Okay, here goes: "Hi, Mike, how does it feel to be a shill of the Open Source Community? No wonder people call you 'Pirate Mike'." x 10.
Oh, that spiced rum is nice! *Collapses from alcohol poisoning.*
AC said: "Giving a library the right to make as many copies and to distribution them as much as they like is a pure recipe for killing what little ebook market may exist. People will learn very quickly to just get a library access and "borrow" the book forever."
Oh, yeah, because everyone's a 'pirate' by default. Go boil your head, you maximalist shill!
Greevar said: "Piracy is just the problem du jour. If it wasn't that, they'd blame something else."
Quoted for truth. On that note, there's a new law going to be passed, forcing us to purchase media whether we want it or not because if we're not buying it, we're obviously 'pirating' it. /s
@ average_joe: Well, I think it's OK to take what I want without paying for it when it's offered for free by those with the right to distribute, especially CC licenced and Public Domain epubs. Does that make me a greedy 'pirate'? I don't think so.
@ kh: I've just been handed a subpoena which states that all English speakers are being sued for unlicensed use of Latin, Old Norse, and Old English.
Remember, folks, *nothing* is truly original! :D
AC said: "Grow up and realize you aren't entitled to free content, people put a great deal of money and effort into content that needs to be paid for."
So you're saying I'm not entitled to the files of Public Domain texts for free, even though little effort and no money went into producing them?
AC said: "It's easy to have "different" views on stealing others content, when you've never invested into any content yourself to have it ripped off."
What I described above isn't stealing, and neither is copyright infringement. If they were, copyfraudsters would find themselves in court a lot more often than they do. And before you start, I'm a writer of fanfiction, original fiction, and lyrics, which totally negates what you say about those with less than maximalist views 'not being creators'.
"Performers -- mainly actors, but also musicians -- even if they're not the copyright holders will get an exclusive right to prevent others from reproducing, distributing or performing the works."
I thought they could already do that with their performance right.
Re: Re: From now on I'm only licensing my money.....
Rikuo asked: "Just WHY is it that people can't do crazy shit like the above, yet corporations can?"
Maybe because senators and representatives love being rimmed so much, they'll do anything for those willing to do it. Since people in general have too much self respect...
This exists purely because it gives them a veto on new products... if they don't like a product they stick a lock on their content that stops it working and the new product becomes unusable.
Fixed that for you, Tim Griffiths.
BTW, it's possible that YouTube to MP3 has simply been blocked in certain areas, because I've just tried to access it and it's still there.
AC said: ""distribution rights" could refer to region coding"
Which is one way distributors don't sell products where people are willing to buy them, legitimising 'piracy' in the eyes of some.
I was writing a Wizard of Oz fanfic based on the trip along the Road of Yellow Bricks, where Dorothy gets taken by the three characters she meets before getting taken by Toto outside the gates of the 'Emerald City', her Silver Slippers flashing in the sun even when she's taken doggy style, but I guess I'll have to put it on permanent hiatus so I don't get sued by Warner Brothers for an egregious use of five of their trademarked characters.
I upload a copy of 'Trolley Troubles' to Youtube, Disney spots it and uploads their own copy so they can use ContentID (YouTube's due process-lacking DMCA replacement) to get my vid pulled. I respond that the cartoon is in the Public Domain to get my vid restored before turning around and suing Disney for infringing on my broadcast right with their later video. How is that not useful?
AC said: "Copyright law is keeping , everything from evrybody, Sing "happy Birthday" to your child, and get sued. Tis is not Realy News."
Another AC said: "Warner Music Group has that tune"
The public's had that tune since 1936, actually. What WMG has is a tenuous claim on the lyrics. I've said it before, but here goes:
This tune's Public Domain
This tune's Public Domain
So it's free, WMG
'Cos it's Public Domain!
Copyright � 2010 Romersa's Prot�g�. Individuals and groups are free to copy, share, and perform this work for non-commercial purposes. All other rights reserved.
Adapted from 'Good Morning to All'
AKA 'Happy Birthday to You'; Public
Domain.
Re: A California politician who is sane about Copyright?!
Fred McTaker said: "The Congress people in my district have permanent brown noses from tongue-inspecting Disney's and all the other Hollywood Studio's crevices, in confusion about where all their campaign donations are produced from."
From the public's pockets to Congress' by way of the MAFIAA's, hence the confusion. Congress thinks the money comes directly from the industry. That's why we should stop buying mainstream content and not get it for free either, so campaign funding gets reduced and the industry can't push for laws to shut down the internet by claiming that P2P 'piracy' is the reason for their reduced income.
slacker525600 said: "in all seriousness, the internet is a series of tubes."
Is it? I thought it was a series of interconnected servers and computers, but what would I know?
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@ AdamBv1
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Big Surprise /s
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Oh, that spiced rum is nice! *Collapses from alcohol poisoning.*
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Oh, yeah, because everyone's a 'pirate' by default. Go boil your head, you maximalist shill!
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Quoted for truth. On that note, there's a new law going to be passed, forcing us to purchase media whether we want it or not because if we're not buying it, we're obviously 'pirating' it. /s
On the post: Why Does Copyright Last 70 Years After Death... But Licenses Expire At Death?
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On the post: Why Does Copyright Last 70 Years After Death... But Licenses Expire At Death?
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Fixed that for AC.
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Animal cruelty! And I'm not referring to the bestiality angle, either. :D
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Remember, folks, *nothing* is truly original! :D
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Re: derp
So you're saying I'm not entitled to the files of Public Domain texts for free, even though little effort and no money went into producing them?
AC said: "It's easy to have "different" views on stealing others content, when you've never invested into any content yourself to have it ripped off."
What I described above isn't stealing, and neither is copyright infringement. If they were, copyfraudsters would find themselves in court a lot more often than they do. And before you start, I'm a writer of fanfiction, original fiction, and lyrics, which totally negates what you say about those with less than maximalist views 'not being creators'.
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Did I miss something?
I thought they could already do that with their performance right.
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Re: Re: From now on I'm only licensing my money.....
Maybe because senators and representatives love being rimmed so much, they'll do anything for those willing to do it. Since people in general have too much self respect...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Not DRM...
Fixed that for you, Tim Griffiths.
BTW, it's possible that YouTube to MP3 has simply been blocked in certain areas, because I've just tried to access it and it's still there.
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Re:
Which is one way distributors don't sell products where people are willing to buy them, legitimising 'piracy' in the eyes of some.
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Re: This stifles creativity
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This stifles creativity
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Broadcast right on teh webz
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Another AC said: "Warner Music Group has that tune"
The public's had that tune since 1936, actually. What WMG has is a tenuous claim on the lyrics. I've said it before, but here goes:
This tune's Public Domain
This tune's Public Domain
So it's free, WMG
'Cos it's Public Domain!
Copyright � 2010 Romersa's Prot�g�. Individuals and groups are free to copy, share, and perform this work for non-commercial purposes. All other rights reserved.
Adapted from 'Good Morning to All'
AKA 'Happy Birthday to You'; Public
Domain.
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Re: A California politician who is sane about Copyright?!
From the public's pockets to Congress' by way of the MAFIAA's, hence the confusion. Congress thinks the money comes directly from the industry. That's why we should stop buying mainstream content and not get it for free either, so campaign funding gets reduced and the industry can't push for laws to shut down the internet by claiming that P2P 'piracy' is the reason for their reduced income.
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Is it? I thought it was a series of interconnected servers and computers, but what would I know?
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