A) try to force mandatory drm on, well, everything or B) a CD tax like canada on anything that can be used to store music. CDs, mp3 players, flash drives, hard drives, etc or C) a $5-10/mo tax assessed on every household or possibly x amount per GB of transfer.
or d) institute a VOLUNTARY blanket license that allows consumers to acquire media in any fashion that they desire for non-commercial use completely legally so long as their license is current.
licenses are sold annually or monthly and the funds collected are distributed to labels, ascap, and all the other royalty groups.
media companies can continue to snoop peer to peer networks looking for people to sue, but now they must prove that the defendant did not have a valid license at the time of the alleged infringement. the labels and studios can continue to screw artists just like they always have, and i can continue to download everything i want from bit torrent, only now i don't have to deal with private trackers, run blocklist tools and tunnel my traffic because file sharing is legal as long as you have a license to do so. this will mean faster transfers, more seeders, and a more active file sharing community.
since the blanket license is voluntary, people who buy hard drives or blank CD's don't have to pay taxes, people who buy CDs or stuff from itunes can continue to do so unimpeded, and the underground and warez scene types can keep doing what they do.
i call this the piracy pass. i keep doing what i do, they keep doing what they do, and i pay for the convenience of being able to do my thing in the open.
What if newspapers were to basically 'become' the next Google?
too little, too late. google has had several years of being google to become really good at being google.
if every newspaper started the process this afternoon and poured all of their combined resources into the effort, it would be years before they had a fraction of what google has.
google figured out how to make advertising pay for their entire enterprise. big newspapers have all of these legacy problems that aren't going to go away. there isn't enough ad and subscription revenue to produce news AND service debts. maybe some independent papers have more financial freedom, but for big corporate newspapers, there just isn't enough money to be made to continue.
to be honest, failure is probably the only way that newspapers can succeed in transforming.
the old news corporations have to go under and take their debts with them, thereby freeing the people of the newspaper industry to start new corporations that have no legacy problems. these new startups will have more freedom to redefine the market for news.
The villain here is the TV stations. They have been conviced to allow broadcast to computers, but as soon as a TV show ends up on a TV or mobile device without going through their broadcast network, they lose advertising revenue, so they freak out.
Since the content providers still depend mostly on traditional local broadcast for their content royalties, the TV stations still hold significant power, and they are using that leverage to prevent service and content providers from bypassing them and collecting the ad revenue directly.
that setup is living on borrowed time. in a couple of years more people will watch video on computers and mobile devices than on traditional televisions. someone in TVland needs to understand that before they end up newspapers and record labels.
data freed from google is called liberated data.
the tool to do the move is called a data ladle.
when google isn't finished with a project the result is called a beta.
SO aggregate result is the liberated data ladle beta.
this generation of consoles may very well be the last for games on physical media and at that point there will be no used games. steam, greenhouse, live arcade, etc. can distribute games without media, making a used market impossible.
so while it's great that used CD's, games, dvd's and whatnot are great or at least non-harful, it won't matter much since digital delivery will make physical media obsolete.
The bigger question is when will somebody cook up a version of these games that allow for music creation, as well as their current role in music mimickry. Following the masters is a time-honored tradition in learning to play instruments. But, until people can use these games to make new music as well as play along with existing music, the games will stunt growth...but not because they use buttons instead of strings.
In the higher education sector the actual knowledge has always been free - so institutions are already a long way down the CwF (Alumni associations, college sports etc etc - what else are they?)
this is true for traditional students looking for the traditional college experience. college is a great place to go to keggers and find out if you are a lesbian or not. but for a growing number of people, college is simply a means to an end. in some cases, a college degree is simply a checkbox to fill on an application, so cost and duration are prevailing considerations for fulfilling those requirements.
