It is probably because Comcast opened a new development office there to have somewhere to place all the AOL people they hired. So Philadelphia to Virgina makes sense.
True. M$ could not loose in this process. If they win approval, they can trot the ISO certification around and say they have an "ISO standard" format. If they do not get approved, they will have corrupted the system so badly, ISO certifaction means nothing.
"They've chosen to deal with the cons in question here through argument, appeal to ethics and persuasion, rather than by legal action, which would have costs they deem unacceptable."
LOL. Becuase legally there is _nothing_ they can do. Waaaaa, i chose the BSD license that let's people do whatever they want to the code, including fork. Apple does it, yet no one is bitching about them. Sun does it. IBM does it. No bitching.
Linux Kernel does it....HOLYF***ING SH**!!!!!!!!!! Stop the press!!!!!!! They are not allowed to do it.
If you don't want people to just take your code and fork it..._don't_ release it under a BSD license. It is that simple.
To borrow your words: "how anyone could arrive at such a conclusion like republicans != democrats is beyond my understanding. it betrays a colossally dim understanding of the world you live in"
You are so blinded by the corrupt system that you can not see the reality in which you live. Peel back the illusions and look at what is underneath the wizards robe. It is all the same.
This is exactly the brain-washing the current parties do. Things do not have to work this way. The system has been corrupted and those in power, Republocrats, will say and do whatever it takes to stay in power. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The healthcare system is a joke. The education system is a joke. Immigration is a serious problem. the budget deficit is totally out of control. We are fighting in a horribly unjust war that supposedly the Democrats are against yet do nothing to get our troops out of. it just goes on and on...
If you really want to do something smart, do two things:
1) NEVER vote for a Republican
2) NEVER vote for a Democrat
I really do not see how anyone else could do worse. Time to give someone new a try.
How can your reading comprehension be so poor? Oh yeah, the USA public school system.
The story has nothing to do with aristocracy. The point of it is, no matter which group you vote in, you get the same thing. As in, Republicans == Democrats. Neither party cares about the citizens, they only care about their rich donors and buddies.
Do something smart, _NEVER_ vote for a Republican or Democrat.
unfortunately the telcos and cable companies will favor only their VOIP packets and not a competitors, so you do not "reap the benefits" unless you own the lines. This is what Net Neutrality is all about.
Please do not twist my point into saying people should not be able to profit from their work. That is not what i said. The problem of piracy has a lot to do with the wacko pricing models set by greedy executives and publishers.
Not to mention the whole idea of: buy the album, buy the cassette, buy the CD, sorry your CD got scratched...pay another $17 for the CD, or for $.99 get a low bit rate DRM laiden track that you can only play on a single hardware device.
how could it have ps3-itis if it is not for sale yet? No one knows if it is going to sell millions or tank. It goes on sale on the 29th. once all the hype has died down around the initial release, we will all know for sure if Apple has another hit or failure.
Thank you for agreeing with my point that there is no competition. So again, back to the original point, the outrageous pricing set by the MAFFIA and some software producers is making piracy very attractive to people. The old business model is dead.
Trent Reznor only has one more record to make to fulfill his slavery obligations. He says he will go direct to the fans with $4 CDs (this was linked from Slashdot a few weeks back). Will he actually do it...time will only tell, but the writing is on the wall. The days of the leeching MAFFIA are numbered. My money should go directly to the artist...they are the ones with the talent. They are the ones producing the art. The internet is the distribution channel.
Lower prices mean more sales. It really is that simple.
Your analogy fails....computers and music are totally different. Apples to Oranges. Music was overpriced _then_, and it _is_ today. So you validated my point. Thank you.
So please tell me my choices in buying the Beatles CD? I guess choice to you is...well, you can go to Target or Best Buy. That is not choice. It is the same price fixed CDS from the same distributer, from the same record company.
