Another well-known offensive meme (one that has thankfully died down in popularity) is "Goatse," also not copyrighted as far as anyone knows.
There is a big part of the problem. Goatse is covered by copyright. It's a photograph, and as such is automatically granted a copyright. The fact that nobody knows who holds the copyright doesn't change that.
As a student in the early 1980s I would spend hours in the library looking up information. Often that information was dated by the time my library acquired it, if it was even available at all. Now, I can look up the latest information in seconds thanks to search engines and the many online repositories of information. As an electronics designer, I used to have shelf after shelf of bulky databooks describing the available components. Those databooks needed to be replaced annually in order to stay reasonably current. Now, every single component manufacturer has current datasheets of all components online and available 24 hours a day. This is a huge savings in time and money. What's even more important is that the internet can connect me to a community of people solving the same, or similar problems. Being able to share solutions means that often I find my problem has already been solved by someone else, and occasionally I find that I already have the solution to someone else's problem. The result of all this is that everyone can accomplish more working together than we can do working separately.
Information is either classified or its not. If the information is not classified then there is no reason for witholding it. If the information is classified then someone in the CIA should be charged with revealing classified information to those not authorised to have it.
So hurry up and get your work published on the internet. Once the law is passed in the EU, proceed to sue every single publisher who dares to publish any of the words that appear in your work.
You don't have to win the lawsuit. Simply responding to a few thousand individual lawsuits should be enough of a financial hit that the publishers will be back begging the EU to change the law, or they go bankrupt. Either result will be a win for the public.
Re: Actually, the question is WHY hasn't journalist not published entirety of information? Withholding it from public for private gain?
Information given to a journalist is not necessarily true. It's also quite frequently damaging to someone's reputation. a good journalist will use multiple sources to corroborate the information. A smart journalist will also require evidence for the truth of anything that ever gets published. Since there's always a part of the story that cannot be proven, it makes a whole lot of sense for a journalist to have a whole pile of unpublished information that will never see publication.
You have to remember, the Constitution protects the rights of "All persons" but to the Trump administration you're not a person unless you have an annual income in the millions.
By claiming to have exclusive rights it doesn't have, the NFL gets to license those rights for big money. This trademark fraud is going to continue until someone is willing and able to take them to court and win. That would probably cost millions with no possibility of a payout, so don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen.
They don't, but they have managed to get a bunch of rules in place that make it difficult and expensive for anyone else to attach wires to those same poles. Comcast, or the companies Comcast has bought out, have spent the better part of half a century building infrastructure that connects pretty much everywhere. If you want to compete with Comcast, you're going to need enough money to build that same infrastructure in 10% of the time, and do it while fighting through every roadblock Comcast can think of to slow you down.
If you are paying for a 25 megabyte/second data link, you should be entitled to transfer 25 megabytes of data each and every second for as long as your contract lasts. Your ISP needs to build a network that can support what tbey are selling, even if all of your neighbours are also using the full amount of data transfer they have paid for. The fact that your ISP doesn't even come close to being able to provide the service they sell should be grounds for false advertising charges, not excuses.
The REAL problem is that regulations are what created this problem to begin with and now you look to them to save you.
Really? Which regulations are these? You've obviously never looked at the history of the communications industry. Every one of these "unbearable" regulations was initially created in response to a form of abuse of the natural monopoly powers the telcom industry.
The regulations that the telecom industry likes are all much later additions. These regulations are the ones sponsored by the telecom industry to either let them eliminate competition or else let them create new ways to charge us for the same services.
The idea is that Google could hire one company to move both AT&T wires and Comcast wires on the pole to make room for Google's wires. Later, MyISP could come along and hire a different company to move AT&T, Comcast, and Google equipment so as to make room for more wires. Anybody could hire any company to do the work, as long as the company doing the work can show it's qualified to do so, and insured in case they goof up anyway.
The local airport here handles about 60K passengers per day. 99.99999% accuracy would mean a false positive about once every other day. Acceptable, not great, but acceptable. To get the same level of false positive from all of China, you'd need to add three or four more nines to that accuracy figure.
90% accurate, and the whole population of China in the database. I wonder how they're going to handle the tens of thousands of false alerts each and every day.
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Re: uncopyrighted (and generally toxic) memes
There is a big part of the problem. Goatse is covered by copyright. It's a photograph, and as such is automatically granted a copyright. The fact that nobody knows who holds the copyright doesn't change that.
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As an electronics designer, I used to have shelf after shelf of bulky databooks describing the available components. Those databooks needed to be replaced annually in order to stay reasonably current. Now, every single component manufacturer has current datasheets of all components online and available 24 hours a day. This is a huge savings in time and money.
What's even more important is that the internet can connect me to a community of people solving the same, or similar problems. Being able to share solutions means that often I find my problem has already been solved by someone else, and occasionally I find that I already have the solution to someone else's problem. The result of all this is that everyone can accomplish more working together than we can do working separately.
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You don't have to win the lawsuit. Simply responding to a few thousand individual lawsuits should be enough of a financial hit that the publishers will be back begging the EU to change the law, or they go bankrupt. Either result will be a win for the public.
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Re: Actually, the question is WHY hasn't journalist not published entirety of information? Withholding it from public for private gain?
Since there's always a part of the story that cannot be proven, it makes a whole lot of sense for a journalist to have a whole pile of unpublished information that will never see publication.
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Of course it's about the money
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Re: Last mile
Comcast, or the companies Comcast has bought out, have spent the better part of half a century building infrastructure that connects pretty much everywhere. If you want to compete with Comcast, you're going to need enough money to build that same infrastructure in 10% of the time, and do it while fighting through every roadblock Comcast can think of to slow you down.
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Your ISP needs to build a network that can support what tbey are selling, even if all of your neighbours are also using the full amount of data transfer they have paid for. The fact that your ISP doesn't even come close to being able to provide the service they sell should be grounds for false advertising charges, not excuses.
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did he hire Charles Carreon as his lawyer?
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Really? Which regulations are these? You've obviously never looked at the history of the communications industry. Every one of these "unbearable" regulations was initially created in response to a form of abuse of the natural monopoly powers the telcom industry. The regulations that the telecom industry likes are all much later additions. These regulations are the ones sponsored by the telecom industry to either let them eliminate competition or else let them create new ways to charge us for the same services.
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Re: hmmm... Progress?
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Re: Re:
To get the same level of false positive from all of China, you'd need to add three or four more nines to that accuracy figure.
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That shouldn't take very long. The RIAA and MPAA seem to be remarkably good at that.
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Re: Can he read?
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This sort of thing will continue until academia puts a stop to it.
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