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Interestingly, I still pirate shows that are available on iPlayer. Simply because the iPlayer experience is inferior to pirating it. Why? Well, let's see...

* iPlayer runs through Flash, it has to because of DRM (the iPhone version gets around this I think). I use a relatively recent Macbook Pro and the playback performance is dreadful. Even on my beasty iMac the HD versions of shows were stuttery at best, so I was forced to use the SD version. Normally I'm quite happy downloading and watching an SD broadcast of a show in full-screen, but in iPlayer the quality of the upscaling is so bad that it's distracting.

* Shows are quite often available on torrent sites before they're available through iPlayer (discounting watching content as it airs), this is especially true of HD content.

* Despite living in London, my internet connection simply isn't reliable enough to handle streaming without occasional buffering, even with SD. So my preferred approach is to download a show rather than stream it. I've generally found that downloading into iPlayer Desktop is slower than using a torrent site. As well as the fact that VLC doesn't eat my CPU like Adobe Air does.

By comparison, I'm a happy customer of Spotify, and I'm more than happy to pay for a video equivalent. I've tried Netflix now that it's out here, but the Silverlight player is as bad as Flash when it comes to CPU usage. The quality of the Netflix streams is pretty poor too, I've yet to manage to get it enable streaming in HD.
No, their websites were slowed.

Not hacking, DDOSing.

Not the exchange itself, the marketing pages.
I like to pay for my stuff, most software I use is either OSS or I payed for it. I have tucked a way in the attic over 500 CD's. I didn't buy any CD in the last 8 years or so. I used to download all the music I liked (but I still go to concerts). Than emusic came along and I used that, until lots of labels stopped using it and it became more expensive. Now I'm a happy Spotify user. So I didn't download music in the last 4 years or so. The only thing that is left is movies and TV-series I download a lot (and still go to the movies). I tried Jaman but there is not allot of quality content (I did get 3 credits free but never used it since movies I liked where not available in my country).

I would pay 50~100 euro per month for a all you can eat package providing that episodes are available with in a week of first broadcast (not in my country but global) and movies are available with in a month after showing in the theater. I asked around (yes very scientific) and most people would to that to.

So I have this money to give to the industry (max 1200 euro per year) but there is no service to give the money to. You could say go rend a movie (if you still can find such a place) but I refuse to pay 5 euro for a sloppy movie (the best movies I see in the theater any ways). You could say buy the movie but I'm not willing to pay 20 euro for a single Blu-ray. If tomorrow I could not download movies and TV-series any more I still wouldn't do that). In almost every other industry products follow demand but apparently the entertainment industry thinks they are above basic free market economics.
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That's interesting - if I pirate a song but never hear it, did I violate the gestalt of IP protection?

Almost purely philosophical as answering in the negative would inherently cripple the enforceability of copyright laws. But interesting nevertheless given the party line is the IP grants a purchaser a licence to consume the content.
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> The problem of music piracy is mostly solved, largely because of iPod/iTunes and Spotify and others.

You wish! Maybe for the US, UK and Germany, but I live in Slovenia, an EU, very highly developed (in terms of internet/mobile coverage and bandwidth) country, but since there's only 2 million of us, no one bothers to try to sell us things.

Thank god I have friends in the UK that can buy music for me. However, after reading this post, I think I won't buy it any more, until it becomes user friendly.
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Rewrite rule:

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine on

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The top of sopa.php:

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header("HTTP/1.0 503 Service Not Available");

?>

...followed by a body element that explains why the site is down and provides some links to sites with more info. ( One of which is BoingBoing, which has gone dark. )

I have some JavaScript in a Blogger site and an older web site that redirects to the site with the above mechanism in place.

http://www.mailsend-online.com
The regional licensing is the biggest barrier in my opinion. Germany is even worse than the UK and access to English speaking media is very difficult here. There are no legal outlets.

Frustratingly I would happily pay to access US and UK TV shows in the same way that I pay for music via Spotify, but the media companies aren't interested in taking my money. They are too busy trying to sue us and censor the internet instead.