Please stop with the market speak nonsense. The is no free market at work here. There is a monopoly. If you want a particular band, you have a single source for it. Pay their price high prices or pirate. There is no choice. Again, you can not understand that people want music. I will gladly pay for it, if the price is right. Otherwise, f that, i will download. I have paid for the record album, Cassette tape, already. Why pay a third time for the same material? I don't pay for a car three times.
Again, wrong on the allofmp3.com deal. They asked the RIAA in the USA, mind you for pricing, which did not even get a response. And to your point, Apple basically dictated the terms to the MAFFIA. Pretty crazy, huh?
But you did say they fucked you. Try some logic...."prices have fallen for the past 20 years". So if they have been falling they must have been really high to begin with. (Since you like bold so much). And they are still too high. some cd's cost $20 now. LOL! Oh yeah, because of all the "competition".
Yes, in a format i want. That is how i want it. And evidentally, most people want it in those same ways. Again, allofmp3.com allowed for this. This is not hard to do. People buy the crap formats, again, because there is no choice. Please wake up. Stop drinking the cool-aid.
I can see you wanting to change the argument to something you can control, however i dont play that. My point stands...a big driver of piracy is the outrageous pricing by the MAFFIA and Software makers. I can see your posting history clearly illustrates your defending of the MAFFIA extortion world. My logical conclusion is you are part of the leeching system and direct sales cut you out of the feeding trough that the people with real talent create.
"Because enough people will pay for it at that price." because you have no choice. You see piracy because there is no other way to get it except at a very high price...so people pirate it. Please, i know the, the RIAA is still trying to recover the costs of the Beatles CD's. All the marketing to sell the Beatles. CD's cost so much to manufacture. All the studio time for those Beatles CD's. All the production costs... yeah, they need to charge $17 to cover all that.
I suggest you read up a bit more on allofmp3.com, they DO PAY the Russian version of the MAFFIA. The US version of the MAFFIA refused to do business with them even after allofmp3.com approached them on several occasions to try and work something out. Out right lies. You work for the MAFFIA?
Your last point makes no sense. So you are say they raelly fucked people 20 years ago, and prices have been falling so they are not fucking you as hard now. Well, at least they use K.Y. now. Prices are still too high!!!. $17 was too high years ago, and it is still _too_ high today. The MAFFIA is a total racket...no talent executives making money off people with talent. The business model is changing and they are a dying breed. No need for the middle man.
Why does my Beatles purchase need to "...invest in any further music"? I dont want to pay for a no-talent marketing boy band. Good bands dont need to be marketed in the internet age. The cream rises to the top. Always has, always will. The internet lets the artists get directly to the fans without a leeching distribution chain.
Again, this may be hard for you to grasp, but people pirate because they do not have a reasonable means of getting the music or software. The MAFFIA have been convicted of price fixing several times now... And they offer no modern way of getting music except DRM laiden low bit rate crap formats.
LOL, you attempts at retorting my points are laughable. "So your argument fails twice over" LMAO! Keep the nonsense coming, i look forward to reading your ill-informed response. Get back to your astro-turfing
You fail to consider what i see as the main driver of piracy....price. Why does a Beatles CD cost $17? The Beatles recorded back in the 60's. The Beatles toured in the 60's. Why is the price so high? So the record labels can promote the next no talent boy band? So the no talent, leech, executives can stay in coke and hookers?
AllofMp3.com had/has the best online music site bar none. You could get just about any format you want, any bit rate you want, etc... And it was priced to encourge you to buy more music. No bullshit DRM. No outrageous pricing. It was priced per MB. So the better quality the recording, the more you will pay. A reasonable model...not perfect...but reasonable.
Why do people pirate Photoshop? Beacuse it costs an arm and a leg. Personally, i use Gimp, which suits my needs. Hell, even Paint.net does most anything a non-professional could want.
The main driver of piracy is the ridiculously high prices charged by the MAFFIA and software producers.
Before we go interupting hurricanes, perhaps we should better understand why they form? Basically they exchange energy between the oceans and the atmosphere. If we "preempt" the formation of hurricanes, what consequences would that have to the earth?
