Wow man. 10/10. I honestly can't tell if this is an ironic anti-troll, or a super-duper shill troll. Although the inclusion of the death penalty as a comparison would seem to indicate the ironic...
Fourth , when I explained that the blog publisher had received music from the industry itself, a government attorney replied that authorization was an “affirmative defense” that need not be taken into account by the government in carrying out the seizure. That was stunning.
Yeah, I have to agree with him, this is a pretty chilling admission. This is very close to saying "lack of law breaking" need not be taken into account before performing an arrest.
Govt: "We're taking your stuff because you broke the law."
dajaz1: "Actually, we had permission to share those files as a promotion."
Honestly, I haven't had the opportunity to use a boar bristle brush, but I'd have to guess that they tend to be a bit, well, bristly. The badger hair brush is very pleasant and springy; I've been using it for a bit over a year and it hasn't lost any of its shape or feel. Plus it just looks cool!
Nah, I know what he means. When you convert, you actually *do* get a bit obsessed, especially in trying to convey to your fellow man how much better and cheaper the double edge really is. You start reading shaving blogs and going to specialty shaving sites. You buy badger hair brushes and look for the "perfect" shaving cup. You... evidently proselytize on technical blogs when given the smallest opportunity.
Naturally it wasn't long before they started receiving legal threats from the company that controls Bogart's publicity rights and the trademarks associated with his name—but Burberry is fighting back.
What if the situation were reversed? Who believes that Burberry would have raised a stink if Bogart's people had made some special notice of the fact that he wore a Burberry coat in the movie? I'm looking at you, LV!
I really appreciate the fact that you mention sponsorship (without using the word). In the good old days (actually, bad old medieval days), wandering troubadours and minstrels would quite often have a rich sponsor (think noble lord or lady). While they would still travel around and sing for their supper, having a sponsor was a safety net and would usually ensure they would still eat even if a particular town or hamlet didn't care for their music. Looks like everything old is new again...
You know I'm getting really tired of that stupid argument. "No more bajillion dollar movies, all movies are gonna be teh sux!" Many of us are checking out movies that are made for much MUCH less money, with fantastic special effects, and we're beginning to wonder:
How much of that bajillion dollars it cost to make Transformer IIX went to hookers and blow?
Basically, every increase in speed of connectivity has lead to an increase in all activities, INCLUDING illegal ones. To deny it is to deny the very history of the internet web thingie.
Bluh? Who is denying that?
FTFA:
The Korean music industry thrives on high-speed internet—it grew into an economic powerhouse while the country had some of the highest and earliest broadband penetration rates (and digital piracy rates) in the world.
Do you see where he noted that Korea has some of the highest broadband penetration rates as well as some of the highest digital piracy rates? Do you have some specialized form of dyslexia that prevents you from reading text in parentheses? (Reading is fundamental!)
What Leigh (and most of the rest of us) ARE denying is that piracy is destroying entertainment. Destroying middlemen, yes! Destroying sellers of plastic discs, yes! Too freaking bad, figure out a new way to make money, oh and you might not be getting the buckets and buckets of it you used to when you ruled the entertainment industry, that's life!
The industry has been slow to offer products that take advantage of these possibilities, and when they do they usually cripple them and charge too much for them, because they refuse to acknowledge the impact of better distribution systems on the market.
I partially disagree with the "because" portion of that statement. I think the bigger reason they overcharge is because they do not want people to realize they have been vastly overcharging all along. Yes, value is in the eye of the beholder, but I'm talking nuts and bolts: the infrastructure, manufacturing, etc. Taking all overhead into account, including paying artists/actors/whatever, they were still making absolutely outrageous profits and they are terrified that the average guy will realize that the reason he's being charged $9.99 for an e-book is so that some publisher can keep making obscene profits.
Unfortunately, though, as the article notes, sometimes you don't even get to see the terms until after you agree. While I'd argue that makes such terms unenforceable, it does make things more complicated.
Err, what is there to argue? In contract law, there is a concept called "meeting of the minds" which boiled down just means that all parties are knowledgeable of and agree to all terms of the contract. Without a meeting of the minds there is no valid contract, which means those terms (plus the rest of the contract!) are indeed unenforceable. No arguement required.
The us supreme Court recently ruled that methods patents are not valid.
I'm sorry, how did I miss the celebration that this would have caused? You're not referring to Bilski, because that left the stupid method loophole open... are you referring to Mayo vs. Prometheus? Because if so, I reluctantly have to disagree, that was not a rejection of method patents per se, but the rejection of that specific implementation of a method patent, which they felt was already covered by the laws of Nature. Is there another ruling I should know about?
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I have still never been shown how DRM harms the informed consumer. You wouldn't buy a phone that doesn't work in your country, and you shouldn't buy a product that doesn't do what you want it to do.
Absolutely correct. DRM does not harm an informed consumer, because they will pirate the non-DRM'd version and be much happier.
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Stunning indeed
Govt: "We're taking your stuff because you broke the law."
dajaz1: "Actually, we had permission to share those files as a promotion."
Govt: "STFU! We're taking your stuff anyway!"
dajaz1: "..."
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Like the fashion industry has never done this...
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And the circle turns
I really appreciate the fact that you mention sponsorship (without using the word). In the good old days (actually, bad old medieval days), wandering troubadours and minstrels would quite often have a rich sponsor (think noble lord or lady). While they would still travel around and sing for their supper, having a sponsor was a safety net and would usually ensure they would still eat even if a particular town or hamlet didn't care for their music. Looks like everything old is new again...
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How much of that bajillion dollars it cost to make Transformer IIX went to hookers and blow?
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FTFA:
Do you see where he noted that Korea has some of the highest broadband penetration rates as well as some of the highest digital piracy rates? Do you have some specialized form of dyslexia that prevents you from reading text in parentheses? (Reading is fundamental!)
What Leigh (and most of the rest of us) ARE denying is that piracy is destroying entertainment. Destroying middlemen, yes! Destroying sellers of plastic discs, yes! Too freaking bad, figure out a new way to make money, oh and you might not be getting the buckets and buckets of it you used to when you ruled the entertainment industry, that's life!
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Small point of disagreement
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Say what?
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Absolutely correct. DRM does not harm an informed consumer, because they will pirate the non-DRM'd version and be much happier.
#piracyiseverywhere
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