Combined househould income: $250K+
Amount spent on cable television: $0
We have naked broadband cable and download all of our TV (even shows available OTA) using BitTorrent and ShowRSS with OpenVPN and PeerBlock to keep it anonymous and streamed to our TV via Buffalo Linkstation and PlayOn. We can also access all of our content remotely using Orb.
The whole set-up costs less per year than one month of cable television.
Any judge that is intelligent enough to know the ablative case of "forum" in Latin would know that this was a ridiculous charge that demanded a dismissal.
Watching Murdock being hoisted on his own petard has my schadenfreude meter pegged!
I'm just hoping he loses enough money so he can't pay the utility bills over at Fox News and the power gets shut off in the middle of a Glen Beck moronic rant...
Search for the "long tail" happens in an industry that has been optimized for its core markets thus leaving the "long tail" as a new revenue stream because it is not yet optimized. There is no need to search for the "long tail" in the music industry because the core of the music industry is operating so far below its potential that efforts should be focused on that before you even start worrying about find the "long tail". Seeking the music industry "long tail" is like standing in a hayfield searching for a needle when next door is a needle factory.
My sole source for finding new music is a monthly compilation that I download via BitTorrent. Of course, the bands that I like from this compilation I also download via BitTorrent. I have plenty of money to spend on music, I just haven't found a music company that has the ability to build a product and/or delivery system that is even remotely compelling (with the exception of R. River whose Media Center application is worth paying to use).
Finally, at five years old, some people are just starting to question Facebook's business model & expect profitability?
This is the glaring weak spot of high-tech VC investment. What business or industry would givea company five years of funding and still not see any roadmap to profitability.
By IRS standards (operations must be profitable by year three to count as a business, not a hobbie), Facebook isn't even a real business). No wonder everyone wants to work there...
I'm waiting for the RIAA to push for legislation making speakers and headphones illegal to possess because "...speakers and headphones are as much a factor in the crime of piracy as a handgun is in a liquor store robbery..."
The MPAA and the RIAA won't stop until all humans are required to wear a DRM helmet that prevents eyes from viewing and ears from hearing any non-DRM content. I'm sure a DRM chip implanted in our brains would also be acceptable to them.
I can't wait for a complete DRM world because once we get there, the recording and movie industry executives won't have the piracy strawman to blame for their companys' poor performance, they will be summarily ousted by irate stockholders, and replaced with enlightened management that understands that suing your customer base and calling them criminals while feeing them second-rate content isn't the way to grow entertainment company.
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Combined househould income: $250K+
Amount spent on cable television: $0
We have naked broadband cable and download all of our TV (even shows available OTA) using BitTorrent and ShowRSS with OpenVPN and PeerBlock to keep it anonymous and streamed to our TV via Buffalo Linkstation and PlayOn. We can also access all of our content remotely using Orb.
The whole set-up costs less per year than one month of cable television.
Any judge that is intelligent enough to know the ablative case of "forum" in Latin would know that this was a ridiculous charge that demanded a dismissal.
Watching Murdock being hoisted on his own petard has my schadenfreude meter pegged!
I'm just hoping he loses enough money so he can't pay the utility bills over at Fox News and the power gets shut off in the middle of a Glen Beck moronic rant...
People that try to a complex concept and simplify it into an ill-fitting binary solution are either a.) being deceitful or b.) moronic.
Search for the "long tail" happens in an industry that has been optimized for its core markets thus leaving the "long tail" as a new revenue stream because it is not yet optimized. There is no need to search for the "long tail" in the music industry because the core of the music industry is operating so far below its potential that efforts should be focused on that before you even start worrying about find the "long tail". Seeking the music industry "long tail" is like standing in a hayfield searching for a needle when next door is a needle factory.
My sole source for finding new music is a monthly compilation that I download via BitTorrent. Of course, the bands that I like from this compilation I also download via BitTorrent. I have plenty of money to spend on music, I just haven't found a music company that has the ability to build a product and/or delivery system that is even remotely compelling (with the exception of R. River whose Media Center application is worth paying to use).
Finally, at five years old, some people are just starting to question Facebook's business model & expect profitability?
This is the glaring weak spot of high-tech VC investment. What business or industry would givea company five years of funding and still not see any roadmap to profitability.
By IRS standards (operations must be profitable by year three to count as a business, not a hobbie), Facebook isn't even a real business). No wonder everyone wants to work there...
Next step for RIAA...
I'm waiting for the RIAA to push for legislation making speakers and headphones illegal to possess because "...speakers and headphones are as much a factor in the crime of piracy as a handgun is in a liquor store robbery..."
DRM Helmet
The MPAA and the RIAA won't stop until all humans are required to wear a DRM helmet that prevents eyes from viewing and ears from hearing any non-DRM content. I'm sure a DRM chip implanted in our brains would also be acceptable to them.
I can't wait for a complete DRM world because once we get there, the recording and movie industry executives won't have the piracy strawman to blame for their companys' poor performance, they will be summarily ousted by irate stockholders, and replaced with enlightened management that understands that suing your customer base and calling them criminals while feeing them second-rate content isn't the way to grow entertainment company.