"My guess is that you and your friends haven't subscribed to the NY Times print edition, but I have and so have most of my peer group."
You and your peer group may also still use buggy whips for your horses for all I and my car driving peer group know. It doesn't change the fact that newspapers are going the way of the dodo, and trying to compete by chargeing for something that the competition isn't, is going to go over like a lead zeppelin.
Oh, FYI you can get the LA Times and many other newspapers in areas other than their local territory. The NYT doesn't have a monopoly on that. Not that it matters in the slightest to what I was saying about other newspapers being part of people's daily, or weekly, ritual. It doesn't matter what your newspaper of choice is, the simple fact is that fewer and fewer people have that ritual thanks to the internet. That's all I'm sayin'.
For a PRS employee he sure has a pretty well adjusted view of the music market. More than I thought possible.
The only part that made me "Harumph" was the part where he gave his recruiting spiel for the PRS and suggested that all musicians starting out needed to join a collections society.
Mike, perhaps you could ask him to explain the disbursment scale that the PRS uses, because even if their's is fair (which I doubt) the way ASCAP and most others do it is outright robbery. Which Mr. Page doesn't seem to acknowledge.
"I can't think of any other publication where people routinely build a day around it."
Really?? How about the LA Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, or whatever the main newspaper is in your particular city? The problem the NYT and other newspapers have is that fewer and fewer people are building their day, or their bird cage's floors, with a newspaper.
You keep arguing that the NYT is going to deliver value that people will pay for, despite the NYT never saying that's the case. If you have a quote from them that demonstrates this claim please link to it. The quote you've put up (twice now) says that they'll be using technology to develop new products. Not that they'll be delivering anything of value worth paying for.
More likely the technology they'll employ, and the products they develop, will be used to build a "better" paywall.
I wish I had the kind of money that I could waste a bunch of it on frivolous lawsuits that have no chance of succeeding. Too bad she doesn't donate that money to charity instead of wasting it on legal fees.
Notice the IFPI glosses over the fact that music sales increased in some countries like Australia which has pretty lax laws agianst "piracy." But they only focus on the two countries where stronger copyright laws were put in place and music sales increased, ignoring the countries that didn't enact new laws or where court rulings made file sharing legal and music sales STILL increased.
I'm sorry you don't realize how the internet works. I'm sorry you think that you can make bogus claims of super software and that everyone will belive you without any proof. I'm sorry you can't understand why you're a knob.
I wonder how long before this guy's quote gets taken out of context and posted on the NAMBLA website? TAM maybe you can let us know when/if they use it, since I'm pretty sure you're a card carrying member or at least know someone who is.
Alright, that was wrong of me; I'm sorry, but I don't doubt that you'll be defending this guy and his organization for saying that. I just wonder if you'll be brave enough to post your defense here or keep it to yourself.
This jackass is claiming to have new software that will pay seeders micropayments for sharing their files over the "new" PB site when it relaunches, yet he offers no proof and is vauge on the details. I've never seen someone sling so much bullshit so publicly knowing full well that at some point he'll be proven to be full of it. This guy has got some huge cajones on him, I'll give him that.
As soon as you post the words "the masnick" we all know it's you TAM. If you think you're fooling anyone you're an even bigger idiot that was previously known.
That may be true, but that's not Google's fault. Unless/until there are laws in place blocking gathering of publicly available info, Google is within their rights. But I'm sure it won't be long before Germany's and other governments pass knee-jerk laws forbidding this type of data gathering. After all the government hates competition...
I also thought the arguement about file sizes being unwieldy to be nonsense. Availiable storage, both physical and cloud, has increased faster than file sizes, and as pointed out above, broadband speeds have also increased. In the not too distant future even the largest video files (3D, full 1080p, or whatever the next latest/greatest video/audio standard is) will be able to be downloaded in minutes if not seconds. The size of the file will be irrelevent. Not sure why this was even mentioned, as it has little to do with his point.
My parents bought one of those machines for $14K. They swear by the thing, but I still can't see how you can spend more on an exercise machine than some people spend on their car.
I'll have to ask them if they found the website by misspelling hotmail.com.
Listen to yourself Dingus, and answer me one question:
"'I suggest, you abandon you're morals, and just rely upon the rule of law'
Yep thats what I said, and stand by it, if you're moral compass is that far out, that you consider theft and breaking the law acceptable. Then you're morals are corrupt, and you are far better of just relying on the rule of law to guide you're morals. Not you're own brain, that appears not up to the task."
So prior to the emancipation of slaves, anybody who opposed slavery had corrupt morals?
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Australia's unofficial motto:
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
You gotta give 'em credit for persistance.
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You and your peer group may also still use buggy whips for your horses for all I and my car driving peer group know. It doesn't change the fact that newspapers are going the way of the dodo, and trying to compete by chargeing for something that the competition isn't, is going to go over like a lead zeppelin.
Oh, FYI you can get the LA Times and many other newspapers in areas other than their local territory. The NYT doesn't have a monopoly on that. Not that it matters in the slightest to what I was saying about other newspapers being part of people's daily, or weekly, ritual. It doesn't matter what your newspaper of choice is, the simple fact is that fewer and fewer people have that ritual thanks to the internet. That's all I'm sayin'.
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Surprisingly sensible
The only part that made me "Harumph" was the part where he gave his recruiting spiel for the PRS and suggested that all musicians starting out needed to join a collections society.
Mike, perhaps you could ask him to explain the disbursment scale that the PRS uses, because even if their's is fair (which I doubt) the way ASCAP and most others do it is outright robbery. Which Mr. Page doesn't seem to acknowledge.
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Re: What Sulzberger said
Really?? How about the LA Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, or whatever the main newspaper is in your particular city? The problem the NYT and other newspapers have is that fewer and fewer people are building their day, or their bird cage's floors, with a newspaper.
You keep arguing that the NYT is going to deliver value that people will pay for, despite the NYT never saying that's the case. If you have a quote from them that demonstrates this claim please link to it. The quote you've put up (twice now) says that they'll be using technology to develop new products. Not that they'll be delivering anything of value worth paying for.
More likely the technology they'll employ, and the products they develop, will be used to build a "better" paywall.
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Ah. Good. You agree that it IS a factual statement.
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Glossing over what they don't like
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My apology
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NAMBLA
Alright, that was wrong of me; I'm sorry, but I don't doubt that you'll be defending this guy and his organization for saying that. I just wonder if you'll be brave enough to post your defense here or keep it to yourself.
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Probably shouldn't say anything, but...
I'll have to ask them if they found the website by misspelling hotmail.com.
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"'I suggest, you abandon you're morals, and just rely upon the rule of law'
Yep thats what I said, and stand by it, if you're moral compass is that far out, that you consider theft and breaking the law acceptable. Then you're morals are corrupt, and you are far better of just relying on the rule of law to guide you're morals. Not you're own brain, that appears not up to the task."
So prior to the emancipation of slaves, anybody who opposed slavery had corrupt morals?
You sir, are an idiot.
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