Hmmm... This explains exactly the reason why the US hadn't tried to prosecute the Pirate Bay so long ago. They had special plans for those four guys. I seem to remember something in regards to trying everything in the book to convict them. How well is that working out in taking blood from a turnip, MPAA?
-Detect nearby magnetic fields on the MAG screen.
-Use your phone like a level ruler on the GRAV screen
- dB sensor on Acoustic screen
- Show latitude and longitude through GPS and your cellular signal on the GEO screen
- Detect signal levels on the EM Spectrum scream (works only for wifi and cell frequency)
- Look at solar activity through SOL
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In other words, this is a damn useful app for anyone in the engineering profession. Hell, if you like physics, this app has a very nice graphical view which just happens to look like a Star Trek device. If CBS wants to "own" it, they can just update it themselves. I'm keeping mine and I'm sure someone will update it as needed.
"I'm not telling you run go cut your cable. If that don't work for you, that's alright with me. I don't foot your bills."
If only you could tell this to the people that keep thinking Mike's a pirate, all pirates are freeloading, and the movie industry can't get a clue about how to make things work in the digital era...
It's actually called the "Spike TV game awards" but they seriously try to be the big budget grammies for games. It's disgusting.
But it's just marketing for the AAA games that came out in a year. It's uncannily amazing how many Gears of War/Halo/ Call of Duty/ Madden fanboys come out to vote for these damn things and screw over the entire industry.
If anything, I would love to see the developers come together for an awards show. It would probably be a lot better organized than having celebrities that aren't gamers and paid advertisements.
... I don't know how you glossed over what I said to go on about piracy but let me bring this back to the topic at hand:
"Network TV, example, is pretty much surviving on either people over 40, or a younger demographic tuning in for Jersey Shore. The only things pulling good ratings (and unable to be easily pirated) at the American Idol style live shows. Otherwise, the ratings are light, yet the shows are still enjoyed."
Please note: There are a lot of people cutting the cable cords because they don't want to watch Jersey Shore, Bad Girls, horrid reality shows, or American Idol. The viewership is fragmented and the huge profit margins of the cable companies are going to go the way of the dodo. This is a given. The push for more internet is upon us as the cable guys clamor for eyeballs. People are still going to watch some series. But they may watch it through torrents authorized by the producer or they may watch it through a pirate site. It's a choice. They might not even have cable in the future. So why not offer that choice to the people instead of the usual "but... but... piracy" response?
"Why? People downloading, sharing, and distributing "commercial stripped" copies online."
Did I not say that they can offer an official torrent, track it, then offer incentives for people to donate either their time or money? Why is it that the *only* way to watch a show is through TV? In the digital age, that does not make sense to be tied down to your TV if you want your content in another manner.
"It's a business model that requires some control over how the product is consumed, in a manner that allows for commercial sponsorship. Without it, it is pretty much impossible to make the very product that you all so happily pirate."
So on one hand, there's consumers and how they want to control their entertainment. On the other hand are the distributors who are believing that entertainment has to be controlled. Who do you think is going to win this battle?
"Piracy in the end lowers the value of the commercial messages, which in turn lowers the amount of money available to produce the shows, which in turn means lower quality shows, which is turn means less viewers... and so on."
Ok... Name four shows that were canceled because of piracy.
"I can understand the "free" mentality, but it is literally killing the golden goose to have a great feast for a night."
No, I don't think you understand what's going on. You look at piracy as a scapegoat for everything. There's no "free" mentality. People could pay for ancillary products and don't want to pay for individual shows with either their time or money. DVDs are an ancillary product. If someone likes a show on TV (free), they might buy the DVD and show it around. Same thing occurs online. I've shown other scarcities in the above post.
If the industry wants to make money, it's high time they stop acting as if their entitled to money, lower some prices and learn to compete with what everyone is offering.
What's sad is that no matter how many examples otherwise
"The official requirements for Half-Life II list 98 as the minimum required version of Windows. Of course HL2 won't run on 98 anymore, because Steam, which is only required in the single-player game for DRM, no longer works on 98. They retroactively changed the system requirements. Yet, somehow I doubt that if I were to buy a sealed, boxed copy of the game based on those requirements, that Valve would send me a patch to make it work, or refund my money.
