Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 9 Apr 2012 @ 3:35am
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And your claim would be that "first" including until long after the author, probably their children too, and almost anyone who might have heard of the author in the first place are dead is a reasonable thing? Or are you just picking on a tiny out-of-context part of something in an attempt to make your point again?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 7 Apr 2012 @ 4:49am
Re: Re: Re: retention of MegaUpload servers
But this involves data not plant life.
Yep as usual a non-relevant analogy that even in its non-relavance manages to totally miss the point. If one really wanted to go with the Pot analogy, it would have to be:
"Imagine finding some marajuana plants in a garden centre of thousands of plants, picking out a few and burning every other plant (possibly including more hash plants) then claiming every plant in the centre was the same."
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 7 Apr 2012 @ 3:48am
How strange...
When you change the status quo, people get upset, and there are very powerful vested interests that feel threatened by the idea of people who will just go an invent a lot of new stuff, and ask you to pay for it.
[snip]
and big technology companies were publicly saying, patents are terrible... If you look today, some of the most active litigants are big tech companies.
How completely suprising that if one sets up a system where attacking others is encouraged and being a nice guy corporately just gets you sued lots that corporations would use the system whether they thought it was good or not.
If you play liar dice and decide it's wrong to lie you lose. When liar dice is the only game in town and you have to play, you lie or lose your shirt.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 6 Apr 2012 @ 10:25am
Re: The Copyright Cartels are Dying and ...
the closer they are to extinction, the more aggressive and comically exaggerated their flailing becomes and the louder and more anguished their bellows and bleats sound their alarm.
[snip]
Copyright Cartel members are blood-sucking leeches that exist only to feast on your money.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Apr 2012 @ 2:58pm
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OK, so let's rephrase. Who sits down at their work desk, in their big corporate office, and buys a single copy of Microsoft Office online using a corporate credit card?
Ummmmm someone about to be sacked for misuse of corporate computer resources and personal use during working time? :p
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Apr 2012 @ 2:17pm
Re: Re: Well put...
That depends what you mean by "morality". My morality cares very much about rationality and common sense. If you mean the "morality" of an incredibly vocal minority who get most other people who don't really care to think about it one way or another to follow along then I'll agree with you 100%
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Apr 2012 @ 1:27pm
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The problem with your suggestion is that it doesn't pass the "But..but... think of the CHILDREN!!!" test. You see all children are mindless automatons just waiting to be programmed by the slightest glimpse of anything naughty and no matter how hard one tries as a parent to, you know, randomly say no to stuff without explaining why, it just can't compete with the Spawn Of All Evil that is The Internet. I mean it's not like you can actually teach children values so they can decide for themselves that the naughty goat probably oughtn't be doing that to the rabbit is it?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Apr 2012 @ 12:58pm
Re: Re: Re: Naturally you're misinterpreting this
As a creator I will freely admit I create mostly because I get paid for it, even though I would not do it if I did not also enjoy doing so. On the other hand I don't get paid for the same piece of work over and over for the rest of my life without doing any further work. Trying to suggest that there's nothing possible between almost infinite copyright and not being paid is deceitful at best or mind-bendingly dumb at worst.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Apr 2012 @ 12:12pm
Choice?
the court found that the fact that you lost access to the network if you didn't agree to the new terms isn't evidence of any harm, but rather a choice.
And here's where overly draconian IP law rears its head again.... if one could use the designed to be used co-operatively across a network product that one had paid for on another network then it would be a choice, otherwise the choice is "get screwed legally or get screwed by your paid-for product becoming pointless", which isn't much of a choice.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Apr 2012 @ 11:46am
Re: Re: Naturally you're misinterpreting this
You ASSume no one creates for pure love of what they do. You ASSume every artists only does it to get paid.
You forgot to mention ASSuming that being paid for the rest of your life and that of your children and grandchildren for a piece of work you once did long ago is the only possible way to encourage someone to create something.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Apr 2012 @ 8:50am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This foolishly presumes...
Not gonna happen. At least not without a SOPA scale fight.
SOPA plus... imagine the corporate response to the budgetary ramifications of such a change. I'd guess you'd have just about every multi-national corporation with a US branch buying up congressmen left, right and centre to stop it.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Apr 2012 @ 8:46am
Re: Re: Re: Re: This foolishly presumes...
It goes away when it becomes a crime to do it without showing the "forwarding for" in the header.
And tens of thousands of legitimate businesses across the world that happen to operate in the US too scream in terror at the billions they'd have to spend to update internal global networks to support such a stupid idea. Yeah that'll help the global economy.
Then you can choose to be a criminal, and accept the liability on your server for having provided such a service.
And that worked sooooooooooo well for the "war on piracy" didn't it? Make everything criminal and everybody just stops it? Ha ha ha haahahahahahahahahaha.
So the next one is a "war on networking"? I can't wait to see it. Is this another one where the US governemnt is going to get on its sanctimonious high-horse on behalf of a clueless minority and try and bully all the other countries around the world to comply? I wonder how many of those pointless and unwinnable "wars" the US can support before going completely broke and being bought by China.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 4 Apr 2012 @ 10:50am
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You wont see big budget or epic movies, like LOTR, The Hobbit, Avatar, Star Wars, Back to the Future, Titanic, etc... All the movies that people love will be gone.
