E. Zachary Knight (profile), 14 Feb 2012 @ 11:29am
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Otherwise, why license music from Trent Reznor when you could make him a character within the game?
Because being a character in video games is not what Trent Reznor is known for?
As for the rest of your crap, Id would hire Trent because he creates music that fits the theme of their game. They hire Trent because they trust him to not make "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" type music. They hire Trent because getting the same music from a nobody composer is not as valuable.
Seriously, if Trent Reznor and Joe Schmo down the street came to you with the exact same song (both written in isolation) which would you value more? It is not the music that makes Trent valuable. It is Trent.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), 14 Feb 2012 @ 10:00am
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When a game company licenses Trent Reznor to write their game music, they are not buying his music. They are buying the right to say, "Trent Reznor wrote the music for our game." The fact that it is good music is just icing on the cake.
He probably saw that because of his position on ACTA his position in government was going to get very uncomfortable and didn't want to deal with all the crap.
There are a lot of people in power that want ACTA and they will not stand to have anyone against them.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), 13 Feb 2012 @ 11:28am
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I don't see how seeking ridiculous over the top fines will scare anyone. I would think that seeking such fines would do more harm to their efforts as people are shocked into realizing just how insane current copyright law is. Kind of like how SOPA/PIPA worked out.
Or we could have a constitutional review of the fines and determine what is actually fair. If all she did was download and "make available" 26 songs, what is the actual harm? Determine the actual harm done and triple it to get a decent fine.
What is unfortunate for Jaime is that the only people allowed to determine what the actual harms are are the labels and they are not very honest when it comes to those numbers.
18 months in jail plus 6 years of having to report to a probation officer vs having to pay more in fines than the average person makes in a lifetime? Yeah, the jail time is obviously worse. /s
If the fine sticks for Jaime, she will essentially be an indentured servant of the music industry for the rest of her life as she is forced to pay the fine.
Twitter engages in censorship? I know they have policies in place to follow DMCA notices and other take down notices from governments around the world. In fact, they are taking huge pains to mitigate the impact of such censorship requests.
As for the rest of your comments, you obviously were not following the protests.
While there is a good case to be made for speed limits on city streets, once you get to actual freeways, those justifications fall apart rather quickly.
However, that has absolutely nothing to do with censorship on the internet.
They can do well listening to the market. They cannot benefit from sitting in a room that will be filled with virtual monkeys.
Those two sentences directly contradict each other. Those "virtual monkeys" as you so aptly put it is the market. By refusing to meet with the market after openly extending an invitation to do so would be far more damaging than actually meeting with it.
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If the labels are truly irrelevant for everything else, why are they suddenly the nasty boogie man here?
No one said labels were irrelevant. We have been saying that the way they used to do things is irrelevant. Times have changed and there are new and better ways to fund, promote and distribute music. The problem is that many labels do not want to adapt and are actively trying to stop the tide from rolling in.
The reason they are perceived as a boogie man is because they are attempting to make it harder for new artists to use these new and better tools of funding, promotion and distribution in an effort to keep their old status as king. Nobody likes a tyrant.
I love it. You are tripping all over yourself to prove that you are right.
Do you want to know who people trust the most to recommend new music, movies, games and books? Their friends and family. Why is that? Because they have a personal relationship with those people, they know what those people like and know where those likes cross over with their own.
Do you know who people trust the least to recommend new music, movies, games and books? Marketers. Why is that? Because most people are smart enough to realize that marketers are going to recommend what is best for the person but what the company paying them to promote thinks is best for their pocket books.
Hey, if they don't want to succeed in the modern world and die a horrible agonizing death, them more power to them. We have more than enough content from creative people who want to meet us. We don't need dinosaurs.
Also, I think it is time for an intervention for you unhealthy infatuation with Marcus.
Wait. I thought you just said people were too stupid to think for themselves. Now you are saying they are too smart to think for themselves. Which is it? On that thought, which is worse?
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Only in your mind does Mike hate artists making money.
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Because being a character in video games is not what Trent Reznor is known for?
As for the rest of your crap, Id would hire Trent because he creates music that fits the theme of their game. They hire Trent because they trust him to not make "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" type music. They hire Trent because getting the same music from a nobody composer is not as valuable.
Seriously, if Trent Reznor and Joe Schmo down the street came to you with the exact same song (both written in isolation) which would you value more? It is not the music that makes Trent valuable. It is Trent.
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There are a lot of people in power that want ACTA and they will not stand to have anyone against them.
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Says it all right there. You spew nothing but crap. Couldn't have said it better myself.
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What is unfortunate for Jaime is that the only people allowed to determine what the actual harms are are the labels and they are not very honest when it comes to those numbers.
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18 months in jail plus 6 years of having to report to a probation officer vs having to pay more in fines than the average person makes in a lifetime? Yeah, the jail time is obviously worse. /s
If the fine sticks for Jaime, she will essentially be an indentured servant of the music industry for the rest of her life as she is forced to pay the fine.
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What makes this comment so funny is that that the myth of lemmings running of cliffs in mass was created and perpetuated by Disney.
Think about that as you read the second part of the comment.
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As for the rest of your comments, you obviously were not following the protests.
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However, that has absolutely nothing to do with censorship on the internet.
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Those two sentences directly contradict each other. Those "virtual monkeys" as you so aptly put it is the market. By refusing to meet with the market after openly extending an invitation to do so would be far more damaging than actually meeting with it.
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No one said labels were irrelevant. We have been saying that the way they used to do things is irrelevant. Times have changed and there are new and better ways to fund, promote and distribute music. The problem is that many labels do not want to adapt and are actively trying to stop the tide from rolling in.
The reason they are perceived as a boogie man is because they are attempting to make it harder for new artists to use these new and better tools of funding, promotion and distribution in an effort to keep their old status as king. Nobody likes a tyrant.
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I love it. You are tripping all over yourself to prove that you are right.
Do you want to know who people trust the most to recommend new music, movies, games and books? Their friends and family. Why is that? Because they have a personal relationship with those people, they know what those people like and know where those likes cross over with their own.
Do you know who people trust the least to recommend new music, movies, games and books? Marketers. Why is that? Because most people are smart enough to realize that marketers are going to recommend what is best for the person but what the company paying them to promote thinks is best for their pocket books.
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Also, I think it is time for an intervention for you unhealthy infatuation with Marcus.
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I love that you think people are drooling sheep incapable of rational thought. It is so telling.
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