Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a comparable business model for the movie industry - unless they all want to go back to live performances.
Um, we already still have live performances. They seem to do very well. Ever hear of A Chorus Line? How about Les Miserables? Or Cats? Or any other live play/musical? The Tony Awards are specifically for actors and actresses (and assorted other folks) in the live performance business. Patrick Stewart (you know, Captain Picard from ST:TNG) is supposedly a classically trained actor.
No, Hollywood (and motion pictures in general) has no comparable business model. It and TV dramas are probably unique in that (I don't even think most TV shows have a live audience, just a good laugh track that's probably 10+ years old) regard.
Now I'm not defending the idiocy that the MPAA engages in by any means. Just addressing the specific point of comparable business models.
Don't be so certain they are completely gone. Google, The Internet Archive, and other crawlers may or may not have saved that information in some form that is accessible. Now with Twitter being archived by the Library of Congress and the never-ending FB account, the age of discarded information is slowly disappearing.
I actually have to agree with you on this one. The same problems exist (or existed) with OOo formats IIRC (I haven't used docs in about 2 years, so things may have changed) and they have always been open.
This is one case where Google's claims of "good enough" just don't make the grade.
I didn't post for the karma, that's for sure. I've had top-rated karma for years now. I wouldn't care if my karma dropped to nothing. I just don't find this article news worthy. Big corporate entity offers service only to Americans, gives priority to those with.edu addresses (ostensibly students, though faculty have those addresses as well). Whoop-de-whoop.
I generally don't post anonymously because I'm not afraid to put my name where my mouth is.
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It all boils down to the way the term piracy is used and upon further reflection, would probably have been better in response to the parent or GP.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a comparable business model for the movie industry - unless they all want to go back to live performances.
Um, we already still have live performances. They seem to do very well. Ever hear of A Chorus Line? How about Les Miserables? Or Cats? Or any other live play/musical? The Tony Awards are specifically for actors and actresses (and assorted other folks) in the live performance business. Patrick Stewart (you know, Captain Picard from ST:TNG) is supposedly a classically trained actor.
No, Hollywood (and motion pictures in general) has no comparable business model. It and TV dramas are probably unique in that (I don't even think most TV shows have a live audience, just a good laugh track that's probably 10+ years old) regard.
Now I'm not defending the idiocy that the MPAA engages in by any means. Just addressing the specific point of comparable business models.
Read this.
Steeling movies is very different
I agree. When you steel a movie, you are encasing it in an alloy with iron as the base. :p
Darth Maul spoke? :p
I don't get "in jokes" that I'm not "in" on. (:
To hear tell though, no /. user gets sex with a real person of the opposite sex (something I vehemently deny but no one believes me).
I'm actually insulted. I'm a born and bred American. (:
I am aware, and have been doing smilies that way for several years now. (:
Don't be so certain they are completely gone. Google, The Internet Archive, and other crawlers may or may not have saved that information in some form that is accessible. Now with Twitter being archived by the Library of Congress and the never-ending FB account, the age of discarded information is slowly disappearing.
Or it's very good beer. (:
Any company that doesn't open its formats should face anti-trust action.
Been there, done that, hasn't really changed much, if anything.
Now I didn't have that problem, but the issue for me is that all advanced formatting is essentially lost when you upload to Google Docs.
I actually have to agree with you on this one. The same problems exist (or existed) with OOo formats IIRC (I haven't used docs in about 2 years, so things may have changed) and they have always been open.
This is one case where Google's claims of "good enough" just don't make the grade.
And apparently I'm stupid too because I have no idea what the AC is talking about.
I'm just curious, and felt the need to ask a question in a manner which would garner feedback.
I stopped caring about Google the moment they decided to support a new world order.
whoosh!
Yes but most tack on their ccTLD to .edu for freakish things like .edu.uk or some such stupidity.
Google is the largest datamining company in the world.
I thought that was Wal*Mart or Tesco?
I'm waiting for that submission to get through.
One of these days!
obviously I didn't, seeing as how I'm not a /. editor (if I had been, and this came across my virtual desk, I would have put it in the bin).
I didn't post for the karma, that's for sure. I've had top-rated karma for years now. I wouldn't care if my karma dropped to nothing. I just don't find this article news worthy. Big corporate entity offers service only to Americans, gives priority to those with .edu addresses (ostensibly students, though faculty have those addresses as well). Whoop-de-whoop.
I generally don't post anonymously because I'm not afraid to put my name where my mouth is.
How is this news worthy?
best of my knowledge.
There's the problem.