what they don't like, is that he did good reporting. Are you surprised to hear complaints abou tthat considering the industry is killing themselves off?
Lots of companies are willing to risk their business on open source. Some are locked from incompatibility issues/have slow development cycles/other investment costs/other investment priorities but there is no business fear of open source in this day and age. It is well recognized and utilized as mature, and has far greater penetration than is documented because people appropriately lock down systems. That is a false perpetrated myth from about 5 years ago.
biggest mistaske of all is buying an iphone - old news
I agree that this is a horrible thing and it does need to be reduced out so the DMCA cannot prevent it, but honestly buying an iphone was obviously the first bad mistake. Really, have you ever heard of something not overpriced from apple that people falsely convince themselves on grounds of "quality"? All apple does is aesthetics and charge way over for it.
good question, although likely the argument would be a: where you reside is your jurisdiction vs b: where you performed the act was legal thus it is.
Most courts tend to go with B, as that happens in many situations such as when laws of one state conflict with another. It's pretty well established, and it's unfortunately why things like tax avoidance via overseas are not pursued in court often.
We need to get rid of these absolutely horrible and intolerable royalty agreements that internet radio gets forced into.
Example: the reason why they can't let you play back a song you just played (such as on pandora and MANY other sites) is due to some kind of rule in online royalties.
Very soon I hope someone challenges the constitutionality of charging money for something that regular radio doesn't pay for.
Illinois has a ridiculous amount of bootlegs available in the city. It's almost pitiful. When I check out some of these bootlegs for humor their quality is so bad it is pitiful. It's not even worth getting them, I'd rather download online.
I mean I got one for a spider man movie to try and a: the volume was bad, b: the videocam shook and c: they called it spader man/spirder man on another copy. Pitiful.
Competition is really the only thing stopping the carriers from charging more and at the same time its forcing them to build out more capacity. ATT charging more when they can upgrade their towers is supposed to do what, exactly? I find it funny that Tmobile who offers significantly fast 3g seems to be one of the few with no capacity problems. Damn near ironic, considering the heavy data usage of the G1.
Speed throttling only offers new problems. Remember the thread the other day: if you keep lowering that throttling threshold eventually everyone hits the "throttle point". Trying to throttle just enough that you can ignore some of your users is outright ridiculous. In this day and age we should be expanding capacity, not restricting usage. There is no excuse not to. Year in year out att has been raising costs, but where's that magic capacity buildout?
I agree, speed up the process. We've been hoping the RIAA/MPAA would do the same, and they have been. People are steps and steps closer to having some kook go over the deep end and turn it into well deserved violence against the RIAA/MPAA heads at this point, as the collective damage to our society has no form of reparation.
Some are interesting, some are actually funny at times. however, none of them bear relevance to the shows that they are attached to.
2: crippled by the networks
If people could watch ALL The episodes of a series online, they would have no reason to need to download them. Instead, we have 5 episodes, which is a bunch of bullcrap and also gives people a reason to go back and torrent if they want to catch old episodes. I have no way to give people a convenient 100% legal way to catch a TV episode, if they don't have cable and don't feel any value towards DVDs, short of downloading them online.
If they realized the power they would harness by having every one of the shows online, people would be watching stuff like crazy especially since hulu has good quality. Then again, all the media companies exec's need to be fired so what's new eh.
considering the amount of people who have quoted opinion pieces as fact such as the RIAA what do you expect? The difference is that the opinion this time is coming from the authors directly, the very people that media constantly says are being hurt the most by piracy.
This exact promotion makes a whole lot of income. Just not the direct up front kind. having a little patience to make more money (and easier) in the long run is what makes people good business folks as opposed to a waste of airspace.
When will people figure out that plenty of people just do not want any form of advertising other than word-of mouth from trusted friends or funny/interesting ads, which still aren't guaranteed to work? This is because crappy or pointless or intrusive ads are the norm, not the exception.
Shoving an ad in your car that you can't get away from bar nothing except turning off your stereo is extremely intrusive. Imagine if this was a video or something, that managed to cause an accident even if it could "only go off when not moving" causing someone to get rear ended/etc (not that any of us would be surprised).
It is for this reason that the crappiest and also the shadiest products have the strongest/most abusive marketing - because they're not good enough to sell themselves. Examples: Microsoft, IDT energy, Intel, Ford, Chrysler.
If you sell someone a lexus and already have salespeople to follow up with them when it's time to get another, why sell side-products? Sheesh. Lexus knows exactly what they are doing: selling out to make a buck.
Watch lexus in the next few years, they're going to go downhill before they recover, clearly.
Yeah, I think Mike did indeed fail to mention that tying and other things are a bigger issue than the text message price. It would have been somewhat related to the article :)
Meanwhile, SMS should be free. It's an old service and well overcharged on price. It's just the carriers don't want to be another step closer to dumb pipes. Same thing as how android is pushing phones so that the carriers become less relevant as the "mobile web" becomes more capable. Once 4G arrives, mobile carriers are going to be squealing quite a bit about the data plan usage and tethering, so that will be fun in its own way.
On the post: Is It Really So Wrong For A Reporter To Have An Opinion?
the answer is no
On the post: Is The BSA Purposely Promoting Open Source Alternatives?
