Netflix was doing promos before movies, although it seemed to stop about the same time Hulu offered a commercial free option. Maybe they realized what a bad move it was.
As for recommendations, all I ever get is suggestions for Netflix originals, and I never watch them. Last night I watched Saving Private Ryan and afterwards it suggested the new Netflix show The Little Prince. I've rated thousands of movies and it's worthless.
Netflix has run ads for Netflix exclusives before other movies, and I've argued with people who insisted they weren't ads because they're for Netflix. So you can fool some people into watching commercials.
And if CBS put all their content going all the way back to the 1950s up for commercial-free streaming, I'd say that was worth a monthly payment. But that will never happen.
That's like saying the moment we had automobiles we should have outlawed horses and buggies, when in fact they co-existed for a number of years until enough people had cars to mostly eliminate horses from roads.
If we could shut down the current system and replace it with something else, we would have had self-driving cars long ago, but you can't simply stop the world and change everything overnight.
The Olympics are on cable because at one time, people were in a cable bubble. They went where people were. If people are in a Facebook bubble then they need tobe be getting themselves over to Facebook pronto.
It's their job to put events where people will watch them, not expect people come to them. You can't blame the public for ignoring you. They're not the ones missing out - you are. The Olympics are only as important as the number of people that care.
Hulu didn't lie. They always said certain shows would still have commercials due to their contractual obligations, but future contracts would include commercial free programming.
But get angry at them if you want because a tiny handful of shows still had commercials.
I seen much worse than that posted online without it raising an eyebrow, much less people asking to be removed from the internet.
But the question here isn't what is appropriate and what isn't, but the tools and methods used to suppress it. The laws that are being abused for the purposes of censorship.
If the NRA doesn't like what the Yes Men are doing, they can take them to court for libel, not abuse trademark law with takedown notices.
It's not that most things are not worthy of copyright, it's that for most things people make there's no desire to have copyright protection, and yet everything does.
If the government wants to implement copyright, I see no reason why it shouldn't be free to register a copyright and have it paid for by taxes. The government is the public. But that's just one of many things that needs to change about copyright.
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Netflix was doing promos before movies, although it seemed to stop about the same time Hulu offered a commercial free option. Maybe they realized what a bad move it was.
As for recommendations, all I ever get is suggestions for Netflix originals, and I never watch them. Last night I watched Saving Private Ryan and afterwards it suggested the new Netflix show The Little Prince. I've rated thousands of movies and it's worthless.
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It's more like allowing prisoners serving life + 70 years to run the prison.
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Well... I still say the 1976 Copyright Act was a mistake, so I guess they can have their opinions too.
Re: CBS Free
I could watch nothing but CBS/NBC/ABC for a year, and it still wouldn't cost me one red cent. It's broadcast for free.
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Netflix has run ads for Netflix exclusives before other movies, and I've argued with people who insisted they weren't ads because they're for Netflix. So you can fool some people into watching commercials.
And if CBS put all their content going all the way back to the 1950s up for commercial-free streaming, I'd say that was worth a monthly payment. But that will never happen.
Re: obvious
That's like saying the moment we had automobiles we should have outlawed horses and buggies, when in fact they co-existed for a number of years until enough people had cars to mostly eliminate horses from roads.
If we could shut down the current system and replace it with something else, we would have had self-driving cars long ago, but you can't simply stop the world and change everything overnight.
Re: He's right.
I always choose option D whether there's fog or not.
Fire the execs!
The Olympics are on cable because at one time, people were in a cable bubble. They went where people were. If people are in a Facebook bubble then they need tobe be getting themselves over to Facebook pronto.
It's their job to put events where people will watch them, not expect people come to them. You can't blame the public for ignoring you. They're not the ones missing out - you are. The Olympics are only as important as the number of people that care.
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well... that's a big part of what makes them good people.
Re: Screw Hulu!!!
Hulu didn't lie. They always said certain shows would still have commercials due to their contractual obligations, but future contracts would include commercial free programming.
But get angry at them if you want because a tiny handful of shows still had commercials.
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He could have simply asked his client to plead guilty, and then pardoned him. Easy money.
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Actually, most of what TechDirt does is comment on news that's reported elsewhere.
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Terrible idea. The last thing we need is even MORE comic book movies.
but yes, they should already be in the public domain.
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One song down. How many more to go?
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Fighting them and taking them to court just brings the parody to the forefront. I'm sure they'd like nothing better than a lawsuit.
Re: Parody or Slander?
I seen much worse than that posted online without it raising an eyebrow, much less people asking to be removed from the internet.
But the question here isn't what is appropriate and what isn't, but the tools and methods used to suppress it. The laws that are being abused for the purposes of censorship.
If the NRA doesn't like what the Yes Men are doing, they can take them to court for libel, not abuse trademark law with takedown notices.
Re: Fighting for a public domain?
The public lost the public domain fight 40 years ago.
Re: Copyfraud everywhere
It's public domain, so their perfectly free to sell it for whatever they can get. They simply can't prevent others from freely using it.
Of course, calling it a license is dubious.
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It's not that most things are not worthy of copyright, it's that for most things people make there's no desire to have copyright protection, and yet everything does.
Re: FTFY
If the government wants to implement copyright, I see no reason why it shouldn't be free to register a copyright and have it paid for by taxes. The government is the public. But that's just one of many things that needs to change about copyright.