the riaa fixing their failing business model would be a lot easier. Imaging if they put this kind of effort into making music accessible and affordable to their Customers.
Canada is getting ready to try and pass the C-11 internet censorship bill. As an outsider (American), I've come to the conclusion that the Canada will only solve it's issues that way. I'm truly saddened by it, and I hope it's quick and mostly bloodless, but I doubt it will be.
the disruptive technologies of the internet have already mortally wounded the mpaa and riaa. They are dying, but just don't know it yet. I can check riaaradar.com to make sure I don't buy anything from the riaa and still get great music off of sites like bandcamp.com. Cat is out of the bag.
it is not nickel and diming, it is insisting on being a horse and buggy maker in a car world. The RIAA and MPAA are throwing away huge wads of money to cling to a business model that no longer works.
the only way to get rid of these things is to make it unprofitable for the companies that sell them. If rapiscan machines are giving people cancer they should also have to pay the victims.
why people continue to complain when they know that the console maker is going to do stuff like this makes no sense. You are accepting you don't even own your console when you buy it.
So when Hollywood does things like say the movie Lord of the Rings did not make a profit and not pay Peter Jackson they are totally ok, because it was legal? Sorry, this is like two drunks at a bar fighting. Just because hollywood has spent lots of money lobbying the US Government does not make me want them to win in this case. They are just as guilty of stealing.
think about how much better it would be to learn to be a billionaire and then have all that money in less than a year. It is looking more and more like anyone can do it if bloomberg can.
music industry is using a failing business model and costing the Irish Government lots of money in lost taxes from the music industry not adapting to the current business environment.
politicians should be asked why it is ok to prop up failing business models with draconian laws. Services like Valve's Steam service or even Netflix show that if big business was willing to adapt they would not have a problem making even more money than they already are.
there are also no distribution costs so the copyright holder should adapt to the market place like businesses like Valve's Steam Game Service or even Netflix.
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the mpaa and riaa have already been dealt a mortal blow. They just don't understand it yet.
the riaa fixing their failing business model would be a lot easier. Imaging if they put this kind of effort into making music accessible and affordable to their Customers.
have you completely forgotten what bush/cheney did? Like waterboarding torture and it just gets worse the more you know about what they did.
the difference is there is no money to be made with FreeCiv.
protecting a failing movie and music business model is not a government problem. There is no need for any part of C-11
he has looked like rasputin's cousin for a very very long time. His stories are problem better because of it.
Canada is getting ready to try and pass the C-11 internet censorship bill. As an outsider (American), I've come to the conclusion that the Canada will only solve it's issues that way. I'm truly saddened by it, and I hope it's quick and mostly bloodless, but I doubt it will be.
the disruptive technologies of the internet have already mortally wounded the mpaa and riaa. They are dying, but just don't know it yet. I can check riaaradar.com to make sure I don't buy anything from the riaa and still get great music off of sites like bandcamp.com. Cat is out of the bag.
it is not nickel and diming, it is insisting on being a horse and buggy maker in a car world. The RIAA and MPAA are throwing away huge wads of money to cling to a business model that no longer works.
cheap answer is to get rid of the scanners.
the only way to get rid of these things is to make it unprofitable for the companies that sell them. If rapiscan machines are giving people cancer they should also have to pay the victims.
why people continue to complain when they know that the console maker is going to do stuff like this makes no sense. You are accepting you don't even own your console when you buy it.
So when Hollywood does things like say the movie Lord of the Rings did not make a profit and not pay Peter Jackson they are totally ok, because it was legal? Sorry, this is like two drunks at a bar fighting. Just because hollywood has spent lots of money lobbying the US Government does not make me want them to win in this case. They are just as guilty of stealing.
where are the bills on that?
Why? Did the Feds finally crack down on Hollywood Accounting?
think about how much better it would be to learn to be a billionaire and then have all that money in less than a year. It is looking more and more like anyone can do it if bloomberg can.
music industry is using a failing business model and costing the Irish Government lots of money in lost taxes from the music industry not adapting to the current business environment.
if they are going to end any help for regular people then they need to end corporate tax breaks.
the problem is politicians think that corporate welfare is good, but anything that helps regular people is not.
if you bought any ridiculously cheap games from Valve's Steam service over the holidays you could hit that without even spending $20.
I often wonder where people who deny pollution is having any effect on the earth think they are going to live if they are wrong.
politicians should be asked why it is ok to prop up failing business models with draconian laws. Services like Valve's Steam service or even Netflix show that if big business was willing to adapt they would not have a problem making even more money than they already are.
it is not needed, just throw it in the trash.
but not to Citizens.
there are also no distribution costs so the copyright holder should adapt to the market place like businesses like Valve's Steam Game Service or even Netflix.