The sad thing is that I'm pretty sure neither Google or Facebook will do this.
The problem is that if SOPA passes, I think Google and Facebook will be ignored for a while. Then after gaining steam the media companies will set their sights on YouTube and have the Justice Department erase it from the internet. Google stock will tank, the NASDAQ will tank and America will yield its leadership in technology FOREVERMORE.
If SOPA passes, I am seriously contemplating never ever going to another movie in a theater, buying a DVD or renting a movie ever again. I have completely boycotted other businesses for doing much less than the pure evil that is SOPA.
Doing everything they ask is the high standard that should be aspired to.
BUT
The way to make it not be a trap that makes you have to do absolutely everything is to be able to explain that a lot of things are possible to do, but the timeframe or the resources needed are too costly to make it feasible.
Agreed. I hope that eventually Facebook will replace the page for ever representative that sponsors this bill with a page explaining how they are unfit to serve and need to be removed from congress.
Facebook is a private company that can approve or deny users at their discretion. I would like to see the SOPA supports denied its benefits when running for office next time....
Shit, if Version buys Netflix, I'd expect the most basic plan they offer will be at least $40/month and would probably have way less content than Netflix has now (newer movies will be premium service).
Hmmmmm, still looking for that DVD drive on my iPhone. But I can play any content I want through my VLC app. Yes I got it before some pretentious asshole who worked on some of the code got all pissy about GPL to the letter. Said asshole also completely disregarded the fact that a bunch of the other developers worked long and hard to port it to the iPhone. Free as in beer and speech (links to the source SHOULD be enough) software can be and have been accepted the app store. However, I do think Apple could solve the problem with OSS on the iPhone by allowing developers who give away their apps to choose to distribute them drm free from the app store.
That said I think the walled garden is a good idea for distributing android apps too. However we've also seen that their arguably more free acceptance policies have let to some malware getting in.
Say, why don't you try looking at a map or a globe and comparing the size of Germany to the size of the US. Now factor in moving goods across each country. What country would suffer more if the cost of gas goes up?
Charge $10/gallon at the pump and then sit back and watch unemployment go from 9% to 19% or more.
I'm not convinced that the dismantling of modern civilization will be less devastating that the affects of climate change.
If your trademark is part of a URL controlled by Facebook, then that's too bad. Yes, Facebook does have the control here. If Facebook removes the face book.com part, the URL is gonna be pretty useless.
On the plane of existence where if the studios get their way Netflix dies and they implement their own streaming services for $50 / month, or for $3 per movie streamed.
The studios are incorrect by nearly an order of magnitude with respect to what streaming services should cost. Netflix has set the price level, the studios better start offering them content at rates that let them keep their prices lower than twice the amount they are charging now (yes I will pay twice as much for Netflix, but not 10x).
Apple set music prices at 99 cents a song when the music industry wanted more (sure they got their 30 cents, but the music industry thought some songs should be 2-4 bucks!). The movie industry is wrong too. What the content idiots have consistently failed to do is set fair prices for the way people want to get their content.
It is far easier and more desirable for me to stream a movie over Netflix than it is to torrent it!!
Let me state that a different way. Movie studios, the good news is your privacy problems are solved, the bad news is you content isn't worth what you think it is.
If the studios succeed in killing Netflix. I will stop watching the big studio movies. Forever.
Conversely, as Netflix brings in its own original shows, I will be watching.....
Yes, that's where I'm at too. Mac OS on my laptop, Linux on my servers. It seems weird but its way better than Windows. On your PC, Linux on your servers.
Here's a better analogy. I think the content creators wanting ISPs to enforce their IP rights would be like the vendors that sell their goods at Wal-Mart insisting that Wal-Mart frisk everyone leaving the store to make sure they haven't shoplifted any goods, and then keeping whatever they find from people's pockets.
What the record companies don't realize is that what they provide is no longer required in the era of internet downloadable music.
It is curious that they "want" another competitor for iTunes because they can't compete in the internet music scene. But eventually when Amazon, Google, and iTunes control all the digital distribution and all other distribution has withered away, why will there be a need for record companies. Why shouldn't Apple, Google, and Amazon get their OWN recording artists and cut out the completely and utterly useless RIAA middlemen?
