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• On the post: Adult Swim, Cartoon Network Piss Off Fans By Removing Free iPad Streams; Now Only For Cable Subscribers

  

  Reverend Dak ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2011 @ 01:32pm

  Don't they have advertising? It's not enough?
  
  Do they, or don't they want us to watch their shows?
  
  Why can't they replicate the content online as they do over cable? And pass the costs over to the advertisers... you know, the whole point of advertising in general.

• On the post: It's Not About 'Free,' It's About Sharing

  

  Reverend Dak ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2011 @ 10:25am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Nothing acttually costs anything, so...

  Actually, you bring up an interesting subject. In lots of cases it's not the actual artists that sue for infringement, but the estates.

• On the post: It's Not About 'Free,' It's About Sharing

  

  Reverend Dak ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2011 @ 10:22am

  "Dude, you have to hear this awesome song."
  
  "Cool, play it."
  
  "No, you have to buy it first."

• On the post: Hebrew University Hired Detective To Get Printing Store To Print Einstein Shirt… Just To Threaten To Sue

  

  Reverend Dak ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2011 @ 03:45pm

  The "detective" is the pirate, not the printer!
  
  So if I get caught selling drugs to a cop, can say I was "testing" them?

• On the post: NYT: You Can Access Our Site For Free From Twitter, But Don't Tell Anyone That

  

  Reverend Dak ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2011 @ 07:28pm

  NYT, and others, keep forgetting that viewers are a good thing, and the more viewers (hits and clicks) the more valuable advertising space is. That business model has not changed.

• On the post: Dear Hollywood: It's Time To Realize Artificial Scarcity Is Gone… And That's A Good Thing

  

  Reverend Dak ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2011 @ 12:41pm

  The industry will hang on to their outdated income streams for as long as they can.
  
  And as long as the industry has insiders as government officials, this will be for a while longer.

• On the post: Avatar Blu-Ray Customers Not Enjoying Their DRM-Crippled Discs

  

  Reverend Dak ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2010 @ 03:08pm

  BLU-RAY WAS DEAD BEFORE DVD EVER DIED...

  It's true. Microsoft and Apple know this, that's why they push X-Boxes and iTunes so hard. No one wants physical media anymore, except for the hold-outs, but they're still spinning vinyl and rolling in Super-8, they stopped factoring them in 1995.

• On the post: Getting The Music Business Over The 'But We Must Sell Music' Hump

  

  Reverend Dak ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2009 @ 05:06pm

  Is it possible, given your higher-than-usual-profile-especially-regarding-the-media-industry-business-model-criticisms, that there were industry shrills planted to disrupt you when you speak?
  
  Isn't "selling music" more than just a copy of the CD, or a concert ticket? I think it's great and important that an artist can "make a living" from their art, and I will always find it bothersome when an organization who's whole purpose is to "make a buck" is the one "defending" the old business models.

• On the post: P2P Pre-Settlement Letters In Germany May Have Been Illegal; Lawyer Who Reveals This Threatened With Lawsuit

  

  Reverend Dak ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2009 @ 12:36pm

  Sounds like Blackmail to me, isn't _that_ illegal?

• On the post: That Whole Watch An Ad To Get Content Thing? Patented… And The Patent Holder Has Been Suing

  

  Reverend Dak ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2009 @ 12:05pm

  Um, isn't OTA TV and Radio based on this model?

• On the post: BPI Unhappy With Techdirt, Seeks To Correct The Record… But Still Gets It Wrong

  

  Reverend Dak ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2009 @ 11:56am

  I was going to use the same analogy...

  ... but using cars instead. It's like suing (or blaming) the car industry for making vehicles that can be used as get-away cars (i.e. crimes.)
  
  Hey BPI (and RIAA/MPAA for that matter) UR DUING IT WRONG.

• On the post: My Debate With The NY Times' David Carr Over Journalism Business Models

  

  Reverend Dak ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2009 @ 09:30pm

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