What's to prevent people from PAYING FOR THE FUCKING MOVIE?
The whole "reform copyright" argument is about three inches from losing every last shred of integrity. Looks like it was always about nothing except "I want it, therefore I don't have to pay for it."
This is a false dilemma. There is no such thing as "misses the market." This is the same publisher-invented artificial thinking that leads to six-week releases and bargain bins.
Probably leads to about 3 out of 10 really good games being canceled every year.
Let's replace the Internet (and throw 20 years of work away in the process) so everyone can download music and movies (which they usually claim they don't like anyway) for free (destroying 30% of the economy in the process).
The |337 ones, running from Starbucks to Starbucks, desperately trying to download the last 15 minutes of "Legally Blonde 2"...all so they can save the cost of a medium pizza.
100,000 people download a few million files and suddenly Itunes is a success?
Yep. Pretty easy wasn't it? Fucking genius. Pure and simple right fucking genius. Wow! How could we all have missed it? Maybe we were too busy worrying about Johnny Warez and his flimsy-ass 14.4 kpbs house-o-uploads?
Billions of files are traded over P2P file sharing networks by hundreds of millions of people.
And NOBODY FUCKING CARES!!! They're STILL MAKING MONEY BY THE FUCKLOAD!!! It's absolute GENIUS!!
Itunes is about as much of a success as some of the micropayment sites are
Yeah? Where's the $5 million micropayment site since April?
Its MAC USERS!
Now multiply by 35 and you get the revenues when this thing makes it to Windows. It's FUCKING GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!
"Customers?" What "customers?" The P2P guys are getting stuff for FREE.
Free != non-customer
Spending 35 minutes to find and download one mp3 track is also not free. Break out the cost of the Internet connection, then the time, then the cost of the CD-R. Now that it's fair, the business will be more competitive.
They're also "sticking it to The Man," as well,
Yeah, for 75 cents. Big fuckin' deal. Wake me up when they find Utopia.
Businesses like this will sell data, people will pay for it and they will make millions. Apple has already proved it will work. They will also sell books, movies, animations, music, and all manner of other things. Deal.
You are aware that the second your avaerage customer downlaods a track from your site it will begin to swirl about the planet freely on P2P networks across which you will receive no compensation?
Where all the wonderful customers can wait in line behind 971 other Pringles-eating warezzzz d000dz to download one track on a flimsy 2.1 kbps dial-up connection.
Meanwhile, this service's customers will be able to pull high-quality reliable downloads for four bits (or whatever the price is).
Who's gonna have happier customers? Yeah. Thanks for playing.
And the registered electorate could elect a third-party candidate in the U.S. Presidential election. And that has happened, um, zero times?
Congratulations, you're only one herring short of the seafood combo plate.
Most shareholders give their proxy to the board of directors by default because they don't reply to the annual notice, which means that the BOD controls everything.
For exactly as long as the shareholders allow them, and not one second longer.
But most people don't own enough shares to be able to exert any real control.
And most people are idiots, and most people shouldn't bother to vote and most people can't find the "on" button, and blah blah blah blah blah... Nice red herring.
The shareholders can vote to dissolve the Board. The shareholders can vote to change the management structure. Shareholders can do *ANYTHING* in a corporation.
Second, stockholders in most companies have very little control over the top management and their compensation (I think plunder would be a better word). That is in the hands of the board of directors who all happen to be CEOs in other companies.
Wrong. The shareholders have absolute, total control over everything in a corporation.
For example, during the intro, we see the same artwork (various faces) used over and over again using a variety of different animation effects.
Perhaps in order to make you happy, they should spend a couple hundred man-years painstakingly drawing, one dot at a time, ultra-high-resolution chroma paintings for each frame?
The people who make decisions will always insist on the quick solution, because business today is all about the "slap a label on it and sell it now" approach.
Discussion of this topic beyond the initial suggestion almost always brings out invincible skepticism from everyone else in the discussion, none of whom will believe there is sufficient intelligence present to do the right thing(tm) (because they, naturally, are the smartest people in the world, and they can't figure it out).
Developers who insist are usually the first to be fired, because they are right, mainly, and because they are also failing to be "team players" which means "agree, even when we are wrong." These programmers were exhaustively qualified as the smartest candidates in the history of employment, of course, before they were hired, but they are universally perceived as wrong when it matters.