+RtB (personal contact will always be scarce as is the prestige of an established institution ) so maybe this sector will turn out to be largely immune since it already works on a "new" model.
while also true, it doesn't take into account the non-traditional student who may already have an established career, or a person who for whatever reason missed the opportunity to attend college at the ideal time.
distruption isn't always about replacing the old model. it's about providing better value to a sector of the market for whom the old model is not the best value.
in the case of the music industry, the album/CD was the only game in town for a long time, so the collector and the casual consumer had to buy the same products. digital downloads are a better product for the casual consumer, but there is no reason for the collector to stop buying albums. sure, the market for those collectibles may shrink because the number of casual consumers is greater than the number of collectors, but it also means more music in the hands of more people, which is a net positive.
in the same vein, college is a social norm for many people, to the point that many people see it as what you are supposed to do from age 18-22 and there are many life lessons that are learned in that environment that have little to do with higher education.
there is no reason for college to stop being that important phase of life for people in that situation. however, for people who are past that point in their lives, and don't need the ancillary "growing up" experience, additional avenues for learning can only improve things.
that is the nature of disruption: redefining the market so that it better satisfies the consumer. there is already a market for traditional college, but that product is not satisfying the non-traditional student segment of that market and so new products and services can be brought to market and targeted at that segment.
being able to move 4 gigs one way in less than a day is great. i have done similar things with DLT's and fedex when the situation has called for it.
i have been seeding a DVD ISOs of wikipedia on bittorrent for people in places like africa to hand carry to remote villages.
the problem with sneakernets is latency. being able to move gigs fast is only one part of the equation. the amount of time it takes to do something with those gigs and respond is also an issue. if your data is lost/damaged in transit, it might take while to determine that and request a retransmit.
speaking of sneakernets, i have had great success trading 1TB usb hard drives with friends. that's pretty much the best way to move huge amounts of stuff, rips of several DVD boxsets.
but what if people that get copies of that picture, photograph, book, etc starts stating that he painted it, or wrote it? What if he becomes famous because of that lie, and people starts hiring him to draw pictures, take pictures, etc? On the other side, we have the real author, not knowing what to do, saying he wrote/painted the work. Maybe even he doesn't have funds to go public stating that he is the real author! Don't you think there is something wrong with this?
prolific copying and distribution of a work makes it known who the author/writer is and makes these plagiarism issues easier to deal with. if there are millions of copies of a picture or book floating around over the years with your name on it, then it's not hard to get people on your side in the argument that a work is yours, especially if you gave it to them. there is tons of drama on the internet about this very thing (do a google search for "dear god, please make everyone die. amen")
if you want to plagiarize a college paper and download one from the net, what's to stop the school or instructor from searching the same net and finding the same paper? getting your stuff out there for people to see hear and read solidifies you as the owner.
in fact, attribution is a huge deal even for the most notorious of pirates. there are countless tales of the famous aXXo getting his feelings hurt over people uploading his movie rips as their own or for putting the aXXo name on low quality rips.
aXXo has a reputation for quality releases that he/she wants to maintain and get credit for and when he/she feels besmirched there is drama and not refusal to work with a given site or tracker.
no one believes that aXXo wrote, directed, or produced the movies he uploads, nor does aXXo want anyone to believe that, but he does want his reputation and standing with the scene protected.
Maybe copyright is not the way to regulate the right of attribution, but I think nobody can disagree with the statement that this needs to be regulated somehow. For the time being, is copyright. Maybe in the future there is another form
it sounds more like a kind of trademark issue to me. you want your identity as a creator protected, and your works, however they are distributed, to be associated with your identity. it would seem that exposure would regulate a lot of that: if everyone has your picture or book, then it would be hard to disprove that you painted or wrote it.
If we had working replicator technology it would crush the word economy and throw us into complete chaos, no question about it. The lazy nature of humans will come out in full swing, why clean toilets for minimum wage when you can get all the food you need. Yes, there will still be people working to make life better for everyone, but they are few and far between.
i disagree. the human experience is designed by what you *don't have* not by what you do have. in fact, the instant that you satisfy one need, another will immediately appear. this is basic psychology known as maslow's hierarchy of needs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mazlow%27s_Hierarchy_of_Needs.svg
there are thousands of other pursuits besides food, clothing and shelter, and the economy will continue on the sale and trading of those other scarcities.
You are obviously not a programmer. Debugging bad code is much harder than writing good code the first time.
sure if you intend to use the code to build products from.
if you just want to sell it to competitors or to people interested in rigging elections, then the bugs (0dayz) contained in the code are worth more than the completed code.