These storms do form for a reason. And the amount of energy released by these storms is enormous.
How can you blame unions for the US auto industry failure? Unions did not design the crappy cars coming out of the big three. Unions did not cut out R&D from the budget. Unions did not force the big three to "diversify" rather than reinvest in newer production lines and tools. Unions do not force GM to pay out stock dividends when they should be keeping that money to invest in better designs and quality.
By far, the largest contributor to the failure of the Big Three is due to complete and total mis-management. If you are not designing cars people want to buy, surprise, surprise, no one is going to buy them. If no one is buying your cars, then you are going to have trouble paying the bills. Bills like health-care and pensions.
Sure because according to the FCC, i have seven ISP's to choose from, right? So i have Verizon, Comcast and.... (sure wish i knew who the other five broadband providers were)
I tried Eve Online and was so bored i could not stand it. I tried really hard to like the game but there was just no content. Fly this package here. Fly this package there. Oh, go ahead and cook yourself dinner and eat it because it is going to take 30 mins to jump 12 times to get to your destination.
Combat is a total snooze. Click Orbit at 2500km. Click auto fire. yawn....
If there is anything worth while in that game, the developers sure do not know how to get you into it. The 3+ day tutorial is WAY too long. I almost quit after just that. Where was the interesting stuff?
I can not believe no one has seen through this nonsense. This is a simple dog and pony show for the net neutrality debate. The telcos add this fee to the cost...the mighty FCC steps up and smacks down the telco monopolies. See...the FCC will protect us against these monopolies...we dont need net neutrality laws.
Of course the FCC will not do anything once the telco monopolies start extorting web sites for money. The FCC is bought and paid for.
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It is probably because Comcast opened a new development office there to have somewhere to place all the AOL people they hired. So Philadelphia to Virgina makes sense.
Is that really from Google? Funny how it is _not_ listed on the Google Firefox extensions website. http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/
Wrong. I will keep buying it, because like the vast majority of Comcast subscribers, I have no other choice.
True. M$ could not loose in this process. If they win approval, they can trot the ISO certification around and say they have an "ISO standard" format. If they do not get approved, they will have corrupted the system so badly, ISO certifaction means nothing.
"They've chosen to deal with the cons in question here through argument, appeal to ethics and persuasion, rather than by legal action, which would have costs they deem unacceptable."
LOL. Becuase legally there is _nothing_ they can do. Waaaaa, i chose the BSD license that let's people do whatever they want to the code, including fork. Apple does it, yet no one is bitching about them. Sun does it. IBM does it. No bitching.
Linux Kernel does it....HOLYF***ING SH**!!!!!!!!!! Stop the press!!!!!!! They are not allowed to do it.
If you don't want people to just take your code and fork it..._don't_ release it under a BSD license. It is that simple.
A good article on the cancer industry--> http://www.newstarget.com/021892.html
To borrow your words: "how anyone could arrive at such a conclusion like republicans != democrats is beyond my understanding. it betrays a colossally dim understanding of the world you live in"
You are so blinded by the corrupt system that you can not see the reality in which you live. Peel back the illusions and look at what is underneath the wizards robe. It is all the same.
This is exactly the brain-washing the current parties do. Things do not have to work this way. The system has been corrupted and those in power, Republocrats, will say and do whatever it takes to stay in power. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The healthcare system is a joke. The education system is a joke. Immigration is a serious problem. the budget deficit is totally out of control. We are fighting in a horribly unjust war that supposedly the Democrats are against yet do nothing to get our troops out of. it just goes on and on... If you really want to do something smart, do two things: 1) NEVER vote for a Republican 2) NEVER vote for a Democrat I really do not see how anyone else could do worse. Time to give someone new a try.
How can your reading comprehension be so poor? Oh yeah, the USA public school system.
The story has nothing to do with aristocracy. The point of it is, no matter which group you vote in, you get the same thing. As in, Republicans == Democrats. Neither party cares about the citizens, they only care about their rich donors and buddies.
