Maybe when they realize that it's not significantly affecting their sales, the studios will realize that rentals and purchases are different markets, where people buy to possess the movie instead of just to see it.
The main difference here is that the person it is streamed to is less responsible than with file sharing. The intent if you're streaming something is (for most people) obviously not to redistribute it. That would seem to put any copyright infringement solely on the person providing the stream, so it kills the avenue of suing end-viewers for copying/distributing copyrighted material. It's like the guy who said he had modded software that didn't seed, except even more easily shown.
The description on the linked website reminds me immediately of UAC in Windows Vista. It may sound good in theory to ask someone if you want to do something they may not want. But, in practice, that results in an excessive number of messages and clickthroughs any time a user wants to do something, well, useful.
In your hypothetical situation, tough luck. Nobody's required to buy anything from you. The fact that they used to, and you feel entitled, has no bearing.
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"The side effect," warns the consumer group Public Knowledge in an educational video it has put out on this question, "is that SOC would break all eleven million HDTVs in the US that don't have digital input. In essence, all the MPAA wants is to control when and how you watch the stuff you've already paid for."
But how can you say you have to own the rights of everything in your image in order to publish it? That would make it impossible to publish any photo taken in the real world. I question the "well within their rights" part of your statement.
The problem here is that it's not the company that's spamming. Some of its users are using the service it provides in order to spam Craigslist. The proper course of action would be to pursue the spamming users, not the provider of a tool that exists to make perfectly legitimate postings easier and more effective.
But that wouldn't make sense, because giving away apps as a reason for people to buy the phone would be the same as giving away Windows-specific software like Windows Media Player to get people to buy Windows.
Regardless, I don't think the AP article is sufficient to determine what he means by this. He could just be agreeing with Mike's assessment of the "Give it away and pray" option.
Exactly. Please, Mike, don't let the fact that this will be "ineffective" or "pointless" get in the way of protecting the impressionable children and teenagers from poor self-esteem!
These guys are right, though. This is a self-esteem-promotion law, not a truth-in-product-advertising law.
I'm not sure that's accurate. The stories that Techdirt considers worth fostering conversations are the possible abuses. I don't think this site is intended to be representative of all "Intellectual Property" lawsuits.
If anyone's wondering, and can't click through gaming website links like I can't, EA claims that he keeps threatening to go after them for Mirror's Edge.
You beat me to it. If you look at the South Butt logo, I can see how it would be worth a trademark complaint. Even with Mike's consumer confusion yardstick.
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No? Nobody thinks so?
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Oddly familiar
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Dept question
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To the contrary, it means something has gone right.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091014/0147596522.shtml
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Re: Dark Helmet mistake or inflammatory language?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/movie-studios-again-demand-hdtv-disabling-pow ers-from-fcc.ars
It says:
"The side effect," warns the consumer group Public Knowledge in an educational video it has put out on this question, "is that SOC would break all eleven million HDTVs in the US that don't have digital input. In essence, all the MPAA wants is to control when and how you watch the stuff you've already paid for."
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Re: Btw
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Re: Uh, clarification?
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Re: someone enlighten me
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Regardless, I don't think the AP article is sufficient to determine what he means by this. He could just be agreeing with Mike's assessment of the "Give it away and pray" option.
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These guys are right, though. This is a self-esteem-promotion law, not a truth-in-product-advertising law.
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The relevant game
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