most numbers I've seen (not pulled out of someone's ass) put the infringing material at 87%, and if you accept that spears/m&m probably make up 20% of that alone, it draws a slightly different picture of its use.
The RIAA and King need to get over it. As the Gunslinger might say, the world has moved on. --
It's a radio term for what kind of music they play.
From what I gathered he wants to have some sort of music profile out there that you can use to search with(?). I don't think it's really necessary, there are a number of companies that allow custom mp3 "radio" stations, and it's not terribly hard to set up one yourself, if you have the bandwidth. --
The situation cooled down for a couple of months, but when I resigned on-air
from my job as a VJ, which MTV chose not to air btw, things started to get
ugly.
Oh, and he wrote a bit about Linux in January of Last year, but, uh, no comprende.
Where everytime you make a wish, somebody thought of it a while back...
from the article
If one looks at these Clock based Formats as a sequence, you immediately notice the playlist like structure. Each hour starts off with a station ID, followed by a Top3 hit -->Station ID -->Recurrent hit (usually 3-5 years old) --> Jock Banter/Contest tease or promo -->commercials -->Station ID --> Time/Temp --> New Release etc etc etc.
I view these elements as boxes, to be filled in from the known content pool, which resides in the stations' library (digitally as with the Dalet system). This "filling of the boxes" occurs based on a certain rule-set, usually created and maintained by the format creator. In our radio station example the main box categories are defined across all known content (Top 40 hit, New Release, Golden Oldie etc) along with meta tags very similar to the ID3 specification: think of tags like Genre, Artists, Uptempo, Ballad, Group, Solo etc.
The trick is to subsequently fill in the boxes while abiding to the rules, such as separation, but also "clash-rules" so we don't play too many ballads back to back or to female performers in the same situation. (According to our format example at least!)
I think the issue here isn't that they're doing it -- charging less for some customers, more for others -- but that we don't *know* the criteria.
It's probably a few things. Actually it can be pretty much anything, but most likely is focues on demographic, behavioural , and psychographic info. That is, who you are, what you do, and why. All of this information is now easily available (through various list, government, and credit card companies, read the fine print). They have demographics (which are easily available given an address), they have behavioral (thanks Doubleclick), and they are building psychographic (that's what the experiments are for).
Now my problem with this type of marketing comes with the shit hits the fan as it were. In other words, when the man comes calling and it's time to pay up. Amazon (and everyone) is looking for that profitable point. What happens when they realize that if they limit access (maybe by charging high prices) to certain types of customers based on this profile they build. This customer profile could be anything. From racial stereotyping to newbie fingering. And because the cost of doing business with that type of person is consistently higher, they consistently get charged more (or seem to get a lot of 404s).
Anyway, just some musings. With the amount of processing available and the amount of information available, this type of marketing will become more common.
And if you'll flashback with me for a moment. I just went on vacation to Mexico, where they had an open air market. No prices, just stuff and vendors. Then you barter. How much you pay depends on one thing made up of two things. The two things are how much you'll pay and how much the vendor will sell it for. The one thing is how much you pay.
Just make sure you always have choices in the marketplace, and things should be fine *coughM$*.
(for the record, I'm boycotting Amazon proper because of their abuse of stupid laws) --
I wonder if anyone else realzes (not saying you don't) how taxes like this totally remove the incentive to create more works. Wouldn't it become more profitable to just sit back and collect taxes and not go through the trouble of creating new content? Isn't that opposite of the point of copyright?
USCode Title 17 Chapter 10 - digital audio recording devices and media Subchapter A - Defintions (too lazy to learn how to annotate correctly)
(4)
(a) A ''digital audio recording medium'' is any material
object in a form commonly distributed for use by individuals,
that is primarily marketed or most commonly used by consumers for
the purpose of making digital audio copied recordings by use of a
digital audio recording device.
(b) Such term does not include any material object -
(i) that embodies a sound recording at the time it is first
distributed by the importer or manufacturer; or
(ii) that is primarily marketed and most commonly used by
consumers either for the purpose of making copies of motion
pictures or other audiovisual works or for the purpose of
making copies of nonmusical literary works, including computer
programs or data bases.
Which is cutting the fine print pretty thin. What makes this curious is that computers are now marketed as home audio devices for "downloading digital music", just watch your nearest Dell commercial. See how easy lobbying is, you only need to change a few words to get what you want.