"
I personally think that's more a community issue. Updating to Half Life Source isn't expensive. Getting the DosBox and using it to emulate HL 98 doesn't require much except a few pieces of technology knowhow on the newer systems. Then, there's the mods of HL1 that may make the game even better than the Source version that Valve used. The more popular a game, the more likely there will be patches to fix it and upgrades.
"The same is true of any Steam-crippled game. I can install my copy of Jedi Knight on pretty much any system, even without a net connection, but the copy sold through Steam is saddled with Valve's DRM, which requires you to authorize it, and which is subject to remote deactivation if Valve thinks you've violated their terms of service."
Point taken. But how many people are playing some of the older games nowadays? And how likely are you to activate Valve's remote deactivation if no one else is playing these older games?
"I can't wait until they decide to change Steam's minimum requirements to Windows 7, and all the remaining XP users wonder why all their Steam-crippled games no longer work."
I'm not certain if that's the way to look at it. Think about how long people have been playing Counter Strike 1.6 vs Counter Strike Source. People have JUST given in to Source as recently as last month. It's a lot better than what EA is doing by forcing people to buy the newest games every year with no support for the older ones.
Want to know what's even worse? I look at the site and he hasa a cover for Dragonball GT on one of his songs. Now he's guarded by the fair use doctrine, but he's profiting directly off of someone else's work!
Does he pay anything to Akira Toriyama or Funimation for using that? No. Does the proceeds of the album go to anyone related to Toriyama or benefit them greatly? No. So basically, what I get from this is "You can't make a profit off my work, but I'm going to make a profit off of someone else's."
" you can think that if you like, but honestly, where do you think we would be now without the legal action from Napster on?"
More services provided to fulfill customer needs instead of the legal arm of the law stifling newer businesses?
"Quite simply, they cannot compete with free, they don't have upsell products that they can promote with free, and there aren't enough suckers willing to pay for the freeloaders to make it work out."
They can. They've had the ability. They're just lazy in suing everyone first. If someone can make a business out of cyber lockers, online storage, and music delivery systems, what's stopping the music industry and the entertainment industry from hopping in with both feet and figuring it out for themselves? Old thinking?
Thought so.
"Nobody is going to pay $100 for a movie theater ticket (as they might stupidly do now for a concert ticket). "
No shit, but they will pay $100 in the course of a year if they had a place to put their movies that they legally owned through Bittorrent downloads, streaming suggestions, and DVD rips. Hmmmm...
"...and as more "business models" that depend on piracy get busted, the money goes out of it and they tend to disappear"
No, it just doesn't go to the industry or it goes to the lawyers for all of these frivolous lawsuits. Or it goes to other entertainment endeavors such as gaming or music. Money never disappears. If the entertainment industry can't figure out what it wants to do, the customers will find something else to do with their time.
Did you see the cafe example? Just because someone makes profit in any way means it's a commercial franchise means that he's limiting how far it can reach. With that in mind, I have no interest in seeing his link. Hell, if I were to use his music on Youtube and put an ad for revenue sharing that means I'm liable. I'll just go to other artists that have more of an open mind.
Re: Re: "all at a price the entertainment industry can't afford"
This is the same problem with EA pulling away from Steam, believing their service can compete with it. Not only does the Origin system have more DRM and a soul binding TOS agreement, but it cuts out the people that have invested time into Steam. All your friends you want to play with? Get them on Origin. All the battles? Just Origin with no link up to Steam at all.
Steam is proven. Origin is a new comer that doesn't play nice. If anything, I see the pirating of EA games making this a fiasco.
I think it's worse than that. Look at what he's saying.
I include on top of the copyright a Creative Commons license meaning everyone can download my music for free and share it, as long as its use is non commercial and attribution is given. If I didn't have a copyright for my music it would void the CC license meaning whoever the hell wants can make money off my hard work and not even tell people who created it.
