Actually you could probably argue after the NSA spying equipment, the push by the white house for six strikes, and several other similar events, that they are acting as agents of the government.
Isn't it great! The laws set up to prevent unfair trade practices are evolving into protectionism for large corporations. History shows how bad protecting industries from competition is. Didn't that start a world war at one time.
"Give it a few years, and things will get back to normal, and the internet's influence on public policy will sink back to the level that it represents in the voting public, which is VERY low."
Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria are some examples of what communication technology has sped along. You fail to see the inventors dilemma in this, we are at the beginning of the communications revolution, not the end. By believing that things will go back to how they were before, you are making the same mistake that causes entire industries to fail.
"Oh, it is just a small trend, caused by (insert cause here)" is the rationalization that blindsides people. When they finally admit the trend is there it is already to late.
While I could lecture you on the Arab spring, human flesh search engines, the UK last summer, the EU ACTA protests, DARPA's Network Challenge, the Streisand Effect, social media, and Anonymous, I won't.
I will leave you with this thought. Right now the 2 billion internet users and various interest groups are disorganized. Slowly that organization is beginning to congeal as people follow what interests them, trust the old news organizations less, and begin discussing the news as opposed to just listening to it.
They will make the import of lower cost versions illegal. With huge fines for personal use, and jail time. With the jail time being a death sentence based on the HMO in the jail not paying for the needed drugs.
In the end history repeats itself in a round about way. With the (un)intended consequence being a death sentence for those who can not afford monopoly prices, and violate the IP rules. Much Like French cloth paterns a couple centuries back.
For the past few years I have been saying, bands should re record their albums to remove all profit from the labels. If Eminem did this he would be making an additional 35% on the sale price of his music from iTunes.
iTunes 30%, record label 35%, artist 35%, if the labels pay the artists.
Next on the chopping block at the USTR, the pharmaceutical industry, with their demands that individuals in developing nations, making $500 USD a year, pay $70,000 a year for cancer treatment.
I went on a house buying binge in AZ in 2002. I bought a bunch of houses and lost one of them for a month. The title company never sent me the paperwork. In essence it was an orphan house.
If it was that hard for me to keep track of real property, imagine how hard it is for the content owners to keep track of imaginary property.
They should crowd source voting machines. Include two sets (rolls) of punch paper for the voting record on top of the computerized system, have huge waste containers for the chads, show both paper voting records to the voter for verification, and print out a receipt that shows who was voted for. After the election paper verification should be done on the rolls to make sure the system wasn't hacked.
I was just pointing out the general sentiment towards one of the two reason for the MegaUpload raid. The other reason being make the admins of File Lockers fearful.
They did not learn from history, which shows, corporate education campaigns only work in the short term, and future campaigns along the same lines are ridiculed. After 20 years you would think ...
What is really a wonderful thing is you can not pay for this sort of publicity or cult status. It gives Kim Dotcom a huge amount of publicity for MegaBox. It also validates the concept of MegBox, Since people suspect the entrenched content players are trying to prevent MegaBox from happening.
I love the word Schadenfreude .... The next year or two are going to be fun to watch.
The copyright alliance wants Google to server up their pink slime instead of what people are searching for. Here is the kicker, they want the advertising at no cost to them. Their sense of entitlement is insane. Everyone else has to pay to advertise on Google.
Why don't they just pay to be on the top of Google's rankings? It would cost far less than buying politicians, trying to bully Google, and filing lawsuits. If RIAA had taken the $100 million USD they got from the Limewire case, and advertised on Google instead of lobbying for SOPA. They would have had around 50 billion page views.
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Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria are some examples of what communication technology has sped along. You fail to see the inventors dilemma in this, we are at the beginning of the communications revolution, not the end. By believing that things will go back to how they were before, you are making the same mistake that causes entire industries to fail.
"Oh, it is just a small trend, caused by (insert cause here)" is the rationalization that blindsides people. When they finally admit the trend is there it is already to late.
While I could lecture you on the Arab spring, human flesh search engines, the UK last summer, the EU ACTA protests, DARPA's Network Challenge, the Streisand Effect, social media, and Anonymous, I won't.
I will leave you with this thought. Right now the 2 billion internet users and various interest groups are disorganized. Slowly that organization is beginning to congeal as people follow what interests them, trust the old news organizations less, and begin discussing the news as opposed to just listening to it.
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In the end history repeats itself in a round about way. With the (un)intended consequence being a death sentence for those who can not afford monopoly prices, and violate the IP rules. Much Like French cloth paterns a couple centuries back.
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iTunes 30%, record label 35%, artist 35%, if the labels pay the artists.
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If it was that hard for me to keep track of real property, imagine how hard it is for the content owners to keep track of imaginary property.
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What is really a wonderful thing is you can not pay for this sort of publicity or cult status. It gives Kim Dotcom a huge amount of publicity for MegaBox. It also validates the concept of MegBox, Since people suspect the entrenched content players are trying to prevent MegaBox from happening.
I love the word Schadenfreude .... The next year or two are going to be fun to watch.
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Why don't they just pay to be on the top of Google's rankings? It would cost far less than buying politicians, trying to bully Google, and filing lawsuits. If RIAA had taken the $100 million USD they got from the Limewire case, and advertised on Google instead of lobbying for SOPA. They would have had around 50 billion page views.
So much for logical thought from these people.
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My favorite one was ...
"I Kissed A Girl. I Liked It. Then I Went To Hell!"
Made the national news in the US.
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