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  • On the post: Questionable 'Piracy' Study Found; Details Show It's Even More Ridiculous Than Expected

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2011 @ 06:03am

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    Please, recognize the difference between value and price.

    People may not be willing to pay money for it (price of $0), but they value it or they wouldn't go out of their way to get it and to buy the equipment to play it, and to spend time listening to it (which is a form of payment), and to look into ways to appreciate it more like attending live performances, buying physical, related merchandise, etc.

  • On the post: Administration Forces PJ Crowley Out Of The State Dept. After He Admits That Manning Is Being Mistreated

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 01:32pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What did Crowley "admit"?

    You didn't address the criticism raised in my comment. You went simply for the attack.

    I argue that (1) it wasn't funny, (2) I do understand it just fine, and (3) your opinion of what is fact vs. what is opinion is, in fact, incorrect or at the very least pure opinion, not fact.

  • On the post: Administration Forces PJ Crowley Out Of The State Dept. After He Admits That Manning Is Being Mistreated

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 07:47am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What did Crowley "admit"?

    "Admitted" denotes primarily two things. That there was a secret, and that he was revealing a fact.
    Sorry, I don't see any such requirements when I review the definition of the word "admit". One valid definition is
    to grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted.
    which neither requires secrecy nor revelation.

  • On the post: Administration Forces PJ Crowley Out Of The State Dept. After He Admits That Manning Is Being Mistreated

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 07:41am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    You believe that there are only two options?

  • On the post: Twitter Decides To Kill Its Ecosystem: How Not To Run A Modern Company

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2011 @ 12:33pm

    Re: Twitter?

    If you are getting a lot of noise and little signal, then you are using it wrong.

    Follow people who tweet good content. Don't follow the bad.

  • On the post: Twitter Decides To Kill Its Ecosystem: How Not To Run A Modern Company

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2011 @ 10:43am

    Re: Re: Re: StatusNet / Identi.ca

    If you are worried about *your* interwebs being filled with Snooki clones, then you are doing it wrong.

    And this is the whole point. With the social network stuffs (at least, the stuff that survives), it is *you* that defines your interwebs.

    Don't want to hear about someone who constantly tweets their starbucks orders? Drop them!

    What the social interwebs offers is Real Intelligence Filtering. Follow the right people, and information that *you* want, that you don't know about or even know you want, flows to you. And if you aren't drinking from the hose when the news is flowing, if it is a fleeting blip of info whose Best Before date goes by before you get online, it is obsolescent material that does not clog up your inbox.

    This is real-time, crowd-sourced RSS feed of the entire internet. Google is great at finding what you know you want. Social webospheres are great at bringing you things you don't know to look for.

  • On the post: Bradley Manning Hit With New Charges; Could Face Death Penalty

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2011 @ 07:45pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So let me get this straight...

    I believe you are confused about who the enemy is. Copies of the documents were turned over to the world wide public, including those who own those documents but were unable to have access to them.

    Public Enemy?

  • On the post: A Key Myth That Drives Bad Policy: Stronger IP Laws Mean More Creativity

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2011 @ 03:24pm

    The internet is not creative anything

    I would bet very heavily that those politicians of whom you speak have no use for, little respect for, and next to zero knowledge of the Internet.

    Come on! The 'net has the twitters and the hamsters and those nasty pirates and the I Like Turtles and ...yikes!...young people.

    It isn't a fallacy if you don't buy the main premise of the assertions. The Internet is not "creative"; everything on it is free so there is no "economy" (EVERYONE knows that economics is only about making money).

    </yes, this is my end-of-sarcasm tag>

  • On the post: Apple Patents Rotary iPhone

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2011 @ 11:07am

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    But not a unique interface.

    _____ on a digital _____
    doesn't justify a patent.

  • On the post: How Denial Works: Library Of Congress Blocks Wikileaks

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2011 @ 09:13am

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Try this:

    http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/eamc_03/eamc_03_01283.html

  • On the post: Apple Patents Rotary iPhone

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2011 @ 08:56am

    iPatent

    Guess the USPTO couldn't find any prior art for "using a wheel interface to spit out numbers and letters..."
    But you forgot to add: "... on an iPhone."

  • On the post: What Would Happen If Wikileaks Got Its Own Top Level Domain?

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2010 @ 03:41pm

    Re: Answer...

    Joe Lieberman would either "fix" the internet or "un-invent" it.

