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• On the post: Amazon To Hachette And Authors: Here, Let Us Explain Basic Price Elasticity To You

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2014 @ 08:43am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  and that's the opposite of what Hollywood wants you to do.

• On the post: Amazon To Hachette And Authors: Here, Let Us Explain Basic Price Elasticity To You

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2014 @ 08:41am

  Re: Some extra numbers regarding lower price points

  I'm sure Amazon realizes this, but they know they'll never convince authors and big publishers that $3 is the way to go. They'd just scoff at those "paperback prices" and think everything they publish is better than that.

• On the post: Recording Industry Willfully Misreads The Law In Order To Sue Ford & GM For Having Built-in CD Rippers

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2014 @ 02:00pm

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  Sure. Start a collections agency.

• On the post: The FBI Is Complaining That Its $8.4 Billion Budget Isn't Enough To Keep Up With Criminal Technology

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2014 @ 01:54pm

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  But that would mean getting up and leaving their desk.

• On the post: If You Want To Know How Supporting Techdirt Can Help Shift The Debate In Washington DC, Read This

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2014 @ 01:04pm

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  Congresspeople, no, but some of the staffers are pretty cute.

• On the post: If You Want To Know How Supporting Techdirt Can Help Shift The Debate In Washington DC, Read This

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2014 @ 01:01pm

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  There are lots of people like this working in government, but when a complex issue comes up, who is there to explain it to them? Mostly people hired by companies to work full time in Washington. My own company (a non-profit) does this and most of the time it's benign, even boring work,
  
  But... they are always there, every day, five days a week, all year long, and their only job is to keep pushing the issue for their company and convincing every politician that it's a good idea. And if they convince one politician, they can use that politician to convince others. And they'll go on and on about how the legislation will help their company grow and bring more jobs to their state. If there's nobody else there opposing them, theirs is the only voice that gets heard. They may not even be intentionally gaming the system, it's just that they have nothing else to do. It's how lobbyists make their living.

• On the post: Recording Industry Willfully Misreads The Law In Order To Sue Ford & GM For Having Built-in CD Rippers

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2014 @ 10:06am

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  My teenage daughter has started buying CDs and considers it pretty retro.

• On the post: CIA Tells FOIA Requester That He Needs To Know Everything About The Emails He's Requesting Before He Can Request Them

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2014 @ 08:20am

  The whole idea of FOIA requests is ridiculous. If the information can be made publicly available, then the government should simply make it publicly available. Why does it have to be specifically requested? Just dump it on a server and let everyone access it.

• On the post: Killing The Golden Goose: Copyright Holders Demand More Cash Even As Streaming Music Services Struggle To Be Profitable

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2014 @ 02:11pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: What is "Pandora"? What is "Spotify"?

  What's wrong with Matador Records? They're not a member of the RIAA.

• On the post: Killing The Golden Goose: Copyright Holders Demand More Cash Even As Streaming Music Services Struggle To Be Profitable

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2014 @ 12:30pm

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  The self-publishing part is extremely easy. It's the promoting part that's difficult.

• On the post: Killing The Golden Goose: Copyright Holders Demand More Cash Even As Streaming Music Services Struggle To Be Profitable

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2014 @ 12:29pm

  Re: But Content is King

  I'm confused. Cameras and projectors existed long before any movie studio, esp. the MPAA studios that still exist today. They didn't show up until 25 years after the movie camera was invented.

• On the post: Killing The Golden Goose: Copyright Holders Demand More Cash Even As Streaming Music Services Struggle To Be Profitable

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2014 @ 12:25pm

  Re: Re: Streaming

  Unfortunately a service that doesn't offer everything anyone might want to listen to is never going to do all that well. A ridiculous amount of music is owned by the major labels and most listeners don't care about how much anyone is paying in royalties or who's music is licensed with which service - they just want their favorite artists available.

• On the post: Colombian Student Facing A Minimum Of Four Years In Prison For Uploading An Academic Article To Scribd

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2014 @ 09:45am

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  Perhaps the author is acting on advice from their publisher?

• On the post: Killing The Golden Goose: Copyright Holders Demand More Cash Even As Streaming Music Services Struggle To Be Profitable

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2014 @ 10:31am

  Run them into bankruptcy and then buy them up when they're finished. Sounds like a business plan.

• On the post: Musician Whose Works Are At Center Of Copyright Lawsuit Against YouTube Star Slams Lawsuit And Copyright

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2014 @ 01:43pm

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  You disconnected your sound card just to avoid the RIAA? That's pretty hardcore.
  
  Unfortunately, you're basically letting the RIAA deny you one of the great pleasure of the world. There's LOTS of music that's not part of the RIAA, and LOTS of ways to get that music legally and for free.

• On the post: Musician Whose Works Are At Center Of Copyright Lawsuit Against YouTube Star Slams Lawsuit And Copyright

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2014 @ 12:38pm

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  This is what we have been banking on for over 10 years, and yet the dinosaurs are still around (well, most of them anyway).
  
  And they will not die without a fight, even if it means destroying the whole industry.

• On the post: Report: All But Four Of The High-Profile Domestic Terrorism Plots In The Last Decade Were Crafted From The Ground Up By The FBI

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2014 @ 10:45am

  Re: Answers

  The White House will say the report is alarming and they're going to fully investigate the matter, and that's the last we'll hear of it.

• On the post: Once Again, Attempts To Block Access To The Pirate Bay Only Increase Traffic

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2014 @ 02:43pm

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  Well... It's not over yet.

• On the post: Did Comcast's Infamous Customer Service Call Open The Company Up To Legal Troubles For Lying About Speeds?

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2014 @ 01:21pm

  Re: Since when...

  Fraudulent advertising has been illegal for sometime. That's why they promote opiniony facts like "best internet service" rather than "fastest internet service" unless they have facts to back it up.
  
  The trick is to avoid lying so big that the government gets interested in investigating. This viral phone call is big enough.

• On the post: Defending The Indefensible: Hilarious Talking Points On Ridiculous Copyright Terms

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2014 @ 09:02am

  Re: But this makes perfect sense

  There are some companies that don't last 95 years - but their works don't fall into the public domain when they go out of business. They simply languish as orphaned works, with no way to even ask permission to legally use them.

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