Are you paying $65 for 60 Mbit internet, 100 channels of cable, landline and cellular service together? If so, you're getting a hell of a deal compared to most people in the US. With no cable or landline, I'm paying $75 total ($45 and $30, respectively) for 15 Mbit internet and cellular service.
You're not getting ripped off because you're paying 2-3x as much, you're getting ripped off because you're paying 2-3x as much for 1/4 the service.
I have a small collection of ~40 songs that I keep on my phone just in case I want to listen to them. The kicker is that all of those songs have already been paid for. I bought them, be it from Amazon, Microsoft's Zune marketplace, or on a physical CD. I also have four or five books; again, every one has already been paid for.
Not only does the creative content on my phone represent a stunningly small portion of the time I spend using it, but I also have already given them money for that small portion.
I also tend to gravitate toward female artists, though it's typically more in the Nightwish, Epica, Within Temptation, Evanescence, Lacuna Coil, Delain, We Are The Fallen, After Forever, Edenbridge, etc. direction.
Except that the Zune Marketplace sold DRM-free MP3s. I'm not worried about losing a single song I bought from them.
Why put so much focus on Google? Simple. Google has money.
'report this comment as abusive, spam, trollish, or otherwise inappropriate'
What else is it but spam, when the exact same comment is copied and pasted to literally every post tangentially connected to copyright?
A toy company used a backing track for a song onto which it superimposed its own words. The song was a parody using similar rhythms and phrasing of a famous song performed by The Beastie Boys for one of their albums. Important factors: The toy company's use was transformative because it imitated the band's style for comic effect or ridicule.
The picture of Leslie Nielsen was an ad for Naked Gun 33 1/3. It wasn't claimed to be some sort of art done solely for comment or ridicule, it was a movie poster.
But the increasing levels of violence in what used to be civil society -- cops beating up kids for instance -- show correlation.Irrefutable evidence that time causes violence! Everyone call your senators to outlaw the passage of time!
Ted: The company has classified this as confidential.
Linda: But it's a good thing. Why does it need to be confidential?
Ted: Because, uh, if only bad things were confidential, then every time they labeled something as "confidential," people would know it was bad.
If they win, I should start a company whose sole business model is to ask Eli Lilly for money. My expected future profits will be the $100 million that I will ask for from them. By not giving me that money, they are undermining my expected future profits, so I will sue them. When it gets to court, how can I lose when they won with the exact same argument?
Well of course you do. I've never heard a rock lie in my life. If Mike has ever told even the smallest lie (and who hasn't?), then all rocks must be more honest than he is.
Yeah, complying with DMCA notices is such a great way to spit in the face of law enforcement. That'll teach them!
Multiple gigs? So like... 3 movies? That's a pretty strong accusation with exactly no supporting evidence.
Every cyberlocker I've seen has little besides obviously infringed content.Funny, everything I've seen on cyberlockers has been perfectly legitimate. Guess we find what we're looking for. Video game mods and personally developed games are very frequently distributed through cyberlockers such as Rapidshare, Mediafire, and 4shared.
There's a difference between an ad hominem argument and an insult. This is insulting, but I read it more as "She's dumb because of what she says" than as "What she says is wrong because she's dumb".
Hell, $5 raised to the power of the number of bogus takedowns filed. With the way they do it, that could easily get into the billions.
This sort of thing just makes me think of playing Civ 5. "Hey Washington, stop spying on me." "Oh of course, I'll move my agents into someone else's territory."
...5 turns later, "You have discovered an American spy operating in your capital!"
It's not blocked, it's not removed, it's not censored. It's just hidden from view, restored with a single click. Nobody is kept from reading the comment. You don't have to sign yourself up for the People Who Want To Read All The Comments list to see them. The only way someone will know if you read it or not is if you reply.
The report feature is intended for "abusive, spam, trollish, or otherwise inappropriate" content. Maybe if you would put your arguments forward in a way that wasn't trying to insult everyone else here, people wouldn't find your comments abusive/trollish. Plenty of dissenting comments remain unhidden when they're actually civil about it.
This seems to me like saying that not placing a copy of Anna Karenina in every home, pre-web, was censorship against Russian novels.
Re: Re: Just apply the Streisand effect
"The people responsible for sacking the people who wrote the previous message have now been sacked."