* Posts by Neil Smith

7 publicly visible posts • joined 10 May 2007

Rock managers propose tout tax

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"...It is unacceptable that not a penny of the estimated £200m in transactions generated by the resale of concert tickets in the UK is returned to the investors in the live music industry," said Marc Marot...."

What on earth is he talking about? If these fools spent more time and effort making sure that big-business touts didn't get their hands on the tickets first then consumers would be in a much better position.

These days the news is full of stories about how tickets for concerts sold out in record time - sometimes minutes, almost always within a few hours. It would appear that the majority of this is actually touts buying up ready to sell at a markup to people who can't get a ticket through normal channels.

Mind you, perhaps the Manager of Radiohead needs to start earning some more coin now that the band give away their album for free...

All they are doing is validating touts as an avenue for ticket sales, and the only people who are out of pocket are the fans.

World's Dumbest File-sharer megafine gets DoJ thumbs-up

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I hate the RIAA, but...

This ignorant fool deserves everything she gets.

Fairly realistic flying car offered for 2009 delivery

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American Units??

But Mr Anonymous Coward - The US does use Pounds and Ounces, and miles...

Think Quarter Pounder Those lovely Americans don't use Kilos

The UK uses both fairly interchangeably.

F1 secrets left on the web

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Unedited version

Can be found alive and well here:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2007/09/20/ferrari-and-mclaren-secrets-leaked-in-fia-document/

It's really quite dull folks!

Also, this was removed well before El Reg had anything to do with it, or at least well before El Reg was reporting it...

Firefox-Google marriage on shaky ground?

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Missing the point

Perhaps instead of an Ad-Blocker perhaps what we really need is to ban Animated Flash adverts, especially the ones that expand across the page when you roll past them...

AT&T sued by poor man's Formula 1

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It's not about money

I would debate any claim that NASCAR generates more money that F1 globally and over a year of racing, however...

The reference to Poor Man's Formula 1 is surely a reference to the quality of racing? Everyone who's opinion counts knows that NASCAR is dull oval racing and F1 is the best sport in the world! :-)

George Lucas bitch slaps Spider-Man 3

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Mr. Pot

meet Mr Kettle...