your summation seems to show that you did not read the article/letter you linked to.
I will take this opportunity to reproduce, for the purposes of commentary, a single paragraph originally published in a noncommercial venue as fair use under 17USC, the American copyright statute.
~
* I believe that blogging such a short work in toto, for the purposes of commentary, when the work had initially been published as a letter to the editor of a noncommercial fanzine, was fair use (but that I was happy to remove the quote if Ms Le Guin didn't want it on Boing Boing)
* Quoting a work on a page bearing a Creative Commons license does not put the work into the Creative Commons -- commonsense and norms apply here, and tens of millions of CC-licensed blog-posts quote material without putting it into the Commons.
* Though I didn't quote the copyright notice that appeared in Ansible, I did clearly state the author and time of publication in the post. The copyright notice isn't necessary in this context, since it creates no further statutory rights for the author being quoted, and identifying the author and date of publication is all that is required here to affirm the copyright in the work.
~ Posted by Cory Doctorow, October 14, 2007
~http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/14/an-apology-to-ursula.html
Do you see the difference between what you claimed and what was said/the facts of the case, Murphy's Lawyer?
its funny to think that, with the current(recent) accessibility of powerful gaming engines, a publisher was unable to actually produce anything.
I am fairly certain that if 3D realms had simply released a design bible, along with outlines of "plot" and level function, people would have been falling all over themselves to produce The Duke's latest hit, across a wide spectrum of engines and design schemes.
They managed to dump cash and time into a bottomless pit while a contest or even an "accidental leak" of information would have brought them the forefront of the industry.. or at least made them less of a joke in the end.
the fun thing about the proposed law/scar program/someone-thing-of-the-children is the massive requirement for signage, with ideas being thrown around that any phone on display must have a listing of its radiation output "as large as the price" or the great scare-tactic warning icon of a radiating phone next to an image of a child's brain.
and its being pushed/has been pushed into the special emergency session. fun.
more "anecdotal" evidence, but it may have some bearing on numbers.
While living in a metro-area suburb i had the misfortune to be involved in two separate fender-bender/rear end accidents and both at intersections. No, they were not my fault.
Both us drivers pulled aside, of course. emergency blinkers and the like. In the first occasion there was no police response and in the second an officer slowed down Just long enough to ask if anyone was hurt or if we required help.
Since no one was hurt, it turns out that there was next to no police reporting. It required a huge runaround with insurance companies to get anyone from the police to admit that there was an accident, since there was no trail of paperwork or Blood to splash all over.
Short version- Numbers can be skewed by under-reporting/omission of these "unimportant" crashes, despite their huge impact on safety and property.
But these "idustries" are also heavily invested in Changing the laws. So forever bowing down to them, just hoping they will "begin a shift" is pointless as long as they continue to redefine Our rights, or rather, our Lack of rights.
"gee, this mandatory tracking collar sure does chaff, but i am sure that any day now the RIAA will lobby to reverse the laws they had created. I guess until then we have to let them assert their rights.."
Absurd, certainly, but your comment comes off sounding like a surveillance maximalist, crying out "if you are not breaking the law, you have nothing to hide!" What about "draconian copyright laws" that take away my rights to control my personally owned hardware and media? When did these business organizations obtain the gods-given right to dictate laws proclaiming their superiority over my ability to copy a dvd i own for use on devices that i.. wait for ti.. own?
Perhaps in time the current lawmakers and public rights groups (so heavily distracted by massive amounts of cash from these businesses that pervert copyright law) will begin a shift towards what Mr Masnick advocates, but until then it remains the duty of individuals to rely on their rights and assert their freedom from laws that cement inferior businesses into positions of unchecked power.
Its not unfair "vilification" when they are already treating everyone like criminals.
Re: Re: Re: "sells my individual purchasing history.."
probably (technically) no, for two or more reasons:
1) you agreed to it. somewhere in the 20 pages of 3pt fine print that came with your card was a statement that by use you allowed them to share information with "concerned partners" or perhaps "authorized third party representatives". Of course, its buried in legal talk so you're going to need a lawyer to figure out that they Might, Possibly be able to use that clause in such a way.
