For a satellite system to be viable it needs a sufficiently large user base, or much much cheaper launches.
Or both. But that user base exists: Rural areas, ships etc. Also serving reporters and dissidents in totalitarian states is just icing on the cake.
File servers in orbit could replace the pirate bay.
Only if Pirate Bay themselves operated them. That's not happening any time soon.
Even with cheap launches, you still need more money than Pirate Bay's business model would support.
The limitations of satellites are why the telecommunications Industry went for the more expensive to install and maintain undersea cable systems to link continents.
Sure. Sat phones are an expensive niche market compared to land lines. But it's a niche market that's shown to exist. Again, with rural areas, mines ships and whatnot paying for it, the current generation price is already low enough for reporters. The next generation will be cheaper and have MUCH higher data rates.
Reducing the number of ground stations needed by having satellites in a constellation relay data, isn't exactly new technology.
Jamming satellites directly, violates a few treaties.
And we're not talking about Manhattan-level user densities. Just the small percentage of folks - reporters and others - in Russia who want non-government monitored communications.
The ground station and internet connection need not be in Russia anymore than satellite phones used by ships need ground stations in the middle of the Atlantic.
Google may have offices in Russia, but SpaceX (planning its own constellation) probably does not.
Sure jamming is a possibility. But do it over a large area, and you'll end up jamming your own country's signals too.
Re: 1) Just because you're on or near my property and have a camera doesn't mean you've a right to image anything and everything I own. -- If so, industrial secrets are included, right?
1) Just because you're on or near my property and have a camera doesn't mean you've a right to image anything and everything I own. -- If so, industrial secrets are included, right?
In most places you DO have the right to take those images. It's commonly known as "Freedom of panorama." The images in the article however were taken in a museum, not visible from a public space.
If you want to protect industrial secrets, keep them hidden from public view.
...using the images for gain (in some mysterious indirect way).
What if famous people decided to use this logic to hide their faces from the public?
Under this ruling that would only work in a private museum or residence. If various Trumps for example want to control images in public, I suggest dazzle camouflage.
It worked for ships in WWI and WWII. It's used today to camouflage "next year's model" cars during testing. It could work for celebrities.
If you're an actor, your career may be purely media-based. You can still do your own independent media projects - if only YouTube videos and clips on Twitter - and the studio has no say.
If you're an athlete, media is a secondary thing. And yet the league claims ownership and control of any independent media projects you do.
That's getting into the realm of indentured servitude. Not slaves; think of colonists arriving in America who agreed to years of servitude in return for passage.
All that's needed is a rule that athletes cannot marry without the permission of their master. Or that the term of indenture be lengthened for female athletes if they became pregnant.
(I'm assuming that such rules aren't already in place.)
Re: On this WHINING, headline should be "Emotional Toll Of DEFAMATION". But not a hint that Ayyadurai has feelings too: to Ma snick, it's all about HIM.
Defamation? Show us ANYTHING in the articles here that was untrue and not impeccably well documented. Or even unjustifiably insulting.
But before you make any "unjustifiably insulting" claim, read up on Ayyadurai's own statements. The Ars Technica article linked above is a good place to start. Anyone who documents the history of email, Ayyadurai labels liars and racists. He calls Vint Cerf - a co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol - a liar and says that he knows nothing. When Ray Tomlinson - who worked with networked email in the 1960s - died last year, Ayyadurai declared "Tomlinson dies a liar"
Initially, just like America's original Copyright Act offered 14 years of protection. In other words it will be effectively permanent, extended every time a lucrative property nears the end of its protection.
Google is a multinational company with offices and doing business in more than 40 countries around the world. It has product research and development operations in cities around the world. They are subject to the laws of those countries just as much as to American law.
Sure, American law will likely set the standard for how Google responds to one country's request for data beyond it's borders. And then other countries will expect no less.
An American company or person has upset authorities in Turkey? Their court will be able to demand international data - including on American servers - too.
Among the options Germany is considering is "source telecom surveillance", where authorities install software on phones to relay messages before they are encrypted.