  • On the post: How Denial Works: Library Of Congress Blocks Wikileaks

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2010 @ 08:40pm

    Re: Re:

    Have I just committed an illegal activity?

    If you are serious about it and it can be shown that you have influence over people's actions towards that goal, then yes.

  • On the post: How Do You Measure The 'Benefits' Of Copyright?

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2010 @ 12:45pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Music tax vs blanket license

    Supporting the "finished product" doesn't make sense, and here's just a couple of reasons why:

    • What is a "finished product" when works are iterative and based on others' works? Where does the work "finish"? Where does it "begin"?
    • We are supporting something that has zero marginal cost, and yet a variable initial cost. One song takes a day to write, another takes ten years. So supporting the "finished product" is not properly, proportionally or fairly compensating each artist.

  • On the post: Getting Ready For When The Industry Tries To Kill 3D Printers

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2010 @ 07:58pm

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    Today, as Mike frequently shows, the value of that music 'copy' is now approaching zero.
    No, the price of that 'copy' is approaching zero. The value of the music is still how the audience values it. I value the music I possess, regardless if it is from a free download or a $15 CD.

  • On the post: Preparing New BestNetTech CwF+RtB Offerings, And Extending The Crystal Ball For Those Who Bought

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2010 @ 11:08pm

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    As long as the design is (R)(C)(TM) and (Pat. Pend.), count me in!

  • On the post: Why It's Important Not To Call Copyright Infringement Theft

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2010 @ 08:16am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Depends on your definition of "psychopath". It also depends on whether you correctly identify yourself as not being a psychopath.

  • On the post: Why It's Important Not To Call Copyright Infringement Theft

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2010 @ 07:06am

    What's missing

    The biggest question I have when it comes to whether "infringement is theft" is: what is actually stolen? what is actually missing from the owner?

    The response often gets into "well, the potential of (something-or-other)".

    This is not an argument over semantics. NOTHING is missing or stolen. There has been no theft.

  • On the post: Connecting With Fans Is About More Than Getting People To Pay Attention To You

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2010 @ 08:42pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fascinating but worthless

    The kid stealing stuff from the store is him taking a scarce resource. When he takes it, the store owner no longer has it. Your analogy is completely wrong. In the digital world, no one has lost anything...though I know that you are about to make a claim that the store owner loses a sale: but nothing guarantees anyone a sale.

    You are confusing the cost of the production of something (the article indeed costs money to generate) with the cost of giving people that article (it costs ZERO to give someone a copy of the article digitally).

    A business model around charging for a digital copy is going to kill you. There is no reason to charge for something that costs NOTHING. If you don't make your content free, then someone else will. This isn't a morality thing, this isn't a rogue culture thing. This is BASIC economics.

    You need to build a business model where you are collecting money for the SCARCE resources you have. For example, why create the story before you get paid? Why not charge to have some type of live interaction with the journalists that created the article (webinars, live presentations, customized/personalized stories)? Why not charge for physical goods based on your digital goods (Best Of books, paraphernalia, etc...)? Why not charge for physical goods around the culture you create? Why not sell the attention of your audience (which is the way that newspapers/TV/radio have always made their money)?

    Again, you are concerned about BB "stealing" a ZERO cost good. But they have created an audience because they are doing a BETTER JOB making the (ZERO cost) information interesting by building a community around it (and providing their own, better analysis, and organizing their stories better, and having better "branding", and engaging their audience better, and ...).

  • On the post: Connecting With Fans Is About More Than Getting People To Pay Attention To You

    greg.fenton ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2010 @ 01:05pm

    Re: Customer management

    Suzanne, isn't the old way of doing business have the exact same problem? In order to get your music out there, you need to press vinyl, market, knock on DJs' doors (and grease their palms), etc... ?

    How is this "connect with fans" any different than in the past? The only real change here is that the moneys flow from slightly different channels, and the middlemen (those with the resources to press vinyl) have less power.

    So the promoters of the past need to change their ways. With digital technologies, artists (or their fans!) can cut into the promoters' business, so the promoters have to work harder to earn their keep. But the successful ones will leverage the efficiencies of technology to reduce their costs, increase their coverage and ultimately make more money.

    Artists today can be as involved or as removed as they would like. Does Annie Lennox really write her own Facebook updates? From the way I read them, I doubt it. Does David Byrne really write his own blog? I believe he does. Yet I follow both and feel connected. I certainly get more up-to-date information about their shows and new releases than I have in the past, because I sought them out via direct social channels rather than the days of the middlemen seeking me via broadband.

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