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News Corp. CEO and founder, Rupert Murdoch, let the tweets fly this weekend humbly claiming he screwed up "in every way possible" with MySpace. Additionally, he accused Google of streaming illegally obtained movies and chastised President Obama for recently stating his opposition to SOPA, accusing the president of being in cahoots with Silicon Valley executives.
The media mogul is well-known for being opinionated, vocal and also an ardent opponent of piracy. Murdoch's longstanding issues with Google have also been well publicized, such as criticizing Google News for being "thieves" and even threatening to block the aggregator from News Corp. sites entirely. Naturally, it should be no surprise that Murdoch took a little bit of time over the past couple weeks to rail on those who would pilfer copyrighted works, like Google.
In 2005, Murdoch spearheaded a deal in which News Corp. acquired MySpace for $580 million. The iconic social network plummeted in popularity as Facebook opened its doors to the masses the following year, but not before Murdoch struck a $900 million advertising deal with Google.
Even if you can navigate past the argument that Google illegally streams movies as part of its business model, it is hard to deny the hypocrisy of such a statement. GigaOm's Om Malik called out Rupert Murdoch on his ironic accusation:
Thanks to their advertising partnership with Google, News Corp. did manage to make their money back on MySpace. Despite this, the once popular social networking site has been in disarray ever since its purchase. Murdoch sold the company in 2011 to Specific Media and Justin Timberlake for $58 million, just 10 percent of its original value. The new owners hope to revitalize MySpace as an artist-focused destination.
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@Princeton By your logic, since I would never purchase any software in the first place, it is OK for me to just pirate a copy and use it, as the creators of the software would not loose any money.
Though stealing the computer that runs the software is a crime.
Seems to me you are attempting to justify a crime.
crime
? ?noun
1. an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited.
2. criminal activity and those engaged in it: to fight crime.
3. the habitual or frequent commission of crimes: a life of crime.
4. any offense, serious wrongdoing, or sin.
5. a foolish, senseless, or shameful act: It's a crime to let that beautiful garden go to ruin.
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TomSEA you can't stop piracy is correct...what you can do is make affordable legal alternatives and if its well receive that will reduce piracy..Look at the music industry...everyone under the sun was downloading music for free illegally...Then itunes came along....people had a legal way to get music...but it was still too expensive...yes $1 something per song is to expensive....but now Spotify and other legal alternatives offer FREE or very cheap all you want for a low monthly fee service and a lot more people stopped pirating because it actually took more work and effort to pirate. Sure they ain't making boatloads of money like they use to but the times have changed...either adjust or fight a losing battle!! There will always be pirates.....just make it easier and cheap enough for the regular folks and they will never think about pirating!
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princeton said:
@Princeton By your logic, since I would never purchase any software in the first place, it is OK for me to just pirate a copy and use it, as the creators of the software would not loose any money.Though stealing the computer that runs the software is a crime.
Seems to me you are attempting to justify a crime.
crime
? ?noun
1. an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited.
2. criminal activity and those engaged in it: to fight crime.
3. the habitual or frequent commission of crimes: a life of crime.
4. any offense, serious wrongdoing, or sin.
5. a foolish, senseless, or shameful act: It's a crime to let that beautiful garden go to ruin.
Keep attacking that strawman buddy, it won't make your argument any more valid. I never condoned piracy, and I never claimed piracy was okay. I simply pointed out the failures in logic and the false analogies used in TomSEA's arguments.
You might also want to read over the article I posted about straw man arguments, as it would have prevented you from making such an embarrassing post. You'll have to disable java script to view it though, because people who share the views of people like you and TomSEA have pushed Wikipedia to block all English articles on their site due to abhorred legislation regarding the subject of piracy.
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