Taking the time to do things right is risky, but since there are so many risk-averse whining idiots involved, things are almost never done right.
There have been many attempts at micropayment systems. Some with accounts. Some prepaid. Some with anonymous digital cash. They all have failed so far.
It's so fucking easy to be a skeptic, isn't it? So fucking easy...
except my favorite band, which has their entire repertoire on iTunes
(Somewhere along the line, the word BULLSHIT begins to appear around the edges of the argument until you realize that the people who bitch the most are the ones who just want it all, and they want it all for free)
Flash content is dead content as for the most part:
Oh, horseshit.
HTML is a display-only format that:
1) Looks different on every computer 2) Looks different on every browser 3) Can't display a consistent font, ever. 4) Doesn't print consistently, or display images consistently 5) Although a page-layout language, has no support for the basics of page design, like headers, footers, footnotes, page numbers, tables of contents or indexes.
And yes, I have hand-coded 700-page sites, using Perl, CSS, DHTML, XSLT and Javascript on Linux for Apache with a text editor.
I have also used Flash, and there are areas where Flash beats seven shades of crap out of HTML/CSS. Period.
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What's to prevent people from PAYING FOR THE FUCKING MOVIE?
The whole "reform copyright" argument is about three inches from losing every last shred of integrity. Looks like it was always about nothing except "I want it, therefore I don't have to pay for it."
misses the market.
This is a false dilemma. There is no such thing as "misses the market." This is the same publisher-invented artificial thinking that leads to six-week releases and bargain bins.
Probably leads to about 3 out of 10 really good games being canceled every year.
Let's replace the Internet (and throw 20 years of work away in the process) so everyone can download music and movies (which they usually claim they don't like anyway) for free (destroying 30% of the economy in the process).
Sounds great.
Now, if you can't make a quick buck at it, there's no reason to do it.
Thus the abject fuckitude of just about everything worthwhile in society.
Plus 5
"I need to eat"
"Waah, I want everything for free."
Same old fucking argument. Same stupid suggestions. If you repeal copyright, the economy will collapse, utterly.
Copyright will not be repealed. Just pay for the FUCKING MOVIE.
The |337 ones, running from Starbucks to Starbucks, desperately trying to download the last 15 minutes of "Legally Blonde 2" ...all so they can save the cost of a medium pizza.
100,000 people download a few million files and suddenly Itunes is a success?
Yep. Pretty easy wasn't it? Fucking genius. Pure and simple right fucking genius. Wow! How could we all have missed it? Maybe we were too busy worrying about Johnny Warez and his flimsy-ass 14.4 kpbs house-o-uploads?
Billions of files are traded over P2P file sharing networks by hundreds of millions of people.
And NOBODY FUCKING CARES!!! They're STILL MAKING MONEY BY THE FUCKLOAD!!! It's absolute GENIUS!!
Itunes is about as much of a success as some of the micropayment sites are
Yeah? Where's the $5 million micropayment site since April?
Its MAC USERS!
Now multiply by 35 and you get the revenues when this thing makes it to Windows. It's FUCKING GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!
"Customers?" What "customers?" The P2P guys are getting stuff for FREE.
Free != non-customer
Spending 35 minutes to find and download one mp3 track is also not free. Break out the cost of the Internet connection, then the time, then the cost of the CD-R. Now that it's fair, the business will be more competitive.
They're also "sticking it to The Man," as well,
Yeah, for 75 cents. Big fuckin' deal. Wake me up when they find Utopia.
Businesses like this will sell data, people will pay for it and they will make millions. Apple has already proved it will work. They will also sell books, movies, animations, music, and all manner of other things. Deal.
You are aware that the second your avaerage customer downlaods a track from your site it will begin to swirl about the planet freely on P2P networks across which you will receive no compensation?
Where all the wonderful customers can wait in line behind 971 other Pringles-eating warezzzz d000dz to download one track on a flimsy 2.1 kbps dial-up connection.
Meanwhile, this service's customers will be able to pull high-quality reliable downloads for four bits (or whatever the price is).
Who's gonna have happier customers? Yeah. Thanks for playing.
(This argument is getting so FUCKING old...)
Multiple formats and qualities would be great.
