Mr. anonymous coward, what is the actual trademark there? I'm confused. Are people going to get confused that contributing money to buy spiderman 3 is a trademark violation of spiderman 3? That makes no sense.
it's a simple plan: the words "Spiderman 3" and possibly a picture of same is used to do something that the studios don't like, er go trademark infringement.
sure, this is not the intent of trademark law, but that is immaterial. all is fair when you are protecting studio profits.
I think that they have looked at the economics and the desires of the customer base and that at this time it makes more economic sense for them to keep the services bundled.
for now, maybe. it's a big hit with the early adopter crowd and is becoming mainstream. i dumped blockbuster online and i am seriously considering a netflix subscription mostly for the streaming service.
After all the goal is to make the customers the happiest possible, the goal is to keep the customers satisfied and rake in as much money as possible.
the goal is to keep costs down so they can keep making a profit. customer happiness is just one point in a complex matrix. more important than customer satisfaction is keeping hollywood at bay lest the movie cartels decide to triple the prices of the discs they authorize to netflix.
that's the problem that netflix, redbox, hulu, and everyone else is facing: the delicate balancing act of giving their customers what they want while keeping hollywood from completely alienating those same customers.
whenever companies want to innovate too much, hollywood wants to take its content and go home. this is unfortunate for services like netflix who are presumably built on the idea that hollywood wants it's movies to be seen by people.
personally, it doesn't affect me at all. i get all the movies i want, mostly via filesharing and sometimes via DVD rental. it's easier for me to obtain the films than it is to make time to watch them, so when it comes to movies and television, i'm set.
so if hollywood decides to crush netflix, or hulu, or whomever, i'll still get mine. they'll have to stop making movies all together before i start to miss out, and based on the dwindling number of good movies i have seen of late, i don't think i'll be missing that much.
let's hope that hollywood soon realizes that their choice of revenue streams is becoming limited, and that companies like netflix may be their only hope for growth.
Well, firstly, if you buy a SUBSIDIZED handset, it isn't technically 100% yours. As until the subsidy has been paid off, part of the handset actually belongs to the operator your purchased it from.
it can't be subsidized *that* much, otherwise, kids in the drug trade would have put them out of business years ago by burning phones.
Does this have anything to do with preventing people from installing software on phones that might be used to remotely detonate an IED?
1) you don't use phones as detonators. you use them as triggers. phones don't generate enough electricity to detonate anything. you use a power source like a battery to blow a smaller explosive (like a blasting cap), called a primer. all the trigger does is complete the circuit between the battery and the primer.
2) any device with a vibrate function can be used as a trigger, including a pager or a sex toy.
3) you don't need any software to set up a phone as a trigger. you just cut the wire from the phone to the vibrate-motor and solder it to a switch. the phone "rings", switch closes the circuit, and (hopefully) it goes boom.
Steve was saying that if he 'forces' people to contribute back their changes (LGPL) it actually ends up being a weaker community and then in-turn less developers actually contributing back quality code.
and i am saying that there are two distinct communities: one GPL and one for everything else.
the GPL started as a way to ensure that software remained free (the "free riders" argument), but now that there are so many other open source licenses, the role of the GPL is to serve as a kind of seal, or brand, that marks a given application or package as free to be used for stuff you are using other GPL stuff for.
personally, if a given license isn't GPL i'm really not that interested. i'll make exceptions of course (mozilla for example) but for the most part it's GPL or GTFO.
it breaks down like this: bsd licensed code is free code for use in software. the GPL is code for use in Free software.
even the GPL is not without it's exceptions. using changes made to GPL code used internally to an organization don't have to be released. same with Software As A Service.
"Can you frame this conversation as free vs. paid? No. Not if you are trying to get someone to pay you cash directly for something that is ubiquitously available for free."
umm - like bottled water?
there are a lot of things that you are buying with bottled water, like convenience, and in places with questionable water tables (like mexico) you are buying purity. people feel they can trust a brand, so peace of mind also comes into play.
so too with infinite goods, convenience is a salable commodity, so too is purity in some respects. yes i can get an ebook, or a song, or whatever i want from bit torrent, if i know what i am looking for and want to take the time to look for it. if i download my copy direct from the author (where the author gets click info for advertising and market research purposes) i get convenience and peace of mind.
high def/fidelity prints/recordings on physical media are a form of purity that some people will value and pay for. not every one, but the physical types with high standards. merchandise can also be sold, like large, high quality prints of cover art.
