In a similar fashion, consider TV programs and syndication. Many modern TV products are not profitable in and of themselves as an original work. They only because financial viable when they reach the second or third round on syndication. Many shows never make it.
Well not every modern TV product deserves to be profitable. Intellectual property law does (or at least should) not guarantee that any copyrighted work is profitable; it guarantees that for a limited time, only the originator has the opportunity to profit. If it doesn't make a profit, that's probably because either it sucks or it wasn't managed well.
Also, anyone bitching up a storm because they're not getting the money they're entitled to and making the government pass laws to protect their profits seems a bit spoiled to me.
You're right, nobody has ever made money selling Shakespeare, Beethoven, et al.'s works. A lot of us aren't arguing for immediate public domain entering. We would be happy with shorter copyright, say 20 years instead of life plus 70 years.
Yeah seriously Marcus, what right have you to an opinion? Everyone knows that the people of one nation should never interfere with the affairs of another by, say, trying to convince them to adopt more draconian copyright laws. I doubt there are a lot of government officials attempting to influence policy decisions of other countries, but those who do should really just mind their own business.... seriously.
Oh, the contradictory positions of the shills. What was it he said, and apparently practices? Oh right, "I see, do as I say (shrilly I might add) not as I do. Got it."
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Read carefully dipshit. I congratulated Techdirtbag for censoring the free speech of the pervert Christopher. Then you "cleverly" distort that into supporting pedophilia.
Trolling 101: Be sarcastic. Then, when they interpret it as sarcasm, you can claim to have been speaking literally. Or, if they take you literally, you can roast them for not recognizing your sarcasm.
Yes, and there is a difference between censorship and cutting off ad support, payment processing, and DNS listing by US based search engines. Like Christopher's comments can still be read, a rogue website can still be located and monetized. And like Christopher's vile comments, it's now much less apparent and readily available to the public- just as it will be for rogue websites.
If the DHS domain seizures were simply a landing page that hid the content with a message of "This content has been deemed inappropriate and/or potentially infringing by the Department of Homeland Security, click here to see it anyway" then I personally would have less of a problem with it. Requiring a single click isn't anywhere near the same level of hiding something as the DHS seizures.
But don't you see? By seeing that pornography and not developing obsessive sexual behavior, you severely altered the timeline! Now we will never see the day when you, the all-powerful sex dictator of the world, overstep your bounds and cause all the people of the world to unite finally and overthrow you! Thanks to your perceptions of sex being subtly altered at such a young age, we will never know true unity as a species.
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if someone comes to you and asks you to engineer a system to perform a specific function what do you do ?
go searching for an example of someone else who has allready done that and copy what they have done ?
Or do you sit down and ENGINEER your own solution ?
Or do you take existing works, let's call them for our purposes the "NAND gate", the "power supply", the "gated D-latch", et al., and create a new, original system that can do something no previous system could do? Or are improved computer components completely valueless because they build on past technologies?
If I'm not allowed to use a single derivative solution, cooking my dinner tonight got a hell of a lot more complicated. I can't build on the technologies of the baking pan, the casserole dish, and the convection oven to make my (new!) dish of hand-slaughtered squirrel (since I had no knives, I had to choke it to death but wait... has someone done that before? Do I have to come up with a brand new way to kill a squirrel?) cooked in oak sap.
See, sometimes making new things ends with things like sticky squirrel for dinner instead of a delicious pizza.
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As much as I agree that sharing is great and the rhetoric is getting way out of hand, I have to point out that in your analogy, you paid the restaurant for one sandwich. Your "share" of the sandwich was only half of the sandwich, and the homeless gentleman's "share" of the sandwich was the other half, so the restaurant was paid for all the consumption of the sandwich. Big Content would be fine with it if that was how sharing worked with their works.
But the way they want you to see it is that sharing a copy of a song/book/movie, your "share" is still the whole work; your ability to consume it is not hindered in any way. However, your friend also has a "share" of the whole work. As far as they are concerned, there are now two "shares" of the work out there when they were only paid for one of them.
The claim isn't that electrosensitivity doesn't exist because it's all in the person's brain, the claim is that it doesn't exist because it isn't actually affected by the presence of electromagnetic fields. You can take a person claiming to be electrosensitive into a room right next to a high-powered transmitter and ask them whether it's on or off, and they won't be able to tell you with a reliability better than random chance if it's powered or not.
I'm not entirely certain on this, but I think that might be part of the contract of the FOIA requests in the first place. Too lazy to actually find out though, since I don't intend to file one any time soon.
You're being overly literal here. Yes, the cause of the raid was the illegal activity, but the cause of the illegal activity was his open router. If he had not had an open router, he would most likely not have been raided.
If I remember correctly, there is actually code such that, if your very first click is on a square that had randomly been assigned as a mine, it moves that mine to one of the corners (I can't remember which).
Having played countless hours of Minesweeper and qualifying for its world high score board, I can confirm that I have never once hit a mine on the very first click. Second click, sure, but not first.
I came here to ask the same thing. More importantly, how is he going to survive without food? He can't go to the grocery store or just about any restaurants. I suppose he could go to a bar, as long as it doesn't share a wall with any business that allows children on the premises.
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Well not every modern TV product deserves to be profitable. Intellectual property law does (or at least should) not guarantee that any copyrighted work is profitable; it guarantees that for a limited time, only the originator has the opportunity to profit. If it doesn't make a profit, that's probably because either it sucks or it wasn't managed well.
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Oh, the contradictory positions of the shills. What was it he said, and apparently practices? Oh right, "I see, do as I say (shrilly I might add) not as I do. Got it."
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Trolling 101: Be sarcastic. Then, when they interpret it as sarcasm, you can claim to have been speaking literally. Or, if they take you literally, you can roast them for not recognizing your sarcasm.
If the DHS domain seizures were simply a landing page that hid the content with a message of "This content has been deemed inappropriate and/or potentially infringing by the Department of Homeland Security, click here to see it anyway" then I personally would have less of a problem with it. Requiring a single click isn't anywhere near the same level of hiding something as the DHS seizures.
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Or do you take existing works, let's call them for our purposes the "NAND gate", the "power supply", the "gated D-latch", et al., and create a new, original system that can do something no previous system could do? Or are improved computer components completely valueless because they build on past technologies?
If I'm not allowed to use a single derivative solution, cooking my dinner tonight got a hell of a lot more complicated. I can't build on the technologies of the baking pan, the casserole dish, and the convection oven to make my (new!) dish of hand-slaughtered squirrel (since I had no knives, I had to choke it to death but wait... has someone done that before? Do I have to come up with a brand new way to kill a squirrel?) cooked in oak sap.
See, sometimes making new things ends with things like sticky squirrel for dinner instead of a delicious pizza.
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But the way they want you to see it is that sharing a copy of a song/book/movie, your "share" is still the whole work; your ability to consume it is not hindered in any way. However, your friend also has a "share" of the whole work. As far as they are concerned, there are now two "shares" of the work out there when they were only paid for one of them.
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Where are you getting that Amazon sets the price of the eBooks?
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Having played countless hours of Minesweeper and qualifying for its world high score board, I can confirm that I have never once hit a mine on the very first click. Second click, sure, but not first.
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