The article sounds like it's about hipsters. I guess the AC's are one, and take offense.
"full-on extreme pro-copyright"
I read that as full contact copyright. A new sport is being born right before our eyes.
Everything interest me at least a little. What blows my mind is the complexities of copyright and the extreme silliness of a lot of patents. Throw in trademark and it nearly melts me down to see how little the supposed experts know in any of the three subjects. Is your day job a politician? You don't have to resort to name calling. :D
I don't disagree with anything in your write up. Just sometimes your opinion is different than mine, I think that's good, we need different views to judge if our opinions are within reason. That's why I'm here, to tweak my opinion with different ideas. I see a huge spectrum of intelligence, from very smart to ignorance to idiotic. For most of my life I didn't care about intelligence, now that I'm old(er), I have a hunger for it and I can find it here with subjects that I never thought or heard of So even if I disagree with your opinion, it's still valid and helpful to me.
I've been an avid reader of TD for a few years now. I don't comment much because I have a hard time expressing myself in writing but I sure learn a lot here. I sometimes disagree with Hephaestus, however, I very much enjoyed this write up. You go Hep!
unintended consequences.
I can play my radio as loud as I want as long as I'm not disturbing the peace. The radio station has already paid the public performance license.
The internet is a new species, more efficient at camouflage, better suited at finding food. Newspapers need to catch up or they will be extinct.
Mike, I think your business model is ahead of the curve and businesses that compete with free (the internet provides a lot of stuff for free) had better evolve or die. Thanks for the free content, I read and learn every day.
Just a observation from a lurker.
The site looks just fine. A little class never hurts.
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They'll be bitchin' cause there's nothing to bitch about.