It most certainly would work both ways if the turnaround time for piracy sites was anywhere near as pathetic as copy protection, but that's not the case.
Mediafire (2006): Active.
Frostwire (2004): Active.
Rapidshare (2002): Active.
YouTube (2005): Doing okay.
Ares Galaxy (New, far as I can tell): Feeding on the corpse of Megaupload
The Pirate Bay (2003): Yo ho, motherfuckers!
How many encryption methods from before 2011 remain uncracked?
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"The fact is that giving stuff away and letting someone else make money off of it is now the old business model."
Exactly! That's why we're trying to popularize new business models that help the artist prosper instead of the record labels. You've finally got it, bob!
In Texas anyone who doesn't defend their home is a pussy and the law reflects this, but I'm pretty sure that even here people aren't allowed to put active land mines in their front yard. Protecting your property is all well and good, but you need to be reasonable about it, and a system that tears up your lawn and doesn't leave a corpse is incredibly unreasonable.
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Except clearly almost everyone doesn't want what's being sold. They clearly want the show, but maybe they don't want the $20 DVD and associated drive. If only there was some kind of system in place for people to buy and watch something legally from the comfort of their home, but alas the Internet is only good for pirates and the shows that are old or obscure enough that none of the labels has bothered to take them off Netflix.
Yes, see, that would've been a much better rebuttal to start than just appealing to random sampling error. Because now, if the troll was paying attention, it has something that it can use to dismiss any and all polls it doesn't like.
Knowing about biases and other possible flaws in studies can hurt people. Yes, it's possible that the study was just one of those things, but the possibility doesn't mean you're allowed to dismiss it entirely.
The Internet is creating its own content. In the last month the only professionally produced thing I've watched is a couple episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the new episodes of My Little Pony. The vast majority of my time is spent on Internet-created content.
If the billion dollar businesses can stay billion dollar businesses then obviously there's no reason to change. But if the choice is between million dollar businesses and being driven bankrupt by a pair of Swedes with some server space, then you'd be an idiot to turn down the million dollar business.
I'm not against taking action to prevent my murder beyond what the law provides. For example, I regularly avoid walking through bad neighborhoods with hundred dollar bills taped to my clothes while shouting racial slurs, and anyone who gets stabbed doing such a thing is a person I have no sympathy for. I also look both ways before crossing the street, despite the fact that it's illegal to run someone over. If you jump in front of a truck you have no right to complain if it hits you, no matter how wrong running someone over is. The point of this is that companies can take actions to reduce piracy without running to the cops, like looking both ways before crossing the street or avoiding high-crime areas.
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Interesting hypothesis, but it fails at a key point: it relies on the assumption that ranking members of those organizations are tech-savvy enough to operate Megaupload.
It probably would, but no one seems to be talking about the Tucker Act. Patents have visible issues beyond the court structure, so people care more about finding ways to fix them.
It is the court that rules on patents, is it not? Calling it the patent court is therefore justifiable in this context, since we're discussing its actions in its capacity as the court that deals with patents. If we were discussing the Tucker Act then we would be justified in calling it the Tucker Act court. But we're not, so the fact that it also rules on the Tucker Act is irrelevant.
"More patents" and "more patentable concepts" are not the same thing. Were digital computers invented in the 19th century, those would've definitely been patented, so even if they weren't patented they were a patentable concept. This article is about the expansion of things that can be patented, not necessarily the increase in things that are.
What, exactly, is the basis for this claim? Limewire was out a year before iTunes was released, and despite coexisting for nine years iTunes was fine. While there isn't a Frostwire app for my iPad, there is a YouTube app that is directly next to the iTunes app, and sales don't seem to be suffering much from that. Unless you think that Napster had some incredible attribute that made it much more attractive than every other pirate site since your claim is completely unfounded.
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Mediafire (2006): Active.
Frostwire (2004): Active.
Rapidshare (2002): Active.
YouTube (2005): Doing okay.
Ares Galaxy (New, far as I can tell): Feeding on the corpse of Megaupload
The Pirate Bay (2003): Yo ho, motherfuckers!
How many encryption methods from before 2011 remain uncracked?
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FREE SERVICES ARE BAD FOR THE CUSTOMER
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Hey, this is pretty easy.
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Re: Putting up a paywall is an innovative business model
Exactly! That's why we're trying to popularize new business models that help the artist prosper instead of the record labels. You've finally got it, bob!
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