Using their methods for calculating estimated losses to piracy:
3 people grabbed 6000 songs in 3 days. So that's about 666 per person per day.
If we just for the sake of argument say that 10 million people are trading MP3s, that's
10,000,000 x 666 = 6,660,000,000
Songs illegally downloaded EVERY DAY! So, assuming 18 dollars per song, since people are only downloading decent songs and the industry standard is one good song per album...losses to the industry are:
6,660,000,000 x $18 ------ $119,880,000,000
EVERY DAY!
$43,756,200,000,000 every year!
We can't let them get away with robbing THE ARTISTS of FORTY THREE TRILLION DOLLARS!
Ya know, you're right. One of the big er...selling points of PNG was as a GIF replacement...certainly more important than as a JPG replacement. And it is a good replacement for JPG...almost-lossless compression, and smaller file sizes than high-quality JPGs.
We're both right, but you're more right than I am. Duhrr
I propose a new periodic table starting with element 2/3, comprised of two quarks, and umm....2/3 of an electron. Because it rolls off the tongue better than a more accurate label, it will be called "halfium."
Note that at this time, Jasc Webdraw sucks. But what 1.0 product doesn't?
AFAIK, IE requires a plugin (from Adobe....hmmm...could someone be aiming at dethroning Macromedia in webgraphics? I think they could)
SVG is not yet a viable alternative to Flash. Just like in 1996, PNG was not a viable alternative to JPG.
Re:Dirty Pool! But also confusing.
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If it is very special-purpose software, it might require alteration to be useful to another organization. If it is unreadable, it would be difficult to alter. So no one would have any reason to copy it.
Even if that's not the case here, it could happen.
I knew a physics PhD student from India who said that when he was in the military there, anything they couldn't get from the US, they'd buy from Denmark, or make themselves. Example: he said that he himself had to design a mounting system for an infrared camera on a helicopter.
If anything, sanctions are probably good for India in the long term, as they encourage the development of local talent. (A lot of whom still want to leave India, so I guess it ends up being good for the US, too)
No, I mean they think all the broken fragments of japanese with which they pepper their speech are either proper japanese, or close.
Or at least I am pretty sure that many of them do.
It's just painful. It's about as bad as engrish
The difference, and what makes it annoying, is that the anime fan-dorks mostly seem to THINK THAT THEY ARE USING IT CORRECTLY.
And they think that anime is a good window on Japanese culture, some of them can't see anything without comparing it to an anime, they bitch at disney for ripping off anime which was a rip-off of a rip-off, they obsess over fictional characters who don't even have the benefit of existing in form, let alone person.
Anime fans are like star trek fans, really, I think. I mean, they think the object of their fandom is waaaaay more important and significant than it is. But they're worse because they end up idealizing a real place (for totally the wrong reasons), and they pepper their speech with language from the shows they watch...which would be like a trekkie speaking phrases in Klingon...except that instead of a tiny fraction of them, MOST of them do it.
I would support any law that required you to be able to speak a full sentence of a language in a REAL CONTEXT (nothing about transforming into sailor moon and fighting the forces of darkness) before you are allowed to speak a word of it in public.
"Jiyuu," if you're reading this, this means you. If I ever meet you in person, you'd better keep that shit under control.
All the truly |33+ anime fans saw it in Japan and can properly say it's full title. Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi.
And they know that the title will never make any sense to American audiences, because it is a major plot point, AND a play on words which is untranslatable.
Whenever I make a page with a fixed width (which would be most of the time), I make it no more than 600 pixels wide. I remember web browsing on a Mac IICI. That and I like having small browser windows, and I realize some people are looking at the web on TV sets.
I wish web designers would limit themselves to 800 by 600 MAXIMUM, without EVER having a single table cell or column wider than 640 pixels if it doesn't have to be. Either that or just not have fixed widths.
Guess you don't come from a very religious area. I grew up around lots of people with really hebrew-sounding first names.
Actually, the character's name is one of the things that made me hope that this was based on "Eden." I figured if that were ever produced, the names would be changed, because they're even weirder.
CDs have a much more elastic supply than concert tickets. You can just duplicate more CDs...youd have to increase the size of the venue (and diminish the experience for most of those attending) to have more concert tickets. So you would NOT expect the more popular CD to be more expensive. In fact, once you have the fixed costs of getting ready to press the thing out of the way, the more you can sell, the cheaper you can sell them for (and the cheaper you would, if you were intelligent, would want to sell MOST of them for, if you wanted to see them move after the die-hard fans bought their more expensive copies).
With smaller fan-bases, you can't lower the prices without losing money, but if they are loyal enough, you don't have to. And unlike more popular artists, you've probably got a lot more loyal fans.
And this is one reason why comic books are so damned expensive.
But you're right. Collusion is NOT market behavior. So anyone talking about "what the market will bear" is out of line.
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Using their methods for calculating estimated losses to piracy:
3 people grabbed 6000 songs in 3 days. So that's about 666 per person per day.
If we just for the sake of argument say that 10 million people are trading MP3s, that's
10,000,000 x 666 = 6,660,000,000
Songs illegally downloaded EVERY DAY!
So, assuming 18 dollars per song, since people are only downloading decent songs and the industry standard is one good song per album...losses to the industry are:
6,660,000,000
x
$18
------
$119,880,000,000
EVERY DAY!
$43,756,200,000,000 every year!
We can't let them get away with robbing THE ARTISTS of FORTY THREE TRILLION DOLLARS!
Ads before movies might be tolerable if they weren't so FUCKING LONG. Good god, that "lying about start times" complaint is right.
