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  • On the post: Would Australia Go Back And Reject ACTA?

    Watchit ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2012 @ 12:30am

    It would be quite silly if the US ends up being the only country signed onto an "international" trade agreement... I mean executive order :P

  • On the post: High School Student Expelled For Tweeting Profanity; Principal Admits School Tracks All Tweets

    Watchit ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2012 @ 09:05pm

    Re: FUCK!

    right now I'm counting 126 Fucks, including this one. Good fucking job!

  • On the post: High School Student Expelled For Tweeting Profanity; Principal Admits School Tracks All Tweets

    Watchit ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2012 @ 09:04pm

    FUCK!

    Quick lets make this the most FUCK filled fucking page on fucking Techdirt!

    ;3

  • On the post: Content Creators: Control Is An Illusion And That's A Good Thing

    Watchit ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2012 @ 08:57pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    I don't think I've seen Nina doing any wallowing what so ever! are you perhaps jelly?

  • On the post: Content Creators: Control Is An Illusion And That's A Good Thing

    Watchit ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2012 @ 08:54pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    The other guy didn't steal the code at all, he "built his own" which probably meant he wrote his own code. Besides it is apparently a new "simple" blogging tool, the code to write it was probably elementary enough, whats new was the idea for the tool.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Sends Case On Gene Patents Back To Appeals Court Following Rejection Of Diagnostic Patents

    Watchit ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2012 @ 08:49pm

    Finally!

    Finally, some common sense! The US is in desperate need of it these days...

  • On the post: High School Student Expelled For Tweeting Profanity; Principal Admits School Tracks All Tweets

    Watchit ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2012 @ 05:20pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    wow, what a great cash cow for the school, $500 per profanity? My school would have made millions!

  • On the post: Content Creators: Control Is An Illusion And That's A Good Thing

    Watchit ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2012 @ 05:14pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    He was probably aiming for first post and didn't read anything but the title.

  • On the post: High School Student Expelled For Tweeting Profanity; Principal Admits School Tracks All Tweets

    Watchit ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2012 @ 03:25pm

    Wow, usually if you get caught cussing at school the worse you get is a slap of the wrist. Sounds more like the school was trying to make an example of him.

    Kind of silly when I think back to my high school years and remember half my teachers and all of the subs cussed themselves!

  • On the post: Content Creators: Control Is An Illusion And That's A Good Thing

    Watchit ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2012 @ 03:19pm

    Re: Re: Another point in that direction

    :D

  • On the post: Content Creators: Control Is An Illusion And That's A Good Thing

    Watchit ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2012 @ 03:18pm

    Re: Re: Hypothetically Speaking

    Watch out! the MPAA(Monkey Poo Artillery Association) is coming for you!

  • On the post: Content Creators: Control Is An Illusion And That's A Good Thing

    Watchit ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2012 @ 03:14pm

    Re: Re:

    haha true, I guess those are pretty similar

  • On the post: Content Creators: Control Is An Illusion And That's A Good Thing

    Watchit ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2012 @ 02:12pm

    I've never understood why people insist they must be paid, just because they thought of an idea first.

    Ideas are built off each other, kind of like math equations.

    Gauss didn't have to pay Newton (or Leibniz depending on who you ask) when he used calculus to derive Gauss's Law. Neither was he sued for actually using Coulombs Law within Gauss's Law either.

    If they treated math equations like they treated "patentable Ideas" today, I could only imagine where we'd be scientifically.

  • On the post: We Don't Want Everything For Free. We Just Want Everything

    Watchit ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2012 @ 11:24am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:tard

    disregard currency, acquire ponies

  • On the post: We Don't Want Everything For Free. We Just Want Everything

    Watchit ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2012 @ 11:20am

    Re: Re: Re: It's not generational

    Hello, it seems you have responded to my comment. I think I'll just ignore your "limited infinity" thing, kind of off topic and pointless.

    "Nothing wrong with the product, no one is going to 'create' a better one, as it did exactly as intended."

