The best thing about HTML5 apps is that well-written ones are compatible with other platforms. Android is based on the same Mobile Safari code as iOS's browser. (I'm not sure how well Windows Phone 7's browser holds up though, seeing as it's based on IE8.)
Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on May 13th, 2011 @ 5:17pm
It's not piracy that's the question, but rather Google suddenly becoming super-liable for every pirate on the Internet.
Let's say I have a perfectly legal blog that gets indexed in Google and one day decide to put on my Jolly Rodger tricorn and upload a copyrighted movie to it with no prior warning. Suddenly, Google's liable even though they had no way of knowing.
What about a site that offers perfectly legal free-licensed media? Would Google have to delink them on some random MPAA exec's complaint that "all movies ever (c) to us"?
"Oh, a SSL certificate should be expensive, that way it would be hard to get a false one. Nobody who couldn't afford it would even be hosting HTTPS anyways."
> Unfortunately, because users see these warnings for many operational reasons that are not actual man-in-the-middle attacks, they have often learned to click through them reflexively.
He had already been sentenced by the court. If she did not think his penalty was enough, she would have made other motions against him, such as convincing a majority of the cheerleading team to boycott the game or pushing for a harsher sentencing for the boy in court.
It wasn't as if part of the sentence was a restraining order against the boy that prevented one of them from attending the game. She did not fufill her duties and was dismissed by the club.
Now, it might have been different if, as I said earlier, she had convinced a majority of the other cheerleaders to take a stand with her and boycott his team, but it was just her.
Finally, if she had won the case, it would have opened up serious legal loopholes in employment and contract law. Not doing any of the work you were hired to do? You can't be fired because not working is protected expression.
The way I really see it is that the phone companies want to be all of the image:
"You're not buying bandwidth, you're buying a phone that comes with two years of access to our network. You can't use anything else on our network because the access is only for the phone you bought."
Sadly, this is primarily the result of a lack of competition. In a true free market, a new competitor would be able to make their own nondiscriminatory network and start driving the phone sellers out of business. *sigh*
And I should point out that this is a much more fair plan if you're paying for unlimited service. If you're paying by the decimal gigibit (GB is GB, right?), then it shouldn't matter at all, but if a company gives you unlimited data on a feature phone that can only browse a few specified sites, then you only paid for those sites and not the entire Internet.
If I ever have to travel through US customs, I'd just buy a cheap laptop or netbook with a CD drive, remove the HDD, and boot a Linux LiveCD.
All my data would either be in the Cloud™, or more likely, on a personal server accessed thorough a secure protocol like SSH or HTTPS.
Pretty much a 0% chance of accidentally leaving any data on the device due to the lack of any writable media, and HomeSec won't find anything beyond a publicly available Linux distro.
(That is, if you don't get arrested for being some sort of "hacker" who uses anything besides MS Windows or OSX.)
Actually, I believe that we need some sort of "endorsement right" that terminates indefinitely at the death of the person, that is, the likeness of the person cannot be used to endorse any product, service, or other branding after their death, excluding those endorsements that were arranged before the death of the individual in question, and with any possible changes outlined in that person's will.
Well, we should also use publicity rights, but with different purposes and less restrictions. (For example "public figures" such as Einstein don't have any publicity rights protected, but his endorsement rights were terminated when he died.)
TL;DR version: We need laws that differentiate between the use of someone's image for endorsement and the publication of the image in, for example, an encyclopedia article or unauthorized biography about the person in question.
As an amateur musician, let me say this (without being familiar with the songs in question in the article):
1) Music does not operate like some other art forms, such as writing, in that a single expression does not represent a specific idea. For example, the sentence "He went to the store." can only mean one thing, that a male traveled to a store. The series of notes C(1/4)-E(1/8)-G(1/4)-E(1/8)-C(1/4), however has no specific meaning.
2) Since music has no specific meaning, it operates on a different level of conciousness then literature, and therefore it's difficult to tell whether a series of notes is wholly original or based on something remembered.
3) The only way to know for sure is for music to be composed by those who have never heard any other music before, which would be nearly impossible to do.
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I wonder if they bother to salt it...
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Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on May 13th, 2011 @ 5:17pm
Let's say I have a perfectly legal blog that gets indexed in Google and one day decide to put on my Jolly Rodger tricorn and upload a copyrighted movie to it with no prior warning. Suddenly, Google's liable even though they had no way of knowing.
What about a site that offers perfectly legal free-licensed media? Would Google have to delink them on some random MPAA exec's complaint that "all movies ever (c) to us"?
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> Unfortunately, because users see these warnings for many operational reasons that are not actual man-in-the-middle attacks, they have often learned to click through them reflexively.
"D'oh."
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It wasn't as if part of the sentence was a restraining order against the boy that prevented one of them from attending the game. She did not fufill her duties and was dismissed by the club.
Now, it might have been different if, as I said earlier, she had convinced a majority of the other cheerleaders to take a stand with her and boycott his team, but it was just her.
Finally, if she had won the case, it would have opened up serious legal loopholes in employment and contract law. Not doing any of the work you were hired to do? You can't be fired because not working is protected expression.
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Re: Corruption from on high
Well, also to voters, but they wouldn't be that much better then the pre-existing politicians on that front anyways.
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Step 2: Find links to that material on Bing and Yahoo results.
Step 3: Post links to those links on some free blog somewhere so that they'll show up in the Google index.
Step 4: Use Google to find the Yahoo and Bing links, then send DMCA takedown.
Step 5: Some shortsighted Google lawyer blocks Yahoo and Bing.
Step 6: Profit?
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Well
"You're not buying bandwidth, you're buying a phone that comes with two years of access to our network. You can't use anything else on our network because the access is only for the phone you bought."
Sadly, this is primarily the result of a lack of competition. In a true free market, a new competitor would be able to make their own nondiscriminatory network and start driving the phone sellers out of business. *sigh*
And I should point out that this is a much more fair plan if you're paying for unlimited service. If you're paying by the decimal gigibit (GB is GB, right?), then it shouldn't matter at all, but if a company gives you unlimited data on a feature phone that can only browse a few specified sites, then you only paid for those sites and not the entire Internet.
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For the technically adept
All my data would either be in the Cloud™, or more likely, on a personal server accessed thorough a secure protocol like SSH or HTTPS.
Pretty much a 0% chance of accidentally leaving any data on the device due to the lack of any writable media, and HomeSec won't find anything beyond a publicly available Linux distro.
(That is, if you don't get arrested for being some sort of "hacker" who uses anything besides MS Windows or OSX.)
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Re: Re:
Is this some new area of IP law? ;)
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Well, we should also use publicity rights, but with different purposes and less restrictions. (For example "public figures" such as Einstein don't have any publicity rights protected, but his endorsement rights were terminated when he died.)
TL;DR version: We need laws that differentiate between the use of someone's image for endorsement and the publication of the image in, for example, an encyclopedia article or unauthorized biography about the person in question.
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1) Music does not operate like some other art forms, such as writing, in that a single expression does not represent a specific idea. For example, the sentence "He went to the store." can only mean one thing, that a male traveled to a store. The series of notes C(1/4)-E(1/8)-G(1/4)-E(1/8)-C(1/4), however has no specific meaning.
2) Since music has no specific meaning, it operates on a different level of conciousness then literature, and therefore it's difficult to tell whether a series of notes is wholly original or based on something remembered.
3) The only way to know for sure is for music to be composed by those who have never heard any other music before, which would be nearly impossible to do.
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And yet another reason why we need a universal standard for laptop hardware. :x
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