Copyright was made with the intention of forcing mankind to further their studies, medicine, and research.
The current copyright is a complete mess. It is prohibitive to create anything new, because someone could of just thought of the idea earlier and claim your hard work today.
Don't forget, all that money is going right back into the frey, fighting for copyright! (none of the artists will see a dime, though some gatekeepers might)
My theory Google is trying to take out Apple, since it's trying to take out Samsung(a competitor and supporter of Android)
It may be a roundabout way of "helping" samsung, but if google makes this case outrageous, there's a possibility both cases will be dismissed with prejudice.
I fed the troll to see if he could reasonably pick a hole in my ideas...he hasn't replied yet. Also, I didn't have anything else to say about this article...seems fine to me.
I personally think all the problems come from everyone but the pirates. Companies can't read the market, the "education" that anti-sharing people spout doesn't add up, no real cited studies from anti-sharing people (99% of the numbers are made-up), and really, "sharing" is literally legal. Sharing anything is legal. The only real thing that makes content owners think it's illegal is morals or they want dictatorship control over an idea. Ideas become culture the more popular it is. Gatekeepers will never be able to control that culture ever again.
Demanding money for something you didn't make is illegal.
The Pirate Bay is not illegal. There is no reason to make torrent data illegal, except for control. The old gatekeepers want that control very badly.
There are quite a few well-done studies that mass-sharing increases the hold an idea has on culture.
Also, don't name-call or cuss towards someone you want to talk to, it's kinda obvious a smart person would decline.
The Smash Bros games are great, imagine if it would be possible to have any character from any game, book, movie, etc.
There was one game similar to Smash Bros released only in Japan for the DS. It had characters that would be impossible to license in the USA, just for the fact that the game had some other characters.
I think it was called Jump Superstars...
I personally think copyright is for fighting against people selling knockoffs, not fighting sharing for free. That's why torrenting...I mean pirating has been in the grey area in law. (torrents are 100% legal, as that is just a type of data)
It's difficult to apply copyright where the offender doesn't make any money, and that's how it should be. I'm pretty sure that's how it was meant to be when they first made that law anyways, as Fair Use gets nerfed with these possible new advancements the gatekeepers want.
70 years + life is crazy. How often do people buy a piece of entertainment that is over 20 years old, where the creators got a piece of the pie, and not at a garage sale or antique sale?
Business competition is like a knife fight. And a patent is a nuke to that knife fight. And the competition needs to spend time and money on how to disarm that nuke with a knife, instead of new products/jobs.
I blame the news stations. They only broadcast two candidates. Every year. It needs to be much more, or none at all. Give me a website where each representative has one web pace they can fill however they want, where they put their "promises", and what plans they have for their term.
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The current copyright is a complete mess. It is prohibitive to create anything new, because someone could of just thought of the idea earlier and claim your hard work today.
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It may be a roundabout way of "helping" samsung, but if google makes this case outrageous, there's a possibility both cases will be dismissed with prejudice.
At least I hope that's their plan. >.>
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Demanding money for something you didn't make is illegal.
The Pirate Bay is not illegal. There is no reason to make torrent data illegal, except for control. The old gatekeepers want that control very badly.
There are quite a few well-done studies that mass-sharing increases the hold an idea has on culture.
Also, don't name-call or cuss towards someone you want to talk to, it's kinda obvious a smart person would decline.
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There was one game similar to Smash Bros released only in Japan for the DS. It had characters that would be impossible to license in the USA, just for the fact that the game had some other characters.
I think it was called Jump Superstars...
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It's difficult to apply copyright where the offender doesn't make any money, and that's how it should be. I'm pretty sure that's how it was meant to be when they first made that law anyways, as Fair Use gets nerfed with these possible new advancements the gatekeepers want.
70 years + life is crazy. How often do people buy a piece of entertainment that is over 20 years old, where the creators got a piece of the pie, and not at a garage sale or antique sale?
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