I agree with your point completely. The long lines to get though security have only created a new potential target.
But I still fail to see what is so special about deaths caused by air planes.
All the recent TSA horror stories inspired me to tweet this a few days ago:
in 10 years, terrorists on airplanes killed 3,000 people. USA also had 150,000 regular murders. Yet no naked scanners to enter Detroit?
Why is it such a big deal when people die from air planes?
Where is the "war on gun ownership among inner city residents"?
Where is the "war on Tobacco"?
How many lives have been lost in Iraq? where is the "War on War in Iraq"?
But no... let's ignore all this and make air travel invasive, inconvenient, and force people to go though potentially dangerous porno scanners.
For a blogger, paywalls could be VERY beneficial. if no one else is reading the stories, they can subscribe to a few sources, copy/paste, reword a few things, and publish important stories that no one else has seen, and they get to take all the credit, and earn a few pennies from adsense while they're at it.
Brilliant!
The only loser is the owner of the pay-walled site!
For example, when entering the US, a friend of mine who was an international student had to fill out a form with such questions as:
Are you affiliated with any terrorist groups?
___yes
___no
Were you a member of the Nazi party between 1932 - 1945?
___yes
___no
Have you ever illegally smuggled an infant across international boarders?
___yes
___no
These questions might seem insanely stupid at first; but if it turns out that they are in the states for some nefarious purpose, they can tack on an "entered the country illegally" charge.
So, while the law itself might be useless, if the South catches a North Korean on their side, they might not have enough to get him for spying, but they can get him for infringement.
I don't know what country you are coming from, but in Canada, teachers ARE paid enough, and oddly, they don't complain about not being paid enough.
of course, there are always a few greedy ones who want more, no matter what they get, but for the most part, once people are paid a decent wage, the issue of money is off the table, and they can complain about the work, instead.
"if you steam any kind of web content that is "infringing" (think youtube) then you are making such fleeting copies and would be guilty of copyright infringement as well."
And if you stream those videos in certain operating systems, the video is actually downloaded to the '/tmp' folder. it's not even a fleeting copy, its a download (one that is erased when you leave the page). Copying that file to a another folder, where it will not disappear when you leave the page, is trivial.
So, is watching a video in linux infringement?
Or are the powers that be going to admit that computers need to copy things to function, and treating bits as if they were atoms is just stupid?
The reason that many believe the police were out of line during the G20 is simple.
The violent destructive rioting happened on Saturday. The police did nothing.
The brutal police reaction happened on Sunday, after the rioting had stopped.
Its one thing to use force to break up a violent riot. It's quite another to use force to break up a group of people who are singing the national anthem.
I don't like the idea of opt-in being the default and everything else entering the public domain. If there is a fee per registry, this could harm small-time artists far more than the big industries, who can afford to pay uch registry fees.
I'm not convinced that social pressures will be enough to prevent the big guys from abusing the work of more obscure creators. What's to stop the industries from astroturfing, setting up countless fake blogs claiming that the true content creator is just a crack-pot attention-whore trying to ride on the success of big business?
If we could have some sort of system where registered work had a long period of protection (25 years from date of publication) while unregistered work had a more reasonable 10 years or so, I think that would work better.
I also think any work without an attached (c) warning should not be able to get any sort of punitive damages from infringement. I should not have to assume that copyright is the default state for all media. A better system is one where I should assume it's free to use unless otherwise indicated.
"Yep, because no matter what, a guitar still sounds like a guitar regardless who plays it."
That's not true at all. Different performers can bring out a world of unique sounds from a guitar.
I am gifted with the ability to make a guitar sound like a skinned cat
Yes, every musician learns to play music this way, but there is a difference between a student working out some songs and changing up a few things, and a company hiring experienced studio musicians to emulate a certain band's style.
I think the band is right to call them on it, and I also think that humour is a much better tool than a lawsuit.
And since when is an embedded youtube video infringement? if they didn't want people to be doing that, they would have disabled the 'allow embedding' option during the upload.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Its always about only one thing ...
I'm certainly no wealth of knowledge, but please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help....
That quote I mentioned above, along with this quote:
"you have to do your due prep work to make it successful. My audience right now isn't huge. It might not even be big. I knew that going in. What I know now is that I should have worked my tail off in getting this idea out there enough so that when I did release the project live, it would already have a presence. This go around I tried to do it the opposite way: release the project and hope it builds the bigger audience. That hasn't worked."
has given me a fair amount to think about.
