If anyone's read Lawrence Lessig's book "The Future of Ideas" about intellectual property and innovation on the Internet, this is exactly the kind of ownership which he warns about.
Patents like this stifle innovation, and favor narrow profit channels over widespread cultural advancements.
"And if this don't work, we're gonna shut down the whole darned net!"
Honestly, where would this approach end. The business of shutting down networks which carry some portion of illegally transferred files is clearly a dead-end strategy.
The reality is that a certain percentage of all net traffic is illegal. Therefore, if we take this strategy to its extreme it would require a shutdown of all net traffic in order to stop people from pirating.
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Arserolfer: Who is LivePerson's stealth marketing company? And who was the jackass up at LivePerson who thought that posting blatently obvious advertising content to Slashdot.org was a good idea?
Matt: This is LivePerson.com . Which site are you looking for?
Arserolfer: I'm looking for LivePerson.com -- I'm trying to track down the individuals who are posting illegitimate advertising content to sites like Slashdot.org in an effort to promote LivePerson. Who is your PR company?
Matt: Regarding that please email PR@liveperson.com
Arserolfer: Actually, since your PR folks seem to be fine communicating with the general public by using online publication sites illegetimately, I think I'll respond to your PR folks the same way by badmouthing them through those channels. Your company is basically selling chat applets under another name. Stealth marketing is not going to help get your stock price out of the shitter. But it will piss of the development community.
Matt: Is there anything else I can do?
Arserolfer: Why yes Matt. You can take your fist and you can ram it up your arse.
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TO ALL SLASHDOT USERS: THIS IS STEALTH MARKETING BULLSHIT
Slashdot will be a much less interesting place if stealth marketers interested in promoting their clients are allowed to post non-newsworthy puff pieces to this site.
As a counterstrategy (in the interest of ridding these pigs from our midst) we should begin an immediate program of badmouthing whoever they promote.
So here goes --
LivePerson is an example of dot-com era corporate bloat. Rob LoCascio, their semi-intelligent CEO, developed what can best be described as a "chat applet" and with that "cutting edge" technology, as well as a little truth-stretching, managed to IPO his company.
The stockprice is currently in the shitter where it belongs. If you want a chat applet on your site, avail yourself of the many cheaper, better-coded, gnu public licensed products that aren't relics of an era better forgotten.
There is, and never will be, any fullproof means by which distributed or broadcast digital data can be protected from recording and copying. Period.
Since a technological prevention of copying and recording is by definition impossible, the only means by which owners of intellectual property can defend a digital work is via legal enforcement.
An effective legal enforcement of copyright law at the consumer level would take on a scale and level of intrusiveness which would make the war-on-drugs look like an after-school activity. The actual cost of this kind of enforcement would be in the billions and the political cost of an effective enforcement would be suicide.
I think its safer to say that the entertainment industry's fucked, rather than we are.
Of course if your accounting firm is a little worried about being another Andersen... and if you're company is worried about being the next Enron... and if you're trying to do damage control so your stock price doesn't tank....
Buy your accounting firm!
Just another paranoid conspiracy theory of course.
There are only a small handful of game developers out there who are really worth their salt, and Looking Glass arguably tops that list. This can only be the result of total mismanagement.
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If anyone's read Lawrence Lessig's book "The Future of Ideas" about intellectual property and innovation on the Internet, this is exactly the kind of ownership which he warns about.
Patents like this stifle innovation, and favor narrow profit channels over widespread cultural advancements.
We should be afraid.
"And if this don't work, we're gonna shut down the whole darned net!"
Honestly, where would this approach end. The business of shutting down networks which carry some portion of illegally transferred files is clearly a dead-end strategy.
The reality is that a certain percentage of all net traffic is illegal. Therefore, if we take this strategy to its extreme it would require a shutdown of all net traffic in order to stop people from pirating.
Methinks this is poorly thought out policy.
Has anyone produced a left-eye/right-eye differential version of DOOM?
Because 10k for stereoscopic DOOM is well... within the realm of daydreams at the very least!
Welcome to LivePerson! An online representative will be with you shortly.
You are now chatting with 'Matt'
Matt: Hi, how may I help you?
Arserolfer: Who is LivePerson's stealth marketing company? And who was the jackass up at LivePerson who thought that posting blatently obvious advertising content to Slashdot.org was a good idea?
Matt: This is LivePerson.com . Which site are you looking for?
Arserolfer: I'm looking for LivePerson.com -- I'm trying to track down the individuals who are posting illegitimate advertising content to sites like Slashdot.org in an effort to promote LivePerson. Who is your PR company?
Matt: Regarding that please email PR@liveperson.com
Arserolfer: Actually, since your PR folks seem to be fine communicating with the general public by using online publication sites illegetimately, I think I'll respond to your PR folks the same way by badmouthing them through those channels. Your company is basically selling chat applets under another name. Stealth marketing is not going to help get your stock price out of the shitter. But it will piss of the development community.
Matt: Is there anything else I can do?
Arserolfer: Why yes Matt. You can take your fist and you can ram it up your arse.
Matt: Thank you for chatting with us. If you'd like a transcript of this chat sent to you by email, please fill in the Exit survey after this chat.
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TO ALL SLASHDOT USERS: THIS IS STEALTH MARKETING BULLSHIT
Slashdot will be a much less interesting place if stealth marketers interested in promoting their clients are allowed to post non-newsworthy puff pieces to this site.
As a counterstrategy (in the interest of ridding these pigs from our midst) we should begin an immediate program of badmouthing whoever they promote.
So here goes --
LivePerson is an example of dot-com era corporate bloat. Rob LoCascio, their semi-intelligent CEO, developed what can best be described as a "chat applet" and with that "cutting edge" technology, as well as a little truth-stretching, managed to IPO his company.
The stockprice is currently in the shitter where it belongs. If you want a chat applet on your site, avail yourself of the many cheaper, better-coded, gnu public licensed products that aren't relics of an era better forgotten.
I think its safer to say that the entertainment industry's fucked, rather than we are.
Of course if your accounting firm is a little worried about being another Andersen
Buy your accounting firm!
Just another paranoid conspiracy theory of course.
I've got a Craftsman Rotary PowerSander strapped to my ass and I'm floating above my personal magnet collection!
Woohoo!
Who wants my frequent flyer miles?
Halo Online already rocks. Check out xbconnect.com
There are only a small handful of game developers out there who are really worth their salt, and Looking Glass arguably tops that list. This can only be the result of total mismanagement.
The solution is simple: