I'm sorry, but continuing to complain about termination rights in this case is stupid. They SHOULDN'T have rights to this music! It wasn't theirs to begin with, they did nothing to earn rights to it, and they accepted in Ray's will that they wouldn't try to do this kind of garbage!
This isn't some bleeding heart story about how removing termination rights hurts artists. This is a story about some greedy-ass spoiled brats trying to take something that doesn't belong to them.
Why are you wondering what their motive is here? She had a facebook account showing her happy and active. There is obviously something going on there. If it's just her trying to put on a brave front, more power to her... but personally I doubt it. I'd say disability fraud is a far higher chance here.
Or, it could be that she really IS trying to scam them, and was stupid about it. Though I certainly appreciate both your stories, not every corporate problem is one where they're really at fault.
I have to admit, it's certainly a nicer approach then lots of the heavy handed garbage that is prevalent in shutting people up. Perhaps this is embarrassing enough that buying the author off is preferable, here? Perhaps they hope that when he's sitting pretty on cash he won't make as much of a fuss.
And yet World of Warcraft is making the kind of money that the Call of Duty developers would sell their souls for... And it's making it steadily, and consistently. Though there are only a few breakaway titles on the PC, they are titles that end up being totally horrid when adapted to consoles.
In point of fact, someone posted a webcrawler with the current statistics for the post - now more then two thousand, two hundred pages strong and growing, by the way.
http://static.bwerp.net/~adam/2010/07/08/
What's particularly notable here is that there are 12,755 unique posters thusfar. Several of these, on each page, are discussing how until this is settled they have canceled their accounts, and noting how many of their friends have canceled as well.
Mike, I am honestly not sure why you feel that this isn't noteworthy given your talk about privacy in an online environment, and your discussions about how there are several non-tangible goods that any kind of service and provide. Blizzard has, up to this point, had a non-tangible value that has been the reason that it has become the giant it is today - a feeling that it treated its players with respect, as valued customers. It would seem that now they are trying to trade in on that, treat players as commodities, and hope that noone notices.
Well, people have been noticing. I canceled my sub earlier today - and I had to wait a good thirty minutes to do so. I feel that that is worth pointing out - the servers used to cancel subscriptions are being so overclogged, there is a substantial waiting line to be able to close an account.
I'm sorry, but continuing to complain about termination rights in this case is stupid. They SHOULDN'T have rights to this music! It wasn't theirs to begin with, they did nothing to earn rights to it, and they accepted in Ray's will that they wouldn't try to do this kind of garbage!
This isn't some bleeding heart story about how removing termination rights hurts artists. This is a story about some greedy-ass spoiled brats trying to take something that doesn't belong to them.
The democrats have had plenty of voting "accidents" before. If you want to disagree, I'd kindly point you towards Kennedy.
The republicans have had plenty before.
Neither side is perfect, both sides are flawed.
The one unquestionable truth is that you people using phrases like "republicants" and "dummycrats" look like religiously frothing idiots.
*snorts*
Maybe if the EU stops giving us financial information, someone will try to brand them as terrorists.
Re: Re: Sounds like normal discovery to me
Why are you wondering what their motive is here? She had a facebook account showing her happy and active. There is obviously something going on there. If it's just her trying to put on a brave front, more power to her... but personally I doubt it. I'd say disability fraud is a far higher chance here.
Re: Re: Both sides
Or, it could be that she really IS trying to scam them, and was stupid about it. Though I certainly appreciate both your stories, not every corporate problem is one where they're really at fault.
Re: Censorship Capitalist style
I have to admit, it's certainly a nicer approach then lots of the heavy handed garbage that is prevalent in shutting people up. Perhaps this is embarrassing enough that buying the author off is preferable, here? Perhaps they hope that when he's sitting pretty on cash he won't make as much of a fuss.
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And yet World of Warcraft is making the kind of money that the Call of Duty developers would sell their souls for... And it's making it steadily, and consistently. Though there are only a few breakaway titles on the PC, they are titles that end up being totally horrid when adapted to consoles.
In point of fact, someone posted a webcrawler with the current statistics for the post - now more then two thousand, two hundred pages strong and growing, by the way.
http://static.bwerp.net/~adam/2010/07/08/
What's particularly notable here is that there are 12,755 unique posters thusfar. Several of these, on each page, are discussing how until this is settled they have canceled their accounts, and noting how many of their friends have canceled as well.
Mike, I am honestly not sure why you feel that this isn't noteworthy given your talk about privacy in an online environment, and your discussions about how there are several non-tangible goods that any kind of service and provide. Blizzard has, up to this point, had a non-tangible value that has been the reason that it has become the giant it is today - a feeling that it treated its players with respect, as valued customers. It would seem that now they are trying to trade in on that, treat players as commodities, and hope that noone notices.
Well, people have been noticing. I canceled my sub earlier today - and I had to wait a good thirty minutes to do so. I feel that that is worth pointing out - the servers used to cancel subscriptions are being so overclogged, there is a substantial waiting line to be able to close an account.
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Except that all the trolls that really want to stay trolls have already announced that they're setting up false accounts with false names as we speak.