Our Congressmen and Senators are not even high class whores. The IP industry is getting off easy for the amount of cash they have to spend. $13.5 million is nothing for even the record labels to spend.
I had hoped that if our government is being purchased, at least it would be valuable.
"You have to be where the killer apps are or you're going to get left behind."
Just like VHS and DVDs, the artists and labels will happily join in with anything that makes them more money, even if they hated it at the onset. We will be hearing a chorus of "I knew it would work all along."
In all fairness to the trolls, the article assumes that the traffic on BitTorrent would shift to Netflix or some other legal streaming service.
The MPAA would argue that it's losses are actually on lost theater tickets and movies that are still in the theaters, that way they can say that their numbers are lost sales instead of lost subscriptions to a streaming service. And we all know that everyone who downloads/streams a new movie, would have paid to go see it.
Re: "Storage capacity of several Petabyte" -- All legal content, eh?
What the hell is wrong with you? One more time for all the idiots and trolls that don't get this....
Piracy ( copyright infringement ) is bad !
We AGREE on that. That doesn't mean that broad legislation that can (probably will) cause a lot of unintentional collateral damage is the proper way to deal with it.
Sharing is natural human behavior. If my friend buy's a DVD of a movie I want to see and invites me over to watch it and I don't like the movie or have neutral feelings about it and then choose not to buy it for myself; am I a lost sale? Did I pirate the movie?
It seems that the only thing that defines piracy is space/time. If someone shares (not commercial distribution) content that they bought over the internet, that is basically the same as sharing with your friends but on a larger scale. The difference being that no one had to take the time to visit the owner of the content to view it.
I had more to say, but the whole thing just generates a headache....
If only the US could understand that copyright laws are for the protection of companies and artists against COMMERCIAL distribution. Sharing is natural and actually helps the economy.
btw trolls, an ad banner on your site doesn't make it commercial distribution.
"Coldplay has infinitely more cash than Mr Coyne: their latest album released a couple weeks ago, sold hundreds of thousands its first week, and debuted at number one."
Correction: Coldplay's record label has "infinitely" more cash than Mr. Coyne...
Now stop drinking the Kool-Aid, and give up trolling. You're not very good at it.
Maybe it's just me, but I simply don't get it. The porn industry is against the .xxx tld and now you have schools buying up the .xxx tld to protect themselves from porn.
WTF?!?!
The porn people feel their content will be filtered from their consumers. I don't get that. Are they afraid that kids will no longer reach them at school or that adults at work won't be able to view their content??? Why are they not more concerned about a competitor using their URL with the new tld, as that seems to be the more reasonable fear.
As for the schools being worried about porn people using their URL, WTF??? Anyone typing in harvarduniversity.xxx is almost certainly looking for porn in the form of ivy league co-eds and is not confusing it with the actual university.
I just don't get it. Why is it that so many people want to act like porn doesn't exist? The movie industry does roughly $11 billion in ticket sales while the porn industry does roughly $11 billion annually. Sounds to me like Star Wars and Star Whores are doing equally well and might even share the same audience.
"Remember, copyright's sole purpose is to benefit the public."
I'm so sick of hearing this. Copyright's sole purpose is to create a monopoly for the content creator. We have simply reached a point where the system and technology are clashing.
Maybe there have been some gang murders in Second Life, but I think I'll actually start worrying when gangs learn to shoot people in real life over the internet.
That bill should be dipped in awesome sauce and added to SOPA
OMG what a great idea. Instead of enforcement of IP laws, just let Congress tax the goods and pay the rights holders. This is an AWESOME idea. The content industry doesn't have to change its business model at all.
Ok so the price of a CD will now be about $32,000 and a song on itunes will be about $2500, but so what, the rights holders will finally get paid and it won't matter how much piracy is out there.
All the RIAA needs to do instead of SOPA, is to hop over to the DOJ and claim that that file sharing is a terrorist activity or is used to fund terrorist activities. Then they can have the DOJ classify its own secret interpretation of the DMCA.
Mike, you got it wrong AGAIN. This bill IS narrowly drafted. It is ONLY targeting the entire INTERNET. Its has nothing to do with Unemployment, Abortion, or Gay Marriage.
YES. Profits are lost due to piracy and counterfeiting. YES, that is a FACT. It's 100% TRUE.
Losing profits isn't the issue. The issue is the fabrication of how much "piracy" actually costs the industry. Claiming that "piracy" is doing so much harm that it requires new laws and enforcement is just insane.
Now that you know the actual issue, you may resume your trolling activities.
While I understand the point of this article, the comparison of tech companies is simply not comparing apples to apples. This is a case of comparing apples to oranges, grapes, pears, and bananas.
As has been stated, the dial-up services went the way of the dinosaur because of broadband service. Tech does move fast and Facebook and Google are excellent examples of how companies can quickly become the dominant player in a space. Google rules search, for now; and Facebook is the dominant social network. Amazon and Apple are also dominant companies in their space, and even though there is some crossover, between Amazon and Apple, as well as crossover between Google and Facebook, all four of these companies are in distinctly different spaces in the market.
This whole article could have been spun in Techdirt style to show how it is not necessary for the government to protect business models that are rendered obsolete by the advancement of technology. What if the dial-up services had whined and lobbied Congress for protection from the evil broadband monsters that were killing them? It didn't happen that way because they saw the writing on the wall and they adapted or merged to get out of the way of the next wave of progress. The content industry needs to learn from that example and adapt or merge or die off and step out of the way of the next wave of progress.
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Cheap and stupid
I had hoped that if our government is being purchased, at least it would be valuable.
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I knew it all along
Just like VHS and DVDs, the artists and labels will happily join in with anything that makes them more money, even if they hated it at the onset. We will be hearing a chorus of "I knew it would work all along."
