Actually, I read an article (on TechDirt perhaps?) that media companies said exactly that. If you skip commercials or walk to the fridge during commercials, you are stealing from media companies. Insanity. Pure insanity.
I can't believe all those Chinese assholes with muscular dystrophy are going to try to seek out effective treatment so they can lead a productive and pain-free life. Jerks.
It will definitely hasten the creation of a faster, more secure version of BitTorrent, which is a good thing. End-to-end encryption is the final goal here, I think. Nice work MS and Sony. You are making the internet a safer place.
Boy are you going to look stupid when their millions of blog readers, Twitter followers, and Facebook likers stand up and say, "We want - NAY, DEMAND - the content we consume be more expensive, less convenient, and of lower quality!"
My current favorite version of the bible is The Message because it reads more like a narrative than anything. The unfortunate part is that it is encumbered by copyright.
I went to buy it in Kindle format but ended up not because the search is terrible. You can only get to the beginning of books based on how the author/publisher set it up. For a book like Psalms, you are going to end up paging through hundreds of pages to get to the chapter you want.
If someone would do a great, readable translation and open source it so people could set up innovative search methods on it, that would be awesome.
You know someone at XDA is going to get their hands on this and exploit it. Then everyone will be downgrading their data plan to the 200MB version and sideload all these "800 number" versions of apps.
Hey! AT&T! Here is a gun; your foot is right down there.
What would happen if Rumblefish and the nature dude were both out in the woods, unaware of each other, and ended up recording the same bird at the same time? I'm assuming this would be similar to simultaneous invention in patents.
But it just shows how insane it is that Rumblefish can copyright this in the first place.
So I can go to dell.com right now and custom order a computer with the amount of ram, color, accessories, whatever, exactly as I want it. And I don't have to go to a store.
How the hell does that not exist for cars? I can design a car exactly as I want it on their site, but then it says, something like, "Here are cars similar to that in your area." The cars they list are different colors, models, and packages from what I designed. WTF?
When I first learned about TPB, I went to the front page and went, "Now what?"
If I went there and they had a landing page reminiscent of the Spotify app's launch page, that would be awesome. I usually click around there to check out new and different stuff before getting to my regular playlists. To be an artist on that page would be great.
A couple hundred million people hear about you and suddenly I have a feeling, you could book some decent concert venues out of that, not to mention other scarce goods (t-shirts, books, etc).
Re: Re: Re:
Yeah, I saw that afterward. My bad.
Re:
Actually, I read an article (on TechDirt perhaps?) that media companies said exactly that. If you skip commercials or walk to the fridge during commercials, you are stealing from media companies. Insanity. Pure insanity.
Uh oh...
OH GOD! I'M GOING TO JAIL!
Assholes
I can't believe all those Chinese assholes with muscular dystrophy are going to try to seek out effective treatment so they can lead a productive and pain-free life. Jerks.
This is great news.
It will definitely hasten the creation of a faster, more secure version of BitTorrent, which is a good thing. End-to-end encryption is the final goal here, I think. Nice work MS and Sony. You are making the internet a safer place.
I could do this all day...
Congress: The TSA Is Wasting Hundreds Of Millions In Taxpayer Dollars
President: The Congress Is Wasting Hundreds Of Millions In Taxpayer Dollars
TSA: The Dept of Interior Is Wasting Hundreds Of Millions In Taxpayer Dollars
EPA: The FDA Is Wasting Hundreds Of Millions In Taxpayer Dollars
Dept of Agriculture: The Tresury Is Wasting Hundreds Of Millions In Taxpayer Dollars
And on and on and on...
Re: Re: Re: Re: Wasted time
Hello, exactly!
Re: Re: Wasted time
I was referring to Mike's (and the other authors') time being wasted. Not mine.
Wasted time
How much of TechDirt's time is spent explaining basic economics? If it didn't do that, would it actually host any articles?
Re: so leak it
And throw a URL in the movie to your site with a donate link on it. Bet you it would make a killing.
Interesting dichotomy
So if people abuse the internet to share movies and music, we need to shut it down by blocking sites.
Yet, when these windbags abuse the DMCA button, nothing happens.
In your face, Mike...
Boy are you going to look stupid when their millions of blog readers, Twitter followers, and Facebook likers stand up and say, "We want - NAY, DEMAND - the content we consume be more expensive, less convenient, and of lower quality!"
Egg. On. Your. Face.
My wish
My current favorite version of the bible is The Message because it reads more like a narrative than anything. The unfortunate part is that it is encumbered by copyright.
I went to buy it in Kindle format but ended up not because the search is terrible. You can only get to the beginning of books based on how the author/publisher set it up. For a book like Psalms, you are going to end up paging through hundreds of pages to get to the chapter you want.
If someone would do a great, readable translation and open source it so people could set up innovative search methods on it, that would be awesome.
OSNOVA has done some nice search stuff with KJV since it is public domain, but KJV is unreadable and our church doesn't use it anyway.
http://store.osnova.com/Kindle-Bible-KJV-paragraphed_p_8.html
It's just a matter of time
You know someone at XDA is going to get their hands on this and exploit it. Then everyone will be downgrading their data plan to the 200MB version and sideload all these "800 number" versions of apps.
Hey! AT&T! Here is a gun; your foot is right down there.
Interesting situation
What would happen if Rumblefish and the nature dude were both out in the woods, unaware of each other, and ended up recording the same bird at the same time? I'm assuming this would be similar to simultaneous invention in patents.
But it just shows how insane it is that Rumblefish can copyright this in the first place.
Oops...
They forgot to pull it from The Pirate Bay. Can someone send them an email real quick to remind them.
Custom order
So I can go to dell.com right now and custom order a computer with the amount of ram, color, accessories, whatever, exactly as I want it. And I don't have to go to a store.
How the hell does that not exist for cars? I can design a car exactly as I want it on their site, but then it says, something like, "Here are cars similar to that in your area." The cars they list are different colors, models, and packages from what I designed. WTF?
Re: SOPA
Mike, do a profile on this guy, stat. Thanks for what you are doing, Lloyd.
Thanks
Ooo, Movieberry? Never heard of that one. Thanks for the tip, Gavin. You've been very helpful.
Expand on this...
When I first learned about TPB, I went to the front page and went, "Now what?"
If I went there and they had a landing page reminiscent of the Spotify app's launch page, that would be awesome. I usually click around there to check out new and different stuff before getting to my regular playlists. To be an artist on that page would be great.
A couple hundred million people hear about you and suddenly I have a feeling, you could book some decent concert venues out of that, not to mention other scarce goods (t-shirts, books, etc).