Bullying? That seems like an extreme interpretation of what they were actually doing, which is using irony to accentuate the humor of the situation.
Either way, those meme sound like the advice animals (i.e. bachelor frog, advice dog, courage wolf) that are pretty hilarious. So then it begs the question of whether or not they were attempting to incite laughter not mock the teachers for their ability.
"I don't care if the filtering works or not, I don't use torrent distribution for anything. I don't seek out pirated works, I don't upload videos, I don't share illegal content, I don't download illegal content. It's that simple."
You sound incredibly out of touch with technology, especially when you equate the innovation of torrent distribution with only piracy.
Plenty of legitimate uses have been found for distribution via torrent, in fact the movie titled "The Tunnel" found success being trnasferred via torrent (http://www.thetunnelmovie.net/).
"I am not seeing the issue here, except perhaps for someone too stupid to go directly to the source - or too busy trying to justify piracy."
If I was a business and I was attempting to branch out to my consumer base, I would make it easier for them to get my product.
The client sort of has a right to be lazy about where they find the product and spend their money because well, it's their money. The company can avoid taking the responsibility of tailoring to the client's needs (thereby losing the sale) or not, but it's up to them to get the sale.
"A person or a business can not give away everything with a low marginal cost of reproduction. They have to pay the development costs one way or another. A hotel can't give away the hotel rooms each night if there are no reservations. An airplane can't have a standby line where every unsold seat is given away for free. It's just not fair to the people who are paying the freight."
No one's asking musicians to give away everything, but in a market which is bloated with hundreds of emo and electronic pop bands (which are pushed out the door every year with cookie cutter production by the RIAA), you'd better be doing something different to stand out.
Innovation incorporated into a hotel room in the form of say a whirlpool tub is more likely to garner a sale than offering amenities every other hotel has.
"he only way economic value (aka, making money) appears to occur isn't by recording great music that everyone wants, but rather in whoring out your time and your image."
It's disconcerting that MacArthur completely ignores the one consistent trend with business...convenience, and then tempers his argument with that irrational fear of change brought about by the decaying grasp of senility.
People are more likely to invest their time in information they can receive right here, right now.
For example, it is much easier for me to obtain content from a website than to drive my Model T Huckster down to the 'ol neighborhood pharmacy for a nickel newspaper.
What's the point in them even meeting? They're all agreeable to the same douchebag-esque maneuvers, and they obviously don't care about the people's opinion on things.
They might as well just forego the pleasantries of making it seem like they're actually meeting to make an informed decision, and come out and say it's a giant corporate circle jerk.
Inviting these two out into the public to face logical debate would only override their prior Skynet programming, and cause issues for the impending nuclear attack.
Geeze, the MPAA and NATO are in some kind of abusive co-dependent relationship.
Despite the fact that the MPAA craps on NATO with stuff like pumping movies directly into video on demand 3 weeks after they're released in the theaters, they still support them and even lie for them.
It's sort of ballsy of Chris Dodd to talk about his job being at stake considering that the entertainment industry was going to attempt to funnel movies into video-on-demand, which essentially would put the theaters out of business and thousands of people would lose their jobs.
It's even ironic that the entertainment industry goes to such great lengths to prevent musicians from releasing their music without a middleman, when they're trying to take out the middlemen for their own media.
Bullying? That seems like an extreme interpretation of what they were actually doing, which is using irony to accentuate the humor of the situation.
Either way, those meme sound like the advice animals (i.e. bachelor frog, advice dog, courage wolf) that are pretty hilarious. So then it begs the question of whether or not they were attempting to incite laughter not mock the teachers for their ability.
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"I don't care if the filtering works or not, I don't use torrent distribution for anything. I don't seek out pirated works, I don't upload videos, I don't share illegal content, I don't download illegal content. It's that simple."
You sound incredibly out of touch with technology, especially when you equate the innovation of torrent distribution with only piracy.
Plenty of legitimate uses have been found for distribution via torrent, in fact the movie titled "The Tunnel" found success being trnasferred via torrent (http://www.thetunnelmovie.net/).
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I vote Tech Dirt host a drinking game.
Every time a troll responds with a thought-provoking statement, we take a drink.
...think of the sobriety.
Every time you provide evidence of the RIAA working against innovation, a copyright troll dies.
Or retorts with..."Mike advocates piracy!1!1!"
When confronted with claims of their dishonest use of statistics, Hollywood will hire Nicolas Cage to "math" a way out for them.
I mean, whatever faulty logic they use in their movies will definitely work in reality, right?
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Agreed, but when you said "push of a button" it made me think of this- http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/02/10/placebo-buttons/
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"I am not seeing the issue here, except perhaps for someone too stupid to go directly to the source - or too busy trying to justify piracy."
If I was a business and I was attempting to branch out to my consumer base, I would make it easier for them to get my product.
The client sort of has a right to be lazy about where they find the product and spend their money because well, it's their money. The company can avoid taking the responsibility of tailoring to the client's needs (thereby losing the sale) or not, but it's up to them to get the sale.
Re: I'm on Castle's side. 100%
"A person or a business can not give away everything with a low marginal cost of reproduction. They have to pay the development costs one way or another. A hotel can't give away the hotel rooms each night if there are no reservations. An airplane can't have a standby line where every unsold seat is given away for free. It's just not fair to the people who are paying the freight."
No one's asking musicians to give away everything, but in a market which is bloated with hundreds of emo and electronic pop bands (which are pushed out the door every year with cookie cutter production by the RIAA), you'd better be doing something different to stand out.
Innovation incorporated into a hotel room in the form of say a whirlpool tub is more likely to garner a sale than offering amenities every other hotel has.
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"he only way economic value (aka, making money) appears to occur isn't by recording great music that everyone wants, but rather in whoring out your time and your image."
L2Innovate
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It's a "neat" solution but it's baby steps compared with what they could be doing, plus it's not catering to what the consumer wants.
This innovation might have been better suited for the 90s
Oh, old people
It's disconcerting that MacArthur completely ignores the one consistent trend with business...convenience, and then tempers his argument with that irrational fear of change brought about by the decaying grasp of senility.
People are more likely to invest their time in information they can receive right here, right now.
For example, it is much easier for me to obtain content from a website than to drive my Model T Huckster down to the 'ol neighborhood pharmacy for a nickel newspaper.
Are there any studies linking ranty, out-of-touch musician blogs with early geriatric senility?
For a moment there, and bear with me here this is a very, very, very paranoid interpretation of the title to this article...
I thought you were meaning to say Katy Perry had made an insightful blog post regarding the economics of major labels.
Than I had to subconsciously kick myself for using "Katy Perry" and "insightful" in the same mind-sentence.
What's the point in them even meeting? They're all agreeable to the same douchebag-esque maneuvers, and they obviously don't care about the people's opinion on things.
They might as well just forego the pleasantries of making it seem like they're actually meeting to make an informed decision, and come out and say it's a giant corporate circle jerk.
Armageddon is nigh
I like this idea, however...
Inviting these two out into the public to face logical debate would only override their prior Skynet programming, and cause issues for the impending nuclear attack.
Re: Movie attendance is up, on my couch
^This plus if you have a family it is much cheaper to order a VoD movie then deal with the loss of cash and hustle and bustle of a theater.
Steven Seagal
Executive Agreement...the sequel to Executive Decision?
I'm the goddamn Batman
Geeze, the MPAA and NATO are in some kind of abusive co-dependent relationship.
Despite the fact that the MPAA craps on NATO with stuff like pumping movies directly into video on demand 3 weeks after they're released in the theaters, they still support them and even lie for them.
Chris Dodd's Brass Balls
It's sort of ballsy of Chris Dodd to talk about his job being at stake considering that the entertainment industry was going to attempt to funnel movies into video-on-demand, which essentially would put the theaters out of business and thousands of people would lose their jobs.
It's even ironic that the entertainment industry goes to such great lengths to prevent musicians from releasing their music without a middleman, when they're trying to take out the middlemen for their own media.