Basically, he doesn't want to share it with the world. He doesn't want his music to reach new audiences. He believes that if you ever need to profit off of his work, then that should be stigmatized.
In a way, it's the same ideas that the RIAA are saying. The only monetary value someone can get out of a digital good, is that which he thinks up. In the past that has actually limited the CC license. If you own a coffeeshop and a local musician puts up a CC-license that says ND, would you bother using him or music that you get cheaper elsewhere?
Sadly enough, by showing us his reasoning, it's not a spit in his face...
It directly applies to his situation.
I find that the worst problem of copyright in general. People don't think "How can I gain an audience?", they instead think "How can I get paid through my govn. monopoly?" in not as many words.
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Re: Not a surprise
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Just to let everyone know...
-Detect nearby magnetic fields on the MAG screen.
-Use your phone like a level ruler on the GRAV screen
- dB sensor on Acoustic screen
- Show latitude and longitude through GPS and your cellular signal on the GEO screen
- Detect signal levels on the EM Spectrum scream (works only for wifi and cell frequency)
- Look at solar activity through SOL
---------------------------------------
In other words, this is a damn useful app for anyone in the engineering profession. Hell, if you like physics, this app has a very nice graphical view which just happens to look like a Star Trek device. If CBS wants to "own" it, they can just update it themselves. I'm keeping mine and I'm sure someone will update it as needed.
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Re: Could backfire
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Re: arrest a guy for filming the police
What's amazing is how a person can be charged with this, then have the charges dropped in order to keep the threat of wiretapping on the books.
But say an elected official is given this ruling... Woe betide would it change in a heartbeat to protect that person.
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If only you could tell this to the people that keep thinking Mike's a pirate, all pirates are freeloading, and the movie industry can't get a clue about how to make things work in the digital era...
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But it's just marketing for the AAA games that came out in a year. It's uncannily amazing how many Gears of War/Halo/ Call of Duty/ Madden fanboys come out to vote for these damn things and screw over the entire industry.
If anything, I would love to see the developers come together for an awards show. It would probably be a lot better organized than having celebrities that aren't gamers and paid advertisements.
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Piracy still seems to be a scapegoat instead of looking for better solutions to this economic problem.
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"Network TV, example, is pretty much surviving on either people over 40, or a younger demographic tuning in for Jersey Shore. The only things pulling good ratings (and unable to be easily pirated) at the American Idol style live shows. Otherwise, the ratings are light, yet the shows are still enjoyed."
Please note: There are a lot of people cutting the cable cords because they don't want to watch Jersey Shore, Bad Girls, horrid reality shows, or American Idol. The viewership is fragmented and the huge profit margins of the cable companies are going to go the way of the dodo. This is a given. The push for more internet is upon us as the cable guys clamor for eyeballs. People are still going to watch some series. But they may watch it through torrents authorized by the producer or they may watch it through a pirate site. It's a choice. They might not even have cable in the future. So why not offer that choice to the people instead of the usual "but... but... piracy" response?
"Why? People downloading, sharing, and distributing "commercial stripped" copies online."
Did I not say that they can offer an official torrent, track it, then offer incentives for people to donate either their time or money? Why is it that the *only* way to watch a show is through TV? In the digital age, that does not make sense to be tied down to your TV if you want your content in another manner.
"It's a business model that requires some control over how the product is consumed, in a manner that allows for commercial sponsorship. Without it, it is pretty much impossible to make the very product that you all so happily pirate."
So on one hand, there's consumers and how they want to control their entertainment. On the other hand are the distributors who are believing that entertainment has to be controlled. Who do you think is going to win this battle?
"Piracy in the end lowers the value of the commercial messages, which in turn lowers the amount of money available to produce the shows, which in turn means lower quality shows, which is turn means less viewers... and so on."
Ok... Name four shows that were canceled because of piracy.
"I can understand the "free" mentality, but it is literally killing the golden goose to have a great feast for a night."
No, I don't think you understand what's going on. You look at piracy as a scapegoat for everything. There's no "free" mentality. People could pay for ancillary products and don't want to pay for individual shows with either their time or money. DVDs are an ancillary product. If someone likes a show on TV (free), they might buy the DVD and show it around. Same thing occurs online. I've shown other scarcities in the above post.
