Surely Time didn't do this just to avoid paying $1000. There must be much more at stake. At a minimum, there must be much bigger lawsuits from other people who got screwed by Time's sleight-of-hand.
@FUDbuster: "that owner still has standing to sue for prior infringements".
Does that apply even when the buyer of the copyright knowingly buys damaged goods? Surely in this case the sale price already incorporates the effect of the damage done by infringement (whatever it may be). It seems like the law shouldn't allow the buyer to get double the value of the infringement, first in the discounted price and then in court.
I used to work with/for a cheap bastard who would send out his job-hunting resumes via company email, to save the cost of a stamp. Unfortunately the rule was that any mail put into the outbox had to be unsealed---and the department head would regularly throw out his resumes with great glee, after showing them around.
Why do you imagine that CEOs might actually want to give credit to other members of their team?
They got to where they were by acquiring the skills necessary to get credit for successes, and to avoid credit for failures. Whose work causes the successes or failures is irrelevant to the CEO mindset.
I'd be more impressed if the site let me tweak the parameters myself. As it is, I'm still bound by someone spoonfeeding me their analysis whether it corresponds with my needs or not.
I gather the post took the blogger's idea and created their own story. They didn't copy the blogger's story.
Can't they use the "invention is the least of it, execution is what counts" mantra that justifies the same set of actions when we're talking about patents?
I bexpect the sheriff knows perfectly well that nothing he can do will have any effect on prostitution. There's been prostitution since the invention of sexual reproduction in the primordial slime 4.5 billion years ago, long before there were humans.
He just wants to do what the cops always want to do---make it better hidden so that the the good Christian folk who bitch a him won't see it.
If you use Adblock and go to Daily Kos, the first story that pops up is one that explains Kos' dependency on ads and has a tutorial on how to et up an exception for the Kos site.
@anonymous coward. I think the FBI decided that the fact that there is a Joe Blow in Florida, and that there is another one in New York, and that they both voted, is not a crime.
They decided that they didn't want to be laughed out of court. I can understand their sentiment.
Thre is a legitimate problem with all these user reviews, whether of restaurants or of appliance dealers or of whatever: the pissed-off are much more likely to write a review than the delighted.
I'd like to know how economists deal with that, and how readers can assess the real likelihood of a bad experience from reviews.
I gotta agree with the poorly-written part of the first comment.
After reading the note twice, this is the picture I get:
This article was written because the author read some comments by some restaurateurs about Yelp (what's Yelp? Where's the link? Who bitched? Where's the link to the bitching?)
I suspect the author wanted to use the example to preach about the wisdom of crowds, but he forgot to include the moral of his story.
I'm not surprised that google is trying to serve the public by providing non-gamed results. I _am_ surprised that all these complaining sites had such a large drop in revenue. Surely, if they have even a reasonable number of repeat customers, the drop in revenue wouldn't be so precipitous.
So I think that the loss of revenue is a result of a deeper problem---all their customers are first-time customers. Their customers don't enjoy the experience enough to want to come back.
I suspect that the same mentality that thinks it's a good idea to game the google rank also thinks it's a good idea to rip off customers.
I spent a lot of time in company IT departmentss that employed H1 workers---well, actually, they didn't employ them, they just rented them from contractors who imported them and held them in a sort of peonage.
Yhat's the system---agent companies dewal with the bureaucracy, the user companies just consider them cheap workers.
The H1 system is supposed to help foreigners learn new skills her that they take back to their own countries. In fact, they are exploited for the skills they already have.
The smart ones hire lawyers to free them from peonage or marry US citizens in order to get green cards the easy way.
Had nobody considered what an enormous risk it is to put so many of these systems in the same place? A well-located piledriver can cut a cable and wreck rezl damage to the entire trading system.
The sort-term advantages of co-location are nothing compared to that.
Techdirt has not posted any stories submitted by Gary.
Surely Time didn't do this just to avoid paying $1000. There must be much more at stake. At a minimum, there must be much bigger lawsuits from other people who got screwed by Time's sleight-of-hand.
@FUDbuster: "that owner still has standing to sue for prior infringements".
