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by seertaak 17y ago
The author mistakes "downloading" for "sharing", and it all goes downhill from there. Based on this and a series of other false assumptions and deductions, he arrives at the conclusion that the award of $675,000 for the plaintiffs is uncons
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by seertaak 17y ago
I am a paying subscriber for Spotify, love the service, and very much look forward to having it on my iPhone. I would heartily recommend the premium service; it's reasonably priced, easy to use, and relatively comprehensive.
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by seertaak 17y ago
To fair, he's not saying he wants to go to the reunion with a baseball bat. Why should he make an effort to meet them when they were all callous jerks? Furthermore, a perceptive ex-classmate might have thought of the fact that the author ha
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by seertaak 17y ago
I agree; probably the article is excessively polemicized. I do think the author has a point, but he oversimplifies in making it a black and white, us vs germany thing. I think the biggest difference is that it seems that in US schools, due
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by seertaak 17y ago
I second that. I've had bing on my work computer for the last several weeks, and google at home. I haven't missed google on my work computer. And I think the UI for bing is pretty slick; you hover over a link and see a preview. A couple of
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by seertaak 17y ago
He also appears to confuse a group of 15-20 men on a boat for a society.
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by seertaak 17y ago
> I think the LCC hacked the public in to thinking travelling like cattle is good Your comment appears light-hearted so I don't want to come down too strongly, but I must say I detect more than a whiff of elitism in this sentence. The p
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by seertaak 17y ago
Yes; apologies.
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by seertaak 17y ago
> I was talking about your use of block-capitals It was obviously colloquial language. But since you were being so prickly about it, I decided to repay you in kind. > Look buddy, I've worked as a writer Look, buddy, you're not going
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by seertaak 17y ago
I don't agree. He certainly offers Zune Pass as an example, but his phrase is: "ultimately you can always claim that a song never fully loses its value". Are you suggesting that the meaning of "loses its value" derives from financial pr
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by seertaak 17y ago
> we're not retarded That is an offensive word. Please retract it. > not to mention basic grammar. > Studio engineers lose their job all the time and right now in a down-turned economy, ... You're missing a comma after "now". Al
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by seertaak 17y ago
Hang on, I said you were being unduly lenient with her, not the court. And I made clear that the leniency stems not from your disagreement with the sum, but your willingness to absolve her from any intent in distribution when the evidence
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by seertaak 17y ago
You raise some interesting and valid points IMHO. I fully agree that the expected cost/benefit balance has to be redressed. Personally, the way I see that occuring is via a variant of the three-strikes rule proposed in France. I think that
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by seertaak 17y ago
> we should not ignore the pettiness of the underlying crime. Petty to you maybe. But I happen to know studio engineers who have recently lost their job, artists like the Futureheads (thanks god they had the courage to go it alone. They
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by seertaak 17y ago
> Again, doesn't every p2p application share by default? Yes, I think so. > Is there any evidence that she wanted to share? She knew what she was doing. She had written a paper about Napster's forced closure. In that paper she argue
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by seertaak 17y ago
> It seems pretty gutless of the "artists" on this list to sit by and watch someone's life get ruined for downloading their music. That is at best an incorrect, at worst disingenuous, characterization of what occured. The defendant did
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by seertaak 17y ago
Great! So basically no punishment at all. What you're proposing is to turn the courts into an offline shop -- one which the customer shops at a massive cost to the retailer. The sense of entitlement evident in a statement like that is frank
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by seertaak 17y ago
To be fair, I think the original settlement proposed was around USD 10,000 certainly more than your proposal, but a far cry from the USD 1.9MM the court awarded her. In any case, your arithmetic seems to me to measure the wrong thing. The p
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by seertaak 17y ago
> The phrase "never fully lose its value" in this case means month-to-month value. Sorry; no. It presumably refers to the fact that music, in electronic form, can be copied arbitrarily and stored indefinitely, at no loss of quality. I d
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by seertaak 17y ago
Seriously though: a dress can't be copied at zero cost.
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by seertaak 17y ago
Exactly, it was poorly argued, replete with falsehoods, non-sequitors, and generally just muddled thought. It was almost juvenile. I think the anti-copyright campaigners would be wise to distance themselves from this brand of "argumentation
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by seertaak 17y ago
Sorry, it is indeed you who is confused. My point is that the law treats all individuals equally. Your link was interesting, but nowhere therein did I see any mention of this basic tenet changing when we move from a criminal to a civil case
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by seertaak 17y ago
> Since the music is DRMed, if you ever stop paying, you lose all your music. So? That's what Spotify does, and I have absolutely no problem with that. > It’s just a joke, but it makes a good point. How much is one song worth to you
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by seertaak 17y ago
Well said. And if you're going down the "justice not blind" route, why even stop at income? "Your honour, I may have just killed a man but let me assure you that my high school years were very traumatic. I was bullied and got bad grades."
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by seertaak 17y ago
> That would be a pretty good argument except for this woman's particular circumstances. Should her circumstances also be taken into account if she robs a bank? Justice is personified as being blind for a reason. You break the law, you
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by seertaak 17y ago
> It doesn't matter if production prices fall 50 or 80 percent: if revenues are zero, then the musician is still screwed. So you agree that musicians are getting screwed by music labels. Err, no. I don't see how you make that deduction.
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by seertaak 17y ago
> Gay people want to be able to get married. Currently, this is against the law in many places. Should we censor all sites that are advocating gay marriage? That's a silly analogy. First of all, there's no victim when two gay people ge
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by seertaak 17y ago
> The IFPI is not the government, it's just some guys. True, of course. > They should be treated like any other group of random people; They should be treated like the representatives of any other group of victims, yes. Because the
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by seertaak 17y ago
I totally agree. In fact I'm playing in a band right now, the Signals ( http://www.myspace.com/thesignalsuk -- only demos, no band recordings so far), and what I'm realizing is that, in effect, 100% of the effort needs to come from you unt
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by seertaak 17y ago
> i also think if more bands embraced torrents, it would help them get their music heard. That's a theory that hasn't been borne out by the evidence, and doesn't even stand to reason if you think about it. Let's label the 10,000 or so b

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