The techcrunch article gives a good analysis of the meme. The op is wrong in thinking that the song could be easily replaced with another. The track specifically starts with a build up, peaks in the middle, explodes with dancing scenery, then stops with a slowed down roar sample. All of this within thirty seconds allowed for it to flourish. There's a structure to the meme and it is short... Perfect conditions for the web.
I've been thinking that TPB go the way of Tor. Maybe someone can buy the .tor domain and URL translation between .tor and the actual tor address. This whack-a-mole BS is getting old. Try something new...
I'd like to see our electrical grid used as a transceiver that eventually leads to a back haul wired Internet. We have poles everywhere, put an access point on each one.
Yelp has been accused of and found guilty of taking bribes from paying businesses to have reviews removed. This was documented a few years back, but I see they are still up the same business practices. Back then, it was complete removal of the review without communication to you... then Yelp copped to it, and said they would bury your review requiring a "second" click to see it... Now, they are outright untrustworthy.
I got food poisoning on my honeymoon at I'O restaurant in Maui Hawaii. I ordered the trio meat plate. I ate the whole lamb, but my wife tried everything else. I got food poisoning for 1 day. I Yelped about their lack of safe cooking standards, I even posted my chargeback attempt with them on my AmEx. Both my review and later scanned picture of the chargeback letter were both removed.
Imagine if this were allowed, the police can have points on the map of protesters and how they move based on their mobile location. Police need a warrant for each individual, otherwise you can just sweep everyone in an area... sort of like Minority Report.
With notoriety in counterfeit, I will not put anything made in China inside my body. First it was food, now drugs. The value system is still too different to prioritize quality control over profits. I've read too many stories about counterfeit and I have personally been burned many times in trade due to counterfeit product.
Accuracy is even more important as the instant gratification requirement is that much higher. I think it is part algorithm issue, but it is also part content issue. If your tastes don't match up with their selection, no amount of algorithm will fix lack of content.
The issue is that you've removed the most desirable rental as available stock. The model speaks to when I have an undesirable rental out thus delaying my delivery of a desirable product. When you remove the desirable product from circulation, this becomes an issue.
What if you're like me though that gets a new release and keep it for months? Those scenarios happen too... The whole example depends on the new release churning through various customers.
We need something between what we have now and darknets without sacrificing performance. Maybe we can have a dns system using dht like they do for torrents. Still use central servers for dns but every browser could use dht dns as a backup.
Netflix has drm. You could custom encode each DVD screener with a unique tracking id embedded into the image then jail the screener. One good jail time would prevent the others.
Internet has made the transaction process extremely efficient. Record industry is no longer relevant for music creation, music promotion, nor music distribution. If you look at how prices have dropped on commodities due to the china effect, music is just the same. Kanye west is $3.99 on amazon. That's the future. Let the riaa die, they don't want to change.
Stfu with Microsoft already. You're a f'in retard.
Specialized search engines where user searches and uses are for pirated content (see top 100 on tpb) has no standing as a search engine. Googles zeitgeist otoh clearly shows most searches are for legal purposes. You can have torrent filters on google but if it's only a fringe activity, google will have no problem. It's only if user searches show torrent searches superseding other searches would there be a case that riaa could actually win.
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Response to: Anonymous Coward on Feb 28th, 2013 @ 10:22am
The techcrunch article gives a good analysis of the meme. The op is wrong in thinking that the song could be easily replaced with another. The track specifically starts with a build up, peaks in the middle, explodes with dancing scenery, then stops with a slowed down roar sample. All of this within thirty seconds allowed for it to flourish. There's a structure to the meme and it is short... Perfect conditions for the web.
Go Tor
I've been thinking that TPB go the way of Tor. Maybe someone can buy the .tor domain and URL translation between .tor and the actual tor address. This whack-a-mole BS is getting old. Try something new...
I'd like to see our electrical grid used as a transceiver that eventually leads to a back haul wired Internet. We have poles everywhere, put an access point on each one.
Re: Video anyone?
Wow, wouldn't have putting a link to buy the song on iTunes or Amazon on the video itself been enough?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KfJHFWlhQ
Video anyone?
Does anyone have a link or a download to the actual video in question?
Yelp has been accused of and found guilty of taking bribes from paying businesses to have reviews removed. This was documented a few years back, but I see they are still up the same business practices. Back then, it was complete removal of the review without communication to you... then Yelp copped to it, and said they would bury your review requiring a "second" click to see it... Now, they are outright untrustworthy.
I got food poisoning on my honeymoon at I'O restaurant in Maui Hawaii. I ordered the trio meat plate. I ate the whole lamb, but my wife tried everything else. I got food poisoning for 1 day. I Yelped about their lack of safe cooking standards, I even posted my chargeback attempt with them on my AmEx. Both my review and later scanned picture of the chargeback letter were both removed.
Imagine if this were allowed, the police can have points on the map of protesters and how they move based on their mobile location. Police need a warrant for each individual, otherwise you can just sweep everyone in an area... sort of like Minority Report.
taking profits out of medicine
> If enough people do it such that there is no money
> in making it anymore, what is left
Perhaps this will encourage taking the profit motive out of drugs and have it become a public supported endeavor. I won't mind.
Really?
With notoriety in counterfeit, I will not put anything made in China inside my body. First it was food, now drugs. The value system is still too different to prioritize quality control over profits. I've read too many stories about counterfeit and I have personally been burned many times in trade due to counterfeit product.
Re: Re: Sure there's a difference
Accuracy is even more important as the instant gratification requirement is that much higher. I think it is part algorithm issue, but it is also part content issue. If your tastes don't match up with their selection, no amount of algorithm will fix lack of content.
There's an opportunity here to sell wifi and 3g signal blockers to bookstores.
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I thought the owner was a mathematician. He would think of scenarios like this as a nerdy person.
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The issue is that you've removed the most desirable rental as available stock. The model speaks to when I have an undesirable rental out thus delaying my delivery of a desirable product. When you remove the desirable product from circulation, this becomes an issue.
What if you're like me though that gets a new release and keep it for months? Those scenarios happen too... The whole example depends on the new release churning through various customers.
I could see this changing to only streaming mp3s you bought on amazon. Let's hope for better though
We need something between what we have now and darknets without sacrificing performance. Maybe we can have a dns system using dht like they do for torrents. Still use central servers for dns but every browser could use dht dns as a backup.
Re: Studios Should Stop Sending Out DVD Screeners
Netflix has drm. You could custom encode each DVD screener with a unique tracking id embedded into the image then jail the screener. One good jail time would prevent the others.
Internet has made the transaction process extremely efficient. Record industry is no longer relevant for music creation, music promotion, nor music distribution. If you look at how prices have dropped on commodities due to the china effect, music is just the same. Kanye west is $3.99 on amazon. That's the future. Let the riaa die, they don't want to change.
Stfu with Microsoft already. You're a f'in retard.
Specialized search engines where user searches and uses are for pirated content (see top 100 on tpb) has no standing as a search engine. Googles zeitgeist otoh clearly shows most searches are for legal purposes. You can have torrent filters on google but if it's only a fringe activity, google will have no problem. It's only if user searches show torrent searches superseding other searches would there be a case that riaa could actually win.