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- Crude oil: OPEC cartel? Speculation? Unlimited demand?
- Crude oil: OPEC cartel? Speculation? Unlimited demand?Why is Crude Oil Price so High?Why is the Dollar so low?RE: Crude oil: OPEC cartel? Speculation? Unlimited demand?It's pretty easy. OPEC is made up mostly not all mind you, of countries that are not to fond of the US....
- Tags: Auto Industry, OPEC, Crude Oil, cartel
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- European archives release vintage films online
- European archives release vintage films onlineMore competition is good, especially if it's free!This type of offering is great for a number of reasons: it brings art that was essentially lost back into the mainstream, and it presents a wider range of content to the public that will compete with the...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), MORE COMPETITION, public domain, domain, cartel, DMCA, DVD
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- Flailing the latest digital whipping boy
- Flailing the latest digital whipping boyMy two cents"Of course evidence suggests that file sharing cannibalizes the economic value of the movies, television shows, and music distributed illegally on peer-to-peer networks. Being able to obtain content on peer to peer networks negates the need for consumers to buy DVDs, watch television,...
- Tags: cartel, DVD, Music Festival, TV
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- EU fines Sony, others for videotape price fixes
- EU fines Sony, others for videotape price fixesjust wondering...[i]The cartel covered the two most popular professional videotape formats at the time--Betacam SP and Digital Betacam[/i].Could it be the $ony & Co is repeating the history with the blue ray?If you look arround the blue-ray disks and players are double compared...
- Tags: HD DVD, Benefits, Consumer electronics, Digital media, Sony Corp., cartel
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
- Why Silicon Valley has to break the Telco/Cable Comms Cartel
- Silicon Valley is teeming with established companies and startups whose services and products require communications services. Some of the startups are called Web 2.0 companies, or social networking companies, social media companies etc. It doesn't really matter what they are called, they all require a communications component to unlock the...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, IT strategy, Disruptive
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Is it too late for managed Blu-ray and HD-DVD copying?
- Is it too late for managed Blu-ray and HD-DVD copying?Exactly...Quit with the premium crap. I shouldn't have to pay more for anti-cripple technology to begin with. That's stupid since it wasn't there until this whole DRM thing came about.They still don't get it. I want the same functionality I have...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Digital media, cartel, HD-DVD, IS IT
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
- Moral hazards and net neutrality
- George Ou is probably going to write something on this, as he's the one who sent me the link, but I just had to pull out one piece that I thought was particularly important. Timothy B. Lee (which, when I first read it, I thought to be Tim Berners-Lee, father...
- Tags: cartel, commission, government regulation, John Carroll, Net Neutrality, transportation
- Blog posts 2006-08-03
- EU agrees to new rules on sharing technology
- EU agrees to new rules on sharing technologyUnleveling the playing field aren't theySo now that they, the EU, have decided to dictate how business can be done in Europe are they going to further sue AMERICAN companies for practices they deem anticomptetive that is perfectly legal in the United States?...
- Tags: capitalism, American company, Microsoft Corp., cartel
- Discussion threads 2004-04-07
- Net, cell phones hide drug traffickers
- Net, cell phones hide drug traffickersHushmail? Hadn't heard of it before.Shhhh! Maybe it is a decoy (like the yellow pages ads for "escort services" run by vice) with a backdoor so all encrypted mail can be read.DEA, get a life! There are real humans out there dying...
- Tags: phone, cell phone, DEA, mammal, cartel
- Discussion threads 2004-03-19
- FCC nears vote on TV 'broadcast flag'
- FCC nears vote on TV 'broadcast flag'How do I pirate thee? Let me count the ways...The problem with a scheme like this is that it won't stop hackers and will probably annoy consumers. Like those who have already purchased HDTVs and would have to buy an upgrade or...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Piracy, Peer to peer (P2P), Consumer electronics, RIAA, cartel, IT FAILED, TV, ruler, FCC
- Discussion threads 2003-10-28
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- Peak oil panic? Dubai or not Dubai?
