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Dealing With Copyright Online: Porn v. Music
zzled writes "The New York Times (registration required, etc.) has an article on the porn industry's take on filesharing / copyright infringement. 'Many companies that distribute X-rated material say they do not worry too much about consumers sharing among themselves; they often unleash their lawyers only when someone is trying to profit by copying their goods and trying to sell them.' ... The article isn't particularly brilliant or insightful, but was an interesting read, especially with the explicit comparison to the approach taken by the music and movie industries."
f1rst p0st
And, of course, the RIAA could learn a lil from this. (So too could the IRS - you can't squeeze blood from a turnip, nor can you squeeze millions of dollars out of little kids)
saturday night and the front title on slashdot has the word porn in it. I think slashdot is going to get a lot of nerds excited for nothing ;)
YOU SUCK BALLS!
this poor guy is just asking for the password to the ny times website so he can view the article. how exactly does this make him a troll?
So I suppose that Britney sells all those albums because people think she's a good singer? Gimme a break... since at least the 50's (Elvis), and accelerating after MTV became popular (mid-80's), music has been about image (read: sex) more than music. The way they pimp out teens based upon their "sex appeal" is sickening. Now, granted, the pr0n industry does the same thing, but at least they wait until the girls are legally adults.
I know god exists. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
waaaah mommy the world is too complicated, no fair no fair, make it better so i can just guess my way through...
Do you even know what a devil's advocate is?
You can help by Googlebombing my article this way - post links anywhere on the web that say my article is about free music downloads
It's about much more than that, such as what the US Constitution says about copyright, and what you can do to get us out of the mess we're in, but if you can help boost my article's rank for the query "free music downloads", you can encourage the p2p users who I intended to address with my writing, to come read my article, get informed and get working to change the copyright laws.
I discuss this at more length in my kuro5hin diary.
My article ranks about #17 at google for the query "free music downloads", yet it got 4400 referrals from it during January. How many people would read my article if it got to #1?
Thanks for your help.
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For every four barrels of oil we burn, we're only finding one new one.
Again, for each new barrel of oil discovered, we're burning four from the old known fields.
We _are_ running out of oil. And we're running out of it much faster than anybody cares to inform you.
How much did you spend on heat this winter? On AC last summer? On $2/gal gas for your Camry and SUV? It's time we had Open Source Energy, don't you think?
The captured solar energy of a 150 mile by 150 mile square area of Nevada desert would provide the United States with all its energy needs: consumer, residential, transportation, commercial and industrial; oil, gas, coal, electric, etc. combined. Yes. It's a fact.
And we don't need any new technology to do it either. A simple coal, gas or oil fired plant can be retrofitted with a different heat source.
There is no energy crisis. Never has been, never will be.
First Law of Thermodynamics: Energy is neither created, nor destroyed.
First law of business: Make the consumer believe the product is scarce, then package and sell it in a format that can be controlled (ie. barrels of oil can be controlled, solar roofs can't).
Do you know how many of these we could have built for the over $100 billion spent on securing middle east oil? 10? 100? No, _1000_. Yup! Ouch.
Your friendly neighborhood,
JSMS III