Zynga.
World of Warcraft (lets face it, their money is not made from selling the software).
Gameloft.
All the free to play software in the various App stores.
So yes, spending years making something, and then giving it away CAN make you money, if you change your business model so it isn't based on something that can be done for and has to compete with free.
I can go online and find hundreds of examples of my "products" being pirated right at this moment.
Hundreds of examples? Probably exaggerating, but I'll give you maybe 300 for the sake of argument. OK...
And you say we can sample your wares before we buy, via streaming music?
Then I would assume, to replace your crappy old Nissan with a small new car (we'll say $15k), you are charging 15,000/300... That's $50 a track... Maybe this is why you aren't making many sales?
More often than not in Canada, it is the content producer who says "no, I will not let you give me your money for my product because of some line on a map."
Take the NFL2012 iPad App for instance. Traditionally, I have paid for this EVERY YEAR since its release. But this year, for some unknown reason, the NFL has decided not to make it available in iTunes for Canada.
Or MLB.TV. Because I live in Canada, I cannot watch Jays games unless I subscribe to a specific cable package. But if I drive an hour away and across a border, I can stream the games live.
Or Netflix, which the content producers have decided to offer an anemic catalogue.
If you say to me "fuck you, I won't let you pay" then that is your choice. I say "thank you. I will enjoy your content anyhow."
Make a product that is worth paying for, and give me the ability to pay for it without artificial release windows (I'm in Canada, BTW) in a method that is convenient... And I will be more than happy to help you replace your old Nissan.
Otherwise, you bring about your own demise. Sorry.
So the secret to being an untouchable drug dealer, is to store all your records electronically, and make sure your DB has over 5TB of redundant data... Got it.
I want something passed that will make things a heck of a lot easier to get what I want. I know that my opponents will argue against anything I do to give me that.
I pretend to be against what I want passed, forcing mine enemy to either fight with me, or pass what I want...
Hopefully, now that Mexican negotiators are joining the TPP negotiations, they'll remember how things went with ACTA, and maybe (just maybe) not agree to proposals whose sole purpose is to reward US special interests.
Except for one thing... The "Mexican negotiators" that are 'joining' the negotiations are not able to actually have any input or sit in on the actual negotiations. Same as Canada.
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You mean like Return of the Jedi, which, if you ask the studios, still hasn't recouped?
I'd say ask your accountants, not the downloaders.
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Zynga.
World of Warcraft (lets face it, their money is not made from selling the software).
Gameloft.
All the free to play software in the various App stores.
So yes, spending years making something, and then giving it away CAN make you money, if you change your business model so it isn't based on something that can be done for and has to compete with free.
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If the judge disagrees, we will just give him a good once over on his next vacation.
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All it does is say "this is how I choose to make a living."
From the sounds of things, it wasn't a very wise choice, given that you can't afford to replace that old Nissan...
There are lots of people in every profession that just aren't very good at what they do. They're still called "professionals"
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Hundreds of examples? Probably exaggerating, but I'll give you maybe 300 for the sake of argument. OK...
And you say we can sample your wares before we buy, via streaming music?
Then I would assume, to replace your crappy old Nissan with a small new car (we'll say $15k), you are charging 15,000/300... That's $50 a track... Maybe this is why you aren't making many sales?
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Re: Billions!
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Take the NFL2012 iPad App for instance. Traditionally, I have paid for this EVERY YEAR since its release. But this year, for some unknown reason, the NFL has decided not to make it available in iTunes for Canada.
Or MLB.TV. Because I live in Canada, I cannot watch Jays games unless I subscribe to a specific cable package. But if I drive an hour away and across a border, I can stream the games live.
Or Netflix, which the content producers have decided to offer an anemic catalogue.
If you say to me "fuck you, I won't let you pay" then that is your choice. I say "thank you. I will enjoy your content anyhow."
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Otherwise, you bring about your own demise. Sorry.
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I'm not a journalist, I just play one on the interwebs
PLEASE?!?
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They're the motherfucking eagles!
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I want something passed that will make things a heck of a lot easier to get what I want. I know that my opponents will argue against anything I do to give me that.
I pretend to be against what I want passed, forcing mine enemy to either fight with me, or pass what I want...
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Except for one thing... The "Mexican negotiators" that are 'joining' the negotiations are not able to actually have any input or sit in on the actual negotiations. Same as Canada.
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