- Harry, please ignore the deniersThey will try to quash any voice of reason. I believe they hope to maneuver themselves into a position where they can argue that they should not be affected by the consequences because they don't believe in man-made climate change. Pure selfishness.Keep it coming. We are...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, food, oil
- Discussion threads 2009-11-26
- Gartner: Windows 7 is 'all but inevitable'
- Completely Disagree with Gartner's Recommendations...I would be skipping Vista at this point, and aborting all Vista deployment plans. Why? Simple...Any IT staff that is deploying Vista en mass to their enterprises bought it with Volume Licensing, which means they probably bought it with Software Assurance... better to use those support...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), gartner, Microsoft Windows Vista, Win 7, Microsoft Windows 7, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Republicans protest net neutrality rules, fearing a chilling effect on broadband investment (or was it profits?)
- Let the whining by the Neo-Cons begin. nt:-(RE: Republicans protest net neutrality rules, fearing a chilling effect on broadband investment (or was it profits?)bingoKeep your damn politics out of itCan't we just discuss technology issues without injecting our political views? There are valid arguments on both sides; let's focus...
- Tags: Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, net neutrality rule, broadband investment, broadband, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Music execs crying about royalties again; Time for a start-over
- Once Upon a TimeWhen we had music stores and vinyl discs and LPs were premium items, stores had listening booths for people to check the recording out. Since that was a performance in commercial context, publishers and songwriters could have asked for performance rights back then. They didn't because it...
- Tags: Performance management, Advertising & Promotion, media cartel, U.S. Congress, start-over, performance, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- RealNetworks: It can get worse
- It couldn't happen to a more deserving company. ntntReal is paying a price for not open sourcing its codeTrying to be like M$ harmed Real.They must GPL their code immediately, in order to survive.Real should also shoud push for M$ removing media player from windoze, and embrace Linux as the...
- Tags: Digital media, OPEN SOURCE, RealNetworks Inc., RealDVD
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- Will EPA trump Congress on carbon? If so, watch the fur fly.
- The Environmental Protection Agency, no longer secretly pledged to protect corporate profits as it was under the previous regime, is about to become more controversial even than the American medical cartel. After medical legislation is either passed or passed by, the EPA will issue some rulings that will rock...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Carbon, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Amazon: Congress, not Google, should make digital book policy
- In its stinging rebuke PDF of the Google Books settlement, Amazon lays out the full, horrendous ramifications of the deal: it rewrites copyright law, creates a monopoly in perpetutity, short circuits debate on the issue and takes the matter out of Congress' hands. Here's the major points...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, U.S. Congress, Amazon.com Inc., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Will the FCC's inquiries about wireless market be a waste of time?
- A waste of tax payers' money as wellMarket would be better off if these clueless 'Czars' could lay their messy hand off economy.RE: Will the FCC's inquiries about wireless market be a waste of time?Yes it will be a waste of time because their reports will find that nothing is...
- Tags: Federal government, Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, HUMAN BEINGS, FCC, human being, wireless, wireless market
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- While the EC wastes time with IE, Russia tackles bigger issues
- While the EC wastes time with IE, Russia tackles bigger issuesConsumer Issue. Congress can enact same legislation.ntWell over due {nt}.Lack of SuperstructureThese are all independent companies. Without proof that there is some collaboration between them that results in a monopoly, can their independent actions,...
- Tags: Operating systems, Economies-of-Scale, OS Installed, OEM, Linux, DVD, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- Thomas-Rasset to appeal $1.9m verdict
- Thomas-Rasset to appeal $1.9m verdictShe sure did ask for it.By sharing copyright protected songs. She should stop trying to blame the RIAA for her predicament. Regardless of the appropriateness or not of the $1.9M award two juries have found her guilty of willful infringement. Own up to it and take...
- Tags: Litigation, Digital media, RIAA, Thomas-Rasset
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
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