It's a question of semantics. Purpose vs. Intent. The creators of the video may not intend to create advertising, but the people who paid for it definitly do.
The purpose of a music video is to make direct attention to other, money making, ventures. The album, the tour, the t-shirt. Music videos are made, at significant expense, to get attention paid to these ventures. Sounds a lot like an advertisement to me.. The 30 second spot promoting a soft drink has exactly the same purpose, to direct attention to the money making venture.
Ask yourself, why would anybody spend all that money to produce a video and then even more money trying very hard to get that video show publicly, if not to advertise?
Only a very narrow minded idiot would try and stop people from trading music their videos. Their entire reason for benign is to generate attention. Pearl Jam may be the first to use creative commons, but this is far from the first time someone has used nerd culture for free PR. The tech press is notoriously naive.
All censorship debate aside. The total population of Australia is only 20.4m. I bet the value of getting your 'fight the evil system with graffiti' game banned in Australia far exceeds the couple thousand sales you where going to make there. I'm just surprised it was Australia of all places that took the bait, they generally seem like a pretty cool lot.
Yup. I think somebody missed the distinction between stealing a physical phone and cloning a phones identity.
I could be mistaken, but I don't think it's possible to clone a GSM or CDMA phone remotely. You can only do that with analog CDMA, which has been very uncommon in Canada for years.
Are you liable for calls made on your physical cell phone by an authorized person? That's not much different then someone breaking in to your house and using a lot of expensive phone sex. There is probably precedent for that, even in Canada.
I was lucky enough to find this blog last night, the prospective on this tragedy is gripping. TV's lowest common denominator coverage just can't compare.
Perhaps the reverse is true. Kids are smarter because of the tools they now have. If not smarter, certainly more capable.
20+ years ago (1985!) kids where basically cannon fodder that could do basic multiplication. Now they use 3d software to make models for their counterstrike clans. They might not know how to spell, but they can desktop publish.
It's always worth remembering that people have been saying "Kids these days" since the dawn of time. And never once have they turned out to be right.
Do you have the right not to be photographed? Not anywhere I know of, and rightfully so. The abuse that would be possible with such a right boggles the mind.
If I'm not breaking some other law (trespassing, etc), why shouldn't I be able to take a picture of whatever I want?
This isn't really about computer based services like Skype, they're pretty much just for nerds. Your (for example) mom is pretty unlikely to want anything to do with them.
This is about stand alone VoIP like Vonage, which your mom could use without even knowing it.
If/when they get IP to IP cross network VoIP going, the POTS may be doomed and local governments will just have to find something else to tax, like say internet access, unless WiMAX makes that almost impossible too.
Still, left or right, you pretty much have to admit they need to get some money from somewhere. I don't want volunteer police and well fires will put themselves out eventually I'd rather not have to wait.
Oh, and as long as an old fashion 10 digit number is involved you can tap Skype where it hits the POTS, luck has nothing to do with it.
Exactly right. I'm fairly surprised you could ever fly without showing ID. It's just an invitation for stupidity in a place where stupidity should not be tolerated.
I don't want to be on the same plane with you if you're so obsessed with your anonymity you won't show ID. Who knows that crazy crap you'll do because you think nobody can call you on it.
Honestly, I'd rather people had to wear name tags complete with barcodes at all times. Then I could send you a bill for having to put up with your horrible children on the plane, everyone would know exactly who that jerk with a tree as carry on is, etc.
I honestly think a world where all people (cops too) have to take full credit for all their actions, all the time, would be a lot better then what we got now. The great thing is, thanks to our friend technology, it's going to happen no matter what. The transition may be rough, but high tech beats privacy, and unlike guns, cameras can't hurt anybody, so you might as well pass them out, cause like with the guns, you know the government isn't going abstain.
I agree. It's almost certainly 99% BS. Maybe there is an RFID-type chip in his arm for accessing that database, that's fairly moot. There are lots of exciting way to protect databases and none of them are 100%.
The tracing Mexico wide aspect is the tip off. Although everybody wants to think otherwise, I'm fairly sure that's just not technically possible.
Passive RFID style chips are good up to 9 meters max. Even at 100 times that, it'd be next to useless for nation wide tracking.
You can't stick a transponder of any decent power inside a person without a power supply.
It's a bluff trying keep him unkidnapped and privacy advocate types off his back.
I distrust any site operator that insists nobody makes more then one account. People dream of this for doing voting things all the time, but it's just not possible if there's a cent or a laugh to be made rigging the system.
