They this outcome as the alternative to selling 1,000,001 copies all at $4.99.
I'm sorry, but I think you accidently a word.
However, I don't see how selling 1 book for $4.99 and a million for $0.99 is any different than selling 1 book for $4.99 and 2000 copies for $4.99, other than maybe the book should have been priced at $0.99 to begin with (obviously the publisher/author will see less income,) I believe what the key point you are missing is that the consumer may be more likely to buy at $0.99 and less likely to buy at $4.99, so it is likely that a book priced at $0.99 will attract more impulse buyers than a book priced at $4.99.
However, unless someone really wanted to watch a movie on the big screen again, what reason do they currently have to pay the ticket price to see a movie in the theater again, rather than just wait until it comes out on DVD/redbox/whatever?
There has only been one movie this last year that I wanted to see in theaters, and amazingly, it is a movie that after watching the first time, I wanted to see it again in theaters. I hate watching movies in theaters (because of the constant distractions,) but this movie had caught me. Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. I prefer going to niche movies in the theaters, mainly because the teeny-boppers with their cell phones miss those shows, but those don't make much money and thus don't last very long (if they ever show up there to begin with.)
However, had Wes Anderson made the commentary available, I would have downloaded it and waited for the DVD to come out. (As it was, I wanted to see it a second time in the theater, but never did.)
The only way someone is going to get me in the theater the second time is to come up with a movie with a good story, and quite frankly, no movie released in recent years has had that quality. The only movie I saw twice in the theaters in recent years was Phantom Menace (watched it first in the theaters in 1999, and then again when it came to 3D in 2012, and that was only because I had a free ticket, time on my hands, and I could relive the experience of being disappointed with it the first time, but this time in 3D.) Sadly, I actually enjoyed it in 3D more than the original.
Linda Ronstadt signed a contract and received an advance, and then Capitol records figured they spent too much on her and dropped her, yet wanted her to pay them back for the debt. George Michael was required to stay with his record company and could leave, and several artists have been forced to make more albums to "pay back their debts."
Also, it must once again be reiterated on this pro-piracy propaganda site, that when a band is dropped from a label, their entire debt is forgiven.
Also, yet again, you make statements without backing them up with data, and then immediately dismiss anyone who disagrees with you as being a drinking the Kool-aid(TM) of the "pro-piracy propaganda site."
They get an advance from a major label, record a spiffy new record in a real studio, buy themselves some nice new gear and cars with the rest of the money, then, knowing the album will never recoup and that they're going to get dropped anyway, they just leak it themselves. They then get free publicity, exposure for any upcoming tours, and they get to keep all the windfall from said endeavors. And since they're dropped from the label, they don't owe one red cent to Epic.
Uhm, I know you don't read articles, or even summaries, but it's in the damn first paragraph. They signed with Epic and released an album, "The Money Store", and this was a second album. Depending on the contract they signed, they may or may not be in trouble, but they already provided the album they signed with Epic for, and this is a new one that Epic apparently didn't want to release.
It is doubtful the police could do anything beyond writing a report (and they are often so busy that it may take a while to get a police officer to show up and take the report.) However, at least that way you could get insurance to pay for the replacement (though doubtful since an ipod is likely under the deductible.)
Unfortunately, the only place that will be of much effect is Delta, who may just pay you for the ipod just to keep you from making a big deal of it (then again, Delta isn't well known for their customer support anyway.)
it would be like GE charging $100 million for a plant but a counterfeit one that is just as safe and just as efficient is only $30 million. Yeah, I wouldn't blame anyone for taking that option.
Ah, the gray market. I get my best computer hardware from there. And it isn't illegal, though stupid companies would love to shut it down. The smart companies don't, as they realize it is better to sell an expensive and a cheap model and take all of the money off the table. The folks with expendable cash flow will buy the expensive one for the name recognition, while the guys who need it cheap will buy the cheaper one. Eventually, they will have enough money to go out and buy the expensive one...Win-Win for the manufacturer.
Because I didn't have a big camera following my luggage, I was stuck on the proverbial 800-line-to-nowhere.
TSA was nice enough to put a digital camera that didn't belong there into my luggage when I came from Japan back home. I called their 800-line-to-nowhere, and was told that San Fransisco (SFO) was not run by the TSA, but was a contractor, so I needed to call them. I filed reports with both TSA and with the contractor...and have waited almost a year and have heard nothing. All I wanted to do was send the camera back to them so they can return it to its rightful owner, but getting them to give me an address to send it to has been impossible. So it's sat, waiting for them to tell me what to do with it.
