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Stolen Movies MAKE Money for Film Studios

Posted on December 5, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 0 Comments

Movie Piracy and Stealing Movies is Good for Movie Studios

Stealing and Piracy of Movies is Good for Movie Studios

One of the world’s most successful venture capitalists and two music big-shots have gotten behind piracy. Now, as odd as it might sound, there’s (a little bit of) proof that piracy may actually help movie studios make money.

Despite Fred Wilson, Neil Young, and Elvis Costello all coming out in favor of media piracy, stealing movies and music is still . . . well . . . stealing. And forget legal nuances distinguishing copying from theft; if you take something from someone else without paying for it and you know you were supposed to pay, you’re stealing. ... READ MORE of Stolen Movies MAKE Money for Film Studios at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (410 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Influency, Media

The Latest Threat to Free Speech: Censorship by a High Court

Posted on May 4, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

Yesterday, I told you about Sex.com becoming the Pinterest of Pornography. I wrote about that to illustrate the way social networking, done correctly, operates, and acknowledged that I talk about that topic pretty often.

I also talk about Piracy quite a bit. Media Piracy, be it movies, music, books, or software, is an incredibly complicated subject, and one that has many ways to link into a conversation about business change. This week, The High Court in The United Kingdom took aim at Piracy, and in mid-2012 I’m both amazed and a little frightened that they’ve pursued the particular action they’re attempting. ... READ MORE of The Latest Threat to Free Speech: Censorship by a High Court at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (526 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Media

What Do Axl Rose, Warren Buffett, and a Thieving Rat Have in Common?

Posted on April 13, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 0 Comments

Warren Buffett, Axl Rose, and a Thieving Rat are all on the front page of Answer Guy Central right now.

That’s it. I was amused to see these three very different guys all hanging out in the same place, especially since only two of the three actually have anything in common (scratching your head a little? I hope not!).

Axl, Warren, and the thieving rat won’t be on “page one” for much longer, but at least you’ll always be able to find them together on the archives page for Answer Guy Central in April 2012. ... READ MORE of What Do Axl Rose, Warren Buffett, and a Thieving Rat Have in Common? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (124 words, 3 images, estimated 30 secs reading time)

Filed Under: Content, Media, Uncategorized

Stealing Music and Movies is now COMPLETELY LEGAL in the USA

Posted on April 13, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 4 Comments

a rat as a digital media, music, movie, book and code thief

Last week, I talked about the reason I’m not an attorney. If you don’t feel like reading that piece I’ll sum it up really simply: most attorneys are weasels. And I don’t want to be a pantless weasel.

A couple of days ago, a US Court of Appeals judge issued a ruling that to my not-a-weasel eye makes, at least until the problem he’s created gets fixed, digital piracy legal here in the USA. Like, completely legal. Like, go out and start stealing copying stuff all you like. LEGAL. ... READ MORE of Stealing Music and Movies is now COMPLETELY LEGAL in the USA at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (362 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Media

Here’s The Reason I’m Not an Attorney

Posted on April 4, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 11 Comments

From a very young age, people told me I should be an attorney. When I was a kid I thought that was a compliment, but as I got older I realized it was merely commentary on my ability to come up with an argument for (or against, for that matter) almost anything.

It’s a useful skill. And I’m pretty sure I would have made a great lawyer. I even reconsidered going to law school about ten years ago. But at the end of it all, I felt the same way as an adult that I did as a teenager and college student: I don’t approve of most of what most attorneys do and didn’t want to join the party. ... READ MORE of Here’s The Reason I’m Not an Attorney at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (636 words, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Media

Neil Young Joins Elvis Costello: “Pirate My Music”

Posted on February 3, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 16 Comments

Oh to live on Sugar Mountain, with the barkers, the colored balloons, and the music pirates replacing the music labels. You can’t be twenty on Sugar Mountain, unless you’re ready for business change.

And my youngest son, just a couple of years away from being twenty and hoping to work in music management as I mentioned in this piece on Louis CK and changes in the media business, had best be paying attention.

Neil Young, a musician who over a career spanning nearly fifty years had been portrayed as everything from cranky and crotchety to progressives and forward thinking, gets it. Mr. Young has come out and said—I’m not kidding—Piracy is the New Radio. ... READ MORE of Neil Young Joins Elvis Costello: “Pirate My Music” at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Marketing, Media

Carpathia: MegaUpload’s Smart/Evil Hosting Partner

Posted on January 31, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 5 Comments

This is a story about customer service. Or maybe it’s about file sharing, copyright infringement, due process, and piracy.

Or maybe it’s just about being very, very careful with the way you store your data.

On February 2, 2012, Carpathia, the company that was hosting data for MegaUpload before their very large collection of information was taken off-line by a United States Justice Department action,  will be free to delete MegaUpload’s data.

And oh boy, are you glad you aren’t the folks at Carpathia who have to decide whether or not to do that. ... READ MORE of Carpathia: MegaUpload’s Smart/Evil Hosting Partner at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (815 words, estimated 3:16 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content, Customer Service, Media

More on BitTorrent, SOPA, Piracy and File Sharing—and SEO

Posted on January 23, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 8 Comments

BitTorrent and SOPA (or SOPA and BitTorrent)

When I told you about YouHaveDownloaded.com in this story about the marketing genius that is comedian Louis CK a few weeks back, I didn’t realize we’d be getting to pick on the United States Congress. Turns out that our friends in Washington DC, the very folks who though SOPA was such a great idea, have been illegally downloading copyrighted works from the Internet using BitTorrent.

Shocker. ... READ MORE of More on BitTorrent, SOPA, Piracy and File Sharing—and SEO at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (465 words, 1 image, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content, Media, Search Engine Optimization SEO

MegaUpload, BitTorrent, SOPA, File Sharing, Piracy, and You

Posted on January 20, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 9 Comments

Except for the time that The US Congress Endorsed the Services We Provide at Virtual VIP, I’ve been pretty clear on just how ill-prepared our government is to address business change and the Internet.

Chalk up another one for the dumb guys.

In shutting down widely popular (and wide purveyor of pirated material) web site MegaUpload yesterday, The US Congress has, once again, deprived a company of due process because they had written law (or in this case granted unreasonable powers to the US Department of Justice) without understanding what they were doing. ... READ MORE of MegaUpload, BitTorrent, SOPA, File Sharing, Piracy, and You at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (785 words, estimated 3:08 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content, Media




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