Sounds all warm and fuzzy until your watermarked copy gets on a Torrent site and then the MPAA sends you a bill for a couple million dollars for the 1,000 download copies it was able to identify via the watermark.
Better hope your laptop never gets stolen. If it does, just sign over your home and all other assets to Jack Valenti.
Why not use the RFID chip in my new national ID card to serve as the tracking method for voting? If that isn't secure enough, we could use Patriot Act warrantless wiretaps to listen for anyone talking about voting twice. If we catch anyone, send them to Gitmo to be water tortured until they tell us how they did it. Then that person's name (say 'John Smith' for example) would be placed on a national "Do Not Vote" list and there would be no recourse for getting his/her named removed.
Simple, effective, and uses existing technology. Why are this voting machine companies trying to re-invent the wheel?
a.) Just look at the impact the Washington sniper had back in 2002. You don't need a dirty bomb, you don't even a shoulder launched missile. If terrorists wanted to fuck with us, they could buy OTC weapons, spread out to a dozen major metropolitan areas, and start shooting random civilians. This country wouldn't know what the fuck was going on, it would cripple us, people would be hiding in their basements, and average Muslims would be running for Canada afraid of reprisals. It would be much more devastating than even 9/11.
b.) If my chances of dying in a terrorist attack are so fucking high anyway, please let me have my tax money back so I can go on vacation and buy some gifts for my GF in the limited time I have left on this planet.
...ever since "Suicide Bomber Monthly" went out of business. I used to charge my subscription on my Visa card, but they closed up shop. Something about not being able to maintain a long-term subscriber base. I guess everyone was signing up for the 30-day free trial and then not subscribing. Huh...
the MPAA and RIAA have announced that they have jointly purchased the USS Iowa with plans to full refurbish the decommissioned battleship to full fighting capability...
Most people are aware by now of the limitations they face with iTMS files, and yet it's the 4th biggest source of music worldwide (first for downloads).
I disagree. I don't think that most people buying music from ITMS have any idea of how negative DRM is and the pitfalls that could potentially be in-store for them by buying DRM'ed music. The majority of people that I see using iPods on the street are what I call YMCs (Young Marketing Chicks). Not exactly the people that have technology savvy or really much perception of anything beyond the latest fad (the perfect iPod demographic).
Forget the deficit and the war in Iraq, this president made the summer longer!
When you are playing catch with your son in the backyard at 8:30pm on Nov 3rd, take a moment to thank the man responsible!
The algorithm goes something like this:
1.) Name the Ivy League school where you received your MBA.
2.) Did you do both your undergrad and grad work at Stanford?
3.) If female, is your blonde hair natural? How much over 5'6 tall are you?
So, YouTube is going to build an automated system that can tell that the movie clip in my video is part of my online review of said movie and is thereby covered under fair use? Or that my video which uses a famous pop song is a parody of that song and also covered by fair use?
The only way to build a system to detect copyright infringement is to ignore fair use. I'm sure that makes the MPAA and the RIAA happy, but it really isn't viable.
The best thing an employee can do in my experience is NOT INTERNALIZE the firm's business, and be aware that almost EVERY ACTION by a boss is done to manipulate you to HIS ENDS. Objectivity goes a great way. FEND FOR YOURSELF and realize that your skills and experience determine your market value - and realize that a bosses' power relies totally on the self-sacrifice of those under him.
This is probably the best career advice I've ever seen. It is not overly negative. It is very wise.
Stop buying your kid iTunes gift cards and get him a membership on emusic.com. First, you'll be supporting a non-DRM music service. Second, you'll expose your kid to really amazing music that he isn't likely to find on iTunes. He might complain a little at first because the latest pop crap isn't on emusic, but as his music tastes develop and he learns that chicks dig guys who know good music, he'll say "thank you".
"In order to protect our children and prevent terrorist attacks, the information you requested has been classified. In addition, if you aren't doing anything illegal, you don't need this information anyway. You aren't doing anything illegal, are you?"
Use one or more of the following:
1.) "We have launched our own internal investigation..."
2.) "We are cooperating with authorities..."
3.) Imply that the offending personnel have long since left the company...
4.) Imply that CEO was unaware of wrong-doing...
5.) Use the phrase "a few bad apples..."
Apple can't use #5 (for obvious reasons), but they have used the other four. Sounds about as believable as Tony Snow discussing Iraq...
You were close. Here is the actual business plan...
1) Raise a bunch of investor capital (done) 2) Use the capital to buy out the WiMax spectrum at auction (done) 3) Raise more money with an IPO 4) Pay executives huge salaries and cash out overinflated stock options 5) Watch company fail due to inherent technical issues 6) Bail out just before company files bankruptcy or is acquired for peanuts 7) Hit the beach
This case will never see the inside of a courtroom. The issues and the business at stake is too important to both sides to roll the dice with some judge whose idea of "new technology" is a touch tone telephone.
