Ummm, you don't protect your digital goods by assuming that everyone is a criminal for having it first. That's not how it works, you know innocent before proven guilty.
So, our #1 export is digital goods, how do you combat priacy if all priacy is is making a copy without destroying the original? That can be accomplished in varying ways but I think the easiest would be to create the most simple distribution network for your products and charge resonable prices for those products. That way you can focus your full attention onto creating a better distribution system, rather than the legal ways of every single country in the world.
So a guy in a monster costume holds up a Monster Energy drink for a picture and the good old outside law frim sends a statement that says "advertising and/or selling products that are confusingly similar to Monster Energy Drink".
I'm confused now because that's not a smimilar product that IS the product.
I suggested this story more on the "window" reasoning than on the fact that hulu blocked skyfire and other "alternative" browsers because we all know that that has been happening for awhile now.
I thought it was a very nice coincidence that this reasoning came along just after the MPAA tried to get new software into DVR's to create a new "window".
You make the mistake that Arnold has any power left in this state. He can't get a budget passed and the state has started to issue IOU to business partners because it is broke. I would guess that this is just a posturing point for the Governator
ARS did a write up of this as well and according to an update to their article from Stardock -
'On Day 0 there were around 140,000 concurrent users, with 18,000 validated users. The pirates couldn't update their game or play online, but they could still "touch the servers."
So the pirates couldn't play the game online but that still forced their hand on the server side because they were planning for 50, 000 users and got about 150,000 users.
Also, Gamestop started selling the game earlier than planned and I know that they didn't sell the majority of 150,000 copies but still each adds it's own weight.
Daniel had a very through and engagin article there. Mike, your summary was pretty impressive too.
I wonder though, if there is a Federal or State law somewhere that says that companies, both public and private, can only release raw financial data at "quarterly" intervals? In other words, what's stopping Sprint (let's say) from taking the information that they release every quarter and updating it on a say weekly basis to shareholders and/or news outlets?
Mike, if your theory that this will increase the value of an investment then wouldn't a company be willing to restructure their accounting to "invest" in the information? In addition, if you provided that information in the XBRL format wouldn't that increase the value of the investment even further?
I understand that the major corporate companies will be unwilling to do anything unless mandated by the government by themselves unless it provides an immediate positive push from investors and consumers.
Moving away from the corporate world to the financial world. If banks started this type of reporting (XBRL on a daily or even weekly) basis then wouldn't their underlying problems rise to the surface? Therefore, (let's take Citi) wouldn't the fact that their balance sheet is so cooked that I would bet their CEO doesn't know what it says, scare away the investors that they so desperately need right now to keep them even marginally afloat? If this happens what happens when Citi goes bankrupt? Is BOA next?
I agree that transparency is the key but I guess my major concern about transparency now is that it will probably do what we don't want it to do with our 20 biggest banks - make them fail.
There's no doubt that Motorola is facing some tough times right about now. They've been trying to pawn off the mobile division since Jan 2008, if not before. Strategy Analytics had Motorola with 21.1% market share in the US in November (as reported by Reuters). I know that a 3.6 billion dollar loss in the 4th quarter is huge but to drop down to 6.3%? I'm not sure about that. I have not seen global numbers from 2008 yet but I believe that Motorola dropped from 3 to 4 in November as well.
Now being number 2 in the US and number 4 in the world doesn't really seem to be a "peripheral player" to me.
AT&T and Verizon are the major companies who came out of the 700 mhz auction with a chunk of the spectrum and they are on board with this digital TV delay. They are on board not because people can't get the vouchers from the government but because it makes no business sense to build, test and operate a new network in a recession when the majority of people will not be paying the premium price that the new 4G network will cost when it rolls out. Instead they opted to "look" like they were helping the average American get an extra $40 bucks while at the same time delaying the expense of building the infrastructure of a new network.
Additionally, the $6 billion for broadband that is in the new stimulus is for "open" networks, the sort that Verizon is trying now where the "approved" devices are mostly broadband data cards. When every major provider in the US is offering LTE as the network then "open" won't mean anything anymore and the providers get to walk away with $6 billion that they wouldn't have, except of course Sprint who is sinking faster than a rock in water.
If you're using a file sharing service to get your music, movies and entertainment, then why would you be shopping Amazon for music, movies and entertainment? That just sounds counter intuitive to the whole act of sharing files.
but lawsuits are more fun not to mention good for the economy. what would all the lawyers do if they weren't targeting this or that group? wash your car windows?
Apparently the EU didn't realize that people want information and not a corporate brand. If hand-hog had the best search algorithms on the net I would be using their site, not Google. It would have been brilliant to have a huge database of historical and cultural artifacts to rummage through. I just looked at their site and they are claiming 10 million hits per hour. What did they expect? Anyone anywhere with access to the internet and a school report on anything in European history or culture could turn to one place and get the information. That would have been groundbreaking. Hopefully they get the site up and running because I would like to be able to see Europe without the plane flight and lost money in this economy.
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Streisand Effect
Maybe we should have a new version of the Streisand Effect for tech companies that go on the patent offensive?
Re: America is in trouble
Ummm, you don't protect your digital goods by assuming that everyone is a criminal for having it first. That's not how it works, you know innocent before proven guilty.
So, our #1 export is digital goods, how do you combat priacy if all priacy is is making a copy without destroying the original? That can be accomplished in varying ways but I think the easiest would be to create the most simple distribution network for your products and charge resonable prices for those products. That way you can focus your full attention onto creating a better distribution system, rather than the legal ways of every single country in the world.
