If you don't buy it, you shouldn't feel some justification to pirate it.
I would completely agree, if I believed file-sharing was a moral issue. That is, if file-sharing is theft, then not liking the terms of the agreement is no excuse to steal. We're on the same page there.
However, file-sharing isn't theft, and it isn't immoral, therefore no "justification" is required to file-share. I (and many others, I'm sure) simply gravitate to the source that offers me the best value.
File-sharing already beats the official version in price, but spending millions to make sure that it beats the official version in features, too? That takes a special kind of stupid.
"The same film that costs pennies to send across the world might cost $150m to make."
Yeah, and then you realize that $149 million of that cost is Tom Cruise's salary. So I guess they mean, in a world without copyright, actors and musicians would make a normal wage instead of a rock star salary inflated by a legal monopoly.
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By whom?
By anyone who was there to demonstrate that couldn't use their phone.
And I can think of better fights to spend scarce resources on.
Yeah, free speech is one of those meaningless rights. We should be suing for more important things, like who's selling red-soled shoes in violation of a bogus trademark!
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If they were a private entity on private property, I'd say they could do whatever they wanted with their repeaters, even if they were dicks for doing so.
But having a government entity disable them strikes me as cause for a possible lawsuit, especially if there is any evidence that the particular content of the planned protest was what caused them to to disable them. That's a big no-no in first amendment cases.
So really I just think you are a SOL dude that is trying to hard to discredit something you don't like instead of taking a real good look at the size of the problem and trying to be honest about it.
Honesty is looking at the data objectively and being able to disagree with it, even when it may support your point. When he says that measuring raw bytes transferred is not a good measure of filesharing, I think he's on to something. Consider the following scenario:
Last year, 100 people downloaded the latest hit song.
This year, 1 person downloaded the latest hit movie as a BluRay rip.
If that data encompassed the totality of all filesharing across the globe:
1. Would you say that filesharing is going up, or going down?
2. What would a chart based on bytes transferred show?
I think file sharing will do what is always does: get bigger and harder to track. As someone who doesn't believe in intellectual property, that makes me happy.
That doesn't mean, however, that this particular chart is necessarily a good data point in favor of that opinion. You already pointed out some flaws that I find compelling, and I have a distrust of statistics in general, since you can always find a way to make them say what you want.
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End of story.
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I would completely agree, if I believed file-sharing was a moral issue. That is, if file-sharing is theft, then not liking the terms of the agreement is no excuse to steal. We're on the same page there.
However, file-sharing isn't theft, and it isn't immoral, therefore no "justification" is required to file-share. I (and many others, I'm sure) simply gravitate to the source that offers me the best value.
File-sharing already beats the official version in price, but spending millions to make sure that it beats the official version in features, too? That takes a special kind of stupid.
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Not true! There are plenty of industry shills who will release any numbers you want for a low, low price.
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The easiest way would be to not pay tens of millions of dollars to actors.
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Err, yes?
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"The same film that costs pennies to send across the world might cost $150m to make."
Yeah, and then you realize that $149 million of that cost is Tom Cruise's salary. So I guess they mean, in a world without copyright, actors and musicians would make a normal wage instead of a rock star salary inflated by a legal monopoly.
Really tugs on the ole heart strings, doesn't it?
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Err, so you're arguing that if the chart isn't misleading, it's entirely meaningless anyway?
I mean, I would say that it's both. I'm just surprised you appear to be arguing my point for me.
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Re: Re: Re: Having the right to assemble and protest doesn't mean . . .
By anyone who was there to demonstrate that couldn't use their phone.
And I can think of better fights to spend scarce resources on.
Yeah, free speech is one of those meaningless rights. We should be suing for more important things, like who's selling red-soled shoes in violation of a bogus trademark!
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Re: Having the right to assemble and protest doesn't mean . . .
But having a government entity disable them strikes me as cause for a possible lawsuit, especially if there is any evidence that the particular content of the planned protest was what caused them to to disable them. That's a big no-no in first amendment cases.
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Honesty is looking at the data objectively and being able to disagree with it, even when it may support your point. When he says that measuring raw bytes transferred is not a good measure of filesharing, I think he's on to something. Consider the following scenario:
Last year, 100 people downloaded the latest hit song.
This year, 1 person downloaded the latest hit movie as a BluRay rip.
If that data encompassed the totality of all filesharing across the globe:
1. Would you say that filesharing is going up, or going down?
2. What would a chart based on bytes transferred show?
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Re: PLEASE detail that better strategy, Mike.
Sell something other than the easily-replicated content. Use the content as advertising for this scarce good or service.
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That doesn't mean, however, that this particular chart is necessarily a good data point in favor of that opinion. You already pointed out some flaws that I find compelling, and I have a distrust of statistics in general, since you can always find a way to make them say what you want.
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