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• On the post: U2 Still Insists No Value In 'Free' Music, Despite Making Millions From It

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2014 @ 08:04pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Free is in the eye of beholder

  Music has zero marginal cost (due to having all I want availabe to me at the public library)
  
  I've been getting plenty of free music since 1985 from the library, and before that I only listened to the radio - more free music.
  
  You talk like music was never free until mp3s were invented, but the music industry has always thrived despite easy access to free music.

• On the post: U2 Still Insists No Value In 'Free' Music, Despite Making Millions From It

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2014 @ 02:44pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Free is in the eye of beholder

  An artist that isn't copied probably isn't much of an artist.

• On the post: U2 Still Insists No Value In 'Free' Music, Despite Making Millions From It

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2014 @ 01:19pm

  Re: Re: Free is in the eye of beholder

  What kind of a answer is that?

• On the post: U2 Still Insists No Value In 'Free' Music, Despite Making Millions From It

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2014 @ 12:31pm

  Re: Collecting cash from Apple

  I'm sure Apple has figured out how to make a bundle from this... somehow...

• On the post: U2 Still Insists No Value In 'Free' Music, Despite Making Millions From It

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2014 @ 12:29pm

  Re: Re: Re: Free is in the eye of beholder

  Techdirt shows people how to profit despite piracy, not profit from piracy, and that's where your whole argruement fails.
  
  You seem to think the only proper response to piracy is to condemn and rail against it until it goes away, and any other thought is endorsing it, but all Techdirt is saying is accept the fact that it's not going away and figuring out how to deal with it.

• On the post: U2 Still Insists No Value In 'Free' Music, Despite Making Millions From It

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2014 @ 12:21pm

  Re: Re: Re: Free is in the eye of beholder

  I would say that's an option Techdirt proposes, but doesn't insist that all artists follow it. Some could sell their music and not do anything about it being free because of the effort involved. Not all artist are out to maximize sales of recordings. Some get paid in other ways. My local symphony is a great example.
  
  And people can listen to music free if it's on the radio, but most of what I listen to is never played on the radio. And singing in the shower? Maybe if you've heard my music elsewhere you might sing it in the shower. There is still music out there I can only get if I purchase it - usually used so it's not profiting the artist.

• On the post: U2 Still Insists No Value In 'Free' Music, Despite Making Millions From It

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2014 @ 10:43am

  Re: Free is in the eye of beholder

  Techdirt doesn't insist that an artist offer their music for free. It's always up to the artist (although more likely the publisher which owns the copyright) to choose how they offer their work.
  
  What Techdirt says is that the music will be available for free whether the artist likes it or not, either through file sharing, public libraries, or trading with friends, and the artist must consider how they deal with that. The response initially was to just make it more and more illegal and futilely trying to make it go away, jeopardizing the open nature of the internet in the process. That's what Techdirt is against.
  
  U2 has decided to find someone besides the fans to foot the bill, which is exactly the kind of business model exploration that Techdirt encourages. They've turned to a corporate benefactor the way classical composers once turned to royalty.
  
  Now it's a question of whether Apple spent their money wisely and can this work for other artists in the future.

• On the post: Forbes Praises YouTube Censoring Steven Sotloff Beheading Video

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2014 @ 10:32am

  Re: Re: Editorial Policy

  i.e. It's not censorship until the policy is monopolized.

• On the post: It Appears Mickey Mouse May Have Picked An Intellectual Property Fight With The Wrong Mau5

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2014 @ 10:30am

  Re:

  just say his name three times and he'll appear.

• On the post: New Orleans Cab Company Owner Calls Uber A 'Cyber-Terrorist Group'

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2014 @ 10:28am

  So in New Orleans I can get a pizza delivered to me cheaper than taking a cab to the nearest pizza place. Makes sense.

• On the post: It Appears Mickey Mouse May Have Picked An Intellectual Property Fight With The Wrong Mau5

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2014 @ 12:17pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Because Disney isn't an attention whore?

• On the post: It Appears Mickey Mouse May Have Picked An Intellectual Property Fight With The Wrong Mau5

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2014 @ 06:43pm

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  Aren't you just so cute calling him "dead rodent" instead of Deadmau5? Proud of that one are you?

• On the post: Texas Religious Leaders Try To Get Public Libraries To Ban Vampire Books For Them

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2014 @ 09:17am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  It was a joke.

• On the post: Forbes Praises YouTube Censoring Steven Sotloff Beheading Video

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2014 @ 12:27pm

  Last I heard, anyone can buy a domain and put up a website and host a video - even ISIS.
  
  It's not the responsibility of private companies to host every video that's offered to them, and Youtube has some clearly established guidelines about real violence.
  
  The only real free speech question is if ISIS should be allowed to host the video themselves.

• On the post: FCC's Tom Wheeler Admits There Isn't Really Broadband Competition

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2014 @ 02:08pm

  Re: 3 choices???

  I'm in Kansas City and I have 4 choices. Google Fiber, Time Warner, AT&T, and Consolidated Communications.

• On the post: Australian Movie Studio Says Piracy Is Equivalent Of Pedophilia & Terrorism

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2014 @ 12:24pm

  Re:

  Except it's a common tactic to bring up terrorism and child porn whenever copyright is mentioned so that people will eventually think that legislation for the former should include the latter too, or as a way to get a measure passed so a politician doesn't look like he supports child porn.

• On the post: Australian Movie Studio Says Piracy Is Equivalent Of Pedophilia & Terrorism

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2014 @ 12:20pm

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  Apple software comes with Apple hardware. That's a pretty good way to protect imaginary property.

• On the post: Austrian ISPs Sued For Actually Wanting A Court Order Rather Than Just Blocking Websites Based On Entertainment Industry's Requests

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2014 @ 08:48am

  Re:

  or...
  
  "For years, the entertainment industry's dream was that the internet was more like television."

• On the post: Texas Religious Leaders Try To Get Public Libraries To Ban Vampire Books For Them

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2014 @ 02:21pm

  They've effectively banned the Bible by putting it in the reference section.

• On the post: Disney Officially Seeks To Block Deadmau5's Trademark Claim

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2014 @ 09:39pm

  So the guy that flies in the face of copyright is not going to start playing the trademark game?

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