This is the overweening characteristic of every single successful
new medium: it is true to itself. The Luther Bible didn't
succeed on the axes that made a hand-copied monk Bible valuable:
they were ugly, they weren't in Church Latin, they weren't read
aloud by someone who could interpret it for his lay audience,
they didn't represent years of devoted-with-a-capital-D labor by
someone who had given his life over to God. The thing that made
the Luther Bible a success was its scalability: it was more
popular because it was more proliferate: all success factors for
a new medium pale beside its profligacy. The most successful
organisms on earth are those that reproduce the most: bugs and
bacteria, nematodes and virii. Reproduction is the best of all
survival strategies.
to me, this is the crux of the issue. Recording Industry Music (TM) just isn't made for digital distribution, and since the market has moved on to digital distribution, The Recording Industry Inc. should stop making Recording Industry Music(TM) and move on to something more organic.
it costs too much to make mass market radio tunes and they don't hit people in a manner that gets them behind it. True Fans(TM) get behind music that speaks to them and that mass market stuff isn't going to cut it anymore.
I have to agree with this one. Some drugs take years and cost millions to develop and implement. FDA trials generally take quite a long time as well. The production costs are minimal.
then revamp the clinical trials process in the US.
To me it seems unfair that copyright doesn't last forever. If I were to start a business on an idea I came up with, my heirs would be able to profit from that business forever (or until it went bankrupt or was sold to someone else)
intellectual property is a form of monopoly. monopolies are bad, government protected monopolies are doubly bad, and everlasting monopolies are also doubly bad. an everlasting government protected monopoly is bad to the power of ten.
while having monopoly control of a creation sounds like a good thing, this control is often abused (SLAPP, DMCA takedowns) or produces unintended consequences (orphaned works). while it's important to you to be rewarded for your work, it's more important to safeguard the public domain, not to mention the individual freedoms of others.
all works are based on the works of others, so a plentiful public domain is critical to providing the raw materials for new works.
Re: Sadly, Silverman appears to have a good point...
The biggest reason, for me, is that I do not have hours to scour the internet for new bands and to then find a copy of that band's music. To do so is almost a hobby in itself. Perhaps I had that time as a teenager, but certainly not now.
getting new music just isn't that hard for me. i hear someone mention them (discovered fleet foxes here on tech dirt), i check youtube for a couple of songs, give it the thumbs up or thumbs down. if it's a thumbs up i download it.
Yes, even books that were published back in 1925 with an author that died in 1940. It's illegal to download a dead author's work that is over 85 years old.
That's wrong. You shouldn't do that. It's wrong and immoral and illegal.
it doesn't matter. morality and legality just don't come into play with this stuff.
IP protectionism is out of control, but it doesn't matter. unauthorized distribution is illegal, but it doesn't matter.
the fact of the matter is that unless the IP cartels are allowed to go house to house and shoot people, it is physically and technologically impossible to stop it. that is the only thing that matters in all of this.
- does that app enable you to run Kindle apps on the iPhone?
no, but you can download a large selection of apps for the kindle iphone app from the kindle iphone app store.
what really interests me is an iphone app for the kindle.
it would be really great if apps bought from the iphone kindle app store were compatible with apps from the kindle iphone app store. but you will probably have to download an app to convert those apps.
There is always something good to watch in the queue. If I wanted to watch a movie when it was "hot", I would pay to see it in a theater, but I really want my entertained with reasonable quality at a reasonable price.
i agree sort of. i do see a lot of movies in the theater, probably once or twice a month, but i torrent a lot more. the "new release" section for me is sorting a couple of trackers by seeds and seeing what's hot. that means i already get new releases a week to a month before they hit retail. i use netflix to augment my back catalog of independent/obscure films, and netflix streaming to watch arbitrary stuff when i don't feel like waiting for something.
so while it's bad news that netflix caved in, it doesn't really matter for me, since i don't use netflix for new stuff.
"All machines are the same specs" - yea, right. And when hard drive on one of such machines die, and turn out that this specific model is no longer manufactured, what you do? Replace ALL machines in enterprise? Same apply for keyboards, monitors, memories, motherboards etc.
it's not impossible. big corps have purchasing power, so they can say to a company like dell or HP that you plan on buying X tens of thousands of units over a 2 year period and you expect a stable build. that gets built into the purchase contract.
also, big rollouts (where you roll a whole company over all at once) usually mean buying pretty much all the PCs over a short period of time (like 3-6 months).
as for changes to components, you just add the change to the standard image and keep moving. most stuff is labeled the same, even if the guts change over time.
if your IT department is politically strong, then they call the shots and you are most likely not going to get support for arbitrary mobiles.
if your IT department is politically weak, then someone else calls the shots and if that someone likes arbitrary mobiles, then IT has no choice but to support them.
i'm an IT guy in the latter case, and while it would be nice to say no to people when i don't want to do something, either because it's impossible or it's going to be a disaster, it's really not that tough to support random smart phones.
