I really wonder how well these new "kick your best fans offline" laws would hold up in a court fight.
Like if your ISP's terms of service aren't aligned with these new laws, but the copyright industry gets your connection cut anyway, can you sue your ISP for breaking their TOS? Tort law, breach of contract, right?
Even with that alignment, they're cutting your connection based on an accusation, not conviction. I don't know how much risk an ISP is willing to take on in that arena.
Besides, isn't breaking their business model, er, copyright infringement mostly just a civil issue?
IANAL so I'm not sure how all that would play out.
It may get some to stop file sharing, but it won't make them buy.
It won't even get them to stop file sharing for long. Soon as they get a new service provider they'll be right back at it as if nothing had happened. Actually, it will be worse.
Before, they were infringing as an un-monetized customer. Just a neutrally-aligned under-served market. After restoring connectivity, they will be stealing content out of spite. Now your potential customer base is actively subverting you.
i hadn't heard of her before. now i have. i went and listened to some of her music and it's better than half of the label-backed inane dreck that's spewed over the airwaves, so she's got that going for her.
Virginia should be able to handle a resident who works in a different state. Imagine, for example, an Alexandrian commuting across the river to Bethesda, MD, every day.
It's the District and the Greater DC Metro region. I'm sure they have something in place for this sort of work situation. A state resident working for an out-of-state employer; it can't be the first time they've seen this.
For those of you who may be wondering, "getting around the pay wall" is not a Reason to Buy.
Truncated stories, inability to comment, and more ads for non-paying visitors are likewise not reasons to upgrade from anonymous coward membership. Those are reasons to just go away and find a news source that doesn't abuse its customers.
I'm looking squarely at my local paper the Sierra Vista Herald, who just went through an ill-advised "we're afraid of the internet" re-org. They didn't just shoot themselves in the foot, they emptied the whole damn mag!
I dropped my TV service when Cox botched a roll-out last spring. At first my "TV" viewing went down. To exactly 3/4 what it was before; without commercials my shows are only 45 minutes long. But Hulu and Netflix make it so easy to discover and watch new material, now I watch more TV then I did when I actually had a TV.
Just wish they'd get their targeted advertising a bit more accurate. Or make those Summer's Eve commercials more explicit.
So long as people can carry a tune in a bucket, the music industry is doing just fine. If you think your job is to sell little plastic discs, you're in the recording industry and you're boned.
I hooked a thin client up to my stereo as a head unit to stream internet radio. Soma.fm, Digitally Imported, whatever the kids are listening to these days.
I thought we already coined a term for this? When protecting your legal rights is a bad business decision. We were calling it the Scrabulous Effect in honor of that little Facebook game that Hasbro tried to crush but ended up having it blow up in their face.
This. I found so many local acts through that site, musicians I'd go see perform so I could support them directly instead of some label. MP3.com was simply the best site ever for discovering new acts, searching local gigs, previewing the tunes so I'd know whether I'd like to keep up with that artist or not.
I owned more music with mp3.com than I have since it closed down. I guess I should really say I "owned" the music, because once the site was gone, so were the songs.
So you and the fan subs are working towards an accurate translation for official releases. The fansubs, being more intimately familiar with the destination language, can go for a hyper-localization, with the slang and colloquialisms that just aren't in the Rosetta Stone course.
But before either of those versions come out, you crank your original game through Babelfish and release the "Zero Wing Edition" as a teaser. Drum up interest for the official localized release with the gameplay, graphics, and hilarious "translation".
"Cyberbullying" is such a crock, but it has a real simple solution. You take the electronic gadget from the bully and shove it so far up his exhaust port he poops 3G connectivity.
Why was RMB able to send critical sensitive financial data out of their systems at all? And not only send it out, but e-mail it out as an attachment to an unsigned unencrypted free e-mail account. And to top it off, they typoed the address to send it to the wrong person!