I have a fairly big art thing coming up next week, and I've approached it with the same assumption you had with your project: the event or product launch will generate a big audience. Hopefully, I'll still have enough time to build some last-minute hype before launch.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Its always about only one thing ...
"...literary agents LOVE writers that want to be involved in the marketing side of things. That I was running this experiment was supposedly the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back in getting the agent to dig deeper into my writing..."
Thats quite an interesting statement.
I had always assumed that these agents might feel threatened by business savvy content creators who are willing to put effort into both their art AND sales. It risks making the agent redundant.
I suppose it creates an incentive for them to work harder to promote your material; the flakes are lost without an agent, while for the savvy, an agent is a bonus, a nice-to-have rather than a need-t-have.
To find out that this attitude is actually helpful in winning the attention of agents puts a whole new spin on things.
Now I'm going to have to find out if this translates into the fine-arts world. Can I rise above the flakes?
"do you have a link or research that can back this up? I desire to share the findings of said research with certain people... :-)"
There is an excellent blog called 'epiphenom' that is full of all sorts of interesting studies about the psychological and social consequences of, and reasons for, religion. http://epiphenom.fieldofscience.com/
In the archives, check out July 2010 for an article on the connection between anxiety and superstitious beliefs.
on topic: if someone told me to 'go to hell', I would be likely react by making a verbal counterattack.*
Purchasing something from them would be the last thing on my mind at that point.
*if those words are part of the lyrics to a really cool song, the above condition may not apply
If this is the case that taking things out of context can be a form of libel, could this put all those "intelligent design" supporters at risk?
Those websites are a perfect example of quote-mining and distorting the words of others to make a point that is the exact opposite of what the original person actually said.
As happy as I would be to see those sites go, I fear for the potential harm to free speech.
What about unintentional quote mining? What if I innocently repeat an out-of-context quote?
What if I deconstruct an argument and they think I was quote mining?
"I think any artist that shares their "SRC" will receive a boon in fans and status"
This is true. videos where I show myself painting and offer up a few simple tips are more successful in both number of views, and more importantly, number of comments, than the videos where I just show off the final pieces.
The videos with how-to info are a conversation, while the presentations of my final work are more ego-building "oh, look at me!" things.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: MrWIlson
But I still fail to see what is so special about deaths caused by air planes.
All the recent TSA horror stories inspired me to tweet this a few days ago:
in 10 years, terrorists on airplanes killed 3,000 people. USA also had 150,000 regular murders. Yet no naked scanners to enter Detroit?
Why is it such a big deal when people die from air planes?
Where is the "war on gun ownership among inner city residents"?
Where is the "war on Tobacco"?
How many lives have been lost in Iraq? where is the "War on War in Iraq"?
But no... let's ignore all this and make air travel invasive, inconvenient, and force people to go though potentially dangerous porno scanners.
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bloging
For a blogger, paywalls could be VERY beneficial. if no one else is reading the stories, they can subscribe to a few sources, copy/paste, reword a few things, and publish important stories that no one else has seen, and they get to take all the credit, and earn a few pennies from adsense while they're at it.
Brilliant!
The only loser is the owner of the pay-walled site!
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Re:
Just lock the cockpit and be done with it. The solution to aviation security is a $10 lock away.
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add on
For example, when entering the US, a friend of mine who was an international student had to fill out a form with such questions as:
Are you affiliated with any terrorist groups?
___yes
___no
Were you a member of the Nazi party between 1932 - 1945?
___yes
___no
Have you ever illegally smuggled an infant across international boarders?
___yes
___no
These questions might seem insanely stupid at first; but if it turns out that they are in the states for some nefarious purpose, they can tack on an "entered the country illegally" charge.
So, while the law itself might be useless, if the South catches a North Korean on their side, they might not have enough to get him for spying, but they can get him for infringement.
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Re: Re: my prediction
On the post: Copyright Office Exploring Issue Over Pre-1972 Sound Recordings & Copyright
my prediction
Of all the ideas that will be presented, whatever arrangement represents the worst possible scenario for the general public will become the new law.
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Americans only?
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Re:
of course, there are always a few greedy ones who want more, no matter what they get, but for the most part, once people are paid a decent wage, the issue of money is off the table, and they can complain about the work, instead.
