Sure! Everyone who downloaded the movie would have gone to the movies at least twice because it was SO good they wanted to have it so they can watch it many times over. Clearly every download is at least 3 lost ticket sales.
No wait, they could invite friends, and judging by the Facebook page, everyone has about 200-300 friends on average (but I'm absolutely certain that the average pirate is one of those basement dwellers with thousands, but let's be conservative in our estimate), so that means we lost at least 900 ticket sales per downloaded movie! Let's be realistic because at least some of them would have watched it yet another time, every download counts for 1000 ticket sales lost!
Now we only have to assume that for every ticket you sell one evil terrrrist pirate arrs and downloads the movie and your estimate is accurate.
What part exactly? The sound that's too loud when something explodes or too soft when someone's talking? The sticky floors? The people talking on the phone? The overpriced popcorn?
That's easy to reproduce, put old batteries in your remote, buy your ticket at your local 7/11 instead of Costco, dump a gallon bottle of coke on your living room floor and I'm pretty sure you'll find a friend or two who'll gladly yack throughout the movie if you ask him nicely.
Unless of course some giant TV network used his song without licensing it and YouTube's ass backwards automated content watchdog finds out that the same sound bite is used by some no-name artist and Big-Ass-Network, thinks that the BAN has to be the rights holder because it's BAN and the other one is no-name-artist, and suddenly the creator gets a YouTube strike for putting his own creation up on YouTube...
I think it's time we get trackers for trackers to find out what is the latest replacement for a tracker that was just shot down by the content industry.
Yes, but we're talking about VERY different times. The average consumer drone has a better lift/drag ratio than military plane of that time. They're also not dependent on oxygen for pilots and engines and hence can without a problem climb a lot higher.
You know what I just noticed? We don't need you. You are, essentially, superfluous. We only need your money. I think we'll learn a bit from the capitalists and cut the fat. The fat cat, that is.
Who do you get your money from? Right, advertisers and people who buy the data you mine from your users. What do you need for that? Right, people who put their life online for you to mine, and people to display ads to. Why do people use your platform to do this? Right, because you let them display what they create on your platform.
And what could people stop using your platform? You trashing their videos for some arbitrary reason.
In other words, I hope the *IAA is paying you a lot of money for making your platform less appealing to the product you actually want to sell.
The really fucked up part about it is that the original creator of the piece could well have his video taken down and even his account banned due to him himself using what he himself created while the entity using his creation in a fraudulent way gets the "right" to use it.
People have made up their mind and no amount of evidence could sway them, so why bother?
Reality or facts don't really matter anymore, do they? People won't believe anything that doesn't fit their personal reality bubble anyway, so why bother trying to convince them? Evidence doesn't matter anymore, especially in areas that are hard to understand in the first place and people are quite unwilling to learn.
I stopped trying and caring a long ago. I have no kids. I am old enough that any climate change will only hit big time after I'm long dead. Trash this planet any way you like, I don't give a shit anymore. If you can't be assed to care about your planet, why should I, and why should I try to make you care?
Blimps (or Zeppelins, if you really want to make them rigid instead) suffer from the combination of two problems: They're huge and fragile. Which is not as much a problem as long as there is no good reason to force it to come down, That's why those ad blimps you see at sporting events are flying up there. What's to gain by making it crash?
It's a WHOLE different matter if that blimp is filled to the brim with merchandise that I might like or flying over a target that I might not like.
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Having to do homework beats aging girly swoon material. What else is new?
But now Trump will come and give you all a new home. Or ... something like that.
Sure! Everyone who downloaded the movie would have gone to the movies at least twice because it was SO good they wanted to have it so they can watch it many times over. Clearly every download is at least 3 lost ticket sales.
No wait, they could invite friends, and judging by the Facebook page, everyone has about 200-300 friends on average (but I'm absolutely certain that the average pirate is one of those basement dwellers with thousands, but let's be conservative in our estimate), so that means we lost at least 900 ticket sales per downloaded movie! Let's be realistic because at least some of them would have watched it yet another time, every download counts for 1000 ticket sales lost!
