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Cargo Cult Reverse Activism: Maximalists Think That If They Use Social Media They Can Counteract Public Concerns
from the yeah-that's-how-it-works dept
We've talked in the past about cargo cult science and how a rather superficial understanding of complex situations leads people to only copy those superficial elements in the belief that they are why something works. Then, of course, when it doesn't work, they're confused. It's why South Pacific islanders thought that if they staffed the airport, American soldiers would return with supplies. It's why GM thought that if they just rebuilt the NUMMI plant inch-for-inch, they'd get the same production elsewhere.
I'm left thinking about this as I read about how some IP maximalists at a gathering about how to "counter" the public are discussing the importance of social media and their own usage of it. Even reading about the discussion sounds oddly stilted -- like your parents trying to sound cool by using youth slang:
Perhaps, at some point, they'll realize it's not the usage of social media that made a difference, but the fact that the people using social media find these issues to be serious and important, and don't believe the official explanations for why they have to lock down content.
I'm left thinking about this as I read about how some IP maximalists at a gathering about how to "counter" the public are discussing the importance of social media and their own usage of it. Even reading about the discussion sounds oddly stilted -- like your parents trying to sound cool by using youth slang:
Oh my goodness. Can you believe it? They blog? They use Twitter and Facebook? They must know everything!The role of social media in promoting IP will be a key topic. For example, both USPTO Director David Kappos and EPO President Benoit Battistelli regularly write blogs about their respective offices.
The offices represented on the panel also use Twitter and Facebook as well as conventional media such as TV to communicate with users and society generally.
Perhaps, at some point, they'll realize it's not the usage of social media that made a difference, but the fact that the people using social media find these issues to be serious and important, and don't believe the official explanations for why they have to lock down content.
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Unfortunately, thanks to wrongfully granted government established monopolies, IP critics are not allowed to voice their criticisms over broadcasting spectra or cableco infrastructure. Effectively, the government has managed to pass laws that abridge free speech into the hands of the government-industrial complex. It's unacceptable and it's something we need to correct. Abolish government established cableco monopolies. Abolish government established unidirectional broadcasting monopolies for commercial purposes.
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In your face, Mike...
Egg. On. Your. Face.
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You Technotards have no chance.
-- RIAA Chief Accounting Officer
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/shill
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Broadcast media and Publishing are effectively unidirectional, if however you use social media which by it's nature is not but don't engage, surely then, it becomes anti social media, or Aunty Essandem as I like to think of it.
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"The adults in the room" are putting capes and playing superman, they'll be flying before you know it
To the sky
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Batman: "Well, then young ward, we have only one course of action to take: To the Bat Social Media Mobile!"
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Steakholders
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Can't the maximalists just exclude everyone else's point of view?
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It will go more like this.
Clueless record/movie industry executive tells PR drone what he wants to say. PR drone writes it up in the typical language that is instantly detected by the masses as Bovine Excrement. Then they post it to social media sites, but in a way that does not allow comments -- or they remove comments they don't like.
Now the clueless original executive thinks he is an internet netizen.
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@BIGCOMPANYGUY remember kids, getting a copy of some music from a friend is just like stealing money from a homeless grandmother and makes baby jesus cry.
@BIGCOMPANYGUY plus you will end up in jail and the American economy will collapse on your bloated corpse. But we do this for the benefit of all. Plus you deserved it.
@BIGCOMPANYGUY I don’t understand why you kids don’t feel more grateful for the Transformer movies and stuff you are always copying. Plus, GET OFF MY LAWN you rapscallions!
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You have to wonder about people who represent content interests that can't see this.
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Check out these tweets, they are the best :D
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so in this case, i welcome our new mind-numbingly stupid overloards!
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I can just imagine:
"I used to pirate, then I took a DMCA takedown notice to the knee"
"Piracy, Piracy everywhere"
"One does not simply share music"
"Y U NO buy our blu-ray?"
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Unless I'm misreading it, the Bureau of Labor Statistics report they mention lists "motion picture and sound recording industries" as actually employing about 360,000 people. The U.S. Postal Service employs over 600,000. Perhaps we should start cracking down on e-mail?
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This should be interesting...
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Dont underestimate this...
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Their danger tends to lie in their political reach (and ability to get buy in to some really interesting interpretations of laws) rather than their social swiftness, heck these are the same people who have a major line of business selling movies about Small bands of good people triumphing over the Evil Empire and have not yet deduced that they've become the Evil Empire, they are stacking the cultural viewpoint on themselves.
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Don't you mean "ability to buy some really interesting interpretations of laws"? Possibly even at the highest levels of the US Judiciary?
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Re: Can't the maximalists just exclude everyone else's point of view?
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So much easier to demonstrate the zealotry inherent in these lines of "discussion".
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+1 for pretending you're interested in a discussion, I suppose...
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But when I do,
I simply apologize.
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They Won't Expect Us
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it's all and always meaningless
either online or in a political meatspace,
they cannot pretend to know what the fuck they are pursuing.
As producers of indefensible lies, they cannot exist without a local absence of dissent.
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well
THEN they sue a member of the public who accidentally gets added to their friend list for "copyright infringement" when their PC displays the RIAA's wall....
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7 billion Jedi vs a thousand stormtroopers = no contest.....
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If you tip the public too far, basically a massive mob of millions of people turns up at your corporate HQ and burns it to the ground......this is a war the MPAA and RIAA cannot possibly win, they just haven't realized it yet.
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I therefore demand that creative america be shut down and gives hundreds of millions of dollars to DC comics (or marvel (or whoever) just so they get punished).
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The subspecies LOLfeline will rise up in revolt, I tell ya!
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