I find the most interesting thing is that it's not any easier to get into the old club, so much as newer clubs are opening up, usually run by the very people trying to get in. Take a look at the CBC Radio 3, a nation wide internet radio station devoted exclusively to promoting independant artists. Many of the show hosts and producers were indie artists themselves at one point.
There are new little communities popping up every now and again, the best ones are usually run by current or former musicians themselves and rather the record label sort of top down "Artist x has a new cd, buy it!" type communication they have lots of "Hey, it's Artist y, and I was thinking..." conversations.
I have no idea where I'm going with this, just interesting to me.
To be fair, you can't really blame them for calling you pirates. File sharers everywhere call themselves pirates. Heck, not only are there numerous articles on this site referring to them as pirates (sarcastic or otherwise) but in the comments on those articles posters constantly refer to themselves as pirates or to those they're supporting as pirates. As near as I can tell I'm the only one trying to use friendlier language, and I'm constantly getting lambasted for some of my anti file sharing views. If it ticks you off that the media calls you pirates, start letting them know what you want to be called. I'm sure if they ever wanted to interview someone in the movement they'd prefer to use friendlier language.
ps file sharer is the less propaganda-ish name I came up with, but I hope copyright liberators takes off.
"The "good" reason for not determining whether or not porn promotes the progress is that it would involve a judge determining if a particular piece of content promotes the progress. That's a dangerous slippery slope in which judges become art critics (something that has happened in other cases, but should be a concern here)."
There's still a slippery slope thing to watch out for here. I can see a room of old men in robes deciding that video games are not a usefull art for instance. It would be harder to eny these rights to other medium then it would be porn, 'caus it's only the 21st century and our society hasn't gotten over that tabboo yet, but I'm sure there's someone out there waiting to make the case.
The only data on that wouldn't be on their actual vote, but rather, who they said they voted for in exit pulls, which always have inaccuracies (iIrc, exit-pull Obama got something like 10% more of the vote then real Obama did, but I'm working on 8 year old memories and not nearly enough sleep, so don't quote me on that).
As far as I know, any bill can make it to the senate even with only one sponsor and a cosponsor. If you're asking if having more sponsors somehow helps it get to the floor faster or what have you, ask me again when it's not 1 am my time.
Registered voters under the age of 40 have the lowest turn out across all other age demographics. In 2008, only 57% of eligible voters aged 25 to 34 voted. If you're generous, you can say they tipped the scales in his favour, but Obama would not be 'nowhere' without their votes. Just sayin'
Sure their is. If the average news reader only hears the fake $100 billion numbers then they're more likely to support PIPA/SOPA. Even if they do hear the real numbers the execs can always play the classic "We have our numbers, they have their numbers, you decide!" Trick.
Just look at the global warming debate. 90% of the scientific comunity are in agreement that global warming is real and man made, but I still hear conservatives trying to claim the science is not in every now and again. As long as they keep cranking out their own 'studies' they can convince the odd citisen who isn't watching too closely that what they're doing is warrented.
He didn't say he supports the bill, he says he sponsors it, there's a big difference. Namely, the ability make changes to it before it's brought before the Senate/House. It's still a flimsy arguement, but not as silly as you make it sound.
I guess they figured they'd get more sympathy out of future lawyers then the average student body. I would have thought that if they targeted any schools in paticular it would be film schools or the like, but if all they want to do is reach a new generation with a message of 'grrr, law breaking is bad!' then the top law schools are as good a place to start then any. I doubt it'll work out for them though.
Not neccassarily true, there are lots of solutions that will stop piracy without violating the rights of people who don't. I listed a few in a lower post so I wont repeat them here, but it's not impossible. Moreover, if we start addressing the problem rather then ignoring it, we have more highground when the big corperations try to ram stuff like ACTA down our throats.
What do you mean legal issues should have no bearing on my business model? So if my competitor develops a superior product, should I be able to firebomb his factories or steal his finished product, repackage it and sell it as my own?
And while we can argue about the issues of you reverse engineering my product, that's not quite the same as pirating a song or movie. It's not like the guys who made starwars uncut are trying to compete against George Lucus, or the most pirated downloaded song is a cover of Adele's Hometown Glory sung by an unknown artist on youtube, it's EXACT copies of much newer works. Even if they were, do you not think Robot Chicken had to get the rights from fox before they made their starwars spoof episode?
See, I know it's kinda weird but in the states if your business model involves stealing/pirating someone else' work and then profiting off it, then the copyright holders have the right to sue you. I know, crazy!
