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  • On the post: The Trouble With Hulu… Too Many Competing Interests

    batch ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2009 @ 12:42pm

    Re:

    Why should consumers be expected to watch 12+ minutes of annoying propaganda crap for each "hour" of content? Hulu has already shown that fewer ads translates to more people paying attention and higher rates for those ads. As soon as that changes is, not coincidentally, when the service turns to garbage.

  • On the post: Massively Increasing Music Licensing Fees For Clubs Down Under Massively Backfires

    batch ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2009 @ 10:40am

    Re:

    Finally! AC, I read all these comments waiting for one of you to make some irrational and ridiculous claim to justify the price hikes, and this is the best you can come up with?

  • On the post: Zombieland Director Goes After Fans, Doesn't Understand Popularity

    batch ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2009 @ 01:19pm

    Re:

    Sounds reasonable to me. Too bad that the *AA's are the Wicked Witch of the West and reason is water. "I'm melting!"

  • On the post: Microsoft Patents Changing User Privileges Temporarily On The Fly

    batch ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2009 @ 12:42pm

    Re: Critical reading skills

    Oh wow, sudo for dummies!

  • On the post: Once Again, You Don't Compete With Innovative New Services By Being Lame

    batch ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2009 @ 10:59am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Telling

    They're losing sales on me as I'm tired of having a ton of DVDs taking up physical space in my apartment. If they don't offer the option of a download, then I simply don't purchase their product. That's the medium I want and its non-negotiable as I can live without them.

  • On the post: MPAA Gets Town To Turn Off Free Muni-WiFi Over Single Unauthorized Movie Download

    batch ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2009 @ 12:30pm

    It was an overreaction by the IT dept. Probably because they realized that closing ports wouldn't stop a determined person, that many other options exist to bypass that, then their head exploded from the paradox.

  • On the post: BMW Trying To Patent Technological Problem Solving

    batch ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2009 @ 12:53pm

    A wise man once said:

    Whats the difference between a BMW and a Porcupine? With a porcupine, the prick is on the outside.

  • On the post: PC Game Developer Pirates Own Game As Promotion

    batch ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2009 @ 09:43am

    Re:

    Good job mashing your keyboard rather than reading. Major fail whale.

    From the article:
    Virtala said that the game has sold close to 150,000 copies since it was launched 18 months ago. "When we compare that hacked version with those who have access to leaderboards and are accessing our servers they match. So at least people have not cracked out leaderboards yet," he added.

  • On the post: Murdoch Says Fair Use Can Be Barred By Courts; Will Probably Remove Sites From Google

    batch ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2009 @ 01:03pm

    Please remove!

    Please let him remove all his sites from Google. The collective intelligence of the world will benefit.

  • On the post: The Moral Argument In Favor Of File Sharing?

    batch ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2009 @ 12:20pm

    Re: What about the copyright holder?

    so what if some lesser-known person creates a work that happens to be pretty good, but a larger entity with a wider distribution capacity usurps control of it and distributes it without compensating the creator? Without copyright, the creator would have no legal recourse against a company that would do this, since nobody else needs permission to copy.

    The only way to have legal recourse would be to have a neutral third party, like the copyright office, to register ownership of works. So it will be on official public record. In other words, a paper trail.

  • On the post: Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our Business Model

    batch ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 01:15pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Something, I Forget

    Maybe if we had this thing called "competition" and "choice" not just a bunch of price-fixing monopolies in every market, people would Want to pay for content because the price would actually be Competitive and the selection would be varied. But Noooo, we should put up with shoddy service, tons of ads, no choice, and bills that get jacked up even more every fall like clockwork. Get bent, anonymous asshat.

  • On the post: Venezuelan Government Blames Video Games For Violence, Implements Widespread Ban

    batch ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 12:32pm

    Why do I always forget that violence didn't exist before video games! Thank you, Venezuela, for reminding me.

