On one hand, you have a point. I learned Physics in HS, and when I had to take my first physics semester in college, it was the same stuff so I slept through that class. Still got an A because I'd already learned it.
I had a programming course a couple semesters later, can't remember which, but it wasn't really hard stuff for me to grasp. Professor handed out a book of notes that he'd be going over for the semester, and I looked them all over before hand. I could have skipped class, and probably gotten a B... but I kept going to class to engage the professor in discussion about the topics, because I could prepare questions before class since I already had the notes... Too often I couldn't ask a question while we were going over it, because it didn't always 'click' right away... The other advantage was that I wasn't wasting the whole class copying notes off the whiteboard, which always put me to sleep anyway...
...with the current copyright situation, but who otherwise might:
"He explained that half his budget was spent on copyright fees alone. Most unfairly, he had to pay exorbitant copyright fees to a network for old news footage they did not even have but which David himself had spent time to ferret out."
Anyone who can't afford or is to lazy to go through that much hassle. I can't understand how, with a direct quote from a mouth of experience, people can still claim that no one would create without copyright. There would likely be more, and it would likely be better, without.
If you look at it big picture, it makes a lot of sense...
1. DirectX is a Microsoft Technology.
2. PC Gamers are slowly but surely moving away from their windows based PC's. Either to console's or simply away from Windows to Mac or even Linux (I'm one of a half dozen friends who went to Linux, so while the group is a small one, it does exist).
3. Some of those simply changing their computer's OS, are NOT also picking up consoles to continue their gaming...
This would very much lead me to believe that the future of PC gaming would lie in a technology that does not depend on a product that is losing ground in it's own market.
I thought it was a great idea too, and a couple of months ago I threw a suggestion towards my favorite Hartford area radio station. I got a 'Thanks for being a loyal listener.' reply, which was a bit disheartening... But, perhaps with this fresh news it's time to try again :-)
When I was growing up there was a radio station out of Upstate New York/Vermont that I would listen to, who played local music every Sunday night...that was about 10-15 years ago.
I couldn't help but think that it took you hours to come up with R.E.T.A.R.D., but the way you put this post together makes me think you've just been waiting for the right opportunity to share it :-)
I was going to tell you how wrong you were, but R. Miles covered it all pretty well.
Although, I'd like emphasize the fact that yes, there are plenty of people out there that will read through code in their spare time...to fix errors if they find them as well as just to learn something...
You'll never find a real truth basing it on an assumption.
And the courts decided way back then that it wasn't right for these large corporations to 'force' consumers to use only their dealerships and their parts.
Just because they can, and they will to start, that doesn't make it "the way" either. A couple of companies will use closed source I imagine, but the first one that open sources, get's the bugs fixed, and offers it at a lower price, will be the winner.
No company would be making their product unaffordable in the sense you are thinking. I think you misunderstand what is meant by the .kids not being affordable... I think what is meant is that people will buy up the .kids domains and charge outrageous sums of money for the legitimate businesses to buy the domains, therefore making it an unattractive option, and leaving the kids out... All it takes is for someone to be sitting at home going through nick.kids, disney.kids, nickjr.kids, etc, etc, etc... and then turning around when Nickelodeon or Disney want to set up kid friendly sites, so parents can put their kids in a garden, and charging a million bucks for that domain they just registered for $9.99 a year... That's the problem that would keep companies from putting up .kids sites...
Except lose the original DVD and receipt, because then you'll have no solid proof that you actually purchased it, and your digital copy will be considered illegal.
Yeah, I think you've got the reasoning backwards. The reason "direct to DVD" movies haven't done well, is because they were terrible movies to begin with, and the producers and what not knew that, so they weren't going to waste their money on a theater release, or the theaters knew it'd be terrible and didn't want to lose money having an empty theater to run that movie in...
