Comic book shops might be glad of getting the misprints back - after all they might be worth more than the normal copies in future. Don't know many people who'd pay for a misprinted copy of Harry Potter
Agreed - and being caught seems to be a minor blip to the worst of them. Case in point - Peter Mandelson in the UK was forced to resign from office twice (1998 and 2001) he kept coming back to influential posts.
An active secondary market doesn't necessarily mean that customers don't think it's worth the original price, but that the value of continued ownership is less than the secondary market price.
The utility you get from buying the game is the value of the fun you get from playing/owning it + any resale value. Having a solid resale value is part of the price, not something which means that the price is too high.
One major example of this is the stock market. This has to be about the most well known secondary market around!
Companies sell equity when they list or have new stock issues directly to investors in the primary market. These investors can then go on to sell their equity on a secondary market, such as stock exchanges. Indeed, without the ability to sell equity easily, investors would be less willing to buy in the first place - and would pay less for the same stake in the company.
Basically the amount someone is willing to invest = income from a share in the profits + amount on sale of share at a future date ( = income + capital gain returns).
Of course, I wonder if these executives who are decrying the used game market are similarly decrying the stock exchange. How long would their companies last if they weren't easily able to raise equity capital? And more importantly are any of these executives willing to give up their share options?
Raoul Moat only killed his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend. His ex was only injured, and the policeman he shot (in the face) survived but seems to now be blind.
You're right about the Star though - they have a rep for posting fictional sensationalist stories (London bus found on moon style)
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Interesting, I always assumed it was more of a blanket ban - kind of enforcing scoops. Didn't realise you could still publish under the hot-news regime by redoing the journalism.
Of course, presumably one problem is what is defined as journalism? After all "copy from one is plagiarism, copy from many is research". Could you claim you were doing journalism by doing lots of research on the new item in question - such as reading lots of other news articles to add value to your readers by consolidating lots of different reports?
I guess aggregators could also claim that they're not reporting on the event, but they're reporting that a news site is reporting on the event. So google's news story isn't "there's been an earthquake" but "AP has a story about an earthquake"
That's a good idea, but I don't think it should necessarily just be African Americans on the team ...
The "black" in the link seems to talk about a highly visible team made up of passionate/gifted people. I think you're more after a "black" as in hidden/secret (eg black ops). The people don't necessarily have to be the best at their jobs, they just have to conceal what's going on from the examiners.
Coughlan doesn't work for a free online publication - it's just free to you guys outside the UK. I have to pay £145 ($200) a year so that you can read Coughlan's poorly thought out diatribes!
Having said that, even if the £145 was optional* I'd still pay it as I value what I get from the BBC.
(*yes, I know it is optional. I could get rid of any TV signal receivers and only watch prerecorded DVDs.)
Plus I don't think it being a coalition government will affect the process.
It might affect whether it becomes a main policy, and whether the government puts a whip on the vote (thereby forcing their MPs to vote a certain way) since both the Tories and the Lib Dems would presumably need to agree. I don't think the Tories have shown much appetite to repeal the DEA so far, but fingers crossed they see sense and back the Lib Dems on this.
One thing I see is the minister who has the power to block websites the recording industry doesn't like is Vince Cable. Here's hoping he sticks to his political guns and remembers he's a *Liberal* Democrat.
You are ignoring that the finder did try to return it, by contacting Apple and explaining the situation.
Since the Apple employees manning the phone lines hadn't been told about new prototype phones, much less that one had been lost, they assumed it was a Chinese copy and not a real one, and so didn't ask for it back.
At that point, the finder and Gizmodo had no evidence that it really was an Apple device. It seems that was only confirmed by the Apple branding on the internal components (only visible after opening the phone - "vandalized" in your words) and then finally confirmed by Apple coming clean about the leak and asking for it back.
At no point, as far as I can tell, did either the finder or Gizmodo try to hide the device or prevent Apple from getting it back. Not exactly a hallmark of theft.
Depends who you mean by "them". As an ordinary voter I'm fairly sure that lame duck sessions shouldn't be used to pass new legislation
(OK, it's not quite a lame duck session, since the guilty are still MPs, but it certainly looks that way. If it quaks like a duck, and walks with a limp ...)
Sounds like the way voting in the EU works. If you vote No to something, then they come back next year to make you vote again. And again. Until you get it right.