    There was something wrong with it, it was too expensive to justify it's purpose. And the thought that no one will create a better cheaper version is a defeatist attitude.

    "Companies invest in new product, in doing so they take on an amount of risk, sometimes it pays off somtimes it does not, but either way someone has to pay for its development and creation. Things dont just pop out of thin air."

    You answered that yourself, the companies pay for its development, therefore it did not just "pop" out of thin air.

    "Do you honestly believe you have to right to dictate the price you are willing to pay for a produce you deem to be 'intangable' ?? That is quite bizzar !! really, your saying I would have to sell you my product at the price you tell me I will get for it, and I HAVE to accept the 'terms' of that contract or agreement ?"

    Yes I have the right to dictate how much I will pay for a product, and no you don't have to agree to those terms. If you don't agree, I don't buy it. If it is pirate-able and you don't sell it to me at the price I might pirate it, but since I wouldn't have bought it in the first place you don't actually lose anything either.

    While you call it "justifying theft" I call it simple economics. If someone has something that is infinitely reproducible at NO cost, why should I pay an unjustifiably high price for something that cost zero to make.

    Inb4 rant about "paying the artist, creator, etc..." yes they need to do more than just create a product, that's what happens in an over-saturated market with extremely low scarcity.

    bluh, why did I write this long tirade? I'm done arguing with trolls!

  • On the post: We Don't Want Everything For Free. We Just Want Everything

    Watchit ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2012 @ 06:41pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Oh wait! I see the analogy you were trying to make now. Comparing auto-repair to content creation. The problem here is that auto-repair men do not repair one car and then copy that repair and sell it to other people. No he has to repair the car. every. single. time.

    But woe to the poor poor musician who has to "create" content (his job) in order to make money! Why can't his job be like the auto-repair man who only has to repair one car and live the rest of his life off that one act!?

  • On the post: We Don't Want Everything For Free. We Just Want Everything

    Watchit ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2012 @ 06:23pm

    Re: It's not generational

    There is infinite in real life, limited only by processing speed and disk space.

    Yes, intangible goods DO have value, but if I am the one buying then I am the one who assigns that value. Though in this article specifically the problem is that the publishers are offering a tangible good at a too-high price, usually for their profit not the creators, and other people are offering an intangible product faster, better, and for free.

    "And if the cost of producing (creating) something exceeds to money that would be made from that product then that product will NOT be created."

    too bad for that person then, they should have made a better product. Someone else will make a product that will make them a profit regardless of piracy (or maybe thanks to it), and people will enjoy it regardless of whether or not someone else made a product that failed.

  • On the post: We Don't Want Everything For Free. We Just Want Everything

    Watchit ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2012 @ 06:07pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Well, they are kids, and none of them want to pay for an overpriced manga in a bookstore where their money goes to who knows where, they want to support the author. It's up to the author to decide how to monetize his work, the kids were just giving suggestions. If it works, it works. If it doesn't, find a new one that does. Same as ANY business not just entertainment.

    The problem is that manga sold in the US is so far behind and disconnected with the Japanese market, and the fans want to be caught up, they want manga. If the publishers have the product and have the market, but don't seize it, then it's the publishers fault, not the author, not the fans.

    My argument in this comment:
    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120322/15404918215/we-dont-want-everything-free-we-just-want-everything.shtml#c346

  • On the post: We Don't Want Everything For Free. We Just Want Everything

    Watchit ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2012 @ 05:52pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    To the first question, nothing yet I'm a student, though sometimes I provide free labor as a favor.

    To the rest of your argument, I'm sorry your so bum hurt that art and music has no real scarcity since it can be copied and reused infinity, but that's the way the world works. If you could create a copy of a tangible object at no real cost of say a car than guess what everyone would be "pirating". Cars.

    Instead of complaining about the difference in the auto market and the entertainment industry maybe you should be grateful of all the new ways that have appeared to monetize on said entertainment?

  • On the post: Finding Success In A Wasteland By Being Open, Human And Awesome

    Watchit ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2012 @ 12:15pm

    wow, I'm actually really excited for this game now, sounds really interesting :D

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