Cinemas should be emphasizing the irreplaceable experience they offer.
^^This. Yes. For years, I detested movie theaters, until Oklahoma got the Warren Theater, which is an awesome, comfortable experience. I drive 1.5 hours away to see movies at the Warren, but no way am I going to one of the grody theaters in town. I'll wait and Netflix it and watch it in my clean living room, on my flatscreen with no skips, jumps, crying kiddos, screwed up film, or any other BS.
Not social? Gee, I'd better tell my family that getting dinner at a Warren Theater diner and then heading in to a movie together, then playing in the arcade afterwords isn't social.
Or you can drive to a Warren Theater, where the seats are super-comfortable, you can bring your meal from the diner to the theater, crying babies are contained in a soundproof Crying Room, and you can even sit in a heated balcony seat and have a server at your side in seconds to bring you the food or drink of your choice. :)
Well, if you live in Oklahoma or Kansas, anyway. Everywhere else probably doesn't have it so good.
I don't know how you can see a situation like this and conclude that is just. Do you really believe everyone should have the right to take a porn producer's work without paying just because they bought an ISP subscription?
I don't see how you can see a situation like this and conclude that it is not just. Do you really believe everyone should have the right to sue specific people because their IP number was seen somewhere?
That porn producer no doubt invested money in making it. If you want amateur porn, plenty freely exists. If you want professional porn, what is so wrong with paying for it?
Pirates no doubt invested a few bucks in IP spoofing software. Or, if they wanted free anonymity, plenty of open or crackable WiFi connections exist. If you want to sue the person who downloaded your IP, what is so wrong with finding the right person?
What is wrong with a system that punishes those who choose to pilfer that which was not licensed to them?No law is enforceable without both stick and carrot.
No law is enforceable when you attempt to use said enforcement against people who didn't break the law.
We all know the chances of you know two such people, and having meetings with them IN A ROW, and that they during the meeting say the same thing to you, that would not be expected from someone doing well in the field ?
No, actually, we don't. Please, Darryl, express to us the statistical probability of that occurrence.
Or admit that you LIED and you don't actually know the chances of that occurring!!!!!
We all know the chances of you know two such people, and having meetings with them IN A ROW, and that they during the meeting say the same thing to you, that would not be expected from someone doing well in the field ?
No, actually, we don't. Please, Darryl, express to us the statistical probability of that occurrence.
Or admit that you LIED and you don't actually know the chances of that occurring!!!!!
We all know the chances of you know two such people, and having meetings with them IN A ROW, and that they during the meeting say the same thing to you, that would not be expected from someone doing well in the field ?
No, actually, we don't. Please, Darryl, express to us the statistical probability of that occurrence.
Or admit that you LIED and you don't actually know the chances of that occurring!!!!!
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^^This. Yes. For years, I detested movie theaters, until Oklahoma got the Warren Theater, which is an awesome, comfortable experience. I drive 1.5 hours away to see movies at the Warren, but no way am I going to one of the grody theaters in town. I'll wait and Netflix it and watch it in my clean living room, on my flatscreen with no skips, jumps, crying kiddos, screwed up film, or any other BS.
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Damn, and we enjoyed it so much, too.
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Well, if you live in Oklahoma or Kansas, anyway. Everywhere else probably doesn't have it so good.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Yes.
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I thought that you had to write a whole bunch for pennies or nothing before you got to that point, like Heinlein, King, et al. :P
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I believe that this case is silly, but I disagree with the above statement. A bookend can most certainly be art.
Also, my periods are a derivative work. You can just sue me and my ISP will probably give you my IP address. :P
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Which just goes to show how different they are.
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You artists and your self-publishing! :P
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Assuming that you can fine a publishing company willing to pay you royalities up front, and not quarterly (or even yearly).
Self-publishing, you are guaranteed to have up-front expenses.
Unless you use Amazon, Lulu, or one of many print on demand services, in which case your up-front costs are zero.
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I tell them for ten bucks or less, Amazon will print it for them. :P
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Can you name one agency that was closed when it's purpose was fulfilled?
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I don't see how you can see a situation like this and conclude that it is not just. Do you really believe everyone should have the right to sue specific people because their IP number was seen somewhere?
That porn producer no doubt invested money in making it. If you want amateur porn, plenty freely exists. If you want professional porn, what is so wrong with paying for it?
Pirates no doubt invested a few bucks in IP spoofing software. Or, if they wanted free anonymity, plenty of open or crackable WiFi connections exist. If you want to sue the person who downloaded your IP, what is so wrong with finding the right person?
What is wrong with a system that punishes those who choose to pilfer that which was not licensed to them?No law is enforceable without both stick and carrot.
No law is enforceable when you attempt to use said enforcement against people who didn't break the law.
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Screw you. If you don't believe in the Constitution and the laws that spring from it, then you leave.
As for the judging the people by the government? This is America. The people are the government.
And you're an example of the people. Isn't that sad?
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Roflmao! This is awesome! 2011 is already better than 2010 was, just for this! (Also because 2010 sucked, but whatever.)
Darryl, what you missed is that my post was mimicking your style of writing. So... everything you just said? Yeah, take it to heart, man.
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No, actually, we don't. Please, Darryl, express to us the statistical probability of that occurrence.
Or admit that you LIED and you don't actually know the chances of that occurring!!!!!
ADMIT IT, LIAR!!!
:P
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No, actually, we don't. Please, Darryl, express to us the statistical probability of that occurrence.
Or admit that you LIED and you don't actually know the chances of that occurring!!!!!
ADMIT IT, LIAR!!!
:P
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Hope you had a great New Year's Eve as well. :)
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No, actually, we don't. Please, Darryl, express to us the statistical probability of that occurrence.
Or admit that you LIED and you don't actually know the chances of that occurring!!!!!
:P
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