdirt's Ninja
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The company on the other hand is going to take a whole load of negative PR. Whether this will be effective and hurt it is another issue for another discussion.
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Re: Re: Re: Sounds good - until...
- Are you an amoeba or a fungus?
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Re: "But... we don't want to end up like them!"
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Re: Not Secure Agency?
8488 pages of potential misconducts. This is rather telling about the agency.
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