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Re: good and bad from this
or d) institute a VOLUNTARY blanket license that allows consumers to acquire media in any fashion that they desire for non-commercial use completely legally so long as their license is current.
licenses are sold annually or monthly and the funds collected are distributed to labels, ascap, and all the other royalty groups.
media companies can continue to snoop peer to peer networks looking for people to sue, but now they must prove that the defendant did not have a valid license at the time of the alleged infringement. the labels and studios can continue to screw artists just like they always have, and i can continue to download everything i want from bit torrent, only now i don't have to deal with private trackers, run blocklist tools and tunnel my traffic because file sharing is legal as long as you have a license to do so. this will mean faster transfers, more seeders, and a more active file sharing community.
since the blanket license is voluntary, people who buy hard drives or blank CD's don't have to pay taxes, people who buy CDs or stuff from itunes can continue to do so unimpeded, and the underground and warez scene types can keep doing what they do.
i call this the piracy pass. i keep doing what i do, they keep doing what they do, and i pay for the convenience of being able to do my thing in the open.
On the post: Is It Possible For Newspapers To Save Themselves?
Re: Re: a holy mission
too little, too late. google has had several years of being google to become really good at being google.
if every newspaper started the process this afternoon and poured all of their combined resources into the effort, it would be years before they had a fraction of what google has.
google figured out how to make advertising pay for their entire enterprise. big newspapers have all of these legacy problems that aren't going to go away. there isn't enough ad and subscription revenue to produce news AND service debts. maybe some independent papers have more financial freedom, but for big corporate newspapers, there just isn't enough money to be made to continue.
to be honest, failure is probably the only way that newspapers can succeed in transforming.
the old news corporations have to go under and take their debts with them, thereby freeing the people of the newspaper industry to start new corporations that have no legacy problems. these new startups will have more freedom to redefine the market for news.
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Re: Re:
why would you hire an investigator when you can just trample people's civil liberties instead?
On the post: Content Owners Force Hulu To Block Mobile Browsers As Well
Re: Not the content owners...
Since the content providers still depend mostly on traditional local broadcast for their content royalties, the TV stations still hold significant power, and they are using that leverage to prevent service and content providers from bypassing them and collecting the ad revenue directly.
that setup is living on borrowed time. in a couple of years more people will watch video on computers and mobile devices than on traditional televisions. someone in TVland needs to understand that before they end up newspapers and record labels.
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Re: Comp to TV
no way dude. pirated movies look waaaay better on an illegally modded xbox.
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Re: Re: Re: Question
your only recourse is to go down town and turn in your internet.
On the post: Google Helps People Get Their Data Out Of Google
positively seussian
data freed from google is called liberated data.
the tool to do the move is called a data ladle.
when google isn't finished with a project the result is called a beta.
SO aggregate result is the liberated data ladle beta.
On the post: More Evidence: Used Sales Benefit The Primary Market
meh. used games are a thing of the past
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/3/30/
this generation of consoles may very well be the last for games on physical media and at that point there will be no used games. steam, greenhouse, live arcade, etc. can distribute games without media, making a used market impossible.
so while it's great that used CD's, games, dvd's and whatnot are great or at least non-harful, it won't matter much since digital delivery will make physical media obsolete.
On the post: Elderly Classic Rock Musicians Don't Like Music Video Games
Re: Buttons
video games as musical instruments is here and now, it's just not mainstream yet:
http://www.nullsleep.com/more.php
and there is a ton of chiptune and circuitbending music out there.
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Re: Elderly Classic Rock Musicians Don't Like Music Video Games
give a plastic guitar to a real guitar player and he fails epically. all those years mastering an instrument don't translate to a kids game.
and that is why you see the reckless video game hate.
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Re:
every single moment in life can be accurately represented by either an XKCD or a penny-arcade comic strip.
On the post: Next Up For Disruption? College
Re: CwF+RtB
this is true for traditional students looking for the traditional college experience. college is a great place to go to keggers and find out if you are a lesbian or not. but for a growing number of people, college is simply a means to an end. in some cases, a college degree is simply a checkbox to fill on an application, so cost and duration are prevailing considerations for fulfilling those requirements.
