I didn’t reduce the price of my app because it’s listed at $0.99 which is the minimum price point.

Both Facebook and YouTube have facilities for doing this.

My issue is mainly the administrative headache of having to fill in the forms when the claimants can apparently just do things automatically and at minimal/zero cost.

Personally I think I should be able to bill the music publishers an hourly rate for the time I waste dealing with their spurious claims.

I run Facebook and YouTube accounts for a church. We've got a fairly good choir and from time to time share services and/or performances of music.

Our repertoire is almost exclusively more than a century old.

Any time we post a new video we get a copyright claim, without fail, accusing us of plagiarising someone else's recording of whatever the piece happens to be. Then it somehow becomes my job to explain that the video of people singing in a church is not, in fact, lip syncing to a professional recording.

My all time favourite was getting a copyright claim for some chant that, as far as I'm aware, dates from around the ninth century and was therefore (probably) a few years out of copyright.

I went to a movie earlier this week.

The show was prefixed by twenty-six minutes of advertising and trailers.

Cutting that back would be a major step to improving the customer experience at theaters.

It actually makes no difference in my experience.

I've had my bank shut down my VISA card twice now for the first international transactions made in exactly the location I've told them I'm going to be.

I think what happens is that a computer stops the card immediately and flags it for a human to review at a later point, but in the mean while I have a dead piece of plastic and an embarrassing situation at a checkout.

...is that Creative Cloud is only $50/month in the United States.

Pricing in Europe is almost fifty percent more expensive. Check it if you don't believe me.

I'd love to know how the bean counters in Adobe justify that...

And both users of Vista will be horribly disappointed by that...

I'd say Japan. I've been there a few times and have always been amazed as I watch long distance trains pulling into the station exactly when the timetable says they should.