If the industry wants to make money, it's high time they stop acting as if their entitled to money, lower some prices and learn to compete with what everyone is offering.
What's sad is that no matter how many examples otherwise
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Re: Re: Here's a very good opinion piece about the subject.
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That is NOT a game oriented awards show!
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I personally think that's more a community issue. Updating to Half Life Source isn't expensive. Getting the DosBox and using it to emulate HL 98 doesn't require much except a few pieces of technology knowhow on the newer systems. Then, there's the mods of HL1 that may make the game even better than the Source version that Valve used. The more popular a game, the more likely there will be patches to fix it and upgrades.
"The same is true of any Steam-crippled game. I can install my copy of Jedi Knight on pretty much any system, even without a net connection, but the copy sold through Steam is saddled with Valve's DRM, which requires you to authorize it, and which is subject to remote deactivation if Valve thinks you've violated their terms of service."
Point taken. But how many people are playing some of the older games nowadays? And how likely are you to activate Valve's remote deactivation if no one else is playing these older games?
"I can't wait until they decide to change Steam's minimum requirements to Windows 7, and all the remaining XP users wonder why all their Steam-crippled games no longer work."
I'm not certain if that's the way to look at it. Think about how long people have been playing Counter Strike 1.6 vs Counter Strike Source. People have JUST given in to Source as recently as last month. It's a lot better than what EA is doing by forcing people to buy the newest games every year with no support for the older ones.
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Does he pay anything to Akira Toriyama or Funimation for using that? No. Does the proceeds of the album go to anyone related to Toriyama or benefit them greatly? No. So basically, what I get from this is "You can't make a profit off my work, but I'm going to make a profit off of someone else's."
Sheesh...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
More services provided to fulfill customer needs instead of the legal arm of the law stifling newer businesses?
"Quite simply, they cannot compete with free, they don't have upsell products that they can promote with free, and there aren't enough suckers willing to pay for the freeloaders to make it work out."
They can. They've had the ability. They're just lazy in suing everyone first. If someone can make a business out of cyber lockers, online storage, and music delivery systems, what's stopping the music industry and the entertainment industry from hopping in with both feet and figuring it out for themselves? Old thinking?
Thought so.
"Nobody is going to pay $100 for a movie theater ticket (as they might stupidly do now for a concert ticket). "
No shit, but they will pay $100 in the course of a year if they had a place to put their movies that they legally owned through Bittorrent downloads, streaming suggestions, and DVD rips. Hmmmm...
"...and as more "business models" that depend on piracy get busted, the money goes out of it and they tend to disappear"
No, it just doesn't go to the industry or it goes to the lawyers for all of these frivolous lawsuits. Or it goes to other entertainment endeavors such as gaming or music. Money never disappears. If the entertainment industry can't figure out what it wants to do, the customers will find something else to do with their time.
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Re: Re: "all at a price the entertainment industry can't afford"
Steam is proven. Origin is a new comer that doesn't play nice. If anything, I see the pirating of EA games making this a fiasco.
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Re: Re: Get Real
I include on top of the copyright a Creative Commons license meaning everyone can download my music for free and share it, as long as its use is non commercial and attribution is given. If I didn't have a copyright for my music it would void the CC license meaning whoever the hell wants can make money off my hard work and not even tell people who created it.
Basically, he doesn't want to share it with the world. He doesn't want his music to reach new audiences. He believes that if you ever need to profit off of his work, then that should be stigmatized.
In a way, it's the same ideas that the RIAA are saying. The only monetary value someone can get out of a digital good, is that which he thinks up. In the past that has actually limited the CC license. If you own a coffeeshop and a local musician puts up a CC-license that says ND, would you bother using him or music that you get cheaper elsewhere?
Sadly enough, by showing us his reasoning, it's not a spit in his face...
It directly applies to his situation.
I find that the worst problem of copyright in general. People don't think "How can I gain an audience?", they instead think "How can I get paid through my govn. monopoly?" in not as many words.
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