twainer

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by twainer 15y ago
In my views, it's mostly about balance rather than picking between divergent choices. Who says one can't be a firm leader also capable of soliciting and respecting the opinions of others? The NY Giants won the SuperBowl as you note, with a
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by twainer 15y ago
I disagree that one cannot distinguish between the likely ethics of a bootstrap or VC-funded startup. Logically, when a business has its own customers as the only means of support, there is a greater symbiotic relationship - sustained by ag
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by twainer 15y ago
Actual success rates aren't that important - I think the point can be examined more clearly simply by considering things in their true light: there is a big difference between having money you've got and having money someone has lent you. T
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by twainer 15y ago
In my eyes, your take on things is very far from the live-and-let-live stance that you appear to want to adopt. It's more like social engineering. You continue to be free to do your art for free and without concern for profit; in no way doe
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by twainer 15y ago
Agreed. But in my conception of copyright reform there is a separation of copyright ownership law vs. legal protection of instances of when that copyright is monetized. The weakness in current copyright law isn't that it exists at all, it's
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by twainer 15y ago
I appreciate your sentiments - I really do. From my perspective, the inability of people to involve themselves in discussion both prevents them knowing me and also finding a better solution. My views on copyright are far more nuanced and fo
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by twainer 15y ago
Go ahead - look through all my comments I've written on IP. When you know what I am saying, you'll know I am not saying one should play by the rules - I never have in my life, that's for sure. And yes - the current urge is selfish - as you
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by twainer 15y ago
Enough with the cowardly and anonymous down-votes. If you've something wrong with what I've written, presumably you have a point to make of your own. Otherwise you are just confirming my point that people don't like any ripple in the constr
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by twainer 15y ago
Sorry, but this post is based on a false notion that intellectual property is a beneficial crutch propping up only corporations and piggybacks on the idea that destruction of entrenched interests is always regenerative. That second point is
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by twainer 15y ago
Does Harvard Business School have a kindergarten class now?
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by twainer 15y ago
Expiring copyright and open-sourcing are not the same thing - but they can have the same result. That's a point I think tech-people don't think about enough. If my business is the creative work I've done, what right does an expiring copyrig
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by twainer 15y ago
I'm a new arrival in the tech industry; used to work in the content industry. I have NO love for corporations - none at all - it's just that I have really gotten to know the people on both sides and find it frustrating that the fight ends u
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by twainer 15y ago
The limiting of copyright and patent is supported by advocates of such limitations on the basis of benefits from the work accruing in a more fair balance between the individual and society. It is stated on this thread and many others that i
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by twainer 15y ago
It's funny, I never down-vote people even when I don't agree with them. But that's just me - I am anti-censorship. Though, I do thank you for taking the time to make an argument - I get down-votes for almost every unpopular viewpoint I take
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by twainer 15y ago
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If my business and my copyright are the same thing, why should I be forced to 'open-source' my business after ten years? Neither trade secret nor trademark nor service marks protect my creat
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by twainer 15y ago
A modest proposal for Joel: Ten years as a period for copyright? How about you go first. Since the tech industry understands copyright so much better than everyone else it might be good for them to set an example and show all the 'old' dodo
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by twainer 15y ago
PG is not using 'killing' in the sense of "finding ways [entertainment] that people prefer". To quote: "The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they could do a lot of damage to civil liberties and the world econo
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by twainer 15y ago
I'm sorry but this kind of thread from the initial post on down to the echo chamber of opinions smacks more of Jonestown than Silicon Valley. I personally find it disturbing. The vast majority of this country enjoys some part of what comes
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Behind the music: What if the culture industry shut down for a day?(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by twainer 15y ago|1 comments
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by twainer 15y ago
SOPA is a disaster but there seems to be far too much groupthink going on to consider an obvious point: if people treated their internet with more respect we wouldn’t be ending up here. Forget ‘copyrights’ - forget boogeyman #1 RIAA and boo
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by twainer 15y ago
Something shady going on with this petition? I logged in - first time every looking at it - and it says "You've already signed this petition." ???
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by twainer 15y ago
The SOPA outcry reminds me of global warming - specifically the generation that doesn’t believe in it, that scoffs at the notion that man could even affect mother nature. That generation seems so backwards and hubrisitic: the crazy idea tha
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by twainer 15y ago
Yes, and frankly the micro-managing boredom. From my perspective, any system like this is starting to serve the needs of the platform in place of the needs of the consumer. My car already has a light for when the oil needs to be changed. I
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by twainer 15y ago
I don't say anywhere that the full tail doesn't exist, do I? I simply point out that it's very lucrative for the platform provider and not very compelling for a content provider. What counts is attention not access: there is no long tail of
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by twainer 15y ago
As I have posted elsewhere here, as a fact-on-the-ground 'discovery' is highly over-rated and over-emphasized. It is much easier to connect with 100 people deep enough to get them to come to a show than to connect with 1,000 or 10,000. This
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by twainer 15y ago
The long tail exists for the user. For the content provider it is a myth. The long tail rewards platforms that deliver the content, not those that participate in it. An example from the world of books: http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/the-my
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by twainer 15y ago
Some facts on the ground here are just wrong - although the intuition feels correct: "The bigger the audience you have the more you can make from live shows, which is your staple income unless you're the Rolling Stones, Sting, the Beatles,
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by twainer 15y ago
I'm not sure why you'd pick a trivial issue on purpose because - no offense - it doesn't make for a very compelling argument. In your specific case, the effort to rip a movie to avoid watching the FBI warning etc is a bad deal for you: it t
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by twainer 15y ago
Too many partners in my opinion. MTV blew up not only because of the subject matter but also because it was one of the only channels that had a youth market at all. It was like the internet as a TV channel - metaphorically-speaking. It's ve
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by twainer 15y ago
I am not sure either, but I would agree. Insurance/liability and licensing are significantly more complicated when one is driving for a business and transporting passengers. So-called 'commercial' driver's licenses face much more stringent

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