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  • On the post: If People Like You And Your Work They'll Pay; If They Like Your Work, But Don't Like You, They'll Infringe

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 11:17am

    Re: Re: True, but...

    I am picturing a world without Charlie Sheen ... Britney Spears ... and pretty much every congressman and pharma executive.

  • On the post: Hadopi Sends Info On Those Accused (Not Convicted) Of Repeat Infringement On To Prosecutors

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 11:13am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Uneven Punishment

    "Look, I called you out because your sources suck, plain and simple. Man up and admit it."

    Please, roll out some links to industry studies on financial losses for us.

  • On the post: Hadopi Sends Info On Those Accused (Not Convicted) Of Repeat Infringement On To Prosecutors

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 11:12am

    Re: Re:

    Some are people with personality disorders, the rest are industry types that read techdirt and are having their beliefs challenged.

  • On the post: Hadopi Sends Info On Those Accused (Not Convicted) Of Repeat Infringement On To Prosecutors

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 11:02am

    Re: Re: Re: Too bad...

    We would say Schadenfreude. I love the french ... so amusing.

  • On the post: Indian Official Promises India Won't Censor The Internet… Except, You Know, When It Has To Censor The Internet

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 10:48am

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    Of course they will decide that any business competing with them is legal.

  • On the post: Hadopi Sends Info On Those Accused (Not Convicted) Of Repeat Infringement On To Prosecutors

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 10:46am

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    "These organizations better be careful because this is going to backfire in a huge way."

    For the past couple years I have been saying the same thing. I am very glad other people are finally beginning to see this. It will start small, then become a meme, and then it will spread.

    Whats funny is there are so many small variations of this same theme coming together at once, homeland security abuses (ICE, FBI, etc), government over spending, government spying on its citizens, regulatory capture, pharma cost, insurance cost, telecom access costs, etc all based around businesses seeking to become monopolies and get government handouts. Add to that every national government in the western world ignoring what their citizens are saying, and we have one hell of a shit storm on the short term horizon.

    May we live in interesting times...

  • On the post: Hadopi Sends Info On Those Accused (Not Convicted) Of Repeat Infringement On To Prosecutors

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 10:10am

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    You should hear what we say about the Scottish ... ;)

  • On the post: Hadopi Sends Info On Those Accused (Not Convicted) Of Repeat Infringement On To Prosecutors

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 07:29am

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    Being very German I like this HADOPI thing. Like always, the french just lie there and surrender, and in the long run Europe will be better for it.

  • On the post: Sony Says Raising Prices On Whitney Houston Music Was A 'Mistake'

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 07:21am

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    Once the MPAA and RIAA get the son of SOPA pushed through. Mike is going to have to take your response down... copyright and all.

  • On the post: Cybersecurity Bill Backers Insist This Isn't SOPA… But Is It Needed?

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 07:14am

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    Social engineering is the weapon of choice, look at the HBGary hack, Google getting hacked by china, "click this link" cross site scripting attacks against several federal agencies, etc. Your cybersecurity is only as good as your dumbest employee, to quote George Carlin "think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that."

    This whole cyber security bill will create an agency that will fail. Then it will explain how it was under funded, and fail again. Leading to another round of the same. In the end it will be a 20 billion dollar a year bureaucracy, that is slow to react, ineffective, will arrest script kiddies for the photo-op, and to prove how they are doing something.

  • On the post: Cybersecurity Bill Backers Insist This Isn't SOPA… But Is It Needed?

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 06:49am

    Re: Re: Re:

    TAC and AC you are a very odd couple ...

  • On the post: Meltwater Partially Wins One Lawsuit, Gets Sued By AP In Another For Daring To Aggregate News

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 04:06pm

    Someone should create a set of open source standards for sharing news content between news organizations.

    Its name shall be "Hot News Wire" ...

  • On the post: Nothing Scales Like Stupidity

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 11:54am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I can understand the thought process here

    You really are nit picking today aren't you.

    From now on what should I refer to them as? "The former big four, now big three record labels, members of the Recording Industry of America and several other trade organizations" instead of the record labels, and "the current movie studios, selling content to the cable stations, selling DVD's and BluRays of movies and members of the Motion Picture Association of America and other international movie and content associations"

    I think that is a mouthful, I will stick with the Labels and Studios.

  • On the post: Why Music Is Not A Product & Three Reasons Why That's A Good Thing

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 10:33am

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    Student loans, pension funds, bail outs, and a couple other over extensions are going to pop soon.

  • On the post: Nothing Scales Like Stupidity

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 10:29am

    Re: Re: Re: I can understand the thought process here

    I fell into the record label and studio trap of referring to it as the "content industry". I should have said record labels, etc.

  • On the post: Nothing Scales Like Stupidity

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 10:16am

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    Do you get an email every time he posts?

  • On the post: Nothing Scales Like Stupidity

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 10:12am

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    " I think their brains might explode, though they are small enough that it probably wont cause any damage"

    We will also see no difference in their trolling style afterwards.

  • On the post: Why Music Is Not A Product & Three Reasons Why That's A Good Thing

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 09:45am

    I have to say this again. The cost of content to the consumer is going to zero over the next several years.

    The record labels will fail, someone will buy their catalogs and monetize them in new ways, or use them as a loss leader. New business models will evolve for artists. The only thing currently missing to create "mega stars" is the advertising. I had high hopes for MegaUpload and what they were planning artist wise on this front.

  • On the post: Nothing Scales Like Stupidity

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 09:29am

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    "Don't rip down what did scale just to make your non-scaling idea look better."

    There is no need to rip anything down. The market, corporate reputation, and communications will rip down the content industry all by itself.

    The market in that people will begin seeing that they can make more money just by finding a following on Facebook and Google+ than they can doing a label deal.

    Corporate reputation in that there isn't a single music blog I go to that doesn't have one comment in each tread that contains "F*ck RIAA and the MPAA" or "They are thieves". Once you lose trust its pretty much gone.

    Communications in that people are talking about how bad the labels are all over the place. No amount of press releases, blog posts people can't comment on, or advertising will change that.

    Much like the SOPA and PIPA uproar this hated will eventually reach a threshold and a cause a backlash against the labels.

    "Good ideas ... will scale to the marketplace because they are good ideas."

    Personal contact and interaction do not scale well and they are good ideas.

  • On the post: Nothing Scales Like Stupidity

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 09:08am

    Re: I can understand the thought process here

    You have 100 year old business process based on the assembly line. They want a cookie cutter approach. Any approach developed, from now forward, needs to work in a connected world, where people want to have feedback. The content industry has never treated either their clients or their artists well. It is not something they will be able to learn. This is going to be something that affects many companies over the next few years.

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