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Re: Fleeting Copies
And if you stream those videos in certain operating systems, the video is actually downloaded to the '/tmp' folder. it's not even a fleeting copy, its a download (one that is erased when you leave the page). Copying that file to a another folder, where it will not disappear when you leave the page, is trivial.
So, is watching a video in linux infringement?
Or are the powers that be going to admit that computers need to copy things to function, and treating bits as if they were atoms is just stupid?
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Re: Re:
The violent destructive rioting happened on Saturday. The police did nothing.
The brutal police reaction happened on Sunday, after the rioting had stopped.
Its one thing to use force to break up a violent riot. It's quite another to use force to break up a group of people who are singing the national anthem.
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I'm not convinced that social pressures will be enough to prevent the big guys from abusing the work of more obscure creators. What's to stop the industries from astroturfing, setting up countless fake blogs claiming that the true content creator is just a crack-pot attention-whore trying to ride on the success of big business?
If we could have some sort of system where registered work had a long period of protection (25 years from date of publication) while unregistered work had a more reasonable 10 years or so, I think that would work better.
I also think any work without an attached (c) warning should not be able to get any sort of punitive damages from infringement. I should not have to assume that copyright is the default state for all media. A better system is one where I should assume it's free to use unless otherwise indicated.
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Re: Another entitlement attitude. Great.
That's not true at all. Different performers can bring out a world of unique sounds from a guitar.
I am gifted with the ability to make a guitar sound like a skinned cat
Yes, every musician learns to play music this way, but there is a difference between a student working out some songs and changing up a few things, and a company hiring experienced studio musicians to emulate a certain band's style.
I think the band is right to call them on it, and I also think that humour is a much better tool than a lawsuit.
And since when is an embedded youtube video infringement? if they didn't want people to be doing that, they would have disabled the 'allow embedding' option during the upload.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Its always about only one thing ...
That quote I mentioned above, along with this quote:
"you have to do your due prep work to make it successful. My audience right now isn't huge. It might not even be big. I knew that going in. What I know now is that I should have worked my tail off in getting this idea out there enough so that when I did release the project live, it would already have a presence. This go around I tried to do it the opposite way: release the project and hope it builds the bigger audience. That hasn't worked."
has given me a fair amount to think about.
I have a fairly big art thing coming up next week, and I've approached it with the same assumption you had with your project: the event or product launch will generate a big audience. Hopefully, I'll still have enough time to build some last-minute hype before launch.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Its always about only one thing ...
Thats quite an interesting statement.
I had always assumed that these agents might feel threatened by business savvy content creators who are willing to put effort into both their art AND sales. It risks making the agent redundant.
I suppose it creates an incentive for them to work harder to promote your material; the flakes are lost without an agent, while for the savvy, an agent is a bonus, a nice-to-have rather than a need-t-have.
To find out that this attitude is actually helpful in winning the attention of agents puts a whole new spin on things.
Now I'm going to have to find out if this translates into the fine-arts world. Can I rise above the flakes?
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Re: Re: Re: Brimstone!
There is an excellent blog called 'epiphenom' that is full of all sorts of interesting studies about the psychological and social consequences of, and reasons for, religion.
http://epiphenom.fieldofscience.com/
In the archives, check out July 2010 for an article on the connection between anxiety and superstitious beliefs.
on topic: if someone told me to 'go to hell', I would be likely react by making a verbal counterattack.*
Purchasing something from them would be the last thing on my mind at that point.
*if those words are part of the lyrics to a really cool song, the above condition may not apply
On the post: Is Quoting Someone Out Of Context Defamation?
if this is the case
Those websites are a perfect example of quote-mining and distorting the words of others to make a point that is the exact opposite of what the original person actually said.
As happy as I would be to see those sites go, I fear for the potential harm to free speech.
What about unintentional quote mining? What if I innocently repeat an out-of-context quote?
What if I deconstruct an argument and they think I was quote mining?
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would It be possible
It seems like that might be the only way to get things sorted out down there.
or, to lighten the workload, just get rid of software patents.
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compete with free
No one would ever pay for something they can get for free.
Now please excuse me while I run out and purchase some more bottled water.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: free culture
This is true. videos where I show myself painting and offer up a few simple tips are more successful in both number of views, and more importantly, number of comments, than the videos where I just show off the final pieces.
The videos with how-to info are a conversation, while the presentations of my final work are more ego-building "oh, look at me!" things.
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