I work in IT, but even if I didn't there are many times (and I mean many) where reply all is essential to work. I think the problem would be when people reply all to a distribution list that includes most, if not all, of the workers for that organization. This is simple to fix you make the list private and those using it include it in the BC and have their own address in the to. Then if someone replies all it will go to the original sender. Beyond that it is well within an organizations rights to send out memo or require user training to avert such behavior.
I would be annoyed when someone cc's a bunch of people who will all want the reply and I have to hand enter every email address. Clearly this company is only looking at the problem and forgetting that the solution may be worse than the initial problem. You would think someone in their IT department would tell them a better way or of the values of reply all.
Leaving the sites up also gets your voice heard to more people. Even if they don't know it is you or don't ever come to this site at least they have been presented with the ideals embodied here. And that is also a positive outcome. Readers of the fake sites will be informed of all the issues you are so passionate about.
I had a digital camera back in college that made a clicking sound by default. The problem was that I tend not to use the flash so if you were indoors (not low light) the shutter speed would increase, meaning that the people posing for the picture needed to stand still longer. The problem was that when they would hear the artificial click they instinctively broke the pose leading to blurry pictures. My solution to the problem was to take off the click altogether rather than try to explain to them why they need to stand still longer.
So yea there is a perfectly legitimate reason why I would want to turn off the click. Dumb law thought up by dumb people.
When I first moved out on my own I started paying all of my bills via credit card for simplicity sake. Most bills would allow me to pay online via a credit card so that is what I did. Well there was one, the power bill, that charged you a couple of bucks to pay with your credit card. They called it a convenience fee. I flipped, and refused to use that method to pay my bill (I eventually switched to online banking).
Sure it is a convenience to me, but it is also a major convenience to them as well. I know they probably have to pay a certain amount to the credit card company, but when none of my other bills were charging an amount for credit transactions I figured they were just trying to milk me for money. Anyway this seems like the same idea. We'll try to make the cost low enough that you ignore the price. I have an ezpass, but I don't use it enough to justify even $.50 a month. Sorry not going to happen!
FYI the Apple offering isn't in MP3 format. They will still be using their own AAC format. Not a major deal and without the DRM you can easily encode AAC to MP3 with a click of the button, but industry standard seems to be MP3.
Ars is continually letting me down. They seem to go out of their way to give the RIAA the benefit of the doubt. To me this whole campaign is about bypassing the law and saving money on lawsuits. I don't want to be part of that system, and I would prefer that the RIAA waste money on lawsuits. At least my rights will be protected this way.
It just does not make sense to me. There were very good reasons why cell phones were subsidized, but those reasons do not apply here. Tell me what you think
In the comments of the Wired article people were going of that this student deserves everything she got. I don't understand this. The internet doesn't provide new problems. They may change the dynamics, but there really aren't any new problems. Bullying and cyberbullying are the same thing. Schools shouldn't treat them differently and we don't need different laws (perhaps we need to adapt laws, but not new ones). I think the comments showed a spill over from the Megan Merier case. It seems that people think cyberbullying is a huge deal and that any offender, regardless of age, should be thrown to the flames.
But beyond that I don't think she did anything wrong to start with. People make comments like this, and worse, about President Bush all the time. As long as those comments aren't threatening no one would expect the government punish them for those comments. If this girl organized a petition or staged a demonstration would she have been suspended? All of that is the same. FB is used to rally students in an effort against a teacher, only in this case it didn't work. That is exactly how it should have been handled. If it worked than likely the teacher is bad, since it didn't work, truth prevailed. The school would have been better off just to leave it at that.
Further I do see this as an issue of free speech. She should be allowed to have a group or express her opinions as she sees fit. If that is cyberbullying than we live in a scary nation.
I still get worked up. I guess I should expect it, but the very notion boils my blood so much that I get worked up. Fortunately I am not worked up about Obama, but I am worried a little since Biden is vp. Will he have more influence than he should?
I was very disappointed in Ars. Normally they do a good and fair job. It wasn't that they supported the idea, but that they dismissed any disagreement as being a knee-jerk reaction and than went on to support their bias with quotes from everyone that agrees. And they clearly misrepresented techdirt.
It isn't that I expect everyone to agree with me, but at least give fair representation. Ars could have gotten an actual statement from techdirt.
I say Here Here techdirt. Time for the Labels to understand there are consumers who hold stake in this process. I have long since taken my money elsewhere (by not buying much of the major label crap & mostly listening to indie stuff), but if they decided to engage consumers rather than fight them I might bring some money back to the table.
I agree @Hulser apparently someone is afraid to get their feelings hurt.