The internet is not a 'magical piggy bank'. Use your brain. If you don't, the market will walk away, and other businesses and industries will emerge that will take your place.
the internet will be a magical piggy bank once the entertainment lobbyists get done with it. it will be TV with a "BUY!" button.
How come all of the "we, the gov, are youing to F*$k you hard in the a$$ without lube" amendments are all named like "Peace Accord for 2010" or "Free Trade" or even "Free Beer"?
war is peace. ignorance is strength. freedom is slavery.
forget selling individual tracks, sell me a piracy pass
it's too hard to track effectively, it would require too many people to change agreements that they have made, and it's just plain obsolete.
the system is already in place for people to get whatever they want, immediately, for free, it's called bit torrent.
so rather than fundamentally change everything to sell individual tracks at lower prices, why not just add one thing to the mix: a piracy pass.
keep using companies like media sentry to spy on downloaders, keep screwing artists with your creative accounting, keep everything the way it is. just sell me a pass for a reasonable price, say $10-$20 a month, roughly the price of a netflix subscription, an unlimited usenet account, or an anonymous VPN service. i can keep my pass on file with my ISP so when the letters come, the ISP can say "at the time of your complaint, this customer had piracy pass #xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx which was valid at the time of the alleged infringement". this is pretty much how car insurance works.
it's a voluntary tax, so only the people who want to pay will pay. the piracy infrastructure is in place already, so there's no need build anything new. it doesn't change the way many things work so it's easy to adopt. the various content publishers get money and business continues like usual. everybody wins.
On the post: Brian Eno Explains How The Recording Industry Is Like Whale Blubber
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reminds me of coory doctorow's DRM talk to microsoft.
This is the overweening characteristic of every single successful
new medium: it is true to itself. The Luther Bible didn't
succeed on the axes that made a hand-copied monk Bible valuable:
they were ugly, they weren't in Church Latin, they weren't read
aloud by someone who could interpret it for his lay audience,
they didn't represent years of devoted-with-a-capital-D labor by
someone who had given his life over to God. The thing that made
the Luther Bible a success was its scalability: it was more
popular because it was more proliferate: all success factors for
a new medium pale beside its profligacy. The most successful
organisms on earth are those that reproduce the most: bugs and
bacteria, nematodes and virii. Reproduction is the best of all
survival strategies.
to me, this is the crux of the issue. Recording Industry Music (TM) just isn't made for digital distribution, and since the market has moved on to digital distribution, The Recording Industry Inc. should stop making Recording Industry Music(TM) and move on to something more organic.
it costs too much to make mass market radio tunes and they don't hit people in a manner that gets them behind it. True Fans(TM) get behind music that speaks to them and that mass market stuff isn't going to cut it anymore.
On the post: Howard Berman Concerned About Internet-Repressive Regimes, Except If They Help His Friends In Hollywood
Re: yea and his holly wood buds IN the USA
some kid not making money off downloading
OR these thieves who commercially have been selling to us
not making money is the same as making money, just like standing still is the same thing as going backwards.
On the post: Israel Making Generic Patents As Big An Int'l Trade Issue As Corruption And Bribery?
Re: Re:
then revamp the clinical trials process in the US.
On the post: Copyright Is An Exception To The Public Domain
Re:
intellectual property is a form of monopoly. monopolies are bad, government protected monopolies are doubly bad, and everlasting monopolies are also doubly bad. an everlasting government protected monopoly is bad to the power of ten.
while having monopoly control of a creation sounds like a good thing, this control is often abused (SLAPP, DMCA takedowns) or produces unintended consequences (orphaned works). while it's important to you to be rewarded for your work, it's more important to safeguard the public domain, not to mention the individual freedoms of others.
all works are based on the works of others, so a plentiful public domain is critical to providing the raw materials for new works.
On the post: The Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who Are Already There)
Re: Re:
yeah i'm not really interested in working. i just want some big corporation to autotune my voice and then mail me a check.
On the post: Still Some In The Music Business Who Believe The Impossible: Blur Manager Says 'Piracy' Can Be Stopped
Re: I have the real way to make piracy completely a thing of the past
go house to house and shoot people, all over the world. it's the only thing that will work.
