Once again, you can't tell the difference between abolition and reform.
Also, Masnick's position was never that he "supported copyright", he supported whatever the evidence provided dictated we should go.
Re: Re: Re: Re: This is exactly what I plan to do with my music.
The problem with your analysis is that if the same would happen nowadays with my music playing in the background (i.e. if the video went viral), contentID would identify my music and I would get paid for it. THAT’S why I have a noncommercial clause; not for censorship.
My original music (and covers of public domain cover I made) is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license. I don't have any heirs, nor do I have a label. I've done the same thing as Tom Lehrer such that when I die, all of my music (i.e. both the song itself and the masters thereof) will be dedicated to the public domain. While I wasn't influenced by Tom Lehrer, I decided on it because it made the most sense. I guess great minds think alike!
Under our current approach to patent eligibility, diagnostic tests for Covid-19 cannot be patented, so the resources and incentives to develop new tests in the U.S. were weak and unready.
The second half of the sentence doesn't follow the first. COVID-19 tests not being able to be patented means that more could be spread because there wouldn't be a fear of being hit with a lawsuit. Judge Randall Rader seemed to have conveniently forgotten that part. Obviously, he would've preferred if Jonas Salk patented the sun…
Um, Koby? Elizabeth Warren has been criticized by Techdirt before. This is not the dunk that you think it is. Mike Masnick is not a doctrinaire Democrat, Liberal, or Leftist, and he will definitely criticize those people. Try again.
I'm sure your first reaction to this is that nobody would ever try and go that far, that it's an egregious use of judicial resources to even attempt it, and none of those associations would stick anyway.
Devin Nunes' suit against a cow on twitter says otherwise.
Not only that, but LEAVING WAS ALWAYS AN OPTION!!! They could've stayed at Parler and we would've been fine with it, but no, they have to fuck up the internet for the rest of us (when they think only facebook, google, and twitter are the internet when that's clearly not the case).
it inevitably waned when this barrier to entry in the market was removed, then waned further when people decided to pay $10/month for unlimited songs rather than $10/album packed with filler, and someone else got there first this time.
With Spotify, people don't even have to pay $10/month, as they could listen for free with ads. I think that fact has reduced piracy and improved the fortunes of the record companies dramatically.
And saying that Facebook and Twitter are a monopoly tells us that your grasp on the realities of competition among social media is tenuous at best and your incredible stupid argument is debunked with one simple question "Do Facebook and Twitter force me to only use their services?".
Very well said. Also, keep in mind that one can still have an internet presence even if one does not use Twitter or Facebook. For instance, Ron Gilbert and Wil Wheaton both have blogs even if neither of them have ever used Facebook and both have left Twitter. Also, Alex Jones still promotes his dangerous conspiracy lies even though he's been kicked off of Youtube, Facebook, iTunes, and Twitter. All four of those platforms said "We don't do that here" but the government so far didn't say "You can't do that anywhere" with the exception of him losing a defamation suit brought by parents of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.
Interesting that once Apple no longer had DRM for their music, their influence in the music industry waned, and they are no longer the king of music distribution; that title now belongs to Spotify. That being said, I still buy from iTunes if I like something on Spotify and I want to buy it but Bandcamp isn't an option…
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Re: A one-person ANOMALY so gets major rant.
Once again, you can't tell the difference between abolition and reform.
Also, Masnick's position was never that he "supported copyright", he supported whatever the evidence provided dictated we should go.
You're bad at trolling, even.
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You don't want to take credit for it? That's some Confucian honesty you have there!
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Re: Re: Re: Re: This is exactly what I plan to do with my music.
The problem with your analysis is that if the same would happen nowadays with my music playing in the background (i.e. if the video went viral), contentID would identify my music and I would get paid for it. THAT’S why I have a noncommercial clause; not for censorship.
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This is exactly what I plan to do with my music.
My original music (and covers of public domain cover I made) is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license. I don't have any heirs, nor do I have a label. I've done the same thing as Tom Lehrer such that when I die, all of my music (i.e. both the song itself and the masters thereof) will be dedicated to the public domain. While I wasn't influenced by Tom Lehrer, I decided on it because it made the most sense. I guess great minds think alike!
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So basically…
This is the Scunthorpe problem all over again?
I feel sorry for any paleontologist named Woody Johnson…
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Re: Re: Re: Source pls
Q: What's the best part of Copyrights and Patents?
A: When they expire.
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That's extremely fair.
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Or rather, I should've said that the Sherman Anti-Trust act is not listed among those options.
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Were those points ever brought up in the lawsuit, though?
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And do you know what Cory Doctorow's solution is?
Adversarial Interoperability, not Quixotic lawsuits.
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Re: Re: Hey, Maz: let's agree on need actual product, and NO law
Because arguing against straw Mike Masnick is easier than arguing against the real person.
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COVID-19 and patents
The second half of the sentence doesn't follow the first. COVID-19 tests not being able to be patented means that more could be spread because there wouldn't be a fear of being hit with a lawsuit. Judge Randall Rader seemed to have conveniently forgotten that part. Obviously, he would've preferred if Jonas Salk patented the sun…
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Re: Pretty Clear
Um, Koby? Elizabeth Warren has been criticized by Techdirt before. This is not the dunk that you think it is. Mike Masnick is not a doctrinaire Democrat, Liberal, or Leftist, and he will definitely criticize those people. Try again.
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And I responded before you addressed that very point. Derp.
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Devin Nunes' suit against a cow on twitter says otherwise.
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Not only that,
Not only that, but LEAVING WAS ALWAYS AN OPTION!!! They could've stayed at Parler and we would've been fine with it, but no, they have to fuck up the internet for the rest of us (when they think only facebook, google, and twitter are the internet when that's clearly not the case).
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Re: Re: Apple and DRM
With Spotify, people don't even have to pay $10/month, as they could listen for free with ads. I think that fact has reduced piracy and improved the fortunes of the record companies dramatically.
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Exactly. As I always say, LEAVING WAS AND IS ALWAYS AN OPTION!
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Re: Re: Social Media brought this on themselves
Very well said. Also, keep in mind that one can still have an internet presence even if one does not use Twitter or Facebook. For instance, Ron Gilbert and Wil Wheaton both have blogs even if neither of them have ever used Facebook and both have left Twitter. Also, Alex Jones still promotes his dangerous conspiracy lies even though he's been kicked off of Youtube, Facebook, iTunes, and Twitter. All four of those platforms said "We don't do that here" but the government so far didn't say "You can't do that anywhere" with the exception of him losing a defamation suit brought by parents of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.
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Apple and DRM
Interesting that once Apple no longer had DRM for their music, their influence in the music industry waned, and they are no longer the king of music distribution; that title now belongs to Spotify. That being said, I still buy from iTunes if I like something on Spotify and I want to buy it but Bandcamp isn't an option…
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