2) its not "Your" data. Perhaps the information is carefully anonymised, so all that anyone could tell is that you are a white male between 23 and 25 with income between X and Y, who lives in area code Z, and shops at stores alpha through gamma. See, no personal info at all! a totally perfect anonymous dataset that, once generated, is the property of the card company (or more likely one of those "authorized third party representatives") to be sold, resold, upsold and downsold and mysteriously have your name added to it.
the point is that the varied involved parties would much rather sue J. Doe then an actual person. What if alice shows up in court with a pack of lawyers?
much easier to file paperwork (paperwork based on laws that have no real understanding of electronic communication systems), wait a while, then skip straight to getting a court order to force Alice's service provider to do things.
"remove people, cars, or anything easily identified"
first, remove? as in perform massive-scale image editing to untold millions of images, on a much greater and more intrusive scale then blanking Lic# plates (which seems to be a matter of recognizing the shape of strings of numbers) and faces?
Next they will invent matter transmission and just beam people instantly through their computers to let you view the street first-hand.
Technical and usability hurdles aside ("what is this view of?" "I cant tell, its all blanked out cars, blanked out houses and blanked out road signs")bowing down to these mindless "save the children" mouthbreathers without a shred of law or, goodness help me, Reason just encourages them while doing nothing to make anyone safer, wiser or kinder.
and i think we all know that had Street View been launched by a homegrown swiss company (Blick auf die Strasse?), then these problems would automagically disappear.
"remove people, cars, or anything easily identified"
first, remove? as in perform massive-scale image editing to untold millions of images, on a much greater and more intrusive scale then blanking Lic# plates (which seems to be a matter of recognizing the shape of strings of numbers) and faces?
Next they will invent matter transmission and just beam people instantly through their computers to let you view the street first-hand.
Technical and usability hurdles aside ("what is this view of?" "I cant tell, its all blanked out cars, blanked out houses and blanked out road signs")bowing down to these mindless "save the children" mouthbreathers without a shred of law or, goodness help me, Reason just encourages them while doing nothing to make anyone safer, wiser or kinder.
and i think we all know that had Street View been launched by a homegrown swiss company (Blick auf die Strasse?), then these problems would automagically disappear.
that just shows that the dispensary business is distorted, likely due to the influence of the illegal sellers, and the fairly small (overall) share of the market held by dispensary clinics.
with a more open marketplace, there is always going to be forces driving prices down.
And remember that medical marijuana is, in theory if not always fact, meant to treat all those disorders and troubles, not really a market of cost-conscious shoppers and bargain hunters.
You have to carefully consider who/what is being blamed here.
If I hack someone to bits with a hatchet, no-one cries foul on the hatchet manufacturers.
"How dare you let that person misuse a tool like that! Sure, I know they ignored the warning label, the warning sign, the warning safety-cap and the warning Wacky-Waving-Inflatable-Arm-Man, but I think we all know who was responsible here" : This message brought to you by the Anti-Hatchet/Pro-Chainsaw Alliance
you seem to be conflating different terms in your eager bid to send grandmothers to jail for buying medicine.
What happened in your case, it it happened at all, was corruption and abuse of power. Likely some bribery, etc. There is a world of difference between a dumb cop easily awed by a big name and a smart law enforcement officer who knows when it would be against the best interests of the public to follow the letter of the law.
do you think that simply dropping your name off will keep people from recognizing you?
More to the point, if you truly cant see the difference between actual theft of a design/patent and the over-written and overreaching patents that are the roots of the need for reform.. well, I am surprised you can string words together.
Or copy them off a website.
For an example of an overly broad patent, lets look at the one being challenged related to this article.
"A system of distributing video and/or audio information employs digital signal processing to achieve high rates of data compression. The compressed and encoded audio and/or video information is sent over standard telephone, cable or satellite broadcast channels to a receiver specified by a subscriber of the service, preferably in less than real time, for later playback and optional recording on standard audio and/or video tape"
The patent goes on to amend a dozen or more times, each time claiming another vague category, such as "Also to include digital transmission, and also to include transmission involving a computer"
There is no formula, no diagram or circuit. In truth, there is no system outlined in the patent at all, merely a claim against the IDEA of a system, broadly drawn out with a paint-roller to include any vaguely similar concept involving transmitting.. anything ever. This patent is held by a company that does not do any kind of business related to "distribution of video and/or audio" or any type of activity at all outside of sending legal notices.
