No one is saying piracy is having a dramatic affect on film sales yet. It will eventually.
That's partly true I think but the drive in Piracy would be more due to the way the studios try to fragment their markets in different regions, to maximise their own profits.
The internet has made the planet a truly global community and they have to relase globally, not try to stagger around the planet with Theatrical releases/DVD Releases and even different dates for TV premiere's.
In Australia we still cannot get video/TV on iTunes because of this or get access to other such online content because its all being restricted, so many people resort to pirace to see what they want and not wait 3-6 months(Up to a year some times) later.
Like the music industry the movie industry will only end up hurting itself by trying to contain online content rather then let it flourish in an open market, the more they put online for fair prices the more people will pay. Just take phone ring tones as an example of how people are willing to spend money on absolute crap. If more people could get movies at those prices they would be making huge sales.
Everyone knows that Apple is the cool kid in the school ground, and everyone knows that when the cool kid brings a new shiny API to school every other program wants to use it.
These other poor little browsers are unable to use the new API and feel depressed, because they know they are not cool enough to use it. You know what happens to depressed programs, they work slower and tend to rebel against their users.
Depressed Firefox App: "HTTP request? HTTP request? Stuff you! Here's a friggin 404!! I hate myself!" *starts cutting self*
Music piracy is the new gateway drug, I can't way to see the propaganda, sorry "educational" videos in the style of those movies such as Reefer Madness.
Innocent teenager downloads a couple of songs with some mates off the internet for a bit of a laugh. Fast forward 6 months and he's wandering around the streets with a gun and portable hard drive leeching music off people at gunpoint.
I've been involved with club and event promotions in Melbourne for about 6 years.
When I first started out, all the DJ's across Trance/House would only DJ with Vinyl and CD's were unheard of. In the past 12-18 months though that's all changed. Vinyl sales are down as DJ's and enthusiasts are all moving to CD's. CDJ's are now excellent quality and offer much more dynamic mixing abilities with better effects, beat matching and looping and sampling. At the same time, tracks being produced are instantly available on MP3 which allows DJ's to purchase fresh hits the day the producer is happy with it, other then having to wait for tracks to be pressed to vinyl.
I believe this trend has followed Europe where they have been progressively been moving away from Vinyl in the past 2-3 years.
Vinyl is still excellent, I still love to collect it, but technology has finally caught up in the club scene where MP3 and digital music now offers much much more advantage to the DJ, especially in price. Buying 5-6 new records per week to play in clubs is expensive, when you can buy the same tracks for 3-4 dollars each online and burn them to CD.
When I look at people's computers these days they have heaps of different software popping up asking for updates, its got to a point where people ignore it, because its much too common.
The thing that annoys me most about update alerts is they never give you a reason why the software should be updated. It would be nice if they would give you a link or a summary of simple reasons why you need to actually update their free crapware.
Java and adobe products are probably the worst with this.
Which included great "quotes" such as this gem
Ralph Wiggum reported slabs of Smirnoff spirit-based drinks were selling for $240, and cans of spirits for $10.
Just recently in Melbourne a newspaper journalist lifted comments posted on a forum and reported them as fact in a sensationalised article, without confirming or verifying with the authenticity of the comments, when in fact some of the comments on the forum had been made as satire.
This was then published in Australia's highest selling newspaper.
People may write unsubstantiated rubbish, but as soon as some lazy journalist finds it and treats it is fact in mainstream media, it can be very damaging for an individual or business.
I've had a lot of people bring me infected PC's with smitFraud, that the big AV's have not even recognised or been able to properly remove, they have been pretty angry that the $90 or so they paid for a complete Internet Security product was not able to protect them.
It causes windows to pretty much choak and die as it just consumes so many resources and provides so much irritation, but major products like Trend or Symantec have not been able to successfully protect or remove them, I have had to use custom written tools that you get off the net for free. They really dropped the ball with that one.
In Soviet Russia, performance enhancing drugs find you!!
Tracking the athletes with GPS won't do diddly squat with couriers, and the post delivering them to their homes.
"Performance enchancing drugs? When have I had the time to buy that, between the 8 hours of training I do a day in the gym and the 8 hours of ebaying I do at night!"
I've been registered for a few days since I heard about it.
I have to say, I really like it. Once signed up I can listen to every song in full, and fair enough the site is littered with ad's, but I am getting legal music streaming for free.
I just load a playlist, minimize the window and let it play, its not really that invasive, I haven't had to sell a kidney, or hand my sould over to the devil.
Is it any coincidence that Microsoft has done this? Piracy does help them to a certain extent, it pushes their products into markets where people cannot afford them, or just flat out don't want to pay for it, which still ultimatley counts towards their market share.
I don't think the laws have adapated to the fact that people are happy to give away copyrighted material for absolutley nothing. There are two types of groups breaking copyright now.
