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"The definition of insanity, the saying goes, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
This faux-definition bothers me (especially the frequent attribution to Einstein to make it sound more important). Anyone who has studied modern physics knows there are plenty of things you can do the same way and get different outcomes.
Unless you only started buying this year, you have plenty of music with DRM on it. Some people didn't like that. Your model of building a library would only start this year for them, which leaves a lot of time to get up to 5k songs.
All your music is transformed by the encoding process, which as a musician, you might appreciate the difference in. Some people don't like that.
Some people have libraries even larger than 10k songs. Mine is upwards of 20k (and legit). At $1/song, I couldn't have afforded to enjoy all that music. That price seems ok on the surface, but it breaks down as you scale it up.
I'm a musician as well, and I know I wouldn't be the musician I am today if it wasn't for more affordable music.
As this site often points out, the price of a digital good drives to zero. Unless you sell something of value (the music has value, but not the files you or iTMS distributes), people won't want to pay anything for it.
I read the original exchange back when it was posted and thought it was a fair explanation. It also humanized the employees dealing with it, versus the immovable corporate image the existing website portrayed. I guess the corporate hammer swings both ways to squish the little people inside and outside the company.
In my former role as an engineer, I knew the things I and others received patents for. The company gave us cash rewards for each patent they gained, so the incentive was to patent as many unique approaches as possible, even when they were the only few options anyone could take.
I always thought it was great that Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit, said that if he hadn't thought of it when he did, someone else would've. It was just chance that he was the first.
Can you trademark the name of a group of islands? I would think it'd be more logical to name a sandal after them than an apparently-not-convertible car.
Dammit, man, this is the MPAA we're talking about! They don't need causality; they write causality. We just need correlation to support our story and we're done. :-)
I want someone to do a study to show that there's a correlation between how much something is downloaded and how much money it makes. That will prove (by MPAA logic) that sharing makes them money.
For example, I'm sure Transformers was downloaded more than Zombieland, and it got a sequel. I'm sure Zombieland will too.
It wouldn't pass a "moron in a hurry" test, but advertising is all about telling the part of the story that makes you(r client) look good. Verizon didn't misrepresent the facts, and it shouldn't be held accountable because many people aren't savvy enough to understand what the distinction is.
Not only did they forget about the telephone, but they must've forgotten about HD DVD too. Or is the MPAA saying the studios that supported it didn't have "compelling content" to drive that technology? It isn't the content that succeeds or fails, it's the technology.
I completely agree. There's no part of your reality that it incorporates. At one point, the kid says you can see him in the background, but that was either just glare, or a very low intensity projection of the webcam's view which didn't move.
As for early examples, Terminator and RoboCop both had augmented reality heads-up displays. I'm sure there are older examples too.
I was debating raising the deaf argument (pun not intended). If it's callous to not bend society to the segment of the population that's blind, isn't it the same discourtesy to leave out the subsegment who are deaf? Or is one disability "ok", but two means you're now out-of-luck?
Perhaps cars should emit a series of explosions, producing light, sound, heat and smells ... just to be safe.
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Mandleson has a final solution to copyright problem involving executing all offenders?
(Just playing along....)
"Insanity" (as scarr)
"The definition of insanity, the saying goes, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
This faux-definition bothers me (especially the frequent attribution to Einstein to make it sound more important). Anyone who has studied modern physics knows there are plenty of things you can do the same way and get different outcomes.
/nerding
Re: Re: Re: "Too Expensive" (as scarr)
Unless you only started buying this year, you have plenty of music with DRM on it. Some people didn't like that. Your model of building a library would only start this year for them, which leaves a lot of time to get up to 5k songs.
All your music is transformed by the encoding process, which as a musician, you might appreciate the difference in. Some people don't like that.
Some people have libraries even larger than 10k songs. Mine is upwards of 20k (and legit). At $1/song, I couldn't have afforded to enjoy all that music. That price seems ok on the surface, but it breaks down as you scale it up.
I'm a musician as well, and I know I wouldn't be the musician I am today if it wasn't for more affordable music.
As this site often points out, the price of a digital good drives to zero. Unless you sell something of value (the music has value, but not the files you or iTMS distributes), people won't want to pay anything for it.
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Another great video. I really like these. Well done, Mike.
Onto my Facebook to educate my friends, it goes....
Wow (as scarr)
I read the original exchange back when it was posted and thought it was a fair explanation. It also humanized the employees dealing with it, versus the immovable corporate image the existing website portrayed. I guess the corporate hammer swings both ways to squish the little people inside and outside the company.
(as scarr)
In my former role as an engineer, I knew the things I and others received patents for. The company gave us cash rewards for each patent they gained, so the incentive was to patent as many unique approaches as possible, even when they were the only few options anyone could take.
I always thought it was great that Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit, said that if he hadn't thought of it when he did, someone else would've. It was just chance that he was the first.
(as scarr)
Can you trademark the name of a group of islands? I would think it'd be more logical to name a sandal after them than an apparently-not-convertible car.
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Dammit, man, this is the MPAA we're talking about! They don't need causality; they write causality. We just need correlation to support our story and we're done. :-)
(as scarr)
I want someone to do a study to show that there's a correlation between how much something is downloaded and how much money it makes. That will prove (by MPAA logic) that sharing makes them money.
For example, I'm sure Transformers was downloaded more than Zombieland, and it got a sequel. I'm sure Zombieland will too.
Re: Thank you (as scarr)
"The musician wants to be paid more than once but not pay the maker of their instrument more than once."
An excellent point, and very well said.
(Now I'll go hide in a bunker and wait for the lawsuits from Gibson and Fender to end.)
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It wouldn't pass a "moron in a hurry" test, but advertising is all about telling the part of the story that makes you(r client) look good. Verizon didn't misrepresent the facts, and it shouldn't be held accountable because many people aren't savvy enough to understand what the distinction is.
HD DVD? (as scarr)
Not only did they forget about the telephone, but they must've forgotten about HD DVD too. Or is the MPAA saying the studios that supported it didn't have "compelling content" to drive that technology? It isn't the content that succeeds or fails, it's the technology.
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"I give Esquire some credit for trying, and making the paper magazine have something different that might attract some buyers...."
At least read the whole article before trolling.
Re: Input device? (as scarr)
I completely agree. There's no part of your reality that it incorporates. At one point, the kid says you can see him in the background, but that was either just glare, or a very low intensity projection of the webcam's view which didn't move.
As for early examples, Terminator and RoboCop both had augmented reality heads-up displays. I'm sure there are older examples too.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha (as scarr)
ha
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Great video, excellent summary. I will do what I can to make sure people I know see this.
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Or as Tool put it:
"All you know about me is what I sold you
Dumb fuck
I sold out long before you ever even heard my name
I sold my soul to make a record
Dipshit
Then you bought one"
Re: Re: Re: Over-estimating Silence (as scarr)
Bikes would've been my next argument, but I was afraid I was harping on this too much. :-p
(Btw, vibrations are sound and heat is touch. If they exploded ketchup bottles, we could cover taste ... and enhance touch.)
Re: Over-estimating Silence (as scarr)
I was debating raising the deaf argument (pun not intended). If it's callous to not bend society to the segment of the population that's blind, isn't it the same discourtesy to leave out the subsegment who are deaf? Or is one disability "ok", but two means you're now out-of-luck?
Perhaps cars should emit a series of explosions, producing light, sound, heat and smells ... just to be safe.
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Maybe if they were a bit quieter, you could hear the electric cars.