Obviously the studios and their tame sharks are too effing stupid to follow a link.
Or... they know the difference but they're just trying to hurt as many customers as possible because pissing off customers is obviously good for business.
Oh wait, that's still effing stupid.
Or they figure that they will make more money by strong-arming customers for money they don't have or putting them into jail so they can't make more.
Y'know, that's pretty effing stupid too.
OK, let's go for effing stupid and leave it at that.
Analogy fail. Copyright infringement isn't theft. Copying bits is very different from stealing atoms. Straw man -- Mike does not advocate theft (nor copyright violation), he advocates fixing the laws to make more sense.
Oops! Turns out I'm OK after all. I was thinking this was a different movie; I actually HAVE seen this movie, in the theater (and I didn't kill 20 people to get in for free, either) with my daughter (who is a bit obsessed with the X-Men), and I don't have nor have I seen any other copies, period.
Of course I can't PROVE that I don't have any other copies, so I'm still guilty. Damn!
I haven't seen either, so I'm in violation of the 2012 All Consumers Must Pay All Their Money To MAFIAA act and, by their accounting, I've cost them billions.
Fortunately it hasn't been passed yet, so I'm OK until it does. Of course, since it's retroactive until the beginning of time, by this time next year I'm screwed.
their model is one for profit, not for free speech.
So? There's nothing wrong with a company's business model being for profit but leveraging free speech to do so. I mean, aren't businesses supposed to make profits?
I'm not disagreeing with your comment overall. I'm just suggesting that your final point is a bit weak. Try again?
Since he went the whole creepy route, all he did was ensure that any woman he meets in the future will google him, find this story, and run for the hills.
"Except it turned out that those files had actually been provided by PR firms, working for the music labels, who hoped blogs like Dajaz1 would circulate them to create buzz for up-and-coming artists."
I guess Dajaz1 hasn't been circulating sample music files to create buzz etc. for the last year. Mission: accomplished.
"And if open platforms invariably end up hosting some infringing content uploaded by users? Well, that's as good a pretext as any for shutting down the competition."
Seems to me that users don't have to upload the content. Hosting (or even linking to) licensed content provided by the studios or their PR firms for advertising purposes is apparently enough pretext to shut down a site.
Onus probandi. Dodd's lack of ANY information for his assertion puts the burden of proof on him. Mike at least did some basic research and came up with some numbers. Now you're trying to shift the burden of proof back onto Mike and, by the way, your hand-waving doesn't constitute an argument. If you honestly think Mike's numbers are wrong you need to come up with some better numbers.
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I do not necessarily exclude myself, but that's because I'm so damn important!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g
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Or... they know the difference but they're just trying to hurt as many customers as possible because pissing off customers is obviously good for business.
Oh wait, that's still effing stupid.
Or they figure that they will make more money by strong-arming customers for money they don't have or putting them into jail so they can't make more.
Y'know, that's pretty effing stupid too.
OK, let's go for effing stupid and leave it at that.
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Of course I can't PROVE that I don't have any other copies, so I'm still guilty. Damn!
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Straw man. Troll harder.
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Fortunately it hasn't been passed yet, so I'm OK until it does. Of course, since it's retroactive until the beginning of time, by this time next year I'm screwed.
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So? There's nothing wrong with a company's business model being for profit but leveraging free speech to do so. I mean, aren't businesses supposed to make profits?
I'm not disagreeing with your comment overall. I'm just suggesting that your final point is a bit weak. Try again?
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Oh, THAT explains why I can't get a date!
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I can just imagine the conditions:
Duuuude! Oh Wow! I can see, like, light and stuff! Eeeeeeeerrrrrrrrmmmmmmm VOOM! It's like, all bright and stuff!
Man this is some good shit!
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I guess Dajaz1 hasn't been circulating sample music files to create buzz etc. for the last year. Mission: accomplished.
"And if open platforms invariably end up hosting some infringing content uploaded by users? Well, that's as good a pretext as any for shutting down the competition."
Seems to me that users don't have to upload the content. Hosting (or even linking to) licensed content provided by the studios or their PR firms for advertising purposes is apparently enough pretext to shut down a site.
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