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On the post: Upstart TV Station Uses $10 Woks Rather Than $20,000 Satellite Dish

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2007 @ 12:50am

another one of those cases where products are drastically over-priced just because there are so few sources that sell the product. $20,000 for a dish? that dish better give blowjobs for that price.

On the post: Pennsylvannia Suddenly Not Sure Why It Approved Verizon-MCI Merger

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2007 @ 02:53am

once again, politicians are being controled by corporations in the practice of screwing over society.

Good Job America! Corporations FTL!

On the post: Perhaps It's Not The Entertainment Industry's Business Model That's Outdated

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2007 @ 02:50am

nothing new

there is nothing new here, whenever there is new technology, the music and movie industry fight against it. the new technology here is internet distribution, and it's something many industries have fought against.

but many are learning that you can't fight it. we do most of our shopping online now. we socialize online. we play games online. and we want our streaming live content from online. we want to get the latest movies and tv shows and music online, when it comes out.

so while they try to infect content with DRM, and offer lesser quality content, the consumer will continue to look elsewhere until the content they want is offered. offer the content the consumer wants, they will pay for it.

i want my content distributed online, without infectious DRM and lowered quality. i don't want to go to a theatre. i don't want to have stacks of CD's. and i don't want to pay the RIAA when i can directly pay the artists.

those companies that learn to work with and use technology are the one's who will be making all the money. there are companies that are proving this, and those old companies are fighting against it, but it's a losing battle. you cannot fight technology and consumer demand forever. you will lose.

On the post: Can We Get A Few Morons In A Hurry Over To Skywalker Ranch?

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2007 @ 02:45am

god damnit, can't we get one day without a stupid lawsuit. just one damn f'in day without another pathetically lame lawsuit. just one day. one f'in day! just one!

On the post: Jury Tells Microsoft To Pay $1.5 Billion To Alcatel-Lucent Over MP3 Patents

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2007 @ 02:41am

damn the patent system is broken, and just holding back technology. if they got rid of the patent system, technology could only benefit from a faster pace of development. you'd actually have to invent something.

On the post: Next-Gen DVD Copy Protection Well And Truly Busted

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2007 @ 02:39am

DRM has always been a joke

Alex Hagen sounds like some industry rep.

DRM does not work, has never worked, and never will work. It's just some toy for bored geeks to play with. It's like some puzzle challange in the sunday paper that cost millions/billions to make. Good job wasting money. Shows how much they care about the artists they are supposed to represent.

For some real fun, they need to get those PS3 keys out there just to really piss Sony off and make them a bigger mockery. Of course, no one is really buying PS3's, and don't want to do too much to help Blu-Ray sales. But using a PS3 to rip Blu-Ray movies would be poetic justice. Get all those keys revoked and have them stop working. This will be done soon enough.

On the post: The iPhone Highlights The Difference Between Invention And Innovation

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2007 @ 04:33am

We're Apple, we can do whatever we want

Apple seems to take the MPAA/RIAA/MAFIAA approach to things... just say and do whatever you want, even if it is illegal and/or lying. it's the American business model - lie, cheat and steal, it's all about profit.

On the post: Has The Stern Effect Already Worn Off For Sirius?

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2007 @ 04:32am

O&A - worst program ever

O&A is the worst radio program i've ever heard, not to mention they rip off content from other people. just lame.

On the post: XM, Sirius Rumors Finally Bear Fruit As Companies Announce Plan To Merge

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2007 @ 04:30am

i hope so

this would be great news, and would boost satellite radio sales hugely. no longer would you have to choose, you could have it all. after all, how is it fair for other companies to own all these various stations and control content so much? whatever the case, give me it all!

as for O&A, Oppie & Anthony, WORST RADIO PROGRAM EVER. they replaced Rover's Morning Glory, which replaced Howard Stern in my area, and O&A are just ghastly horrible. not funny or entertaining at all. actually, rather annoying. then toss in that i've heard advertisements that are bits stolen from other radio programs. O&A just blow, big time.

On the post: A Serious Look At Joke Stealing

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2007 @ 04:24am

It's all in the delivery

Joe even said in that video, Carlos Mencia is a good performer, but he was pissed that he was taking credit, and becoming rich and famous, off of someone else's work. Now if he told the joke and it was written by someone on Carlos' staff who was being paid to write jokes, then that would be a totally different thing, but Carlos was gaining fame from others work.

So while the delivery is key, and great performers will be great performers, if someone is great at coming up with jokes, hire them. It reminds me of Larry David, who comes up with a lot of funny shit, but he worked with someone who was a better performer for many years, and that ended up helping them both, along with many others.

So just give credit where credit is due.

