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"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
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I agree with you on this. The approach the companies are taking is short-sighted and it's not endearing them to their customers. |
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I said we invite one conservative lawyer. I never mentioned anything about utterly and completely insane out-of-their-freaking-minds totally out of touch with reality stark raving mad nut-job wackos.
Not that I necessarily think that Ann Coulter is a psychotic, maniacal, hate-filled lunatic-fringe crazy harebrain, mind you. |
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NOBODY respects DRM! Our chief reason is piracy...piracy and file-sharing...file-sharing and piracy...our two main reasons are file-sharing and piracy...and control of information...Our three reasons are file-sharing, piracy, and control of information...and a desire to have a monopoly...Our four reasons...no...amongst our reasons...are those such as piracy, file-sharing...I'll come in again.
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I only ask because it was my impression litigation had no effect, let alone a chilling effect. If there was plenty of evidence that indicated such, I missed out, or perhaps it occurred in a particular geographical locale or market segment that I am unaware of. My intent is merely to be as fully informed as possible. |
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My assumption is that whatever source was claiming that it had a chilling effected, wanted it to have a chilling effect. I don't see how it's really possible to know one way or the other. But you can always spin it one way or the other, which is what usually happens with reports like this.
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Perhaps not one you'll like.
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While suits aren't solely responsible for p2p not growing (increased access to legal digital sources, black market exhaustion, digital sources becoming friendly by embracing mp3s all helped too), when you pair 1 and 3 above with a fair recollection of the coverage that happened during the heyday of RIAA suits, it's tough to make credible argument that they were ineffective. Measuring it precisely isn't possible, but then again, we can't even measure how many people there are precisely, or TV ratings, or the effectiveness of vaccines, public health policies, safety regulations, hand-washing etc. On the other hand, it's far from impossible to use statistics to gather some useful and meaningful measurements. There are yearly 'most pirated x' lists that people love to chat about (where x equals games, music, movies etc). Are they 100% accurate? Of course not. But they aren't useless in measuring sharing either. |
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