CheMonro 's Techdirt Comments

Latest Comments (29) comment rss

  • On the post: Jeffrey Katzenberg: The New Pricing Model For Movies Will Be Based On The Viewer's Screen Size

    CheMonro ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2014 @ 04:38pm

    Why not just use a formula to price the product based on a decaying price curve that averages out to the same profitability as the current model (assuming that is sustainable)?

    I figure it would sit at a high price "for a while", the "release window," and then decay towards a sustainable long term price.

  • On the post: Australian Copyright Reform Goes Into Reverse: 'Fair Use' Out, 'Three Strikes' In

    CheMonro ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2014 @ 02:29pm

    It's not cricket!

    I'm just surprised that as Australia is not a baseball playing country they would propose a "three strikes" law. Why not an "It's not cricket!" resolution or a "upped stumps and retired to the pavillion" regulation?

  • On the post: Will The RIAA Need To Start Worrying About 3D Printed Records Next?

    CheMonro ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2012 @ 12:38am

    Why bother with all this messy physical printing at all? Just create a detailed 3D model of the record, save it as a file, and play it in a simulated record player...

  • On the post: Canadian Politician Claims That Ripping A CD To Your iPod Is Like Buying Socks & Stealing Shoes To Go With Them

    CheMonro ( profile ), 17 May, 2012 @ 04:28pm

    Circumvention

    What a pity printer manufacturers can't copyright their ink cartridges. Then it would be illegal to circumvent the the copy protection on the cartridge by using it with any other ink.

  • On the post: Breivik, The Press And The Ongoing Myth Of The 'Violent Gamer'

    CheMonro ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2012 @ 07:30pm

    Gender

    Actually you'd think gender is probably a more significant indicator than gaming for violent crime. Wikipedia says the ratio of people incarcerated in the US is 9 males to every female. And the ratio of gamers is 60:40 male to female.

    http://edugamesresearch.com/blog/2008/07/23/esa-survey-malefemale-gamer-ratio-is-6040-average-age-is-35/

    So... If a violent criminal is much more likely to be male, then he's also more likely to be a gamer than the average person picked off the street, simply because male are more likely to be gamers. This doesn't mean gaming causes violent crime. But... it reflects the statistically significant fact that males are more likely to commit violent crime than females.

    I note in passing that Anders Breivik is male, it's odd that nobody picked up on that before...? *doe eyes*

  • On the post: What Do You Get When You Strip Patent Illustrations From All Context?

    CheMonro ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2012 @ 02:30am

    Shoes

    Who would have thought that people might want to wear shoes while wrestling?

    Well there was a time when wearing shoes at all was considered novel, and would have been worthy of a patent. And since patents last forever, that means shoes should still be patentable, right? I mean, innovation is innovation...

  • On the post: London 2012 Olympics Win Gold Medal For Cluelessness By Banning Video And Photo Uploads To Social Media During Games

    CheMonro ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2012 @ 03:24am

    The olympics are the classic example of the centralised, control freak one-to-many broadcast model of traditional sports bodies. They profit from restricting information and access and requiring people to pay large amounts of money to watch mass market broadcasts.

    That's why, if anything, sporting organizations seem to be more copyright draconian than even Hollywood, trying to ban "unauthorized" reporting or photography of any kind.

    It's the complete anathema of the many-to-many social broadcasting of the internet, where everyone is a "source" and everyone is a "consumer."

    Now imagine if we started our own olympics where every athlete competed in their own home town and the winners were chosen by the posting of authenticated times, and all the footage just went straight up on YouTube...

  • On the post: Canada Post Claims Copyright Over Postal Codes, Meets Resistance

    CheMonro ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2012 @ 04:26am

    A Modest Proposal

    The registry of births, deaths and marriages is database created by the government, and as such the government may claim copyright over it. Then offer everyone a license to use their own individual names, for a small fee. Don't for heaven's sake call it a "name tax" or worse yet "poll tax!"

    And those who won't settle? Well...

  • On the post: IP Above All Else: WIPO Defies UN Sanctions To Give Computers To North Korea

    CheMonro ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 05:45pm

    IP Bomb

    I hear the North Koreans are working on a new bomb that destroys people and buildings but leaves intellectual property unharmed!

  • On the post: National Highway Transportation Safety Agency Says You Can Keep Your GPS — As Long As It's Completely Useless

    CheMonro ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2012 @ 03:58pm

    Why don't we take all the gasoline out of cars? I bet that would make them safer to operate!