Personally, I think this is a brilliant move. If more movies were released like this, I'd definitely watch more movies. The reason I see so few in the theater is because I've wasted too much money on movies that weren't worth the $8-$12 it costs to go see a movie. Sure, matinee's are cheaper, but that's because they're at the most inconvenient times to go see a movie, so forget about them for now... Enter VoD. If I could get these movies on Demand in my home while they were still in the theater, here's what would happen: I'd watch a lot more movies that looked interesting, from the comfort of my home, for an on demand price of $4-$6, all the good movies wouldn't lose a penny, because I'd go see them in the theater (let's all agree that seeing a movie in the theater is a fun experience, especially if you know it'll be worth it) and all the bad movies should be thankful they were able to get the on demand money out of me... and in case you didn't pick up on it, the good movies would get not only theater money, but on demand money from me too...
Your logic seems to be based on a principal of "all movies/songs/books are created equal" or something, where every one deserves the same opportunity on the market... The real world would strongly disagree...
Only you could say "In part, it is because their downside risk is very small, because they have little to lose" when speaking about unknown artists, trying to exclude well known artists, and then turn around and say that well known artists benefit in the same way... At least without realizing that you're talking yourself in circles and losing any credibility.
"Either you have enough money to afford not to care, or you have so little that it doesn't matter."
-That's based on an entitlement mentality where you feel you have a right to make a certain amount of money per book/movie/album regardless of what anyone thinks about it. That's pure idiocy. If no one knew of a certain author, and they release a free EBook, there's no risk to a casual reader to check out the book. If Dan Brown (example of a well known author) released an EBook, there's no risk to a casual reader to check out the book. In both cases, people who would never give said books a second glance in a bookstore because they're not sure it'd be worth the money, can pick up the books in digital format and evaluate their worth with no financial risk. In both cases, the only possible harm that could come to the author is if the book is terrible, and everyone who reads it for free decides it's not worth paying for. The side of this that you don't seem willing to look at, is the people who actually paid for that book, found it highly disappointing, and vow to never buy a book by that author again because the work isn't worth it. I fall into that category, and I admit to RARELY viewing movies in the theater because they're so RARELY worth theater prices. I saw half of Avatar online (as well as heard lots of friends praise it), BEFORE I went to the theater to see it, and I paid to see it at the theater TWICE!!! I don't read much, and I don't buy books that I haven't already read, because I'm not spending money and storage space in my little condo for a book that's not worth reading twice.
Anyway, content creators throughout the spectrum (large, medium, or small) all benefit in the same way, and the ONLY reason they should be afraid of losing sales, is if they know their work is terrible and want to con people out of their money before they realize it too. If it's good enough to pay for, people will pay for it.
That's why Grandma shouldn't be trying to affect policy in things she doesn't understand. The world is changing, and all the legal battles in the world won't stop it.
"One of the rights accorded to the owner of copyright is the right to reproduce or to authorize others to reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords. This right is subject to certain limitations found in sections 107 through 118 of the copyright law (title 17, U. S. Code). One of the more important limitations is the doctrine of “fair use.” The doctrine of fair use has developed through a substantial number of court decisions over the years and has been codified in section 107 of the copyright law."
- http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
Copyright is a right afforded to artists, and the fair use doctrine is a set of exceptions to those rights. Does that clear things up for you?
With that out of the way, it should also be clear now that everyone has a right to use whatever copyrighted materials they want as long as they use it fairly. If there's a question about it, it's up to both sides to try and prove their point...
Thanks for throwing in that letter, I almost didn't understand your post without it. :-)
And seriously though, in person like before cell phones was way better. Not only did we see it in person, if we were quick, we could try to get a feel in too!
Kids today don't know what they're missing. It may be easier to get to see the goods if you're behind a cell phone, but it's no replacement for the real thing.
C'mon man!! Granted by the people to prevent duplicators??? That's the single dumbest thing I've read from you...
The People WANT duplicators, they WANT others to try and do things better than the original, they WANT that competition, and they WANT the benefits that come with it (lower prices, better products). Yes, the people elected the government, and the government put the patent mess in place, but that does NOT mean that the people setup the patent mess. Free Markets (like most American people want) are NOT free with a system such as this.
