Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-6-2010

[andrewducker]

• Soot, hydrofluorocarbs 'low-hanging fruit' to fight warming
  (tags: globalwarming)
• Another view of game piracy - and one that actually makes sense to me.
  (tags: piracy copyright games)
• Supreme Court Upholds Freedom Of Speech In Obscenity-Filled Ruling
  In a decisive and vulgar 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court once again upheld the constitution's First Amendment this week, calling the freedom of expression among the most "inalienable and important rights that a motherfucker can have."
  (tags: satire funny freespeech usa)
• 8 reasons not to vote Tory and 8 reasons not to vote Labour
  (tags: politics uk)
• How much have the different parties supported equality? Hint, a certain blue-coloured party hasn't done very well...
  (tags: politics lgbt election uk gay rights)
• The majority of homophobes have homosexual urges
  (tags: gay lgbt psychology homosexuality homophobia)
• Memristors - changing the computing the landscape.
  (tags: future electronics memristor architecture hardware)
• Check your credit card bills for a company called "Shoppers Discount" - they seem to be running a scam
  (tags: fraud money shopping internet)
• Labour MP tells constituent: 'Life can only get better - if you stop reading the Daily Mail'
  (tags: DailyMail media politics uk)
• The myth of Britain's manufacturing decline
  (tags: economics manufacturing uk economy)
• Facebook security flaw lets you see friends' chats
  (tags: security facebook EpicFail)
• If you want to know what Britain would look like under the Tories, look no further
  (tags: election politics government conservative poverty social)
• Trip Summary: Blue Harvest.
  I know where _I'm_ going next April.
  (tags: starwars funny)

Comments

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

The piracy article has interesting knock-on implications. Notably that if your product is ONLY available for free, you may find you have to do quite a lot of education to tell your audience how to download it and where, because 90% of your audience probably don't regularly download things outside mainstream retail channels.

(Also that if you give something away, and then also offer it for pay, your audience may actually increase, because much of your audience is actually turned off by free stuff, which they are more unfamiliar with than paid content.)

[andrewducker]

Agreed. One of the reasons I think Steam is so great is because it offers a channel for cheap indie games to people that might not otherwise have picked them up.

More on the Shopper Discount scam.

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

There's more info here including the names of more companies involved, AllPosters, Easyjet and Vistaprint if the comments are to be believed. There's 41 pages of comments dating from 2008 to the day before yesterday.