Didn't Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture have a great overview of how "piracy" actually massively helped manga survive and thrive, and how if it didn't happen manga would probably have shrunk a lot? Someone should show that to this WIPO official.
Re: "As far as I can tell..." -- Problem is your lack of acuity, then.
From the commenter who criticizes Mr. Masnick on a triviality:
"My take is he wanted to show how LACK of creative people trickles down and eliminates jobs selling their products"
I've read this 3 times already, and I have to ask, what does this even mean?
It's all good and fine, but how do you propose that Cartoon Network add value to the free streaming content? I'm not try to be snide; I'm sincerely asking, because I don't think that the discussion of TV show doings on TechDirt has ever gotten beyond the abstract phrase "adding value", as opposed to music and movies where there are concrete examples of CwF + RtB.
What if she was flying to Hawaii? The government has no right to prevent interstate travel. (And don't tell me she should have taken a boat; that's out of the question.)
Plus, how can they expect every flier to look up these rules & regulations online ahead of time? Actually, as sad as this sounds. how can they expect everyone to have a steady Internet connection to look up these things ahead of time?
I certainly have not had a positive experience with the TSA; it was certainly very intrusive the way they patted me down, though to their credit they did try to do it professionally and they did listen to my concerns about the medical issues I have (internal stuff, not external like this or the colostomy bags or anything like that). My friends have either been indifferent or positive, though I'm happy that I was able to turn one of my friend's naively positive attitude towards the TSA into at least some level of skepticism.
"“HAPPY SLAPPING” (RECORDING PHYSICAL ASSAULTS ON MOBILE PHONES OR DIGITAL CAMERAS, THEN DISTRIBUTING THEM TO OTHERS); "
Given that this is TechDirt, I'm surprised no one has said this yet, so I will: this will essentially legalize the BS about people not being able to record police activities. RRRRRRGHHHHHHH!
Just a few years ago, I would have been enough of a goody two-shoes that if this came to my school, I would have done this just as they asked. It just goes to show how much some people change in just a short while. Now, all I can do is puke as I read the quoted sections (I feel like if I read the entire contest rule sheet, I would need to be hospitalized).
So because Universal Music's infrastructure was used by other people to commit illicit activities, doesn't that mean the Feds should go straight over and shut down all of Universal Music? Actually, I wouldn't mind that so much...
It reminds me of this: http://www.nissan.com/ (Basically, a guy with the last name Nissan apparently registered his website for computer hardware sales before the car corporation Nissan did, yet the big company Nissan sued this guy.)
There's no clearer action than this to show that the middlemen in the recording business are taking these actions as punitive measures, both against consumers who have the audacity to try to listen to music how they want, and against musicians who have the audacity to try to cater to said consumers.
Dear MPAA,
Pyrrhic victory Pyrrhus, king of Epirus.],
(a) a victory in which the winning side sustains very
heavy losses.
(b) any act supposedly benefitting the actor, for which
the costs outweight the benefits.
[PJC]
-- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
That was pretty funny. What I meant to say was that it should be good for the company in terms of expanding business that the loved ones of the deceased are probably going to end up buying more real Louis Vuitton/Burberry/whatever goods upon seeing how important said goods were to said deceased person, in addition for it being an honor for said company. Still, LOL.
It should be an honor, if anything, for those companies, that cardboard facsimiles of such items are being burned in honor of the deceased person. It symbolizes that such goods were important to that person, meaning it could serve as an impetus for the loved ones to go out and buy Louis Vuitton, Burberry, and other products, if only in honor of said deceased person. Basically, not only is this unproductive behavior by the companies, this is counterproductive.
The irony is that because Congress is so much in the pay of these big industries, supporting net neutrality will have essentially the same effect as opposing it.
Maybe I'm an optimist, but I figured after I saw the initial news article detailing the leaked memos that the FCC would surely strike the proposed merger down, no further questions asked. I still hope that happens, and in any case, I do hope the merger does not get approved.
"one sitting at my table mocked the whole debate because no one defined software patents, and then argued that Professor Lee was probably a hypocrite, because while he contributed to open source software, he probably wanted to get paid for his book"
It's a common fallacy among such laypeople (and yes, I'm calling that patent lawyer a layperson in such matters) that open source software = $0 (and the argument is extended to that man's book, which has nothing to do directly with being open source in and of itself). The problem comes not when people have a certain expectation of what to be paid for their work, but when they forget all about the demand side of the equation and essentially extort their customers (who will likely not remain customers for very long).
I don't want to particularly turn this into a political flamewar, but taxation isn't punishing success and rewarding failure. This is punishing success (Google) and rewarding failure (of big pharmaceutical companies to provide affordable necessary drugs to American people).
I'm not sure I understood the first part of your statement, but basically, yes, I'm saying that Samsung and Google are making a mockery of the major patents being fought over in the software/electronics industry (or whatever industry of which Samsung and Google are members).
Sorry about that. Yeah, they are certainly different, but they're also similar in the way that such patents are interpreted in ways that are way too broad and ultimately inconsistent with the purpose of patents.
Maybe I should have referred to the class of patents including software, design, and business methods, instead of just software. But I think the rest of my point still stands: Samsung and Google are both doing this to point out the silliness of such patents.
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From Free Culture
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Re: "As far as I can tell..." -- Problem is your lack of acuity, then.
"My take is he wanted to show how LACK of creative people trickles down and eliminates jobs selling their products"
I've read this 3 times already, and I have to ask, what does this even mean?
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And how?
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Re: Things we already knew
Plus, how can they expect every flier to look up these rules & regulations online ahead of time? Actually, as sad as this sounds. how can they expect everyone to have a steady Internet connection to look up these things ahead of time?
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Not me, but friends
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Legalizing Police BS
Given that this is TechDirt, I'm surprised no one has said this yet, so I will: this will essentially legalize the BS about people not being able to record police activities. RRRRRRGHHHHHHH!
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Goody Two-Shoes
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No clearer action
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Robots replace everything
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Definitions
Pyrrhic victory Pyrrhus, king of Epirus.],
(a) a victory in which the winning side sustains very
heavy losses.
(b) any act supposedly benefitting the actor, for which
the costs outweight the benefits.
[PJC]
-- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Savvy?
--
Sincerely, Prashanth
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Re: Re: Be an honor
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Be an honor
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Punish success, reward failure
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It's a common fallacy among such laypeople (and yes, I'm calling that patent lawyer a layperson in such matters) that open source software = $0 (and the argument is extended to that man's book, which has nothing to do directly with being open source in and of itself). The problem comes not when people have a certain expectation of what to be paid for their work, but when they forget all about the demand side of the equation and essentially extort their customers (who will likely not remain customers for very long).
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Punish success, reward failure
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
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Re: Re:
Maybe I should have referred to the class of patents including software, design, and business methods, instead of just software. But I think the rest of my point still stands: Samsung and Google are both doing this to point out the silliness of such patents.
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