This makes it sound like ads are like Creative Commons licensed works. Actually, the are almost the same. Some authors make Creative Commons words as and advertisement of themselves. And something like sharing BMWFilms won't bother anyone because it is not seen as IP theft (unless someone tires to sell it).
This makes the notion of selling music videos or using short versions of music videos on p2p to drive traffic to a site with a full music video with yet another commercial (from a couple of posts ago) in it even stranger.
Fluorescent light bulbs are not compatible with video, film, and photo, and audio production. The flicker rate is picked up on the visual mediums, and they make a 60 hum that is picked up by mics and audio equipment. They cannot be banned outright. How dumb.
Sorry, I do not want to spend my tax dollars on this. As we saw with Katrina, the best websites for this purpose emerge, their quality and usability spread through word of mouth, and then someone aggregates all of the data. Why should we as tax payers pay for just another player in the emergency aggregation/information site when a better one might emerge? Remember ReallyReady.gov? http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/01/summer_interns_prepa.html
The internet is an open market for information, and official government stamps do not guarantee the best information.
This is so damn stupid. This could render the entire project useless, stupid, dead in the water. This means, that when the OLPC Project, given the choice of: inconveniencing a poor child OR help a black market seller turn a profit, they would rather inconvenience a poor child. Now how is that for fulfilling this mission!?! More like "One Technical Headache Per Child" on the other side of the digital divide. Blackmarket sales are going to happen no matter what. I think they would be better off ignoring the fact that blackmarket sales will may happen on concentrate more on the indented users experience.
Criminals might use the following to commit crimes, therefore, they should all be banned:
guns, knives, all weapons
payphones and calling cards
paper and pen
computers
bank accounts
UPS, FedEx, USPS
shipping containers
IRC
Let's pretend that the Internet was the only way for anyone to interact until now. Now, we have this thing called real life, where people can go out in public places and interact. A perpetrator could see a kid on the street, and they could possibly approach him or her, and they could possibly kidnap him or her or trick him or her to come with the perpetrator, and the perpetrator could exploit and abuse the child. Should we then keep all children from public view, put masks on them Michael Jackson style? Should we keep photos of every person who looks at a child in public? Should we put masks on children so they cannot be recognized in public? I think two reason that Muslim women wear berkas is so other men cannot see what they look like and be tempted, and because a woman's face is sacred. By enacting a law like this we are imitating a Muslim mindset of could/would, take these crazy measures just because someone could do something. This sounds like an Orwellian scenario, but on the internet, and could lead to the real life Orwellian scenario in the future.
Hey telcos? Why not make your own phones, copper cables, switches? Oh, because you know you are not good at this? It is not your core competency? Well neither is search or portals. Give up! The leaders in search did not get there precisely because they let organic search prevail.
Hey Jim, if you take a look at this link http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/13/stop_the_perform_act.html you will see that Cory Doctorow, Senior Fellow of USC's Annenberg Center for Communication opposes the Perform Act. So my expert cancels out your "expert". The MRT software will be cracked in a matter of days after it is released.
I have written to senator Feinstein and she has replied. You can check it out here http://nsputnik.com/?p=128
The CompUSA in Long Beach is at the Marina Pacifica shoping center, right in between million dollar homes on Naples Island, Seal Beach, and Belmont Shores. It is all white people.
For the movie theater experience, I want free popcorn. The theater may need to get a bigger cut of the ticket sales, becuase this is how the teathers make money.
For the CD experience, I want (in the regular release, not the special ones) extensive notes on the production, maybe a DVD with videos or the studio sessions, interviews with the artists, producers, and engineers. Hell, I would even buy CDs I already have if this was offered (and no, not just a remaster, I have bought these remastered CDs and the expereice fell short for the price). Also, maybe more pushing the benefits of joining a fan club to get advanced info on concerts. I think the labels don't put the marketing power into this because that is not how they make their money. The artist can go an make really cool websites, but this is just to push the sales of CDs or downloads. What if the model was turned around so that the music was free but access to the artists, notes about production, songwriting, etc was through a website behind a pay wall?