BBC iPlayer Global is a joke. I have to navigate the Germany Apple Store (in German), sign up for a German iTunes account and my UK issued credit card is refused, even though the billing address held with the credit card company is correctly registered to my German address.

US internet companies struggle with the concepts of locale, language and applicable regional law. The whole issue is complex and nobody gets it right. It is often forgotten that where someone lives is not directly related to the language they speak (or preferred language). I find legally binding terms and conditions hard enough to understand in English, let alone in German. Legally, that is still my problem. Should it be? Do I need to see ads in German Google? Accept Language anyone??? http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14...
Europe is the same. I'd like to pay for movies through itunes but they're simply not available.
Or until you're an accountant.
Same here in Portugal[1]. It says "The great protest on the Internet against piracy laws has started" and it mentions the arguments of the opposition.

And it already has a comment saying how to disable the block :P
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Good point.

I think connecting me through the phone would be best. I was a little confused about how the call was going to work initially until I stopped skimming and actually read what was on the page.

Another good rationale is that the user may not have a microphone on the machine they're on. Or there could be security restrictions on the machine that prevent access. It also opens up a new world -- you could let them schedule the call during business hours for the senator's office, or a time when the user is free.
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There's a curious parallel in the social malignancy between the banks he used to regulate and the MPAA he now commands.

Both had (and have) a legitimate purpose, both delivered value to society, and both used the proceeds of their enterprise to secure rents at the cost of society.

I cannot empathise with the OP on the whole; the music and publishing industries, though kicking and screaming plenty, are reforming. The film industry has yet to figure out heads and tails of their predicament, but neither did Kodak and we rarely call their incompetence evil.

Where I converge is on the malignancy of the industries actions; SOPA/PIPA is an attack on civil and productive society. In that act of selfishness and rather-burn-Berlin-than-let-her-fall rhetoric is, in my mind, morally UN-forgivable.
Kinda the point, isn't it?
thanks all. definitely a no no
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If it was so simple to do in 60 days I wonder why they don't question the several billion years.
I will start by saying that for someone to do 7 startups and also travel the world, well that is pretty impressive. A lot of "making it" has to do with timing. I would say that you need to keep at it and don't give up. The worst thing you can do is to stop working your passion. So if you have some ideas, go out there and try them, again. Who know, this time it may work out. Failure is nothing to be ashamed of. Many great people have gone through several failures before they are seen as successes. Rovio, the guys who made Angry Birds, took 8 years, 51 titles, and in 2009 a close to bankruptcy claim to achieve their “overnight” success. Sometimes things just take time to germinate. Here is another great short by Michael Jordan talking about failure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-EMOb3ATJ0&feature=fvst

Other than that, I think that if you really are miserable, you should take a step back, take a moment to introspect about what you really want. Are startups what you really want to do? Do you really like traveling? Finding what you want can be the hardest thing to do sometimes. It might help to take some time off, go to a remote place and do some serious thinking. I would also even suggest a Vipassna retreat, there are several in different locations throughout the country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassanā

You are only 32, not that old, and have a lot of life ahead of you. Never give up on your dreams nor on yourself. There is greatness in human potential.
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I agree with you so much. To this person and all the others you don't have some God given right to the content they produce/deliver. Instead of pirating go without.

Will life stop if you don't watch the latest episode of Community? Probably. Give it a go. If you die I have dibs on your $2000 Macbook Pro, $800 iPhone, $250 Sennheiser headphones, etc. The very phrase 'Because you are messing with my life' in this context shows how much is wrong with the current culture.

These companies are destroying civilisation? I've asked this question before: If I create a piece of software and ask you to not use it without purchasing it, will you do that? Very few people seem to be able to answer yes. The people who can't answer yes are those who are ruining civilisation. There is so much hyperbole in this article ("Messing with my life was not enough. You are even trying to destroy one of the pillar of our society: education.") I'm not quite sure if it's satirical or not, hah.

Steve Jobs mentioned that in the end it comes down to the person knowing they've done something wrong after they've tried to rationalise their way out of it ("BUT IT'S NOT STEALING" or whatever the latest fad is).