Does it necessarily follow that He must do so? Perhaps He simply chose not to.
If his point was to maximize the good in the universe, then he would be obligated to create as much life as possible to interpret and appreciate the good, and give thanks to its creator.
If his job was just to create it and watch, he's doing a bang up job. --
You can record something off TV or radio and use it for yourself, but you can't resell it or charge others to watch it.
This is another bad part of the DMCA. Under the old laws you would have been perfectly fine sharing this in the absence of monetary exchange, under the DMCA, you're a felon. --
Hmmm... the lifetime of a CD is quite a bit longer than that of a cassette, shouldn't the cost be higher then? Plus you have the whole analog and digital thing going, so you are getting a higher quality recording. That's not worth anything to you?
Do you work for the RIAA? Just wonderin', because you just echoed their arguments on "Why CDs cost so much."
(short answer : Marketing)
But you're logic still doesn't hold. Because someone has created a better medium, that's cheaper to produce, it should cost more? By that logic the Internet should be too expensive for anyone to use, especially with your digital point.
I thought this article was about the RIAA not the MPAA.
Check the member companies of both, then look at parent companies and the conglomerates that hold them. No doubt both lobbied hard for the DMCA, and both have been shown to be hijakcing citizen's rights.
Lawyers go both ways, IMHO. A necesssity of an overly complex legal system, and abused by the ultra greedy who hide themselves behind the word capitalism.
by getting them to piss off all their fans and cut their hair...... Not to mention give them the image of greedy luddites. There doesn't seem to be much more, they've done a pretty good job themselves. The only thing they are good for anymore is movie soundtracks (and you did happen to notice that one came out right around the time of their free publicity, right?) --
I seem to remember in one of the MPAA's briefs that they have had their e-mail down for a good while. I have no doubt that this was because of mailbombing or other hactivist activities. It has also helped them build their case against the immorality of 2600's position, which came through loud and clear from the judge's opinion.
What we need on this issue is more public support and awareness. Everyone (and I do mean everyone) that I have explained this case to has agreed that the MPAA has overstepped their bounds, however there's only so much that this type of communication can do.
But in a war of public opinion, taking the high road is often much more productive. People (i.e. general public) are scared of things they don't understand. When/if CNN finally does report on this issue (...), I think it would be better for everyone if it wasn't as an aside to explaining why the website for every major movie studio was inaccessible.
$.02, take it or leave it.
(and as the judge also pointed out, it was Congress that left us with the DMCA. Make your opinion and your reason known to them)
The report seems to be that this thing is eating more than a teenage BH should be. But given the way they eat (everything from light on down) wouldn't this just mean that it ran across a particularly dense "meal"?
And because it's fairly fundamental to my Theory of Everything, do BHs grow as they eat?
oh, and Space.com lost about forty points on my credibility scale with this link under the story
Re:I still think Southpark had the best answer....
on
Video Games and ADD
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· Score: 2
I think you're totally wrong. It's not about a kid "rebeling". It's about pounding a strong will into shape. Sometimes the logic of a wooden paddle is great at "internalizing the need to study."
--
When they get to the stage where they're asking for your help to remind them that they're wandering
This is when they've internalized your tactic and are offering a counter-tactic. Remember, ADD kids are great at playing games.
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Re:I still think Southpark had the best answer....
on
Video Games and ADD
·
· Score: 2
I never learned by being forced to sit down and study; in fact, it discouraged me from it.
you're reading in too far about what I said. It's not about being quiet for 8 hours, but doing so when you need to. Mainly my point was about instilling a bit of discipline in wild children. This isn't the answer for severely disturbed children, but for IMHO 90% of the kids who get 1 hour ADD pronouncements. --
ahh, but you're fogetting the MPAA/DVD judge's caveat.
It doesn't matter what you do, but if you think you are clever doing it, it must be illegal.
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Re:I still think Southpark had the best answer....
on
Video Games and ADD
·
· Score: 1
Responding to what may be a genuine mental disorder with violence or verbal abuse won't help it I think.
this is a process to weed out those that don't have a genuine mental disorder. And cowing kids to sit down and study will help them learn, it's how all of them do it anyway, some just need a bit more encouragement.
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most numbers I've seen (not pulled out of someone's ass) put the infringing material at 87%, and if you accept that spears/m&m probably make up 20% of that alone, it draws a slightly different picture of its use.
