I just have one small note for you:

When talking about the video game Wolfenstein, you talked about Id software. Their name isn’t pronounced as “I” “D”, it’s actually id (as in part of the psyche).

That’s a common error most people make, but I just wanted to point that out to you if you ever talk to John Carmack or someone in that company. :P

Nice job Matt and best of luck with your book!!!

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Just a note from the average joe – try to stand still when you present its very tiring to have you walk around so much.. and tuck in your shirt to make you look a bit more professional.[/quote]

All due respect, I’m in school, and a guy just standing there talking in a monotone is the WORST presentation method; the more alive the presenter is (to me) the more natural/casual/interesting/relaxing it (the presentation) seems.
As a presenter, I guess some would like that style, some wouldn’t; but I really liked it, and from all the professional critiques and books I’ve seen and/or read, hand motion etc. to emphasize your points is highly recommended.
To each his own…

Clearly you, like meany on this site have an innate inabilityto listen.
What he said was VINYL sales in the UK had gone up by 100%.

And “h33t” i really hope that english is not your first language because you completely misunderstand pretty much everything he says. You’re so wrong in so many ways “h33t” I can’t even be bothered to correct you.

The only thing he got wrong was the easy of which Linux is to install as the reason for it not beating Windows. The real and biggest reason is the Windows name recognition. Over all a really good presentation. Nice one Matt[/quote]

Agh curse all my typos! That should be “ease” not “easy”

Just a note from the average joe – try to stand still when you present its very tiring to have you walk around so much.. and tuck in your shirt to make you look a bit more professional.

Clearly you, like meany on this site have an innate inabilityto listen.
What he said was VINYL sales in the UK had gone up by 100%.

And “h33t” i really hope that english is not your first language because you completely misunderstand pretty much everything he says. You’re so wrong in so many ways “h33t” I can’t even be bothered to correct you.

The only thing he got wrong was the easy of which Linux is to install as the reason for it not beating Windows. The real and biggest reason is the Windows name recognition. Over all a really good presentation. Nice one Matt[/quote]

lol Opps that “meany” should be “many” my bad.

Clearly you, like meany on this site have an innate inabilityto listen.
What he said was VINYL sales in the UK had gone up by 100%.

And “h33t” i really hope that english is not your first language because you completely misunderstand pretty much everything he says. You’re so wrong in so many ways “h33t” I can’t even be bothered to correct you.

The only thing he got wrong was the easy of which Linux is to install as the reason for it not beating Windows. The real and biggest reason is the Windows name recognition. Over all a really good presentation. Nice one Matt

when did this become a dilemma?

THERE IS NO DILEMMA!

You either compete or you die, how many fucking examples do we need to make, COMPETE OR LOOSE, THAT IS YOUR CHOICES..

why do they not understand that.. this piracy situation is so far out of reach, stop even ACTING theres something you can do about it other then compete.

The Pirate’s Dilemma: To Compete or Be Owned[/quote]
+100, x1,000

Yeah, it is that obvious; its just that after ten years of being beaten in the head, they (media companies) still don’t get it, so he spelled it out for them in words of two syllables or less.

I totally agree, its really really obvious.

Its just that the corpo-rats are SOOOOO stupid, they really need it spelled out like that; even so, maybe one in a hundred got the point!!![/quote]

Unfortunately, and disgustingly, no one’s paying attention.
The fuckers just forced thousands of ISPs in Japan to detect file-sharers and terminate their accounts [todays TF news].

In a free-market, in the real world, in anything remotely resembling an intelligent business plan, it would be “compete or die”; but these … fools still think its “compete, or cheat”; and although cheating involves infiltrating every governement on earth, forcibly changing the legal system without the citizens consent, legally attacking every disillusioned but genuine fan of music, and creating their own corps of “world police”;
you know, instead of lowering their prices.

Fucking *****.
Fucking, fucking *****.

You know, the guy in this presentation understood so much of the economics behind piracy, I had kind of hoped the mafIAA wouldn’t pay attention to him; knowing that much truth might actually make them more effective against piracy.
But I guess the alternative is for the mafIAA to keep getting more and more heavy-handed in their attacks on every digital liberty we have.
Forced to choose between the two, I’d say find a third option, but just now it seems pretty bleak. Of course we can keep fighting and winning, but the damage they are doing to our countries and legal systems is saddening.

Hell, you know, maybe that’s a good thing; every example he gave was consistent: the phonograph company started out as an outlaw then quickly became the law and the oppressor. In retaliation, pirate radio arose as an outlaw (esp.in UK) and quickly became the law and the oppressor (forced tax for the BBC, illegalization of pirate radio). Edison’s motion picture company started out as an outlaw (stealing theatre etc) and quickly became the law and the oppressor. William Fox and his cohorts headed out to Hollywood as outlaws, and quickly became the law and the oppressor. Steve Jobs started out as a human opposing the juggernaut of Microsoft, and quickly became the law and the oppressor (iTunes, etc).

