In the past two days, I have come to the conclusion that Lily Allen is actually not smart enough to understand any issues approaching the complexity of copyright.
As such, it's rather obvious that Lily Allen has just accepted whatever her label has told her without even attempting to think about the issue for herself.
If I accidentally use the same username and password on techdirt that I do on my banks website, does that mean that anyone at techdirt has authorization to access my account?
Do you think if Mike at techdirt emptied my bank account, that he shouldn't be charged with unauthorized access?
I'd love to tell you to try and find out.. but sadly, I did not make this mistake.
Obviously another moron created by the labels for the labels dishing out verbatim what the labels want them to say.
Grats on being a lemming!
Oh, and before Ms. Allen and Mr. Blunt go full on wiht their "war on fans" they may wish to check and see how well that strategy worked for Mr. Ulrich.
While I agree that Allen probably should have properly credited and linked to the original TechDirt post, frankly I find this post deeply hypocritical. And now TorrentFreak and TechDirt are jumping all over Allen for doing EXACTLY WHAT MIKE MASNICK SAID ANYONE COULD DO?!?
*WHOOSH*
That sound you just heard was the whole fucking point zooming RIGHT OVER your head. Sorry, you missed it.
That's good and all.. but it is essentially a company diluting its own trademark when done poorly.
Example: Henckels Knives...
They are awesome kitchen cutlery. But they were also rather expensive. Til they got tired of the knockoffs making money off their name.
So they decided to make money off their own name by launching a similarly named low end company.
My parents saw henckels knives int he store one day for what they thought was an awesome price and immediately got them for me as a present. As it turns out, they were crap, and WAY overpriced crap.
So you know what? Ever since Henckels decided to cannibalize their own brand recognition in order to eek out a few more percents of profit margin, I have decided they are a shit company and instead of telling everyone how great their knives are, I warn people to stay away lest they get ripped off by paying too much money for cheap crap knives.
I think the move to cannibalize your reputation is an incredibly short sighted move that ultimately leads to rapid departure from the market.
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wow, thats the dumbest thing I have read today. Grats!
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I have absolute trust in my local police department.
It has been years since I had the adolescent distrust of those responsible for my protection.
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why?
That is a crime.
It's up to the police to investigate these crimes.
What's techdirt got against this?
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In the past two days...
As such, it's rather obvious that Lily Allen has just accepted whatever her label has told her without even attempting to think about the issue for herself.
She's just not intelligent enough for it.
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I disagree Mike....
Do you think if Mike at techdirt emptied my bank account, that he shouldn't be charged with unauthorized access?
I'd love to tell you to try and find out.. but sadly, I did not make this mistake.
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none of it makes any sense
Why shouldn't jurors be able to educate themselves as necessary in order to make intelligent informed decisions?
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Mouthpieces
Grats on being a lemming!
Oh, and before Ms. Allen and Mr. Blunt go full on wiht their "war on fans" they may wish to check and see how well that strategy worked for Mr. Ulrich.
The Race to Obscurity is on!
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And now TorrentFreak and TechDirt are jumping all over Allen for doing EXACTLY WHAT MIKE MASNICK SAID ANYONE COULD DO?!?
*WHOOSH*
That sound you just heard was the whole fucking point zooming RIGHT OVER your head. Sorry, you missed it.
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that's good and all..
Example: Henckels Knives...
They are awesome kitchen cutlery. But they were also rather expensive. Til they got tired of the knockoffs making money off their name.
So they decided to make money off their own name by launching a similarly named low end company.
My parents saw henckels knives int he store one day for what they thought was an awesome price and immediately got them for me as a present. As it turns out, they were crap, and WAY overpriced crap.
So you know what? Ever since Henckels decided to cannibalize their own brand recognition in order to eek out a few more percents of profit margin, I have decided they are a shit company and instead of telling everyone how great their knives are, I warn people to stay away lest they get ripped off by paying too much money for cheap crap knives.
I think the move to cannibalize your reputation is an incredibly short sighted move that ultimately leads to rapid departure from the market.
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