Depends a lot how many DirecTV customers decide to 'cut the cord' if they don't have Viacom channels. Could be risky for them as well. It also depends on how big a viewer base they have from Viacom's point of view - I can't say, I'm not familiar enough with the intricacies of the US market.
Of course they had a choice. Companies 'defy' the US Gubmint every day. Just ask them for a court-mandated order. VISA are big enough to tell the USG to go whistle. After all, what if they stopped al USG credit for a day...
I think you are overly obsessing over and focusing on Soviet structures, which no-one here is proposing - and I certainly don't believe Patry is. Most people support fair recompense for artists, while being all to aware that copyright is not a 'right' to an unlimited gravy train unto the seventh generation, as it is becoming today. That is more akin to socialism than capitalism, I would argue! No-one else in society gets paid for 'not working' - only for the work they do (except the 1% - guess that's the capitalist angle).
Many people do not feel that the Statute of Anne is an 'unjust' system - indeed, would it have become the basis of US copyright in the Constitution if it were inherently 'unjust'? It doesn't mean that it cannot be improved upon, but at its core, it is the basis of existing law.
Like it or not, it is stated in the Constitution that copyright is for "the Progress of Science", i.e. learning and the public good. It is irrelevant (unless you have an obsession with everything having a dollar value) whether it is monetised or even monetisable. Copyright protects this comment of mine. By your argument, because I have no hope or expectation of making money from it, it is not only 'worthless' as part of 'culture' but shouldn't have copyright protection.
Times change, technology changes, and attitudes change. The law needs to change with time as well. You cannot legislate against behaviour that the public at large do not agree with - just ask the framers of the Fugitive Slave Act how successful that was, or Prohibition!
I think he's just pointing out Disney's over-obsession with IP, even to the point of wrecking a perfectly normal gossip article. And that over-obsession affects a lot of things in the US and elsewhere - after all, Mickey Mouse age MUST be less than length of copyright...
Just trying to set up for the US to 'invade' NK to 'liberate' stolen imaginary 'property'. Because goodness knows that's more important than if they've got nukes, or might send a couple of million soldiers over the DMZ...
You have to remember that ads are built on the idea that only some people pay (attention to) them. Then there are all the people who adblock. So there are already 'freeloaders' that are being 'paid for' by others. That's the way business works. In the end, someone pays for anything available, and the chances are you yourself pay something for something, somewhere. But you don't have to micropay everything you do/look at.
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Honestly, why are certain segments of the US as hostile to the US as they are to national government, human dignity and fair play?
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Many people do not feel that the Statute of Anne is an 'unjust' system - indeed, would it have become the basis of US copyright in the Constitution if it were inherently 'unjust'? It doesn't mean that it cannot be improved upon, but at its core, it is the basis of existing law.
Like it or not, it is stated in the Constitution that copyright is for "the Progress of Science", i.e. learning and the public good. It is irrelevant (unless you have an obsession with everything having a dollar value) whether it is monetised or even monetisable. Copyright protects this comment of mine. By your argument, because I have no hope or expectation of making money from it, it is not only 'worthless' as part of 'culture' but shouldn't have copyright protection.
Times change, technology changes, and attitudes change. The law needs to change with time as well. You cannot legislate against behaviour that the public at large do not agree with - just ask the framers of the Fugitive Slave Act how successful that was, or Prohibition!
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Oh sorry, we're talking about Nokia, the former worldbeaters at phones, not RIM, the former worldbeaters at phones?
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