You already see extras on standard DVD releases (directors cut, comentary, trailer, behind the scenes, etc). The music industry needs to catch up to this extended experience.
The button guild, no doubt, viewed the innovation of buttons as their intellectual property, and they were blessed by authority to be the only ones to make something that functioned as a button. The point is that for a large organization to think they are in the right while the rest if the world disagrees with their logic is indeed possible and still happening today.
Wait! We can get shill lawyers to become wikipedia trolls, spending time in edit wars when they could be filing or defending another frivolous lawsuit? I'm all for it!
To expand on scate's riff, while public, big name media companies are not willing to take risks with new media models and are more likely to "wait and see," in think porn producers are more likely to take risks with new media ventures, and have a more entrepreneurial sprint than established media. And since fewer companies are involved in any one piece of porn product, there are not as many roadblocks as there are with big media.
Jeff, the porn industry pushing technology is well documented, regadless of your moral position on it. Tyshaun is correct. It does not require your approval for this fact to be true. You or Tyshaun do not have to endorse porn as a consumer of porn for this to be true.
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This makes the notion of selling music videos or using short versions of music videos on p2p to drive traffic to a site with a full music video with yet another commercial (from a couple of posts ago) in it even stranger.
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The internet is an open market for information, and official government stamps do not guarantee the best information.
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guns, knives, all weapons
payphones and calling cards
paper and pen
computers
bank accounts
UPS, FedEx, USPS
shipping containers
IRC
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The Flip Test: Orwellian scenario
Let's pretend that the Internet was the only way for anyone to interact until now. Now, we have this thing called real life, where people can go out in public places and interact. A perpetrator could see a kid on the street, and they could possibly approach him or her, and they could possibly kidnap him or her or trick him or her to come with the perpetrator, and the perpetrator could exploit and abuse the child. Should we then keep all children from public view, put masks on them Michael Jackson style? Should we keep photos of every person who looks at a child in public? Should we put masks on children so they cannot be recognized in public? I think two reason that Muslim women wear berkas is so other men cannot see what they look like and be tempted, and because a woman's face is sacred. By enacting a law like this we are imitating a Muslim mindset of could/would, take these crazy measures just because someone could do something. This sounds like an Orwellian scenario, but on the internet, and could lead to the real life Orwellian scenario in the future.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/13/stop_the_perform_act.html you will see that Cory Doctorow, Senior Fellow of USC's Annenberg Center for Communication opposes the Perform Act. So my expert cancels out your "expert". The MRT software will be cracked in a matter of days after it is released.
I have written to senator Feinstein and she has replied. You can check it out here http://nsputnik.com/?p=128
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Re: Midnight launch party @ CompUSA!!!!!!
The CompUSA in Long Beach is at the Marina Pacifica shoping center, right in between million dollar homes on Naples Island, Seal Beach, and Belmont Shores. It is all white people.
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Check out his mocking of the RIAA
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For the CD experience, I want (in the regular release, not the special ones) extensive notes on the production, maybe a DVD with videos or the studio sessions, interviews with the artists, producers, and engineers. Hell, I would even buy CDs I already have if this was offered (and no, not just a remaster, I have bought these remastered CDs and the expereice fell short for the price). Also, maybe more pushing the benefits of joining a fan club to get advanced info on concerts. I think the labels don't put the marketing power into this because that is not how they make their money. The artist can go an make really cool websites, but this is just to push the sales of CDs or downloads. What if the model was turned around so that the music was free but access to the artists, notes about production, songwriting, etc was through a website behind a pay wall?
You already see extras on standard DVD releases (directors cut, comentary, trailer, behind the scenes, etc). The music industry needs to catch up to this extended experience.
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scate's go it
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Jeff is mistaken
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