But illegal downloading far outstrips legal downloading. What the article is really talking about is what would it take to get nearly everyone downloading music legally. I believe that his price point would probably do it as it is an almost disposible amount of money to consumers. And hey, you would have a legal download, too.
Now the why not 10 cents argument is valid, but I think its still basically a curve. Where 5 cents is the point at where almost everybody leagally downloads music, I think 10 cents might be the point at which half of the people leagally download music.
The music industry is being greedy, not logical when they determine their pricing right now. We we already burned on the change from cassettes to CD which were going to be much cheaper once they were adopted. So the real feeling allowing people to live with the fact that they're illegally downloading music is that the price for music is obscenely high. No CD is worth $ 16, most aren't even worth $ 13, some aren't even worth $ 2.
In real manufacturing, real market forces cut the margins down, but with the recording industry prices are artifically set by the RIAA.
If the recording idustry took an honest look at their options this 5 cents/download option would make them huge amounts of money and save them boatloads on legal fees and bribes for government officials.
I thought that was one of the main things business schools are teaching today.;-) I just read an article last week (The Economist I think) where a noted economist wrote a paper stating that a lot of what has been considered good business practice taught to MBAs turned out to be very poor in reality.
Isn't it the point that VoIP packets should have the highest priority to avoid latency issues, but the tradeoff is that VoIP is low bandwith allowing the majority of the bandwidth to be used for everythinge else?
My only problem with that is that you'd be willing to pay a couple of bucks and the original poster sain a dollar per episode.
The thing is that I don't trust that the price of episodes will be $1. What happens if they want to charge $5 per episode? Would you still buy it then? What if your only chioce is PPV, if they have the do not copy bit on, it might be, and you might not be home during the original air time? Now does paying $5 for something you used to be able to record and watch later really really piss you off. It should.
They won't be reasonable with the price. Hell, theres already been what, 3, stories about how the RIAA things that $1 per song is way TOO LOW.
Don't by into this, don't give up your fair use recording rights for the "promise" of downloadable TV for a "reasonable" price. The greed of the people who will be setting the prices knows no bounds.
My store did that too. I told them I would never return. Now I'm not a really big renter, but they are out $ 40 so far.
According to the manager of the store, I was supposed to ask if they were participating. They had no signs anywhere stating this fact. I bet they made a killing on late fees in January here. I bet they made a lot less money so far this month.
This was pure bait and switch. The consumer relates the local franchise to the main corporation (thats the idea of franchises!!!). So consumers had every right to think their blockbuster would be participating. Of course they're right about it being their choice. But, how many times has McDonalds had a promotion and the one you go to is not participating? I can't think of one time a food franchise in my town has ever not participated in a corporate promotion.
can't that simulation extrapolate backwards and forwards within some margin of error?
Yes, it can, but your margin of error will increase the farther ahead/back you go, and probably at an increasing rate.
Also, factors with longer frequencies than your dataset could becoming back into play, and you wouldn't be able to see them because their last occurance would be outside your dataset.
It'd be nice if they'd put in a low-cost replacement program for damaged DVDs, though.
Yeah, it'd be nice.
How about they make it the law that if I don't have fair use rights to make a backup, then they are obligated to provide 1 for 1 replacement of damaged media.
Oh wait, I forgot, all laws benefit the MPAA, screw the people who ACTUALLY buy their product!
Every time I see how AOL's browser is based on Internet Explorer, I can't help but imagine the meeting in a few years where AOL will have to license the technonogy again.
The meeting ends with a line from Microsoft sounding somthing like "One Trilllion Dollars," then maniaical super villan laugh.
That's the problem you can't. There isn't enough data.
You're looking at 150 or so years of decent climate data for the Earth. Then you've got ice cores and geological data which can fill in more data but with longer time rates for their measurements.
Its not that theres a X year cycle and we should be able to see that, its that there are cycles on top of cycles and large drops and increases in temperatrure of the Earth over its history. You have to deal with cycles on a geologic timeframe, on a solar timeframe, and with many many other factors affecting everything.
It is an absolute certainty that we don't have enough data to prove anything definitively in the climate arena.
That why it makes such a fun political topic for so many people!!
