I'm just saying, from a programming standpoint, sending out a product that hasn't been thoroughly tested is bad for business.
Obviously, accusing your paying customers of piracy is also bad for business, but Hollywood has already set the example that using that assumption is an okay business practice.
"Unfortunately, says Enfour, some old code that shouldn't have been run did get run, and that's what caused the false positives to appear in the Twitter shaming."
You'd think they'd do a little testing on this app before pushing it out to the public.
This is the big disconnect Friedlander has with relating to the audience that is interested in music. He assumes they would rather buy than sample music.
I'm not a music aficionado, but I imagine those who are have been burned out on the stockpile of crap music they've pushed through the air waves for the past decade, and are not willing to spend money on pop music they hear iterated over and over again.
I don't know man, I've had my fair share of sriracha-related volcano poops and I can confidently say I have never been able to form coherent sentences.
They apparently stepped up to defend a guy who ran a red light and killed another man's sister so they wouldn't have to pay out under an insurance policy to the victim's family.
After the family hit the net with the story, they got bombarded with negative reactions and tried to calm the storm with one twitter post. That exact post was repeated in 6 replies as if it was a spambot re-posting the original message.
It sounds like they really need to update these statements they spit out. Half the time, I feel like it's a bot writing these kinds of things, which may explain why the statements always presume no one knows what they're really after.
That linked article brings out an interesting tidbit about Wainwright, which kind of only adds ruin to her already tarnished rep.
She claims she never "reviewed" products for Square Enix (despite consulting for them), yet they link numerous articles written by her calling Square's take on Tomb Raider "fresh" and "innovative" and commenting on how "fantastic" they look. What irks me about these kind of "preview" articles is that they seem to cultivate hype in people. For example, I've seen IGN preview a number of titles commenting on how exciting and good they look only later to give the game a depressing review.
That kind of journalism smacks of subtle bias to me.
Not to mention his false authority fallacy. That seems to be a huge issue with musicians, and they keep repeating the mantra that piracy is doing this and that without providing any concrete evidence.
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Obviously, accusing your paying customers of piracy is also bad for business, but Hollywood has already set the example that using that assumption is an okay business practice.
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"Unfortunately, says Enfour, some old code that shouldn't have been run did get run, and that's what caused the false positives to appear in the Twitter shaming."
You'd think they'd do a little testing on this app before pushing it out to the public.
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If the accusation for infringement was true, then why was the domain name released?
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FTFY
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This is the big disconnect Friedlander has with relating to the audience that is interested in music. He assumes they would rather buy than sample music.
I'm not a music aficionado, but I imagine those who are have been burned out on the stockpile of crap music they've pushed through the air waves for the past decade, and are not willing to spend money on pop music they hear iterated over and over again.
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Progressive Insurance was involved with a "twitter bot" SANFU - http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/14/technology/progressive-tweets/index.html.
They apparently stepped up to defend a guy who ran a red light and killed another man's sister so they wouldn't have to pay out under an insurance policy to the victim's family.
After the family hit the net with the story, they got bombarded with negative reactions and tried to calm the storm with one twitter post. That exact post was repeated in 6 replies as if it was a spambot re-posting the original message.
It'd be poetic to see that happen to Epic.
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She claims she never "reviewed" products for Square Enix (despite consulting for them), yet they link numerous articles written by her calling Square's take on Tomb Raider "fresh" and "innovative" and commenting on how "fantastic" they look. What irks me about these kind of "preview" articles is that they seem to cultivate hype in people. For example, I've seen IGN preview a number of titles commenting on how exciting and good they look only later to give the game a depressing review.
That kind of journalism smacks of subtle bias to me.
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I had to google the song,and later regretted it, to get the context of the joke.
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I find it funny too that this lady refers to Epsen's latest album as the best pop album of the year.
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I feel like these people have been making movies for so long, they live in a goddamn fantasy world.
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