That's a very very large ASSUMPTION based on no evidence, is almost certainly partly if not mostly untrue and yet again you use the equation "high budget=good film", which is patently untrue. So even on the vanishingly small possibility that such films do vanish when copyright is removed... so what?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 4 Apr 2012 @ 10:20am
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STOP voting for people you feel don't represent your interests.
Looks like that's already happening. With only slightly over 1/2 the voters turning out to choose your president and less than 1/2 of those picking the winner and non-presidential elections having typically UNDER 1/2 the voters turn out to vote that's hardly a ringing endorsement of the political process is it?
Looks to me like people are already dissilusioned with politicians and already not voting for people thatr don't represent their views..... so what happens next?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 31 Mar 2012 @ 4:33am
Is it because no-one cares?
I find myself wondering whether the reason for such "digital distibution" rip-offs is because no-one really cares. Those who are tech-savvy enough to know the ramifications often either make sure they buy products to which this can't happen, or route-around the "protections" that make it possible. For most of the world-at-large, experience suggests that many people if asked the question "Do you own that game you just bought?" would say "Yes, of course I do".
The real ramifications of DRM, click-through EULAs etc rarely raise a ripple. It's not like "thousands of customers cheated out of something they paid for" stories are common in mainstream media.
I'd be interested to see what would happen if all the constant-connection and update-to-brick DRM in the world all failed at once. I wonder if that would cause a big enough splash to inform the public what they sign up for.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 31 Mar 2012 @ 3:55am
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It's sad, but again points out why stronger law enforcement online is needed.
If by "stronger law enforcement" you mean "if this were a 'real world' good or service it would fall under fraud or consumer protection laws and those are supposed to apply to digital goods and services already" then probably yes. If you mean "We need more laws" then definitely no.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 30 Mar 2012 @ 3:27pm
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What's stopping CBS from using the script themselves? Does the script paper burst into flames after its been used the one time?
Would have made "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" kinda tricky if that's what happened to scripts.... only a year on I reckon it'd still be burning. At least Star Trek's had the time to go out :-)
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 30 Mar 2012 @ 3:22pm
Think you mis-spoke yourself
The sheer size of the fanbase means stomping out every instance of infringement is completely unrealistic
I think you meant; "The sheer size of the fanbase means stomping out every instance of infringement that actually gets noticed is completely unrealistic".
Fans always have and always will use content from their favorite shows (read part of their lives) in language, art, games, music and everything else. Don't you just love it when everyone is a "criminal" and a corporation gets to pick when and who gets prosecuted for it?
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Re: Re: Re: retention of MegaUpload servers
"Imagine finding some marajuana plants in a garden centre of thousands of plants, picking out a few and burning every other plant (possibly including more hash plants) then claiming every plant in the centre was the same."
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How strange...
If you play liar dice and decide it's wrong to lie you lose. When liar dice is the only game in town and you have to play, you lie or lose your shirt.
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Re: Re: Re: Naturally you're misinterpreting this
On the post: Court Says Sony Is Free To Change Its Terms Of Service Because Accessing PSN Is A Choice
Choice?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This foolishly presumes...
SOPA plus... imagine the corporate response to the budgetary ramifications of such a change. I'd guess you'd have just about every multi-national corporation with a US branch buying up congressmen left, right and centre to stop it.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: This foolishly presumes...
And that worked sooooooooooo well for the "war on piracy" didn't it? Make everything criminal and everybody just stops it? Ha ha ha haahahahahahahahahaha.
So the next one is a "war on networking"? I can't wait to see it. Is this another one where the US governemnt is going to get on its sanctimonious high-horse on behalf of a clueless minority and try and bully all the other countries around the world to comply? I wonder how many of those pointless and unwinnable "wars" the US can support before going completely broke and being bought by China.
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Looks to me like people are already dissilusioned with politicians and already not voting for people thatr don't represent their views..... so what happens next?
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Is it because no-one cares?
The real ramifications of DRM, click-through EULAs etc rarely raise a ripple. It's not like "thousands of customers cheated out of something they paid for" stories are common in mainstream media.
I'd be interested to see what would happen if all the constant-connection and update-to-brick DRM in the world all failed at once. I wonder if that would cause a big enough splash to inform the public what they sign up for.
On the post: Digital Distribution: Exchanging Control For Convenience
Re:
If by "stronger law enforcement" you mean "if this were a 'real world' good or service it would fall under fraud or consumer protection laws and those are supposed to apply to digital goods and services already" then probably yes. If you mean "We need more laws" then definitely no.
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On the post: Captain's Prerogative: CBS Suddenly Decides To Block Fan-Created Star Trek Show Despite Past Support
Think you mis-spoke yourself
Fans always have and always will use content from their favorite shows (read part of their lives) in language, art, games, music and everything else. Don't you just love it when everyone is a "criminal" and a corporation gets to pick when and who gets prosecuted for it?
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