Its not pay per view that I'm worried about. Pay per view is crap, I won't do pay per view. As noted before, you can just rent the DVD and then you don't have to watch the show at "their" time.
My worry is that eventually the networks will get into the act and throw the copy bit on for a major network show. They'll do this to "defend" their coveted timeslot for one of their best shows. What happens next is that you will have millions of very, very pissed off people who will not be able to record their favorite program later.
The network will of course say "tough" and demand its viewers on its terms at its time. It is their dream TV back to the, watch it only when its on way from before VCRs. They'll finally be able to kill off recording like they so desperately want to. They will be happier then hell.
Until....
What I believe will happen next is that millions of people will put so much pressure on Congress. Yes, I'm serious about this. It will become one of the most important issues in the country. The media will try to poo poo it, but some will cover the controversy and word of mouth will be rampant for this.
Congress will be forced to do something to restore our fair use rights. I don't see any congressperson who doesn't restore our rights gettting reelected. Screw social security, if I can't record CSI, there will be hell to pay. It sounds silly but its true.
Its also more serious than that. If they stop the recording of TV, they will be emboldened. We will copmletely lose control of our TVs, our music, and , worst of all our PCs. We will lose control of all our devices, constantly asking (paying for) permission to do what they allow. Its utterly evil. You would think that an industry that turned its worst nightmare into a multi-billion dollar business 20 years ago would realize that they have exactly the same chance today, but they're trying the same thing today they did then. If they suceed this time, they will finally earn their reward they didn't get last time which is the death of their industry.
Hear, hear. I agree. Now if we could only get the government to keep Fox news from reporting what they want to and force them to report the correct information..... Oh wait, that's not the point you wanted to make is it?
One thing I wonder about this is: Will HDTV's end up with cable card slots to decrypt the code. In this case it might be concievable that you could setup a myth box to capture the raw data based on the schedule and have the HDTV do the decode on playback.
Then the requsite contracts would not be necessary as myth would not decode the video, the TV would do that.
So, do you put your hands over you're ears and yell "I'm not listening" when its reported that CBS fabricated documents in order to run a 60 Minutes story to bash the president?
Forget how much you "belive" what they were saying was true, the journalists on CBS manufactured evidence to fit their story in order to make it "true".
When you go around preaching about the evils of having liars on television and then go on to point out only liars whose political beilefs don't agree with your own, you're just a hypocrite.
You don't give a damn about fair journalism, you just don't want anyone talking about views you don't agree with.
Heres what I hate about communist comparisons to open source. In real world communism government control and management of resources is a given.
In Open Source, the resources are compeltely open. Owned by the community of course with the stipulations of the GPL keeping the code (resouces) owned by the community. Now no one really owns the code (yes, Linus is the Benevolent dictator of Linux), anyone can use it and anyone could fork it if desired.
The communist model breaks down (or really doesn't apply), because the resource (code) is completely free.
Its not "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", its more like "From each according to his desires and ability, to each according to their wants." I think the latter phrase there really shows that open source has drives coming from communism and from capitalism.
Open Source isn't like some other revloution or idea from another time. Its a great new idea and revolution for this time!
Wow, its amazing to see two post in a row both being so wrong.
First, if we didn't have the Sun, yes the Earth would get really, really cold. No way geothermal energy would be able to offset that.
On the other hand, the molten core of the Earth has very little to do with the Sun's light.
You actually had it right when you said gravity. Gravity causes the core to be molten under the intense pressure. Its got nothing to do with the Sun. The core would stay warm without sunlight, but the surface would be really really cold.
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But illegal downloading far outstrips legal downloading. What the article is really talking about is what would it take to get nearly everyone downloading music legally. I believe that his price point would probably do it as it is an almost disposible amount of money to consumers. And hey, you would have a legal download, too.
Now the why not 10 cents argument is valid, but I think its still basically a curve. Where 5 cents is the point at where almost everybody leagally downloads music, I think 10 cents might be the point at which half of the people leagally download music.
The music industry is being greedy, not logical when they determine their pricing right now. We we already burned on the change from cassettes to CD which were going to be much cheaper once they were adopted. So the real feeling allowing people to live with the fact that they're illegally downloading music is that the price for music is obscenely high. No CD is worth $ 16, most aren't even worth $ 13, some aren't even worth $ 2.
