One of these days someone is going to realize that the FBI is paid for by your taxes. Just saying. Same tax dollars paying the Senators from Indiana who tried to pass a law stating that Pi would officially be rounded to 3.2. Same tax dollars that pay the people who are deciding to raise your taxes, so they can have more of your tax dollars. Just saying.
BTW...Seriously?
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Among those charged are site founders Kim Dotcom and Kim Tim Jim Vestor and Chief Marketing Officer Finn Batato.
> > One of these days someone is going to realize that the FBI is paid for by your taxes. > Just saying. Same tax dollars paying the Senators from Indiana who tried to pass a > law stating that Pi would officially be rounded to 3.2. Same tax dollars that pay the > people who are deciding to raise your taxes, so they can have more of your tax > dollars. Just saying. > > Not my taxes, thankfully. I wouldn't want to be responsible for paying those pricks.
> > > > One of these days someone is going to realize that the FBI is paid for by your > taxes. > > Just saying. Same tax dollars paying the Senators from Indiana who tried to pass a > > law stating that Pi would officially be rounded to 3.2. Same tax dollars that pay > the > > people who are deciding to raise your taxes, so they can have more of your tax > > dollars. Just saying. > > > > > Not my taxes, thankfully. I wouldn't want to be responsible for paying those pricks.
by 'your', I meant 'our'....you Aussies have enough trouble of your own, no need to give you ours...
> > > > > > One of these days someone is going to realize that the FBI is paid for by your > > taxes. > > > Just saying. Same tax dollars paying the Senators from Indiana who tried to pass > a > > > law stating that Pi would officially be rounded to 3.2. Same tax dollars that pay > > the > > > people who are deciding to raise your taxes, so they can have more of your tax > > > dollars. Just saying. > > > > > > > > Not my taxes, thankfully. I wouldn't want to be responsible for paying those > pricks. > > by 'your', I meant 'our'....you Aussies have enough trouble of your own, no need to > give you ours...
Coulda made it a US thing instead of stopping the world using it >_>
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while I share your fear, I think that the main target was megavideo rather than megaupload itself... too bad for the thousands of porn movie hosted there :P
> Just saying. Same tax dollars paying the Senators from Indiana who tried to pass a > law stating that Pi would officially be rounded to 3.2.
Sacrilege!
Wound up, can't sleep, can't do anything right, little honey / Oh, since I set my eyes on you. / I tell you the truth. I can't get it right / Get it right / Since I met you...
> > Just saying. Same tax dollars paying the Senators from Indiana who tried to pass a > > law stating that Pi would officially be rounded to 3.2. > > Sacrilege!
3.1 was already copyrighted by Microsoft so they had no choice.
> > I read an article just this morning that part fo the reason for the bust weas > because > > mega was PAYING people directly to upload movies and music. > > Yeah, but this would be paying the actual -artists- who upload their music. > Presumably this would also go for indie bands and whatnot. > > If that site had gone fully public and was kept 100% legal, it would've murdered > Apple's near-monopoly on music.
Unlikely. Napster tried and failed, and plenty of others have as well. Paying the artists and indie bands directly is great in theory, but it's always going to be small potatoes. Anyone who's signed a record contract will be forbidden from doing it, and like it or not, you need to have the majors on board to even have a prayer of coming close to the kind of volume iTunes does.
I'm no fan of Big Content, but the Megaupload guys were pretty flagrantly violating copyright law and making money hand over fist doing it. It was just a matter of time before their number was up.
> Anyone who's signed a record contract will be forbidden from doing > it, and like it or not, you need to have the majors on board to even have a prayer of > coming close to the kind of volume iTunes does.
This.this.this. The big companies are BRUTAL. I've seen more kind and gentle branches of the mafia.
Don't even get me started on the ASCAP/BMI/SECAM strong-arm tactics. If you ever plan to start a restaurant or bar, it'll make your head spin how quickly you start getting calls and 'reminders' taped to your window about music licensing.
[Puts on best mob goon voice]
We was just waukin by an noticed tat yous got speakers in your establishment dat could potentially play songs from my associates here. I couldn't possibly be hear all da time to keep track of da songs, so why don't yous just pay me 2% off da top and we's play it by da honors system?
> > This.this.this. The big companies are BRUTAL. I've seen more kind and gentle > branches > > of the mafia. > > In the early days, they *were* controlled by the mafia. The influence waned as the > mafia gave way to corporate interests, but the culture remains.
It makes perfect sense. Thinking the likes of which come out of the music biz can only come from a select few sources.
I think the primary reason for the waned interest was the downturn in coin intake on arcades and jukes. They weren't as viable of a laundering option as they once were...
"A common-sense economic principle called the “broken window” fallacy comes into play. To update the analogy for the 21st century, if your car window is broken, it may cost you $60 to fix. But that loss is not the economy’s. Had you not have to have fixed that window, would you have… eaten the $60? No, you would have spent it on a video game, or clothes, or groceries. Or maybe a night out at the movies.
An expert in the GAO report asserts this in saying that the “effects of piracy within the United States are mainly redistributions within the economy for other purposes and that they should not be considered as a loss to the overall economy.”"
We are supposed to bring innovation to the Information Age. So Cloud Computing is introduced. Then these sites spring up for cloud storage. Now you have access to another feasible storage facility, do you put all your eggs in this basket?
Amazon says cloud computing is the next big thing. Great for corporates, but what about the home user? If sites like Megaupload get taken down with your legit files, what impact does that do the psyche of the already unsure cloud user?
Microsoft wants us to game in the cloud, and there is Onlive. What if some exec did not get the rights to have a game on their Onlive servers and that company complains to the FBI and gets shut down? I thought SOPA was shelved...
How much would you say cloud computing is worth in the next 10-15 years? How much damage was done by the FBI by closing such a service in relation to cloud services?
Finally, storage had spiked do to the floods in Bangkok. Does this mean that HDD prices will be on the rise again, considering the added pressure to keep vast digital catalogs?
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