Huzzah, Augmented Reality. Now i just need my rigger implants.
More.. i mean, Less to the point RJR, These guys are real inventors. that means that they are actually creating something and improving on it. See you back here later when a larger firm buys the tech (legally) and suddenly gets sued by someone owning an ancient patent on "System of displaying images".
Not because that person has anything to do with this development, but simply because they were waiting for a target with more money then a university.
boo bad lawsuits that could stifle innovation.
Hooray cyberpunk future!
really kid, get a horse and buggy and learn to drive for real.
really kid, get a stick and learn to hunt for real.
really kid, put down that brush and come learn to spit paint on the cave wall for real.
congrats, Flyfish, you managed to miss the point of Games And act condescending towards anyone who ever touched one.. at the same time! While entirely missing the point of the article as well.. golly.. well done. well done.
re: Elderly Classic Rock Musicians Don't Like Music Video Games
by Bugsy
re: Gotta agree with the musicians
by Gryffin
we get it, pops. really, we get it. You don't like these newfangled toys them dang kids have today, but try a little harder to know what you are waving your cane at.
Just like no-one assumes HALO will teach them how to be a cyber-enhanced super soldier in the future, no-one assumes Guitar hero or Rock Band or anything else will teach them how to play an instrument. They are timing and reflex games, for goodness sake, that happen to be put to music and use a fancy controller.
Playing Pac-Man didn't make an entire generation run around in dark hallways eating pills and hiding from ghosts, and Guitar Hero wont somehow convince that button-pounding is the same thing as playing a guitar. Of course, a large and growing number of people, after enjoying these "hollow" games, are going out, buying real instruments and really learning them.. what do you say to that?
Or the increase in classic rocker record sales after they are experienced through this new media, helping a new generation connect with the music that came before them.. I guess none of these creaking old billionaires really care about all that..
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Re: Cory Doctorow and Ursula LeGuin
I will take this opportunity to reproduce, for the purposes of commentary, a single paragraph originally published in a noncommercial venue as fair use under 17USC, the American copyright statute.
~
* I believe that blogging such a short work in toto, for the purposes of commentary, when the work had initially been published as a letter to the editor of a noncommercial fanzine, was fair use (but that I was happy to remove the quote if Ms Le Guin didn't want it on Boing Boing)
* Quoting a work on a page bearing a Creative Commons license does not put the work into the Creative Commons -- commonsense and norms apply here, and tens of millions of CC-licensed blog-posts quote material without putting it into the Commons.
* Though I didn't quote the copyright notice that appeared in Ansible, I did clearly state the author and time of publication in the post. The copyright notice isn't necessary in this context, since it creates no further statutory rights for the author being quoted, and identifying the author and date of publication is all that is required here to affirm the copyright in the work.
~ Posted by Cory Doctorow, October 14, 2007
~http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/14/an-apology-to-ursula.html
Do you see the difference between what you claimed and what was said/the facts of the case, Murphy's Lawyer?
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I am fairly certain that if 3D realms had simply released a design bible, along with outlines of "plot" and level function, people would have been falling all over themselves to produce The Duke's latest hit, across a wide spectrum of engines and design schemes.
They managed to dump cash and time into a bottomless pit while a contest or even an "accidental leak" of information would have brought them the forefront of the industry.. or at least made them less of a joke in the end.
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and its being pushed/has been pushed into the special emergency session. fun.
On the post: Chicago Tribune Notices More Accidents Happening At Many Intersections With Red Light Cameras
While living in a metro-area suburb i had the misfortune to be involved in two separate fender-bender/rear end accidents and both at intersections. No, they were not my fault.
Both us drivers pulled aside, of course. emergency blinkers and the like. In the first occasion there was no police response and in the second an officer slowed down Just long enough to ask if anyone was hurt or if we required help.