I so want Google, or Apple or Amazon or all of them combined, to buy (via hostile takeover) one of the remaining big "record" companies. Then they can fire all of the management and show the surviving companies what companies that are really innovative can do in the music industry.
The RIAA is in the unique position of selling their goods to people who hate them. I do buy music through iTunes so that I have legal copies, although I do load the DRM free music on every device I have, which I know is not what they'd prefer. But I am buying music legally.
However, if they get SOPA passed and IMHO jeopardize the entire internet (which my job is based on), I will stop holding my nose while buying music through iTunes, and just stop buying music completely.
Microsoft's Virtual PC software may be crappy. But XEN's is not.
VMWare shot themselves in the foot on this one.
We are now investigating XEN as a replacement for VMWare because of the licensing debacle.
The fact is that while we're willing to pay for good software, dramatic price increases and new licensing restrictions will lead us to look for less pricey options. Especially when VMWare is apparently punishing customers for buying large servers with a lot of memory, exactly the kind of servers we are buying.
VMWare earned themselves a trade study where they had previously been a sole source provider.
I guess if the cellphone manufacturers aren't willing to run Microsoft's mobile OS on their devices, Microsoft will just have to start acting like all the other patent trolls that don't make viable products either.
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The sad thing is that I'm pretty sure neither Google or Facebook will do this.
The problem is that if SOPA passes, I think Google and Facebook will be ignored for a while. Then after gaining steam the media companies will set their sights on YouTube and have the Justice Department erase it from the internet. Google stock will tank, the NASDAQ will tank and America will yield its leadership in technology FOREVERMORE.
If SOPA passes, I am seriously contemplating never ever going to another movie in a theater, buying a DVD or renting a movie ever again. I have completely boycotted other businesses for doing much less than the pure evil that is SOPA.
Yes, that's true, computers do processes.
But, if there had been a patent on a Turing Machine, it would be expired by now.....
So, yeah, software patents are stupid.
Doing everything they ask is the high standard that should be aspired to.
BUT
The way to make it not be a trap that makes you have to do absolutely everything is to be able to explain that a lot of things are possible to do, but the timeframe or the resources needed are too costly to make it feasible.
They only have that power if you use their services.
And the politicians have been sucked in wholesale by Facebook.
Ok, you're right. However, they were very very shortsighted.
Agreed. I hope that eventually Facebook will replace the page for ever representative that sponsors this bill with a page explaining how they are unfit to serve and need to be removed from congress.
Facebook is a private company that can approve or deny users at their discretion. I would like to see the SOPA supports denied its benefits when running for office next time....
When their actions cause Netflix's stock to nosedive such that it makes them a takeover target for Verizon, I'm damn sure going to call them spoiled.
Their bitching over the price increase is going to lead to all of us who stuck with Netflix getting screwed big time by Verizon.
Shit, if Version buys Netflix, I'd expect the most basic plan they offer will be at least $40/month and would probably have way less content than Netflix has now (newer movies will be premium service).
I just have to say the following
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
Where's the +1 Ohhhhh Yeeeeaaaah mod?
Hmmmmm, still looking for that DVD drive on my iPhone. But I can play any content I want through my VLC app. Yes I got it before some pretentious asshole who worked on some of the code got all pissy about GPL to the letter. Said asshole also completely disregarded the fact that a bunch of the other developers worked long and hard to port it to the iPhone. Free as in beer and speech (links to the source SHOULD be enough) software can be and have been accepted the app store. However, I do think Apple could solve the problem with OSS on the iPhone by allowing developers who give away their apps to choose to distribute them drm free from the app store.
That said I think the walled garden is a good idea for distributing android apps too. However we've also seen that their arguably more free acceptance policies have let to some malware getting in.
WTF?! I wish I had mod points so I could mod you -1 Tasteless
Yep. I love my locally owned telco. If they ever try to sell it off, I'll be there protesting.
They used to own the cable company too, but sold that off. Over the next decade, cable rates went way up.
But now the telco is getting into the cable business again. :-)
Say, why don't you try looking at a map or a globe and comparing the size of Germany to the size of the US. Now factor in moving goods across each country. What country would suffer more if the cost of gas goes up?
