Re:So, what's it to him?
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CSMastermind
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· Score: 3, Informative
Well if you read his blog entry covered on/. here: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/27/14 11245&tid=98 you'll know that he owns alot of digital content. If MGM wins this case they could potentially shut down a valuable means for him to get that content to his customers.
Mark's talks about this issue in his blog
by
xmas2003
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· Score: 4, Informative
The RIAA says music sales are down, more specifically they say sales of the top 100 cd are down and this is DUE TO PIRACY.
Well by Sales the Mean "Items Shipped to Stores" !
So all they Really Mean is Stores Stock Less.
In the US Nielsen Ratings are based on "Individual Sales to Customers" so are these REAL sales down?
"Soundscan recorded 146 million CDs sold in Q1 2003, against 160 million in Q1 2004 - an increase of nearly 10%. Figures for Q2, released this summer are expected to show yet another increase. The RIAA, on the other hand, are claiming a 7% decrease in revenue - but that's purely through managing shipments and returns."
Nope, Sales are up !!! By this more realistic definition Music Sales are up.
=> Therefore if we are to believe the RIAA but use a more realistic definition of sales then: FILE SWAPPING HAS INCREASED POPULAR MUSIC SALES.
It is about controlling the means of distribution.
Here is an Very Rigorous Academic Study of File Sharings Effect on Record Sales. The Conclusion:"File Sharing Has A Negligable Satistical Effect on Sales". http://www.p2pnet.net/zero/FileSharing_March2004.p df Here is A Japanese Study with much the same conclusion. http://www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp/file/WP05-08tanaka.pdf So the Lies are exposed, the **AA are just out to keep cartel control, make sure we only watch and buy what they have. Read How Exhorbitant Liscense Fees for Samples have crippled Modern Music in the excellent fast paced read. http://kembrew.com/documents/mcleod-freedomofexpre ssion3.pdf Freedom Of Expression by Kembrew McLeod also details many other ways in which Irresponsible Litigous Intellectual Property stifles research, innovation, cost millions of lives worldwide due to drug patents and holds back the development of important medicines for breast cancer due to human genome patents.
I think that P2P has revitalised Culture and learning, it has made the world a richer place and everyone has benefited from this, leechers, artists and business' alike.
Mark Cuban was one of the few dot-com millionaires smart enough to cash in his chips and leave the table before the bust.
He went on to buy the Dallas Mavericks and make a big jackass of himself ever since, but the sort of jackass who is fun to have around at a party.
He has been fined by the NBA for unsportmanlike conduct more than any other owner... probably more than any team owner in the history of sports.
He recently produced a "reality TV" program which was sort of a low-rent version of the Apprentice, in which he gave a million dollars away, making the contestants do really stupid shit and eliminating the losers on the basis of his own fickle whims.
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Re:no dangling from gallows!
by
SilverspurG
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· Score: 2, Informative
they can continue to extort obscene profits from us for healthcare
Continuing on that thought...
There are about 3 major insurance companies in the world. Those three have dozens of subsidiaries. Those dozen subsidiaries have hundreds, maybe thousands, of corporations. What this means, however, is that the effect on profit margin anywhere can and will be compensated anywhere else. Consider the late 90s and into early 2000 when the bust happened. Those businesses were insured. Some investors, usually those closest to the top of the investment chain, recouped losses through business insurance. That was very costly for the insurance companies holding the policies. They can't be expected to take a loss, though, so they must recoup the losses somewhere.
It's no coincidence that the cost of health care began skyrocketing as the stock market tumbled. There's no coincidence that the cost of gasoline began skyrocketing as the stock market tumbled. It's little more than a pyramid scheme of recouping losses from one investment by raising the prices of another. Ultimately we, the American public paying car/home/health insurance, will pay to rebuild the vacation homes and posh resorts devastated by the earthquakes on the other side of the globe. I have no problem philanthropically helping people in need but I don't relish the idea of seeing my auto insurance rise on my paltry salary while a spoiled brat with a gigantic ego sips pina coladas in a beach chair that I (indirectly) bought.
A pub in my home area had a bumper sticker,"We screw the other guy to pass the savings on to you." Alan Greenspan, George Bush... they're just the figureheads for a group of people who are screwing the general populance in order to pass the savings on to themselves.
If one would write a computer simulation of the business world with our current taxation system, and another computer simulation of any two-bit MLM or pyramid scheme, the code would probably be indistinguishable.
Slashdot Mirror
Well if you read his blog entry covered on /. here: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/27/14 11245&tid=98 you'll know that he owns alot of digital content. If MGM wins this case they could potentially shut down a valuable means for him to get that content to his customers.
