Dear Sir,
Your mention of a memorable song that might be whistled while walking down the street not only infringes our copyright by summarising several of our copyrighted works, but also describes two methods of circumventing technological copyright protection systems, and for this reason is in violation of the DMCA. We have taken the liberty of estimating the loss caused to us by your actions, and the final sum is $42,001,390. Your bill is in the mail.
All your base are belong to us,
The RIAA
Revolutions, also known as insurgencies, rebellions and terrorism, are illegal. The silly US government seems to have forgotten about its main lobbyist group, the US people, who are paying by far the biggest lobbying bribes in the form of taxes. It seems that taxes have been around for so long that they have come to take them for granted. Unfortunately tax evasion is also illegal.
Well whaddya know! They're back again, and looking good for a nice early knockout by Brazil or Italy, one of which will also knock us out if we somehow scrape our way to the semis.
With two of the world's major internet countries making such an early exit, I'd be rejecting the idea of a meltdown even if it wasn't just a piece of ignorant sensationalist trash.
There have been at least two front page stories about the redesign contest, and Rob ran a long series of comments-enabled journal entries about designs he liked. There has been a constant stream of tonnes of feedback since this thing started.
Reminded me of a hilarious advert on UK television a while back. It used to make me laugh so much that I can't remember who it was about or what they were selling, but basically it had loads of mundane stuff like meetings and presentations, only it all took place about 100m in the air above a city, and businesspeople were somersaulting into their chairs, and throwing their notes over their heads to be caught by a guy on a motorbike who sped them away. It was something to do with "the digital network economy", and was basically a perfect visual representation of hype.
Making the link between this and my views on Web 2.0 As A New Wave of Innovation is a task left to the reader. No points will be awarded for answering this question.
Re:more proof the RIAA/MPAA are insane
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maybe start coming up with reasonable alternative business models if you want to see devices like this suceed
Wrong. They come up with the business model to react to us buying things like that in droves. And they are doing just that, so ner.
As funny as that would be, bear in mind that nobody really cares. It's interesting to see how excited you (singular or plural) have got over the suggestion though. OMG ATTENTION!!!!!
While you're there, check out the database tool here. With the database tool, you can quickly gain karma by reposting highly-moderated slashdot posts, and secure the +1 bonus for future jihad operations.
Since you're apparently desperate for us to pay attention to you today, let's rephrase that.
While you're there, check out the database tool here. With the database tool, you can quickly make lots and lots of fascinating queries that antislash.org may or may not be able to handle, but whatever, the important thing is pissing people off, right? So what if antislash has to take one for the team, right?
Perhaps Rob should run an editorial on antislash and give us some examples of complex queries that give interesting insults. I'm sure thousands and thousands of us would be interested in seeing the results, over and over again.
You're completely ignoring my point. Most people pirating TV shows do so because that is currently the best way to get TV shows. The 'juicy gap' is to provide TV shows in an online format which is more convenient than bittorrent, and that's not hard at all. If you've been paying attention in the slightest, you already know that they're starting to do this anyway, and together with the blossoming of sale of shows over the internet, the creator of bittorrent himself is working on this very sort of thing as we speak.
Your argument is nothing more than regurgitated MPAA propaganda. Though they know exactly what is going on with the market, and are adapting to it, in the meantime they must ensure that the pirates continue to look like the bad guys. Hence the 'piracy will kill good TV' idea. It's all part of the idea war. If people en masse were to realise that there other are factors involved in piracy beyond simply being a cheapskate, they might start to apply that logic to other areas.
All that anyone needs is demand, and there's plenty of that. It's just shifting to a different format and a different distribution model. There will be rampant piracy until they step up and give us what we want. And if your current overlords fail, fear not, because more deserving people will happily seize the juicy gap in the market with both hands, and you'll have your precious programming anyway.
And yes, filesharing isn't ideal, but it exists for a reason. If the content creators were handling things properly on their end, providing things in the format people wanted, at a price they found acceptable, there would be much less piracy.
With both sides being immoral, there's only one logical conclusion: humans aren't as good as we think we are. And hey, some people (you) get to feel superior to everyone else because of it. Bonus!
incredibly expensive shows like 24 and Lost WON'T EXIST if they can't make money
Welcome to the world of tomorrow! They'll adapt their business model eventually, and they'll start making shows available online. Or they'll keep their hands clamped over their ears and shout "LALALALA!" louder and louder until they go out of business. You're one of these people who thinks that it's the customer's duty to give a shit about producers, and that's just not the way it's supposed to work.
Vansterwhatever sounds like small fry, but FolkPartyYes is "the third largest party in the Swedish parliament and currently is in the opposition bloc", which makes it pretty fucking major. ROTFL!
Your analogy sucks balls. The Pirate Bay would be more analogous to a gun distributor, with the actions of gun owners as their own responsibility. And even then the analogy only sucks balls a tiny bit less. In Anarchist Slashdot, balls suck analogies.
Welcome to the entire fucking debate. What you think is a suitable definitive closing statement to simply spit out, the rest of us call 'the topic at hand'.
Employee theft in shops, ATM fraud, tax fraud... all rolled into one unsymmetrical ball and used to argue in favor of software liability. What?
Have you ever bought an apple? Did you notice that you could just take it and eat it pretty much as soon as you wanted? Apples are really cool, though they are a little vulnerable to flies. The vendors' solution is to sell apples more cheaply.
Oranges are no different. For years I have argued in favor of ready-to-eat oranges. Orange vendors are in the best position to do this. But unfortunately, they don't have much interest. Features and profitability are more important. Ready-to-eat oranges will change all that. They'll align flavour with convenience and synergise exciting new solutions.