Since no one was hurt, it turns out that there was next to no police reporting. It required a huge runaround with insurance companies to get anyone from the police to admit that there was an accident, since there was no trail of paperwork or Blood to splash all over.
Short version- Numbers can be skewed by under-reporting/omission of these "unimportant" crashes, despite their huge impact on safety and property.
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Re:
"gee, this mandatory tracking collar sure does chaff, but i am sure that any day now the RIAA will lobby to reverse the laws they had created. I guess until then we have to let them assert their rights.."
Absurd, certainly, but your comment comes off sounding like a surveillance maximalist, crying out "if you are not breaking the law, you have nothing to hide!" What about "draconian copyright laws" that take away my rights to control my personally owned hardware and media? When did these business organizations obtain the gods-given right to dictate laws proclaiming their superiority over my ability to copy a dvd i own for use on devices that i.. wait for ti.. own?
Perhaps in time the current lawmakers and public rights groups (so heavily distracted by massive amounts of cash from these businesses that pervert copyright law) will begin a shift towards what Mr Masnick advocates, but until then it remains the duty of individuals to rely on their rights and assert their freedom from laws that cement inferior businesses into positions of unchecked power.
Its not unfair "vilification" when they are already treating everyone like criminals.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: For profit health care
I'll put it out a different way..
some nonprofits receive partial gov funding =/= all nonprofits are entirely government funded.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: For profit health care
I'll put it out a different way..
some nonprofits receive partial gov funding =/= all nonprofits are entirely government funded.
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Re: Re: Re: "sells my individual purchasing history.."
1) you agreed to it. somewhere in the 20 pages of 3pt fine print that came with your card was a statement that by use you allowed them to share information with "concerned partners" or perhaps "authorized third party representatives". Of course, its buried in legal talk so you're going to need a lawyer to figure out that they Might, Possibly be able to use that clause in such a way.
2) its not "Your" data. Perhaps the information is carefully anonymised, so all that anyone could tell is that you are a white male between 23 and 25 with income between X and Y, who lives in area code Z, and shops at stores alpha through gamma. See, no personal info at all! a totally perfect anonymous dataset that, once generated, is the property of the card company (or more likely one of those "authorized third party representatives") to be sold, resold, upsold and downsold and mysteriously have your name added to it.
its a load of excrement.
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Re: Re:
much easier to file paperwork (paperwork based on laws that have no real understanding of electronic communication systems), wait a while, then skip straight to getting a court order to force Alice's service provider to do things.
On the post: Switzerland Continues To Fight Google Street View; Takes Google To Court
Re: "i dont understand why.."
first, remove? as in perform massive-scale image editing to untold millions of images, on a much greater and more intrusive scale then blanking Lic# plates (which seems to be a matter of recognizing the shape of strings of numbers) and faces?
Next they will invent matter transmission and just beam people instantly through their computers to let you view the street first-hand.
Technical and usability hurdles aside ("what is this view of?" "I cant tell, its all blanked out cars, blanked out houses and blanked out road signs")bowing down to these mindless "save the children" mouthbreathers without a shred of law or, goodness help me, Reason just encourages them while doing nothing to make anyone safer, wiser or kinder.
and i think we all know that had Street View been launched by a homegrown swiss company (Blick auf die Strasse?), then these problems would automagically disappear.
On the post: Switzerland Continues To Fight Google Street View; Takes Google To Court
Re: "i dont understand why.."
first, remove? as in perform massive-scale image editing to untold millions of images, on a much greater and more intrusive scale then blanking Lic# plates (which seems to be a matter of recognizing the shape of strings of numbers) and faces?
Next they will invent matter transmission and just beam people instantly through their computers to let you view the street first-hand.
Technical and usability hurdles aside ("what is this view of?" "I cant tell, its all blanked out cars, blanked out houses and blanked out road signs")bowing down to these mindless "save the children" mouthbreathers without a shred of law or, goodness help me, Reason just encourages them while doing nothing to make anyone safer, wiser or kinder.
and i think we all know that had Street View been launched by a homegrown swiss company (Blick auf die Strasse?), then these problems would automagically disappear.
