Uninstalling wouldn't kill it. If the company discontinued the game and deleted all the files, that would kill it.
As to its consent, it's the same consent any human player gives when entering the PvP areas (or else, seeing as it's the AI's job to play these characters, it's the same consent that, say, a Renfaire jouster gives to be knocked off his horse for the amusement of the crowd, or a LARP NPC player gives to be defeated by the paid guests.
The AI is not the in-game character. Killing an AI-controlled monster is like killing a human-controlled character in PvP. The AI lives on, and fights the next person.
In 20 years the 20-somethings will be 40-somethings, and the people younger than them will agree with them. That's why those who say it'll happen in 5 years are wrong.
Also, piracy has had only about 6 years to wreck the RIAA's business model. Another couple decades and the finances will have cracked. Finally, in 20 years internet capacity will have grown to the point where music filesharing will be a small enough portion to squeeze by easily (or the USA will be on its way to being a 3rd-world backwater and nobody at all will be making money in music).
The last decade is simply too early, and too small of a timespan, to see these changes. Heck, 10 years ago there wasn't even Napster, and dialup was still common. 10 years ago I still owned cassettes. If someone had told me this 10 years ago I'd have thought they were crazy. It's only now that it's beginning to look possible at all.
They were originally the people with sound studios and radio stations, plus the capital to hire songwriters and backup bands, and the connections to advertise widely in a print-only age. Now, none of those are so expensive as to be necessarily centralized.
It is a slippery slope in both directions. In the beginning, producers had the power because they had the capital and the barriers to entry were high, so they got favorable contracts. We're approaching a reboot point after which all producers will be able to offer is contacts at larger venues, rather than the ability to record at all. That puts them in a much weaker position, making it harder for them to get back the power they had.
You don't have to support it. It's coming, or if I'm wrong it's not coming. If you really want to hear music processed on producing equipment too expensive for even a small business, you might want to side with the RIAA on piracy though, 'cause if they lose no one will put that kind of capital up. (Also, the cost of equipment required to produce the kind of music you like may come down to the point that an individual can afford it--what's some of the processing you like?)
I doubt artists would form an effective lobby. Most have little money, they don't necessarily interact as a matter of course, they're diffuse...it'd be hard for them to organize. I think the whole matter will become less politicized. No one in music will have a very strong lobby for a while, after the strong RIAA lobby is broken.
Extensively processed music will become a thing of the past. People will play and record on devices that are much cheaper than they do currently. The lower capital costs will enable them to better weather rampant piracy, surviving on fans' CD purchases, some legitimate online sales, and concert revenues.
In 20 years, the RIAA will have been completely replaced by a set of publicists. These publicists won't own the copyright to anything--they'll be paid, on salary, to hook the musicians up with venues, hire web designers for band websites, and in some cases find places to record.
They'll have a professional organization, but no lobbyists and no power. They'll be more or less fungible--Home Managers, parallel to Road Managers. Some will even do both.
This also proves the danger of having SWAT teams carry out routine arrests in general. We already know they go to the wrong house on the word of unreliable informants, and sometimes go in guns blazing--imagine if they'd done a no-knock raid on this house.
As what happened with e-solutions, the Russian mobsters in charge of spam will simply hire better hitmen and eliminate the ones you send, until no one will take the contracts you offer anymore.
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The Silicon Curtain?
Hopefully, there will be an internet Sputnik-type event first, to remind Joe Sixpack how far we've fallen behind.
So the technology in TFA will allow us to flog dead horses 200 times as fast? Won't our arms get tired?
Geeks would just install FOSS Leyenux instead.
I wonder if you could rent part of the storm worm to buy up tickets for you.
If it's that unsafe, you may not have a choice about riding in it for more than 10 seconds.
If that was the case, we'd have come up with the complete works of Shakespeare by now.
Samurai won't do it as well as catgirls in giant mechs. Compare the crime rate in the 1930s to today, and it's clear that robots are the only answer.
As to its consent, it's the same consent any human player gives when entering the PvP areas (or else, seeing as it's the AI's job to play these characters, it's the same consent that, say, a Renfaire jouster gives to be knocked off his horse for the amusement of the crowd, or a LARP NPC player gives to be defeated by the paid guests.
The AI is not the in-game character. Killing an AI-controlled monster is like killing a human-controlled character in PvP. The AI lives on, and fights the next person.
Also, piracy has had only about 6 years to wreck the RIAA's business model. Another couple decades and the finances will have cracked. Finally, in 20 years internet capacity will have grown to the point where music filesharing will be a small enough portion to squeeze by easily (or the USA will be on its way to being a 3rd-world backwater and nobody at all will be making money in music).
The last decade is simply too early, and too small of a timespan, to see these changes. Heck, 10 years ago there wasn't even Napster, and dialup was still common. 10 years ago I still owned cassettes. If someone had told me this 10 years ago I'd have thought they were crazy. It's only now that it's beginning to look possible at all.
It is a slippery slope in both directions. In the beginning, producers had the power because they had the capital and the barriers to entry were high, so they got favorable contracts. We're approaching a reboot point after which all producers will be able to offer is contacts at larger venues, rather than the ability to record at all. That puts them in a much weaker position, making it harder for them to get back the power they had.
Why sell it cheap? So people will actually buy it and you see some money.
You don't have to support it. It's coming, or if I'm wrong it's not coming. If you really want to hear music processed on producing equipment too expensive for even a small business, you might want to side with the RIAA on piracy though, 'cause if they lose no one will put that kind of capital up. (Also, the cost of equipment required to produce the kind of music you like may come down to the point that an individual can afford it--what's some of the processing you like?)
I doubt artists would form an effective lobby. Most have little money, they don't necessarily interact as a matter of course, they're diffuse...it'd be hard for them to organize. I think the whole matter will become less politicized. No one in music will have a very strong lobby for a while, after the strong RIAA lobby is broken.
There's power, and then there's the major labels' historical stranglehold.
Extensively processed music will become a thing of the past. People will play and record on devices that are much cheaper than they do currently. The lower capital costs will enable them to better weather rampant piracy, surviving on fans' CD purchases, some legitimate online sales, and concert revenues.
They'll have a professional organization, but no lobbyists and no power. They'll be more or less fungible--Home Managers, parallel to Road Managers. Some will even do both.
I'd contribute to paying her fine for her.
This thread is useless without pics.
This also proves the danger of having SWAT teams carry out routine arrests in general. We already know they go to the wrong house on the word of unreliable informants, and sometimes go in guns blazing--imagine if they'd done a no-knock raid on this house.
That would be if the announcement came from Corporation Du Pomme.
Spammers then incorporate. You can have 1-person corporations.
As what happened with e-solutions, the Russian mobsters in charge of spam will simply hire better hitmen and eliminate the ones you send, until no one will take the contracts you offer anymore.
WTF are chemical toilets?