The RIAA (and later the MPAA,) have fought EVERY single innovation that even looks like it might possibly impinge on their clients' business turf, right up until it becomes overwhelmingly clear that they're actually preventing their client's from making more money than if they kept their head in the sand.
If it was up to the **AAs, we would be copying sheet music for our spinets with sharpened quill pens.
They are a creation dating from before the invention of democracy and all they have ever done is behave like it.
M$ advertising usually LOOKS stupid, boring, idiotic and an embarrassment.
The fact that comments aren't allowed shows you that M$ KNOWS that their marketing just looks stupid, boring, idiotic and an embarrassment.
Its actually inviting Windows FanBoys (both of them,) to create their own YouTube video in the hopes that one of them will go viral.
I have to hand it to M$, on the rusty hub cap off of a 1941 De Soto Custom Coupe.
You really have to get a pro (who won't sign THIS work,) to churn out an ad quite that bad. I haven't seen a wall clock that confused in fiction since Kurt Vonnegut and the "chronosynclastic infundibulum."
Deconstructing the ad shows how desperately M$ is reaching for a viral video from its own customer base.
It takes real balls, and a lot of desperation, to attempt the kind of manipulation.
It takes real balls, and genuine disdain for your users, to think that they're that easily manipulated.
This is another brilliant piece of crap thought up by people who don't think of the implications PERIOD.
If it took me a second to come up with a scenario, I would grant a prisoner with nothing better to do all day to come up with a complete escape plan once he's outside the prison on the way to a hospital.
This is the MTA. You don't like it, get out and walk. We survived Robert Moses, so bring it on punk.
We don't care if the facts are against us, we'll argue the law.
We don't care if the laws are against us, we'll argue the facts.
We don't care if the facts and the laws are against us, we'll just give the opposing counsel Hell.
There are eight million riders per day who hate us with every mile they ride. What do we care?
They still pay what ever the hell we charge them.
Piss us off and you'll wake up in Far Rockaway with you briefcase in Bay Ridge and the cops coming to arrest you because all of your clothes and all your ID are on their way to Montauk.
We got YOUR number bub, and it covers the 718 area code, bee-atch.
How about if we let the RIAAs lawyer stake her out to the sandy floor of an arena and get them to pull on all of her limbs with their Porches until she's torn apart?
Would they be happy then?
Would that kind of a verdict make them hold their heads up a little higher, like on a pike?
Let the punishment fit the crime, doodz.
The judgment is so far beyond the pale that its making a mockery of justice, and I think that that's the point.
Instead of declaring bankruptcy for 100g, she gets to declare bankruptcy for 1.9 mil.
The bar has been raised to high that the record industry is throwing itself on a pyre and going up in flames with their noncollectable awards.
The choice is now clear, avoid the RIAAs clients, because they'll sue your ass into oblivion for any perceived infringement.
Your best best is to stay the hell away from any signed artist.
"And now besides the point, record labels aren't there just to rip people off. Artists actually need them. They actually find the artists that could be something, provide them studio time and sponsor them so they can get their job done, help making the music videos, doing promotion, making sure the actual product is somewhat quality (yeah, quality can be argued!) to actually delivering the products to retailers, tv and radio stations and whatever other places. Lots of times people forget that record labels do lots of other work too and sponsor the bands, and they're not there just to collect money forgefully."
Man, what rock have you crawled out from under?
The artists provide their own studio time, much to their dismay when the find that their 'advance' on record sales paid for all of the bills for the studio, the pressing/production, the promotion, the tour, the hiring of strangers, the transportation of said strangers and equipment, the catering to feed everybody.
The artist have paid for all of that and suddenly find out that the labels do a lousy job when they are handed a bill instead of a check at the end of it.
The music industry is a shameful sham. A&R is a just hunt for the next suckers.
TR were stupidly engaging in trying to shut people down, instead of using an open source license solution to grow and extend their product AT NO COST TO THEMSELVES.
The use of lawyers who are creatures who can act like O'Brien in 1984, instead of the use of innovation to add value, is entirely consistent with people who believe that authority comes from the power they can bring to bear instead of the authorship of the idea.
"You might be an idiot if you do something over and over again,
and you keep expecting different outcomes,
and are genuinely surprised when you step in the same shit again."
This time, its not working.
There are now anti-trust regulations and Microsoft can't try the old "buy out, or out spend, the opposition."
They have their own web sites now and don't need to advertise on anything else but the web (That's why they got a web site.)
The business model of the press has never worked properly but as long as "the power of the press belonged to those who owned one" as Liebnitz famously said, they were forced into it because its takes a lot of money ad hard work to keep an offset press fed.
But now they own a computers, or even access to one, put up their web sites and let Google find them.
Their expenses are minimized (they aren't paying for the press, the paper, the inks, the transportation or for all of those people,) and the company is much better off handling marketing and sales through the internet.
Its is definitely not perfect, but its so much cheaper than the old way of trying to do things that its good enough.
Without some self-interested bodies to enforce "perfect", like the newspaper publishers, good enough will do.
Specially since its rolling up the costs of marketing and advertising and CRM into one tighter wad.
The internet and web 2.5 has destroyed the existing power structures utterly, they just don't realize it yet.
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The metric system is unified in all directions, time, mass, length, temperature, energy etc...
The system makes sense instead of relying on the length on the king's thumb, foot and arm, or the weight of a stone or the amount of work being done by a horse, all variable and inconsistent.
Its one of the many things we owe the French under Napoleon, like a unified system of laws, the "Code Napoleon."
It gets wrappered and wrappered and the underlying machine gets emulated before they change the software because the program has been written for, and blessed by, a bunch of lawyers..NET is a potential gold mine not because its good but because it allows some code to be reused.
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Consider the number of pianos then and now.
Then add in the number of guitars, bass buitars, synth's, horns, every kind of drum; we have more musicians alive now than have lived before, PERIOD.
The RIAA (and later the MPAA,) have fought EVERY single innovation that even looks like it might possibly impinge on their clients' business turf, right up until it becomes overwhelmingly clear that they're actually preventing their client's from making more money than if they kept their head in the sand.
If it was up to the **AAs, we would be copying sheet music for our spinets with sharpened quill pens.
They are a creation dating from before the invention of democracy and all they have ever done is behave like it.
But as a geek, I'm glad it came out anyway.
M$ advertising usually LOOKS stupid, boring, idiotic and an embarrassment.
The fact that comments aren't allowed shows you that M$ KNOWS that their marketing just looks stupid, boring, idiotic and an embarrassment.
Its actually inviting Windows FanBoys (both of them,) to create their own YouTube video in the hopes that one of them will go viral.
I have to hand it to M$, on the rusty hub cap off of a 1941 De Soto Custom Coupe.
You really have to get a pro (who won't sign THIS work,) to churn out an ad quite that bad. I haven't seen a wall clock that confused in fiction since Kurt Vonnegut and the "chronosynclastic infundibulum."
Deconstructing the ad shows how desperately M$ is reaching for a viral video from its own customer base.
It takes real balls, and a lot of desperation, to attempt the kind of manipulation.
It takes real balls, and genuine disdain for your users, to think that they're that easily manipulated.
This is another brilliant piece of crap thought up by people who don't think of the implications PERIOD.
If it took me a second to come up with a scenario, I would grant a prisoner with nothing better to do all day to come up with a complete escape plan once he's outside the prison on the way to a hospital.
Instead of disbarment I wonder of we can try opting for dismemberment. :-)
This is the MTA. You don't like it, get out and walk. We survived Robert Moses, so bring it on punk.
We don't care if the facts are against us, we'll argue the law.
We don't care if the laws are against us, we'll argue the facts.
We don't care if the facts and the laws are against us, we'll just give the opposing counsel Hell.
There are eight million riders per day who hate us with every mile they ride. What do we care?
They still pay what ever the hell we charge them.
Piss us off and you'll wake up in Far Rockaway with you briefcase in Bay Ridge and the cops coming to arrest you because all of your clothes and all your ID are on their way to Montauk.
We got YOUR number bub, and it covers the 718 area code, bee-atch.
and THEN deciding, or does that sound un-American?
Businesses traditionally try to buy favors by lobbying individual members (divide and conquer because it usually costs them less.)
The liberal/conservative arguments don't wash.
Businesses are totally apolitical and amoral. When they are seen to be partisan is when they can get in trouble.
So what if they subvert the course of democracy by raising the price of entry so that the average company cant afford to play?
Would that make the RIAAs case for them?
Play nice with the RIAA of you're dead meat.
Yeah, bread and circuses, doodz.
How about if we let the RIAAs lawyer stake her out to the sandy floor of an arena and get them to pull on all of her limbs with their Porches until she's torn apart?
Would they be happy then?
Would that kind of a verdict make them hold their heads up a little higher, like on a pike?
Let the punishment fit the crime, doodz.
The judgment is so far beyond the pale that its making a mockery of justice, and I think that that's the point.
Instead of declaring bankruptcy for 100g, she gets to declare bankruptcy for 1.9 mil.
The bar has been raised to high that the record industry is throwing itself on a pyre and going up in flames with their noncollectable awards.
The choice is now clear, avoid the RIAAs clients, because they'll sue your ass into oblivion for any perceived infringement.
Your best best is to stay the hell away from any signed artist.