On the post: The Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who Are Already There)
Re: Re:
i think you could use recursion to simplify the process :-)
On the post: Finding The Long Tail In Music
Re: Sadly, Silverman appears to have a good point...
getting new music just isn't that hard for me. i hear someone mention them (discovered fleet foxes here on tech dirt), i check youtube for a couple of songs, give it the thumbs up or thumbs down. if it's a thumbs up i download it.
On the post: Give A Man A Fish... And Make It Illegal To Teach Fishing
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Freetard(TM) is a registered trade mark of The Register, kindly stop using it.
On the post: Give A Man A Fish... And Make It Illegal To Teach Fishing
Re: Re: Fishing made better Finux
That's wrong. You shouldn't do that. It's wrong and immoral and illegal.
it doesn't matter. morality and legality just don't come into play with this stuff.
IP protectionism is out of control, but it doesn't matter. unauthorized distribution is illegal, but it doesn't matter.
the fact of the matter is that unless the IP cartels are allowed to go house to house and shoot people, it is physically and technologically impossible to stop it. that is the only thing that matters in all of this.
On the post: Give A Man A Fish... And Make It Illegal To Teach Fishing
Re: Re:
since TAM made one of his "OMG ur STEELING" posts.
On the post: App Store Overload? Kindle Gets An App Store
Re: Re:
no, but you can download a large selection of apps for the kindle iphone app from the kindle iphone app store.
what really interests me is an iphone app for the kindle.
it would be really great if apps bought from the iphone kindle app store were compatible with apps from the kindle iphone app store. but you will probably have to download an app to convert those apps.
On the post: Netflix Exec Claims That Delaying Movie Rentals For A Month Benefits Customers
Re: For some netflix customers it may make sense
i agree sort of. i do see a lot of movies in the theater, probably once or twice a month, but i torrent a lot more. the "new release" section for me is sorting a couple of trackers by seeds and seeing what's hot. that means i already get new releases a week to a month before they hit retail. i use netflix to augment my back catalog of independent/obscure films, and netflix streaming to watch arbitrary stuff when i don't feel like waiting for something.
so while it's bad news that netflix caved in, it doesn't really matter for me, since i don't use netflix for new stuff.
On the post: Halt...In The Name Of The MPAA/RIAA/FBI/NSA! [Updated: Hoax]
Re: Re:
On the post: In A World Of Bottom Up Technology, Should IT Support Your iPhone?
Re: Re: Standards
it's not impossible. big corps have purchasing power, so they can say to a company like dell or HP that you plan on buying X tens of thousands of units over a 2 year period and you expect a stable build. that gets built into the purchase contract.
also, big rollouts (where you roll a whole company over all at once) usually mean buying pretty much all the PCs over a short period of time (like 3-6 months).
as for changes to components, you just add the change to the standard image and keep moving. most stuff is labeled the same, even if the guts change over time.
On the post: In A World Of Bottom Up Technology, Should IT Support Your iPhone?
comes down to politics
if your IT department is politically weak, then someone else calls the shots and if that someone likes arbitrary mobiles, then IT has no choice but to support them.
i'm an IT guy in the latter case, and while it would be nice to say no to people when i don't want to do something, either because it's impossible or it's going to be a disaster, it's really not that tough to support random smart phones.
On the post: The Similarity Between ACTA And Chinese Internet Censorship
Re:
the internet will be a magical piggy bank once the entertainment lobbyists get done with it. it will be TV with a "BUY!" button.
On the post: The Similarity Between ACTA And Chinese Internet Censorship
Re:
no. drunk drivers have no affect on hollywood's profits.
On the post: The Similarity Between ACTA And Chinese Internet Censorship
Re: Ever notice...
war is peace. ignorance is strength. freedom is slavery.
On the post: Will Lower Prices Help Sell More Albums?
forget selling individual tracks, sell me a piracy pass
the system is already in place for people to get whatever they want, immediately, for free, it's called bit torrent.
so rather than fundamentally change everything to sell individual tracks at lower prices, why not just add one thing to the mix: a piracy pass.
keep using companies like media sentry to spy on downloaders, keep screwing artists with your creative accounting, keep everything the way it is. just sell me a pass for a reasonable price, say $10-$20 a month, roughly the price of a netflix subscription, an unlimited usenet account, or an anonymous VPN service. i can keep my pass on file with my ISP so when the letters come, the ISP can say "at the time of your complaint, this customer had piracy pass #xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx which was valid at the time of the alleged infringement". this is pretty much how car insurance works.
it's a voluntary tax, so only the people who want to pay will pay. the piracy infrastructure is in place already, so there's no need build anything new. it doesn't change the way many things work so it's easy to adopt. the various content publishers get money and business continues like usual. everybody wins.
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