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• On the post: RIAA's Bogus Math Strikes Again: Claimed 41% Decline In Musicians… Not Even Close To True

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2012 @ 12:53pm

  Kickstarter as an example (again)

  Pretty much every day if you look at the 'Ending Soon' Section, there are always multiple music kickstarters (I just looked and counted 6 successfully ending in the next 10 hours) that will shortly be successfully funded. And kickstarters main focus isn't on music as with some of the other crowdfunding sites.

• On the post: Why The MPAA Can't 'Win The Hearts And Minds' Of The Public: File Sharing Is Mainstream

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2012 @ 11:04am

  Re: "File sharing" sites making money IS piracy!

  that MOST of the content on those sites is copyrighted, and it's their only actual draw
  
  And you are full of shit, but that's not new. There are plenty of artists who would like to argue with you about that. There was plenty of draw to MU other than piracy, that's not to say there wasn't a lot of it on there, but it was not the only reason to go there. And as others said, how is making money theft?

• On the post: Not This Again: IEEE Plays Up Bogus 'Digital Sharecropping' Argument Again

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2012 @ 11:46am

  If you replace publisher with IEEE the AC reply to my comment on the Google scanning article seems to apply here as well.
  
  The thing is that publishers don't care if something is good for them - they care if it's good for someone else. If someone else makes money, then that someone should have to pay the publishers.
  
  I wish I were making this up, but that's essentially what a publisher told me at a copyright hearing - they didn't care if a technological innovation made them more money - if the company responsible for that innovation is making money, they should have to pay the publishers whatever the publishers want.

• On the post: Google & Publishers Settle Google Library Lawsuit By Agreeing To What Google Offered Seven Years Ago

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2012 @ 10:55am

  But, But...

  But, but, Piracy, Big Search, stealing, blargg...Google isn't doing this out of the goodness of there heart, blah blah blah...Oh, the AAP is ok with it, well then, there's probably nothing wrong with Google scanning the books then

• On the post: The MPAA's Problem In A Nutshell: Views Relationship With The Public As One Way

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2012 @ 08:38am

  As predicted

  it recognizes Google?s ability to do something about it. It was not a silver bullet, and there?s much more to be done
  
  Didn't we say that by Google doing this would lead to the *AAs continuing to try and shape more and more of Google, and that they'd point to this as the example saying that clearly it can be done.

• On the post: Justice Department Calls Megaupload Case A Success; Hands Out Cash To Cops To Do More Bogus Takedowns

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2012 @ 07:36am

  Re:

  How about the DOJ not even being able to legally serve? Seizing the money from them, trying to claim Dotcom couldn't use a good lawyer. Wanting to destroy the evidence on the servers. Saying they can't go after Mega without SOPA then taking them down 2 days after SOPA blackouts, etc fail by DOJ

• On the post: The MPAA's Problem In A Nutshell: Views Relationship With The Public As One Way

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2012 @ 06:48am

  Crappy Partners...

  That?s why Hollywood is partnering with Silicon Valley and others ? from YouTube to Facebook to Netflix to Roku
  
  Really, I thought they were doing everything possible to kill off Youtube, Netflix and Roku? Ridiculously high licensing fees, cable companies trying to encrypt all TV so that nothing but a cable box will be able to view it...I think Youtube they might finally be accepting, but they've fought quite hard against it (including one hand putting up videos and the other taking them down). But yeah, they really want these techs to succeed...

• On the post: Justice Department Calls Megaupload Case A Success; Hands Out Cash To Cops To Do More Bogus Takedowns

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2012 @ 06:20am

  They succeeded in making Dotcom look like the good guy and the DOJ like a bunch of idiots. And they did succeed in taking it down now for almost a year despite there numerous failures.

• On the post: Congressional Investigation Slams DHS Anti-Terror Centers: Wasted Taxpayer Funds, Created No Useful Intelligence & Violated Civil Liberties

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2012 @ 05:50am

  Maybe next they can go slam the FBI for Wasting Taxpayer Funds, Creating No Useful Intelligence & Violating Civil Liberties for its fake terror plots.