Does that apply even when the buyer of the copyright knowingly buys damaged goods? Surely in this case the sale price already incorporates the effect of the damage done by infringement (whatever it may be). It seems like the law shouldn't allow the buyer to get double the value of the infringement, first in the discounted price and then in court.
That's been the problem with The Onion ever since Bush took over in 2000. Reality is so much more perverse than mere writing folk can imagine.
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I meant regular USPS mail, not email.
I used to work with/for a cheap bastard who would send out his job-hunting resumes via company email, to save the cost of a stamp. Unfortunately the rule was that any mail put into the outbox had to be unsealed---and the department head would regularly throw out his resumes with great glee, after showing them around.
Why do you imagine that CEOs might actually want to give credit to other members of their team?
They got to where they were by acquiring the skills necessary to get credit for successes, and to avoid credit for failures. Whose work causes the successes or failures is irrelevant to the CEO mindset.
I'd be more impressed if the site let me tweak the parameters myself. As it is, I'm still bound by someone spoonfeeding me their analysis whether it corresponds with my needs or not.
Surely the "sue first" comment can be the basis of a countersuit for harassment.
Question
I gather the post took the blogger's idea and created their own story. They didn't copy the blogger's story.
Can't they use the "invention is the least of it, execution is what counts" mantra that justifies the same set of actions when we're talking about patents?
The two situations seem very similar.
I bexpect the sheriff knows perfectly well that nothing he can do will have any effect on prostitution. There's been prostitution since the invention of sexual reproduction in the primordial slime 4.5 billion years ago, long before there were humans.
He just wants to do what the cops always want to do---make it better hidden so that the the good Christian folk who bitch a him won't see it.
Daily Kos does it better
If you use Adblock and go to Daily Kos, the first story that pops up is one that explains Kos' dependency on ads and has a tutorial on how to et up an exception for the Kos site.
The regular Kos site follows below,
Two words
Actually it brings up this: the pleasure and economy of paying only for the support you actually need and use.
Re: alleged voter fraud
answer: Ann Coulter. but she got off through poliical influence
@anonymous coward. I think the FBI decided that the fact that there is a Joe Blow in Florida, and that there is another one in New York, and that they both voted, is not a crime.
They decided that they didn't want to be laughed out of court. I can understand their sentiment.
Thre is a legitimate problem with all these user reviews, whether of restaurants or of appliance dealers or of whatever: the pissed-off are much more likely to write a review than the delighted.
I'd like to know how economists deal with that, and how readers can assess the real likelihood of a bad experience from reviews.
I gotta agree with the poorly-written part of the first comment.
After reading the note twice, this is the picture I get:
This article was written because the author read some comments by some restaurateurs about Yelp (what's Yelp? Where's the link? Who bitched? Where's the link to the bitching?)
I suspect the author wanted to use the example to preach about the wisdom of crowds, but he forgot to include the moral of his story.
The jukebox industry died instead. Dunno if that's a direct result of the 1976 change in copyright law, but I bet there's a connection.
I'm not surprised that google is trying to serve the public by providing non-gamed results. I _am_ surprised that all these complaining sites had such a large drop in revenue. Surely, if they have even a reasonable number of repeat customers, the drop in revenue wouldn't be so precipitous.
So I think that the loss of revenue is a result of a deeper problem---all their customers are first-time customers. Their customers don't enjoy the experience enough to want to come back.
I suspect that the same mentality that thinks it's a good idea to game the google rank also thinks it's a good idea to rip off customers.
I spent a lot of time in company IT departmentss that employed H1 workers---well, actually, they didn't employ them, they just rented them from contractors who imported them and held them in a sort of peonage.
Yhat's the system---agent companies dewal with the bureaucracy, the user companies just consider them cheap workers.
The H1 system is supposed to help foreigners learn new skills her that they take back to their own countries. In fact, they are exploited for the skills they already have.
The smart ones hire lawyers to free them from peonage or marry US citizens in order to get green cards the easy way.
Had nobody considered what an enormous risk it is to put so many of these systems in the same place? A well-located piledriver can cut a cable and wreck rezl damage to the entire trading system.
The sort-term advantages of co-location are nothing compared to that.