Checkout an article like this. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/ent ertainment/s_199839.html
For a cheap movie like Dodge Ball, 20 million bucks. Then another 30 million to promote it. 50 million spent before you've seen dollar one, and that's for Dodge Ball. Lots of films cost into the 200 million plus area after promotion these days.
A billion dollars in box office just ain't what it used to be.
Why doesn't someone start a free online database of cops? Department, rank, name, experiences, home address, credit report, etc. Wouldn't take much more then a PHP script and a SQL database.
You can't do anything to resist databases, they're just part of technology, the trick is that everybody has to go in there and anybody can start one.
A cop may have special powers, but they also have a lot more to lose. One bit of video of one petty crime and it's a world of pain.
When you see someone being arrested, politely whip out your camera phone and upload the whole thing to the net in real time. That'll do more to ensure nobodies' civil rights get infringed then just about anything else we've invented yet.
The majority of artists aren't on major labels. Not even a tiny percentage of them are.
From your own link: CDBaby pays 51-59 cents per iTunes download for stuff they distribute. iTunes sends that money out, regardless of who gets it, they don't keep it.
If allofmp3.com is only kicking up 2 cents instead of 50, somebody is getting screwed and that isn't going to help anybody but allofmp3.com.
I swear. RFID tags can be one of the most enabling technologies in history, automating zillions of tasks that otherwise slow down economy and society.
I for one have no problem being on record for things I in fact did do and places I did go, and it's lot like that's a real threat anyway. I'd make the database myself and sell it if anybody would pay enough to make it worth it.
As I see it, there is NO SERIOUS DOWNSIDE to RFID, it's not GM foods, it's not guns, and it's just information. Nobody gets physically hurt by tiny radio tags. They're not even especially bad for the environment.
What we need for RFID is NO LAWS, not lots of them. The Internet will be the medium your big brother nightmares are shipped over, but I don't think anybody seriously thinks we needed to pass laws in the 80s slowing down the game because of that. Why do we suddenly need to do so now with another super enabling technology?
Seems like a great opportunity if you're a hot-shot programmer.
Write a file system optimized for digital camera/mp3 type applications. Small, light, easily used from firmware. Add a driver for windows that installs fast through the web via ActiveX. Think Macromedia Flash. "Don't got it? Click yes, boom, now you do."
Get it working real smooth and consumer friendly. Promote a bit and wait for Sony or one of its smaller cousins to buy you.
"Historically, what is pleasing to the human ear has not changed since man began writing music."
That's true in that music has probably had percussion since the start, other then that, total rubbish.
What about music from other cultures? Totally different scales, numbers of notes, structure, the works. You gonna tell a billion Indian's their taste in music is mathematically wrong?
Music is almost 100% relative. It's about painting a psycho acoustic picture inside the listener. Why do certain sounds feel aggressive, well others are soulful? It's 99% arbitrary.
Goodness, in a pop sense, is a matter of painting a picture a whole bunch of people perceive in a similar way. It's a function of civilization, just like any art.
The very thought that you can mathematically write pop songs. People have been trying for awhile. Even if you get an algorithm for a perfect pop song, everyone would get sick of that style and pop would reinvent itself. It's what happens. Hair metal gives way to Grunge. Grunge gives way to Big Beat, Big Beat gives way to nu metal, nu metal gives way to retro-punk. Hip hop does it all within one genera. Street goes to bling, bling goes to conscience, conscience goes to freestyle street and now we got Outkast doing some sort of 70s funk thing doing triple platinum.
The trick isn't writing songs, that's easy, the trick is writing the songs that work nearly universally. Ask anybody who does it for a living.
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It's a question of semantics. Purpose vs. Intent. The creators of the video may not intend to create advertising, but the people who paid for it definitly do.
The purpose of a music video is to make direct attention to other, money making, ventures. The album, the tour, the t-shirt. Music videos are made, at significant expense, to get attention paid to these ventures. Sounds a lot like an advertisement to me.. The 30 second spot promoting a soft drink has exactly the same purpose, to direct attention to the money making venture.
Ask yourself, why would anybody spend all that money to produce a video and then even more money trying very hard to get that video show publicly, if not to advertise?
Only a very narrow minded idiot would try and stop people from trading music their videos. Their entire reason for benign is to generate attention. Pearl Jam may be the first to use creative commons, but this is far from the first time someone has used nerd culture for free PR. The tech press is notoriously naive.
Appearently this is a problem a lot of people have been thinking about of late.