Price has to be reasonable (less than $1 minimum, less than $.50 would be ideal)
Subscriptions would work in addition to per-track
CD orders would work in addition to per-track and subscriptions
Catalog site should be very plain and work very well
A more elaborate promotional site might help
Downloads should be fast and reliable
Selling mp3s is like selling webpages, people will not pay on a per site basis, EVER.
Bullshit. Pure, absolute, flowing, coffee-brown bullshit.
iTunes. Argument over. Have a nice day.
And the registered electorate could elect a third-party candidate in the U.S. Presidential election. And that has happened, um, zero times?
Congratulations, you're only one herring short of the seafood combo plate.
Most shareholders give their proxy to the board of directors by default because they don't reply to the annual notice, which means that the BOD controls everything.
For exactly as long as the shareholders allow them, and not one second longer.
And you are what age?
Old enough.
You own how many shares in how many corporations,
Several.
which have screwed you how many times?
Nice red herring. The FACT IS... shareholders control corporations.
Period.
End of story.
Lower the curtain.
Goodnight.
Drive safely.
Nice theory.
It's a fact, not a theory.
But most people don't own enough shares to be able to exert any real control.
And most people are idiots, and most people shouldn't bother to vote and most people can't find the "on" button, and blah blah blah blah blah... Nice red herring.
The shareholders can vote to dissolve the Board. The shareholders can vote to change the management structure. Shareholders can do *ANYTHING* in a corporation.
Second, stockholders in most companies have very little control over the top management and their compensation (I think plunder would be a better word). That is in the hands of the board of directors who all happen to be CEOs in other companies.
Wrong. The shareholders have absolute, total control over everything in a corporation.
For example, during the intro, we see the same artwork (various faces) used over and over again using a variety of different animation effects.
Perhaps in order to make you happy, they should spend a couple hundred man-years painstakingly drawing, one dot at a time, ultra-high-resolution chroma paintings for each frame?
Flash doesn't suck now?
"What kind of computer am I using? It says 'power' here near a button. Is that right?"
Everyone is an idiot, so we can repeal some of these amendments, right? I mean, most people don't understand them anyway, right?
While we're at it, we should have a minimum aptitude test for voters, right?
News flash: Most people are a lot smarter than you think.
The people who make decisions will always insist on the quick solution, because business today is all about the "slap a label on it and sell it now" approach.
Discussion of this topic beyond the initial suggestion almost always brings out invincible skepticism from everyone else in the discussion, none of whom will believe there is sufficient intelligence present to do the right thing(tm) (because they, naturally, are the smartest people in the world, and they can't figure it out).
Developers who insist are usually the first to be fired, because they are right, mainly, and because they are also failing to be "team players" which means "agree, even when we are wrong." These programmers were exhaustively qualified as the smartest candidates in the history of employment, of course, before they were hired, but they are universally perceived as wrong when it matters.
Taking the time to do things right is risky, but since there are so many risk-averse whining idiots involved, things are almost never done right.
Those are the facts.
Maybe they could like, you know, talk to their parents and sort of, ask them if they'll help. You know, parents?
25c is so expensive too.
There have been many attempts at micropayment systems. Some with accounts. Some prepaid. Some with anonymous digital cash. They all have failed so far.
It's so fucking easy to be a skeptic, isn't it? So fucking easy...
Horseshit.
Drive through.
Blah blah blah...
"It'll never work!"
iTunes
Blah blah blah...
"Nobody will pay for electronic content..."
except iTunes
Blah blah blah...
"Everything sux"
except my favorite band, which has their entire repertoire on iTunes
(Somewhere along the line, the word BULLSHIT begins to appear around the edges of the argument until you realize that the people who bitch the most are the ones who just want it all, and they want it all for free)
Flash content is dead content as for the most part:
Oh, horseshit.
HTML is a display-only format that:
1) Looks different on every computer
2) Looks different on every browser
3) Can't display a consistent font, ever.
4) Doesn't print consistently, or display images consistently
5) Although a page-layout language, has no support for the basics of page design, like headers, footers, footnotes, page numbers, tables of contents or indexes.
And yes, I have hand-coded 700-page sites, using Perl, CSS, DHTML, XSLT and Javascript on Linux for Apache with a text editor.
I have also used Flash, and there are areas where Flash beats seven shades of crap out of HTML/CSS. Period.