The world is shifting, undeniably. People watch less and less commercials, which includes TV previews to movies and such. I record everything I watch, just to avoid the commercials, and sometimes will even pause live TV to go do something else and come back to watch the program I was interested in, again, just so that I can FF through commercials.
With that shift, I no longer (or at least at this point much much less frequently) become interested in a movie because of a TV commercial I saw, or even an ad online (Adblock Plus :-)) but from the buzz about the internet that I hear. I wait for reviews so I can hear what other people think. I ask friends who've watched it illegally online if they think it's worth the theater prices, or if I should wait for the DVD. EVERY SINGLE time that my friends see a movie and think it's good enough to pay theater prices for, they go with me to the theater to see the movie AGAIN!!! With the quality of movies being made today, and let's face it there's a lot of crap out there no matter who you are (though one man's crap may be another man's treasure, I get that...) and with the prices of theater admission these days, it's unfeasible to expect people to just up and go see a movie that could be such crap...
What is the breaking point where the industry finally hears what the market is telling them, and how can I speed up the process?? Corporations NEED to be brought back down to Earth where the rest of us are living...
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I had a programming course a couple semesters later, can't remember which, but it wasn't really hard stuff for me to grasp. Professor handed out a book of notes that he'd be going over for the semester, and I looked them all over before hand. I could have skipped class, and probably gotten a B... but I kept going to class to engage the professor in discussion about the topics, because I could prepare questions before class since I already had the notes... Too often I couldn't ask a question while we were going over it, because it didn't always 'click' right away... The other advantage was that I wasn't wasting the whole class copying notes off the whiteboard, which always put me to sleep anyway...
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I know who WON'T create...
"He explained that half his budget was spent on copyright fees alone. Most unfairly, he had to pay exorbitant copyright fees to a network for old news footage they did not even have but which David himself had spent time to ferret out."
Anyone who can't afford or is to lazy to go through that much hassle. I can't understand how, with a direct quote from a mouth of experience, people can still claim that no one would create without copyright. There would likely be more, and it would likely be better, without.
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1. DirectX is a Microsoft Technology.
2. PC Gamers are slowly but surely moving away from their windows based PC's. Either to console's or simply away from Windows to Mac or even Linux (I'm one of a half dozen friends who went to Linux, so while the group is a small one, it does exist).
3. Some of those simply changing their computer's OS, are NOT also picking up consoles to continue their gaming...
This would very much lead me to believe that the future of PC gaming would lie in a technology that does not depend on a product that is losing ground in it's own market.
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When I was growing up there was a radio station out of Upstate New York/Vermont that I would listen to, who played local music every Sunday night...that was about 10-15 years ago.
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I couldn't help but think that it took you hours to come up with R.E.T.A.R.D., but the way you put this post together makes me think you've just been waiting for the right opportunity to share it :-)
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Re: You don't need to read the source to test.
Although, I'd like emphasize the fact that yes, there are plenty of people out there that will read through code in their spare time...to fix errors if they find them as well as just to learn something...
You'll never find a real truth basing it on an assumption.
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Just because they can, and they will to start, that doesn't make it "the way" either. A couple of companies will use closed source I imagine, but the first one that open sources, get's the bugs fixed, and offers it at a lower price, will be the winner.
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Except lose the original DVD and receipt, because then you'll have no solid proof that you actually purchased it, and your digital copy will be considered illegal.
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Personally, I think this is a brilliant move. If more movies were released like this, I'd definitely watch more movies. The reason I see so few in the theater is because I've wasted too much money on movies that weren't worth the $8-$12 it costs to go see a movie. Sure, matinee's are cheaper, but that's because they're at the most inconvenient times to go see a movie, so forget about them for now... Enter VoD. If I could get these movies on Demand in my home while they were still in the theater, here's what would happen: I'd watch a lot more movies that looked interesting, from the comfort of my home, for an on demand price of $4-$6, all the good movies wouldn't lose a penny, because I'd go see them in the theater (let's all agree that seeing a movie in the theater is a fun experience, especially if you know it'll be worth it) and all the bad movies should be thankful they were able to get the on demand money out of me... and in case you didn't pick up on it, the good movies would get not only theater money, but on demand money from me too...
