Congratulations "Aye" voters - you just got on my "do not re-elect" list! You've joined the illustrious ranks of unrepentant SOPA and PIPA supporters. I want Obama to veto this piece of shit legislation, but your opponent in your next election just got my vote no matter what else happens.
This will be the new go-to intimidation tactic. Someone needs to start compiling strip search statistics. (Do not insert the "with pictures" joke here - it's not as funny as you think it is.)
"We review a substantial amount of claims every day and the number is increasing significantly. It's been rather challenging. We have millions of videos now using our songs as soundtracks and keeping up is getting harder and harder."
I hear you saying that the situation current copyright law puts you in is untenable and that you would like to see comprehensive copyright reform take place. I applaud you for your progressive attitude when so many in your industry are focused on backwards, money-grubbing punishment schemes that harm the artist and the consumer alike. Thanks also for your heartfelt apology and pledge to never let this sort of thing happen ever again - that sort of thing, when it's sincere, really goes a long way towards establishing a positive relationship with consumers.
Oh wait...you say the only copyright reform you want is more copyright and you didn't actually apologize or pledge to do better? In that case it's a solo bird salute to you. Stop trying to get ahead of the story and spin it and start fixing the problem or you're just another asshole in a vast sea of them.
When life gives you lemons, charge life a handling fee for those lemons, write them off as a lemonade-making business expense, claim an organic food producers' tax credit, and then sell the lemonade. Don't forget to charge for the cup, a modest pouring fee, and a bathroom access fee. You'll need that money to pay lobbyists to get laws passed outlawing those cute little kids on the corner of the next block.
Note that you'll probably lose money on this whole venture, but hey - write-off, plus it's more evidence of the economic harm those kids are causing you. Win-win.
Lesson: Do not conflate copyright owners with content creators and be especially suspicious when the owners who are not creators start pretending to be concerned with the welfare of the creators who are not owners.
Scary is not harmful, lack of direct and obvious consumer benefit is not harmful.
I agree that online privacy issues have the potential to turn into a very harmful situation. I don't see evidence that they are currently harmful to the consumer.
The only discs I have bought in the last 5 years are a few kids' shows and movies for long car rides. An idea like this might actually get me to spend more.
I am so fucking sick and tired of having companies treat me like a criminal when i try to do business with them. The easiest answer is to NOT do business with them.
When will they realize that their DRM only drives away legitimate customers, not pirates?
Those packets probably passed through a lot of different nodes on their way to the viewer, so all those node operators should be held responsible for infringement as well.
It's obvious. The only way to save the copyright holders is to kill the internet. Unplug before you accidentintentionally commit more thought crime.
community - check
integrity of the internet - check
innovation - check
free speech - check
first amendment - check
IP rights - check
I imagine "Stephanie Bracken, PR Specialist" got an earful of "Tell the lawyers to shut the fuck up - the jig is up on this one, get us out of it today!"
If you were super rich and played the VOD movie on a non-stop loop on 20 different sets and paid for each play on each set and 100 more idiots like you were willing to do the same then this might be a viable revenue stream. ...And the theater owners still wouldn't have to worry about it because it would only be taking a few hundred butts out of their seats.
This looks like it was written by Mark Zuckerberg.
Damage to the marketplace? Drag everyone else down with them?
That doesn't seem to be a logical or supportable claim. What does that mean in this context? What would this look like if it were true? Will a failure by Google drive people away from other Social Networking services?
The platform stuff is all very high-level and important, but the biggest problem with Google+ is that all the casual u
sers are still on Facebook.
They don't want to learn a new system, even if it is a better one (debatable). So you can be on Google+ and only interact with other early adopters or you can be on Facebook and communicate with practically everyone. In the short game, Facebook seems to be succeeding at maintaining its market share by making it hard for people to switch and because Google didn't make it easy enough to interconnect. Time after time Facebook enrages its users, but they (we) show that anger by posting a status update about it and then continuing to use the service. The alternative is cutting off a significant avenue of socialization.
This will probably fail in the long run, but the question is whether Google can get its high-level platform shit figured out in time to take advantage of the eventual diaspora or whether it will be some other players.
Ellison came up in an era when publishers, studios, and corporations in general really were out to screw artists...so really no different from now. His broad claims of ownership are (in his view) really just defensive measures against a predatory industry.
He also has an ego the size of Jupiter and assumes that not just companies, but pretty much everyone is out to get him. The internet generally validates these views by providing him with equal measures of ass-kissing and abuse. Maybe it's because the present doesn't match his visions of how the future should have turned out, but for whatever reason, he just seems kind of incompatible with modern life.
The Bloggess is funnier than your show. You should be thanking her for the exposure. Stop acting like the kind of uptight douchebags that your show so often mocks.
Motherfuckers
Congratulations "Aye" voters - you just got on my "do not re-elect" list! You've joined the illustrious ranks of unrepentant SOPA and PIPA supporters. I want Obama to veto this piece of shit legislation, but your opponent in your next election just got my vote no matter what else happens.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll192.xml
Re:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrVkEKcSoFE
Guaranteed Abuse
This will be the new go-to intimidation tactic. Someone needs to start compiling strip search statistics. (Do not insert the "with pictures" joke here - it's not as funny as you think it is.)
