"Officials from NTT DoCoMo say the phones could receive data at 100 megabits per second on the move and at up to a gigabit per second while static. At this rate, an entire DVD could be downloaded within a minute."
Great. So not only do I have to worry about being hit by people distracted by their cell phones, I also have to worry about being hit by people distracted by watched BT'd DVDs on their cellphone.
At least they'll only be going 20 (12mph), so it won't hurt too much.
Plagiarism for profit purposes is greedy, shows undue pride, obviously Fuddrucker's web designer was envious of the Flash programmer's skill, but too slothful to acquire or implement them. Four deadly sins right there.
And the worst part was, after Fuddrucker's did all that, they went out and lustfully masturbated to pictures of his flash game, then got angry that his game was so much better than anything they could come up with, so they went off and gluttonously bathed themselves in Fuddrucker's Special Sauce to make themselves feel pretty.
So, like, wow. These guys are evil. And not just evil... but bold tagged, capital lettered, exclaimation marked, one-for-an-i'd, Kevin Spacied EV1L!
They need to drop this one as soon as possible - there's no way they're going to "win" - they either lose the case or financially wipe out a single Mom of five kids for something about which she may not have had first-hand knowledge.
Actually, no, they shouldn't drop it. They should go right to the end with this one.
Because, you see, it'll be the first of these cases to actually be tried in a court of law (instead of a backroom of extortion).
If the RIAA is really, truly, beyond any reasonable doubt, prove that they can accurately and 100%, without fail, identify and track down offenders, then they need to put that on the table. THAT will sure as hell stop a lot of people from pirating if they have solid concrete proof that they will get caught.
Or... since we live in reality... the case will be utterly and totally lost, and it will be proven that the RIAA cannot, with any reasonable amount of success, track down and identify "pirates". And then there will be this great thing called precedence. You know... for when the next time the RIAA decides to sue someone. That way, Defendant X can go to court without worrying about some odd legal loophole dogfucking them. They can just say "Your Honor, this case is identical to the case of Elektra v. Santangelo, and in that case, when the same evidence was presented, there were no justifiable grounds for a finding of guilt." And then the judge would say "Well, since there has been a precedence set by that previous case, does the Plaintiff have any other evidence to enter?" And then the RIAA will be all like "Evidence?". And then the judge will scissor kick the lawyer's head off.
Okay, that last bit was just wishful thinking, but the rest of it is pretty much (IMH-IANAL-O) what would happen.
So I say... go RIAA! Go to trial. Go the whole way... to trial... to judgment... to appeals... to final judgement. And let it all be decided once and for all.
I think the business model goes slightly beyond just buying and selling ad space.
Here's how it can work to Google's advantage:
1) Google buys up a whole bunch of bulk, untargetted adspace. Since they're buying in bulk, they get a nice discount. Since its untargetted, it's also cheaper
2) Google then sorts all their bulk stuff by catagory/demographic. "Okay, we have X pages of 18-24 year old sports car drivers, X pages of 14 year old makeup girls, X pages of 65+ dental salve, etc...". Chances are, because of GoogleAds, they already have a good chunk of the market research done as to what demo fits where.
3) Now there are the companies who want to advertise. Normally, these companies pay big bucks to market researchers, who in turn tell the companies "This demographic likes your product, and this is where you should advertise it, because that advert space targets your demographic".
4) Google approaches these companies, and says "Hey, company Y. We know your demo is this (because of GoogleAds), and we have X pages worth of advertising that targets your demo (and we know that because of GoogleAds). If you want to buy some adpsace, let us know"
5) Now, Google can sell small chunks of advertising to those companies at a good price, because Google bought untargetted ads in bulk. Those companies in turn save a pretty penny, because they don't have to pay market researches to tell them WHERE to advertise. Also, they don't have to pay the adspace people directly. They save money there because they wouldn't have bought in bulk (more expensive), and would have bought targetted adspace (more expensive).
So, Google buys up ads cheap, and sells them for a reasonable price to companies, who in turn save money buy not having to pay both marketting and ad firms.
Profit? {shrug} I guess Google's stocks will tell.
It's a messaging thing, pure and simple. From the copyright owner's perspective, if you're willing to sue even the most minor violators, the major violators have more to fear from you. So since you can find and harm the minor violators, imagine what the real pirates have to fear.
If you see it in the context of sending a signal to the major violators, it's easier to understand, IMO.
wtf? That makes no sense at all!
By your logic, if I were to go and shoot a member of the I.R.A. for crimes their "terrorist" group commited, then Osama bin Laden will "get the message" that I can hunt him down any time I want, so he better beware.
Does that make ANY sense to you?
Suing a BT user doesn't send any message to the head of a major pirating organization. Hell, if I was the head of a major pirating organization, the only message I'd take from the suing of an individual BT user would be "Hey, this is great for me! You guys can only go after small peas, and can't find me. Fucking pussies. Please, continue to expend your time, effort and resources going after end users, and don't bother trying to find me."