Do something smart, _NEVER_ vote for a Republican or Democrat.
unfortunately the telcos and cable companies will favor only their VOIP packets and not a competitors, so you do not "reap the benefits" unless you own the lines. This is what Net Neutrality is all about.
Tritto
Please do not twist my point into saying people should not be able to profit from their work. That is not what i said. The problem of piracy has a lot to do with the wacko pricing models set by greedy executives and publishers.
Not to mention the whole idea of: buy the album, buy the cassette, buy the CD, sorry your CD got scratched...pay another $17 for the CD, or for $.99 get a low bit rate DRM laiden track that you can only play on a single hardware device.
huh? if you sell CDS....100 at $20 or 1,000,000 at $10, which earns more profit? The cost of manufacturing a CD is pennies. You fail again.
BTW - Nice, job modding yourself up only to keep getting modded down by the community. How much do you get paid to post astroturf forums?
how could it have ps3-itis if it is not for sale yet? No one knows if it is going to sell millions or tank. It goes on sale on the 29th. once all the hype has died down around the initial release, we will all know for sure if Apple has another hit or failure.
Thank you for agreeing with my point that there is no competition. So again, back to the original point, the outrageous pricing set by the MAFFIA and some software producers is making piracy very attractive to people. The old business model is dead.
Trent Reznor only has one more record to make to fulfill his slavery obligations. He says he will go direct to the fans with $4 CDs (this was linked from Slashdot a few weeks back). Will he actually do it...time will only tell, but the writing is on the wall. The days of the leeching MAFFIA are numbered. My money should go directly to the artist...they are the ones with the talent. They are the ones producing the art. The internet is the distribution channel.
Lower prices mean more sales. It really is that simple.
Your analogy fails....computers and music are totally different. Apples to Oranges. Music was overpriced _then_, and it _is_ today. So you validated my point. Thank you.
So please tell me my choices in buying the Beatles CD? I guess choice to you is...well, you can go to Target or Best Buy. That is not choice. It is the same price fixed CDS from the same distributer, from the same record company.
Please stop with the market speak nonsense. The is no free market at work here. There is a monopoly. If you want a particular band, you have a single source for it. Pay their price high prices or pirate. There is no choice. Again, you can not understand that people want music. I will gladly pay for it, if the price is right. Otherwise, f that, i will download. I have paid for the record album, Cassette tape, already. Why pay a third time for the same material? I don't pay for a car three times.
Again, wrong on the allofmp3.com deal. They asked the RIAA in the USA, mind you for pricing, which did not even get a response. And to your point, Apple basically dictated the terms to the MAFFIA. Pretty crazy, huh?
But you did say they fucked you. Try some logic...."prices have fallen for the past 20 years". So if they have been falling they must have been really high to begin with. (Since you like bold so much). And they are still too high. some cd's cost $20 now. LOL! Oh yeah, because of all the "competition".
Yes, in a format i want. That is how i want it. And evidentally, most people want it in those same ways. Again, allofmp3.com allowed for this. This is not hard to do. People buy the crap formats, again, because there is no choice. Please wake up. Stop drinking the cool-aid.
I can see you wanting to change the argument to something you can control, however i dont play that. My point stands...a big driver of piracy is the outrageous pricing by the MAFFIA and Software makers. I can see your posting history clearly illustrates your defending of the MAFFIA extortion world. My logical conclusion is you are part of the leeching system and direct sales cut you out of the feeding trough that the people with real talent create.
"Because enough people will pay for it at that price." because you have no choice. You see piracy because there is no other way to get it except at a very high price...so people pirate it. Please, i know the, the RIAA is still trying to recover the costs of the Beatles CD's. All the marketing to sell the Beatles. CD's cost so much to manufacture. All the studio time for those Beatles CD's. All the production costs... yeah, they need to charge $17 to cover all that.
I suggest you read up a bit more on allofmp3.com, they DO PAY the Russian version of the MAFFIA. The US version of the MAFFIA refused to do business with them even after allofmp3.com approached them on several occasions to try and work something out. Out right lies. You work for the MAFFIA?