In real manufacturing, real market forces cut the margins down, but with the recording industry prices are artifically set by the RIAA.
If the recording idustry took an honest look at their options this 5 cents/download option would make them huge amounts of money and save them boatloads on legal fees and bribes for government officials.
I know, hence the wink.
But honestly there were quite a few professors not happy with the report.
Yeah, really, but don't worry, you're not alone. Quite a few Business School Professors had no idea either... ;-)
Just don't try to micromanage.
;-) I just read an article last week (The Economist I think) where a noted economist wrote a paper stating that a lot of what has been considered good business practice taught to MBAs turned out to be very poor in reality.
I thought that was one of the main things business schools are teaching today.
Isn't it the point that VoIP packets should have the highest priority to avoid latency issues, but the tradeoff is that VoIP is low bandwith allowing the majority of the bandwidth to be used for everythinge else?
My only problem with that is that you'd be willing to pay a couple of bucks and the original poster sain a dollar per episode.
The thing is that I don't trust that the price of episodes will be $1. What happens if they want to charge $5 per episode? Would you still buy it then? What if your only chioce is PPV, if they have the do not copy bit on, it might be, and you might not be home during the original air time? Now does paying $5 for something you used to be able to record and watch later really really piss you off. It should.
They won't be reasonable with the price. Hell, theres already been what, 3, stories about how the RIAA things that $1 per song is way TOO LOW.
Don't by into this, don't give up your fair use recording rights for the "promise" of downloadable TV for a "reasonable" price. The greed of the people who will be setting the prices knows no bounds.
Or it _could_ be this.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villanay." -- Obi Wan Kenobi, Star Wars
Yeah, you can, and I have been tempted to. But I find it really hard to get the audio commentary on my copy recorded from TV. ;-)
I'm a sucker for audio commentaries.
My store did that too. I told them I would never return. Now I'm not a really big renter, but they are out $ 40 so far.
According to the manager of the store, I was supposed to ask if they were participating. They had no signs anywhere stating this fact. I bet they made a killing on late fees in January here. I bet they made a lot less money so far this month.
This was pure bait and switch. The consumer relates the local franchise to the main corporation (thats the idea of franchises!!!). So consumers had every right to think their blockbuster would be participating. Of course they're right about it being their choice. But, how many times has McDonalds had a promotion and the one you go to is not participating? I can't think of one time a food franchise in my town has ever not participated in a corporate promotion.
Anyway, they've lost my business forever.
can't that simulation extrapolate backwards and forwards within some margin of error?
Yes, it can, but your margin of error will increase the farther ahead/back you go, and probably at an increasing rate.
Also, factors with longer frequencies than your dataset could becoming back into play, and you wouldn't be able to see them because their last occurance would be outside your dataset.
Especially on the recursive acronyms... The first time was clever, the second time - still cute, the third time - starting to get old.
Theoretically, if it were truly a recursive acronym, it would never end!!!
The lawyer in this case can sure make a hell of a lot more money suing Wal-Mart then he could by suing the parents, thats all.
I'm sure if the parents were multi-billionares they'd be getting sued to.
The diminishing impact of persnoal responsibility in the country is directly proportional to its increasing litigiousness.
Deep Space 9 was forced to adopt story arcs because of pressure from Babylon 5.
It made DS9 far stronger a show than it would have been without the competition.
Now, with Enterprise, it looks different. Instead of stepping up to the plate and doing better, they're just packing up.
It'd be nice if they'd put in a low-cost replacement program for damaged DVDs, though.
Yeah, it'd be nice.
How about they make it the law that if I don't have fair use rights to make a backup, then they are obligated to provide 1 for 1 replacement of damaged media.
Oh wait, I forgot, all laws benefit the MPAA, screw the people who ACTUALLY buy their product!
Apple sells an adapter that outputs S-Video if you do not have a DVI input on your set.
Every time I see how AOL's browser is based on Internet Explorer, I can't help but imagine the meeting in a few years where AOL will have to license the technonogy again.
The meeting ends with a line from Microsoft sounding somthing like "One Trilllion Dollars," then maniaical super villan laugh.
That's the problem you can't. There isn't enough data.
You're looking at 150 or so years of decent climate data for the Earth. Then you've got ice cores and geological data which can fill in more data but with longer time rates for their measurements.
