Righteoushelter LLP, sues American site perezhilton.es in the US because it used its client's content. The case goes to court and perezhilton.es mounts a great, precedent setting legal defense, and its use is found to be fair use in US courts. Then, Righteoushelter complains to Spain and Spain takes it take down because Righteoushelter "says it is illegal" in Spain, even though perezhilton.es was not notified about the Spanish legality AND the US court fount it legal AND there is no opportunity given to mount a defense in a Spanish court.
I bet you it would cost them more (since it will take longer) for the deliverers to figure out who has opted out when they go to make their deliveries. They would need to carry a list and read form it. I don't see what their motivations would be. They have dumb money coming in from ad customers that encourage this behavior. They will probably just stop all together at one point and maybe even just sell books. Check out the photo of the mountain of phone books in this post: http://open.salon.com/blog/scanner/2010/11/22/the_death_of_the_phone_book_omg
That is why we have courts to decide these things. And in this day and age there is more gray area than ever.
The crux of the matter is that the US is unjustifiably self righteous whenever it comes to piracy, terrorism, rape, pedophilia, or drugs. The bad logic is that these crimes are so terrible that if you do stop and consider due process you are considered a supporter or defender of them.
Yes, a lot of top US companies have .es domains but forward them to domain.com/es so that they are not at the mercy of Network Information Center of Spain. Non US companies should do that same: don't use TDLs (.com) where control resides in the US.
Coining terms to sell books? Is that only ok when Christensen does it? Streisand Effect? Masnick's law? Approaching Infinity? Sure, these were emergent ideas. But who is to say white space was not. Christensen sites a book in one of his books' bibliography called Seizing the White Space. If Christensen has endorsed a term, I think it is ok. I think this is the same idea as the one discussed in Blue Ocean Strategy. It is a timeless topic worth repeating. Come on Mike, don't be a hater.
I think the Facebook staff figures out what users want before they even know they want them. They make big changes, there is a big revolt, and then it dies down and the new features are praised. Less confident service providers would be too afraid to make big changes.
Roussos owns fightpiracy.org and probably tweets for @fightpiracy. I think the RIAA is trying to control the conversation so that they can have more power over .music conversation than Roussos. Roussos is better off calling them out on their pretend ignorance and failing to champion Roussos's cause than say "yes, we share your concern." Give all of this, the control of .music is better in the hands of ICANN than the RIAA.
Very strange. I have met Constantine Roussos, the main guy behind .music at a couple LA area events and he is very anti piracy, almost to the point where he might be the arbiter of what can be done on this TDL. There is even a site called fightpiracy.org that endorses the .music TDL. http://www.fightpiracy.org/endorsers.html I think it is the your "entitlement" argument, Mike. RIAA feels entitled to control all things music related.
I wonder if some publishers want to increase the price of ebooks so that physical books become more attractive. For just a little more money you can get all of the benefits of a real book: no drm, re-sellable, lendable, no electronic obsolescence, can be displayed on a bookshelf. Even if they don't do this, I am sure this plays out in the minds of some readers.
This is a nice comeback when arguing with various critters about "living up to international copyright treaties." You can just say "the US is selective about the treaties it wants to live up to, just take the case of the leaked cables regarding the suppression of evidence regarding rendition."
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That is why we have courts to decide these things. And in this day and age there is more gray area than ever.
The crux of the matter is that the US is unjustifiably self righteous whenever it comes to piracy, terrorism, rape, pedophilia, or drugs. The bad logic is that these crimes are so terrible that if you do stop and consider due process you are considered a supporter or defender of them.
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