Rocky Mountain Bank's account holders need to seriously reconsider their choice of financial services partner. I've changed banks simply because I didn't like their color scheme. But to so thoroughly screw up data security?! I'd be gone so fast the shockwave would pull the vault door off it's hinges.
The chimpanzee investigates a wire connected to a treat. When the chimp pulls on the wire, the treat moves further away. The chimp doesn't pull on the wire too many times before realizing the action taken isn't matching up with the intended result. Noticing that the observed result is the exact opposite of the intended result, the chimp performs the opposite action and pushes the wire and receives the treat.
The politician sees a failing market; the treat is already moving away. The politician passes strong IP protection laws to improve the economy. The market accelerates its decline; the treat moves away even faster. So the politician passes stronger IP protection laws and the market goes down more. This cycle repeats indefinitely. The politician may realize that the observed result is the opposite of the intended result, but never makes the connection to perform the opposite action and weaken IP protection.
Therefore, a chimpanzee is obviously smarter than a politician.
You have no idea how embarrassing it is to request a song at the karaoke bar and not know the lyrics ahead of time. Or not being able to request the song you want because the radio stations don't identify the songs they play anymore. You never hear the title or artist so if you can't search by lyrics you're stuck. These sites are a FSM-send.
This isn't a copyright issue. This idiot is just bad at negotiating an employment contract. He says he was paid $40,500. Work done, work paid for, end of discussion. If he wants to be paid more, he needs to ask more up front.
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this needs to be tested (as another mike)
I really wonder how well these new "kick your best fans offline" laws would hold up in a court fight.
Like if your ISP's terms of service aren't aligned with these new laws, but the copyright industry gets your connection cut anyway, can you sue your ISP for breaking their TOS? Tort law, breach of contract, right?
Even with that alignment, they're cutting your connection based on an accusation, not conviction. I don't know how much risk an ISP is willing to take on in that arena.
Besides, isn't breaking their business model, er, copyright infringement mostly just a civil issue?
IANAL so I'm not sure how all that would play out.
never work (as another mike)
It may get some to stop file sharing, but it won't make them buy.
It won't even get them to stop file sharing for long. Soon as they get a new service provider they'll be right back at it as if nothing had happened. Actually, it will be worse.
Before, they were infringing as an un-monetized customer. Just a neutrally-aligned under-served market. After restoring connectivity, they will be stealing content out of spite. Now your potential customer base is actively subverting you.
Re: Windows between windows (as another mike)
I like that delay. It's like a filter. If you still remember the movie by the time it's out on DVD then it was good and worth buying the disc.
Re: really? (as another mike)
i hadn't heard of her before. now i have. i went and listened to some of her music and it's better than half of the label-backed inane dreck that's spewed over the airwaves, so she's got that going for her.
Re: Re: (as another mike)
Virginia should be able to handle a resident who works in a different state. Imagine, for example, an Alexandrian commuting across the river to Bethesda, MD, every day.
It's the District and the Greater DC Metro region. I'm sure they have something in place for this sort of work situation. A state resident working for an out-of-state employer; it can't be the first time they've seen this.
rtb wtf (as another mike)
For those of you who may be wondering, "getting around the pay wall" is not a Reason to Buy.
Truncated stories, inability to comment, and more ads for non-paying visitors are likewise not reasons to upgrade from anonymous coward membership. Those are reasons to just go away and find a news source that doesn't abuse its customers.
I'm looking squarely at my local paper the Sierra Vista Herald, who just went through an ill-advised "we're afraid of the internet" re-org. They didn't just shoot themselves in the foot, they emptied the whole damn mag!
add one to the no cable tv column (as another mike)
I dropped my TV service when Cox botched a roll-out last spring. At first my "TV" viewing went down. To exactly 3/4 what it was before; without commercials my shows are only 45 minutes long. But Hulu and Netflix make it so easy to discover and watch new material, now I watch more TV then I did when I actually had a TV.