Your logic seems to be based on a principal of "all movies/songs/books are created equal" or something, where every one deserves the same opportunity on the market... The real world would strongly disagree...
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"Either you have enough money to afford not to care, or you have so little that it doesn't matter."
-That's based on an entitlement mentality where you feel you have a right to make a certain amount of money per book/movie/album regardless of what anyone thinks about it. That's pure idiocy. If no one knew of a certain author, and they release a free EBook, there's no risk to a casual reader to check out the book. If Dan Brown (example of a well known author) released an EBook, there's no risk to a casual reader to check out the book. In both cases, people who would never give said books a second glance in a bookstore because they're not sure it'd be worth the money, can pick up the books in digital format and evaluate their worth with no financial risk. In both cases, the only possible harm that could come to the author is if the book is terrible, and everyone who reads it for free decides it's not worth paying for. The side of this that you don't seem willing to look at, is the people who actually paid for that book, found it highly disappointing, and vow to never buy a book by that author again because the work isn't worth it. I fall into that category, and I admit to RARELY viewing movies in the theater because they're so RARELY worth theater prices. I saw half of Avatar online (as well as heard lots of friends praise it), BEFORE I went to the theater to see it, and I paid to see it at the theater TWICE!!! I don't read much, and I don't buy books that I haven't already read, because I'm not spending money and storage space in my little condo for a book that's not worth reading twice.
Anyway, content creators throughout the spectrum (large, medium, or small) all benefit in the same way, and the ONLY reason they should be afraid of losing sales, is if they know their work is terrible and want to con people out of their money before they realize it too. If it's good enough to pay for, people will pay for it.
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That's why Grandma shouldn't be trying to affect policy in things she doesn't understand. The world is changing, and all the legal battles in the world won't stop it.
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Because Cable companies can't control it the way they can TV... I thought that was clear by now :-)
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- http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
Copyright is a right afforded to artists, and the fair use doctrine is a set of exceptions to those rights. Does that clear things up for you?
With that out of the way, it should also be clear now that everyone has a right to use whatever copyrighted materials they want as long as they use it fairly. If there's a question about it, it's up to both sides to try and prove their point...
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And seriously though, in person like before cell phones was way better. Not only did we see it in person, if we were quick, we could try to get a feel in too!
Kids today don't know what they're missing. It may be easier to get to see the goods if you're behind a cell phone, but it's no replacement for the real thing.
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The People WANT duplicators, they WANT others to try and do things better than the original, they WANT that competition, and they WANT the benefits that come with it (lower prices, better products). Yes, the people elected the government, and the government put the patent mess in place, but that does NOT mean that the people setup the patent mess. Free Markets (like most American people want) are NOT free with a system such as this.
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Somethings gotta give...
With that shift, I no longer (or at least at this point much much less frequently) become interested in a movie because of a TV commercial I saw, or even an ad online (Adblock Plus :-)) but from the buzz about the internet that I hear. I wait for reviews so I can hear what other people think. I ask friends who've watched it illegally online if they think it's worth the theater prices, or if I should wait for the DVD. EVERY SINGLE time that my friends see a movie and think it's good enough to pay theater prices for, they go with me to the theater to see the movie AGAIN!!! With the quality of movies being made today, and let's face it there's a lot of crap out there no matter who you are (though one man's crap may be another man's treasure, I get that...) and with the prices of theater admission these days, it's unfeasible to expect people to just up and go see a movie that could be such crap...
What is the breaking point where the industry finally hears what the market is telling them, and how can I speed up the process?? Corporations NEED to be brought back down to Earth where the rest of us are living...
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