And water is wet. What does this have to do with copyright infringement?
"To anybody who thinks that still thinks that downloading movies and TV shows is ok..."
I recently downloaded the entire TV series "The Secret Life of Machines". Via a bittorrent I found on The Pirate Bay. What was wrong with that?
"...it's stealing..."
This subject has been covered so many times it's died of asphyxiation. Copyright infringement is not theft.
"...go out to movie theater once in a while, pay for a ticket and have a great time watching it."
No number of theater tickets will allow me to watch "The Secret Life of Machines". So how does this work again?
You seem to have a really simplistic view of the world. You might want to withhold comment until you've picked up a bit more understanding of the subject and come up with some better arguments.
Oi, AC, you beat me to it! (I would have published sooner but I got side-tracked perusing Wikipedia about other razors. That's my excuse and I sticking with it.)
While you're making corrections, Mike, lose the gratuitous apostrophe from "things". <== punctuation Nazi here (no, humorously referring to myself as a punctuation Nazi does not invoke Godwin's law :)
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If you ignore the first point (in fact, take it out back and shoot it), yeah, permanent copyright fulfills the second part... until the copyright owners abuse their power and over-charge for their works. Or limit access to them such that people can only get them in formats which the copyright holders prefer. Which we know will never, ever happen.
Go watch Connections or The Secret Life of Machines. Virtually all of the inventions covered are derived from other inventions, and virtually all of them were made to solve a problem, or simply to harness or measure natural forces. IBM punch cards came from the Jacquard loom which was just a way to automate existing technology. Jacquard didn't invent the loom itself, and cam systems had been around for centuries. The internal combustion engine was a combination of many things, including cannon barrel manufacture, scent spray atomizers and a gadget Volta had created for testing swamp gasses. (And the wheel. Let's not forget that.)
When I went to school they taught me a number of existing, known techniques for programming different problems. Decades later I still use those techniques because they work, and they're applicable to the problems I'm trying to solve. Does it make me a cheap, lazy, unimaginative bastard for not trying to come up with a new way to do something instead of using an old, proven way of doing it, every single time I have to sort data?
People discover things and then pass them on to other people so they don't have to re-discover them; instead, our knowledge and technology base accelerates because we start from a foundation of previously learned knowledge, experience, ideas, failures, techniques, understanding, technology, science, art, you name it. This is why we have schools. This is why people teach. This is why people study. It's to understand the knowledge of the past in order to apply it to the future.
Creativity is about applying knowledge, not ignoring it. Jesus and his ilk want us to win a relay race by having each runner dash back to the starting line and start the race over. How does that even make sense?
That doesn't prove anything, you're just taking somebody's word for it. You need to fly to the UK (if you're not there already) and go through government documents to prove that there is no such law. (That means reading ALL government documents, because you're trying to prove a negative.)
And that won't prove it to me, because even if you do that, I'd have to take your word for it.
And it wouldn't prove that they didn't change the law just before you arrived or just after you left.
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And water is wet. What does this have to do with copyright infringement?
"To anybody who thinks that still thinks that downloading movies and TV shows is ok..."
I recently downloaded the entire TV series "The Secret Life of Machines". Via a bittorrent I found on The Pirate Bay. What was wrong with that?
"...it's stealing..."
This subject has been covered so many times it's died of asphyxiation. Copyright infringement is not theft.
"...go out to movie theater once in a while, pay for a ticket and have a great time watching it."
No number of theater tickets will allow me to watch "The Secret Life of Machines". So how does this work again?
You seem to have a really simplistic view of the world. You might want to withhold comment until you've picked up a bit more understanding of the subject and come up with some better arguments.
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Re: racist?
Due to the phrasing and content I'm favoring "sincere but clueless" but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.
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With a brick. And a 3D20+100 clue-by-four.
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Kellogg's® makes Apple Jacks® too.
(P.S. I know I'm being a pedant again but for the record it's Froot Loops. Also ® of course.)
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Sounds to me like you're saying they're incapable of change, which anybody with the brain of a turnip understands means death.
I just wish they'd get it over with and stop pissing off the rest of us.
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While you're making corrections, Mike, lose the gratuitous apostrophe from "things". <== punctuation Nazi here (no, humorously referring to myself as a punctuation Nazi does not invoke Godwin's law :)
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Watch out! Hanging out on Facebook...
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2001 so he deserves to be sued, jailed, shot, hanged, chopped into little tiny pieces and buried alive.
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Melancholy Elephants
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When I went to school they taught me a number of existing, known techniques for programming different problems. Decades later I still use those techniques because they work, and they're applicable to the problems I'm trying to solve. Does it make me a cheap, lazy, unimaginative bastard for not trying to come up with a new way to do something instead of using an old, proven way of doing it, every single time I have to sort data?
People discover things and then pass them on to other people so they don't have to re-discover them; instead, our knowledge and technology base accelerates because we start from a foundation of previously learned knowledge, experience, ideas, failures, techniques, understanding, technology, science, art, you name it. This is why we have schools. This is why people teach. This is why people study. It's to understand the knowledge of the past in order to apply it to the future.
Creativity is about applying knowledge, not ignoring it. Jesus and his ilk want us to win a relay race by having each runner dash back to the starting line and start the race over. How does that even make sense?
(BTW you can spend a lot of money on Connections, but The Secret Life of Machines is free for download. Legally. http://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/dvds_and_videos.htm)
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Typo...
Feel free to delete this.
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For what it's worth
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The nature of trust
And that won't prove it to me, because even if you do that, I'd have to take your word for it.
And it wouldn't prove that they didn't change the law just before you arrived or just after you left.
:)
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