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• On the post: Amazon Offers Authors 100% Of Ebook Sales To Get Them To Recognize Its Fight With Hachette Isn't About Screwing Authors

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2014 @ 02:44pm

  Re: Three for the price of one

  A smart publisher would be working to destroy the paperback market by lowering ebook prices so everyone converts to ereaders. That way in the future they won't have to deal with the used book market undercutting their sales and they and can slowly raise their ebook prices with a locked in audience. Luckily no publish is so forward thinking.

• On the post: Amazon Offers Authors 100% Of Ebook Sales To Get Them To Recognize Its Fight With Hachette Isn't About Screwing Authors

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2014 @ 02:41pm

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  Are you Hachette doesn't avoid taxes too?

• On the post: Senator Lindsey Graham Doesn't Know Details Of NSA Abuse, But Sure It's Fine Because 'WE'RE AT WAR!'

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2014 @ 10:35am

  Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Jul 8th, 2014 @ 9:02am

  He'd do much better now.

• On the post: DHS Cites 'Credible Threat' As Reason For Forcing Travelers To The US To Hand Over Powered-Up Devices To Airport Security

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2014 @ 10:26am

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  And the irony is in order to get it to your destination, they still have to put it on a plane.

• On the post: YouTube Quietly, But Publicly, Shaming ISPs That Make Your Video Streams Stutter

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2014 @ 10:26pm

  Re: As if

  It's just a robot that appears whenever Google is mentioned in an article.

• On the post: YouTube Quietly, But Publicly, Shaming ISPs That Make Your Video Streams Stutter

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2014 @ 04:39pm

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  Pretty sure that's Youtube making sure they're not sending data that nobody is watching.

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  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2014 @ 09:50am

  Re:

  Looks like a duck...

• On the post: One-Percent Authors Want To End Destructive Conflict, Bring Order to the Galaxy

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2014 @ 10:40pm

  Since these authors have given their copyright over to Hachette, they have nothing to complain about. The books they wrote are no longer theirs to do what they want.

• On the post: VP Of EU Commission On Copyright Reform: 'I'd Sing You Happy Birthday, But I Don't Want To Have To Pay The Royalties'

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2014 @ 01:29pm

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  And yet the Wonder Years can be streamed on Netflix. It's not exactly a copyright problem, but a contractual problem in a musical work inside an audio visual work has to be licensed for different uses of the audio visual work.

• On the post: IRS Rejects Non-Profit Status For Open Source Organization, Because Private Companies Might Use The Software

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2014 @ 01:15pm

  Re:

  We're overdue for a technology worshiping religion.

• On the post: Up Is Down, Day Is Night, And Aereo's Shut Down Is 'Pro-Consumer' According To CBS CEO

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2014 @ 02:04pm

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  If they can take the internet down with them, they will.

• On the post: The Aereo Ruling Is A Disaster For Tech, Because The 'Looks Like Cable' Test Provides No Guidance

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2014 @ 09:19am

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  it worked against Samsung.

• On the post: The Aereo Ruling Is A Disaster For Tech, Because The 'Looks Like Cable' Test Provides No Guidance

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2014 @ 09:13am

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  Mason's talking about movies that Hollywood made based on games. Of course they sucked. Hollywood's not in the gaming business and all of their decisions are dictated by marketing - and not as a way to boost game sales.
  
  Some videogames make more money than major Hollywood films. If the movies are developed in tandem by the tech companies, the movies will be considered nothing more than giant commercials for the game. It's the same way now that the Star Wars movies are just commericals for all the toys and merchandise. And as Star Wars and Transformers shows, quality doesn't really matter.
  
  When the tech companies start making the movies themselves things might change.

• On the post: Even Hollywood Publications Are Concerned That Aereo Decision Kills Innovation And Harms Consumers

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2014 @ 09:03am

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  It's more than that. This is a battle against the internet.
  
  I quit watching TV about the same time I got the internet, around 1997. I suddenly had something more compelling to take up my time.
  
  A cell phone doesn't get TV signals. You think some kid is going to put it down and start watching TV? No, they're just going to find something on their cell phone worth spending their free time on.
  
  Big media's business is all about control. When you watch, how you watch, and most importantly what you watch. It is the only defense they have any more. They know the internet means giving up control, and they'll do everything they can to make sure they control the internet. They already control the government (Why does it cost so much to get elected? Broadcast advertising.)

• On the post: The Aereo Ruling Is A Disaster For Tech, Because The 'Looks Like Cable' Test Provides No Guidance

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2014 @ 01:11pm

  Re: Re: Does is make sense for Aereo to just pay retrans fee?

  Perhaps this was Aereo's plan all along? Now they can just pay retrans fees and set themselves up as a basic cable company without having to go through all the impossible hoops someone starting a local cable company would have to go through.
  
  So whichever way the court ruled, they win.

• On the post: The Aereo Ruling Is A Disaster For Tech, Because The 'Looks Like Cable' Test Provides No Guidance

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2014 @ 01:03pm

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  An opportunity, yes, but you'll be fighting the massive inertia of everyone already entrenched in the business. You'd do better investing the money in your own media company the way Pixar did, which is where tech companies are much more likely to go (starting with videogame adaptations).

• On the post: The Aereo Ruling Is A Disaster For Tech, Because The 'Looks Like Cable' Test Provides No Guidance

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2014 @ 01:01pm

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  Yep, they have nothing to do with each other. An while movies make money, from a corporate point of view it's an incredibly risky businesses. The audience is fickle and you can't determine how much your investments will profit. Art is lousy business. You're better off making commercials (which is essentially what major Hollywood output is).

• On the post: Aereo Fallout Begins: Fox Uses Ruling To Attack Dish's Mobile Streaming Service

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2014 @ 12:57pm

  Re: Big loss but also a big win for the future

  "in the not too distant future the people are going to demand changes to copyright laws"
  
  They're already demanding changes and have been for years, but nobody who can actually make those changes is listening or has any interest in fixing the problem.

• On the post: The Aereo Ruling Is A Disaster For Tech, Because The 'Looks Like Cable' Test Provides No Guidance

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2014 @ 07:51am

  Re: The solution

  The innovators already do. I can watch Youtube for days and never see anything made by the MPAA and RIAA, and I am more entertained and educated by the variety of content there.

• On the post: The Aereo Ruling Is A Disaster For Tech, Because The 'Looks Like Cable' Test Provides No Guidance

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2014 @ 07:43am

  Re: Re:

  My life got a whole lot better when I stopped watching TV. And if people would play sports instead of watch sports, all of our lives would be better.

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