Ya know, you're right. One of the big er...selling points of PNG was as a GIF replacement...certainly more important than as a JPG replacement. And it is a good replacement for JPG...almost-lossless compression, and smaller file sizes than high-quality JPGs.
We're both right, but you're more right than I am. Duhrr
If the moderator would have checked the posting times, he'd see that I posted this joke first. Thank you.
I propose a new periodic table starting with element 2/3, comprised of two quarks, and umm....2/3 of an electron. Because it rolls off the tongue better than a more accurate label, it will be called "halfium."
Oh, they won't need any new recruits. 25 years would be plenty of time for us to get the number of undiscovered species down to managable levels.
Note that at this time, Jasc Webdraw sucks. But what 1.0 product doesn't?
AFAIK, IE requires a plugin (from Adobe....hmmm...could someone be aiming at dethroning Macromedia in webgraphics? I think they could)
SVG is not yet a viable alternative to Flash. Just like in 1996, PNG was not a viable alternative to JPG.
If it is very special-purpose software, it might require alteration to be useful to another organization. If it is unreadable, it would be difficult to alter. So no one would have any reason to copy it.
Even if that's not the case here, it could happen.
I knew a physics PhD student from India who said that when he was in the military there, anything they couldn't get from the US, they'd buy from Denmark, or make themselves. Example: he said that he himself had to design a mounting system for an infrared camera on a helicopter.
If anything, sanctions are probably good for India in the long term, as they encourage the development of local talent. (A lot of whom still want to leave India, so I guess it ends up being good for the US, too)
"/ I'm the '4' in "404 Not Found" / "
Which 4?
If I had points, I'd have given this a "funny."
Still copyrighted, probably to a major record label, though. And it will be, until the end of time (or until Disney et al run out of senators to buy.)
Thank you ever so much for dying, Mr. Bono, so that 20 year copyright extension could be passed in your name.
I guess the poster/editors felt that they couldn't use the word twice in one day. /. readers brains hurt.
Too many SAT words make
More like a rival to Amiga. Except with less software.
No, I mean they think all the broken fragments of japanese with which they pepper their speech are either proper japanese, or close. Or at least I am pretty sure that many of them do. It's just painful. It's about as bad as engrish
The difference, and what makes it annoying, is that the anime fan-dorks mostly seem to THINK THAT THEY ARE USING IT CORRECTLY.
And they think that anime is a good window on Japanese culture, some of them can't see anything without comparing it to an anime, they bitch at disney for ripping off anime which was a rip-off of a rip-off, they obsess over fictional characters who don't even have the benefit of existing in form, let alone person.
Anime fans are like star trek fans, really, I think. I mean, they think the object of their fandom is waaaaay more important and significant than it is. But they're worse because they end up idealizing a real place (for totally the wrong reasons), and they pepper their speech with language from the shows they watch...which would be like a trekkie speaking phrases in Klingon...except that instead of a tiny fraction of them, MOST of them do it.
I would support any law that required you to be able to speak a full sentence of a language in a REAL CONTEXT (nothing about transforming into sailor moon and fighting the forces of darkness) before you are allowed to speak a word of it in public.
"Jiyuu," if you're reading this, this means you. If I ever meet you in person, you'd better keep that shit under control.
All the truly |33+ anime fans saw it in Japan and can properly say it's full title. Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi.
And they know that the title will never make any sense to American audiences, because it is a major plot point, AND a play on words which is untranslatable.
Too bad.
And prepare for the slashdot effect on your bank account.
You used the computers a kinkos lately? It costs a bloody fortune. Hey, Kinkos was making money on the deal. Why should they care?
Whenever I make a page with a fixed width (which would be most of the time), I make it no more than 600 pixels wide. I remember web browsing on a Mac IICI. That and I like having small browser windows, and I realize some people are looking at the web on TV sets.
I wish web designers would limit themselves to 800 by 600 MAXIMUM, without EVER having a single table cell or column wider than 640 pixels if it doesn't have to be. Either that or just not have fixed widths.
So you're saying we should wait until Windows starts killing people before we can sue Microsoft?
Yeah. That is generally how it works. Didn't you watch Fight Club?
Guess you don't come from a very religious area. I grew up around lots of people with really hebrew-sounding first names.
Actually, the character's name is one of the things that made me hope that this was based on "Eden." I figured if that were ever produced, the names would be changed, because they're even weirder.
some of my translations of Eden
the first decent ENGLISH "Eden" page
From the description, I was hoping it was based on the "Eden," a manga currently running in Afternoon.
I don't care how good this show ends up being, that would have been better.
CDs have a much more elastic supply than concert tickets. You can just duplicate more CDs...youd have to increase the size of the venue (and diminish the experience for most of those attending) to have more concert tickets. So you would NOT expect the more popular CD to be more expensive. In fact, once you have the fixed costs of getting ready to press the thing out of the way, the more you can sell, the cheaper you can sell them for (and the cheaper you would, if you were intelligent, would want to sell MOST of them for, if you wanted to see them move after the die-hard fans bought their more expensive copies).
With smaller fan-bases, you can't lower the prices without losing money, but if they are loyal enough, you don't have to. And unlike more popular artists, you've probably got a lot more loyal fans.
And this is one reason why comic books are so damned expensive.
But you're right. Collusion is NOT market behavior. So anyone talking about "what the market will bear" is out of line.
Bloodlust's emulators (NESticle, Genecyst) are very dated.
Well DUH. I thought it was obvious that I was suggesting that I'd been doing it for a while.