well that is actually fairly normal. I don't know why but it seems most IT news source are super pro-Apple. Apple stuff is cool and all, but damn. there are other companies, you know, not named after a fruit.
not completly true. my eyeballs don't count because i block all ads. BUT he has made money off me directly. I bought the Approaching Infinity book and a t-shirt during the big CFW push. I would much rather pay for something worth it than have to sit through ads (and frankly, some of the ads on this site are pretty annoying, last time I looked) or pay for content.
and i think your analogy is kinda off. techdirt makes all money from ads, but 700,000 ad viewers being lost from newsday are just freeloaders? huh?
so, now that they have gone after the "pirates", the consumers, the bloggers, and the youtube poster, when do we get a chance at the rebellion?
I changed my mind. the first up against the wall will be judges followed by lawyers.
no finger wagging from me. I am a proponent that we change piracy and pirates to stealing and thieves. I feel it is a much better description and you an throw other people's misplaced moral outrage back at them when you don't care. I for one, am a thief. and damn proud of it.
wow, that was morbid, but...
I can't see where you are wrong. Most of the ones that don't out right die, are usually forgotten very quickly; replaced by the next god-king. Of course this only really affects the record label's lackeys. A lot of musicians, including genres like rock, rap, etc, are artists; the ones who try to bend the illusions built up by cookie cutter bands. Those, while maybe not playing in stadiums with 100,00 attendees, are the true artists. They are the one who will be remembered after three hundred years. They will be the Bachs, the Mozarts, the Beethovens of our time.
Not the stupid year-king's of the labels.
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just steal the damn thing.
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and i think your analogy is kinda off. techdirt makes all money from ads, but 700,000 ad viewers being lost from newsday are just freeloaders? huh?
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I changed my mind. the first up against the wall will be judges followed by lawyers.
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a correct ass is still an ass.
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Take your morals and shove it.
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I can't see where you are wrong. Most of the ones that don't out right die, are usually forgotten very quickly; replaced by the next god-king. Of course this only really affects the record label's lackeys. A lot of musicians, including genres like rock, rap, etc, are artists; the ones who try to bend the illusions built up by cookie cutter bands. Those, while maybe not playing in stadiums with 100,00 attendees, are the true artists. They are the one who will be remembered after three hundred years. They will be the Bachs, the Mozarts, the Beethovens of our time.
Not the stupid year-king's of the labels.
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