I guess after introducing herself as a sex worker and a pornographer that sent you looking for the links rather than following her blogging.
So, in that sense, what did you expect. Even activists have to earn a living so why not do what you do best, in her case, (a) porn and (b) blog intelligently about what is, after all a fairly serious issue.
Take, for example, the investigation into the disappearing women off the Downtown East Side stroll of Vancouver and ignored the fact that a serial killer was at work.
Feel free to follow the link below to get more information about why, in many ways, he was so successful.
I guess that means that woodpeckers get 50% of the insects in the trees, that crows get 50% of any carrion around or whatever pisses them off at the time, seagulls get to steal half of kid's hot dogs and ice cream and the beach and them poop on half their parents?
This could get incredibly complicated. Requiring much wisdom, the patience of Job and the ability to split splittable hairs.
I'm gonna record the sounds of locusts, who are close relatives to crickets, sue your butt off then play the locust sounds over top of your crickets, then declare that I have a copyright on all the sounds any and all insects, combination of insects or assembly of insects make!!!!
But don't you know that Google is the big bad guy of the internet who has caused all these serious losses for the RIAA and MPAA ever since the Internet was invented and even before Google existed?
It's hard enough to sell shiny plastic disks these days as it is so why do they need BOTH Google and Techdirt around? ;-)
Sampling is often done when the person has never heard the band or not heard of them and looking them up on someone's recommendation. Listening to the clip, then, as often as not buying it. Which is a lot of what was happening on places like Napster.
Even worse, I guess, in your mind, long ago when there were still a lot of record stores a lot of them offered the ability to listen to tracks before buying the album or CD or whatever. In short, sampling. In your mind, piracy I'm sure, because I'll bet my bottom dollar BMI or ASCAP didn't get a dime.
The reality is that sampling of that nature is as old as the retail music business itself. That's not gonna change just because the music is now digital. And THEN people buy. That's not gonna change either.
OK, who has the dead letter permission from the neanderthals or modern humans who painted those scenes on the cave walls in southern Spain? And who has permission to use them?!
Much as they'd like to be the University of Canada the University of Toronto isn't. The other school mentioned is the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. A school specializing in business of all things given this silly thing.
You could be a Time Lord. And then the lawyers would have to figure things out like were you born at your last regeneration, did you die then and are you related to all the Doctor's that were there before you and will be there after you? Just imagine the confusion!
Eternal copyright might solve that completely. :-)
(With apologies to and claims of fair use and fair dealing to the BBC and it's show Doctor Who.)
The mere fact that it's taking place at Cannes gives this event a lot of credibility.
If there's an part of the entertainment biz that needs so shaking up, some new ideas and ways of doing things it's the video, movie and tv part. They all seem mired in repeating or self copying stories, styles and ways of shooting shows.
I wish then all luck and I'm anxious to see who wins this competition,
Just what would the nasty plebs have that would be of any value to this critical treaty. How could we possibly understand the nuanced issues being faced by the likes of Philip Morris, Chevron, PhRMA, Microsoft, Pfizer, Amgen, Dow Chemical and so many others.
I mean, I had no I idea Philip Morris was facing piracy of downloaded cigarettes! This is totally and completely out of control! How will those Chinese know if it's a downloaded, pirated Marlboro Man or the real thing!????
That and you'd have thought they'd have learned from the shaky ground ACTA seems to be on in Europe these days that perhaps, just perhaps, negotiating in secret with special interests to change global laws and trading patterns isn't the way to go.
But no. There are more important things to do that be "transparent" or "in public" with this like go to well funded parties. Complete, no doubt, with all the distractions a well meaning trade negotiator could ever want. It is a Hollywood style party after all.
Bob Dylan once asked "When will they ever learn?" and all these years later the same question hasn't been answered except in the negative.
But does the research done by Harris translate into a declining British music industry? It would appear that it doesn't as the industry itself says it's growing.
Which opens up the other reasons for "illegal" downloading such as sampling to see if the entire album is worth buying, a price set so high that those doing the downloading are shut out of the mainstream market and get their music from the black market instead.
The current UK government is doing a study of its own before implementing the bill and I see nothing wrong with that. Of course maximalists would but one would hope reasonable people would not.
I can see Harman as a member of the the opposition standing up and saying that the delay and more study is a waste of time as her former government had passed a bill that, in her mind, took care or the isse because that's what opposition parties do. And she's trying to play the card that Labour is a government in waiting and that the coalition sitting on the government benches is wasting both time and money going off in a direction of their own.
Your attempt to say that any opinion that disagrees with yours is an attempt to justify piracy is old, worn out, sad and just not very persuasive.
While I agree that the copyright "thing" has gone wildly out of control I'd just as soon not meet them in the middle. I'd just as soon return copyright to it's original intent and duration (and the same for patents) which would take most, if not all, of the "wild west" RIAA/MPAA gonna ride into town and shoot everyone they even suspect of looking the wrong way at one of their scrawny, branded cows.
There's little wrong with the notion of copyright or patents as they were originally envisioned. But that's long gone now. Rather than contribute to the useful arts and sciences these days they are seen as profit centres and business models in their own right.
Your pricing comparison doesn't work. That's where your argument falls flat on it's face.
Once you've taken out the duplication onto film or video what was, in 99% of cases now, shot in digital to start with for the limited number of theatres that will get the new release, shipping, insurance and other costs, add promotion, advertising on television, print, radio and the Internet(!!!) Then there's the theatre's cut. Not that much I admit but not all that much.
So, while the ticket at retail is $7,50 I'd guess the studio is getting, oh, shall we say, $2.50 per ticket sold. Now just just need something more that 1 and a quarter downloads for the studio the get back what they would have gotten from the theatrical release version of the film and not your mythic 4.
While theatrical release may still gave marketing zest, at least in larger markets, I'd also argue that the charm of actually going to a theatre to watch a film died out years ago. So you're left with marketing zest which can always be redirected and done so with some ease.
Bottom line is really that the online world hasn't been marketed to sufficiently to demonstrate whether or not there is promise there. In fact it's barely been marketed to at all by the majors. So no one knows what the profit might be if the studios actually marketed in a user friendly fashion on the Web.
Would some piracy continue. Yes, it would. But not for the reason that the film is unavailable any other way. The mere fact of piracy (or a black market to put it another way) demonstrates that there IS a demand there and enough of one that it scares the bejeezus out of the MPAA. Even if the MPAA and RIAA exaggerate the effect on their bottom lines of the black market they, largely, created.
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So, in that sense, what did you expect. Even activists have to earn a living so why not do what you do best, in her case, (a) porn and (b) blog intelligently about what is, after all a fairly serious issue.
Take, for example, the investigation into the disappearing women off the Downtown East Side stroll of Vancouver and ignored the fact that a serial killer was at work.
Feel free to follow the link below to get more information about why, in many ways, he was so successful.
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/27/pickton-inquiry-hears-of-police-indifference-to- sex-worker
The woman whose blog we're directed to and who is so passionate about protecting the rights of sex trade workers has a point, you know.
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This could get incredibly complicated. Requiring much wisdom, the patience of Job and the ability to split splittable hairs.
We need a politician to sort this out!!!
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Take THAT!
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Re: Chilling, indeed.
Well, except for Techdirt and The Independent.
Just who needs SOPA/PIPA/ACTA when you've got THIS?
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It's hard enough to sell shiny plastic disks these days as it is so why do they need BOTH Google and Techdirt around? ;-)
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If there's a better outraged AC parody this site has ever seen I haven't come across it yet.
9.9/10
The first candidate for funniest post of the week for next Sunday!
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So, in spite of turning people against your employer, you're doing a far better job than most. And your post was legible!
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Sampling is often done when the person has never heard the band or not heard of them and looking them up on someone's recommendation. Listening to the clip, then, as often as not buying it. Which is a lot of what was happening on places like Napster.