In order for Doctorow to make a living, he can't just be a great writer, he now has to be a performance artist who has to STOP WRITING to go on the road and "present" his writings. it seems like rather a whole bunch of opportunity cost waste, no?
how is that different from a book tour that happens now?
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Re: Microsoft going down
what OS does winny run on? windows? if so then the japanese prosecutors are probably headed for redmond right now.
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Re: Harry Potter is
lord of the rings is just a reworked ring of the niebelung, with the addition of hobbits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen
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Re: Ubuntu
unbuntu is arabic for "death to america".
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Re: Repeat after me...
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not recognizing sarcasm supports terrorism. it's also racist.
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Re: lendingclub.com?
it's a simple plan: the words "Spiderman 3" and possibly a picture of same is used to do something that the studios don't like, er go trademark infringement.
sure, this is not the intent of trademark law, but that is immaterial. all is fair when you are protecting studio profits.
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for now, maybe. it's a big hit with the early adopter crowd and is becoming mainstream. i dumped blockbuster online and i am seriously considering a netflix subscription mostly for the streaming service.
After all the goal is to make the customers the happiest possible, the goal is to keep the customers satisfied and rake in as much money as possible.
the goal is to keep costs down so they can keep making a profit. customer happiness is just one point in a complex matrix. more important than customer satisfaction is keeping hollywood at bay lest the movie cartels decide to triple the prices of the discs they authorize to netflix.
that's the problem that netflix, redbox, hulu, and everyone else is facing: the delicate balancing act of giving their customers what they want while keeping hollywood from completely alienating those same customers.
whenever companies want to innovate too much, hollywood wants to take its content and go home. this is unfortunate for services like netflix who are presumably built on the idea that hollywood wants it's movies to be seen by people.
personally, it doesn't affect me at all. i get all the movies i want, mostly via filesharing and sometimes via DVD rental. it's easier for me to obtain the films than it is to make time to watch them, so when it comes to movies and television, i'm set.
so if hollywood decides to crush netflix, or hulu, or whomever, i'll still get mine. they'll have to stop making movies all together before i start to miss out, and based on the dwindling number of good movies i have seen of late, i don't think i'll be missing that much.
let's hope that hollywood soon realizes that their choice of revenue streams is becoming limited, and that companies like netflix may be their only hope for growth.
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it can't be subsidized *that* much, otherwise, kids in the drug trade would have put them out of business years ago by burning phones.
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did the unlock exception for the DMCA expire?
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Re: Counter-Terrorism?
1) you don't use phones as detonators. you use them as triggers. phones don't generate enough electricity to detonate anything. you use a power source like a battery to blow a smaller explosive (like a blasting cap), called a primer. all the trigger does is complete the circuit between the battery and the primer.
2) any device with a vibrate function can be used as a trigger, including a pager or a sex toy.
3) you don't need any software to set up a phone as a trigger. you just cut the wire from the phone to the vibrate-motor and solder it to a switch. the phone "rings", switch closes the circuit, and (hopefully) it goes boom.
4) techdirt now supports terrorism.
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Re: Re: this was settled long ago
and i am saying that there are two distinct communities: one GPL and one for everything else.
the GPL started as a way to ensure that software remained free (the "free riders" argument), but now that there are so many other open source licenses, the role of the GPL is to serve as a kind of seal, or brand, that marks a given application or package as free to be used for stuff you are using other GPL stuff for.
personally, if a given license isn't GPL i'm really not that interested. i'll make exceptions of course (mozilla for example) but for the most part it's GPL or GTFO.
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this was settled long ago
even the GPL is not without it's exceptions. using changes made to GPL code used internally to an organization don't have to be released. same with Software As A Service.
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meh
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Re: I'm surprised...
you have to buy it again, just like yo did with the CD and the DVD. duh.
don't tell me you "fair use pirates" want to buy something, be able to play it on anything, and have it never become obsoleted?
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Re: I disagree...
umm - like bottled water?
there are a lot of things that you are buying with bottled water, like convenience, and in places with questionable water tables (like mexico) you are buying purity. people feel they can trust a brand, so peace of mind also comes into play.
so too with infinite goods, convenience is a salable commodity, so too is purity in some respects. yes i can get an ebook, or a song, or whatever i want from bit torrent, if i know what i am looking for and want to take the time to look for it. if i download my copy direct from the author (where the author gets click info for advertising and market research purposes) i get convenience and peace of mind.
high def/fidelity prints/recordings on physical media are a form of purity that some people will value and pay for. not every one, but the physical types with high standards. merchandise can also be sold, like large, high quality prints of cover art.
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how is that different from a book tour that happens now?
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give it away and pray supports terrorism.
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