lol, I have been on the receiving end of their pranks, back when Lulzsec decided to target MMO's. Funcom (anarchy online, age of conan) was like "It's the clients fault, let them eat DT", CCP (eve online) was like "Oh Crap! Kill the tubez! We've been Ganked!"
I had a similar thing happen with me, with one of the writers that I support. M.R.Sellars connects with his fans by personally answering emails sent to him. I made the request to him through email, that a good friend of mine needed something truly special for Christmas one year. I asked him if he could send her a Christmas card, and after a some bantering back and forth, he agreed. Getting her something unique, and him going out of his way for two fans, insured that ALL of his future books will be bought.
"Promoting an record..." hmm, methinks that if their music was any good, word of mouth is the best form of advertisement and promotion. and it's free! Maybe all the fans need to get paid for that "free" promotion? Maybe in the form of downloadable content?
Oh yes, by all means, let Hollywood follow suit. At least that would be a year of no REMAKES, because it is clearly obvious that Hollywood has no writers anymore, and haven't since the last strike. A strike over what? More money. The circle comes around...
Technically, and from experience, bashing mailboxes is only a class 1 misdemeanor, destruction of private property. It is if there is anything inside the box, that it gets raised to felony charges, destruction of federal property. This can also get compounded to tampering with US Mail, which is also a felony.
At least that was the way it was in Virginia, 21 years ago.
Didn't LC stop offering the "buy one, get one free" model years ago? I thought trademark had to be actively used, and as the "pizza, pizza" trademark was for the business model of buy one, get one free campaign of the 80's and 90's, shouldn't the trademark have lapsed by now due to them not even using it for what it was intended?
Advertising should be the choice of the people who own the content, not a random choice made by a third party.
I disagree with you TAM (obviously). Advertising does not exclusively belong to the owners. Advertising belongs to the owners, the users, and the random third party that happens to be a fan. It's called "Word of Mouth" advertising that has been upgraded to the digital age.
istockphoto implied that advertising them was ok with the "download a comp" link that they have. But you see, TAM, word of mouth works both ways. Now with istockphoto exerting fascist control over the positive advertising, they are in effect going to lose control over the negative. Word of mouth is a very powerful thing. Ask any restaurant.
date of patent app: june 2008, latitude released feb 2009. So google's labs are so efficient that they planned, developed and released all in the same month? Wow, maybe a world with google as leader won't be so bad then?
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which government? Google is a global search provider, which governmental rules are you going to use to dictate to them? Yes they are the "great and powerful oz" but at least there is still a man behind the curtain, once the government steps in, any government, your choices will disappear faster than google "stamping out the little guy".
You want an option? Instead of trying to get big government to regulate google, let's just see the government build it's own search engine itself. We'll let the government run it, control it, and control all the results. We'll let the government itself compete with google. That is, if you could ever get the government to agree on anything.
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which government? Google is a global search provider, which governmental rules are you going to use to dictate to them? Yes they are the "great and powerful oz" but at least there is still a man behind the curtain, once the government steps in, any government, your choices will disappear faster than google "stamping out the little guy".
You want an option? Instead of trying to get big government to regulate google, let's just see the government build it's own search engine itself. We'll let the government run it, control it, and control all the results. We'll let the government itself compete with google. That is, if you could ever get the government to agree on anything.
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