During high school I pirated a hell of a lot of software, videogames, music, movies—everything. I still bought more video games than most people will in their life times but that in no way balances what I pirated. I've stopped (All I have left is to make a list of the music I have and listen to in order to delete it all and slowly purchase it, which I've started doing). I either pay for something, borrow it or go without.

The funny thing is, I don't like these big corporations either. I wish people would stop treating them as large, mythical and faceless entities but talk to the people behind the door. Until both sides come to understand each other and seek that communication they [we] will forever be at war.

I don't support SOPA nor do I support blatant pirates.
I feel your pain. Unless you are English speaking in the USA, Spanish speaking in Spain, or German speaking in Germany then you are an edge case.

I pity the 14 million "edge case" Catalan speakers in Spain.
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I don't think there's much a government of 350 million people can actively do to help here. Any practical, on-the-ground effort is bound to drown in bureaucracy.

But this is not, as I read between the lines, what is going on here: This is a PR/photo-op thing where the White House puts it's considerable PR clout behind CodeAcademy's meetup push - maybe there's some spare change to hire a couple of CA coordinators, but nothing significant.
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Getting access to good content producers is the easy part of running a traditional media company.

The challenges are about control of limited distribution and promotion channels. This is a vicious territory and a zero-sum game. This helps to explain why that space cultivates nasty people. The sort of person who would have no qualms about grinding an artist down as much as possible.

There's an endless supply of naive, highly skilled, high-ego artists who will do anything to get a 'contract' to get access to distribution. Money is not a key motivator to these people, but some might like the traditional media model if it gives their produce an advantage over equally skilled but less connected mindshare competitors. This is particularly true where the performing artist is just a front for a composition and marketing team.

Fasion is an industry with a similar dynamic to media, but even less emphasis on the quality of content. And - surprise surprise - it's famously dominated by a nasty kind of person.
Looking good. Seems like the underlying code is the same. Only an aesthetic change. But the search may be a bit changed..
> This is such bullshit, I really wish I could downvote this sort of post.

Don't forget that people might upvote a post not because they agree, but because they're interested in the discussion that follows. At least, it's why I upvoted the post. I hadn't completely made up my mind and arguments like yours convinced me.
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As well as allowing users to find other people to travel with / split travel costs. This could be anything from group booking a hotel or tour guide.
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No just in Asian countries. In Germany we have to hope something is successful enough to be shown on TV and then with a horrible German translation. The only way to watch this in original would be waiting 3 Years for a DVD version.

I envy you Americans for Netflix, we have nothing like that here.
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Same thing here in Austria. They cancelled most of the 2D features, leaving only ~10€ 3D movies - which I don't like, because the screen seems to be too dark as to compensate for the polarization filter of the glasses. Also, a small bottle of soda costs 3,40€ at the vending machine.
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"Copyright infringement is not stealing."

Sure, let's have a very pedentic notion of stealing and keeping framing the debate around 'stealing'.

OK... "taking something which isn't yours and/or you don't have permission to take". In most minds, that's the same as stealing, hence the standard use of the word 'stealing'. But substitute the phrase above for 'stealing' and, imo, it becomes harder to justify. Just because I an not doing an actual verifiable economic harm to someone doesn't mean it's right. Doesn't necessarily mean it's wrong, but doesn't make it right either.
I was comparing the laws of theft. It's just the law that a copyright owner can ask whatever for it. When you obtain a copy without flowing this rule it is called theft.

So I think the discussion should be about the copyright law. Not about "I think this service sucks so I will get an illegal copy".

Don't get me wrong. I think it's absurd that you can get a penalty of $10.000 for downloading a MP3. I think the copyright rules should change.