Re: You keep assuming that mere statute, passed by politicians paid-off by corporations, is fixed law for all time, over-rides common law and common sense.
Create something of your own and you'll learn why copyright exists.
And...? Content from this site - entire articles - show up on other sites just as soon as they're posted here. And yet we don't see the owners of Techdirt suing anyone over it.
I've created and maintained a list of power equipment manufacturers - who makes what, and their service and technical reference links - for over 20 years on my company web site. A dozen other companies have since copied it to their own web sites. People copy it to their related eBay auction pages to increase their hits. And I've never considered suing any of them.
In both cases, people tend to gravitate to the original. It's not hurting the original, or the ability to monetize the original.
We know why copyright exists. It's not about being anti-copyright. It's about being anti-copyright abuse.
Re: Re: You keep assuming that mere statute, passed by politicians paid-off by corporations, is fixed law for all time, over-rides common law and common sense.
Between demands for censorship and domestic spying powers, Theresa May has obviously been sampling 1984. Her defense against a copyright lawsuit from George Orwell's estate is that she's creating a transformative work.
This bill is somewhat redundant, considering the US government already shields US residents from foreign libel lawsuits under the SPEECH Act.
Which has unexpected consequences. Given the invasive security measures on the border and the cancellation of group trips rather than risk someone being left behind for being Muslim, America's only remaining form of tourism may be libel tourism.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hello Steganography
Or both. But that user base exists: Rural areas, ships etc. Also serving reporters and dissidents in totalitarian states is just icing on the cake.
Only if Pirate Bay themselves operated them. That's not happening any time soon.
Even with cheap launches, you still need more money than Pirate Bay's business model would support.
Sure. Sat phones are an expensive niche market compared to land lines. But it's a niche market that's shown to exist. Again, with rural areas, mines ships and whatnot paying for it, the current generation price is already low enough for reporters. The next generation will be cheaper and have MUCH higher data rates.
On the post: Comicmix Wins Against Dr. Seuss Estate On Trademark Infringement Claim, Copyright Claim In Serious Jeopardy
Mashup art is an emerging medium...
With pot being legalized, the market for a Dr. Seuss / Deadpool mashup is only getting larger.
On the post: Russia Stumbles Forth In Quest To Ban VPNs, Private Messenger Apps
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hello Steganography
Jamming satellites directly, violates a few treaties.
And we're not talking about Manhattan-level user densities. Just the small percentage of folks - reporters and others - in Russia who want non-government monitored communications.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hello Steganography
On the post: Russia Stumbles Forth In Quest To Ban VPNs, Private Messenger Apps
Re: Re: Re: Hello Steganography
Google may have offices in Russia, but SpaceX (planning its own constellation) probably does not.
Sure jamming is a possibility. But do it over a large area, and you'll end up jamming your own country's signals too.
On the post: Russia Stumbles Forth In Quest To Ban VPNs, Private Messenger Apps
Re: Hello Steganography
On the post: Multiple German Courts Rule Photos Of Public Domain Works Are Not In The Public Domain
Re: 1) Just because you're on or near my property and have a camera doesn't mean you've a right to image anything and everything I own. -- If so, industrial secrets are included, right?
In most places you DO have the right to take those images. It's commonly known as "Freedom of panorama." The images in the article however were taken in a museum, not visible from a public space.
If you want to protect industrial secrets, keep them hidden from public view.
The page you posted this on has a sidebar link to an article called "The Grand Unified Theory On The Economics Of Free." It's only scary and mysterious if you keep your head buried in the sand.
On the post: Multiple German Courts Rule Photos Of Public Domain Works Are Not In The Public Domain
Re: What if famous people used this logic?
Under this ruling that would only work in a private museum or residence. If various Trumps for example want to control images in public, I suggest dazzle camouflage.
It worked for ships in WWI and WWII. It's used today to camouflage "next year's model" cars during testing. It could work for celebrities.
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Re: A choice due to well-known rules for privileged slacker is somehow hardship. -- At his age, I was forced to choose between work and eating.