Free Advertising
So a guy in a monster costume holds up a Monster Energy drink for a picture and the good old outside law frim sends a statement that says "advertising and/or selling products that are confusingly similar to Monster Energy Drink".
I'm confused now because that's not a smimilar product that IS the product.
Re:
I suggested this story more on the "window" reasoning than on the fact that hulu blocked skyfire and other "alternative" browsers because we all know that that has been happening for awhile now.
I thought it was a very nice coincidence that this reasoning came along just after the MPAA tried to get new software into DVR's to create a new "window".
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Does everyone pay a cut?
Actually they're hoping that the loan they renegotiated at the beginning of the year for $250 million keeps them in business until 2010
Power?
You make the mistake that Arnold has any power left in this state. He can't get a budget passed and the state has started to issue IOU to business partners because it is broke. I would guess that this is just a posturing point for the Governator
important thing that was missed by Mike
ARS did a write up of this as well and according to an update to their article from Stardock -
'On Day 0 there were around 140,000 concurrent users, with 18,000 validated users. The pirates couldn't update their game or play online, but they could still "touch the servers."
So the pirates couldn't play the game online but that still forced their hand on the server side because they were planning for 50, 000 users and got about 150,000 users.
Also, Gamestop started selling the game earlier than planned and I know that they didn't sell the majority of 150,000 copies but still each adds it's own weight.
Google bounced Adsense check
I follow him on Twitter and earlier today he posted this:
So this is interesting...... Google refused to pay our adsense check (it bounced) for this month
AT the time I didn't know he was suing an employee but this seems a little off coming from a company of Google's size.
Maybe there's more to this story?
Re: Day after Thanksgiving, eh?
looking at my google calendar shows Nov 29, 2009 as a Sunday. Most definitely not the day after Thanksgiving
What's stopping them?
Daniel had a very through and engagin article there. Mike, your summary was pretty impressive too.
I wonder though, if there is a Federal or State law somewhere that says that companies, both public and private, can only release raw financial data at "quarterly" intervals? In other words, what's stopping Sprint (let's say) from taking the information that they release every quarter and updating it on a say weekly basis to shareholders and/or news outlets?
Mike, if your theory that this will increase the value of an investment then wouldn't a company be willing to restructure their accounting to "invest" in the information? In addition, if you provided that information in the XBRL format wouldn't that increase the value of the investment even further?
I understand that the major corporate companies will be unwilling to do anything unless mandated by the government by themselves unless it provides an immediate positive push from investors and consumers.
Moving away from the corporate world to the financial world. If banks started this type of reporting (XBRL on a daily or even weekly) basis then wouldn't their underlying problems rise to the surface? Therefore, (let's take Citi) wouldn't the fact that their balance sheet is so cooked that I would bet their CEO doesn't know what it says, scare away the investors that they so desperately need right now to keep them even marginally afloat? If this happens what happens when Citi goes bankrupt? Is BOA next?
I agree that transparency is the key but I guess my major concern about transparency now is that it will probably do what we don't want it to do with our 20 biggest banks - make them fail.
Peripheral Player
There's no doubt that Motorola is facing some tough times right about now. They've been trying to pawn off the mobile division since Jan 2008, if not before. Strategy Analytics had Motorola with 21.1% market share in the US in November (as reported by Reuters). I know that a 3.6 billion dollar loss in the 4th quarter is huge but to drop down to 6.3%? I'm not sure about that. I have not seen global numbers from 2008 yet but I believe that Motorola dropped from 3 to 4 in November as well.
Now being number 2 in the US and number 4 in the world doesn't really seem to be a "peripheral player" to me.
4G LTE
AT&T and Verizon are the major companies who came out of the 700 mhz auction with a chunk of the spectrum and they are on board with this digital TV delay. They are on board not because people can't get the vouchers from the government but because it makes no business sense to build, test and operate a new network in a recession when the majority of people will not be paying the premium price that the new 4G network will cost when it rolls out. Instead they opted to "look" like they were helping the average American get an extra $40 bucks while at the same time delaying the expense of building the infrastructure of a new network.
Additionally, the $6 billion for broadband that is in the new stimulus is for "open" networks, the sort that Verizon is trying now where the "approved" devices are mostly broadband data cards. When every major provider in the US is offering LTE as the network then "open" won't mean anything anymore and the providers get to walk away with $6 billion that they wouldn't have, except of course Sprint who is sinking faster than a rock in water.
File Sharing
If you're using a file sharing service to get your music, movies and entertainment, then why would you be shopping Amazon for music, movies and entertainment? That just sounds counter intuitive to the whole act of sharing files.
Cult
Don't you know that social networking sites are just cults without compounds? I thought everyone knew that.
fun
but lawsuits are more fun not to mention good for the economy. what would all the lawyers do if they weren't targeting this or that group? wash your car windows?
Mid December
Apparently the EU didn't realize that people want information and not a corporate brand. If hand-hog had the best search algorithms on the net I would be using their site, not Google. It would have been brilliant to have a huge database of historical and cultural artifacts to rummage through. I just looked at their site and they are claiming 10 million hits per hour. What did they expect? Anyone anywhere with access to the internet and a school report on anything in European history or culture could turn to one place and get the information. That would have been groundbreaking. Hopefully they get the site up and running because I would like to be able to see Europe without the plane flight and lost money in this economy.