On the post: Anti-Internet Hunting Laws Still Popular, Despite Lack Of Real Problem

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2007 @ 04:18am

Re: Making Internet Hunting Profitable

That was my first thought too... if only they could hook up this technology for helping with the political system. It would be such a wonderful thing. We can always dream.

On the post: How Come The MPAA Is Helping The FBI Train Swedish Police?

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2007 @ 04:12am

what does that last A stand for again?

I'm just wondering how it's legal for a civil matter, in America, gets a Federal Government American organization involved, in a Commercial American Corporation, to shove their nose in a European countries matters.

Someone needs to smack this **AA companies on the nose and send them back to where they belong, America. Hey idiots, that last A stands for America, so stay in your own damn country. If you don't like what is happening elsewhere, then keep your products out of those other countries and build yourself a nice big electronic wall (and physical one for that matter) and keep the rest of the big scary world from coming to destroy you.

Stupid America strikes again!

On the post: Only The Record Labels Could Think That Teasers For Music Videos Is A Good Idea

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2007 @ 04:07am

Holy Stupidity Batman!

I'm just speechless at the level of stupidity of this. It just baffles me as to what they could possibly be thinking. Let's piss off our potential clients to help increase sales? Why do these companies keep purposely find new ways to piss off their (potential) customers? I just don't get it.

On the post: MPAA's Feeling Towards Intellectual Property Apparently Not Extended To Blog Software

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2007 @ 10:03am

too true

FAIR USE is when I use your content
PIRACY is when you use my content

that does seem to be the MAFIAA logic

i'd just be curious to see an audit of their offices and see how much unlicensed software they have running on various office computers. wouldn't it be hilarious to find them running a ton of pirated software, which i have no doubts they probably have within their organization. maybe do sweeps of their own computer systems for pirated music, movies and tv shows. heck, if they want to see what we download, maybe it's about time all their download info is made public. somehow, i doubt they want us spying on them and showing all their wrongs to the world.

wasn't there a proverb about he who screams foul the loudest is the worst offender? point the finger every where else so it is least likely to be pointed at you?

On the post: Can We Force Senators To Play Grand Theft Auto In Its Entirety Before They Introduce Stupid Laws About Video Games?

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2007 @ 08:41am

ESRB is as corrupt as the MPAA

ESRB is just like the MPAA. it's ratings board is made up of corporations that are major sellers. visit their site and see.

the saddest thing though is that in the United States, violence is better than consenting sex. yup, shoot all the cops you want, chop off heads, kill children, do whatever you want. just don't show two adults having sex, even if cartoonish. that's just wrong.

On the post: Saying You Can't Compete With Free Is Saying You Can't Compete Period

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2007 @ 08:38am

quality can compete with free

Bottled Water, Anti-Virus programs, Firewall programs, condoms, Television programs, Internet, Operating Systems. These are just a few quick things that compete with free, and not only compete, but are million and billion dollar industries.

Any company can easily compete with free, if they make a quality product that people want to buy.

The problem is the music industry is to lazy to make a quality product and so they want to just sue every one who doesn't want to pay for a crap product. Just fade away into nothing music labels, you are no longer needed. I think it's been long enough that you've thrived leeching off the hard work and talent of musicians.

On the post: Carlos Mencia Claims Copyright Infringement On Comedian Who Accuses Mencia Of Stealing Jokes

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2007 @ 07:22am

Ned went too far this time...

Yet another violation of DMCA law. Hope Joe sues his ass for wrongfully having Joe's copyrighted material removed. Ned is way off base claiming any DMCA law on Joe's material. So now Ned isn't just stealing other people's jokes, but now he's making claims to owning Joe's copyrighted material. That to me sounds like it's punishable by law. Stealing jokes might not be, but claiming ownership of someone else's material is.

On the post: RIAA Tries To Make Deals With ISPs To Hound Customers Into Settling Earlier

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2007 @ 02:31am

Giga...what?

GigaNews lets me download via usenet using SSL. that's a Giga that my ISP can't see the info I'm downloading and is fast as hell and works.

On the post: YouTube Is A Communications Platform, As Mexican Gangs Can Attest

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2007 @ 02:29am

Good thing Mexico has a corrupt legal system so these gangs can continue to get away with it.

On the post: Entertainment Industry: Blame Canada!

ScytheNoire ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2007 @ 02:20am

As a Canadian...

I will be emailing my MP (member of parlament, like an american senator) and discussing this topic. I would be ashamed to be Canadian if we passed laws like America, where even if you own the product, it's illegal to do anything with it that is covered under fair-use laws, and every one is a criminal until proven guilty (in other words, no one is innocent).

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