Oh Look...
"We review a substantial amount of claims every day and the number is increasing significantly. It's been rather challenging. We have millions of videos now using our songs as soundtracks and keeping up is getting harder and harder."
I hear you saying that the situation current copyright law puts you in is untenable and that you would like to see comprehensive copyright reform take place. I applaud you for your progressive attitude when so many in your industry are focused on backwards, money-grubbing punishment schemes that harm the artist and the consumer alike. Thanks also for your heartfelt apology and pledge to never let this sort of thing happen ever again - that sort of thing, when it's sincere, really goes a long way towards establishing a positive relationship with consumers.
Oh wait...you say the only copyright reform you want is more copyright and you didn't actually apologize or pledge to do better? In that case it's a solo bird salute to you. Stop trying to get ahead of the story and spin it and start fixing the problem or you're just another asshole in a vast sea of them.
Balls of solid brass.
Stay classy UMG!
When life gives you lemons, charge life a handling fee for those lemons, write them off as a lemonade-making business expense, claim an organic food producers' tax credit, and then sell the lemonade. Don't forget to charge for the cup, a modest pouring fee, and a bathroom access fee. You'll need that money to pay lobbyists to get laws passed outlawing those cute little kids on the corner of the next block.
Note that you'll probably lose money on this whole venture, but hey - write-off, plus it's more evidence of the economic harm those kids are causing you. Win-win.
Lesson:
Lesson: Do not conflate copyright owners with content creators and be especially suspicious when the owners who are not creators start pretending to be concerned with the welfare of the creators who are not owners.
eerie is not harmful...
Scary is not harmful, lack of direct and obvious consumer benefit is not harmful.
I agree that online privacy issues have the potential to turn into a very harmful situation. I don't see evidence that they are currently harmful to the consumer.
Crazy!
The only discs I have bought in the last 5 years are a few kids' shows and movies for long car rides. An idea like this might actually get me to spend more.
Clearly it will not happen.
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I am so fucking sick and tired of having companies treat me like a criminal when i try to do business with them. The easiest answer is to NOT do business with them.
When will they realize that their DRM only drives away legitimate customers, not pirates?
Who are you going to believe?
As the punchline to an old joke goes...
"Who are you going to believe, your lying eyes, or me?"
It gets better...
Those packets probably passed through a lot of different nodes on their way to the viewer, so all those node operators should be held responsible for infringement as well.
It's obvious. The only way to save the copyright holders is to kill the internet. Unplug before you accidentintentionally commit more thought crime.
Re: SOPA Was The Perfect Racket For GoDaddy
That has MBA written all over it. Legal just told them they could get away with it.
non-apology by checklist
community - check
integrity of the internet - check
innovation - check
free speech - check
first amendment - check
IP rights - check
I imagine "Stephanie Bracken, PR Specialist" got an earful of "Tell the lawyers to shut the fuck up - the jig is up on this one, get us out of it today!"
Re: Re:
If you were super rich and played the VOD movie on a non-stop loop on 20 different sets and paid for each play on each set and 100 more idiots like you were willing to do the same then this might be a viable revenue stream. ...And the theater owners still wouldn't have to worry about it because it would only be taking a few hundred butts out of their seats.
Re:
This looks like it was written by Mark Zuckerberg.
Damage to the marketplace? Drag everyone else down with them?
That doesn't seem to be a logical or supportable claim. What does that mean in this context? What would this look like if it were true? Will a failure by Google drive people away from other Social Networking services?
The biggest problem with Google+
The platform stuff is all very high-level and important, but the biggest problem with Google+ is that all the casual u
sers are still on Facebook.
They don't want to learn a new system, even if it is a better one (debatable). So you can be on Google+ and only interact with other early adopters or you can be on Facebook and communicate with practically everyone. In the short game, Facebook seems to be succeeding at maintaining its market share by making it hard for people to switch and because Google didn't make it easy enough to interconnect. Time after time Facebook enrages its users, but they (we) show that anger by posting a status update about it and then continuing to use the service. The alternative is cutting off a significant avenue of socialization.
This will probably fail in the long run, but the question is whether Google can get its high-level platform shit figured out in time to take advantage of the eventual diaspora or whether it will be some other players.
Government...
Government of the government, by the government, for the government.
Re: Re:
Thanks for writing this for me. The check is in the mail.
Ellison
Ellison came up in an era when publishers, studios, and corporations in general really were out to screw artists...so really no different from now. His broad claims of ownership are (in his view) really just defensive measures against a predatory industry.
He also has an ego the size of Jupiter and assumes that not just companies, but pretty much everyone is out to get him. The internet generally validates these views by providing him with equal measures of ass-kissing and abuse. Maybe it's because the present doesn't match his visions of how the future should have turned out, but for whatever reason, he just seems kind of incompatible with modern life.
Dear Portlandia,
The Bloggess is funnier than your show. You should be thanking her for the exposure. Stop acting like the kind of uptight douchebags that your show so often mocks.