On the post: How Much Does File Sharing Really Cost Hollywood?
What about my DVDs?????
The MPAA would argue that it's losses are actually on lost theater tickets and movies that are still in the theaters, that way they can say that their numbers are lost sales instead of lost subscriptions to a streaming service. And we all know that everyone who downloads/streams a new movie, would have paid to go see it.
On the post: A Step By Step Debunking Of US Chamber Of Commerce's Dishonest Stats About 'Rogue Sites'
Re: "Storage capacity of several Petabyte" -- All legal content, eh?
Piracy ( copyright infringement ) is bad !
We AGREE on that. That doesn't mean that broad legislation that can (probably will) cause a lot of unintentional collateral damage is the proper way to deal with it.
Sharing is natural human behavior. If my friend buy's a DVD of a movie I want to see and invites me over to watch it and I don't like the movie or have neutral feelings about it and then choose not to buy it for myself; am I a lost sale? Did I pirate the movie?
It seems that the only thing that defines piracy is space/time. If someone shares (not commercial distribution) content that they bought over the internet, that is basically the same as sharing with your friends but on a larger scale. The difference being that no one had to take the time to visit the owner of the content to view it.
I had more to say, but the whole thing just generates a headache....
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WTF?
Hostage is filtered? Seriously? At least WTF made it.
On the post: The Hypocrites Of Congress: Who Voted Against Net Neutrality, But For SOPA/PIPA
LOL
On the post: Call Your Senators Today: Tell Them To Vote Against Censoring The Internet
Follow the pattern
WAR on POVERTY
WAR on TERRORISM
WAR on PIRACY
Who's winning ? Are any of those things actually going away ?
Push the button, launch some nukes and declare WAR on HUMAN BEHAVIOR
That should work a whole lot better than the other "wars".
On the post: German Court: YouTube Doesn't Need To ID Uploader Who Didn't Profit From Infringement
A thread of common sense
btw trolls, an ad banner on your site doesn't make it commercial distribution.
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Hmmmmm
On the post: Wayne Coyne Of The Flaming Lips On Twitter, Pirate Sites, Coldplay v. Spotify And How To Use 'All Technologies' To Reach Your Fans
Re: Re: ??????
Correction: Coldplay's record label has "infinitely" more cash than Mr. Coyne...
Now stop drinking the Kool-Aid, and give up trolling. You're not very good at it.
On the post: Universities Buying Up .xxx Domains To Stop Porn Sites Showing, Once Again, That .xxx Is A Pure Money Grab
I'm totally confused
WTF?!?!
The porn people feel their content will be filtered from their consumers. I don't get that. Are they afraid that kids will no longer reach them at school or that adults at work won't be able to view their content??? Why are they not more concerned about a competitor using their URL with the new tld, as that seems to be the more reasonable fear.
As for the schools being worried about porn people using their URL, WTF??? Anyone typing in harvarduniversity.xxx is almost certainly looking for porn in the form of ivy league co-eds and is not confusing it with the actual university.
I just don't get it. Why is it that so many people want to act like porn doesn't exist? The movie industry does roughly $11 billion in ticket sales while the porn industry does roughly $11 billion annually. Sounds to me like Star Wars and Star Whores are doing equally well and might even share the same audience.
On the post: A Look At The Testimony Given At Today's SOPA Lovefest Congressional Hearings... With A Surprise From MasterCard
Just a question
Is there really a difference between being intellectually dishonest and plain ol' dishonest?
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Really?????
I'm so sick of hearing this. Copyright's sole purpose is to create a monopoly for the content creator. We have simply reached a point where the system and technology are clashing.
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Call me when...
On the post: Rep. Steve King Decides American Consumers Should Pay For Chinese IP Violations
That bill should be dipped in awesome sauce and added to SOPA
Ok so the price of a CD will now be about $32,000 and a song on itunes will be about $2500, but so what, the rights holders will finally get paid and it won't matter how much piracy is out there.
Vote for Rep. King, he's a problem solver.
On the post: RIAA Admits It Wants DMCA Overhaul; Blames Judges For 'Wrong' Interpretation
Quick fix
Problem solved.
On the post: Mainstream Press Realizing That E-PARASITE/SOPA Is Ridiculously Broad
Just plain wrong
On the post: Philippines IP Office: Anti-Counterfeiting Meeting Isn't About Kowtowing To Corporate Interests... Except That It Is
Trolls need focus
Losing profits isn't the issue. The issue is the fabrication of how much "piracy" actually costs the industry. Claiming that "piracy" is doing so much harm that it requires new laws and enforcement is just insane.
Now that you know the actual issue, you may resume your trolling activities.
On the post: Times Change; Dominant Tech Firms Change
Mike, I love your articles, but.....
As has been stated, the dial-up services went the way of the dinosaur because of broadband service. Tech does move fast and Facebook and Google are excellent examples of how companies can quickly become the dominant player in a space. Google rules search, for now; and Facebook is the dominant social network. Amazon and Apple are also dominant companies in their space, and even though there is some crossover, between Amazon and Apple, as well as crossover between Google and Facebook, all four of these companies are in distinctly different spaces in the market.
This whole article could have been spun in Techdirt style to show how it is not necessary for the government to protect business models that are rendered obsolete by the advancement of technology. What if the dial-up services had whined and lobbied Congress for protection from the evil broadband monsters that were killing them? It didn't happen that way because they saw the writing on the wall and they adapted or merged to get out of the way of the next wave of progress. The content industry needs to learn from that example and adapt or merge or die off and step out of the way of the next wave of progress.
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LOL
"However, their low tolerance and a restrictive French patent has limited their practical applications," Thiel said.
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