Seriously, this is a very old studio procedure with numerous variations.
Wait, hold the presses, movies and tv stations often use a similar technique of shooting actors/weather reports against a (blue?) screen and then superimposing the background image on the screen. I see Amazon's strategy now, sue the movie studies and tv station owners for patent infringement and make HUGE amounts of money off the deep pockets.
A better example of a free market in technical/academic books is buying a technical book on Amazon for say Groovy. The buyer can select from a variety of books and select the ones they want using whatever desirred criteria.
Or another problem, the product is not exactly what the person wanted.
The reasons I can see for a poor rating: 1. lousy product. 2. particular item defective. 3. product description confused the purchaser into believing it was suitable for a particular use when it was not. 4. somewhat analogous to 3, the product not a good fit to the purchaser's needs.
The article gave an idea. Since everyone is guilty of copyright infringement, try to find some way to sue high ranking officials of the major studios for infringement and demand the maximum damages allowed by law. Then sit back and watch the fireworks.
I have always viewed Kickstarter projects are high risk/reward projects. Some will make a lot of money but others will fail miserably. With latter, the investment is gone. I understand Kickstarter tries to police the quality of the initial offerings so that there is a reasonable chance of success.
I would be very wary of fraud charges with Kickstarter, not saying never file charges. The issue is the risky nature of these projects and many honorable people will fail. Too aggressive on fraud charges; you are punishing taking reasonable risks and failure not criminal activity.
Often a scandal causes legislatures and Congress to enact laws to address the scandal. But what no one bothers to realize these new laws can not be used to the charge retroactively any behavior. And often, as Tim noted, the actions were already criminal under the existing laws. Enron's fraudulent activities resulted in jail time for those directly involved under the existing Federal statutes of the time.
While revenge porn sites are disgusting and probably violate an number of laws (extortion is one) that are already on the books. There is no need for an overly broad, poorly thought out legislation.
According to Thomas Bracken "Czar" Reed (Speaker of the US House 1890's) many Congress critters subtract from the sum total of human knowledge. The Arizona legislature, by existing, subtracts from the sum total of human knowledge.
Social sites rely on VOLUNTARY sharing by users. There are two points. First one has to voluntarily sign up for Facebook, etc. Second one has to (mostly) voluntarily post something on these sites. The users are largely in control of what is shared on these sites by their actions.
These morons were taking information that was likely legally consider confidential and misusing it. Also, none of the parents or children voluntarily authorized the sharing of the information.
How are they going to determine the screen size? A simpler model would be: 1 Release to theaters - worldwide at the same time 2 About 1 month later release DVD, steaming video services (Hulu, Netflix), and to premium cable channels - worldwide at the same time. 3 Finally release to non-premium tv/cable channels, maybe a 1 year later.
The first release to theater is likely to be determined by contracts anyway, so release there first but worldwide at the same time.
The second release is due to the major box office revenue normally does not last very long. So release the fee based services and to DVD, again world wide at the same time. But do this while there still is a buzz.
The third release is again is drive by the declining revenues from the first two releases. At some point you are not going cannibalize any sales in the other channels.
A song released in 1970 is 43/44 years old. Even if it was major hit it probably is not receiving much airplay, performances, or album/single/download sales today. So if the band is underwater with the label now it is almost certain the band will never break even.
If the police confiscated any device during an arrest they have plenty of time to get a warrant. The defendant does not have access to the device while it is police possession. Additionally, deleting a file does not normally delete the data only the file system references to the file. So with readily available file recovery tools, it is very likely the data can be recovered. I know there are tools that will securely delete the information but I suspect most criminals like most users are not tech savvy enough to install and properly use these tools.
One simple solution; when a cop or other government employee lies on the stand the charge is not perjury but treason with the only penalty upon conviction - execution with no statute of limitations. Theirs lies convict an unknown number of innocent people they should get hammered much worse than their victims.
I wonder what the total sales for the older works are. My suspicion is they low enough that very few could live off the residuals. The total sales are worse for older works; fewer are interested in purchasing them.
What most of the maximalists focus on are the few "classics" that continue to have decent sales for decades or centuries. Even there, how many copies of Moby Dick is one likely to buy in any format?
Check Canadian patent law on that point. I do not know Canadian patent law but if it is their law then Eli Lilly should shut up and go out of business.
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Malware Source
Seriously, one should be wary of many sites that often have dodgy wares. It is not limited to pirate sites, however.
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Seriously, this is a very old studio procedure with numerous variations.
Wait, hold the presses, movies and tv stations often use a similar technique of shooting actors/weather reports against a (blue?) screen and then superimposing the background image on the screen. I see Amazon's strategy now, sue the movie studies and tv station owners for patent infringement and make HUGE amounts of money off the deep pockets.
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Re: Monopoly economics are not market economics
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The reasons I can see for a poor rating:
1. lousy product.
2. particular item defective.
3. product description confused the purchaser into believing it was suitable for a particular use when it was not.
4. somewhat analogous to 3, the product not a good fit to the purchaser's needs.
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An idea
The article gave an idea. Since everyone is guilty of copyright infringement, try to find some way to sue high ranking officials of the major studios for infringement and demand the maximum damages allowed by law. Then sit back and watch the fireworks.
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Kickstarter
I would be very wary of fraud charges with Kickstarter, not saying never file charges. The issue is the risky nature of these projects and many honorable people will fail. Too aggressive on fraud charges; you are punishing taking reasonable risks and failure not criminal activity.
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The Horse has left barn syndrome
While revenge porn sites are disgusting and probably violate an number of laws (extortion is one) that are already on the books. There is no need for an overly broad, poorly thought out legislation.
According to Thomas Bracken "Czar" Reed (Speaker of the US House 1890's) many Congress critters subtract from the sum total of human knowledge. The Arizona legislature, by existing, subtracts from the sum total of human knowledge.
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Legal question.
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Real Issue
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Privacy vs Sharing
These morons were taking information that was likely legally consider confidential and misusing it. Also, none of the parents or children voluntarily authorized the sharing of the information.
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Another excuse
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Katzenberg = Idiot
1 Release to theaters - worldwide at the same time
2 About 1 month later release DVD, steaming video services (Hulu, Netflix), and to premium cable channels - worldwide at the same time.
3 Finally release to non-premium tv/cable channels, maybe a 1 year later.
The first release to theater is likely to be determined by contracts anyway, so release there first but worldwide at the same time.
The second release is due to the major box office revenue normally does not last very long. So release the fee based services and to DVD, again world wide at the same time. But do this while there still is a buzz.
The third release is again is drive by the declining revenues from the first two releases. At some point you are not going cannibalize any sales in the other channels.
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Nine Seniles ot CAFC
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Time
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Possession
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Cops and Perjury
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Sales Curves
What most of the maximalists focus on are the few "classics" that continue to have decent sales for decades or centuries. Even there, how many copies of Moby Dick is one likely to buy in any format?
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Re: Patented items must be useful?
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