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11/17/09
As far as peer to peer, they can close the sites, but that wont stop it. The more they push, the more we will push back. The end result is no winner. Maybe its time we rethought the game and decided how to go from lose/lose to win/win. #viacom
11/17/09
"Its not easy doing a job no one likes you for."
yeah but it IS easy to, you know, get another job. #viacom
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11/17/09
we're talking viacoms top lawyer. i dont think he's short on options. #viacom
11/17/09
Personally, if I could collect welfare, and live in a decent apartment, with controlled rent, and walk/subway to whatever I need...shityeah... #viacom
11/17/09
11/17/09
while i dont dispute the dirtiness of his job, i do call into question whether or not this particular job (suing p2p users) HAS to get done. there's cleaning out the latrines and then there's jailing potheads - both dirty jobs, but only one HAS to get done. #viacom
11/17/09
when the height of ones aspirations is to suck on the government teat, one must seriously reconsider the definition of 'living'. #viacom
11/17/09
Watch "Dirty Jobs" w/Mike Rowe every Tuesday at 9 on Discovery. #viacom
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11/17/09
His current support for graduated response still worries me. Especially that he'd prefer the courts not get involved. The fact that he at least advocates some kind of appeals process is encouraging, though. Just...a tiny bit. #viacom
11/17/09
Because Viacom pays his bills and his conscience doesn't. #viacom
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11/13/09
It's so obvious that it's ridiculous that it's taken this long.
... and yes, I already have the Firefox plugins. But I'd prefer a built-in solution. #gizmodoremainders
11/12/09
For example.. A local station where I live cuts off it's online broadcast when it runs live KU football & basketball games (which is the only time I would want to listen). They cut the online broadcast because KU wants anyone listening online to be paying for the broadcast through another service they have.
Also you could use it for easy rebroadcasting of a station online... Take what you pick up over the air and broadcast it online. There might be some legal problems there. But it would be a super low budget and easy way for a small station to get their broadcast online. #gizmodoremainders
11/03/09
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11/03/09
Demos and trailers are not enough to evaluate them. #torrents
11/02/09
If I were a record company, I would not see these numbers and consider support of piracy. If there's any group whose increased piracy habits hurt record companies' profits the most, it's these big music consumers.
Now, my personal opinion on the matter is that traditional record companies will die out and be replaced a model that has promotion companies as the driving monetary force behind the music industry while supporting a model that includes free music distribution. So I'm not apologist by any means. #torrents
11/01/09
11/02/09
Which is why any survey or study that seeks to describe "software" as a whole can only be-by default-wrong. #torrents
11/02/09
@TrollSlayer: Yeah, that's why I'm curious about it. I know I've bought a few movies that I really liked because I wanted to keep a hard copy in my personal collection (either after watching it "legitimately" or not), but that's only on certain rare cases. Most of the time I see a movie once and don't bother again with it. #torrents
11/01/09
As far as I can tell, they surveyed 1000 people from 16 to 50 with internet access and then asked if they downloaded music illegally. 1 in 10 said "yes," and, apparently, those 10% spend £77 per year on music, compared to, presumably, £44 per year for the others. Which all begs the question of how many of those other 900 people actually acquired *any* music in the past year.
The other oddity is that if you run the averages, it means that out of the 1000 people represented, they averaged £47.3 year on music. That seems rather strange, given that I've read elsewhere that the average person in the UK spends £67 per year on music. You could therefore argue that the average person in the UK with internet access spends £20 per year less on music than those without.
It would seem to me that the results would be much more relevant if they surveyed people who purported to be music fans. Just sayin' that reading this article and concluding that pirates are the bread and butter of the music industry is kind of horse hockey. #torrents
11/02/09
But good luck convincing lawmakers and courts that people are as simple, and societies of people so straightforward as their laws would like them to be. #torrents
11/01/09
If that is piracy, so be it. Send in the RIAA. #torrents
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11/01/09
The labels raped and pillaged recording sales long ago. Remember kids, music piracy doesn't hurt the artist, especially if you decide to go to their show based on the music you pirated, it only hurts the label, and unless your mom works at a label you shouldn't shed any tears.
Combine this with the fact that it is becoming more and more affordable for bands to produce and distribute their music themselves, and well... Maybe it doesn't make sense for labels to continue existing in their current form much longer. #torrents
11/03/09
It's a myth that music piracy hurts the labels and not the artists. #torrents
11/03/09
That's like saying it turns out actors only get 4% of the budget of a movie - the rest goes to cameramen, producers, directors, gaffers, etc.
It costs money to make an album. If an album can't recoup its costs cause even though people love it, they don't pay for it, it can't get made.
Plus, if you're a band, 4% lets you earn a living from your music rather than work in Starbucks. #torrents
11/03/09
11/01/09
most pirating is re-acquiring cd music that was stolen out of your car years ago.... at least in my case... #torrents