' but try as I may I have been unable to find as a part of the "job description"'
Do you like wearing jack boots, dark jackets, and IP arm bands? Is your life empty and meaningless? Do you enjoy falsifying evidence and briding politicians? Are you capable of kicking in doors and dragging children out into the night for filling their iPods?
If so we have a job for you ... join the IP corps for fun and adventure in foreign lands.
Weird thought, why don't all the file lockers like mega upload get together and buy the EMI catalog? That would allow them to go after the remaining labels for any minor act of infringement, break contracts for distribution, and move artist to a fairer system.
Of course two days after the movie is released, some enterprising person will replace the covers with the Hendrix originals, and it will be all over the internet. Making the Hendrix's estate nothing, and giving a great sense of schadenfreude to the rest of us.
Having one MegaBox in each nation would be a horror. It would be copying the record companies. This is something to do the record companies one better. They can not compete globally, they are blocked by legal agreements, distribution agreements, collection societies, etc.
MegaBox needs to be a one stop global shop for music. Streaming and licencing for streaming, buying music, booking bands, tickets, promotion, contests, games, social media, movie rights, tracing who owns the copyright, artists payments, all need to be in one place. Doing this simplifies things for artists, creates transparency, and removes the complexity and pyramid of costs from the record labels.
This is the main problem in US. Industries using the law to drive others out of business and prevent competition. Cable prices, pharma prices, copyright industry, patent wars, are all due to the same thing.
Mike M's battle against the abuses of the copyright industry are the wrong war to be fighting. We should be trying to stop this sort of behavior by the governments of the US, local, state, and federal.
I had a strange idea. I wonder if Kim Dot Com would be willing to take a xx% silent partner stake for rights to the MegaBox. Some one else runs it until all this is over. Since it is a legit business model, there shouldn't be much of an issue from a legal stand point.
I would get serious schadenfreude from the stress caused to the RIAA and MPAA. I think I will tweet him and ask if he would be up for it.
Every time the public pushes back it is going to be harder for the IP maximalists to get anything done. Eventually politicians in the US are going to be voted out of office for their support or non support on these issues. You are already seeing this in the EU.
Just a thought, maybe we could get the tea party to take IP minimalism as a core value.
It should be obvious by now, we should not only be creating a set of principals for internet freedom but also for copyright and patents. Which we continuously use to beat over the heads of the copyright and patent industries, plus any politicians that get in the way.
The new rule is, anyone who doesn't agree with your government, or the government does not like, is a terrorist. Hence any nation that doesn't agree with the west is now a terrorist state, web sites speaking out against the US are supporter of terrorism, and Anonymous being re titled cyber terrorists.
It is funny though, the more people they include under the umbrella of terrorism the less meaning it has, and the less people will listen to the rhetoric or believe it.
Re: Re: Re: Re: The Field and the Rules, Not the Game
The internet is the modern equivalent of the phone system. It is not supported by advertising, it is supported by the people who pay their monthly cable or phone bills.
You seem to have a problem differentiating between websites and the internet. If internet advertising were to magically vanish tomorrow, we would loose a ton of websites, but over 90% of them would still be here. I have my sites paid for for 5-10 years in advance.
If Google failed due to the loss of advertising it would be replaced by a distributed search engine like YaCy. One where DMCA take downs have no effect, and anything goes.
If Facebook, LinkedIn, and G+ where to fail, you would end up with a standardized social media plugin for e-mail servers, WordPress, etc.
You rate the value of what the content industry sells way to highly. The internet is not about label or studio content, it is about communication. Until you understand that you will be forever lost here.
Interesting article. You are not a techie? There is this rule of thumb for computing called Moore’s Law that states, the power of computing will double every 18 months and the cost will remain roughly the same. The same can be said for data storage technology, which is also an exponential curve.
With in the next 7-15 years we will have nanotechnology. This will allow us to store all current human knowledge (circa 2012) in storage device the size of a deck of cards. Your image of warehouse sized storage facilities is reminiscent of early 1950′s speculation of computing. By their standards, using vacuum tubes and relays, a home PC would have been the size of a house and used the power output of a coal fired power plant.
"Why do you think the US government has allowed them to just keep on killing its own citizens"
Probably to help maintain Iran. If you remove Syria, Iran falls in short order. Then the whole monetary and hardware support for terrorism thing starts drying up. In a couple years it leads to destabilization of a couple countries in south america. Its a bunch of domino's.
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Do you like wearing jack boots, dark jackets, and IP arm bands? Is your life empty and meaningless? Do you enjoy falsifying evidence and briding politicians? Are you capable of kicking in doors and dragging children out into the night for filling their iPods?
If so we have a job for you ... join the IP corps for fun and adventure in foreign lands.
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Re: 14+ months later
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If we put it to a vote, which would you extradited to the US or Iran which would win?
reddit time for that question:)
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Re: prior art
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MegaBox needs to be a one stop global shop for music. Streaming and licencing for streaming, buying music, booking bands, tickets, promotion, contests, games, social media, movie rights, tracing who owns the copyright, artists payments, all need to be in one place. Doing this simplifies things for artists, creates transparency, and removes the complexity and pyramid of costs from the record labels.
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Mike M's battle against the abuses of the copyright industry are the wrong war to be fighting. We should be trying to stop this sort of behavior by the governments of the US, local, state, and federal.
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I would get serious schadenfreude from the stress caused to the RIAA and MPAA. I think I will tweet him and ask if he would be up for it.
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Re: 4 million
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If you want to stay safe anywhere, don't trust the government.
FTFY
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Re: Seriously...
Just a thought, maybe we could get the tea party to take IP minimalism as a core value.
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Re: Predictable
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Re: Now what?
It is funny though, the more people they include under the umbrella of terrorism the less meaning it has, and the less people will listen to the rhetoric or believe it.
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You seem to have a problem differentiating between websites and the internet. If internet advertising were to magically vanish tomorrow, we would loose a ton of websites, but over 90% of them would still be here. I have my sites paid for for 5-10 years in advance.
If Google failed due to the loss of advertising it would be replaced by a distributed search engine like YaCy. One where DMCA take downs have no effect, and anything goes.
If Facebook, LinkedIn, and G+ where to fail, you would end up with a standardized social media plugin for e-mail servers, WordPress, etc.
You rate the value of what the content industry sells way to highly. The internet is not about label or studio content, it is about communication. Until you understand that you will be forever lost here.
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My response to him ....
With in the next 7-15 years we will have nanotechnology. This will allow us to store all current human knowledge (circa 2012) in storage device the size of a deck of cards. Your image of warehouse sized storage facilities is reminiscent of early 1950′s speculation of computing. By their standards, using vacuum tubes and relays, a home PC would have been the size of a house and used the power output of a coal fired power plant.
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Probably to help maintain Iran. If you remove Syria, Iran falls in short order. Then the whole monetary and hardware support for terrorism thing starts drying up. In a couple years it leads to destabilization of a couple countries in south america. Its a bunch of domino's.
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