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law
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10.04.07They stole an image of my son and just had to pay $4000Edit: I seems like I've done a bad job selecting words for my headline. Some people think that I am complaining because I "just" got $4000. I'm not complaining. It's a not-so-successful formulation to say that this happened recently. Or like one of the commenters over at Reddit said: "I assume that "just" refers to time. Meaning they only now, a short while ago, had to pay $4000." About a year ago I was surprised when I saw an image of my son in an ad for a shop called "Vinderen Elektriske", selling electronics. I immediately contacted the editor of the magazine in question, ...
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07.09.075½ lessons that legitimate retailers can learn from piratesSadly, the story about how Bob the Millionaire Became a pirate is still highly relevant. And not long ago Mark Pilgrim had an article out that describes a couple of lessons that the professional part of the industry could learn from the pirates. Well worth a read. A story to show the problem If you have two shops down the street. One sell illegal copies of movies and one sell legal originals. The shop with the illegal copies work like this: you go inside, find what you want, have a look at it, pay and go home. At home you play the movie ...
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12.20.06Stealing an image of a kidApparently I nearly killed a reader through pure boredom with my last post, so I hope this stuff is slightly more interesting. A couple of weeks ago my father-in-law calls me wondering if I have started selling pictures of his grandchildren to commercials. He is talking about a picture of his grandson listening to an iPod. Used in an advertisement in a magazine he just received. I haven't sold any pictures of my son to commercials, so I was quite interested in this. As you can see from the picture that I have inserted above, my father-in-law had reason to believe that ...
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06.16.06The power of citizen journalismThe internet gives everyone with a connection a powerful distribution channel. A potential to reach millions of people. 90% of the stuff out there reach a very small audience, but some of it reach out bigtime. Two quick stories. 1. The customer representative from hell Vincent Ferrari knew that AOL was known for trying to talk people out of their desicion to cancel their account. When he wanted to cancel an old account he recorded the conversation and posted an article on his blog. The story reach hundreds of thousands of people. Now the customer representative from AOL just got fired. You can see an ...
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04.21.06Stupid artist families and stupid astronomersThomas Hawk has an excellent comment on the fact that Joan Miro's family just sued Google because they incorporated parts of his art in their logo on his birthday: "So let's get this right. Google chooses to create a special logo to honor the art and memory of Miro and his birth in 1893 and his family wants to get all pissy about it?" I hope Miro turns in his grave in disgrace of his own family. This is just ridiculous. It reminds me of the story from 1994 when Apple used the code name Sagan for their new PowerMac under construction. The ...