Posts by giovanni tiso
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ISPs don't profit significantly, as far as I know.
My ISP certainly does, seeing as it caps its traffic and has a tiered structure that gets pretty expensive if you download a lot. Uncapped Internet may be a cost but conversely you could say that the uptake in broadband itself has more than a little to do with filesharing.
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That's another big concern of mine. There seems very little political willingness to engage with the serious concerns that ISPs have over the costs of monitoring (as Peter has noticed), and who will bear the burden
There also seems to be no willingness to recognise that the ISPs are also profiting very significantly from this traffic. They have become de facto publishers of a staggering range of contents just by providing an infrastructure, and without having to engage in all the other very costly and complex operations that a publisher previously had to engage in.
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my very favourite Facebook group - An Arbitrary Number of People Demanding That Some Sort Of Action Be Taken.
Heh indeed, joined.
Also my fave, along with Become a Fan.
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Yeah, and I for one hate that... :-)
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Oh, and in what reads like a thinly veiled parody of our copyright discussions, I give you Do Web Hook Ups Hurt the Sex Industry?.
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(Also, all of you with ad or Flash blockers -- you're stealing my content. But that's okay.)
Ooopsie... had forgotten to Disable ABP on publicaddress.net on my new Firefox install.
As far as flash goes, sorry, no can do. You'll have to prise that particular preference from my cold dead hands I'm afraid.
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To put things in perspective, a few years ago I helped in a very small way (Tze Ming a much bigger one) to organise a march of 3000 people on a budget of exactly zero dollars.
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On a Monday morning?
I'd say he fully deserves it.
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No, thank you, I was hoping you'd answer some of the ludicrousness concerning film budgets. I'd add that people who made a very successful low budget film once, pretty much never made a second one. Independent directors like John Cassavetes, who made it their mission to produce films that way and was certainly not beholden to the star system or special effects, spent his career raising money for his films, which were still *very* expensive to make.
There is a very interesting film about the making of Rossellini's Open City that gives a glimpse of this. In the end they managed to complete it on their shoestring budget, but it was both a miracle that they finished it and that it got any distribution. You simply couldn't expect everybody to work that way.
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Apologies, Tania, I misunderstood your point.
Very much looking forward to reading Banquo's Son. (I had this crazy plan of translating Ophelia Thinks Harder into Italian once, but things fell through. Different author, I know, but it's an intriguing genre.)