Read Mark Cuban's Blog where he talks more about this.
Hulk SMASH Celiac Disease
Cubes has plenty of opinions on everything at his blog, but here's some more MGM v Grokster for you all... http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000237029704 /
http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000890030093 /
http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000523038163 /
The RIAA says music sales are down, more specifically they say sales of the top 100 cd are down and this is DUE TO PIRACY.
:
e ction=distribution&id=1222
p df e ssion3.pdf
Well by Sales the Mean "Items Shipped to Stores" !
So all they Really Mean is Stores Stock Less.
In the US Nielsen Ratings are based on "Individual Sales to Customers" so are these REAL sales down?
"Soundscan recorded 146 million CDs sold in Q1 2003, against 160 million in Q1 2004 - an increase of nearly 10%. Figures for Q2, released this summer are expected to show yet another increase. The RIAA, on the other hand, are claiming a 7% decrease in revenue - but that's purely through managing shipments and returns."
Nope, Sales are up !!!
By this more realistic definition Music Sales are up.
=> Therefore if we are to believe the RIAA but use a more realistic definition of sales then
FILE SWAPPING HAS INCREASED POPULAR MUSIC SALES.
Here is a Link with the sources http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?s
People listen to more music than they buy.
The More Music People Listen to, the more they buy.
ADD in the spectacular rise of iTunes and Music Sales are through the roof.
File Sharing promotes music and increases sales.
Artists Win, The RIAA, wins, File Swappers Win, P2P wins - Everyone Wins !!!
It is about controlling the means of distribution.
Here is an Very Rigorous Academic Study of File Sharings Effect on Record Sales.
The Conclusion:"File Sharing Has A Negligable Satistical Effect on Sales".
http://www.p2pnet.net/zero/FileSharing_March2004.
Here is A Japanese Study with much the same conclusion.
http://www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp/file/WP05-08tanaka.pdf
So the Lies are exposed, the **AA are just out to keep cartel control, make sure we only watch and buy what they have.
Read How Exhorbitant Liscense Fees for Samples have crippled Modern Music in the excellent fast paced read.
http://kembrew.com/documents/mcleod-freedomofexpr
Freedom Of Expression by Kembrew McLeod also details many other ways in which Irresponsible Litigous Intellectual Property stifles research, innovation, cost millions of lives worldwide due to drug patents and holds back the development of important medicines for breast cancer due to human genome patents.
I think that P2P has revitalised Culture and learning, it has made the world a richer place and everyone has benefited from this, leechers, artists and business' alike.
Who the hell is Mark Cuban....?
Mark Cuban was one of the few dot-com millionaires smart enough to cash in his chips and leave the table before the bust.
He went on to buy the Dallas Mavericks and make a big jackass of himself ever since, but the sort of jackass who is fun to have around at a party.
He has been fined by the NBA for unsportmanlike conduct more than any other owner... probably more than any team owner in the history of sports.
He recently produced a "reality TV" program which was sort of a low-rent version of the Apprentice, in which he gave a million dollars away, making the contestants do really stupid shit and eliminating the losers on the basis of his own fickle whims.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
There are about 3 major insurance companies in the world. Those three have dozens of subsidiaries. Those dozen subsidiaries have hundreds, maybe thousands, of corporations. What this means, however, is that the effect on profit margin anywhere can and will be compensated anywhere else. Consider the late 90s and into early 2000 when the bust happened. Those businesses were insured. Some investors, usually those closest to the top of the investment chain, recouped losses through business insurance. That was very costly for the insurance companies holding the policies. They can't be expected to take a loss, though, so they must recoup the losses somewhere.
It's no coincidence that the cost of health care began skyrocketing as the stock market tumbled. There's no coincidence that the cost of gasoline began skyrocketing as the stock market tumbled. It's little more than a pyramid scheme of recouping losses from one investment by raising the prices of another. Ultimately we, the American public paying car/home/health insurance, will pay to rebuild the vacation homes and posh resorts devastated by the earthquakes on the other side of the globe. I have no problem philanthropically helping people in need but I don't relish the idea of seeing my auto insurance rise on my paltry salary while a spoiled brat with a gigantic ego sips pina coladas in a beach chair that I (indirectly) bought.
A pub in my home area had a bumper sticker,"We screw the other guy to pass the savings on to you." Alan Greenspan, George Bush... they're just the figureheads for a group of people who are screwing the general populance in order to pass the savings on to themselves.
If one would write a computer simulation of the business world with our current taxation system, and another computer simulation of any two-bit MLM or pyramid scheme, the code would probably be indistinguishable.
fast as fast can be. you'll never catch me.