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Re: http://dogsocietymockup.tumblr.com/post/6074807052

GregSJ — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:57:38 -0000

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Re: The Time Has Come

GregSJ — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:57:33 -0000

You're back. Yay!

Re: Custom windows mobile ROMs – where do you get your ROM fix from ?

GregSJ — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:16:45 -0000

ppcgeeks for the most part. occasionally xda or mobileunderground.info

Re: Fennec for Windows Mobile Alpha 4

GregSJ — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:20:34 -0000

I believe alpha 1 was Fennec 1.0 (alpha 3 was Fennec 1.0 alpha 3). Whereas alpha 4 is Fennec 1.1

Re: Fennec for Windows Mobile Alpha 4

GregSJ — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:14:45 -0000

Fennec alpha 4 is Fennec 1.1 alpha 1 available here:http://download.mozilla.org...

Re: Raw Cereal?

GregSJ — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:06:29 -0000

Seems like the real moral of the story is don't become a rat in a lab ;)

Re: Big Changes

GregSJ — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:30:34 -0000

Congratulations! I'm so excited for you!

Re: Chocolate Covered Fun

GregSJ — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:11:52 -0000

The third beer in the flight was a brown ale.

It was really a great experience and I highly recommend it to anyone if they do it again.

The event ended with a take home bag which featured some chocolate ice cream from Rechiutti. I may have to start a campaign to get him to start selling it in his store. It is delicious (trust me I am an expert on chocolate ice cream).

Re: The Rhetoric of Copyright Piracy

GregSJ — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:00:15 -0000

Leigh,

Thanks for joining the discussion!

I agree that education is important, but I don't think it will be as successful as your website seems to indicate you believe it will be. The RIAA has been trying to educate the public about copyright laws since at least 2006. Based on the RIAA's numbers piracy has increased rather than decreased during that time. Personally I believe that education is not a perfect answer for two reasons: First education is not 100 percent affective. To get a driver's license in the U.S. high school students must take driver's education classes. Despite the fact that these classes emphasize the importance of not speeding, thousands (if not millions) of speeding tickets are issued in the U.S. every year. Second, Copyright law is extremely complicated. For example Microsoft, Yahoo, and Real were just sued two days ago for failing to acquire all of the proper licenses to stream music.

Thus I believe that music piracy will forever be a part of the music industry. However this does not mean that the music industry cannot be successful. With both education and a rhetoric change I believe that piracy will be mostly committed by people unwilling/unable to pay for music. Thus this piracy will result in minimal lost sales (if they weren't pirating they still wouldn't be paying). Given this scenario music need not necessarily add value to sell. However music has been free to consumers for a long time. While advertisers paid radio stations licenses, consumers were under no obligation to purchases advertisers products. A number of companies are trying to transition this model to the internet (e.g. a company I work for http://www.trueanthem.com).

There are a number of exciting and interesting models to sell music being tested right now. One of the things they tend to have in common is an appeal to consumers to legally buy music (or legally purchase for free) instead of downloading illegally. I suggest you look into some of them for releasing your upcoming album. I hope you find one that fits you. Music is meant to be shared, and I doubt the government will or could affect the sort of changes in copyright law that your website suggests you are waiting for.

Re: My Problem with EULAs

GregSJ — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:28:50 -0000

Bill,

I'm trying hard not to laugh because I wrote a 40 page paper for my advanced copyright class centered around the WoW Glider case. While my paper is focused on the implications of the case on Copyright in Virtual Worlds, the case does bring together a large set of issues surrounding modern implications of copyright law.

It is my belief that there is a much bigger chance of RAM copying being overruled then the set of issues around EULAs. As far as EULAs, read the great economic analysis of freedom of contract in David Friedman's book Law 's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters (particularly chapter 12 pages 148-151)

Later this summer, after I am done revising the paper (I am hoping to get it published), I will post a much longer discussion of both the WoW Glider case and the enforceability of EULAs.

Re: The Rhetoric of Copyright Piracy

GregSJ — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:43:06 -0000

Bill,

Thanks for your comment. I am no more of a supporter of the RIAA then I am of music piracy. In fact, I wrote a lengthy post about how I believe the RIAA should not have filed individualized lawsuits (http://www.runwiththelaw.co....

I believe piracy well never be completely eliminated. Instead I think the music industry must focus on adding value to music to entice purchase. As the original article points out people are accustomed to getting music for free. To compete against free the music industry must add value besides the music itself to entice people to purchase. I believe an example of this is cable television. Before cable television people were used to receiving all tv for free. Cable television added value by providing a strong signal to areas which only got poor coverage. As cable expanded it continued to add value by providing content that was not available on network television. Now most of the United States subscribes to cable or satellite television.

I believe that for the music industry to succeed it must find ways to add value. A number of artist and labels are trying different approaches which will be featured in my next blog post.

Re: Amazon, California, and Law Firm Jobs

GregSJ — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:13:11 -0000

Apparently individual California residents are supposed to keep track of all of their purchases from out of state online advertisers that don't collect sales tax and pay it with their yearly income tax. Thus the projected income from this change would just collect that revenue from retailers rather than individuals. I for one did not know that I was supposed to be paying sales tax on online purchases from out of state retailers. It appears that nobody must know which is why instead of going after individuals the state is choosing to go after retailers. For more info check out the podcast at http://geekcast.fm/archives...

Re: Subscribe by email? Yes Please!

GregSJ — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:12:26 -0000

Thank you!
This feature was sorely needed.

Re: Entertainment Industry Value Added Services

GregSJ — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:09:52 -0000

Unsurprisingly Mike Masnick over at TechDirt has a interesting take on this in connection with the music industry. For those interested a video of a presentation he gave is available at http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Text of Complaint in La Russa TM Suit Against Twitter

GregSJ — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:36:23 -0000

I don't believe Twitter failed to respond. The complaint alleges a lot of things, but failure to respond to a take down request is not one of them. I chalk this up as another lawsuit that does more harm then good. http://bit.ly/4Yue4

Re: Twitter CEO On Authentication Of Names Of Twitter Commercial Accounts

GregSJ — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:58:24 -0000

"When you vilify your customers... they stop being your customers."

Well said.