IKR? That second amendment was the first to be reinterpreted in its entirety, going against the previous ~200 years of court interpretation and clear language.
"I have neither the time nor the interest to review the personal information that might be on a party's computer," Crowell says.
Right. And just how does one then plan to determine if someone "stopped illegally downloading movies" without seeing anything else? Who does the actual checking? Can every computer or drive be secured from potential theft or access?
That's pretty much it, exactly. In fact, LEOs have been know to do it the other way around: Track someone they are sure is running, and wait for them to return with the cash so they can take it. Way to go, "War on Drugs".
Seems more like their statements boil down to, "Thanks for being dicks, guys". Smells kind of like OS/2, if what they think may be happening is accurate.
It's not about "exactly the way Techdirt wants", Techdirt notices what people actually do.
It's almost as if you think this is ideological...
The point is, if you want subscribers, you don't drive them to ignore you, or [back]to piracy, by doing a crap job at your offering. People who could never afford it, or who are the stereotypical "i want everything for free, just because" sorts who the cranky types like to hold up as the only kind of pirates, are going to pirate or not either way.
Making content costly or annoying to consume will lose customers regardless if it is in the format of cable tv or streaming. It isn't about some sort of ideological "format war" in that regard, either. Comcast could do exactly what Netflix does, only they won't. Near the entire benefit of a newer technology delivery system in this case is psychological/cultural: they got providers to treat them differently because reasons, even though they would probably like to treat streaming just like cable. It's new! Maaaaagic. That's how stupid these industries are. And this is them being stupid again.
Maybe the entire "City of London" can open a mailbox somewhere else and attempt sue the crap out of the UK if they can't keep all the perks they have managed to snag without even being part of the Euro bloc.
I don't see what unlimited data has to do with roaming. It's a separate issue. Apply the roaming charges, then.
Funny thing is, of all the places that providers refuse to compete, they won't simply carry another provider's traffic (which should be akin to bulk mvno sales) without ridiculous charges. All of it makes perfect sense from the prevailing modern business perspective, but it doesn't mesh with their claims to consumers. This is, again, perfectly understandable in terms of business, but puts an obvious lie to everything they say, as usual.
As for peer review, they are really doing it for their peers, but yes, the journals do benefit. A problem of which you have reminded me, though, is aside from the problems in academia, the universities themselves are mostly controlled not by academia, but by corporate asshats.
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"I have neither the time nor the interest to review the personal information that might be on a party's computer," Crowell says.
Right. And just how does one then plan to determine if someone "stopped illegally downloading movies" without seeing anything else? Who does the actual checking? Can every computer or drive be secured from potential theft or access?
That aside, WTAF even?
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It's not about "exactly the way Techdirt wants", Techdirt notices what people actually do.
It's almost as if you think this is ideological...
The point is, if you want subscribers, you don't drive them to ignore you, or [back]to piracy, by doing a crap job at your offering. People who could never afford it, or who are the stereotypical "i want everything for free, just because" sorts who the cranky types like to hold up as the only kind of pirates, are going to pirate or not either way.
Making content costly or annoying to consume will lose customers regardless if it is in the format of cable tv or streaming. It isn't about some sort of ideological "format war" in that regard, either. Comcast could do exactly what Netflix does, only they won't. Near the entire benefit of a newer technology delivery system in this case is psychological/cultural: they got providers to treat them differently because reasons, even though they would probably like to treat streaming just like cable. It's new! Maaaaagic. That's how stupid these industries are. And this is them being stupid again.
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Funny thing is, of all the places that providers refuse to compete, they won't simply carry another provider's traffic (which should be akin to bulk mvno sales) without ridiculous charges. All of it makes perfect sense from the prevailing modern business perspective, but it doesn't mesh with their claims to consumers. This is, again, perfectly understandable in terms of business, but puts an obvious lie to everything they say, as usual.
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