The great thing about being a copyright abolitionist is that Occam's Razor is on my side, and I can say that all constants involved with futilely watching over subjective expression to get it "just right" are not necessary to multiply.
Yes - and one other thing. Once you have copyright you have a group of beneficiaries with a "money for nothing" income stream and time on their hands to lobby for more. Their existence is what has got us into this mess.
Many people say that the original 14+14 copyright was fine - but they forget that we got from there to here once - and it will happen again even if we did manage to reset it. Copyright is a cancer - we have to cut the whole thing out or we will only be in remission not cured.
Once again a politician confuses National Security with the threat of a violent attack with a damage potential roughly on a par with a bad day on the roads.
To call that a "considerable threat to UK security is just nonsense.
She should try reacting to terrorism in the way recommended during the war:
Really, I just thought (like everyone else) that negotiations were being kept secret because if we knew what was in the treaties we'd be pissed...but if that was it, why not release the text as soon as it's finalized? I think theat you have slightly misunderstood the situation here.
The actual text of the agreement will be published but the details of the negotriations that led to it will be kept secret.
I'm not trying to defend it by the way - but we may as well be accurate in what we are attacking.
The real issue is that the Australian court decision didn't just remove liability from the ISP, it also effectively created a shield around their clients. The wording of that agreement is basically to say it's unacceptable to both grant immunity to the ISP and to allow them to block any move to find out who the end user is actually pirating the material.
Nah - the real issue is that copyright is incompatible with the combination of modern technology and a fair and transparent legal system. In the end we either have to ditch copyright or give up on justice.
American corporations moved all their industries over to China and helped build them up into the largest economy in the world. Now the Chinese government wields the majority of financial power, and those US companies must now play by China's rules.
As the communists used to say, the capitalists would sell them the rope which which they would be hanged!
Furthermore, it argued that in a world where Holmes is in the public domain, something horrible like others creating "multiple" versions of Holmes might happen
That world already exists in the UK since Conan-Doyle died in 1930 and hence all his works have been in the public domain since 2000 - (in fact they originally went into the public domain in 1980 -only to be removed from is by the disgraceful hijacking of the Peter Pan - Great Ormond St. issue by the copyright lobby )
You could not be more patriotic then Henry L Stimson - United States Secretary for war during WW2.
He once famously said (justifying the US disengagement from spying) "Gentlemen do no read each others' mail".
It is not "unpatriotic" to call out your country when it is behaving badly. The most patriotic thing you can do is to try to make your country more worthy of respect.
Mike Rogers attitude shows how far US politicians have sunk into a moral mire.
3 - Bad news for you, anything that involves humans will have some abuses, some stretching, and the odd guy checking out the hot girl with his super investigator powers. You can call it freaking unacceptable, but these are people and not robots. I do call it unacceptable and if they hadn't collected the data then these humans couldn't have done what they did - that is sort of the point.
The real issue is that we keep confusing fame for one thing with general wisdom.
There is absolutely no reason why an actor should have any skill, intelligence, knowledge, wisdom or virtue beyond that which is required for acting.
Add to that the fact that the requirement for film acting extends little beyond a certain physical comeliness and you will realise that the fact that he is even on the Oprah show is in itself an indication of misplaced values.
We can see him do his job as an actor in whatever film he is in - but we should no more expect to see him given prominence anywhere else than we would expect to see the man who drives the school bus.
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Re: Actually, she's kinda right...
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Yes - and one other thing. Once you have copyright you have a group of beneficiaries with a "money for nothing" income stream and time on their hands to lobby for more. Their existence is what has got us into this mess.
Many people say that the original 14+14 copyright was fine - but they forget that we got from there to here once - and it will happen again even if we did manage to reset it. Copyright is a cancer - we have to cut the whole thing out or we will only be in remission not cured.
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Re: Re: Oh it's worse than that
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National Security
To call that a "considerable threat to UK security is just nonsense.
She should try reacting to terrorism in the way recommended during the war:
"Keep calm and carry on"
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The game of life
It is Family Fortunes (Family Feud in the US) (Follow the links if you are not familair with the British game shows in question)
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Re: Makes sense
The actual text of the agreement will be published but the details of the negotriations that led to it will be kept secret.
I'm not trying to defend it by the way - but we may as well be accurate in what we are attacking.
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Re: The issue
Nah - the real issue is that copyright is incompatible with the combination of modern technology and a fair and transparent legal system. In the end we either have to ditch copyright or give up on justice.
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Re: The danger of metrics
So the new think has to be a REALLY big step forward to be worth the new learning curve.
I really wish Microsoft would take that one on board.
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As the communists used to say, the capitalists would sell them the rope which which they would be hanged!
On the post: Once More, With Feeling: Sherlock Holmes Is In The Public Domain
A world where
That world already exists in the UK since Conan-Doyle died in 1930 and hence all his works have been in the public domain since 2000 - (in fact they originally went into the public domain in 1980 -only to be removed from is by the disgraceful hijacking of the Peter Pan - Great Ormond St. issue by the copyright lobby )
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Patriotic - Huh
He once famously said (justifying the US disengagement from spying) "Gentlemen do no read each others' mail".
It is not "unpatriotic" to call out your country when it is behaving badly.
The most patriotic thing you can do is to try to make your country more worthy of respect.
Mike Rogers attitude shows how far US politicians have sunk into a moral mire.
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Re: Smart
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I think the requirement is not "written down" it is "written down in a document that I can be bothered to find".
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Re: Re: Re: points
I do call it unacceptable and if they hadn't collected the data then these humans couldn't have done what they did - that is sort of the point.
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NSA
I await with interest the extradition requests for NSA operatives to be sent to the UK for trial...
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Huh
There is absolutely no reason why an actor should have any skill, intelligence, knowledge, wisdom or virtue beyond that which is required for acting.
Add to that the fact that the requirement for film acting extends little beyond a certain physical comeliness and you will realise that the fact that he is even on the Oprah show is in itself an indication of misplaced values.
We can see him do his job as an actor in whatever film he is in - but we should no more expect to see him given prominence anywhere else than we would expect to see the man who drives the school bus.
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Funny
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There is one test - in Russia the president has genuine popular support.
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