I'd argue for more oversight, but I fear that would only expand the ever-growing bureaucracy.
This is what pissed me off the most about the TSA in the incident above. They told me that the camera could have been introduced to my bag at any time, and likely found its way into my bag in Japan. I laughed because I know that this wasn't true! When I went through security in Japan, they asked me to follow them to a table, while they opened my luggage (there was something in there they were worried about,) and went through it with me present. Convinced that there was nothing wrong, they placed everything back and then sealed the luggage with a zip-tie. At no time did I see the camera, and I confirmed that when they put everything back, nothing was introduced to the luggage.
When I got home, I opened my bag (which no longer had the zip-tie,) and found a "TSA We Opened Your Bag" note, along with the new camera (and everything else in my luggage.)
TSA says they have to search in private because there are too many articles going through the system, and then they blame the Japanese for introducing an item to my luggage when the Japanese search the luggage in open, with the person who brought the luggage present during the search. Which system is open to theft? Let me guess.
I wish they would change their procedures and make the system open and transparent like the Japanese (and the Germans, and probably everywhere else in the world,) but I suspect they want the system to work the way it is working.
Without derivative works we wouldn't have calculus. Thankfully no one tied up algebra with IP laws.
Lucky for us, Copyright in its modern form didn't exist during the time Algebra or Calculus was formulated/discovered. At the very best, "Copyright" was a curse that an author would place in their book to prevent folks from copying it at the time.
I loved Carl Sagan's story about the Library of Alexandria, in COSMOS. Had the Egyptian Government *not* practiced infringement (though copyright didn't exist at the time,) by copying anything and everything they could, the pool of knowledge at the time would have not expanded and all of our collective knowledge of the times would have disappeared into obscurity. It is because of the Library of Alexandria and the willful, mass copying of works that we have stories from Homer or scientific discoveries like Ptolomy that we base our modern science and culture on. It is sad that the Library of Alexandria burned down and many of the works were lost...how much more could we know now if that material had survived. Sure, many of the works were of their time, but I know of a few folks who would love to know how Archimedes destroyed the fleets at the Siege of Syracuse or more of the history and science stories of Babylon.
Fuck Samsung and Apple both if they spent half as much time actually making/inventing good products as they do in court we might see some really nice software and hardware come along.
I agree with you when it comes to Apple here...unfortunately for Samsung, they kinda had this whole thing foisted upon them. They didn't sue Apple until after Apple sued them (Counter-suit.) I am sure Samsung would be much happier not being in the game and just out making phones.
Clearly, my rock is to be praised for stopping terrorism!
"Most people in America right now think of Iraq as a dangerous country. Now, if I were to stand up, I might get killed. But to us, behind this wheel it's pretty safe. So to us, Iraq is a safe country. Right here, I feel pretty safe. Do you feel safe?" - Lt. Nathaniel Fick
"Pretty Safe, I guess." - Evan Wright
"See? It's all Relative"
From Generation Kill, by Evan Wright
It is, as always, relative. Your rock is saving you, and I hope my freedom is saving me. Yet I fear that your rock is protecting you a little better than my freedom is at the moment.
Of course, it probably had something to do with the fact that Jimi often transformed someone else's songs from "meh" to "Holy Christ How Cool Was That"...
The way culture really should be. Once we put the two-year-olds ("I want my toy and nobody else can have it,") back into pre-school and limit the derivative works clause of copyright law to works which are not transformative, we will get back to being adults and growing from each other's use of the limited culture we all share. There is no reason fan-fiction should be illegal, and no reason that copying and building on simple ideas should be outlawed.
This is the very concept of education and of knowledge, we build on everything that came before...nobody, and I mean nobody, came out of the womb knowing everything they now know, and everyone copied from others to get the knowledge they know now. This, fundamentally, is why those here who preach "go come up with something completely new" are idiots. They haven't come up with something completely new themselves, it is impossible, and I am sure deep down they know it, but they don't care. They got theirs, and that is all they care about.
In order to protect TechDirt's adSense revenue, I hereby declare that everything I post here, in the past, present, and future, is public domain and I reserve no copyrights to anything I post here. You are free to do anything you want with anything I post here, reprint, mash it up, use it to enlighten yourself or bash me on the head with it, I don't care. Of course, I do not guarantee the merchantability of anything, and certainly won't be responsible for your use of my material (if it causes you to go blind or suffer mental or physical effects as a result of using it.)
There, no problems with copyrighted material on my account.
No, any officer conducting a custodial interrogation is required to read them, not an officer merely making an arrest. Most arresting officers just stick you in the back of a patrol car and take you to booking and that's it. They're not required to read you anything.
