If the people representing us isn't allowed a seat at the table, then how and when are our concerns and opinions heard? You talk out of your ass, as always.
I wonder, don't you see the problems with these laws, or don't you WANT to see those problems?
In other words, is it willfull ignorance, or just basic stupidity.
These laws will have so many unintended consequences, that the damages that these laws will have, cannot be overseen.
Don't come crying to us, when your method of choice for distributing your content suddenly becomes as illegal as the pirate bay is deemed to be.
For proof of that, just look at the list of "rogue websites" put out there by the RIAA.
In the mean time, you have no right to assume 1 bit about me. Is that understood, Coward?
No it won't, as I won't be buying any of their crap, anymore.
Besides which, people only have so much money to spend, most of it will go to food, entertainment goes at the bottom. And since we are in an economic downpour, with the highest levels of unemployment in ages, I don't think that buying a dvd is high on the list of things to do.
Hunting down 'pirates', is shooting at your fans. Shooting at your fans hurts your bottom-line, as it turns your fans into your worst enemies.
Welcome to Human Nature indeed.
Only in the deranged imaginations of the executives does suing 'damn dirty pirates' lead to more money.
In fact, most of the GOG-bought games have dosbox config files (and an optional dosbox install), so you just have to point to those config files to run the games.
I'm sure the music labels were responsible for Lindsay Lohan's criminal actions. So I guess they should be held accountable for that and thus be closed for good.
If offering pirated material is so lucrative, why can't your masters do the same thing? If it's just a simple as repackaging it and offering it with some advertising, then what's stopping you from offering the same service?!
Many people pay for access to newsgroups, if you can offer a similar product, but legal, for a similar price, why not go for that?
Oh wait, you could never sell that idea to the dinosaurs running the MPAA and the RIAA, could you? Just like your masters are destroying useful legal services like Hulu and redbox and netflix.
I managed about 1/4th, and then the rage overtook me.. I wanted to punch Mitch Glazier's clock. The amount of deceit and lies that he spouts is just too much.
It's all based on lies, damned lies and a-grade RIAA-manufactured 100% unnatural bullshit.
Are these people really willing to destroy everything in their path just so they can pretend to still live in the golden 80s? Are they that delusional?
Newsflash Mitch, the economy is in the shitter, people aren't spending that much on entertainment, as that's NOT a first need in life. Food and housing is way more important.
Sure, piracy is happening (as it always has, or have you never recorded a song from the radio on a cassette tape?), and that's mostly because your organisation dropped the ball on that one. With your insane DRM-schemes that hurt your paying customers, basically teaching people not to buy your crap, because it'll hurt their machines. The pirates gave people a better experience at a much lower cost.
(no SONY rootkit disasters, DVDs that work on any device anywhere in the world, simultaneous releases worldwide, editable subtitles (the amount of mistakes on the official subtitles are just grating))
Your tactics of the past decade have caused the spike in 'illegal' downloads. You have doomed yourself. And instead of owning up to it, and try to win back the trust of the jilted customers, you criminalize them even more.
Fine, it's quite clear you don't want to get money. You've lost me as a paying customer for good.
I'm never buying a single thing from anyone who's even remotely related to the RIAA, the MPAA, the IFPI, the BSA. NOT EVER! You can all go rot in the hells that you've created.
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Where have you been in the past decade?
Given Big Media's track record (suing grandmothers for downloading rap songs, suing printers for sharing music, putting promotional websites for artists on "rogue website" lists, etc), I'd say that Mike is right.
Copyright used to be between companies, but in the last decade or so, RIAA MPAA and the likes have brought that fight to the public's doorstep. Essentially saying: "all our customers are potential infringers, we must squash that by criminalizing 100% of the population" and the politicians have bought that fucking crap. Hook, line and sinker.
BTW, you anonymous cowards are really flailing your arms lately. What is it? Haven't met your troll-quota for the month yet?
