You pay for the service of having it piped to your house in nice clear signal. The TV shows are made and create through AD revenue. This has always been the case. Why you idiots think' otherwise is baffling.
Every piece of media is available for free to billions of people, easily, right now.
Most do not take advantage of it. Many songs/albums have been on the streets for weeks and still go on to be number 1 in sales.
As it turns out, most people don't mind paying a reasonable price for something. The number I have read sow that the money spent on trying to stop people from illegal distributing DIGITAL combat is far more than any projected lost revenues.
um, no. If you are the service provider, you are more then welcome to encrypt your signal. That has ALWAYS been the case. IT's not new, nor is it a product of regulatory capture.
"but you are required by law to return the product if they request it. " no, you are not. from USPS( http://about.usps.com/publications/pub300a/pub300a_tech_021.htm ) bolding done by me: A company sends you a gift in the mail — a tie, a good luck charm, or a key chain. You didn’t order the gift. What do you do? Many people will feel guilty and pay for the gift. But you don’t have to. What you do with the merchandise is entirely up to you.
If you have not opened the package, mark it “Return to Sender.” The Postal Service will send it back at no charge to you. If you open the package and don’t like what you find, throw it away. If you open the package and like what you find, keep it — free. This is a rare instance where “finders, keepers” applies unconditionally. Whatever you do, don’t pay for it — and don’t get conned if the sender follows up with a phone call or visit. By law, unsolicited merchandise is yours to keep.
~~~~~~~~ http://about.usps.com/publications/pub300a/pub300a_tech_021.htm A company sends you a gift in the mail — a tie, a good luck charm, or a key chain. You didn’t order the gift. What do you do? Many people will feel guilty and pay for the gift. But you don’t have to. What you do with the merchandise is entirely up to you.
If you have not opened the package, mark it “Return to Sender.” The Postal Service will send it back at no charge to you. If you open the package and don’t like what you find, throw it away. If you open the package and like what you find, keep it — free. This is a rare instance where “finders, keepers” applies unconditionally. Whatever you do, don’t pay for it — and don’t get conned if the sender follows up with a phone call or visit. By law, unsolicited merchandise is yours to keep. ~~~~~~~~~ Gift - something bestowed or acquired without being sought or earned by the receiver.
I don't want to live in world where the end party is responsible for the errors of a company. Assuming the end party didn't intentionally commit fraud.
Otherwise we end up back to a point where companies would just send stuff out and demand payment.
no, it is not. It might not be real, but it does fit with the current scientific understanding. I suspect a simpler solution will be found. Then everyone will slap their forehead and say 'U=ET cubed! of course it's so trivial!
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Pay for TV isn't.
You pay for the service of having it piped to your house in nice clear signal.
The TV shows are made and create through AD revenue. This has always been the case.
Why you idiots think' otherwise is baffling.
A) many of their shows aren't available for straeming, only DVD.
so Fuck you.
b) netflix is almost always behind. Great if you want to watch last years stuff. WTF Grandma?
Every piece of media is available for free to billions of people, easily, right now.
Most do not take advantage of it.
Many songs/albums have been on the streets for weeks and still go on to be number 1 in sales.
As it turns out, most people don't mind paying a reasonable price for something. The number I have read sow that the money spent on trying to stop people from illegal distributing DIGITAL combat is far more than any projected lost revenues.
Think on that.
You have far more power of things the government has then things corporations do.
um, no. If you are the service provider, you are more then welcome to encrypt your signal. That has ALWAYS been the case. IT's not new, nor is it a product of regulatory capture.
Yes, becasue kids love sitting in a grill/bar/restaurant for hours staring at their 'father' going on about other men on the tv.
So has murder. Your point?
Distribution is illegal, not downloading.
"UK law is clear in that ownership has not transferred to the recipients and that the items should be returned."
Citation?
"but you are required by law to return the product if they request it. "
no, you are not.
from USPS( http://about.usps.com/publications/pub300a/pub300a_tech_021.htm ) bolding done by me:
A company sends you a gift in the mail — a tie, a good luck charm, or a key chain. You didn’t order the gift. What do you do? Many people will feel guilty and pay for the gift. But you don’t have to. What you do with the merchandise is entirely up to you.
If you have not opened the package, mark it “Return to Sender.” The Postal Service will send it back at no charge to you.
If you open the package and don’t like what you find, throw it away.
If you open the package and like what you find, keep it — free. This is a rare instance where “finders, keepers” applies unconditionally.
Whatever you do, don’t pay for it — and don’t get conned if the sender follows up with a phone call or visit. By law, unsolicited merchandise is yours to keep.
" unless (or until) the provider requests that you return it. "
false.
Anything you didn't ask for is unsolicited by definition.
dumb ass.
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http://about.usps.com/publications/pub300a/pub300a_tech_021.htm
A company sends you a gift in the mail — a tie, a good luck charm, or a key chain. You didn’t order the gift. What do you do? Many people will feel guilty and pay for the gift. But you don’t have to. What you do with the merchandise is entirely up to you.
If you have not opened the package, mark it “Return to Sender.” The Postal Service will send it back at no charge to you.
If you open the package and don’t like what you find, throw it away.
If you open the package and like what you find, keep it — free. This is a rare instance where “finders, keepers” applies unconditionally.
Whatever you do, don’t pay for it — and don’t get conned if the sender follows up with a phone call or visit. By law, unsolicited merchandise is yours to keep.
~~~~~~~~~
Gift - something bestowed or acquired without being sought or earned by the receiver.
Gifts don't have to be intentional
no, The would be fighting to get what they ordered. It's the companies responsibility not the consumers.
Yep, I know. I remember when the US post office used to advertise that, with an Eskimo getting a oscillating fan.
And this would count.
I don't want to live in world where the end party is responsible for the errors of a company. Assuming the end party didn't intentionally commit fraud.
Otherwise we end up back to a point where companies would just send stuff out and demand payment.
If you can't tell us, why did you reply?
Public air ways is one of the places it does belong.
if you are paying it, it isn't ridiculous.
It's more like XBMC with gaming..and apps, cause it will stream all your media and play steam games.
no, it is not.
It might not be real, but it does fit with the current scientific understanding. I suspect a simpler solution will be found.
Then everyone will slap their forehead and say 'U=ET cubed! of course it's so trivial!
"one step at at time,"
so the wheel should not have been invented until cancer was cured?
"I'm left with the distinct impression it's voodoo that is not something you could falsify or verify."
It is possible to falsify a number of these theory, but just not technologically possible at the moment.
no.
no, it is not. Not by any stretch.
All you post tells me is tat you don't know what science is; or possible, but unlikely, what religion is..