Re:
Lots of companies are willing to risk their business on open source. Some are locked from incompatibility issues/have slow development cycles/other investment costs/other investment priorities but there is no business fear of open source in this day and age. It is well recognized and utilized as mature, and has far greater penetration than is documented because people appropriately lock down systems. That is a false perpetrated myth from about 5 years ago.
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charity
On the post: Apple's Rejection Of EFF RSS Reader App Sort Of Proves EFF's Point About Arbitrary App Rejections
biggest mistaske of all is buying an iphone - old news
On the post: Another Court Ruling In Spain Finds Personal File Sharing To Be Legal
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Most courts tend to go with B, as that happens in many situations such as when laws of one state conflict with another. It's pretty well established, and it's unfortunately why things like tax avoidance via overseas are not pursued in court often.
On the post: YouTube's Big Traffic Stick Forces PRS To Slash UK Streaming Royalty Rate
Re: I say...
We need a royalty rate of 0. It's time for reality and who should be paying who.
On the post: 'Radio' Means Something Very Different Online Than It Does In The Traditional Sense
fix royalties
Example: the reason why they can't let you play back a song you just played (such as on pandora and MANY other sites) is due to some kind of rule in online royalties.
Very soon I hope someone challenges the constitutionality of charging money for something that regular radio doesn't pay for.
On the post: Now It's The UK's Turn For Some Bogus Piracy Stats
Re:
On the post: Since When Is Driving With Infringing DVDs A Crime?
Re: Illinois
I mean I got one for a spider man movie to try and a: the volume was bad, b: the videocam shook and c: they called it spader man/spirder man on another copy. Pitiful.
On the post: AT&T CEO Says Wireless Networks Aren't Prepared For Data Traffic -- Frankly, He Should Know
Re: Re: Competition...
Competition is really the only thing stopping the carriers from charging more and at the same time its forcing them to build out more capacity. ATT charging more when they can upgrade their towers is supposed to do what, exactly? I find it funny that Tmobile who offers significantly fast 3g seems to be one of the few with no capacity problems. Damn near ironic, considering the heavy data usage of the G1.
Speed throttling only offers new problems. Remember the thread the other day: if you keep lowering that throttling threshold eventually everyone hits the "throttle point". Trying to throttle just enough that you can ignore some of your users is outright ridiculous. In this day and age we should be expanding capacity, not restricting usage. There is no excuse not to. Year in year out att has been raising costs, but where's that magic capacity buildout?
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On the post: NBC's Zucker Still Seems Like He's Feeling Around In The Dark
Re: Not that novel of a thought :) ...
1: irrelevant commercials.
Some are interesting, some are actually funny at times. however, none of them bear relevance to the shows that they are attached to.
2: crippled by the networks
If people could watch ALL The episodes of a series online, they would have no reason to need to download them. Instead, we have 5 episodes, which is a bunch of bullcrap and also gives people a reason to go back and torrent if they want to catch old episodes. I have no way to give people a convenient 100% legal way to catch a TV episode, if they don't have cable and don't feel any value towards DVDs, short of downloading them online.
If they realized the power they would harness by having every one of the shows online, people would be watching stuff like crazy especially since hulu has good quality. Then again, all the media companies exec's need to be fired so what's new eh.
On the post: Prolific And Influential Swedish Author Throws Support Behind The Pirate Party
Re: Amazing...
On the post: YouTube Supposedly Killing The Live Album... But Is That A Bad Thing?
piracy?
On the post: We've Had Patent Trolls And Copyright Trolls... So Why Not Trademark Trolls?
Uh, yeah we do
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Re:
On the post: Film Studios Can 'Cannibalize' Their DVD Sales, Or Lose Them Completely
Re: Re:
It's been proven time and time again: give people a service, a reason to pay, and they will.
In lieu of that reason, service, people will create their own service (filesharing).
This is not rocket science, but it is for lazy people who don't want to try to find new methods.
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hmmm
On the post: Lexus' Trial Balloon On Car Spam
2 problems
2: abuse by others
end result: nobody wants this, period.
When will people figure out that plenty of people just do not want any form of advertising other than word-of mouth from trusted friends or funny/interesting ads, which still aren't guaranteed to work? This is because crappy or pointless or intrusive ads are the norm, not the exception.
Shoving an ad in your car that you can't get away from bar nothing except turning off your stereo is extremely intrusive. Imagine if this was a video or something, that managed to cause an accident even if it could "only go off when not moving" causing someone to get rear ended/etc (not that any of us would be surprised).
It is for this reason that the crappiest and also the shadiest products have the strongest/most abusive marketing - because they're not good enough to sell themselves. Examples: Microsoft, IDT energy, Intel, Ford, Chrysler.
If you sell someone a lexus and already have salespeople to follow up with them when it's time to get another, why sell side-products? Sheesh. Lexus knows exactly what they are doing: selling out to make a buck.
Watch lexus in the next few years, they're going to go downhill before they recover, clearly.
On the post: Much Ado About Nothing In Accusations Over Text Message Pricing
Re: The flip side.
Meanwhile, SMS should be free. It's an old service and well overcharged on price. It's just the carriers don't want to be another step closer to dumb pipes. Same thing as how android is pushing phones so that the carriers become less relevant as the "mobile web" becomes more capable. Once 4G arrives, mobile carriers are going to be squealing quite a bit about the data plan usage and tethering, so that will be fun in its own way.
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