Thanks for your short posted comment to the Techdirt website as a submittal to society. Unfortunately, society does not accept it as an acceptable contribution. Please get off your couch (with which you have intercourse) and go outside. Then take your own advice and get to work scrubbing those dishes, clearing tables, and picking gum off urinal cakes.
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Nope! It is definitely eric's fault for pointing it out. If he didn't do it then then you would have been able to continue making large 'profits' for Mike with ad revenue and eyeballs. If you would just censor eric, perhaps through legislation, you could maintain your revenue stream.
So I posted a comment that took the pro-IP side and went over the top. Maybe if we all attempt to post pro-IP comments with enough absurd hyperbole that the blog will appear neo-copyright maximalist. Here is what I wrote (still awaiting moderation, mind you):
I, along with the other four people who agreed with you in the last 8 days, feel that these free people just can’t grasp that I would never produce any art unless someone was handing me a dollar for my work. What is the point of doing art if I won’t get paid for it? They are so worried about free speech, but what about my right to be paid money endlessly for creating something one time with the expectation to be set for life from my weeks work of creativity? If they want art for free then they should make it themselves and be sure not to copy true artists. They can enjoy their sub-par art for free. I would rather live in obscurity and nobody own my art than for someone get it for free and gain notoriety for my skills. Keep up the fight…’til the death!
The local Fox and NBC station have been news sharing here for a couple years now. The Fox one comes on an hour earlier and lasts an hour while the NBC one is only half-an-hour. All the anchors are the same and mostly came from what used to be the NBC crews. But I can still watch ABC and CBS if I want another perspective.
That is certainly a new twist on "trickle-down" I never heard before. Good thing Reagan came up with it, because this didn't exist prior with the Rockefellers or anyone else that I am aware of.
Before piracy, if they wanted music, they bought music.
Radio has been free for listeners nearly since its inception. You act as though nothing was free until pirates hoisted their flag.
They might choose music over eating out at a restaurant, or perhaps choose it over buying say a new shirt or something. With piracy, they now no longer have to make the choice, they just download the music and buy the shirt.
Isn't it great! Music is not a life sustaining good and we can purchase necessities (food and clothing) with our scant resources (money) and still get music for free, or close to that. Most people are willing to pay for content if the price is reasonable and the terms of purchase are just (no drm or rootkits). Quite a few do that already and more "pirates" would buy if prices went lower than $1.29 per song. But some will never buy and your solution is that somehow every single person must pay you!? But that isn't your job to figure out. No! It is Google or Amazon or Apple who has to figure that out for you.
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To summarize: You have a beef that the judges didn't have an authoritative precedent for their rulings. You know, sometimes there just isn't a precedent. They looked for some related rulings (and why he should have to disclose the other information of those judgements in his own ruling is beyond me) to help guide them to make rulings that are...well...setting a precedent. Your entire authority problem is basically a chicken-egg paradox.
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A paid troll would be somebody who posts comments on a website where the bulk of the conversation is contrary to his own paid beliefs. His comments are usually rude, taunting, and never actually refute the claims made by his opponents (which, if they did, we would welcome them). If he had any valid points, he could share them...but since he doesn't, he reverts to personal attacks and name calling with red herrings and strawmen abound.
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I, along with the other four people who agreed with you in the last 8 days, feel that these free people just can’t grasp that I would never produce any art unless someone was handing me a dollar for my work. What is the point of doing art if I won’t get paid for it? They are so worried about free speech, but what about my right to be paid money endlessly for creating something one time with the expectation to be set for life from my weeks work of creativity? If they want art for free then they should make it themselves and be sure not to copy true artists. They can enjoy their sub-par art for free. I would rather live in obscurity and nobody own my art than for someone get it for free and gain notoriety for my skills. Keep up the fight…’til the death!
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Radio has been free for listeners nearly since its inception. You act as though nothing was free until pirates hoisted their flag.
They might choose music over eating out at a restaurant, or perhaps choose it over buying say a new shirt or something. With piracy, they now no longer have to make the choice, they just download the music and buy the shirt.
Isn't it great! Music is not a life sustaining good and we can purchase necessities (food and clothing) with our scant resources (money) and still get music for free, or close to that. Most people are willing to pay for content if the price is reasonable and the terms of purchase are just (no drm or rootkits). Quite a few do that already and more "pirates" would buy if prices went lower than $1.29 per song. But some will never buy and your solution is that somehow every single person must pay you!? But that isn't your job to figure out. No! It is Google or Amazon or Apple who has to figure that out for you.
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