Just wish they'd get their targeted advertising a bit more accurate. Or make those Summer's Eve commercials more explicit.
play us out, keyboard cat (as another mike)
So long as people can carry a tune in a bucket, the music industry is doing just fine. If you think your job is to sell little plastic discs, you're in the recording industry and you're boned.
I hooked a thin client up to my stereo as a head unit to stream internet radio. Soma.fm, Digitally Imported, whatever the kids are listening to these days.
not a concern (as another mike)
If his book is written anything like that lawsuit filing, I don't think he has to worry about infringement.
remember scrabulous (as another mike)
I thought we already coined a term for this? When protecting your legal rights is a bad business decision. We were calling it the Scrabulous Effect in honor of that little Facebook game that Hasbro tried to crush but ended up having it blow up in their face.
Re: mp3.com (as another mike)
I'd heard the site's demise had more to do with the founder, Michael "Lindows" Robertson, and how he kept poking the recording industry with a stick.
Great guy, a real game-changer. But he really did seem to work very hard at bringing it on himself.
Re: mp3.com (as another mike)
This. I found so many local acts through that site, musicians I'd go see perform so I could support them directly instead of some label. MP3.com was simply the best site ever for discovering new acts, searching local gigs, previewing the tunes so I'd know whether I'd like to keep up with that artist or not.
I owned more music with mp3.com than I have since it closed down. I guess I should really say I "owned" the music, because once the site was gone, so were the songs.
send us up the bomb (as another mike)
So you and the fan subs are working towards an accurate translation for official releases. The fansubs, being more intimately familiar with the destination language, can go for a hyper-localization, with the slang and colloquialisms that just aren't in the Rosetta Stone course.
But before either of those versions come out, you crank your original game through Babelfish and release the "Zero Wing Edition" as a teaser. Drum up interest for the official localized release with the gameplay, graphics, and hilarious "translation".
dealing with "cyberbullies" (as another mike)
"Cyberbullying" is such a crock, but it has a real simple solution. You take the electronic gadget from the bully and shove it so far up his exhaust port he poops 3G connectivity.
how's that saying go? (as another mike)
"Once is an incident.
Twice is a trend.
Three times is enemy fire."
violation of every information security policy known (as another mike)
Why was RMB able to send critical sensitive financial data out of their systems at all? And not only send it out, but e-mail it out as an attachment to an unsigned unencrypted free e-mail account. And to top it off, they typoed the address to send it to the wrong person!
Rocky Mountain Bank's account holders need to seriously reconsider their choice of financial services partner. I've changed banks simply because I didn't like their color scheme. But to so thoroughly screw up data security?! I'd be gone so fast the shockwave would pull the vault door off it's hinges.
experiments with chimps (as another mike)
The chimpanzee investigates a wire connected to a treat. When the chimp pulls on the wire, the treat moves further away. The chimp doesn't pull on the wire too many times before realizing the action taken isn't matching up with the intended result. Noticing that the observed result is the exact opposite of the intended result, the chimp performs the opposite action and pushes the wire and receives the treat.
The politician sees a failing market; the treat is already moving away. The politician passes strong IP protection laws to improve the economy. The market accelerates its decline; the treat moves away even faster. So the politician passes stronger IP protection laws and the market goes down more. This cycle repeats indefinitely. The politician may realize that the observed result is the opposite of the intended result, but never makes the connection to perform the opposite action and weaken IP protection.
Therefore, a chimpanzee is obviously smarter than a politician.
Re: Re: How to handle these Czars (as another mike)
from the Roman "Caesar".
They knew how to handle things. "Here Julius, hold this."
karaoke (as another mike)
You have no idea how embarrassing it is to request a song at the karaoke bar and not know the lyrics ahead of time. Or not being able to request the song you want because the radio stations don't identify the songs they play anymore. You never hear the title or artist so if you can't search by lyrics you're stuck. These sites are a FSM-send.
(as another mike)
This isn't a copyright issue. This idiot is just bad at negotiating an employment contract. He says he was paid $40,500. Work done, work paid for, end of discussion. If he wants to be paid more, he needs to ask more up front.