Its not that theres a X year cycle and we should be able to see that, its that there are cycles on top of cycles and large drops and increases in temperatrure of the Earth over its history. You have to deal with cycles on a geologic timeframe, on a solar timeframe, and with many many other factors affecting everything.
It is an absolute certainty that we don't have enough data to prove anything definitively in the climate arena.
That why it makes such a fun political topic for so many people!!
Its not pay per view that I'm worried about. Pay per view is crap, I won't do pay per view. As noted before, you can just rent the DVD and then you don't have to watch the show at "their" time.
My worry is that eventually the networks will get into the act and throw the copy bit on for a major network show. They'll do this to "defend" their coveted timeslot for one of their best shows. What happens next is that you will have millions of very, very pissed off people who will not be able to record their favorite program later.
The network will of course say "tough" and demand its viewers on its terms at its time. It is their dream TV back to the, watch it only when its on way from before VCRs. They'll finally be able to kill off recording like they so desperately want to. They will be happier then hell.
Until....
What I believe will happen next is that millions of people will put so much pressure on Congress. Yes, I'm serious about this. It will become one of the most important issues in the country. The media will try to poo poo it, but some will cover the controversy and word of mouth will be rampant for this.
Congress will be forced to do something to restore our fair use rights. I don't see any congressperson who doesn't restore our rights gettting reelected. Screw social security, if I can't record CSI, there will be hell to pay. It sounds silly but its true.
Its also more serious than that. If they stop the recording of TV, they will be emboldened. We will copmletely lose control of our TVs, our music, and , worst of all our PCs. We will lose control of all our devices, constantly asking (paying for) permission to do what they allow. Its utterly evil. You would think that an industry that turned its worst nightmare into a multi-billion dollar business 20 years ago would realize that they have exactly the same chance today, but they're trying the same thing today they did then. If they suceed this time, they will finally earn their reward they didn't get last time which is the death of their industry.
Hear, hear. I agree. Now if we could only get the government to keep Fox news from reporting what they want to and force them to report the correct information..... Oh wait, that's not the point you wanted to make is it?
One thing I wonder about this is: Will HDTV's end up with cable card slots to decrypt the code. In this case it might be concievable that you could setup a myth box to capture the raw data based on the schedule and have the HDTV do the decode on playback.
Then the requsite contracts would not be necessary as myth would not decode the video, the TV would do that.
I don't mind if they put someone religous in his place.....
As long as that person also realizes that the copy bit is the devil's work!
So, do you put your hands over you're ears and yell "I'm not listening" when its reported that CBS fabricated documents in order to run a 60 Minutes story to bash the president?
Forget how much you "belive" what they were saying was true, the journalists on CBS manufactured evidence to fit their story in order to make it "true".
When you go around preaching about the evils of having liars on television and then go on to point out only liars whose political beilefs don't agree with your own, you're just a hypocrite.
You don't give a damn about fair journalism, you just don't want anyone talking about views you don't agree with.
Heres what I hate about communist comparisons to open source. In real world communism government control and management of resources is a given.
In Open Source, the resources are compeltely open. Owned by the community of course with the stipulations of the GPL keeping the code (resouces) owned by the community. Now no one really owns the code (yes, Linus is the Benevolent dictator of Linux), anyone can use it and anyone could fork it if desired.
The communist model breaks down (or really doesn't apply), because the resource (code) is completely free.
Its not "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", its more like "From each according to his desires and ability, to each according to their wants." I think the latter phrase there really shows that open source has drives coming from communism and from capitalism.
Open Source isn't like some other revloution or idea from another time. Its a great new idea and revolution for this time!
Wow, its amazing to see two post in a row both being so wrong.
First, if we didn't have the Sun, yes the Earth would get really, really cold. No way geothermal energy would be able to offset that.
On the other hand, the molten core of the Earth has very little to do with the Sun's light.
You actually had it right when you said gravity. Gravity causes the core to be molten under the intense pressure. Its got nothing to do with the Sun. The core would stay warm without sunlight, but the surface would be really really cold.
Some MythTV developers are working on an OS X port.
When I first saw the mac mini, the first thing I thought was it would make a sweet Myth frontend.