Now we only have to assume that for every ticket you sell one evil terrrrist pirate arrs and downloads the movie and your estimate is accurate.
I've heard Disney managers being called a lot of names, but those are new.
Interesting what lengths they go to, when superglue would solve that problem in a lasting way.
If it didn't have that annoying Mary Sue character (that kid) in it...
What part exactly? The sound that's too loud when something explodes or too soft when someone's talking? The sticky floors? The people talking on the phone? The overpriced popcorn?
That's easy to reproduce, put old batteries in your remote, buy your ticket at your local 7/11 instead of Costco, dump a gallon bottle of coke on your living room floor and I'm pretty sure you'll find a friend or two who'll gladly yack throughout the movie if you ask him nicely.
You failed to explain why the hell we'd WANT to.
Much like Star Wars Episode One was basically a really lengthy commercial for that Podracer game.
I know, it was almost like Greedo was a Stormtrooper without uniform.
If the creators offer it to you, it ain't piracy.
Unless of course some giant TV network used his song without licensing it and YouTube's ass backwards automated content watchdog finds out that the same sound bite is used by some no-name artist and Big-Ass-Network, thinks that the BAN has to be the rights holder because it's BAN and the other one is no-name-artist, and suddenly the creator gets a YouTube strike for putting his own creation up on YouTube...
I think it's time we get trackers for trackers to find out what is the latest replacement for a tracker that was just shot down by the content industry.
I'm not railing against anything anymore. My war's over, I'm done fighting against windmills for people that root for the windmills.
Yes, but we're talking about VERY different times. The average consumer drone has a better lift/drag ratio than military plane of that time. They're also not dependent on oxygen for pilots and engines and hence can without a problem climb a lot higher.
Why?
Ponder this: This blimp carries a few thousand bucks worth of merch. Now imagine you could make it crash where you can steal that easily.
That's the upper level of what you should invest into bringing it down.
It's nice of you that you try to cheer me up.
You know what I just noticed? We don't need you. You are, essentially, superfluous. We only need your money. I think we'll learn a bit from the capitalists and cut the fat. The fat cat, that is.
These monster machines can thwart your stairs defense the same way Daleks do.
They don't climb the stairs.
They just level the building.
Hey, Facebook? Ponder a moment, if you will.
Who do you get your money from?
Right, advertisers and people who buy the data you mine from your users.
What do you need for that?
Right, people who put their life online for you to mine, and people to display ads to.
Why do people use your platform to do this?
Right, because you let them display what they create on your platform.
And what could people stop using your platform?
You trashing their videos for some arbitrary reason.
In other words, I hope the *IAA is paying you a lot of money for making your platform less appealing to the product you actually want to sell.
The really fucked up part about it is that the original creator of the piece could well have his video taken down and even his account banned due to him himself using what he himself created while the entity using his creation in a fraudulent way gets the "right" to use it.
THAT is what's fucked up about it.
People have made up their mind and no amount of evidence could sway them, so why bother?
Reality or facts don't really matter anymore, do they? People won't believe anything that doesn't fit their personal reality bubble anyway, so why bother trying to convince them? Evidence doesn't matter anymore, especially in areas that are hard to understand in the first place and people are quite unwilling to learn.
I stopped trying and caring a long ago. I have no kids. I am old enough that any climate change will only hit big time after I'm long dead. Trash this planet any way you like, I don't give a shit anymore. If you can't be assed to care about your planet, why should I, and why should I try to make you care?
Blimps (or Zeppelins, if you really want to make them rigid instead) suffer from the combination of two problems: They're huge and fragile. Which is not as much a problem as long as there is no good reason to force it to come down, That's why those ad blimps you see at sporting events are flying up there. What's to gain by making it crash?
It's a WHOLE different matter if that blimp is filled to the brim with merchandise that I might like or flying over a target that I might not like.
We don't care what color you paint the turd. Fix the security and privacy problems your system has, until you do this, color us unimpressed.
Well, ya know, people from Aleppo didn't really start hitch-hiking across continents before their houses were returned to rubble either...
Wait, wait, what? 50k buy a house in the US? For real?
Fuck, life's cheap across the pond!