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Sounds all warm and fuzzy until your watermarked copy gets on a Torrent site and then the MPAA sends you a bill for a couple million dollars for the 1,000 download copies it was able to identify via the watermark. Better hope your laptop never gets stolen. If it does, just sign over your home and all other assets to Jack Valenti.
Pitch to Consumers: It's not DRM!
Reality: Polished turd.
Why not use the RFID chip in my new national ID card to serve as the tracking method for voting? If that isn't secure enough, we could use Patriot Act warrantless wiretaps to listen for anyone talking about voting twice. If we catch anyone, send them to Gitmo to be water tortured until they tell us how they did it. Then that person's name (say 'John Smith' for example) would be placed on a national "Do Not Vote" list and there would be no recourse for getting his/her named removed. Simple, effective, and uses existing technology. Why are this voting machine companies trying to re-invent the wheel?
a.) Just look at the impact the Washington sniper had back in 2002. You don't need a dirty bomb, you don't even a shoulder launched missile. If terrorists wanted to fuck with us, they could buy OTC weapons, spread out to a dozen major metropolitan areas, and start shooting random civilians. This country wouldn't know what the fuck was going on, it would cripple us, people would be hiding in their basements, and average Muslims would be running for Canada afraid of reprisals. It would be much more devastating than even 9/11.
b.) If my chances of dying in a terrorist attack are so fucking high anyway, please let me have my tax money back so I can go on vacation and buy some gifts for my GF in the limited time I have left on this planet.
a.) screwing customers b.) avoiding work c.) both
...but that doesn't mean I feel the need to attend a WWE event.
Does the carpet match?
...ever since "Suicide Bomber Monthly" went out of business. I used to charge my subscription on my Visa card, but they closed up shop. Something about not being able to maintain a long-term subscriber base. I guess everyone was signing up for the 30-day free trial and then not subscribing. Huh...
I am not a criminal. DRM assumes that I am. That is why DRM, in any form, is unacceptable.
...you'll see Steve Jobs' picture next to the definition.
If you can't spell retarded, you are a total looser!
the MPAA and RIAA have announced that they have jointly purchased the USS Iowa with plans to full refurbish the decommissioned battleship to full fighting capability...
I disagree. I don't think that most people buying music from ITMS have any idea of how negative DRM is and the pitfalls that could potentially be in-store for them by buying DRM'ed music. The majority of people that I see using iPods on the street are what I call YMCs (Young Marketing Chicks). Not exactly the people that have technology savvy or really much perception of anything beyond the latest fad (the perfect iPod demographic).
Forget the deficit and the war in Iraq, this president made the summer longer! When you are playing catch with your son in the backyard at 8:30pm on Nov 3rd, take a moment to thank the man responsible!
The algorithm goes something like this: 1.) Name the Ivy League school where you received your MBA. 2.) Did you do both your undergrad and grad work at Stanford? 3.) If female, is your blonde hair natural? How much over 5'6 tall are you?
...when they stop making DVDs that play in my five year old DVD player. This is like Beta v. VHS, but nobody cares.
So, YouTube is going to build an automated system that can tell that the movie clip in my video is part of my online review of said movie and is thereby covered under fair use? Or that my video which uses a famous pop song is a parody of that song and also covered by fair use? The only way to build a system to detect copyright infringement is to ignore fair use. I'm sure that makes the MPAA and the RIAA happy, but it really isn't viable.
This is probably the best career advice I've ever seen. It is not overly negative. It is very wise.
Stop buying your kid iTunes gift cards and get him a membership on emusic.com. First, you'll be supporting a non-DRM music service. Second, you'll expose your kid to really amazing music that he isn't likely to find on iTunes. He might complain a little at first because the latest pop crap isn't on emusic, but as his music tastes develop and he learns that chicks dig guys who know good music, he'll say "thank you".
1.) Girlfriend 2.) Social life 3.) Exercise
"In order to protect our children and prevent terrorist attacks, the information you requested has been classified. In addition, if you aren't doing anything illegal, you don't need this information anyway. You aren't doing anything illegal, are you?"
My credit card and money would more secure if I left it sitting on a Moscow park bench...
Use one or more of the following: 1.) "We have launched our own internal investigation..." 2.) "We are cooperating with authorities..." 3.) Imply that the offending personnel have long since left the company... 4.) Imply that CEO was unaware of wrong-doing... 5.) Use the phrase "a few bad apples..." Apple can't use #5 (for obvious reasons), but they have used the other four. Sounds about as believable as Tony Snow discussing Iraq...
You were close. Here is the actual business plan...
1) Raise a bunch of investor capital (done)
2) Use the capital to buy out the WiMax spectrum at auction (done)
3) Raise more money with an IPO
4) Pay executives huge salaries and cash out overinflated stock options
5) Watch company fail due to inherent technical issues
6) Bail out just before company files bankruptcy or is acquired for peanuts
7) Hit the beach
This case will never see the inside of a courtroom. The issues and the business at stake is too important to both sides to roll the dice with some judge whose idea of "new technology" is a touch tone telephone.