The actual pirates, copying material and selling it for their own commercial gain, to the detriment of the owner of the IP, and then you have the kids, mothers, grandmothers, students and anyone else dabbling in copyright infringment for personal use.
As with many drug laws in many countries, they have developed laws to severley punish the dealers and producers trying to use drugs for commercial gain, and have a seperate set of punishments for users, only interested in getting high, not making a profit.
This should be taken into consideration in copyright law as well I think. Someone is not recieving fair legal judgment when they are brought up on civil claims designed to punish commercial copyright pirates, for freely sharing, not for profit.
People don't really learn a lesson when you send them bankrupt for sharing 3 or 4 songs with JoeSixpack up the street, they only end up resentful, and make a lot of loud noise which gives your company a very very bad public image.
Overworked definatley is an understatement my job at the moment.
I work in a small company, we effectivley are an external IT department to small business, which can be demanding juggling break/fix work and developing and implementing multiple projects at any one time.
At the moment while my boss is on holiday's I'm working 16 hour days covering his work load and my load and it definatley is a strain on what I can take.
Of course, the clients don't realise how hard you work, and when they log a job with you and you say it will be fixed by the morning, they never stop to think that you actually fix the problem at 1-2am in the morning for them.
I have had the same problem with Asus not providing XP drivers for the new F3 series notebooks on the Santa Rosa platform.
There are no XP drivers for it, and one of my clients was given 3 of them as part of a grant. Unfortunatley the applications that need to run on them don't work in Vista so they are sitting there gathering dust till either
A) Asus release drivers
or
B) the developer supports Vista, which they have said they are not doing till SP1
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That's partly true I think but the drive in Piracy would be more due to the way the studios try to fragment their markets in different regions, to maximise their own profits.
The internet has made the planet a truly global community and they have to relase globally, not try to stagger around the planet with Theatrical releases/DVD Releases and even different dates for TV premiere's.
In Australia we still cannot get video/TV on iTunes because of this or get access to other such online content because its all being restricted, so many people resort to pirace to see what they want and not wait 3-6 months(Up to a year some times) later.
Like the music industry the movie industry will only end up hurting itself by trying to contain online content rather then let it flourish in an open market, the more they put online for fair prices the more people will pay. Just take phone ring tones as an example of how people are willing to spend money on absolute crap. If more people could get movies at those prices they would be making huge sales.
Everyone knows that Apple is the cool kid in the school ground, and everyone knows that when the cool kid brings a new shiny API to school every other program wants to use it.
These other poor little browsers are unable to use the new API and feel depressed, because they know they are not cool enough to use it. You know what happens to depressed programs, they work slower and tend to rebel against their users.
Depressed Firefox App: "HTTP request? HTTP request? Stuff you! Here's a friggin 404!! I hate myself!" *starts cutting self*
Music piracy is the new gateway drug, I can't way to see the propaganda, sorry "educational" videos in the style of those movies such as Reefer Madness.
Innocent teenager downloads a couple of songs with some mates off the internet for a bit of a laugh.
Fast forward 6 months and he's wandering around the streets with a gun and portable hard drive leeching music off people at gunpoint.
OH GOD THE HUMANITY!!!!!!
Microsoft? News Corp?
How about Halliburton put in a bid just to make it an even trifecta.
I wonder if Halliburton buy a search engine, would Bush finally be able to find Bin-Laden?
I would have just replied "Sorry, we can only read ODF, what us being communist hipppy pirates and all"
I've been involved with club and event promotions in Melbourne for about 6 years.
When I first started out, all the DJ's across Trance/House would only DJ with Vinyl and CD's were unheard of. In the past 12-18 months though that's all changed. Vinyl sales are down as DJ's and enthusiasts are all moving to CD's. CDJ's are now excellent quality and offer much more dynamic mixing abilities with better effects, beat matching and looping and sampling.
At the same time, tracks being produced are instantly available on MP3 which allows DJ's to purchase fresh hits the day the producer is happy with it, other then having to wait for tracks to be pressed to vinyl.
I believe this trend has followed Europe where they have been progressively been moving away from Vinyl in the past 2-3 years.
Vinyl is still excellent, I still love to collect it, but technology has finally caught up in the club scene where MP3 and digital music now offers much much more advantage to the DJ, especially in price. Buying 5-6 new records per week to play in clubs is expensive, when you can buy the same tracks for 3-4 dollars each online and burn them to CD.
When I look at people's computers these days they have heaps of different software popping up asking for updates, its got to a point where people ignore it, because its much too common.
The thing that annoys me most about update alerts is they never give you a reason why the software should be updated. It would be nice if they would give you a link or a summary of simple reasons why you need to actually update their free crapware.
Java and adobe products are probably the worst with this.
It's not like they are the only manufacturer to make televisions.
Let them invent their own standard if they want to, with blackjack, and hookers!
