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Comment What's the problem with building self-sustaining b (Score 4, Interesting) 248

by CAKAS (#40106429) Attached to: Neil Armstrong Gives Rare Interview
I still don't understand this. We have the technology to do it, we have the people wanting to do it, and we have another group of people wanting to live and work there. Why don't we build a base on moon?

There would be no insects (I really hate those, but at least geckos take a good care of them!), and it would be a good base for our future discovery of new planets and solar systems. There ARE more there, earth is nothing special.

Is the United States incapable to do this? Does it take Russians, Chinese or Japanese to get there? What the hell happened to America?

Submission + - BitTorrent Traffic Falls In The U.S. (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by CAKAS
CAKAS writes: After legal actions taken by several industry outfits, BitTorrent traffic has fallen in the United States to the all time low of 12.7 percent of internet traffic. However, this trend seems to be unique to the U.S. — In other parts of the world, like Europe and Asia, BitTorrent traffic continues to rise. "According to Sandvine, the absence of legal alternatives is one of the reasons for these high P2P traffic shares". In the U.S. legal content delivery has flourished and provided customers easy access to content. This seems to suggest that due to these alternatives, people are less willing to pirate and pay the publishers for entertainment.

Comment Fairly well known issue (Score 4, Insightful) 567

by CAKAS (#40101921) Attached to: New Music Boss, Worse Than Old Music Boss
Even indie artists have campaigned against these new services. For example, take Spotify, well known European free music service that gained lots of attention.

Many indie artists tried the service for several months and when the payout time came, they found out they only got a few hundreds (if even that) from the service. It was serious degrade from their previous earnings.

At the same time, Spotify shareholders and investors include EMI, Sony BMG and Universal Music Group. Since Spotify only paid small share to artists, the labels profited from increased stock prices. Because of this, they didn't need to pay artists any share but still profited greatly.

So yeah, there you go. Do you really think you're wiser than these guys? Keep trying to get around them, and they will assfuck you even more. Seriously. Do it. If you want to destroy any nice music we have.
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Submission + - Android Scam Apps Developer Fined £50,000 (eurogamer.net)

Submitted by CAKAS
CAKAS writes: Latvian based developer firm has been fined £50,000 for developing fake versions of Android games like Angry Birds, Assassin's Creed and Cut The Rope. After agreeing to EULA, the scam apps sent three premium rate SMS messages behalf of the users, each costing £5, for the total of £15 (USD$23.56). Google Play (previously known as Android Market) has been plagued with malware and scam apps, and Android phone user John Gladstone told BBC News how he fell victim to the fraud — "I downloaded every app that I could see on the Android market which had good reviews or if I recognised the name".

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