The RIAA won the case and threw away the victory.
it found stories on "How to fix Windows crashes in minutes" (In seconds: "Pull the plug" :-) and "Why is my FireFox crashing so often?"
Oh yeah, those are trustworthy results... :-)
"And now besides the point, record labels aren't there just to rip people off. Artists actually need them. They actually find the artists that could be something, provide them studio time and sponsor them so they can get their job done, help making the music videos, doing promotion, making sure the actual product is somewhat quality (yeah, quality can be argued!) to actually delivering the products to retailers, tv and radio stations and whatever other places. Lots of times people forget that record labels do lots of other work too and sponsor the bands, and they're not there just to collect money forgefully."
Man, what rock have you crawled out from under?
The artists provide their own studio time, much to their dismay when the find that their 'advance' on record sales paid for all of the bills for the studio, the pressing/production, the promotion, the tour, the hiring of strangers, the transportation of said strangers and equipment, the catering to feed everybody.
The artist have paid for all of that and suddenly find out that the labels do a lousy job when they are handed a bill instead of a check at the end of it.
The music industry is a shameful sham. A&R is a just hunt for the next suckers.
... would have told them that years ago.
The average French woman is smartly dressed, thin, (unlike most American females of every age,) elegant and capable.
The average French man is a disgusting slob.
The REVERSE is true in Britain where the men look like "Saville Row", albeit with bad teeth, and the women often look like cheap, badly dressed tarts.
In Saudi Arabia, they don't let you look at they women...
of course if the opposing counsel finds out he could give a bigger bribe and then Darl would find himself in a gunfight with a machete.
Maybe its like those crappy telephone "bait and switch" scams and somebody just thought they were just buying "Naughty Nurses" porn.
Suddenly instead of a DVD of said "Naughty Nurses" they suddenly open a box full of SCO stock.
should have been encouraging.
TR were stupidly engaging in trying to shut people down, instead of using an open source license solution to grow and extend their product AT NO COST TO THEMSELVES.
The use of lawyers who are creatures who can act like O'Brien in 1984, instead of the use of innovation to add value, is entirely consistent with people who believe that authority comes from the power they can bring to bear instead of the authorship of the idea.
"How many roads must a man walk down..."
before they "bing" him in the head with a brick.
Microsoft, living examples of the principle of:
"You might be an idiot if you do something over and over again,
and you keep expecting different outcomes,
and are genuinely surprised when you step in the same shit again."
This time, its not working.
There are now anti-trust regulations and Microsoft can't try the old "buy out, or out spend, the opposition."
They were to late to the party.
I think patent trolls could be easily taken care of if they had to put up or shut up.
If you've actually built a device with the idea then I'd have to pay, if not, screw you.
I could patent cabling to devices together, would that get me the rights to shake down everybody who'd ever wired two pieces of crap together?
I think not.
Verizon in particular and to corporations in general.
Fuck 'em back.
The parts that are pro are recent, the first heart transplant occurred in 1964, and modern medicine like genomics have been practical only since 1996.
We have a much, much, much longer history of being what the French call, "Des Cons."
and as long as you don't charge more than people think its worth, you can make money.
Distributing links to .PDFs via RSS onto a "For $" site is the way to go.
model.
They have their own web sites now and don't need to advertise on anything else but the web (That's why they got a web site.)
The business model of the press has never worked properly but as long as "the power of the press belonged to those who owned one" as Liebnitz famously said, they were forced into it because its takes a lot of money ad hard work to keep an offset press fed.
But now they own a computers, or even access to one, put up their web sites and let Google find them.
Their expenses are minimized (they aren't paying for the press, the paper, the inks, the transportation or for all of those people,) and the company is much better off handling marketing and sales through the internet.
Its is definitely not perfect, but its so much cheaper than the old way of trying to do things that its good enough.
Without some self-interested bodies to enforce "perfect", like the newspaper publishers, good enough will do.
Specially since its rolling up the costs of marketing and advertising and CRM into one tighter wad.
The internet and web 2.5 has destroyed the existing power structures utterly, they just don't realize it yet.
The metric system is unified in all directions, time, mass, length, temperature, energy etc...
The system makes sense instead of relying on the length on the king's thumb, foot and arm, or the weight of a stone or the amount of work being done by a horse, all variable and inconsistent.
Its one of the many things we owe the French under Napoleon, like a unified system of laws, the "Code Napoleon."
It gets wrappered and wrappered and the underlying machine gets emulated before they change the software because the program has been written for, and blessed by, a bunch of lawyers. .NET is a potential gold mine not because its good but because it allows some code to be reused.
I don't consider Ellison as creative a writer as the accountants/troglodytes who toil in the stinking darkened pits of Hollywood.