If making millions of pounds a year profit is classed as failure, I would love to see your idea of success.
I think he meant they 'know it's failing'. Their method worked in the past, but now it's a dying paradigm. It's still working well enough because were all used to the idea of exchanging money for a tangible good. But when everyone gets adjusted to the idea of only getting bits of data for their money, then the music industry will be toast... unless they come up with a new business model.
I agree that extorting a government is a bit much, but I think threats of taking your business elsewhere is a common practice. I'm doing some IT work for a friends business and we usually get to talking about business in general. Basically, 95% of there products come from China--actually, an importer buys them from China, and then they buy them from the importer. Well, we found out where the factory is in China and decided to buy directly from the source. This will work for a few months until the importer figures out what is going on. He'll then say to the factory, "I'm 80% of your profit! Stop selling to them or else". And then the factory will (most likely) tell us to get lost. I know of one factory that took it as an idle threat and they've since gone out of business.
But I agree that a corporation has no right 'negotiating' foreign policy. I don't know why I wrote all that... I guess I'm bored.
I don't know. There is this story about a potential lawsuit that followed in the wake of the blog. The point is that an insignificant blog can bring up an issue that affects a lot of people.
Then what is the point of backups. Since I lost/damaged the original I guess I have to distroy the backup as well?
If you resell/trade/give away the software/movie/music, then you have to destroy your backups because the original is now being used by someone else. If you just lost it... that's why you have a backup. If you want to sell the original and keep your back up and then by some chance the **AA kicks down your door, by all means, tell them your just lost the original... I don't care. Of course, IANAL and I don't keep up-to-date with current copyright laws, so for all I know it is illegal to make a backup.
This is based on somebody's little rant in a personal blog? Wake me up when CNN actually publishes anything that even remotely resembles introspection on copyright laws. Better yet, write these screeds to congressfolk, not to kitty14@aol readers. The world won't change just because people are bickering around in blogs.
Why does it have to be recognized by an 'authoroty' figure to be valid? Remember that "somebody's little rant in a personal blog" that caused a hugh uproar over the way EA treats their employee's?
Person walks into Best Buy with laptop. Shoplifts DVD. Doesn't get caught. Gets home and copies DVD to Laptop Hard Drive. Fair use. No penalty. When raided, person says, "Lookie here you MPAA bastards - I own an original copy, fair use."
Your not protected under fair use since it's not really yours. But they don't know that, so you can sue them for... well, no you can't, your not a mega-millionaire.
Person walks into Best Buy with laptop. Shoplifts DVD. Doesn't get caught. Gets home and copies DVD to Laptop Hard Drive. Fair use. Feels remorse for Best Buy shareholders. Returns DVD to Best Buy.
Your sued to oblivioun. You no longer posses the original copy and hence should've destroyed all copies made.
Oh they will negotiate, they want more foreign aid. It's standard US policy that any nuclear attack on the US will lead to nuclear retalitation. That is a card North Korea can bluff with but never play. Even if they did, they would be lucky if any of their missles could hit the continental US. Sorry Hawaii ^_^.
Who cares about Hawaii. If they can hit Hawaii, they can hit Japan, and taking out Japan would have a far greater effect on the U.S.
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I agree that extorting a government is a bit much, but I think threats of taking your business elsewhere is a common practice. I'm doing some IT work for a friends business and we usually get to talking about business in general. Basically, 95% of there products come from China--actually, an importer buys them from China, and then they buy them from the importer. Well, we found out where the factory is in China and decided to buy directly from the source. This will work for a few months until the importer figures out what is going on. He'll then say to the factory, "I'm 80% of your profit! Stop selling to them or else". And then the factory will (most likely) tell us to get lost. I know of one factory that took it as an idle threat and they've since gone out of business.
But I agree that a corporation has no right 'negotiating' foreign policy. I don't know why I wrote all that... I guess I'm bored.
Pfizer is actually working on Longhorn with hopes of keeping it up longer and giving it that spine-tingling performance
Your sued to oblivioun. You no longer posses the original copy and hence should've destroyed all copies made.