It's a resort.

This isn't just funny, it's true! If they are having a PR problem, it can't be because they are calling "Constantinople" Byzantium. That little switch happened about 1700 years ago. He goes on to say it's still a very sensitive issue, well I bet it is. He just pissed off the Turks all over again. Keep up the good work dealing with those sensitive PR issues...the song make a catchy little mnemonic if you need help keeping it straight.

Need I say more?

Content providers have finally found their businesses on the wrong side of the law of supply and demand. For a long time it appeared that the public's voraciously insatiable appetite for entertainment and news would fuel ever growing profits indefinitely. Now thanks to the series of tubes the world is flooded with instantly accessible free media content. I think that the massive amount of available free media is curbing public demand for media with a price. I think that this effect is independent of the phenomenon of media piracy which just rubs salt in this wound. ACTA will be the industry tool for attacking piracy. In addition to being a simple money grab, I think that metered traffic and caps on use are intended to reduce the competing effect of free media by making you pay more heavily for access to any media or information. If you watch streaming video all day instead of cable TV you could end up paying for it as if it was a cable bill; indeed a cable bill that behaves more like a cell phone bill, i.e. rising with consumption. Content providers are sick of trying to compete with free...this is a means to impose a higher price on the free media products that they are competing with.

You must cease and desist your discussion of the Streisand Effect immediately.

It's the people that create it. It is not technically difficult to tabulate millions of responses accurately so long as it remains an exercise in simply counting things. The complicating factor is that the results serve to distribute vast amounts of money and power which creates motivation for fraud that undermines that simple process. We should have no illusions about the accuracy of the tabulation process until there is open source code, paper audit logs and the opportunity for the public to examine these records for signs of fraud. Perhaps as an additional safeguard statistical comparison with exit polls should be required by law and any significant deviation should trigger an investigation of the process for possible tampering. These technical issues are only symptoms of the real problem.

"Proverbs for Paranoids #3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." -- Thomas Pynchon

there seemed to be so many worlds to discover; but the book itself was only a description of the key to a door in the minds of my friends and I. Thanks Dave.

I taped music off the radio and LP's when I was a kid. It seems to me that people really are saying that they don't like the price and they aren't going to buy it. I think that radio is an outdated legacy medium and a waste of bandwidth that should die and the frequencies should be used for wireless digital networks. I also think that current concepts of patent and copyright are just as outdated and backward. Perhaps this is the wrong forum to express this view, but if you are basing your business model entirely on trying to make a commodity out of something that can be reproduced at no cost by anyone using ubiquitous technology you might want to reconsider your business strategy. That isn't a justification for stealing, that is pragmatic realism. No matter how loud you yell in ALLCAPS, the kids are just not going to get off of your lawn. It's not going to be practical to round them all up and send them to jail for stealing either, because there are just too many of them and the jails are already stuffed full of harmless pot dealers. I suppose you could try to fine the hell out of them to recoup perceived loss but you can't get blood from a rock, especially these days. It seems to me that massive civil disobedience can be literally construed as criminal conduct but historically it is usually an indication from the citizenry that the law needs to change somehow because it does not reflect modern moires and sensibilities.

Agreed. The word is adware.

about exactly how they word their craigslist ad when they do it.

mongolian.clusterfuck

"Don't be too proud of this media empire you've constructed. The ability to produce content is insignificant compared to the power of The Google."

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