While the bigger fences and patrols were apparently a problem for some people, the real problem is that now that they didn't work, it turns out the orchard was built next to a highway and the farmer has been trying to push through legislation to demolish the highway in order to make room for a crocodile-filled moat around his orchard. It'll seriously interfere with the average commuter and interstate commerce, but at least the thieves will need to develop bridge technology before they can steal any more apples.
An apple farmer does have the right to protect his own property, but there comes a point where you have to stop and think about whether or not the apples are really worth it. We are at that point.
Putting barcodes into movies is, more or less, what usually happens with video game DRM. So people remove it. The bar codes would delay the piracy only for as long as it took for someone to write a program to find and remove bar code frames, or if they're unusually dedicated manually go through and remove the offending frames. And the movie would still be up before it left theaters.
Obama is a Democrat. Democrats are liberal. People in Hollywood also call themselves liberal. Therefore, any defense of Hollywood is also in support of Obama. QED
That may sound ridiculous, but when I decide which apple orchard to visit, I consistently go to the one with ladders and an admission price. It's annoying when Appleflix doesn't have the particular apple I'm looking for, but there's a whole orchard to choose from. I'll still buy the occasional apple individually every now and then if it looks particularly juicy, but for the most part I avoid them.
And even that aside, if the apple farmer ever gets to the point where he wants to search everyone's houses in order to make sure they don't have any stolen apples, set fire to the area around any tree he finds that was grown from one of his apple cores, and put razor blades in his apples in the hope that the thieves will cut their mouths, that is the apple farmer's fault and a good indication that he's starting to become unstable.
There was a brief mention of My Little Wu-Tang last year, but considering that they're almost exactly following Mike's Theory of the Economics of Free you would think there'd be more exposure.
Man, screw those orangutans. They keep beating my high score in Angry Birds. And they have an unfair advantage, since they just have to sit in a cage all day. I could get three stars too if I didn't have to study.
YouTube should not have an obligation to remove your car ads on the word of someone claiming to be the NFL, either, but that still seems to be happening.
That's pretty cheap compared to what the music industry paid to have those laws put in place. Sure, I can afford that. Whose Paypal account do I send the money to?
Surely anyone who actually think that the Executive Branch needs to circulate petitions about the Executive Branch's actions wouldn't know how to locate this website? Everyone knows that a White House petition is a petition to the White House. To suggest otherwise is ludicrous.
I have used iTunes. I hate it. I see no reason that it should by default put purchased shows on either all or none of my devices. Ten percent of my laptop's hard drive is wasted on storing data that I don't want deleted from my iPad when it synchronizes. It would be better if my purchases could be watched on anything except iTunes, but apparently preferring Media Player Classic means I want to steal a show I've already bought.
I have also used Netflix. I had no idea that it allowed me to send purchases to other Netflix users, since it seems to run counter to the idea that you don't purchase things on Netflix. It also doesn't meet a number of other criteria that are listed in the article, such as having everything available online.
I haven't used Amazon. Perhaps that was an oversight.
This is not a list of things that Hollywood has never allowed ever, though. It says at the top that it's a recipe. Like any recipe, the presence of most of the ingredients does not mean that complaining about the product is unreasonable. You can't mix water and flour and call it a cake just because you don't want to add eggs. All the components are necessary. Anything less is half-baked.
Probably none of them. They still see the general citizenry as a resource to be controlled by whoever has the most expensive ad campaign. Right now they think they just need a good way to counter Google's influence and all will be well. This is less Pearl Harbor and more Gettysburg.
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An apple farmer does have the right to protect his own property, but there comes a point where you have to stop and think about whether or not the apples are really worth it. We are at that point.
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And even that aside, if the apple farmer ever gets to the point where he wants to search everyone's houses in order to make sure they don't have any stolen apples, set fire to the area around any tree he finds that was grown from one of his apple cores, and put razor blades in his apples in the hope that the thieves will cut their mouths, that is the apple farmer's fault and a good indication that he's starting to become unstable.
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I have also used Netflix. I had no idea that it allowed me to send purchases to other Netflix users, since it seems to run counter to the idea that you don't purchase things on Netflix. It also doesn't meet a number of other criteria that are listed in the article, such as having everything available online.
I haven't used Amazon. Perhaps that was an oversight.
This is not a list of things that Hollywood has never allowed ever, though. It says at the top that it's a recipe. Like any recipe, the presence of most of the ingredients does not mean that complaining about the product is unreasonable. You can't mix water and flour and call it a cake just because you don't want to add eggs. All the components are necessary. Anything less is half-baked.
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