Checkout:
Library Thing - Catalog your books online
Listal - Social media cataloging
Both have tags, social aspects, cool entry, etc, etc.
All censorship debate aside. The total population of Australia is only 20.4m. I bet the value of getting your 'fight the evil system with graffiti' game banned in Australia far exceeds the couple thousand sales you where going to make there. I'm just surprised it was Australia of all places that took the bait, they generally seem like a pretty cool lot.
Yup. I think somebody missed the distinction between stealing a physical phone and cloning a phones identity.
I could be mistaken, but I don't think it's possible to clone a GSM or CDMA phone remotely. You can only do that with analog CDMA, which has been very uncommon in Canada for years.
Are you liable for calls made on your physical cell phone by an authorized person? That's not much different then someone breaking in to your house and using a lot of expensive phone sex. There is probably precedent for that, even in Canada.
Del.icio.us started in November 2003. Two years.
I was lucky enough to find this blog last night, the prospective on this tragedy is gripping. TV's lowest common denominator coverage just can't compare.
Perhaps the reverse is true. Kids are smarter because of the tools they now have. If not smarter, certainly more capable.
20+ years ago (1985!) kids where basically cannon fodder that could do basic multiplication. Now they use 3d software to make models for their counterstrike clans. They might not know how to spell, but they can desktop publish.
It's always worth remembering that people have been saying "Kids these days" since the dawn of time. And never once have they turned out to be right.
Do you have the right not to be photographed? Not anywhere I know of, and rightfully so. The abuse that would be possible with such a right boggles the mind.
If I'm not breaking some other law (trespassing, etc), why shouldn't I be able to take a picture of whatever I want?
This isn't really about computer based services like Skype, they're pretty much just for nerds. Your (for example) mom is pretty unlikely to want anything to do with them.
This is about stand alone VoIP like Vonage, which your mom could use without even knowing it.
If/when they get IP to IP cross network VoIP going, the POTS may be doomed and local governments will just have to find something else to tax, like say internet access, unless WiMAX makes that almost impossible too.
Still, left or right, you pretty much have to admit they need to get some money from somewhere. I don't want volunteer police and well fires will put themselves out eventually I'd rather not have to wait.
Oh, and as long as an old fashion 10 digit number is involved you can tap Skype where it hits the POTS, luck has nothing to do with it.
Exactly right. I'm fairly surprised you could ever fly without showing ID. It's just an invitation for stupidity in a place where stupidity should not be tolerated.
I don't want to be on the same plane with you if you're so obsessed with your anonymity you won't show ID. Who knows that crazy crap you'll do because you think nobody can call you on it.
Honestly, I'd rather people had to wear name tags complete with barcodes at all times. Then I could send you a bill for having to put up with your horrible children on the plane, everyone would know exactly who that jerk with a tree as carry on is, etc.
I honestly think a world where all people (cops too) have to take full credit for all their actions, all the time, would be a lot better then what we got now. The great thing is, thanks to our friend technology, it's going to happen no matter what. The transition may be rough, but high tech beats privacy, and unlike guns, cameras can't hurt anybody, so you might as well pass them out, cause like with the guns, you know the government isn't going abstain.
I agree. It's almost certainly 99% BS. Maybe there is an RFID-type chip in his arm for accessing that database, that's fairly moot. There are lots of exciting way to protect databases and none of them are 100%.
The tracing Mexico wide aspect is the tip off. Although everybody wants to think otherwise, I'm fairly sure that's just not technically possible.
Passive RFID style chips are good up to 9 meters max. Even at 100 times that, it'd be next to useless for nation wide tracking.
You can't stick a transponder of any decent power inside a person without a power supply.
It's a bluff trying keep him unkidnapped and privacy advocate types off his back.
I distrust any site operator that insists nobody makes more then one account. People dream of this for doing voting things all the time, but it's just not possible if there's a cent or a laugh to be made rigging the system.
Checkout an article like this. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/ent ertainment/s_199839.html
For a cheap movie like Dodge Ball, 20 million bucks. Then another 30 million to promote it. 50 million spent before you've seen dollar one, and that's for Dodge Ball. Lots of films cost into the 200 million plus area after promotion these days.
A billion dollars in box office just ain't what it used to be.
Why doesn't someone start a free online database of cops? Department, rank, name, experiences, home address, credit report, etc. Wouldn't take much more then a PHP script and a SQL database.
You can't do anything to resist databases, they're just part of technology, the trick is that everybody has to go in there and anybody can start one.