  • On the post: Dear RIAA: It's Not 'Working Together As A Team' When It's Under Threat Of Regulation

    batch ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2009 @ 12:34pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Also, explain why you're so special that the school has to create a position for your sake that You don't pay for? Its your problem, you want to play copyright cop, you pay the salary of a person who gets to sit around doing please-someone-shoot-me-in-the-head work all day? Cause that job, its gotta be boring!

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    What a fun thing to do all day!

  • On the post: Why Kicking Fans Off The Internet Won't Make Them Buy

    batch ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2009 @ 03:55pm

    Re: Re: actually all miss out

    Because CDRs aren't as compatible with cd players as pressed cds? Or because the downloaded music isn't meeting X standard of quality? Next!

  • On the post: Why Kicking Fans Off The Internet Won't Make Them Buy

    batch ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2009 @ 01:36pm

    Waiting for the other shoe to drop

    I'm waiting for when these guttersnipes decide that sales are still not good enough, so they just start accusing innocent people on purpose in droves because its such an obviously good plan they have:

    1) Accuse people
    2) Accused kicked offline
    3) Accused buys more product!!!!

    Its a straight shot to profit, people! Lets get moving!


    Also, they'll find out the IP addresses of their critics and take them down too. Not kidding. It will happen if they're allowed to become sheriffs of the internet. Remember, they don't need proof.

  • On the post: MPAA Tells The FCC: If We Don't Stop Piracy, The Internet Will Die

    batch ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2009 @ 08:31am

    Please don't let the FCC set neutrality terms

    This is exactly the reason why the FCC can't be allowed to dictate network neutrality rules or otherwise regulate the internet. They aren't elected officials and the previous head, Kevin Martin, of the FCC was a pawn of any telco lobbyist. This current head may not be such a tool, but who is to say the next one won't do everything to please people like the MPAA?

    Congress may be slow and also easily corrupted, but at least they are elected and have to go through a drawn out process of changing anything.

  • On the post: Gershwin Heirs Fight Over Copyright Royalties

    batch ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2009 @ 02:49pm

    Re: STFU

    What did they do to earn a free lunch to begin with?

  • On the post: Guy Who Helped Mod Cable Modems Arrested By The FBI

    batch ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2009 @ 02:28pm

    Re: AC

    The person doing the downloading. Duh. Its not like you can use the defense "everyone was doing it" and shirk responsibility for your own actions. I don't need a ban on rat poison to make sure I don't eat it. Its my responsibility to be aware that poison is bad for my health and to not ingest it or risk any possible consequences.

  • On the post: Newsday Columnist Quits Over Paywall, Wants To Be Read

    batch ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2009 @ 02:10pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: "Career advancement" vs. ego

    You've got a good point. If I wanted specific information, such as financial insight, the WSJ very well could earn my dollars, as I understand that what they offer is a more limited commodity, and I assume, the people writing it are highly skilled and knowledgeable in regards to what they are creating. On the other hand, something such as national news, for example, I wouldn't buy a subscription to because it is infinitely available. I could ask anyone whats going on, after all, it would be easy to locate a source. An ad supported version of national news makes much more sense, in this case. It makes even more sense when there are people who simply don't read the news on a regular basis. Some revenue from those people is better than no revenue.

  • On the post: Debunking The Idea Of A Music Tax For The Creation Of New Music

    batch ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2009 @ 10:40am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Tax for the inept

    If all I gotta do is write some garbage (art is subjective, after all) and call it a song and then I'll be given free money, the question is: Where do I sign up?!

    This would be a major problem for any welfare/tax that paid the content industries. Won't someone think of the children, forming bands in their parents garages, and then receiving welfare for it? Or if they didn't, because, where do you draw the line on what defines the music that gets this welfare benefit? Only if you have a contract with a label? How is that fair, to make an exclusive club that receives money for nothing? There would be incentive to keep new members from joining the free booze money club because then everyone's free ride would be that much reduced.

    The immediate problems with creating this welfare/free ride for anyone with some creativity cannot be solved in a way that would be fair and equitable to the artists, not to mention the people paying this tax. Those problems need to be solved before we can entertain the pipe dream of giving people money for nothing.

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