They've been blocking loads off postings that are Democratic (the party) in nature, while allowing the Republican (the party) stuff thru--which is a perfect example of their censorship and partisanship.
"Bribery", by any other name, is still reprehensible and morally repugnant.
Payola is payola; and if you think it's acceptable, you best throw your entire morality framework down the nearest toilet, and flush twice; because that's all it was worth to begin with.
When they demand the "licensed" material back, be it DVD, CD, or book, I will make sure to clean my exhaust port with each and every one of them before sending them back. I can only hope they'll catch something from it, too.
Yeah, and when they demand the media back (be it DVD, cd, of book), I will make damn sure to wipe my ass with them, very thoroughly, before packaging them up and sending them back. And I encourage every law-abiding citizen to do the same when either the MAFIAA or their goons (the US Gooberment) tried to take back what we rightfully purchased.
It's not just "bollocks", it's utter and complete bullshit. It's some twat who took some "fame", leveraged it into a fat income stream, finding out that someone could put her as a sham, so has decided to use the fat income stream to bankrupt the people who are trying to expose this truth.
MAFIAA, anyone?? Or SCo?? Profit by extortion?
Hell, she'll probably try to sue tech dirt and us "negative" commenters, and suck cash out of our veins, because of this discussion.
You forget one major criticality regarding 3D printers:
3D printers can only produce prototype parts, for evaluation before being put into production.
The parts produced by these printers cannot be used in any useful way, except to take the next step in part production, be it lost wax, mold formation, etc. but they cannot use them directly.
In the meantime, perhaps actually developing new material for the consoles your fans will have to deal with for the next couple of years yet might do wonders to turn around that sliding stock price.
:rolleyes: The only thing that makes stocks go up is firing all the employees and suing everyone else for [insert ridiculous reason here]. Hence why using stock prices as a measure of the health of ANYTHING utterly ridiculous.
Yearning for idols and blaming piracy for today's "weak" music market is nothing more than rose-tinted nostalgia rewriting the history of the recording industry, turning it from an exploitative commercial venture into the deflowered victim of millions of basement dwellers.
Yep, that's what they do: criminalize their customers, even the paying ones.
The real problem with this, and a fact ignored by both authors, is that a huge majority of these immigrant workers are being used to replace higher-paying--and just as qualified--American workers. And, as stated above, as a pipeline toward outsourcing said jobs and reducing costs even further.
Personally, I think as the Romans did: as long as they speak the language and pay taxes, let 'em in.
But this is being used as a dodge to eliminate jobs and send the, elsewhere.
When will these idiots realize that, when everyone is unemployed (or employed as slave labor), there will be no money being spent on their crappy poisoned chinese junk?? Talk about watching the economy collapse--then again, these psychopaths don't care, as long as they can abscond with their ill-gotten gains to the nearest non-extradition nation, while the rest of us suffer and die thanks to their murderous practices.
Y'all asked: "...can anyone explain just why the government is bailing out the RIAA in the first place?"
Answer: Because our so-called "elected officials" (who are supposed to work for us) have been bribed and paid for by the aforementioned MAAFIA, and are now working for the toward yet another taxpayer ripoff.
I mean, the banks did it; why shouldn't they?? It's all free money, they have a right to steal it too!!
Yeah, right. It might be time to sharpen those pitchforks...
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Faceplant
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He's a Corporatist in drag...
I think it's time to throw them all out and start over...
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Payola is payola; and if you think it's acceptable, you best throw your entire morality framework down the nearest toilet, and flush twice; because that's all it was worth to begin with.
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(wtf, TD, y'all had to "moderate" this??)
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Let's hope they get very, very sick.
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MAFIAA, anyone?? Or SCo?? Profit by extortion?
Hell, she'll probably try to sue tech dirt and us "negative" commenters, and suck cash out of our veins, because of this discussion.
Totally bogus.
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3D printers can only produce prototype parts, for evaluation before being put into production.
The parts produced by these printers cannot be used in any useful way, except to take the next step in part production, be it lost wax, mold formation, etc. but they cannot use them directly.
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There's a fast solution...
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Microsoft shoots off another toe...
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LOOK OUT!!! IT'S THE MAFIAA COPYRIGHT STOARM TRUPARS!!!! DEYS COM TO TAKES YUO AWAYZ!!
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WTF!?!?
We are being choked to death by psychopaths---they're running everything, it seems.
I guess Metalliwhore--I mean, Metallica--was right when they named their first album Kill 'Em All.
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Argh
:rolleyes: The only thing that makes stocks go up is firing all the employees and suing everyone else for [insert ridiculous reason here]. Hence why using stock prices as a measure of the health of ANYTHING utterly ridiculous.
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Yep, that's what they do: criminalize their customers, even the paying ones.
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iPwnd...
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Personally, I think as the Romans did: as long as they speak the language and pay taxes, let 'em in.
But this is being used as a dodge to eliminate jobs and send the, elsewhere.
When will these idiots realize that, when everyone is unemployed (or employed as slave labor), there will be no money being spent on their crappy poisoned chinese junk?? Talk about watching the economy collapse--then again, these psychopaths don't care, as long as they can abscond with their ill-gotten gains to the nearest non-extradition nation, while the rest of us suffer and die thanks to their murderous practices.
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Y'all asked: "...can anyone explain just why the government is bailing out the RIAA in the first place?"
I mean, the banks did it; why shouldn't they?? It's all free money, they have a right to steal it too!!
Yeah, right. It might be time to sharpen those pitchforks...
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