Federal authorities have already seized over $3 million in cash, luxury cars, and houses."
Okay, great. Now that just means things'll be quiet for a couple months, and then it will be business as normal.
If we really want to stop future spam, here's what we can don:
Sieze the customer list.
Send each of those customers a bottle of cyanide pills, but label the bottle "Teh Medz u 0rdred!!!!!!!"
Pass the customer list on to Poison Control, so they can block the phone numbers.
Now you've eliminated the customer base of spam messages. With no customers, spamming won't be profitable ($3 Million?!?!). If it's not profitable, it'll stop.
And this is the exact reason why I insist on my students using nothing put a plain-old-fashion-dollar-store calculator on their tests. Otherwise, it is far too easy to cheat. They can store functions and answers in memory or previous lines. Heck, some of them can store entire sections of the text book. And once they have the answer, there are calculators that can beam data to other calculators.
Not to mention wifi enabled calculators that can broadcast the test to the entire school.
And now movies? Oh, I can just imagine the ways to cheat with that one. "Hello, and welcome to Calculus For Dummies: The Movie"
For a buck, you can get a calculator that will do addition, subtraction, etc. For about ten dollars, you can get one that does trig as well.
Is this sort of like how (I assume) these companies make much more money selling lifetime treatments for the symptoms than trying to cure the cause?
Curing the cause is very simple, actaully. All what needs to happen is for every single person* with AIDS were to spontaniously combust and incinerate themselves right now.
Do they realy think that the folks that own barelylegal.com (for example) are going to relinquish their.com domains and move to.xxx? All this does is create a money making opportunity for those who register.xxx and nothing more.
And even then, it won't be much of a money making thing..com is ingrained in minds of today's surfing audience. If I'm looking for porn, I'll go to screwmehard.com. I won't even think about.xxx. I mean, what are they going to do? Have a big "Hey, have you heard about.xxx?" advertisment campaign?
And what about the... ah... less scrupulous porn distributors. How many of them own sites like googke.com? It's easy to mistype one letter in the URL. It's not easy to mistype the entire suffix. If it was.cum, maybe. But mistaking.xxx for.com? I don't think so.
...Or at least fast forward/rewind within a song/track, now that would be very nice for longer songs... I'm yet to see a portable device that can do that,
It cost me a year's worth of interest to have that money out of my bank account. And the CPwhatevers have been collecting a year's worth of interest on it.
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Great. So not only do I have to worry about being hit by people distracted by their cell phones, I also have to worry about being hit by people distracted by watched BT'd DVDs on their cellphone.
At least they'll only be going 20 (12mph), so it won't hurt too much.
And the worst part was, after Fuddrucker's did all that, they went out and lustfully masturbated to pictures of his flash game, then got angry that his game was so much better than anything they could come up with, so they went off and gluttonously bathed themselves in Fuddrucker's Special Sauce to make themselves feel pretty.
So, like, wow. These guys are evil. And not just evil... but bold tagged, capital lettered, exclaimation marked, one-for-an-i'd, Kevin Spacied EV1L!
I mean, seriously. When are these going to end? Haven't we had enough joke artc...
Wait. (Reads TFA).
They're serious?
Whoa. I think that permanetly put me off musical theater.
Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Safety Enforcement Team... FUCK YEAH!
Fighting to save the motherfucking world!
Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Safety Enforcement Team... FUCK YEAH!
Actually, no, they shouldn't drop it. They should go right to the end with this one.
Because, you see, it'll be the first of these cases to actually be tried in a court of law (instead of a backroom of extortion).
If the RIAA is really, truly, beyond any reasonable doubt, prove that they can accurately and 100%, without fail, identify and track down offenders, then they need to put that on the table. THAT will sure as hell stop a lot of people from pirating if they have solid concrete proof that they will get caught.
Or... since we live in reality... the case will be utterly and totally lost, and it will be proven that the RIAA cannot, with any reasonable amount of success, track down and identify "pirates". And then there will be this great thing called precedence. You know... for when the next time the RIAA decides to sue someone. That way, Defendant X can go to court without worrying about some odd legal loophole dogfucking them. They can just say "Your Honor, this case is identical to the case of Elektra v. Santangelo, and in that case, when the same evidence was presented, there were no justifiable grounds for a finding of guilt." And then the judge would say "Well, since there has been a precedence set by that previous case, does the Plaintiff have any other evidence to enter?" And then the RIAA will be all like "Evidence?". And then the judge will scissor kick the lawyer's head off.
Okay, that last bit was just wishful thinking, but the rest of it is pretty much (IMH-IANAL-O) what would happen.
So I say... go RIAA! Go to trial. Go the whole way... to trial... to judgment... to appeals... to final judgement. And let it all be decided once and for all.
You're right. It is much easier to make money (for Google, at least) with online ads than with offline ads.
