I was one of the readers who submitted the story-- and if you look through the blog comments (at least as of last night) Wil's community is pretty firmly on his side.
Mike, I am heartily angry at you for making me squint my eyes and shake my head while reading your article, only to realize mid-shake that I was in a crowded room of people.
Brilliant deduction my lad. Two sex scandals, a full decade apart by people whose positions are completely unrelated.
Obviously society is crumbling at it's very foundation. Your logic is sound, and I believe everyone here would agree.
You are a gentleman and a scholar and I can only hope that you would accept this humble offer of my sincerest honors.
Maybe this is just my slavery to TV, but another interesting misunderstanding of crowdsourcing, this time by turning it into an indefensible strawman then proceeding to beat the ever-loving shit out of it, was the latest episode of House. Basically, uber-nerd game developer gets brought in with a mysterious illness, refuses treatment from his doctors, just wants them to do the treatments suggested by an online community, obviously to disastrous results.
Obviously not worthy of a Techdirt writeup, but I thought it was interesting the way they completely ignored the nature of crowdsourcing, and how anyone in their right mind would never refuse medical treatment in favor of crowdsourced opinions and at best would use it as a supplement.
As someone who pirates and pays, I can safely say kicking me off the internet because I stole some stuff using the internet would cost them more revenue than what they supposedly 'lost' due to piracy.
I think music games are having the exact opposite effect. I played Guitar Hero, loved it, bought a guitar, sucked at it, put it away.
Guitar Hero is a GAME. Where was the outcry from dancers when DDR came out?
Sure, this is all fine and dandy, I support Kevin Smith in his artistic and business like endeavors. The man's a genius.
But he is a pain in the ass to follow on Twitter. I mean, god, left my computer alone for an hour yesterday, came back to 200+ tweets from one guy.
That part of this article should be refiled under (Mis) Uses of Technology.
Yarr. Methinks there shall always be a stigma to the party itself, but ye be warned, the ideas contained shall be spread like a wildfire in the streets of Tortuga.
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Yeah, sorry about that. It should help draw attention, but I doubt it will ever be taken seriously. Then again, I think it'll be taken seriously if its ideas are ever taken seriously. If we as a society decide to seriously think about copyright law, patent law, etc etc then I think public opinion of the Pirate Party will follow suit.
Embassy Suites totally screws their customers on this. You pay through the nose for a room, then they charge 10 bucks for 24 hours of Wi-Fi that's barely a hair faster than La Quinta's free WiFi. I know now that unless ES ever opens up their wifi I'll be looking elsewhere to stay.
And that right there's a clear cut case of a bad business model.
AC, you never cease to amaze me. Obviously they don't deserve a referral bonus, but by the RIAA's thinking, they do.
Then again, under the RIAA's thinking, this video is obviously stealing profits from the real song, should be taken down, and the owners of the video should be slapped with a hefty lawsuit as well as the venue that this was performed at.
The brilliance of the Techdirt comment community never ceases to amaze me.
YOU DARNED WHIPPERSNAPPERS SHOULD HAVE TO PAY TO WATCH ADVERTISEMENTS.
Yeah, you just keep handing the big corporations ways to squeeze money out of you.
Before you write a scathing comment on an article, perhaps you should read it?
There's plenty of reasons not to cap and meter broadband, what Mike's saying in this article is that if you're going to do it you should give something to the consumers of your service to monitor their own usage.
Also, your analogy is flawed because unlike water, a world without capped and metered broadband would be a much brighter place.
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Obviously society is crumbling at it's very foundation. Your logic is sound, and I believe everyone here would agree.
You are a gentleman and a scholar and I can only hope that you would accept this humble offer of my sincerest honors.
Again. Brilliant.
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Interesting, I'll have to look into that.
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I'm all for relevant, insightful discussion on the issues at hand, but seriously?
ACORN acronym games? What are we, twelve?
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Re: Defending ACORN?
Heard anything about a sequel to the Alvin And The Chipmunks movie?
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Obviously not worthy of a Techdirt writeup, but I thought it was interesting the way they completely ignored the nature of crowdsourcing, and how anyone in their right mind would never refuse medical treatment in favor of crowdsourced opinions and at best would use it as a supplement.
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Guitar Hero is a GAME. Where was the outcry from dancers when DDR came out?
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Re: Re: pot is hoisting the kettle by its own black petard
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But he is a pain in the ass to follow on Twitter. I mean, god, left my computer alone for an hour yesterday, came back to 200+ tweets from one guy.
That part of this article should be refiled under (Mis) Uses of Technology.
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Yeah, sorry about that. It should help draw attention, but I doubt it will ever be taken seriously. Then again, I think it'll be taken seriously if its ideas are ever taken seriously. If we as a society decide to seriously think about copyright law, patent law, etc etc then I think public opinion of the Pirate Party will follow suit.
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And that right there's a clear cut case of a bad business model.
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Then again, under the RIAA's thinking, this video is obviously stealing profits from the real song, should be taken down, and the owners of the video should be slapped with a hefty lawsuit as well as the venue that this was performed at.
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YOU DARNED WHIPPERSNAPPERS SHOULD HAVE TO PAY TO WATCH ADVERTISEMENTS.
Yeah, you just keep handing the big corporations ways to squeeze money out of you.
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There's plenty of reasons not to cap and meter broadband, what Mike's saying in this article is that if you're going to do it you should give something to the consumers of your service to monitor their own usage.
Also, your analogy is flawed because unlike water, a world without capped and metered broadband would be a much brighter place.
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