This is about art, and obviously art is more important than money for them.
Of course. They already HAVE the money.
It's easy to look like something is more important than money when you already have all the money you want.
People who are in it for the money NEVER have all the money they want. It's an endless pursuit for more and more by any means possible. It's why the world is so sick. This lawsuit says a lot regardless of what you believe. In particular, you seem to want something personally proven to you, and I doubt you'd give in no matter what they did.
but it's still a disservice to their fans to not give them a legitimate avenue other than "buy a CD" (which for me personally would amount to maybe 20% to 30% of a Pink Floyd album that I actually like.)
If you only like 20-30% of Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, or Animals, I'm going to have to say you'd be the one with the problem and that you aren't into them at all in the first place. I'd suggest sticking to your local rock station. No offense.
First comes government cheese. Then comes government health care. Now comes government internet connections. Next comes government monitoring and censorship of said inter- *NO CARRIER*
Because government cheese and internet connections are the same as government monitoring and censorship. You're a genius.
oh btw am i mistaken that ad block plus actually DOES NOT DOWNLOAD THE ADS IT BLOCKS
I wish ad blockers *would* download the ads, but not display them.
And I think you're insane. The best part of a good adblocker like Adblock Plus is the fact that it doesn't download the illegitimate content to begin with, saving my bandwidth and resources and speeding up browsing. It's not my responsibility to worry about the business models of whatever stupid site I happen to be visiting. I don't want any part of it.
I can't relate to the bandwagon of "I don't mind ads that are X and Y, I just can't stand Z!" at all.
I despise X, Y, Z, A, B, C, and D ads. All of them. I resent the whole idea of modern marketing and advertising. The whole point of this article against adblocking is to evoke an emotional response. Brainwash your audience into feeling sympathetic and disabling their adblockers, and your ad revenue goes up. It isn't rocket science. They're a business - they exist to lie, cheat, manipulate, and steal to maximize profit. There's no sympathy to be had.
I started using Adblock Plus a long time ago, and it's amazing how one addon like that can completely revamp the entire web. I've tried browsing without it since and I really can't. The internet is a wasteland.
I like representative democracy. It sometimes works.
It's working perfectly fine right now. Giant corporations are the constituents. Ross Hunter is at the forefront of representing Microsoft. This is representative democracy in action.
You can also buy from Europe, their quality is much better than Chinese anyway
Proof please. And also proof about how American products are superior to Chinese products. I don't believe a word of it. I think it's typical paranoia, xenophobia, propaganda, etc., just like this article.
"[Doctors Without Borders] has already treated more than 1,000 people on the ground in Haiti following Tuesday's earthquake, but the needs are huge. An inflatable hospital with operating theatres is expected to arrive in the next 24 hours."
https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/
$30-40 for a brand new Blu Ray disc from your local store. $20+ still for a new DVD, for crying out loud. Repeated attacks on even legal avenues for accessing content (as this article points out). Who can really fucking afford to be a movie buff?
You're confused.
It'd be nice if most would educate themselves as to what communism actually is instead of endlessly parroting paranoid, propagandistic nonsense. It'd take 30 seconds on Wikipedia. Honestly.
Why recommend people go into the jaws of likely an even more untrustable giant corporation? Why not use a search engine actually dedicated to privacy, like ixquick? See: http://www.ixquick.com/eng/protect-privacy.html
Cut back regulation. Reduce entitlements like Social Security and Medicare. Eliminate mandated employer health care.
The US isn't grossly uncompetitive, but there will be a tough few decade period when China's standard of living catches up with the current (year 2009) standard of living in the US. It's reasonable to cut back on the socialist crap until there's no serious labor competition out there any more.
If anyone had any doubts as to whether or not capitalism and free market economics were literally insane, evil disasters of ideas, let the quoted text reassure you.
Now I have to continue not visiting Hulu! There's nothing on there you can't find ad-free elsewhere. If this were about YouTube, it might be newsworthy, but I'm not exactly shocked that a site ran by the likes of NBC/General Electric, ABC/Disney, and Murdoch are going to attempt to gouge as much money as they can from people.
[...] The Pirate Bay has to remove a list of torrents linking to copyrighted works. The defendants are given three months to comply, if not, they will face penalties of 5,000 euros ($7,500) per person, per day."
Translation: start mirroring all the torrents before they're removed. Hmmm, anyone got a.torrent of these?
Search "pirate bay" on TPB with the "Other" box checkmarked, and you'll find some things.
"...blaming the patent troll is a bit stupid. They are an inevitable part of a system which tries to treat ideas like property..."
Is that a bit of "Don't blame the player, blame the game." dodge?
I don't buy that shit.
It's not a dodge, and it isn't shit. It's simply the truth. If the system wasn't insane, patent trolls wouldn't exist. Instead, since the system is insane, they not only exist, but are encouraged to exist. Don't get pissed at patent trolls playing the game that's in front of them.
How about "Forger"?
Although the definition is a bit different: "Forgery: The creation of a false written document or alteration of a genuine one, with the intent to defraud."
How about a term that's neutral and doesn't play into corporate propaganda and agenda?
Slashdot Mirror
This is about art, and obviously art is more important than money for them.
Of course. They already HAVE the money.
It's easy to look like something is more important than money when you already have all the money you want.