• On the post: Google's Copyright Crackdown Punishes Author For Torrenting His Own Book

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2012 @ 11:59am

  Re:

  Pretty sure it's super easy to tell if something is infringing or not, just ask the **AA's.

• On the post: Email: The Original Cloud

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2012 @ 07:20pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Well shit, you mean to tell me people don't pay others to trash their products? Damn, you must be smart. Clearly they thought their product wasn't a POS and Mike wouldn't trash it (even though this is an article about email evolution not Outlook), but just because he's not trashing it doesn't mean he's selling out. If the MPAA created an awesome streaming service and wanted Mike to write about it, would he be selling out for doing so if he didn't trash it despite it being awesome (I know, them doing something awesome not very likely to happen). But if they payed him to write an article about Dodd's (which I don't think would be a good idea, but they have done dumber things) I'm pretty sure he'd continue to say the same things he's been saying.
  
  In this article he's talking about how email has evolved. I think that relates to Techdirt, so, no, I don't see this as selling out

• On the post: Email: The Original Cloud

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2012 @ 06:35pm

  Re:

  You sir are dumb as shit. Obviously he doesn't mean they have absolutely no say in the article. Clearly an email site isn't going to pay him to write an article and it'll be about why the sky is blue. He is referring to, which you purposefully pretend ignorance (or you're just dumb as shit), he's not going to say outlook.com is the best email site in the world and everyone should use it, google/yahoo sucks, etc...Letting people pay you to write objective articles is not selling out. Selling out would be the example I just used

• On the post: Police Delete Aftermath Footage Of Suspect Shot 41 Times

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2012 @ 10:38am

  Re: Re:

  reason to believe his life was in danger, and shooting could have been legitimate.
  
  I don't see any case (other than the person still walking towards you, zombie maybe?) to shoot someone (or at them) 41 times

• On the post: Shockingly, Kickstarter Doesn't Work For Every Movie (Psst: Neither Does The Old System)

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2012 @ 09:30am

  Re: Re: Re: Crazy

  They make plenty of really terrible, awful movies that nobody wants to see. They also do make movies that plenty of people want to pay for, like Avengers, Batman, Harry Potter, and all those others that continually break box office records.

• On the post: Shockingly, Kickstarter Doesn't Work For Every Movie (Psst: Neither Does The Old System)

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2012 @ 07:43am

  Crazy

  Woah woah woah, you mean to tell me you can't get funding from people for something people aren't interested in?!?! Screw it, let's scrap kickstarter, clearly it's a flawed source of funding. We Need something that will account for things people have no interest in seeing or that have been done 100 times over.

• On the post: Sparkfun CEO Explains IP Obesity: Companies Who Rely Too Much On IP Flop

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2012 @ 01:13pm

  Re: Such foolishness

  Polaroid sued them with a huge portfolio of patents and eventually won. The lesson to Kodak was simple: IP cements dominance.
  
  Yeah, cause Polaroid is doing great now!

• On the post: Unfortunate: Kickstarter's Overaggressive Reaction To DMCA Notices

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2012 @ 01:03pm

  Re:

  Vinted Bags, the company that was doing the Kickstarter...

• On the post: Switzerland Questions Crazy Hollywood Claims About File Sharing… Ends Up On Congressional Watchlist

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2012 @ 11:30am

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

  People are pirating BECAUSE the Hollywood has proven and continues to prove that they have no place in life for technology and people willing to throw money at them.

• On the post: Apple Accused Of 'Violating The Rights' Of Iconic Swiss Railway Clock

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2012 @ 11:01am

  Re: Re: Not defending but really...

  I don't have stats on other trademarks at the moment, but I don't think anyone is as bad as apple. Pretty much anything that is an apple or has an 'i' in front of the name they try and claim is infringing. With something that non-unique, it's hard to be as bad as them.

• On the post: The Return Of Dumb Ideas: A Broadband Tax To Save Failing Newspapers

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2012 @ 10:02am

  Why is there this idea out there that dying businesses need to be artificially kept alive?

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