The RIAA and King need to get over it. As the Gunslinger might say, the world has moved on.
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actually he said shoplifting.
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Yea, like the first 3 films had such great plots.
they did when I was 11.
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The SDMI is Microsoft.
wadd'ya think?
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true, i wasn't reading it like that.
hmm, that's an interesting question though, What is the primary purpose of a PC (after pr0n)?
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genre ~= format
It's a radio term for what kind of music they play.
From what I gathered he wants to have some sort of music profile out there that you can use to search with(?). I don't think it's really necessary, there are a number of companies that allow custom mp3 "radio" stations, and it's not terribly hard to set up one yourself, if you have the bandwidth.
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i meant resigning, that's what "it" meant
from the link
The situation cooled down for a couple of months, but when I resigned on-air
from my job as a VJ, which MTV chose not to air btw, things started to get
ugly.
Oh, and he wrote a bit about Linux in January of Last year, but, uh, no comprende.
--
Where everytime you make a wish, somebody thought of it a while back...
from the article
If one looks at these Clock based Formats as a sequence, you immediately notice the playlist like structure. Each hour starts off with a station ID, followed by a Top3 hit -->Station ID -->Recurrent hit (usually 3-5 years old) --> Jock Banter/Contest tease or promo -->commercials -->Station ID --> Time/Temp --> New Release etc etc etc.
I view these elements as boxes, to be filled in from the known content pool, which resides in the stations' library (digitally as with the Dalet system). This "filling of the boxes" occurs based on a certain rule-set, usually created and maintained by the format creator. In our radio station example the main box categories are defined across all known content (Top 40 hit, New Release, Golden Oldie etc) along with meta tags very similar to the ID3 specification: think of tags like Genre, Artists, Uptempo, Ballad, Group, Solo etc.
The trick is to subsequently fill in the boxes while abiding to the rules, such as separation, but also "clash-rules" so we don't play too many ballads back to back or to female performers in the same situation. (According to our format example at least!)
Try over here
Interesting rant, I read for a bit and couldn't find out why he quit MTV (and tried to do it on-air), was it because of the lawsuit?
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I think the issue here isn't that they're doing it -- charging less for some customers, more for others -- but that we don't *know* the criteria.
It's probably a few things. Actually it can be pretty much anything, but most likely is focues on demographic, behavioural , and psychographic info. That is, who you are, what you do, and why. All of this information is now easily available (through various list, government, and credit card companies, read the fine print). They have demographics (which are easily available given an address), they have behavioral (thanks Doubleclick), and they are building psychographic (that's what the experiments are for).
Now my problem with this type of marketing comes with the shit hits the fan as it were. In other words, when the man comes calling and it's time to pay up. Amazon (and everyone) is looking for that profitable point. What happens when they realize that if they limit access (maybe by charging high prices) to certain types of customers based on this profile they build. This customer profile could be anything. From racial stereotyping to newbie fingering. And because the cost of doing business with that type of person is consistently higher, they consistently get charged more (or seem to get a lot of 404s).
Anyway, just some musings. With the amount of processing available and the amount of information available, this type of marketing will become more common.
And if you'll flashback with me for a moment. I just went on vacation to Mexico, where they had an open air market. No prices, just stuff and vendors. Then you barter. How much you pay depends on one thing made up of two things. The two things are how much you'll pay and how much the vendor will sell it for. The one thing is how much you pay.
Just make sure you always have choices in the marketplace, and things should be fine *coughM$*.
(for the record, I'm boycotting Amazon proper because of their abuse of stupid laws)
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and they'll be able to offer a lower price because they don't have to pay the overhead for "gouging bots"
--
I wonder if anyone else realzes (not saying you don't) how taxes like this totally remove the incentive to create more works. Wouldn't it become more profitable to just sit back and collect taxes and not go through the trouble of creating new content? Isn't that opposite of the point of copyright?
--
under
USCode Title 17 Chapter 10 - digital audio recording devices and media Subchapter A - Defintions (too lazy to learn how to annotate correctly)
(4)
Which is cutting the fine print pretty thin. What makes this curious is that computers are now marketed as home audio devices for "downloading digital music", just watch your nearest Dell commercial. See how easy lobbying is, you only need to change a few words to get what you want.