  • On the post: Facebook Says That If You Use The Site You Agree To Its Bogus Claim To Hold A Trademark On 'Book'

    CheMonro ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2012 @ 09:33pm

    By using this site you are agreeing that God is a woman, that biology is destiny, the Earth was created in 4004BC on 1 January at 9 in the morning, and pi is equal to 9.

  • On the post: Scammers Mimic Copyright Troll Shakedowns In Targeting Megaupload Users

    CheMonro ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2012 @ 02:16am

    Kill them all: God will know his own

    Just send out payment demands to every email on the net, my friend. Some of them must have had Megaupload accounts, right?

  • On the post: Google Defends The DMCA's Safe Harbors Against The MPAA's Attempts To Reinterpret Them In Hotfile Case

    CheMonro ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2012 @ 05:30pm

    But... But.. Google!

    But... But.. GOOGLE!

  • On the post: Smart TVs: Not Such A Smart Idea

    CheMonro ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2012 @ 09:37pm

    TVs are cheap and getting cheaper. I see old "dumb" CRT TVs on the side of the road all the time - nobody wants them. You can buy a new big screen TV for less than $500, much less. For me the key is USB and HDMI interfaces. With these I can connect a hard drive and a laptop. The harddrive stores the media and the laptop provides the smarts to do any general purpose computation. I can access the hard drive directly from the TV for simple avi files, or through the laptop if it's more complex. And I can pick up the laptop and the hard drive and take them on the road and plug them into any HDMI tv. A laptop with HDMI is the best place for the smarts to reside, and yeah, you might upgrade it every 2-5 years.

  • On the post: Is Using A Piece Of Existing Music In A Film To Underline An Emotion 'Rape' – Or Just The Way Cinema Works?

    CheMonro ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2012 @ 03:03pm

    How Many?

    I wonder how many in the audience for The Artist have ever seen Vertigo? I'd guess much less than fifty percent. Maybe this is a homage, you know, a way of celebrating a classic score and a classic film and introducing them to a whole new generation of moviegoers... Who might even be motivated to now watch Vertigo for the first time.

    Wouldn't that be a good thing?

  • On the post: What If A Court Gave An Important Ruling, But We Were Not Allowed To Know What It Was?

    CheMonro ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2011 @ 04:17pm

    Classified comment not available to the public.

  • On the post: Universal Backs Away From Planned $60 VOD Release Of Tower Heist

    CheMonro ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2011 @ 02:34am

    Seagate just released this hard drive that holds 3Tb of storage and outputs directly to your TV. I got to thinking: That thing could hold every movie ever made that I'm interested in seeing. And the two or three new movies a year that I would want to see... I could pay to see them at a cinema or rent them on DVD when they come out.

    http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/13/seagate-goflex-cinema-puts-up-to-3tb-of-media-files-at-your-tvs/

    That could mean my movie collection could be like my music collection: Something that's always there, which I update every now and again when I hear something compelling. Which isn't very often.

  • On the post: Universal Backs Away From Planned $60 VOD Release Of Tower Heist

    CheMonro ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2011 @ 05:01pm

    Re: Re:

    Rich people pirate movies too. You don't get super rich by paying too much for things. Some of the tightest people you'll ever meet are the super rich.

    Effectively you're saying "It would be worth $60 to me to avoid the stupid movie theater lines and dirt."

    I'm saying: $60 is too much to pay for a movie.

    It's not really about whether you and I are super rich or super poor. It's about how much the movie is worth. Is a movie worth $60? Not to me.

  • On the post: Activity Is Not Influence

    CheMonro ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2011 @ 10:17pm

    Activity is not equal to influence... TRUE.

    But, can you have influence with no activity? No. And if you look at the commenters who regularly post on this forum, the ones who comment on story after story after story... Won't they tend to build up influence?

    So activity is not infulence, but... activity is certainly related to influence, and... oh... a person's maximum potential influence increases with activity.

  • On the post: No Info Can Be Found About Mysterious Report Claiming Australia As A 'Nation Of Pirates'

    CheMonro ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 02:44pm

    Nation of Pirates

    Aaaaaarrrr, matey! A nation of pirates we be! Founded by whores and thieves and convicts, and our only currency is RUM! Arrrrrh!

Next >>