Hey folks; this means that we will have a pirate outlaw, who will be successful, and will quickly become the law and the oppressor. It will likely happen within one generation (outlaw–>oppressor), and it may well be either a company that goes from outlaw–>oppressor, or an individual. Want to guess candidates?

That is why the philosophy is so much more important than the economics. With the philosophy, decades pass (GNU, Linux, etc) where the freedom and contribution to society are unoppressed: innovation and freedom abound, and contributions are made to society at rates literally impossible in any oppressive system.
Without the philosophy, less than a single generation passes before the outlaw becomes the law and the oppressor, and attacks freedom, innovation, and contributions to society with everything he has, in order to maintain the status quo he profits from.
Yes, it is disgusting.

Gentlemen, that is why these mafIAA dinosaurs must be opposed on every personal, legal, and technical front possible; they, and all of the outlaw–>lawful oppressors who will inevitably join/become them, are a festering sore on society, incessantly and powerfully trying to spread their sickness and rottenness into the entire world body;
a moral, philosophical, and technical counter-culture is all that opposes them.

God speed, good men; God speed.

Epic fail.[/quote]

“golf clap”

lol

That’s not what I said. Listen again…

This guy has amazing presentation skills.
He also made some great points considering physical piracy, that I’ve never thought of.

Amazing ideas and presentation, great points, great everything.
Loved watching this.

hell, mac can be said to be simple because os and hardware is more or less joined at the hip.

i think someone ones claimed that most linux distros support more hardware out of the box then windows vista does.

the real problem about linux is that there is no single linux, each distro has its kernel that got frozen at release, and user space apps, and creating a single driver like one can for mac or windows just cant be done.

windows is easy in that one can ship a product with a nice little bit of paper that basically tell the user to insert cd/dvd, click install at the nice window that pops up (never mind the security risk of having your os automatically run stuff from media thats inserted, its just a remix of a boot virus waiting to happen had it not been that cds are write rather then rewriteable like hte floppies of old), and then hit next until the finish button lights up…

for mac its similar, or you drag and drop a couple of items from the optical media onto the drive in specified locations.

but then the funny thing is that what apple now is creating with the iphone appstore, and people cheer it on as it will be so simple for the consumer to use, the linux distros have been using for ages. basically we are talking about repositories.

want a app? find it on the list, click install, wait and presto.

now if the hardware people could talk to the kernel people so that they could coordinate kernel and hardware product in a way so that when hardware is released, the disc can contain a file that tells the distro what kernel version will have the required drivers (or the distro can use that info to install backported drivers for its latest version of the kernel if available), things would become simpler in this one, lonely trouble spot, imo.

problem is that this will probably not happen, as it would mean that hardware people will end up playing with open cards as to what products they have on their way.

Water is the biggest scam ever.

Most Europeans pay about 0.80 EUR for 1000 liter of water (1 cubic meter). If you buy water at a shop, you will pay even more (1 EUR) for a half liter of water.

@3 you can rip/save it to hd if you have firefox[/quote]

I have Opera and can do that too :P

Thank you Matt!!

That there’s no point suing your customers. [Agreed]

That this is cutting edge business model – get over it [to the music industry].

That the day of the CD is fast coming to an end – customers prefer to download.

He’s staying a lot of the same things that we are. Standard copyright laws can’t apply now. Customer enjoy remixing – so allow them too – as a business model.

Only the corporations are paying him to say it. That’s the corporations for you!!

when did this become a dilemma?

THERE IS NO DILEMMA!

You either compete or you die, how many fucking examples do we need to make, COMPETE OR LOOSE, THAT IS YOUR CHOICES..

why do they not understand that.. this piracy situation is so far out of reach, stop even ACTING theres something you can do about it other then compete.

The Pirate’s Dilemma: To Compete or Be Owned[/quote]
+100, x1,000

Yeah, it is that obvious; its just that after ten years of being beaten in the head, they (media companies) still don’t get it, so he spelled it out for them in words of two syllables or less.

I totally agree, its really really obvious.

Its just that the corpo-rats are SOOOOO stupid, they really need it spelled out like that; even so, maybe one in a hundred got the point!!!

[quote comment="311567"]Great presentation. I’ll be buying your book the next time I have the chance. :)[/quote]

I’ll be downloading it. :P

disregard that, i suck cocks”

haha,let me help..
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[cc] close captioned for imagination impaired.

h33t:(muffled sound)deesregud th_t,(mouthful) eiii sukfkiing chooock.