Posts by Kyle Matthews
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saying that all isps in france are required by law to curtail piracy changes a hell of a lot I think.
They're the connection controllers, everything online goes through them. if you're downloading a lot of content, they investigate, if it pirate content, bam!
That's pretty do-able and pretty final don't you think?It'll be final, and make a difference, when it's actually had any impact upon illegal music transfers.
The government can say that all they want, if it doesn't make any difference in reality, then my point is proven.
Without knowing French law, I suspect they'll be running into a privacy battle. You'd also struggle to get a search warrant to inspect someone's computer on the basis that they're downloading a lot from the internet in a lot of countries.
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They originally described his winnings as "modest" but evidence which emerged in Germany at the weekend suggests that, by the end of 2007, he may have earned as much as €1bn on secret, undeclared trading late into the night.
Instead of finding some way to cash in, and abscond, with the money, he set out two weeks ago to lose his winnings – mostly, it appears, by deliberately foolhardy speculation on the German DAX shares index. His intention was to return his winning position to "neutral" and cover up his activities.That's a way to take a rescueable position and deliberately wipe it out.
Employee: Hey boss, I've been illegally trading late at night with billions of dollars!
Employer: You what?
Employee: And I made a billion dollars for you!
Employer: Er... well that's good.
Employee: But I didn't want to own up to it so I deliberately lost it all. And overshot a little. Or maybe a lot.
Employer: Y'know, smart illegality is one thing, but when you add stupid to it... -
but it is changing. I gave you examples of it with the french situation as reported in the herald article
Which has changed what so far? Given that I don't think ISPs can stop this, saying that ISPs are going to try and stop this in France, doesn't disprove anything.
in a way yes, but more importantly for the radiohead example its a bad reflection on human nature. give people the chance to do the right thing and a large proportion of them will do the wrong thing.
Presumably if Radiohead had thought people paying zero dollars for their album was wrong, they would have set a higher minimum price.
Thirdly I may well be an arsehole and thanks for pointing it out in a public forum
"Your" of course means, whichever company designed your theoretic player.
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(Memo to Self: practice agreeing with people. You'll get better with practice)
Russell, we need some sort of button, beside 'Post Reply" which auto-posts this and attributes it to Craig. I have the feeling it'll come in useful ;)
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I don't know anyone who buys Phil Collins CDs either. But someone sure as hell does.
Ah no, that's my Dad. And Kenny G. Sorry.
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you're not factoring the illegality part of it enough. its illegal and currently they're nt pushing policing it much, but they've shown they can.
And I'm saying, that world isn't changing, music will continue to be distributed illegally. So that's the competition.
I think you release media only playable on the media player. if you're into my chemical romance and you want the next album, its only available via the new system,
And then people will hack it out and MP3 it and distribute it. Probably within the hour of it being released. It'll be like watching billions of dollars of free players that you've given away do absolutely nothing to actually sell the music. In fact, I suspect the backlash will be such that people will go out of the way to avoid buying your music, and will download it from elsewhere just because they think you're an arsehole for trying to force them to listen to it through your crappy player.
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Which is why if I was a smart media player designer charged with the task of making non piracy players I'd move as far away from computer interactivity as possible and to a stand alone player. (luckily for piracy inc I'm not a media player designer)
I don't think so. Everything about music and its delivery has been moving towards the computer. I think if you put out a music player, and I couldn't take CDs I currently own, and put them on it, you'd struggle to sell many units. The way I put my CDs on my current player is through my computer.
Your Oscar screeners story isn't going to work in the general population. The Oscars themselves have presumably paid the money for thousands of players, because they're aware that having movies that they've released to members hit the internet, is a bad look. They're not going to send me one for free.
You should be thinking more about the game console vs PC debate. PC games are much easier to get free off the internet, game consoles are more difficult, though still possible to pick up especially if you travel. People are willing to pay for console games because they offer something more than a PC game for many people. That's not the case for music. A song is a song, it's no better through my TV than it is though my PC.
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But while its perfectly understandable why people want simple answers to complex problems and horrible tragedies, isn't it the responsibility of the media to be the cool, calm voice of reason and obstinate fact?
Heh. Good luck banging that drum Craig!
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Actually, it's good to see we've moved on a generation when we used to get told that it was your Dungeons & Dragons character dying that would lead to your suicide. Technology has changed the picture it seems...
My son is 9, and displays very little interest in the internet. If he wanted to have a Bebo/myspace/facebook profile to connect with his friends, I would probably let him, but I'd keep a very close eye on what went on there.
If he was 15, I wouldn't keep control over his account, but I'd look in on it occasionally to see what he used it for, in much the same way before he went out to town with his friends I'd find out where he was going and who he was going with.
Maybe it's just me, but if I had a teenage child and one of their best friends committed suicide, I'd be thinking about keeping a close eye on them and maybe finding some help for them dealing with a pretty traumatic loss. I wonder what these parents did, particularly when the suicide list started to get longer?
She writes for the Geek section of the Suicide Girls website and is, objectively speaking, totally hot, but regards her brain as her major asset.
Phoar. Clearly I need to take up this World of Warcraft thing.
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Thats wrong too. you can't compare drm to what you get from an illegal downloads cos you're not actually entitled to the download and its not something you've paid for or are getting as a service.
I suspect in the world of 'trying to get money for selling music' then this is absolutely the comparison that you have to make, because it's your competition. It's not fair competition, but it's still what you have to work with when it comes to a fair chunk of the public.
What finn doesn't get is technology can change in the future. When you buy music in the future it could be encrpyted, only playable with a key, have the purchasers id put through it for tracking, be playable on devices that have no analogue output and no way of easily copying it other than an analogue microphone recording.
I think the point is, technology hasn't been able to prevent the copying of legal music to illegal copies for a long time. Or movies etc. The reason it wasn't the end of the world was that distribution was difficult. You needed to physically move a tape, VHS, CD, DVD etc. Sure it happened, but not a massive amount, and only between people who knew each other.
The internet has broken that, so now illegally copying is a massive problem for the music industry. So now they need to fix a problem that they've never been able to solve - preventing illegal copying.
Media formats have been a history of new developments which have subsequently been broken by illegal copying. Tapes were easy, CDs took a while but once every computer came with a writer, done. DVDs the same. The next method of delivery will similarly protect for a while, and then technology will overcome. People broke DRM, they'll break encoding keys, they'll hack devices etc. Your computer will come with a port which connects to whatever device they try and flog off next. Someone will make an exact copy of the device but without the copyright protection in it. Software will be written which hacks any software and allows free distribution again. There's no motivation in the community to comply with the music industry, indeed there's a heap of motivation not to.
have you not used a computer game where the key is the disc you install it off. the game doesn't work without it.
You didn't run that software that redirected the computer from looking for the CD to looking in a folder on your hard drive for it? I thought everyone did that.
Or get the hacked version which didn't look for the CD? That technology never worked for anyone who put a little effort into breaking it.
why does a computer have to be your media platform too.
Because the computer connects to the internet and the internet is where everyone's getting their music from. And from there, they can copy it onto anything - MP3 player, CD etc. Why would I want to make my primary means of getting music a media player which I have to pay more money for, when the computer already does everything I want and has better sound output?