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• On the post: Priced Out Of Your Medication? Must Be All That 'Expensive' Big Pharma R&D

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2011 @ 05:37am

  Today in the NYT

  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/health/28prostate.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

• On the post: Prince: Digital Music Has A Different Impact On Your Brain

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2011 @ 09:23am

  Re: By jove, I think he's got it

  Good luck paying his mortgage.

• On the post: Why ISPs Becoming Hollywood Enforcers Won't Actually Solve Hollywood's Problem

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2011 @ 08:55am

  Price

  It's not even complicated. The new business model is: Start a new music site. Knock the price way down, say a quarter per tune, get rid of all DRM, let us own the music we buy. There, done.
  
  iTunes can't compete with that, piracy can't compete with that.

• On the post: Mexican Congress Moves Forward With Effort To Refuse To Sign ACTA

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2011 @ 06:10am

  Re: Re:

  Or another El Brad Pitt
  http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/06/16/cartel-head-hancho-el-brad-pitt-captured-in-mexico/

• On the post: Caught With A DUI In New Jersey? You Can Now Blame The Bar That Served You

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2011 @ 04:54pm

  Guns next

  That shotgun grandpa gave you. Poor grandpa...

• On the post: Oops: Dropbox Left All User Accounts Wide Open For Four Hours This Weekend

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2011 @ 05:46am

  The cloud is not ready for prime time

  http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/20/segas-online-pass-hacked-1-3-million-user-passwords-stolen/
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1380050/Sony-admits-Weve-hacked-PlayStation-Network-outage.html
  http://www.techjournalsouth.com/2011/06/digiday-citigroup-credit-card-info-hacked-social-marketing-rivals-email-benefits/
  http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10271
  http://www.webguild.org/20090510/160000-social-security-numbers-hacked-from-uc-berkeley
  http://www.teamshatter.com/topics/database-security/maines-kennebec-savings-hacked-no-funds-card-data-or-social-security-numbers-compromised/
  http://online-identity-theft.net/online-identity-theft/60000-university-of-wisconsin-madison-social-security-numbers-hacked
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/17/AR2005061701031.html
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40841273/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/honda-online-database-hacked/
  http://datalossdb.org/incidents/3196-hacked-server-exposes-106-884-names-social-security-numbers-and-dates-of-birth
  http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2601085&page=1
  http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/12/16/server-hacked-at-osu-760000-affected.html
  http://consumerist.com/2007/09/td-ameritrade-hacked-customer-data-compromised.html
  http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1050908/faa-hacked
  http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/gawker-passwords-hacked-what-you-should-do/
  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376049,00.asp
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218272/Microsoft-Hotmail-accounts-hacked-posted-online.html
  http://securitycertificate.net/2011/06/google-gmail-account-passwords-hacked-from-china-hackers/
  http://www.freakgeeks.com/2011/2768/ios-devices-passwords-hacked-in-6-minutes/
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41059570/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/pentagons-credit-union-hacked/
  http://mashable.com/2011/01/22/lushs-uk-website-hacked-credit-card-numbers-used/

• On the post: The Many Killers Of The Music Industry: The Analog Era

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2011 @ 11:42am

  Player pianos required Digits

  That is all.

• On the post: The Many Killers Of The Music Industry: The Digital Era

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2011 @ 10:55am

  Re: On the "cloud"...

  Server racks are HOT!
  
  Good job Tim! I rolled on the floor laughing my ass off.

• On the post: How Did The iTunes Terms Of Service Become A Cultural Phenomenon All Its Own?

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2011 @ 08:08am

  oops

  I can't watch the video on my iphone or ipad... no flash.

• On the post: The Best Time To Make A Decision Is… When You Have To Pee Really Badly?

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2011 @ 08:28am

  Sounds like a fetish. I guess that's all urine to.

• On the post: Is Pretending Your Domain Name Has Been Seized By ICE The New Rickroll?

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2011 @ 11:04am

  Re:

  Inform Seal Team 6. Take 'em out!

• On the post: Entertainment Industry Lawyer: The Public Domain Goes Against Free Market Capitalism

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2011 @ 11:56am

  What else is against free market Capitalism?

  Government granted monopolies maybe?

• On the post: UN Report On Human Rights Condemns Three Strikes As Civil Rights Violation

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2011 @ 11:52am

  Where are all the shills?

  Nowhere baby.

• On the post: EMI Exec Thinks You Shouldn't Be Able To Listen To Your Own Music Without Paying Again

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 31 May, 2011 @ 08:33am

  Re: Playing Devil's advocate... sort of...

  They're taking notes. Thanks a heap.

• On the post: Dow Jones Sues Texas; Says Taxing The Wall Street Journal Is A First Amendment Violation

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 27 May, 2011 @ 10:26am

  Re: This reminds me of the time the GOP denied climate change

  "Arbitrary rejection of scientific fact will not cause us to rise from our seats today. But with this bill, pollution levels will rise. Oil imports will rise. Temperatures will rise."
  
  
  It looks to me like the GOP denied that climate change was due to mankind's pollution.

• On the post: Oh Look, The Overall Music Industry In Canada Has Been Growing As Well…

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 24 May, 2011 @ 09:29am

  Re:

  And ignore digital sales?

• On the post: Being Concerned With Free Speech Implications Of PROTECT IP Does Not Mean You Think You're Above The Law

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 24 May, 2011 @ 07:26am

  Re: Re: Re: @Howard

  I appreciate your civility, thanks. I could use public domain music, (hopefully not finding out the video has been taken down again because the tune was really not public domain), but I spent hours using the 5 to 10 second long commercially licensed loops that came with my software, to craft a background sound that was timed closely with the video. You cannot find this song anywhere on the web. I created it myself using Sony Acid, and no one is making money from the 5 minute ditty I created, including myself. The only thing I could do differently is change the video to private on YouTube, then email the link to everyone in my family. Unfortunately, others - friends I forget to add to the email list will never see it, and that makes YouTube less useful to me. Thanks for your advice and response, because nice is a rare thing on the threads.

• On the post: Being Concerned With Free Speech Implications Of PROTECT IP Does Not Mean You Think You're Above The Law

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 23 May, 2011 @ 08:54am

  Re: @Howard

  Your response has convinced me. Convinced me you're clueless and out of touch.

• On the post: Being Concerned With Free Speech Implications Of PROTECT IP Does Not Mean You Think You're Above The Law

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 23 May, 2011 @ 07:23am

  Re: thanks eejit...

  They came with Sony's Acid Music program. I also bought Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10. I created the background music with LOOPS from the content that came with the program. Your guess is incorrect. My guess is that it matched some copyrighted track closely enough to be construed as infringement. I'd guess that this will happen again and again to others that do the same thing. I'm sure that will not promote innovation or creativity.

• On the post: Being Concerned With Free Speech Implications Of PROTECT IP Does Not Mean You Think You're Above The Law

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 23 May, 2011 @ 07:16am

  Re: @Howard The Dork

  I have to go through the appeals process to get my family video back on YouTube? If I don't suffer an economic loss it's no biggie? That's a perfect example of what's wrong with the media industries thought process, and that's why they will fail.

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