--
I think I'd almost be happy with w2k, if it wasn't for WMP 7, avoid this piece of shit at all costs.
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I've played D2 for over thirty hours...this week. Now on ActII, Nightmare, huh, what was the question?
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Does it necessarily follow that He must do so? Perhaps He simply chose not to.
If his point was to maximize the good in the universe, then he would be obligated to create as much life as possible to interpret and appreciate the good, and give thanks to its creator.
If his job was just to create it and watch, he's doing a bang up job.
--
You can record something off TV or radio and use it for yourself, but you can't resell it or charge others to watch it.
This is another bad part of the DMCA. Under the old laws you would have been perfectly fine sharing this in the absence of monetary exchange, under the DMCA, you're a felon.
--
Hmmm... the lifetime of a CD is quite a bit longer than that of a cassette, shouldn't the cost be higher then? Plus you have the whole analog and digital thing going, so you are getting a higher quality recording. That's not worth anything to you?
Do you work for the RIAA? Just wonderin', because you just echoed their arguments on "Why CDs cost so much."
(short answer : Marketing)
But you're logic still doesn't hold. Because someone has created a better medium, that's cheaper to produce, it should cost more? By that logic the Internet should be too expensive for anyone to use, especially with your digital point.
I thought this article was about the RIAA not the MPAA.
Check the member companies of both, then look at parent companies and the conglomerates that hold them. No doubt both lobbied hard for the DMCA, and both have been shown to be hijakcing citizen's rights.
Lawyers go both ways, IMHO. A necesssity of an overly complex legal system, and abused by the ultra greedy who hide themselves behind the word capitalism.
--
by getting them to piss off all their fans and cut their hair...... Not to mention give them the image of greedy luddites. There doesn't seem to be much more, they've done a pretty good job themselves. The only thing they are good for anymore is movie soundtracks (and you did happen to notice that one came out right around the time of their free publicity, right?)
--
I seem to remember in one of the MPAA's briefs that they have had their e-mail down for a good while. I have no doubt that this was because of mailbombing or other hactivist activities. It has also helped them build their case against the immorality of 2600's position, which came through loud and clear from the judge's opinion.
What we need on this issue is more public support and awareness. Everyone (and I do mean everyone) that I have explained this case to has agreed that the MPAA has overstepped their bounds, however there's only so much that this type of communication can do.
But in a war of public opinion, taking the high road is often much more productive. People (i.e. general public) are scared of things they don't understand. When/if CNN finally does report on this issue (...), I think it would be better for everyone if it wasn't as an aside to explaining why the website for every major movie studio was inaccessible.
$.02, take it or leave it.
(and as the judge also pointed out, it was Congress that left us with the DMCA. Make your opinion and your reason known to them)
--
The report seems to be that this thing is eating more than a teenage BH should be. But given the way they eat (everything from light on down) wouldn't this just mean that it ran across a particularly dense "meal"?
And because it's fairly fundamental to my Theory of Everything, do BHs grow as they eat?
oh, and Space.com lost about forty points on my credibility scale with this link under the story
"Aliens Among Us -- Which celebrity is really an alien? You decide! "
They trying to muscle in on the Weekly World News?
--
I think you're totally wrong. It's not about a kid "rebeling". It's about pounding a strong will into shape. Sometimes the logic of a wooden paddle is great at "internalizing the need to study."
--
When they get to the stage where they're asking for your help to remind them that they're wandering
This is when they've internalized your tactic and are offering a counter-tactic. Remember, ADD kids are great at playing games.
--
I never learned by being forced to sit down and study; in fact, it discouraged me from it.
you're reading in too far about what I said. It's not about being quiet for 8 hours, but doing so when you need to. Mainly my point was about instilling a bit of discipline in wild children. This isn't the answer for severely disturbed children, but for IMHO 90% of the kids who get 1 hour ADD pronouncements.
--
anonymous
coward
if you don't believe what you say, why say it?
two more pairs of words
nothing ventured
nothing gained
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ahh, but you're fogetting the MPAA/DVD judge's caveat.
It doesn't matter what you do, but if you think you are clever doing it, it must be illegal.
--
Responding to what may be a genuine mental disorder with violence or verbal abuse won't help it I think.
this is a process to weed out those that don't have a genuine mental disorder. And cowing kids to sit down and study will help them learn, it's how all of them do it anyway, some just need a bit more encouragement.
--