Correct. The Judge won't read those rights, because it's not his job or responsibility.
To amplify this correction, a suspect is to be read and affirm their rights *BEFORE* any questioning, from anyone, the moment they are under arrest. A police officer may decide to not read a suspect their rights, but any questioning that occurs is illegal and the results inadmissible. The departments I am familiar with require admonishment of Miranda upon taking a suspect into custody.
Many departments have policies which require Miranda the moment an arrest occurs, and sometimes a suspect will be advised twice or more (any time an officer takes control of a suspect, just to make sure.) On the arrest reports for San Diego, there is a box which specifically asks the arresting officer to state whether Miranda was read and what the responses were (which must be provided.)
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I would happily download it and wait for the DVD.
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Dibs on Secretary of Education.
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I'm sorry, but I think you accidently a word.
However, I don't see how selling 1 book for $4.99 and a million for $0.99 is any different than selling 1 book for $4.99 and 2000 copies for $4.99, other than maybe the book should have been priced at $0.99 to begin with (obviously the publisher/author will see less income,) I believe what the key point you are missing is that the consumer may be more likely to buy at $0.99 and less likely to buy at $4.99, so it is likely that a book priced at $0.99 will attract more impulse buyers than a book priced at $4.99.
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Sadly, since they are members of the higher court of justice, most likely a slap on the wrist and a promise never to do it again.
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There has only been one movie this last year that I wanted to see in theaters, and amazingly, it is a movie that after watching the first time, I wanted to see it again in theaters. I hate watching movies in theaters (because of the constant distractions,) but this movie had caught me. Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. I prefer going to niche movies in the theaters, mainly because the teeny-boppers with their cell phones miss those shows, but those don't make much money and thus don't last very long (if they ever show up there to begin with.)
However, had Wes Anderson made the commentary available, I would have downloaded it and waited for the DVD to come out. (As it was, I wanted to see it a second time in the theater, but never did.)
The only way someone is going to get me in the theater the second time is to come up with a movie with a good story, and quite frankly, no movie released in recent years has had that quality. The only movie I saw twice in the theaters in recent years was Phantom Menace (watched it first in the theaters in 1999, and then again when it came to 3D in 2012, and that was only because I had a free ticket, time on my hands, and I could relive the experience of being disappointed with it the first time, but this time in 3D.) Sadly, I actually enjoyed it in 3D more than the original.
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That does not appear to be correct in every case. It depends on how the music contract was written. According to wikipedia, which I know you automatically discount, "Advances (upfront money that is paid directly to the recording artist) are normally always owed back to the label." Many artists have come forth and complained, and even sued, their record companies for failing to follow the contract they signed with the artist, or even properly paying them for their work.
Linda Ronstadt signed a contract and received an advance, and then Capitol records figured they spent too much on her and dropped her, yet wanted her to pay them back for the debt. George Michael was required to stay with his record company and could leave, and several artists have been forced to make more albums to "pay back their debts."
Also, it must once again be reiterated on this pro-piracy propaganda site, that when a band is dropped from a label, their entire debt is forgiven.
Also, yet again, you make statements without backing them up with data, and then immediately dismiss anyone who disagrees with you as being a drinking the Kool-aid(TM) of the "pro-piracy propaganda site."
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Uhm, I know you don't read articles, or even summaries, but it's in the damn first paragraph. They signed with Epic and released an album, "The Money Store", and this was a second album. Depending on the contract they signed, they may or may not be in trouble, but they already provided the album they signed with Epic for, and this is a new one that Epic apparently didn't want to release.
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It is doubtful the police could do anything beyond writing a report (and they are often so busy that it may take a while to get a police officer to show up and take the report.) However, at least that way you could get insurance to pay for the replacement (though doubtful since an ipod is likely under the deductible.)
Unfortunately, the only place that will be of much effect is Delta, who may just pay you for the ipod just to keep you from making a big deal of it (then again, Delta isn't well known for their customer support anyway.)
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Ah, the gray market. I get my best computer hardware from there. And it isn't illegal, though stupid companies would love to shut it down. The smart companies don't, as they realize it is better to sell an expensive and a cheap model and take all of the money off the table. The folks with expendable cash flow will buy the expensive one for the name recognition, while the guys who need it cheap will buy the cheaper one. Eventually, they will have enough money to go out and buy the expensive one...Win-Win for the manufacturer.