See Ireland voting on the Lisbon Treaty, and the way Denmark is going to hold a second poll on joining the Euro - just as soon as they can get enough support for a yes. (And of course after the French and Dutch voters got the result "wrong", they weren't even trusted with a second attempt)
Still waiting to hear of a country offering a new poll where the previous answer was yes.
But maybe I'm just bitter at not getting to vote on the Lisbon treaty here in the UK ...
I think those royalties have encouraged her to contribute to the arts and sciences. By slowing down her writing so much the average level of authorship has increased.
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The utility you get from buying the game is the value of the fun you get from playing/owning it + any resale value. Having a solid resale value is part of the price, not something which means that the price is too high.
One major example of this is the stock market. This has to be about the most well known secondary market around!
Companies sell equity when they list or have new stock issues directly to investors in the primary market. These investors can then go on to sell their equity on a secondary market, such as stock exchanges. Indeed, without the ability to sell equity easily, investors would be less willing to buy in the first place - and would pay less for the same stake in the company.
Basically the amount someone is willing to invest = income from a share in the profits + amount on sale of share at a future date ( = income + capital gain returns).
Of course, I wonder if these executives who are decrying the used game market are similarly decrying the stock exchange. How long would their companies last if they weren't easily able to raise equity capital? And more importantly are any of these executives willing to give up their share options?
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You're right about the Star though - they have a rep for posting fictional sensationalist stories (London bus found on moon style)
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I guess that means the first AI inventions will be better electricity supply - plugs, powerlines, batteries, capacitors?
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America seems pretty dependent on authentic Kenyan Presidents at the moment
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Re: Re: Can someone explain exactly what the "Hot News" doctrine is?
Of course, presumably one problem is what is defined as journalism? After all "copy from one is plagiarism, copy from many is research". Could you claim you were doing journalism by doing lots of research on the new item in question - such as reading lots of other news articles to add value to your readers by consolidating lots of different reports?
I guess aggregators could also claim that they're not reporting on the event, but they're reporting that a news site is reporting on the event. So google's news story isn't "there's been an earthquake" but "AP has a story about an earthquake"
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The "black" in the link seems to talk about a highly visible team made up of passionate/gifted people. I think you're more after a "black" as in hidden/secret (eg black ops). The people don't necessarily have to be the best at their jobs, they just have to conceal what's going on from the examiners.
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The BBC isn't "free"
Having said that, even if the £145 was optional* I'd still pay it as I value what I get from the BBC.
(*yes, I know it is optional. I could get rid of any TV signal receivers and only watch prerecorded DVDs.)
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It might affect whether it becomes a main policy, and whether the government puts a whip on the vote (thereby forcing their MPs to vote a certain way) since both the Tories and the Lib Dems would presumably need to agree. I don't think the Tories have shown much appetite to repeal the DEA so far, but fingers crossed they see sense and back the Lib Dems on this.
One thing I see is the minister who has the power to block websites the recording industry doesn't like is Vince Cable. Here's hoping he sticks to his political guns and remembers he's a *Liberal* Democrat.
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Since the Apple employees manning the phone lines hadn't been told about new prototype phones, much less that one had been lost, they assumed it was a Chinese copy and not a real one, and so didn't ask for it back.
At that point, the finder and Gizmodo had no evidence that it really was an Apple device. It seems that was only confirmed by the Apple branding on the internal components (only visible after opening the phone - "vandalized" in your words) and then finally confirmed by Apple coming clean about the leak and asking for it back.
At no point, as far as I can tell, did either the finder or Gizmodo try to hide the device or prevent Apple from getting it back. Not exactly a hallmark of theft.
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(OK, it's not quite a lame duck session, since the guilty are still MPs, but it certainly looks that way. If it quaks like a duck, and walks with a limp ...)
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See Ireland voting on the Lisbon Treaty, and the way Denmark is going to hold a second poll on joining the Euro - just as soon as they can get enough support for a yes. (And of course after the French and Dutch voters got the result "wrong", they weren't even trusted with a second attempt)
Still waiting to hear of a country offering a new poll where the previous answer was yes.
But maybe I'm just bitter at not getting to vote on the Lisbon treaty here in the UK ...
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Next up is Dan Brown ...
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In East Texas of course.
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