~Fairies make the flowers grow.
~Fairies maintain a trillion dollar a year business.
~Telling Fairy tales is theft.
~Quoting Fairies violates their property.
~Fairies always believe the sky is falling.
"Maybe the ISPs are betting on whether Attorney-General Holder will still be in office?"
I was thinking something similar. If they wait until after the election, the president may not be in office. At which point all pressure to follow through with this agreement goes away.
With the treat of a SOPA like public revolt against 6 strikes come other issues. The possibility that people will start calling for an end to the local telecom monopolies becomes extremely high. Most of the social media revolts thus far have had two thing in common, pushing back against wrong doing, and pushing against entrenched monopolies.
You are to funny! Nowhere does it say he can't make money in both ways, the "old" and the "new". That would be like saying someone can't make money off real estate and have a day job also.
The thing I was trying to point out was that with computerized systems there is an immediate accounting. This doesn't allow for poor accounting or theft. If you look at the Canada pending list lawsuit. They got away with several billion USD and paid 45 million dollars.
If all sales were online they would not be able to do this.
It has nothing to do with control. The record labels have been cheating the artist they represent, though levels of collection societies, contracts, and creative accounting. If they were to sell online they would immediately lose the ability to hide behind their creative accounting.
In simple terms when an online music store say that 1M single have been sold in the EU, and the US labels only paid the artist $50,000 USD. The artist in question will wonder where the other $450,000 USD they are owed went.
Basically, the labels can not go online with out destroying themselves.
I should do a documentary about the history of the FBI. A fun section on J Edgar in a dress. Their various screw ups over the years. All the terrorist plots they set in motion and stopped.
Before posting it online under the CC, slap a 2 minutes long FBI Warning seal at the beginning of it.
Agreed. We see governments protecting monopolies at every level of government, local, state, federal, and international via trade agreements.
Just look at the telecommunications providers. At the local level you can't run any more lines, or you can only install one set of lines into residences, etc. At the state level same thing plus it is not allowable for local municipalities to install competing services. At the federal level you have the recent death of super wifi, and all the IP laws that protect content owners and prevent competition.
I see this trend towards protectionism as the greatest threat to most nations of the world. It prevents competition in every business and this trend needs to be reversed.
A simple solution would be for him to find someone that the record labels couldn't go after and have him start MegaBox. Someone that if they went after it would cause such an uproar over their anti competitive behavior that it would make the evening news and perhaps change things. My suggestion at TorrentFreak was Steve Wozniak :)
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~Fairies make the flowers grow.
~Fairies maintain a trillion dollar a year business.
~Telling Fairy tales is theft.
~Quoting Fairies violates their property.
~Fairies always believe the sky is falling.
The last one is pretty much true.
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File suit under the theory that the White House forced this down the throats of the ISP's and it is an end run around the constitution.
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I was thinking something similar. If they wait until after the election, the president may not be in office. At which point all pressure to follow through with this agreement goes away.
With the treat of a SOPA like public revolt against 6 strikes come other issues. The possibility that people will start calling for an end to the local telecom monopolies becomes extremely high. Most of the social media revolts thus far have had two thing in common, pushing back against wrong doing, and pushing against entrenched monopolies.
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What a great way to over throw a government
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If all sales were online they would not be able to do this.
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In simple terms when an online music store say that 1M single have been sold in the EU, and the US labels only paid the artist $50,000 USD. The artist in question will wonder where the other $450,000 USD they are owed went.
Basically, the labels can not go online with out destroying themselves.
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Just look at the telecommunications providers. At the local level you can't run any more lines, or you can only install one set of lines into residences, etc. At the state level same thing plus it is not allowable for local municipalities to install competing services. At the federal level you have the recent death of super wifi, and all the IP laws that protect content owners and prevent competition.
I see this trend towards protectionism as the greatest threat to most nations of the world. It prevents competition in every business and this trend needs to be reversed.
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