Charge $10/gallon at the pump and then sit back and watch unemployment go from 9% to 19% or more.
I'm not convinced that the dismantling of modern civilization will be less devastating that the affects of climate change.
If your trademark is part of a URL controlled by Facebook, then that's too bad. Yes, Facebook does have the control here. If Facebook removes the face book.com part, the URL is gonna be pretty useless.
Dirtiest source??! I'd say they'd have to work really hard to be dirtier than deep sea drilling has been.
On the plane of existence where if the studios get their way Netflix dies and they implement their own streaming services for $50 / month, or for $3 per movie streamed.
The studios are incorrect by nearly an order of magnitude with respect to what streaming services should cost. Netflix has set the price level, the studios better start offering them content at rates that let them keep their prices lower than twice the amount they are charging now (yes I will pay twice as much for Netflix, but not 10x).
Apple set music prices at 99 cents a song when the music industry wanted more (sure they got their 30 cents, but the music industry thought some songs should be 2-4 bucks!). The movie industry is wrong too. What the content idiots have consistently failed to do is set fair prices for the way people want to get their content.
It is far easier and more desirable for me to stream a movie over Netflix than it is to torrent it!!
Let me state that a different way. Movie studios, the good news is your privacy problems are solved, the bad news is you content isn't worth what you think it is.
If the studios succeed in killing Netflix. I will stop watching the big studio movies. Forever.
Conversely, as Netflix brings in its own original shows, I will be watching.....
Thanks for clarifying. Before that your post was amazingly cognitively dissonant with your sig.
Yes, that's where I'm at too. Mac OS on my laptop, Linux on my servers. It seems weird but its way better than Windows. On your PC, Linux on your servers.
Here's a better analogy. I think the content creators wanting ISPs to enforce their IP rights would be like the vendors that sell their goods at Wal-Mart insisting that Wal-Mart frisk everyone leaving the store to make sure they haven't shoplifted any goods, and then keeping whatever they find from people's pockets.
And that is why when I think about what Steve Jobs did to the record companies, I can't help but smile.
When it came to bringing the record companies to heel, he was extremely effective. And we all get to benefit from it.
I credit Jobs with getting rid of DRM on music, which was no small feat. It could well be his most important accomplishment.
What the record companies don't realize is that what they provide is no longer required in the era of internet downloadable music.
It is curious that they "want" another competitor for iTunes because they can't compete in the internet music scene. But eventually when Amazon, Google, and iTunes control all the digital distribution and all other distribution has withered away, why will there be a need for record companies. Why shouldn't Apple, Google, and Amazon get their OWN recording artists and cut out the completely and utterly useless RIAA middlemen?
I so want Google, or Apple or Amazon or all of them combined, to buy (via hostile takeover) one of the remaining big "record" companies. Then they can fire all of the management and show the surviving companies what companies that are really innovative can do in the music industry.
The RIAA is in the unique position of selling their goods to people who hate them. I do buy music through iTunes so that I have legal copies, although I do load the DRM free music on every device I have, which I know is not what they'd prefer. But I am buying music legally.
However, if they get SOPA passed and IMHO jeopardize the entire internet (which my job is based on), I will stop holding my nose while buying music through iTunes, and just stop buying music completely.
Microsoft's Virtual PC software may be crappy. But XEN's is not.
VMWare shot themselves in the foot on this one.
We are now investigating XEN as a replacement for VMWare because of the licensing debacle.
The fact is that while we're willing to pay for good software, dramatic price increases and new licensing restrictions will lead us to look for less pricey options. Especially when VMWare is apparently punishing customers for buying large servers with a lot of memory, exactly the kind of servers we are buying.
VMWare earned themselves a trade study where they had previously been a sole source provider.
ooops.
Exactly. Microsoft used to think of themselves as the biggest baddest software company out there, now they're bragging about patent trolling.
This is a leading indicator that they are beginning to circle the drain.
I guess if the cellphone manufacturers aren't willing to run Microsoft's mobile OS on their devices, Microsoft will just have to start acting like all the other patent trolls that don't make viable products either.
I agree. I was very interested in iCloud, but I never expected it to replace my invaluable dropbox.
iCloud is for my music, movies, contacts. Basically storage for my iDevices.
Dropbox is for my documents.