They're not military drones. They toy remote controlled airplanes and helicopters that have been around forever, but now that they have cameras on them people call them drones.
This is the best answer. If it's public domain, it's not infringement, and nothing illegal is going on. Reduce copyright terms (retroactively!) and you instantly reduce piracy.
1 - If piracy is so rampant that these companies can't afford the time and effort to verify their own DMCA notices are legit, then perhaps they should stop wasting so much time and energy trying to stop piracy, and put more effort into offering better alternatives (examples of which have been proposed here and elsewhere for years, and some of which have been reluctantly/unwillingly adopted by the industry)
2 - These companies are free to take infringers to court anytime they want. In fact, for a number of years that's exactly what they attempted to do. I wonder why they stopped? Maybe it was that exact same waste of time and effort trying to control everything that happens online.
3 - You seem to think if Techdirt reported things differently, that piracy or something will just magically go away. If you don't like what Techdirt reports on or the way it reports, why bother reading it? Go find a website that informs you about all piracy and illegal activities. Or better yet, start your own while the internet is still open and free. Don't waste your life hating things.
4 - You can make all the contrary statements you want (and that's all you're really doing - being contrary to anything written here), but if you make personal attacks on the writers or insult the readers, expect to be reported in short order. This includes the constant goading of Techdirt to admit to some secret agenda that their only real purpose is to encourage and promote piracy and abolish copyright.
Doesn't matter. Raising prices won't decrease piracy. It will just make piracy worse, until eventually nobody buys your book.
If they really wanted to stop piracy, they would just license the book to the school, and let the school distribute it free to the students rather than having them buy the books themselves. But that would put the schools in a bargaining position, which the publishers don't want.
The only thing the administrators are really afraid of is getting sued because some kid did something on a school issued computer that a parent didn't like.
Titanic: A movie about how some poor scamp is just as good as the wealthy passengers... in a movie that focuses almost exclusively on the wealthy passengers.
Cameron's not exactly subtle with his rich, white elitism. At least he has strong female characters.
In their world, nobody can do anything without permission or a license, and they hate that the internet doesn't work the same way. They want to be listed on Google News, but they want Google to pay them as well for the privilege of listing their content. They want Google to be a licensed aggregator.
No, but TV Guide isn't publishing copyrighted information.
Google provides snippets of news articles (and headlines) which are under copyright, and that's where the entitlement comes from. Never mind that it's fair use.
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2 - These companies are free to take infringers to court anytime they want. In fact, for a number of years that's exactly what they attempted to do. I wonder why they stopped? Maybe it was that exact same waste of time and effort trying to control everything that happens online.
3 - You seem to think if Techdirt reported things differently, that piracy or something will just magically go away. If you don't like what Techdirt reports on or the way it reports, why bother reading it? Go find a website that informs you about all piracy and illegal activities. Or better yet, start your own while the internet is still open and free. Don't waste your life hating things.
4 - You can make all the contrary statements you want (and that's all you're really doing - being contrary to anything written here), but if you make personal attacks on the writers or insult the readers, expect to be reported in short order. This includes the constant goading of Techdirt to admit to some secret agenda that their only real purpose is to encourage and promote piracy and abolish copyright.
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If they really wanted to stop piracy, they would just license the book to the school, and let the school distribute it free to the students rather than having them buy the books themselves. But that would put the schools in a bargaining position, which the publishers don't want.
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Cameron's not exactly subtle with his rich, white elitism. At least he has strong female characters.
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I get that you're blinded by your hate of Google, but I don't think you could make a more ignorant statement.
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Google provides snippets of news articles (and headlines) which are under copyright, and that's where the entitlement comes from. Never mind that it's fair use.
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