Stop getting your panties in a wad about blaming the entertainment industries.
What are “tech geeks” doing to ruin the lives of people who create content? This is a very serious question, because outside of the the pirate community I can’t think of a single instance of anything that comes close to such a thing. Stop ruining the peoples lives who create content Hekkuva job, Copyright Cartel dinosaurs! Reply View in chronology In less than a decade, they have moved me from a fierce advocate of their self-appointed “rights” to someone who cannot wait to see them vanish form existence. Filesharing continues to explode and sympathy for dying dinosaurs continues to wane. And in a classic case of “still missing the boat” the relevance of the old industry withers. So the people solved the problem themselves. Ignoring demand, they created a massive vacuum that has long been burst. People would not so long ago have paid for good quality modern formatted and distributed content, but no – the old men that ran the ever-diminishing number of labels would not let this happen. I don’t even have to theorize about the subject any more – the evidence is plain to see. Sir Richard Branson (” with an estimated net worth of US$4.2 billion” ) said himself years ago in an interview that the biggest business mistake he ever made was to try to start another record label (which tanked massively) like did with Virgin Records (which helped kick his empire off) and that the heydays of labels were past. And the next generation has no need for them and their ancient “ways”. They’re dealing with the next generation now. They can buy all the additional governments that they want. And for each one they whack again, 4 more will appear. What a horrible nightmare the Copyright Cartel has created for itself by being such obnoxious greedy bastards, practicing artificial scarcity and failing to adapt to the modern age in any meaningful way.Īnd they just don’t learn: every time they whack a mole, 4 more appear. Still appears to be exactly the part that so concerned the Justice Dept…įiled Under: conspiracy, linking, mathew ingram, search However, again, this fits with the Megavideo style offering of providing access to content without necessarily downloading it. Update: As some have pointed out in the comments, the specific feature is more about viewing content via the link, not downloading. It’s good to see Dropbox confident enough that it won’t be shut down on questionable criminal charges - but it certainly continues to raise questions about what the government considers evidence of criminal conspiracy… and how that could create a chill on companies who are, perhaps, less well established than Dropbox. I am assuming - given the way Dropbox operates - that it, too, is not intending to provide a search engine. For example, the fact that Megaupload did not provide a “search” feature to find all the content in its cloud, but merely let people link in, was seen as a way to “hide” the fact that infringing material was available. But, as Mathew Ingram noted, this is exactly part of the reason that Megaupload was accused of criminal conspiracy. It’s actually pretty common and can be quite useful for simple sharing of files. Popular cloud service provider Dropbox has announced the ability to share stuff in your Dropbox with a link.
Mon, Apr 23rd 2012 10:10am - Mike Masnick
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