Hey everybody, look who's back! It's Ronald J Riley.
Hi Ron. How've you been?
btw, what sellout? The fact that Techdirt has ads? That's called "selling out"? Why?
It seems to me to be very clear what blogposts are advertorial in nature, and what blogposts aren't, which is a lot more transparant than your average newspaper.
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To be fair, I am using my Wii to collect dust. That thing hasn't been powered on since June of this year. And even then I didn't power it on, my brother did, when he borrowed it for a party he was having, where it was plugged in, but was left unused.
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I wonder, don't you see the problems with these laws, or don't you WANT to see those problems?
In other words, is it willfull ignorance, or just basic stupidity.
These laws will have so many unintended consequences, that the damages that these laws will have, cannot be overseen.
Don't come crying to us, when your method of choice for distributing your content suddenly becomes as illegal as the pirate bay is deemed to be.
For proof of that, just look at the list of "rogue websites" put out there by the RIAA.
In the mean time, you have no right to assume 1 bit about me. Is that understood, Coward?
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Besides which, people only have so much money to spend, most of it will go to food, entertainment goes at the bottom. And since we are in an economic downpour, with the highest levels of unemployment in ages, I don't think that buying a dvd is high on the list of things to do.
Hunting down 'pirates', is shooting at your fans. Shooting at your fans hurts your bottom-line, as it turns your fans into your worst enemies.
Welcome to Human Nature indeed.
Only in the deranged imaginations of the executives does suing 'damn dirty pirates' lead to more money.
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Many people pay for access to newsgroups, if you can offer a similar product, but legal, for a similar price, why not go for that?
Oh wait, you could never sell that idea to the dinosaurs running the MPAA and the RIAA, could you? Just like your masters are destroying useful legal services like Hulu and redbox and netflix.
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Kudos to anyone who watched the whole video
It's all based on lies, damned lies and a-grade RIAA-manufactured 100% unnatural bullshit.
Are these people really willing to destroy everything in their path just so they can pretend to still live in the golden 80s? Are they that delusional?
Newsflash Mitch, the economy is in the shitter, people aren't spending that much on entertainment, as that's NOT a first need in life. Food and housing is way more important.
Sure, piracy is happening (as it always has, or have you never recorded a song from the radio on a cassette tape?), and that's mostly because your organisation dropped the ball on that one. With your insane DRM-schemes that hurt your paying customers, basically teaching people not to buy your crap, because it'll hurt their machines. The pirates gave people a better experience at a much lower cost.
(no SONY rootkit disasters, DVDs that work on any device anywhere in the world, simultaneous releases worldwide, editable subtitles (the amount of mistakes on the official subtitles are just grating))
Your tactics of the past decade have caused the spike in 'illegal' downloads. You have doomed yourself. And instead of owning up to it, and try to win back the trust of the jilted customers, you criminalize them even more.
Fine, it's quite clear you don't want to get money. You've lost me as a paying customer for good.
I'm never buying a single thing from anyone who's even remotely related to the RIAA, the MPAA, the IFPI, the BSA. NOT EVER! You can all go rot in the hells that you've created.
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Given Big Media's track record (suing grandmothers for downloading rap songs, suing printers for sharing music, putting promotional websites for artists on "rogue website" lists, etc), I'd say that Mike is right.
Copyright used to be between companies, but in the last decade or so, RIAA MPAA and the likes have brought that fight to the public's doorstep. Essentially saying: "all our customers are potential infringers, we must squash that by criminalizing 100% of the population" and the politicians have bought that fucking crap. Hook, line and sinker.
BTW, you anonymous cowards are really flailing your arms lately. What is it? Haven't met your troll-quota for the month yet?
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Hi Ron. How've you been?
btw, what sellout? The fact that Techdirt has ads? That's called "selling out"? Why?
It seems to me to be very clear what blogposts are advertorial in nature, and what blogposts aren't, which is a lot more transparant than your average newspaper.
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