I haven't ditched cable just yet, but I only have basic. The big problem is that high speed internet cost so very much and cable tv costs so much. Combine just those two services and you are paying $100 or more, at least in New England, so if you wanted to save money you could ditch the tv and opt for the internet. The only reason I have basic is because it is free for a year with my cable internet. I looked into it.
Basic: $10 or so
Next level Cable: $50 or so
Don't even want to think about the next level of cable. Too much when almost all of the content is legally online.
The MPAA is the one stuck in time. They are stuck in the 90's where they thought that DRM was necessary to compete. Great article Mike I hope one day the MPAA will figure out how to compete in a modern day market place.
@Twinrova I use MythTV and I can setup any recording to start either ontime or with whatever buffer I decide. It is a little bit of a pain if I were recording 2 shows back to back, because it just wouldn't record the second show, but that doesn't normally happen to me. So my dvr still works.
I should also add that recently I am finding the streaming options from various stations rather compelling. I am really thinking about dropping TV altogether and opting for the streaming method...but I only do basic anyway so what is $10 a month?
You know the thing is that he said all you would have is a bunch of band pages, but that is where I find the best music. I find some awesome music and bands that aren't signed or little known. They make the best music (far better than the big bands) and so the dooms day hypothetical that he thinks will happen would actually be a welcome relief to me. Freedom from all of the crap music being played on the top 20 stations. So yea in a way I hope the guys is right. Give away music and it spells doom to the major labels and the musicians they represent (CRAP!)
Doesn't get any better than this. Is this what the music industry is coming down to sue sue sue! If you aren't making enough money than just sue! What a world we live in.
Wow that last quote was so glorious. I gave him a standing ovation right here in my office (yea heads turned). He took the words right of my mouth with this statement, "armed with a statute written by them and lobbied and quietly passed through a compliant congress, to march defendants through the federal courts to make examples out of them."
I am so glad to see the Berkman center and Neeson finally fighting back. I hope the courts will finally get to the root of the problem.
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Buy American
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Reply All is essential to work
I would be annoyed when someone cc's a bunch of people who will all want the reply and I have to hand enter every email address. Clearly this company is only looking at the problem and forgetting that the solution may be worse than the initial problem. You would think someone in their IT department would tell them a better way or of the values of reply all.
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Plus it gets your cause out there
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Reason to turn off the sound
So yea there is a perfectly legitimate reason why I would want to turn off the click. Dumb law thought up by dumb people.
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convenience fee
Sure it is a convenience to me, but it is also a major convenience to them as well. I know they probably have to pay a certain amount to the credit card company, but when none of my other bills were charging an amount for credit transactions I figured they were just trying to milk me for money. Anyway this seems like the same idea. We'll try to make the cost low enough that you ignore the price. I have an ezpass, but I don't use it enough to justify even $.50 a month. Sorry not going to happen!
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FYI not MP3 format
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I love Bon Iver
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Ars let me down again
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I was writing something up about this very thing
It just does not make sense to me. There were very good reasons why cell phones were subsidized, but those reasons do not apply here. Tell me what you think
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cyberbullying and bullying are the same thing
But beyond that I don't think she did anything wrong to start with. People make comments like this, and worse, about President Bush all the time. As long as those comments aren't threatening no one would expect the government punish them for those comments. If this girl organized a petition or staged a demonstration would she have been suspended? All of that is the same. FB is used to rally students in an effort against a teacher, only in this case it didn't work. That is exactly how it should have been handled. If it worked than likely the teacher is bad, since it didn't work, truth prevailed. The school would have been better off just to leave it at that.
Further I do see this as an issue of free speech. She should be allowed to have a group or express her opinions as she sees fit. If that is cyberbullying than we live in a scary nation.
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I still get worked up
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disappointed in Ars
It isn't that I expect everyone to agree with me, but at least give fair representation. Ars could have gotten an actual statement from techdirt.
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Here Here
I agree @Hulser apparently someone is afraid to get their feelings hurt.
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Ditching cable
Basic: $10 or so
Next level Cable: $50 or so
Don't even want to think about the next level of cable. Too much when almost all of the content is legally online.
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Pot calling the Kettle Black
@Twinrova I use MythTV and I can setup any recording to start either ontime or with whatever buffer I decide. It is a little bit of a pain if I were recording 2 shows back to back, because it just wouldn't record the second show, but that doesn't normally happen to me. So my dvr still works.
I should also add that recently I am finding the streaming options from various stations rather compelling. I am really thinking about dropping TV altogether and opting for the streaming method...but I only do basic anyway so what is $10 a month?
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Glad to see they are standing up against this
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I like Indie Bands
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Wow
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Score one for the Harvard Professor
I am so glad to see the Berkman center and Neeson finally fighting back. I hope the courts will finally get to the root of the problem.
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Hypocricy is rampant
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