+RtB (personal contact will always be scarce as is the prestige of an established institution ) so maybe this sector will turn out to be largely immune since it already works on a "new" model.
while also true, it doesn't take into account the non-traditional student who may already have an established career, or a person who for whatever reason missed the opportunity to attend college at the ideal time.
distruption isn't always about replacing the old model. it's about providing better value to a sector of the market for whom the old model is not the best value.
in the case of the music industry, the album/CD was the only game in town for a long time, so the collector and the casual consumer had to buy the same products. digital downloads are a better product for the casual consumer, but there is no reason for the collector to stop buying albums. sure, the market for those collectibles may shrink because the number of casual consumers is greater than the number of collectors, but it also means more music in the hands of more people, which is a net positive.
in the same vein, college is a social norm for many people, to the point that many people see it as what you are supposed to do from age 18-22 and there are many life lessons that are learned in that environment that have little to do with higher education.
there is no reason for college to stop being that important phase of life for people in that situation. however, for people who are past that point in their lives, and don't need the ancillary "growing up" experience, additional avenues for learning can only improve things.
that is the nature of disruption: redefining the market so that it better satisfies the consumer. there is already a market for traditional college, but that product is not satisfying the non-traditional student segment of that market and so new products and services can be brought to market and targeted at that segment.
On the post: Sneakernet, Pigeonet And The Meaninglessness Of Judging Broadband By Silly Stunts
yeah, but what about latency?
i have been seeding a DVD ISOs of wikipedia on bittorrent for people in places like africa to hand carry to remote villages.
the problem with sneakernets is latency. being able to move gigs fast is only one part of the equation. the amount of time it takes to do something with those gigs and respond is also an issue. if your data is lost/damaged in transit, it might take while to determine that and request a retransmit.
speaking of sneakernets, i have had great success trading 1TB usb hard drives with friends. that's pretty much the best way to move huge amounts of stuff, rips of several DVD boxsets.
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Re: Re: If they priced the articles appropriately...
i have bought a bunch of things on impulse that the credit card entry process would have pushed me to reconsider.
On the post: Lord Kames Explains Why Copyright Is Not Property... In 1773
Re:
prolific copying and distribution of a work makes it known who the author/writer is and makes these plagiarism issues easier to deal with. if there are millions of copies of a picture or book floating around over the years with your name on it, then it's not hard to get people on your side in the argument that a work is yours, especially if you gave it to them. there is tons of drama on the internet about this very thing (do a google search for "dear god, please make everyone die. amen")
if you want to plagiarize a college paper and download one from the net, what's to stop the school or instructor from searching the same net and finding the same paper? getting your stuff out there for people to see hear and read solidifies you as the owner.
in fact, attribution is a huge deal even for the most notorious of pirates. there are countless tales of the famous aXXo getting his feelings hurt over people uploading his movie rips as their own or for putting the aXXo name on low quality rips.
aXXo has a reputation for quality releases that he/she wants to maintain and get credit for and when he/she feels besmirched there is drama and not refusal to work with a given site or tracker.
no one believes that aXXo wrote, directed, or produced the movies he uploads, nor does aXXo want anyone to believe that, but he does want his reputation and standing with the scene protected.
Maybe copyright is not the way to regulate the right of attribution, but I think nobody can disagree with the statement that this needs to be regulated somehow. For the time being, is copyright. Maybe in the future there is another form
it sounds more like a kind of trademark issue to me. you want your identity as a creator protected, and your works, however they are distributed, to be associated with your identity. it would seem that exposure would regulate a lot of that: if everyone has your picture or book, then it would be hard to disprove that you painted or wrote it.
a lot of this is covered in "against intellectual monopoly":
http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
levine talks about plagiarism as a kind of identity theft, and how it's reasonable to want consumers and producers alike to protect against it.
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Re:
On the post: Glenn Beck Didn't Rape And Murder Anyone... But He Doesn't Want Websites Discussing It
Re: ok.. clue me in..
he's batman's arch nemesis:
http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/thumb/b/bc/GlennBeckRaped.jpg/180px-GlennBe ckRaped.jpg
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Re: Re: Learn how to spel
you dumbass. the british spell it "peter file"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUH4zcNi020
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Re: Re:
i disagree. the human experience is designed by what you *don't have* not by what you do have. in fact, the instant that you satisfy one need, another will immediately appear. this is basic psychology known as maslow's hierarchy of needs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mazlow%27s_Hierarchy_of_Needs.svg
there are thousands of other pursuits besides food, clothing and shelter, and the economy will continue on the sale and trading of those other scarcities.
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Re: Re:
sure if you intend to use the code to build products from.
if you just want to sell it to competitors or to people interested in rigging elections, then the bugs (0dayz) contained in the code are worth more than the completed code.
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