On the post: NCAA Forces UCF Football Player To Choose Between His Athletic Career And His YouTube Channel
If you're an athlete, media is a secondary thing. And yet the league claims ownership and control of any independent media projects you do.
That's getting into the realm of indentured servitude. Not slaves; think of colonists arriving in America who agreed to years of servitude in return for passage.
All that's needed is a rule that athletes cannot marry without the permission of their master. Or that the term of indenture be lengthened for female athletes if they became pregnant.
(I'm assuming that such rules aren't already in place.)
On the post: The Chilling Effects Of A SLAPP Suit: My Story
Re: On this WHINING, headline should be "Emotional Toll Of DEFAMATION". But not a hint that Ayyadurai has feelings too: to Ma snick, it's all about HIM.
But before you make any "unjustifiably insulting" claim, read up on Ayyadurai's own statements. The Ars Technica article linked above is a good place to start. Anyone who documents the history of email, Ayyadurai labels liars and racists. He calls Vint Cerf - a co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol - a liar and says that he knows nothing. When Ray Tomlinson - who worked with networked email in the 1960s - died last year, Ayyadurai declared "Tomlinson dies a liar"
On the post: New York Legislators Trying To Make A Bad Publicity Law Even Worse
Initially, just like America's original Copyright Act offered 14 years of protection. In other words it will be effectively permanent, extended every time a lucrative property nears the end of its protection.
On the post: Another Judge Says The Microsoft Decision Doesn't Matter; Orders Google To Hand Over Overseas Data
Re:
Google is a multinational company with offices and doing business in more than 40 countries around the world. It has product research and development operations in cities around the world. They are subject to the laws of those countries just as much as to American law.
Sure, American law will likely set the standard for how Google responds to one country's request for data beyond it's borders. And then other countries will expect no less.
An American company or person has upset authorities in Turkey? Their court will be able to demand international data - including on American servers - too.
On the post: May And Macron's Ridiculous Adventure In Censoring The Internet
Re: Could be worse...
Story published nine minutes before your post:
Fortune: Germany Plans to Fingerprint Children and Spy on Personal Messages
On the post: Dangerous Copyright Ruling In Europe Opens The Door To Widespread Censorship
Re: You keep assuming that mere statute, passed by politicians paid-off by corporations, is fixed law for all time, over-rides common law and common sense.
And...? Content from this site - entire articles - show up on other sites just as soon as they're posted here. And yet we don't see the owners of Techdirt suing anyone over it.
I've created and maintained a list of power equipment manufacturers - who makes what, and their service and technical reference links - for over 20 years on my company web site. A dozen other companies have since copied it to their own web sites. People copy it to their related eBay auction pages to increase their hits. And I've never considered suing any of them.
In both cases, people tend to gravitate to the original. It's not hurting the original, or the ability to monetize the original.
We know why copyright exists. It's not about being anti-copyright. It's about being anti-copyright abuse.
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Re: Re: You keep assuming that mere statute, passed by politicians paid-off by corporations, is fixed law for all time, over-rides common law and common sense.
On the post: Dangerous Copyright Ruling In Europe Opens The Door To Widespread Censorship
Dramatic... Pause
That's... nevertheless hardly unexpected.
On the post: James Clapper Says Nerd Magic Can Solve Terrorist Content Filtering, Create Safe Encryption Backdoors
Re:
In his defense, in response he himself showed that whatever the nerds do, the powerful can escape the consequences.
On the post: May And Macron's Ridiculous Adventure In Censoring The Internet
Between demands for censorship and domestic spying powers, Theresa May has obviously been sampling 1984. Her defense against a copyright lawsuit from George Orwell's estate is that she's creating a transformative work.
On the post: Connecticut Lawmakers Drop Anti-SLAPP, Libel Tourism Bills On The Governor's Desk
Which has unexpected consequences. Given the invasive security measures on the border and the cancellation of group trips rather than risk someone being left behind for being Muslim, America's only remaining form of tourism may be libel tourism.
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