A cop may have special powers, but they also have a lot more to lose. One bit of video of one petty crime and it's a world of pain.
When you see someone being arrested, politely whip out your camera phone and upload the whole thing to the net in real time. That'll do more to ensure nobodies' civil rights get infringed then just about anything else we've invented yet.
The majority of artists aren't on major labels. Not even a tiny percentage of them are.
From your own link: CDBaby pays 51-59 cents per iTunes download for stuff they distribute. iTunes sends that money out, regardless of who gets it, they don't keep it.
If allofmp3.com is only kicking up 2 cents instead of 50, somebody is getting screwed and that isn't going to help anybody but allofmp3.com.
You know when you use Allofmp3.com you're totally screwing the artists right?
There might maybe-maybe be a legal loophole making it technically legal at the moment, but never the less the artist is not getting paid.
iTunes kicks back over 50 cents per download back to the artist, with allofmp3.com they'll be lucky to see a single cent.
I swear. RFID tags can be one of the most enabling technologies in history, automating zillions of tasks that otherwise slow down economy and society.
I for one have no problem being on record for things I in fact did do and places I did go, and it's lot like that's a real threat anyway. I'd make the database myself and sell it if anybody would pay enough to make it worth it.
As I see it, there is NO SERIOUS DOWNSIDE to RFID, it's not GM foods, it's not guns, and it's just information. Nobody gets physically hurt by tiny radio tags. They're not even especially bad for the environment.
What we need for RFID is NO LAWS, not lots of them. The Internet will be the medium your big brother nightmares are shipped over, but I don't think anybody seriously thinks we needed to pass laws in the 80s slowing down the game because of that. Why do we suddenly need to do so now with another super enabling technology?
That's a neat point.
Gas appliances are fairly uncommon in North America. The majority of stoves, hot water heaters, etc, are electric.
Here, most homes have a separate 220V(?) main in the kitchen for the stove, as opposed to the normal 110ish.
They're a major chain, with a large number of real world employees. Jessie James does TV spot for them. Think Radio Shack, but for car stuff.
Having every Linux nerd in the world upset with you is one thing, but every car nerd, that's considerably more dangerous.
With luck, the lawyers (on both sides) will have SCO bled dry in short order and we can stop hearing about all this.
Last time I checked, at the best of times, jet engines ain't quite.
It's do what you want nation, but no loud talking.
In the rest of the world, where cell phones adoption is way higher, this issue is so 1995. Cope and move on, it's progress sucker.
You can bet your butt that nobody on that board of directors has ever had trouble growing enough food to feed their families.
Maybe at least they'll become obsessed with harassing the GloFish people instead of somebody doing something really productive.
GM foods, or stop having kids, these are your choices. Welcome to the future suckers.
Seems like a great opportunity if you're a hot-shot programmer.
Write a file system optimized for digital camera/mp3 type applications. Small, light, easily used from firmware. Add a driver for windows that installs fast through the web via ActiveX. Think Macromedia Flash. "Don't got it? Click yes, boom, now you do."
Get it working real smooth and consumer friendly. Promote a bit and wait for Sony or one of its smaller cousins to buy you.
"Historically, what is pleasing to the human ear has not changed since man began writing music."
That's true in that music has probably had percussion since the start, other then that, total rubbish.
What about music from other cultures? Totally different scales, numbers of notes, structure, the works. You gonna tell a billion Indian's their taste in music is mathematically wrong?
Music is almost 100% relative. It's about painting a psycho acoustic picture inside the listener. Why do certain sounds feel aggressive, well others are soulful? It's 99% arbitrary.
Goodness, in a pop sense, is a matter of painting a picture a whole bunch of people perceive in a similar way. It's a function of civilization, just like any art.
The very thought that you can mathematically write pop songs. People have been trying for awhile. Even if you get an algorithm for a perfect pop song, everyone would get sick of that style and pop would reinvent itself. It's what happens. Hair metal gives way to Grunge. Grunge gives way to Big Beat, Big Beat gives way to nu metal, nu metal gives way to retro-punk. Hip hop does it all within one genera. Street goes to bling, bling goes to conscience, conscience goes to freestyle street and now we got Outkast doing some sort of 70s funk thing doing triple platinum.
The trick isn't writing songs, that's easy, the trick is writing the songs that work nearly universally.
Ask anybody who does it for a living.
That is one beautiful fixed hub bike. Seriously.
I'd probably buy one of those if you'd ship it to me.
At least put up a nicer page documenting the parts and process so I can rip it off.