But...
If they do both, then that's even more money they're making. They're not doing offline ads to replace their online ones, just to suppliment them.
So if the offline ads crash'n'burn, then they still have their online ads to fall back on.
Here's how it can work to Google's advantage:
1) Google buys up a whole bunch of bulk, untargetted adspace. Since they're buying in bulk, they get a nice discount. Since its untargetted, it's also cheaper
2) Google then sorts all their bulk stuff by catagory/demographic. "Okay, we have X pages of 18-24 year old sports car drivers, X pages of 14 year old makeup girls, X pages of 65+ dental salve, etc...". Chances are, because of GoogleAds, they already have a good chunk of the market research done as to what demo fits where.
3) Now there are the companies who want to advertise. Normally, these companies pay big bucks to market researchers, who in turn tell the companies "This demographic likes your product, and this is where you should advertise it, because that advert space targets your demographic".
4) Google approaches these companies, and says "Hey, company Y. We know your demo is this (because of GoogleAds), and we have X pages worth of advertising that targets your demo (and we know that because of GoogleAds). If you want to buy some adpsace, let us know"
5) Now, Google can sell small chunks of advertising to those companies at a good price, because Google bought untargetted ads in bulk. Those companies in turn save a pretty penny, because they don't have to pay market researches to tell them WHERE to advertise. Also, they don't have to pay the adspace people directly. They save money there because they wouldn't have bought in bulk (more expensive), and would have bought targetted adspace (more expensive).
So, Google buys up ads cheap, and sells them for a reasonable price to companies, who in turn save money buy not having to pay both marketting and ad firms.
Profit? {shrug} I guess Google's stocks will tell.
Then it's not absolutely any, is it?
If you see it in the context of sending a signal to the major violators, it's easier to understand, IMO.
wtf? That makes no sense at all!
By your logic, if I were to go and shoot a member of the I.R.A. for crimes their "terrorist" group commited, then Osama bin Laden will "get the message" that I can hunt him down any time I want, so he better beware.
Does that make ANY sense to you?
Suing a BT user doesn't send any message to the head of a major pirating organization. Hell, if I was the head of a major pirating organization, the only message I'd take from the suing of an individual BT user would be "Hey, this is great for me! You guys can only go after small peas, and can't find me. Fucking pussies. Please, continue to expend your time, effort and resources going after end users, and don't bother trying to find me."
You're absolutely right. Because, as we've learned from Russia, when a spammer get's busted, the busting is being done to their ass with a cap.
Okay, great. Now that just means things'll be quiet for a couple months, and then it will be business as normal. If we really want to stop future spam, here's what we can don:
Now you've eliminated the customer base of spam messages. With no customers, spamming won't be profitable ($3 Million?!?!). If it's not profitable, it'll stop.
Tah-dah.
Because, like, if it does... then totally: fuck yeah!
Huh. Well, who'da thunk it.
I mean, seriously folks-- there is a reason why these things are mocked.
Of course not. That's silly and ridiculous.
It will implode.
Not to mention wifi enabled calculators that can broadcast the test to the entire school.
And now movies? Oh, I can just imagine the ways to cheat with that one. "Hello, and welcome to Calculus For Dummies: The Movie"
For a buck, you can get a calculator that will do addition, subtraction, etc. For about ten dollars, you can get one that does trig as well.
Yeesh.
Curing the cause is very simple, actaully. All what needs to happen is for every single person* with AIDS were to spontaniously combust and incinerate themselves right now.
Wait for it... wait for it...
*and animal and test tube
And even then, it won't be much of a money making thing. .com is ingrained in minds of today's surfing audience. If I'm looking for porn, I'll go to screwmehard.com. I won't even think about .xxx. I mean, what are they going to do? Have a big "Hey, have you heard about .xxx?" advertisment campaign?
And what about the... ah... less scrupulous porn distributors. How many of them own sites like googke.com? It's easy to mistype one letter in the URL. It's not easy to mistype the entire suffix. If it was .cum, maybe. But mistaking .xxx for .com? I don't think so.
Travel the galaxy. Visit exotic planets. Fart on them.
Ohhhhhhh... If you want it to be possessive, it's just "ITS." But, if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's "I-T-apostrophe-S,"
scalawag
Any palm pilot with Pocket Tunes can do that.
I pine for thee!
Well, in that case I don't want my $25 back.
I want my $25 + a year of interest back.
It cost me a year's worth of interest to have that money out of my bank account. And the CPwhatevers have been collecting a year's worth of interest on it.
I really, really want to be working at the courthouse when the request to subpoena bob_the_godfucker_38761's frag record.
The advertiser who only bought the "cheap, sucky pacakge".
Coke will shell out the $500,000 to have their ads in Safehaven Town Square. Bob's House of Turnips will get their $15 worth.
(Sorry, that's Bob's House of T*SPLORTCH*)