Comments on: Megaupload: Hong Kong Mulls Copyright Crackdown

By: Goest

Goest — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:53:00 +0000

yep, and they paid a lot of money to buy these businesses. that money is booked in their financial statements as “intangible assets” valued under the business models of the past. If the business models change, that would mean they would have to depreciate all those assets and record terrible losses. that’s why it’s vital for them not to allow for new business models to emerge

By: Goest

Goest — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:49:00 +0000

“nothing wrong with regular american folk?” nothing wrong with 50% of regular american folk ok, but the other half looks quite scary to me!

By: Goest

Goest — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:46:00 +0000

big businesses have had their first kick in the harse with the internet bubble, around ten years ago.

they have learnt to their expense that having money and power, having their businesses run by armies of lawyers and accountants, did not protect them from making huge losses, and from being treated like greenhorns by a bunch of smart kids.

that’s an humiliation they will remember for long, believe me, and do everything in their power to keep the world the way it was back in the 60s, and that at any cost.

By: Goest

Goest — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:39:00 +0000

you could add that the entertainement industries would make more profits, would they embrace new business models.

So why aren’t they? the reason is not mere stupidity (although that’s a big chunk of the explaination)…

tbc

By: Goest

Goest — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:33:00 +0000

agreed with your bet, expect with the “people will fight for it and take it back”… people don’t mind being slaves, i think it’s rather in their true nature.

By: Goest

Goest — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:28:00 +0000

Brazil rules! no question that you represent the 21st century more than the us and europe combined

By: Goest

Goest — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:26:00 +0000

if you have power in the european union, it’s likely you’re someone who’s been disconnected from real life for a very, very long time, that you are promoting and defending ideologies that are known dead for at least 20 years (and thinking you’re ahead and brave to stand for it).

So i’m afraid: nope, not much should be expected from european institutions, sadely.

By: Goest

Goest — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:26:00 +0000

So i’m afraid: nope, not much should be expected from european institutions, sadely.

By: Goest

Goest — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:21:00 +0000

“no one has drm” lol… their products are so outdated and out of touch with people needs and available technology.

It’s as if we were forced to use car-horses to go to work (instead of petrol fueled ones and were being told: “common, nobody blocks you from using the road..”

By: Ramos806

Ramos806 — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:03:00 +0000

Retard… Name suits you.. Bet you juggle them in you mouth