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Re: Re: It's legalized...
with a more open marketplace, there is always going to be forces driving prices down.
And remember that medical marijuana is, in theory if not always fact, meant to treat all those disorders and troubles, not really a market of cost-conscious shoppers and bargain hunters.
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Re:
If I hack someone to bits with a hatchet, no-one cries foul on the hatchet manufacturers.
"How dare you let that person misuse a tool like that! Sure, I know they ignored the warning label, the warning sign, the warning safety-cap and the warning Wacky-Waving-Inflatable-Arm-Man, but I think we all know who was responsible here" : This message brought to you by the Anti-Hatchet/Pro-Chainsaw Alliance
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Re: No ads no content; No JS no content
Gee.. you sure showed me! Golly, too bad there isn't a billion other webpages out there ready to accept my interest and money.
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Re: Re: Common Sense
What happened in your case, it it happened at all, was corruption and abuse of power. Likely some bribery, etc. There is a world of difference between a dumb cop easily awed by a big name and a smart law enforcement officer who knows when it would be against the best interests of the public to follow the letter of the law.
think before you make foolish statements, please.
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Re: stop the shilling!!!
do you think that simply dropping your name off will keep people from recognizing you?
More to the point, if you truly cant see the difference between actual theft of a design/patent and the over-written and overreaching patents that are the roots of the need for reform.. well, I am surprised you can string words together.
Or copy them off a website.
For an example of an overly broad patent, lets look at the one being challenged related to this article.
"A system of distributing video and/or audio information employs digital signal processing to achieve high rates of data compression. The compressed and encoded audio and/or video information is sent over standard telephone, cable or satellite broadcast channels to a receiver specified by a subscriber of the service, preferably in less than real time, for later playback and optional recording on standard audio and/or video tape"
The patent goes on to amend a dozen or more times, each time claiming another vague category, such as "Also to include digital transmission, and also to include transmission involving a computer"
There is no formula, no diagram or circuit. In truth, there is no system outlined in the patent at all, merely a claim against the IDEA of a system, broadly drawn out with a paint-roller to include any vaguely similar concept involving transmitting.. anything ever. This patent is held by a company that does not do any kind of business related to "distribution of video and/or audio" or any type of activity at all outside of sending legal notices.
try harder, RJR
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"People aren't fooled by false interaction.."
One hundred percent this.
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More.. i mean, Less to the point RJR, These guys are real inventors. that means that they are actually creating something and improving on it. See you back here later when a larger firm buys the tech (legally) and suddenly gets sued by someone owning an ancient patent on "System of displaying images".
Not because that person has anything to do with this development, but simply because they were waiting for a target with more money then a university.
boo bad lawsuits that could stifle innovation.
Hooray cyberpunk future!
On the post: Elderly Classic Rock Musicians Don't Like Music Video Games
Re: really kid
really kid, get a stick and learn to hunt for real.
really kid, put down that brush and come learn to spit paint on the cave wall for real.
congrats, Flyfish, you managed to miss the point of Games And act condescending towards anyone who ever touched one.. at the same time! While entirely missing the point of the article as well.. golly.. well done. well done.
On the post: Elderly Classic Rock Musicians Don't Like Music Video Games
by Bugsy
re: Gotta agree with the musicians
by Gryffin
we get it, pops. really, we get it. You don't like these newfangled toys them dang kids have today, but try a little harder to know what you are waving your cane at.
Just like no-one assumes HALO will teach them how to be a cyber-enhanced super soldier in the future, no-one assumes Guitar hero or Rock Band or anything else will teach them how to play an instrument. They are timing and reflex games, for goodness sake, that happen to be put to music and use a fancy controller.
Playing Pac-Man didn't make an entire generation run around in dark hallways eating pills and hiding from ghosts, and Guitar Hero wont somehow convince that button-pounding is the same thing as playing a guitar. Of course, a large and growing number of people, after enjoying these "hollow" games, are going out, buying real instruments and really learning them.. what do you say to that?
Or the increase in classic rocker record sales after they are experienced through this new media, helping a new generation connect with the music that came before them.. I guess none of these creaking old billionaires really care about all that..
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