Wow, where to begin. Let's start with the whole theft isn't piracy arguement. I may still have the product, but I invested my time and money into the making of it. I planted the seeds, I watered the tree and I sprayed it for pesticides. When you pirate the movie/steal the apple you are essentially getting the fruits of my labour (pun intended) for free. Weather I still have my original product or not isn't the point. The point is I got nothing for my troubles, leading me to ether scale back (in the case of say a record label that could mean less support for new and upcoming artists) or close down entirely.
Now, the orchard owner may not be allowed to set up landmines, but if the situation got bad enough there is alot he can do. Build bigger and better fences, hire people to watch his orchard ect ect (he'd even have the legal right to shoot anyone he caught tresspassing). Moreover, he'd expect SOME help from local law enforcement, not for them to throwup their arms and say "Change you business model nub."
Also, as I stated in an earlier post, you better be carefull about saying that this is the cold hard reality and we better get use to it. There are alot of antipirating techniques that can be used that either haven't been tried yet or haven't been used widespread enough. They won't solve the problem entirely but they'll mitigate it, along with good marketing stratagies like the ones people have been suggesting. If however we continue to shrug our shoulders and say 'meh, there's nothing that can be done about it,' then expect alot of over the top legistation like SOPA and PIPA, because as far the big media companies are concerned that would solve alot of the problem.
For some reason my other post got cut off when i try to post multiple links, so I apologise but I'm gonna have to multipost
I especially like the second page of this when it states that while many people site price as a factor, another factor is a sort of devaluing of digital media and software. I guess it's harder for humans to wrap our brains around the value of a product that we can't touch and theoretically can make infinite copies of.
Well, aside from most of my friends telling you that most of my friends download music illegally because there's just so much out there, here are some of the studies I've found
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There are new little communities popping up every now and again, the best ones are usually run by current or former musicians themselves and rather the record label sort of top down "Artist x has a new cd, buy it!" type communication they have lots of "Hey, it's Artist y, and I was thinking..." conversations.
I have no idea where I'm going with this, just interesting to me.
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ps file sharer is the less propaganda-ish name I came up with, but I hope copyright liberators takes off.
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There's still a slippery slope thing to watch out for here. I can see a room of old men in robes deciding that video games are not a usefull art for instance. It would be harder to eny these rights to other medium then it would be porn, 'caus it's only the 21st century and our society hasn't gotten over that tabboo yet, but I'm sure there's someone out there waiting to make the case.
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http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p20-562.pdf
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Just look at the global warming debate. 90% of the scientific comunity are in agreement that global warming is real and man made, but I still hear conservatives trying to claim the science is not in every now and again. As long as they keep cranking out their own 'studies' they can convince the odd citisen who isn't watching too closely that what they're doing is warrented.
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Kinda makes sense
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And while we can argue about the issues of you reverse engineering my product, that's not quite the same as pirating a song or movie. It's not like the guys who made starwars uncut are trying to compete against George Lucus, or the most pirated downloaded song is a cover of Adele's Hometown Glory sung by an unknown artist on youtube, it's EXACT copies of much newer works. Even if they were, do you not think Robot Chicken had to get the rights from fox before they made their starwars spoof episode?
See, I know it's kinda weird but in the states if your business model involves stealing/pirating someone else' work and then profiting off it, then the copyright holders have the right to sue you. I know, crazy!
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Now, the orchard owner may not be allowed to set up landmines, but if the situation got bad enough there is alot he can do. Build bigger and better fences, hire people to watch his orchard ect ect (he'd even have the legal right to shoot anyone he caught tresspassing). Moreover, he'd expect SOME help from local law enforcement, not for them to throwup their arms and say "Change you business model nub."
Also, as I stated in an earlier post, you better be carefull about saying that this is the cold hard reality and we better get use to it. There are alot of antipirating techniques that can be used that either haven't been tried yet or haven't been used widespread enough. They won't solve the problem entirely but they'll mitigate it, along with good marketing stratagies like the ones people have been suggesting. If however we continue to shrug our shoulders and say 'meh, there's nothing that can be done about it,' then expect alot of over the top legistation like SOPA and PIPA, because as far the big media companies are concerned that would solve alot of the problem.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/08/15/industry-media-piracy-dc-idUSN1227122520070815
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I especially like the second page of this when it states that while many people site price as a factor, another factor is a sort of devaluing of digital media and software. I guess it's harder for humans to wrap our brains around the value of a product that we can't touch and theoretically can make infinite copies of.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/pirate-software.htm
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http://www.sitepoint.com/why-people-pirate-software/
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