One last story.... bananas thought they had a great idea: having a thick peel that was also easy to remove. But then monkeys found out and we all know how that ended.
That was a great idea, but it didn't work very well. Customers, especially monkeys, don't like to be stopped by peel.
Flavour must be aligned with convenience, but you have to be careful how you synergise solutions.
If you're going to make your entire post a guess at my reasoning, at least put some effort into your guess. In fact my reason is fairly strongly implied by the sentence I used: image definition quality is not a good enough reason to buy a new TV. As miserably as you may have failed, it was a good attempt at being an ElitismBuster.
His point isn't that kids need to learn to fear the undead, but that that kind of theme which is common in videogames is also nothing new.
Re:Video Games as the Next Art Medium?
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Gamers seem to be caught up with trivial aspects of games. Graphics, console wars & and status seeking has torn apart the community. Did Shakespeare bitch and moan about his lack of fonts? Did Plato refuse to write on shitty papyrus based paper? Did Mozart refuse to write music because he didn't have the right instruments yet--or a mixer for that matter? Did Fritz Lang stop making motion pictures because he didn't have color film and light meters?
You have producers and consumers confused. Mozart's listeners might well have demanded that the organisers of a concert brought in some decent instruments. Mozart and people like him most likely had the same effect that the producers of videogames do today: to improve the quality of their medium.
The reason gamers and the gaming community are the way they are is because they are still a subset of nerds, and let's be honest, nerds are assholes about this kind of stuff. The publishers pander to it as well, as demonstrated by the ongoing penis war between Microsoft's and Sony's GPU technology. When you no longer have to be a "gamer" to play games (just as people who can read aren't seen as some sort of bizarre literati), things will start to mature.
In the meantime, however, it's been really beneficial. If it hadn't been for this constant obsession with stats, we might still be finding ourselves drooling at the likes of Mario 64. It's starting to wear thin now, though. Buy a new TV just to make things look prettier? No thanks.
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Dear Sir, Your mention of a memorable song that might be whistled while walking down the street not only infringes our copyright by summarising several of our copyrighted works, but also describes two methods of circumventing technological copyright protection systems, and for this reason is in violation of the DMCA. We have taken the liberty of estimating the loss caused to us by your actions, and the final sum is $42,001,390. Your bill is in the mail. All your base are belong to us, The RIAA
It's actually more of an empire by now.
Revolutions, also known as insurgencies, rebellions and terrorism, are illegal. The silly US government seems to have forgotten about its main lobbyist group, the US people, who are paying by far the biggest lobbying bribes in the form of taxes. It seems that taxes have been around for so long that they have come to take them for granted. Unfortunately tax evasion is also illegal.
Also it's no longer the worst bill. We've all changed it by reading about it.
And they say anarchy is freedom for the strong. Things like this make me wonder if democracy really is any better.
Well whaddya know! They're back again, and looking good for a nice early knockout by Brazil or Italy, one of which will also knock us out if we somehow scrape our way to the semis.
With two of the world's major internet countries making such an early exit, I'd be rejecting the idea of a meltdown even if it wasn't just a piece of ignorant sensationalist trash.
There have been at least two front page stories about the redesign contest, and Rob ran a long series of comments-enabled journal entries about designs he liked. There has been a constant stream of tonnes of feedback since this thing started.
Making the link between this and my views on Web 2.0 As A New Wave of Innovation is a task left to the reader. No points will be awarded for answering this question.
Thanks for playing,
Perhaps Rob should run an editorial on antislash and give us some examples of complex queries that give interesting insults. I'm sure thousands and thousands of us would be interested in seeing the results, over and over again.
It's not about any of that stuff. It's about getting attention and feeling in control. Nothing more.
Your argument is nothing more than regurgitated MPAA propaganda. Though they know exactly what is going on with the market, and are adapting to it, in the meantime they must ensure that the pirates continue to look like the bad guys. Hence the 'piracy will kill good TV' idea. It's all part of the idea war. If people en masse were to realise that there other are factors involved in piracy beyond simply being a cheapskate, they might start to apply that logic to other areas.
And guess what? It's all already proceeding according to my prophecy.
With both sides being immoral, there's only one logical conclusion: humans aren't as good as we think we are. And hey, some people (you) get to feel superior to everyone else because of it. Bonus!
Supposedly through their ads, but I find it doubtful that a profit making site would have a 'Donate' link.
Vansterwhatever sounds like small fry, but FolkPartyYes is "the third largest party in the Swedish parliament and currently is in the opposition bloc", which makes it pretty fucking major. ROTFL!
Your analogy sucks balls. The Pirate Bay would be more analogous to a gun distributor, with the actions of gun owners as their own responsibility. And even then the analogy only sucks balls a tiny bit less. In Anarchist Slashdot, balls suck analogies.
If you're going to make your entire post a guess at my reasoning, at least put some effort into your guess. In fact my reason is fairly strongly implied by the sentence I used: image definition quality is not a good enough reason to buy a new TV. As miserably as you may have failed, it was a good attempt at being an ElitismBuster.
His point isn't that kids need to learn to fear the undead, but that that kind of theme which is common in videogames is also nothing new.
The reason gamers and the gaming community are the way they are is because they are still a subset of nerds, and let's be honest, nerds are assholes about this kind of stuff. The publishers pander to it as well, as demonstrated by the ongoing penis war between Microsoft's and Sony's GPU technology. When you no longer have to be a "gamer" to play games (just as people who can read aren't seen as some sort of bizarre literati), things will start to mature.
In the meantime, however, it's been really beneficial. If it hadn't been for this constant obsession with stats, we might still be finding ourselves drooling at the likes of Mario 64. It's starting to wear thin now, though. Buy a new TV just to make things look prettier? No thanks.
Try to spot the one authentic story