Even worse, I guess, in your mind, long ago when there were still a lot of record stores a lot of them offered the ability to listen to tracks before buying the album or CD or whatever. In short, sampling. In your mind, piracy I'm sure, because I'll bet my bottom dollar BMI or ASCAP didn't get a dime.
The reality is that sampling of that nature is as old as the retail music business itself. That's not gonna change just because the music is now digital. And THEN people buy. That's not gonna change either.
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FYI there IS no University of Canada. ;-)
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Eternal copyright might solve that completely. :-)
(With apologies to and claims of fair use and fair dealing to the BBC and it's show Doctor Who.)
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Something to keep an eye on
If there's an part of the entertainment biz that needs so shaking up, some new ideas and ways of doing things it's the video, movie and tv part. They all seem mired in repeating or self copying stories, styles and ways of shooting shows.
I wish then all luck and I'm anxious to see who wins this competition,
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I mean, I had no I idea Philip Morris was facing piracy of downloaded cigarettes! This is totally and completely out of control! How will those Chinese know if it's a downloaded, pirated Marlboro Man or the real thing!????
That and you'd have thought they'd have learned from the shaky ground ACTA seems to be on in Europe these days that perhaps, just perhaps, negotiating in secret with special interests to change global laws and trading patterns isn't the way to go.
But no. There are more important things to do that be "transparent" or "in public" with this like go to well funded parties. Complete, no doubt, with all the distractions a well meaning trade negotiator could ever want. It is a Hollywood style party after all.
Bob Dylan once asked "When will they ever learn?" and all these years later the same question hasn't been answered except in the negative.
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Which opens up the other reasons for "illegal" downloading such as sampling to see if the entire album is worth buying, a price set so high that those doing the downloading are shut out of the mainstream market and get their music from the black market instead.
The current UK government is doing a study of its own before implementing the bill and I see nothing wrong with that. Of course maximalists would but one would hope reasonable people would not.
I can see Harman as a member of the the opposition standing up and saying that the delay and more study is a waste of time as her former government had passed a bill that, in her mind, took care or the isse because that's what opposition parties do. And she's trying to play the card that Labour is a government in waiting and that the coalition sitting on the government benches is wasting both time and money going off in a direction of their own.
Your attempt to say that any opinion that disagrees with yours is an attempt to justify piracy is old, worn out, sad and just not very persuasive.
So your score is 0.0025/10
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There's little wrong with the notion of copyright or patents as they were originally envisioned. But that's long gone now. Rather than contribute to the useful arts and sciences these days they are seen as profit centres and business models in their own right.
And, as usual, the creator be damned.
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Once you've taken out the duplication onto film or video what was, in 99% of cases now, shot in digital to start with for the limited number of theatres that will get the new release, shipping, insurance and other costs, add promotion, advertising on television, print, radio and the Internet(!!!) Then there's the theatre's cut. Not that much I admit but not all that much.
So, while the ticket at retail is $7,50 I'd guess the studio is getting, oh, shall we say, $2.50 per ticket sold. Now just just need something more that 1 and a quarter downloads for the studio the get back what they would have gotten from the theatrical release version of the film and not your mythic 4.
While theatrical release may still gave marketing zest, at least in larger markets, I'd also argue that the charm of actually going to a theatre to watch a film died out years ago. So you're left with marketing zest which can always be redirected and done so with some ease.
Bottom line is really that the online world hasn't been marketed to sufficiently to demonstrate whether or not there is promise there. In fact it's barely been marketed to at all by the majors. So no one knows what the profit might be if the studios actually marketed in a user friendly fashion on the Web.
Would some piracy continue. Yes, it would. But not for the reason that the film is unavailable any other way. The mere fact of piracy (or a black market to put it another way) demonstrates that there IS a demand there and enough of one that it scares the bejeezus out of the MPAA. Even if the MPAA and RIAA exaggerate the effect on their bottom lines of the black market they, largely, created.
Oh, and one more time, your math sucks.
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