Russia, really? With all the graft and corruption in Russia, you actually bought this propaganda? The USA has issues, but this is only an attempt to try and say "Look America! You're just like us!", which is BS.
That's absolutely not true. Sharers never had anything to do with the $1.00/song price. This price was set by the industry, not to appease file sharers but to appease record labels. Itunes had to negotiate for quite some time to get $1.00/song. I bought several complete albums from a now defunct Russian site for $4.00 or less. There is a tipping point, and the record labels need to dig deeper.
And some on itunes are going for more than $1.00. About 16 tunes makes a CD, so it's still an outrageous $16.00 per CD. I do believe there is some traction to lower prices further, and that itunes will succumb to the "Walmarts" eventually. When a song goes for a quarter, piracy will diminish. There will always be some who can't get a credit card, so there will always be some piracy. Is Wired in cahoots with the record labels?
The Saudi leaders wanted us to bomb Iran, we didn't do this. That doesn't sound like a bully. Give me some examples of bullying in the released cables.
Re: It will be Russia's turn soon enough
Can't wait.
Re: Re: Amazing
Doesn't matter who else said it, from Russia, it's propaganda. My bubble survived.
Amazing
Russia, really? With all the graft and corruption in Russia, you actually bought this propaganda? The USA has issues, but this is only an attempt to try and say "Look America! You're just like us!", which is BS.
That's nothing
I have a patent on walking.
But I'd be dead
I wish I could jump ahead 20 years and see what kind of bandwidth is offered for wireless.
Re: Re: You are both right on the cheap argument...
That's absolutely not true. Sharers never had anything to do with the $1.00/song price. This price was set by the industry, not to appease file sharers but to appease record labels. Itunes had to negotiate for quite some time to get $1.00/song. I bought several complete albums from a now defunct Russian site for $4.00 or less. There is a tipping point, and the record labels need to dig deeper.
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I had a truck like that once.
Only a dollar! (as )
And some on itunes are going for more than $1.00. About 16 tunes makes a CD, so it's still an outrageous $16.00 per CD. I do believe there is some traction to lower prices further, and that itunes will succumb to the "Walmarts" eventually. When a song goes for a quarter, piracy will diminish. There will always be some who can't get a credit card, so there will always be some piracy. Is Wired in cahoots with the record labels?
High hopes
One can only hope that this snowball rolls.
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So the only way to figure out who said what is a name? I don't think so.
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Move out of your mom's basement.
Publicity rights next!
That's right.
Re: Re: Alleged Censorship
Do you think that the majority of Americans are against what Amazon did? It might be that Amazon thinks the opposite. Where are the polls?
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The Saudi leaders wanted us to bomb Iran, we didn't do this. That doesn't sound like a bully. Give me some examples of bullying in the released cables.
To bad
Will these wikileaks push the world's secrets further underground? Will this be an excuse for a cyber arms race?
It will spread
There will be a global wikileaks phenomenon. I see revolutions starting with huge leaks of information.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Tertiary, legalistic reasoning won't help.
Truther truth? Names please?
Torrent-Finder not on the list
Homeland security doesn't list Torrent-Finder on their list of seized domains? http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1006/100630losangeles.htm
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With the scanners roped off, didn't they still do the groping bit? If so, couldn't they have opted-out of that? Opt-out day was a failure.
Re: Re: OPT out OPTED out
So no groping either? Were their gropers broke?