People who are in it for the money NEVER have all the money they want. It's an endless pursuit for more and more by any means possible. It's why the world is so sick. This lawsuit says a lot regardless of what you believe. In particular, you seem to want something personally proven to you, and I doubt you'd give in no matter what they did.
but it's still a disservice to their fans to not give them a legitimate avenue other than "buy a CD" (which for me personally would amount to maybe 20% to 30% of a Pink Floyd album that I actually like.)
If you only like 20-30% of Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, or Animals, I'm going to have to say you'd be the one with the problem and that you aren't into them at all in the first place. I'd suggest sticking to your local rock station. No offense.
Oy, there is no such thing as society.
Can any crazy person waltz in here, say something wacky, and get modded Insightful?
First comes government cheese. Then comes government health care. Now comes government internet connections. Next comes government monitoring and censorship of said inter- *NO CARRIER*
Because government cheese and internet connections are the same as government monitoring and censorship. You're a genius.
Welcome to the entitlement mindset.
And rightfully so.
No matter what you do, so long as you know you are now stealing content, that is allright. It's not illegal, but it's hardly justifiable.
Your knee-jerk, canned, irrational, intellectually dishonest response also isn't illegal, but it's also hardly justifiable.
oh btw am i mistaken that ad block plus actually DOES NOT DOWNLOAD THE ADS IT BLOCKS
I wish ad blockers *would* download the ads, but not display them.
And I think you're insane. The best part of a good adblocker like Adblock Plus is the fact that it doesn't download the illegitimate content to begin with, saving my bandwidth and resources and speeding up browsing. It's not my responsibility to worry about the business models of whatever stupid site I happen to be visiting. I don't want any part of it.
I can't relate to the bandwagon of "I don't mind ads that are X and Y, I just can't stand Z!" at all.
I despise X, Y, Z, A, B, C, and D ads. All of them. I resent the whole idea of modern marketing and advertising. The whole point of this article against adblocking is to evoke an emotional response. Brainwash your audience into feeling sympathetic and disabling their adblockers, and your ad revenue goes up. It isn't rocket science. They're a business - they exist to lie, cheat, manipulate, and steal to maximize profit. There's no sympathy to be had.
I started using Adblock Plus a long time ago, and it's amazing how one addon like that can completely revamp the entire web. I've tried browsing without it since and I really can't. The internet is a wasteland.
World Net Daily says that they're trying to turn gamers into Socialists.
Wishful thinking.
I wish I could run a scam as good as Microsoft's.
Socialism is when the government forcefully confiscates someones time, money or resources and gives it to someone else.
That's not what socialism actually is, but I realize the word has been destroyed thanks to decades of relentless propaganda.
I like representative democracy. It sometimes works.
It's working perfectly fine right now. Giant corporations are the constituents. Ross Hunter is at the forefront of representing Microsoft. This is representative democracy in action.
You can also buy from Europe, their quality is much better than Chinese anyway
Proof please. And also proof about how American products are superior to Chinese products. I don't believe a word of it. I think it's typical paranoia, xenophobia, propaganda, etc., just like this article.
"[Doctors Without Borders] has already treated more than 1,000 people on the ground in Haiti following Tuesday's earthquake, but the needs are huge. An inflatable hospital with operating theatres is expected to arrive in the next 24 hours." https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/
$30-40 for a brand new Blu Ray disc from your local store. $20+ still for a new DVD, for crying out loud. Repeated attacks on even legal avenues for accessing content (as this article points out). Who can really fucking afford to be a movie buff?
THE PRESIDENT of AMERICA! *rockin' music*
You're confused. It'd be nice if most would educate themselves as to what communism actually is instead of endlessly parroting paranoid, propagandistic nonsense. It'd take 30 seconds on Wikipedia. Honestly.
Why recommend people go into the jaws of likely an even more untrustable giant corporation? Why not use a search engine actually dedicated to privacy, like ixquick? See: http://www.ixquick.com/eng/protect-privacy.html
Cut back regulation. Reduce entitlements like Social Security and Medicare. Eliminate mandated employer health care. The US isn't grossly uncompetitive, but there will be a tough few decade period when China's standard of living catches up with the current (year 2009) standard of living in the US. It's reasonable to cut back on the socialist crap until there's no serious labor competition out there any more.
If anyone had any doubts as to whether or not capitalism and free market economics were literally insane, evil disasters of ideas, let the quoted text reassure you.
Have you listened to any of the first 5 albums?
Yeah, I downloaded them the other day.
Now I have to continue not visiting Hulu! There's nothing on there you can't find ad-free elsewhere. If this were about YouTube, it might be newsworthy, but I'm not exactly shocked that a site ran by the likes of NBC/General Electric, ABC/Disney, and Murdoch are going to attempt to gouge as much money as they can from people.
Translation: start mirroring all the torrents before they're removed. Hmmm, anyone got a .torrent of these?
Search "pirate bay" on TPB with the "Other" box checkmarked, and you'll find some things.
"...blaming the patent troll is a bit stupid. They are an inevitable part of a system which tries to treat ideas like property..." Is that a bit of "Don't blame the player, blame the game." dodge? I don't buy that shit.
It's not a dodge, and it isn't shit. It's simply the truth. If the system wasn't insane, patent trolls wouldn't exist. Instead, since the system is insane, they not only exist, but are encouraged to exist. Don't get pissed at patent trolls playing the game that's in front of them.
How about "Forger"? Although the definition is a bit different: "Forgery: The creation of a false written document or alteration of a genuine one, with the intent to defraud."
How about a term that's neutral and doesn't play into corporate propaganda and agenda?
I'll wager not just ME, but all versions.
Fixed.