The reporter who wrote the article was actually Annalise Walliker about a dance party. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22903261-2862,00.html
Which included great "quotes" such as this gem
Ralph Wiggum reported slabs of Smirnoff spirit-based drinks were selling for $240, and cans of spirits for $10.
Which I find kind of Ironic when in university she conducted a survey about a problem with the community and journalistic credibility http://fifth.estate.rmit.edu.au/a-credibility-crisis.php
Just recently in Melbourne a newspaper journalist lifted comments posted on a forum and reported them as fact in a sensationalised article, without confirming or verifying with the authenticity of the comments, when in fact some of the comments on the forum had been made as satire.
This was then published in Australia's highest selling newspaper.
People may write unsubstantiated rubbish, but as soon as some lazy journalist finds it and treats it is fact in mainstream media, it can be very damaging for an individual or business.
I've had a lot of people bring me infected PC's with smitFraud, that the big AV's have not even recognised or been able to properly remove, they have been pretty angry that the $90 or so they paid for a complete Internet Security product was not able to protect them.
It causes windows to pretty much choak and die as it just consumes so many resources and provides so much irritation, but major products like Trend or Symantec have not been able to successfully protect or remove them, I have had to use custom written tools that you get off the net for free. They really dropped the ball with that one.
In Soviet Russia, performance enhancing drugs find you!!
Tracking the athletes with GPS won't do diddly squat with couriers, and the post delivering them to their homes.
"Performance enchancing drugs? When have I had the time to buy that, between the 8 hours of training I do a day in the gym and the 8 hours of ebaying I do at night!"
I've been registered for a few days since I heard about it.
I have to say, I really like it. Once signed up I can listen to every song in full, and fair enough the site is littered with ad's, but I am getting legal music streaming for free.
I just load a playlist, minimize the window and let it play, its not really that invasive, I haven't had to sell a kidney, or hand my sould over to the devil.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/04/1331246&from=rss
Is it any coincidence that Microsoft has done this? Piracy does help them to a certain extent, it pushes their products into markets where people cannot afford them, or just flat out don't want to pay for it, which still ultimatley counts towards their market share.
I don't think the laws have adapated to the fact that people are happy to give away copyrighted material for absolutley nothing.
There are two types of groups breaking copyright now.
The actual pirates, copying material and selling it for their own commercial gain, to the detriment of the owner of the IP, and then you have the kids, mothers, grandmothers, students and anyone else dabbling in copyright infringment for personal use.
As with many drug laws in many countries, they have developed laws to severley punish the dealers and producers trying to use drugs for commercial gain, and have a seperate set of punishments for users, only interested in getting high, not making a profit.
This should be taken into consideration in copyright law as well I think. Someone is not recieving fair legal judgment when they are brought up on civil claims designed to punish commercial copyright pirates, for freely sharing, not for profit.
People don't really learn a lesson when you send them bankrupt for sharing 3 or 4 songs with JoeSixpack up the street, they only end up resentful, and make a lot of loud noise which gives your company a very very bad public image.
Maybe not, but I'm sure the RIAA would be interesting in suing your family.
Dear Grieving Parent,
Please accept our condolences for the unfortunate death of your son. Attached to this letter
is a fine for breach of copyright of that songs he illegally pirated over the course of his short tragic life
we hope you will pay this fee promptly otherwise we will be forced to take further action, either in court
or procuring your next born child.
Once again we wish to express our deep regret at your son passing and we hope to see some bank soon.
Insincerely
Some RIAA asshat
Fun for all the kids!
My first methlab
When netcraft confirms Windows is dead?
Free with an extra 85mb of bloatware added to it
Overworked definatley is an understatement my job at the moment.
I work in a small company, we effectivley are an external IT department to small business, which can be demanding juggling break/fix work and developing and implementing multiple projects at any one time.
At the moment while my boss is on holiday's I'm working 16 hour days covering his work load and my load and it definatley is a strain on what I can take.
Of course, the clients don't realise how hard you work, and when they log a job with you and you say it will be fixed by the morning, they never stop to think that you actually fix the problem at 1-2am in the morning for them.
I have had the same problem with Asus not providing XP drivers for the new F3 series notebooks on the Santa Rosa platform.
There are no XP drivers for it, and one of my clients was given 3 of them as part of a grant.
Unfortunatley the applications that need to run on them don't work in Vista so they are sitting there gathering dust till either
A) Asus release drivers
or
B) the developer supports Vista, which they have said they are not doing till SP1
He managed to cut out step 3. and go straight to profit!!
If only the parent was on some advisory committee!!!
Students only go to uni to leech movies and music and drink underage, getting a degree is just a bonus!!!
By the time Uranium runs out we will probably learn more about how to cause mass destruction with Fusion.
Requiring Deuterium, which is pretty abundant, its a lot more scary.
The hard part is getting the tritium needed for the reaction.
Come back to me when they have worked out how to grow a new liver.
*Pours bourbon into coffee & gets on with another ISP support call*