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TSA was nice enough to put a digital camera that didn't belong there into my luggage when I came from Japan back home. I called their 800-line-to-nowhere, and was told that San Fransisco (SFO) was not run by the TSA, but was a contractor, so I needed to call them. I filed reports with both TSA and with the contractor...and have waited almost a year and have heard nothing. All I wanted to do was send the camera back to them so they can return it to its rightful owner, but getting them to give me an address to send it to has been impossible. So it's sat, waiting for them to tell me what to do with it.
I'd argue for more oversight, but I fear that would only expand the ever-growing bureaucracy.
This is what pissed me off the most about the TSA in the incident above. They told me that the camera could have been introduced to my bag at any time, and likely found its way into my bag in Japan. I laughed because I know that this wasn't true! When I went through security in Japan, they asked me to follow them to a table, while they opened my luggage (there was something in there they were worried about,) and went through it with me present. Convinced that there was nothing wrong, they placed everything back and then sealed the luggage with a zip-tie. At no time did I see the camera, and I confirmed that when they put everything back, nothing was introduced to the luggage.
When I got home, I opened my bag (which no longer had the zip-tie,) and found a "TSA We Opened Your Bag" note, along with the new camera (and everything else in my luggage.)
TSA says they have to search in private because there are too many articles going through the system, and then they blame the Japanese for introducing an item to my luggage when the Japanese search the luggage in open, with the person who brought the luggage present during the search. Which system is open to theft? Let me guess.
I wish they would change their procedures and make the system open and transparent like the Japanese (and the Germans, and probably everywhere else in the world,) but I suspect they want the system to work the way it is working.
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Lucky for us, Copyright in its modern form didn't exist during the time Algebra or Calculus was formulated/discovered. At the very best, "Copyright" was a curse that an author would place in their book to prevent folks from copying it at the time.
I loved Carl Sagan's story about the Library of Alexandria, in COSMOS. Had the Egyptian Government *not* practiced infringement (though copyright didn't exist at the time,) by copying anything and everything they could, the pool of knowledge at the time would have not expanded and all of our collective knowledge of the times would have disappeared into obscurity. It is because of the Library of Alexandria and the willful, mass copying of works that we have stories from Homer or scientific discoveries like Ptolomy that we base our modern science and culture on. It is sad that the Library of Alexandria burned down and many of the works were lost...how much more could we know now if that material had survived. Sure, many of the works were of their time, but I know of a few folks who would love to know how Archimedes destroyed the fleets at the Siege of Syracuse or more of the history and science stories of Babylon.
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I agree with you when it comes to Apple here...unfortunately for Samsung, they kinda had this whole thing foisted upon them. They didn't sue Apple until after Apple sued them (Counter-suit.) I am sure Samsung would be much happier not being in the game and just out making phones.
To help you out, here is a dated infographic of whom is suing whom. This is from a PC MAG Article in January 2012, but it is still mostly true.
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From Generation Kill, by Evan Wright
It is, as always, relative. Your rock is saving you, and I hope my freedom is saving me. Yet I fear that your rock is protecting you a little better than my freedom is at the moment.
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The way culture really should be. Once we put the two-year-olds ("I want my toy and nobody else can have it,") back into pre-school and limit the derivative works clause of copyright law to works which are not transformative, we will get back to being adults and growing from each other's use of the limited culture we all share. There is no reason fan-fiction should be illegal, and no reason that copying and building on simple ideas should be outlawed.
This is the very concept of education and of knowledge, we build on everything that came before...nobody, and I mean nobody, came out of the womb knowing everything they now know, and everyone copied from others to get the knowledge they know now. This, fundamentally, is why those here who preach "go come up with something completely new" are idiots. They haven't come up with something completely new themselves, it is impossible, and I am sure deep down they know it, but they don't care. They got theirs, and that is all they care about.
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I'm starting my club with blackjack and hookers.
On second thought, forget the blackjack.
Bender rules.
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Woohoo!!!! Anonymous Coward opened up everything they've ever written to the public domain! :) Too bad we don't know which one.
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There, no problems with copyrighted material on my account.
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Depends on the department policy.
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To amplify this correction, a suspect is to be read and affirm their rights *BEFORE* any questioning, from anyone, the moment they are under arrest. A police officer may decide to not read a suspect their rights, but any questioning that occurs is illegal and the results inadmissible. The departments I am familiar with require admonishment of Miranda upon taking a suspect into custody.
Many departments have policies which require Miranda the moment an arrest occurs, and sometimes a suspect will be advised twice or more (any time an officer takes control of a suspect, just to make sure.) On the arrest reports for San Diego, there is a box which specifically asks the arresting officer to state whether Miranda was read and what the responses were (which must be provided.)
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