But I think it's silly to fight a law by disobeying it. It will give the MPAA good ground to say "see they are pirates".
I enjoy it, I just don't see how you could do that and get even close to the price of a VPS. In other words: colocation is expensive for a startup.
I got it, now what?
OK, I envisaged a new model to change the way advertising works, it looks like advertising’s biggest problem is relevance, sellers randomly target large numbers of to-be-buyers with their ads/spam on the hope that some of them will be interested, sellers still try hard to do more informed targeting but it is still broken; technology has advanced so much and I think we have the right ones now to do a hell of a lot better job than Google Ad-non-sense, only left is putting it all together and it will simply “change everything”, the model will simply render the word “Advertising” invalid and we should find a new word to replace it, it will serve everyone, from the 12 yrs old trying to sell his unused toys to large department stores.

I am a Microsoft dev guy by trade and I love Apple so much that I learned how to program for iOS, me plus other 2 devs we can do the whole thing within 12 months and with some marketing we will be able to yank this planet, I’ve read a lot about having a co-founder but after reading on both sides, I am convinced that having a co-founder is not a problem, at least now, all I need is funding to feed myself for those 12 months and pay for other 2 founding “employees” or simply just employees.

I’ve drafted a high level design of the whole thing and started the implementation but it won’t happen with me working part time, living in Australia, life here is more expensive than the US, with family etc, it is very hard to steer without consistent income for a long period.

VCs are fixated on having a co-founder because of statistical reasons, while for me having a co-founder is one more problem to worry about.

What do you think my next step would be?
#SOPA Blackout: This is what happens when you anger the Internet
I cannot sympathise with the OP on the whole. The music and publishing industries, though kicking and screaming, are on the whole evolving. The film industry hasn't figured out heads from tails, but neither did Kodak and we don't call their incompetence evil.

Where I converge is on the fury and destructiveness inherent in SOPA/PIPA. This rather-burn-Berlin-than-see-her-fall attack on America's (and through legislative export, the world's) creative and innovative centres is selfish and un-forgivable.

I also cannot help but notice the parallels in social malignancy between the banks Dodd used to regulate and the MPAA he commands today.
I think this is to some extents true for big movies and games but in longer terms some system will build up how to fund these project. No copyright does not mean that there will not be any contracts. You can still produce a movie and sell it to somebody, people cant copy it if they don't have it. For exampe a groupe of movietheaters could get together and fund a project, they will be the only ones who have the movie in a good quality. People still buy stuff even without copyright. Systems like steam would probebly still work, consol games would probebly still work. My pridiction would be: First a downfall to almost nothing then systems develop that still make some of those things possible in a smaller scala, these systems will get better over time.
The concept is a bit different, at the moment. Creating copies of copyrighted material _could_ be possible with scanners, printers, CD and DVD burners ... The fee you pay on those and other devices is rather to pay for illegal copies that are created of copyrighted material you own. Not for creating hardcopies of illegally acquired content.

At least that is what is supposed to do. In reality ... well you might want to learn German for that and read this interesting tidbit about the rights holder association of Germany (GEMA): hxxp://www.musiker-online.de/Newsdetails.newsdetails.0.html?&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=267&tx_ttnews[backPid]=10&cHash=226c5da554
"Doesn't explain why it's blacked out in a concise manner, it was unable to look up the House rep for my zip code"

Yeah, I couldn't see how to look up my house rep either. Probably because I don't have one, not living in the USA.

Why did they have to make this protest of US domestic politics international?
How would that work? The service would need access to your database, which in turn means your database is accessable over the internet, which in turn means your firewall isn't set up properly.
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I am reminded of "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
While you might think that, that is not how you want to argument phrasing to the general public. I am completely sure they would choose Transformers 3.
Interesting, 3 downvotes. Anybody want to explain why my criticism is so invalid? Google is trying to sell a message and is doing it in a much more understated way than some others sites. Not that I think it would have been a wise idea to censor the entire site, like Wikipedia, but it's interesting to wonder about the effectiveness of the option they chose. Most of the people here are ultimately interested in selling someone something using technology, and here is a successful technology company trying to sell a message in a way that is worth examining.
I only see one golden ratio in that image, between the left and right columns, and it's off by a bit. The second division relates to the screen height and length of the tweet, which are not part of the design. The divisions after that don't line up with anything.
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4chan "blacking out" (or, "spoilering") all comments as SOPA protest
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