One misconception that people have is that somehow the credit card companies eat the lost revenue from stolen credit cards.
WRONG!
If I sell a product online( which I do ) and someone uses an illegal credit card they remove the money from my account. The vendor pays the price, not the bank or credit card companies.
So, if iTunes didn't get paid for the download, I promise you the author didn't get royalties.
So... if an employee at the IRS downloaded all my tax and personal information and uploaded it to Wikileaks for the world to see, that's ok under the constitution?
I recently have been thinking about how all the industries are in the state of flux including the software industry. Folks are now getting used to paying 99 cents for software so I decided to see what impact this will have on our industry.
One of my readers suggested I contact you and share my recent experiment. Since I don't have your contact info I would hope you would be curious enough to click on my name to read my blog post. I would post the url but I don't want it to be mistaken for someone who just spamming. In fact, no need to moderate and publish this comment. I just wanted to present my latest experiment for your review.
Reminds me of Elwoord Edwards who did You've Got Mail and other sounds for AOL. He wasn't a professional voice. He was the husband of one of the customer service reps.
After AOL took off he sued for more compensation.
There's actually a guy named Harry Potter in our little home town. I thought my sister-in-law was going to have a cow when Harry Potter showed up once on our caller-id.
Gemstar essentially owns( or claims to own ) the patent on any Electronic Program Guides They've been aggressive in going after anyone who displays any kind of list of programs on a display screen.
Case in point, TiVo came out with one the easist and most innovative EPG's and Gemstar went after them.
The results, all TiVo's now have a TVGuide option along with the TV Guide logo on their EPG screen. No one ever uses the old ugly TV Guide format but it's there and TiVo has to pay a royalty.
You'll also find most new TV's that include any kind of Electronic Program Guide use TV Guides.
I think everyone has made it clear, we hate pop up advertising.
Yet, I notice the most common use of legitimate pop up advertising seems to be TV, radio and Newspaper web sites. Ironically, ad revenue on the web is starting to match their print ad income.
Guess who eats the cost of illegal credit cards
One misconception that people have is that somehow the credit card companies eat the lost revenue from stolen credit cards.
WRONG!
If I sell a product online( which I do ) and someone uses an illegal credit card they remove the money from my account. The vendor pays the price, not the bank or credit card companies.
So, if iTunes didn't get paid for the download, I promise you the author didn't get royalties.
Bill Pytlovany
Censorship
So... if an employee at the IRS downloaded all my tax and personal information and uploaded it to Wikileaks for the world to see, that's ok under the constitution?
Bill
I know exactly how you feel
Mike,
I recently have been thinking about how all the industries are in the state of flux including the software industry. Folks are now getting used to paying 99 cents for software so I decided to see what impact this will have on our industry.
One of my readers suggested I contact you and share my recent experiment. Since I don't have your contact info I would hope you would be curious enough to click on my name to read my blog post. I would post the url but I don't want it to be mistaken for someone who just spamming. In fact, no need to moderate and publish this comment. I just wanted to present my latest experiment for your review.
Thanks,
Bill Pytlovany
Reminds me of the AOL Voice guy
Reminds me of Elwoord Edwards who did You've Got Mail and other sounds for AOL. He wasn't a professional voice. He was the husband of one of the customer service reps.
After AOL took off he sued for more compensation.
Common name
There's actually a guy named Harry Potter in our little home town. I thought my sister-in-law was going to have a cow when Harry Potter showed up once on our caller-id.
Bill
It's all about the EPG patent
Gemstar essentially owns( or claims to own ) the patent on any Electronic Program Guides They've been aggressive in going after anyone who displays any kind of list of programs on a display screen.
Case in point, TiVo came out with one the easist and most innovative EPG's and Gemstar went after them.
The results, all TiVo's now have a TVGuide option along with the TV Guide logo on their EPG screen. No one ever uses the old ugly TV Guide format but it's there and TiVo has to pay a royalty.
You'll also find most new TV's that include any kind of Electronic Program Guide use TV Guides.
Bill
AOL Name Change to Advertising OnLine
I was there in the beginning and have stood by the original intent of AOL but turning the company into a "global advertising network" does it for me.
I wrote more about it today in my blog.
Bill
Newspaper Web site and Popups
I think everyone has made it clear, we hate pop up advertising.
Yet, I notice the most common use of legitimate pop up advertising seems to be TV, radio and Newspaper web sites. Ironically, ad revenue on the web is starting to match their print ad income.
Bill
Re: Competitors
You don't have to wait...
Norton already claims program like WinPatrol, Spybot and others need to be removed.
http://billpstudios.blogspot.com/2006/10/nav-2007-application-detection-error.html
Remember Kodak
Ten years ago Kodak felt the same way.
Digital cameras would never match the quality of film.
I can't imagine in 2017 using any storage device with moving parts.
Bill