Your last point makes no sense. So you are say they raelly fucked people 20 years ago, and prices have been falling so they are not fucking you as hard now. Well, at least they use K.Y. now. Prices are still too high!!!. $17 was too high years ago, and it is still _too_ high today. The MAFFIA is a total racket...no talent executives making money off people with talent. The business model is changing and they are a dying breed. No need for the middle man.
Why does my Beatles purchase need to "...invest in any further music"? I dont want to pay for a no-talent marketing boy band. Good bands dont need to be marketed in the internet age. The cream rises to the top. Always has, always will. The internet lets the artists get directly to the fans without a leeching distribution chain.
Again, this may be hard for you to grasp, but people pirate because they do not have a reasonable means of getting the music or software. The MAFFIA have been convicted of price fixing several times now... And they offer no modern way of getting music except DRM laiden low bit rate crap formats.
LOL, you attempts at retorting my points are laughable. "So your argument fails twice over" LMAO! Keep the nonsense coming, i look forward to reading your ill-informed response. Get back to your astro-turfing
You fail to consider what i see as the main driver of piracy....price. Why does a Beatles CD cost $17? The Beatles recorded back in the 60's. The Beatles toured in the 60's. Why is the price so high? So the record labels can promote the next no talent boy band? So the no talent, leech, executives can stay in coke and hookers?
AllofMp3.com had/has the best online music site bar none. You could get just about any format you want, any bit rate you want, etc... And it was priced to encourge you to buy more music. No bullshit DRM. No outrageous pricing. It was priced per MB. So the better quality the recording, the more you will pay. A reasonable model...not perfect...but reasonable.
Why do people pirate Photoshop? Beacuse it costs an arm and a leg. Personally, i use Gimp, which suits my needs. Hell, even Paint.net does most anything a non-professional could want.
The main driver of piracy is the ridiculously high prices charged by the MAFFIA and software producers.
"Love Will Find a Way" by the band: "Yes", album: "Big Generator"
Before we go interupting hurricanes, perhaps we should better understand why they form? Basically they exchange energy between the oceans and the atmosphere. If we "preempt" the formation of hurricanes, what consequences would that have to the earth?
These storms do form for a reason. And the amount of energy released by these storms is enormous.
so what exactly is this history you keep talking about yet not specifying?
How can you blame unions for the US auto industry failure? Unions did not design the crappy cars coming out of the big three. Unions did not cut out R&D from the budget. Unions did not force the big three to "diversify" rather than reinvest in newer production lines and tools. Unions do not force GM to pay out stock dividends when they should be keeping that money to invest in better designs and quality.
By far, the largest contributor to the failure of the Big Three is due to complete and total mis-management. If you are not designing cars people want to buy, surprise, surprise, no one is going to buy them. If no one is buying your cars, then you are going to have trouble paying the bills. Bills like health-care and pensions.
Sure because according to the FCC, i have seven ISP's to choose from, right? So i have Verizon, Comcast and .... (sure wish i knew who the other five broadband providers were)
I tried Eve Online and was so bored i could not stand it. I tried really hard to like the game but there was just no content. Fly this package here. Fly this package there. Oh, go ahead and cook yourself dinner and eat it because it is going to take 30 mins to jump 12 times to get to your destination.
Combat is a total snooze. Click Orbit at 2500km. Click auto fire. yawn....
If there is anything worth while in that game, the developers sure do not know how to get you into it. The 3+ day tutorial is WAY too long. I almost quit after just that. Where was the interesting stuff?
I can not believe no one has seen through this nonsense. This is a simple dog and pony show for the net neutrality debate. The telcos add this fee to the cost...the mighty FCC steps up and smacks down the telco monopolies. See...the FCC will protect us against these monopolies...we dont need net neutrality laws.
Of course the FCC will not do anything once the telco monopolies start extorting web sites for money. The FCC is bought and paid for.