Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 15 Aug 2011 @ 3:24pm
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and that selling the patents to third parties to exploit them (perhaps in their current or future businesses) is somehow bad?
Absolutely yes.
Patents are supposed to be about progressing "science and the useful arts" - not just some piece of paper lawyers can wave around to get people to give them money.
I am trying to figure out the point where making a profit by developing IP is bad.
Nothing at all wrong with making a profit - unless you're doing it by stopping or slowing someone else from doing something useful.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 11 Aug 2011 @ 6:58am
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The flip side is ISP's and companies providing data delivery are in for a huge devaluing
Not if they realize the business they are truly in (providing communication/access service) and work to make it both profitable for them and of value to the users at reasonable prices.
I admit, the chance is slim, but some might figure it out before the next disruptive company who really understands comes along and wipes them out.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 10 Aug 2011 @ 1:59pm
Re: Not what the artists want
Could someone please tell me why the labels still exist!
inertia in·er·tia (ĭ-nûr'shə)
n.
The tendency of a body to resist acceleration; the tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest or of a body in motion to stay in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an outside force.
Resistance or disinclination to motion, action, or change.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 10 Aug 2011 @ 11:30am
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(2) to transmit or otherwise communicate a performance or display of the work to a place specified by clause (1) or to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times.
/rant on
That can apply to all types of streaming or transmission. It can even be arguably applied to renting a DVD. It's that kind of ridiculous legal doublespeak that has guaranteed I will never respect copyright law.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 10 Aug 2011 @ 10:53am
Infrastructure spending
I agree with that, but how about infrastructure spending?
I'm not talking about boondoggles and "bridges to nowhere" (those are broken window fallacies). I'm referring to real infrastructure spending that encourage efficiencies. In some cases it could be mass transit (subways, light rail) to more efficiently move people from where they live to where they work. Another might be upgrades to the electrical lines so that less electricity is lost through transmission. I'm sure other examples can be found. Where does this fit in?
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 10 Aug 2011 @ 9:49am
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In the end, there is plenty of precedents regarding long distance bills on a home phone, example. An internet connection isn't really and different from a phone, and that if the customer decides to freely lend the connection / phone to other people, they are the ones legally on the hook for it's use.
Wrong wrong wrong, and this has been discussed previously.
Long distance calls made on your phone is a billing issue between you and your phone company. And its a near certainty that you signed or agreed to be held responsible for the billing costs of those calls when you got the service.
A copyright infringement claim is a legal issue between you and a third party copyright holder. I would consider it highly unlikely that you signed an agreement with the copyright holder to be held legally responsible for copyright infringement that occurred on an IP address that happened to be leased to you at the time of infringement.
If someone breaks into a house and calls in a bomb threat from the phone, I have no problems with the police using the subscribers information as a starting point for an investigation into the identity of who called it in.
Under the law, I don't have a legal argument against a copyright holder filing an individual infringement suit for discovery of additional evidence against an individual unknown holder if they have more than just "this IP address was detected sharing content" - and then using the subscriber info from the ISP for further evidence collection that they have the correct person who was sharing the content.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 10 Aug 2011 @ 8:28am
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You're the one bringing law into this. Notice I never commented on legality, only what was right - ethics. I think I've stated pretty clearly in the past that laws and ethics are separate concepts.
However, DNS standards are in the IETF's RFCs 1034 and 1035.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 10 Aug 2011 @ 7:09am
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If you use OpenDNS, you will find that they redirect on domains not found or incomplete entries. Many ISPs also use this sort of thing.
That doesn't make it right. It breaks the accepted DNS standards, and thus can cause some applications to fail or produce unexpected results - and that's exactly why it was caught, since it was hijacking Google searches.
Google Chrome browser takes incomplete addresses typed into the address bar as searches.
That is a known and expected feature of the product, and is clearly stated and promoted, and is completely agnostic to the particular word or phrase. Are these ISPs clearly telling users that they'll redirect certain search terms to a marketing company?
It really doesn't sound like paxfire is doing anything particularly nasty.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 9 Aug 2011 @ 1:59pm
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And how do Hulu, Netflix, etc. not already do this in the US?
So I can stream every show minutes after it airs for the first time? Can I download the shows in convenient formats so I can watch them later? Or take them with me on my laptop/Android/iPod to watch them away from home?
If those answers are no, then it is not as easy as piracy.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 9 Aug 2011 @ 1:43pm
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They're both available in the US, so why isn't piracy at zero in the US?
Whether you're trolling or not, its because neither Hulu or Netflix meet Wil's conditions of: "that makes it just as easy [as Bittorrent or piracy] for honest people to get access to the programming."
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 9 Aug 2011 @ 11:27am
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Err, I assume you're referring to their EECB - Executive Email Carpet Bombs. Those are where you send one well written email to a company's CEO and other executives in order to get an issue addressed when normal channels have failed.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 9 Aug 2011 @ 9:19am
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What is it with you freetards trying to equate your 'plight' with the holocaust? The moment the first one of you gets put in a death camp for copyright infringement is the moment I join your cause.
Please remember your statement. Then refresh the main page in about 10 minutes.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 8 Aug 2011 @ 6:28pm
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Politicians are voted in and given power, precisely so they can deal with out-of-control bureaucrats.
Well if they did that then the bureaucrats would start investigating them back. And we couldn't possibly have a fair system if politicians were held accountable for what they do!
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Got three yes/no questions for you:
1) Could the Conservative party in Canada pass a law banning the export of asbestos?
2) Haven't you argued that ISPs and other 3rd parties should be legally responsible for copyright infringement that they could stop?
3) Assuming you answered yes to both of those, using the same logic, isn't Canada's Conservative party responsible for thousands of death per year?
Oh, and I think the word you were actually looking for was "drivel" and not dribble.
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Absolutely yes.
Patents are supposed to be about progressing "science and the useful arts" - not just some piece of paper lawyers can wave around to get people to give them money.
I am trying to figure out the point where making a profit by developing IP is bad.
Nothing at all wrong with making a profit - unless you're doing it by stopping or slowing someone else from doing something useful.
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Not if they realize the business they are truly in (providing communication/access service) and work to make it both profitable for them and of value to the users at reasonable prices.
I admit, the chance is slim, but some might figure it out before the next disruptive company who really understands comes along and wipes them out.
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Re: Not what the artists want
inertia in·er·tia (ĭ-nûr'shə)
n.
The tendency of a body to resist acceleration; the tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest or of a body in motion to stay in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an outside force.
Resistance or disinclination to motion, action, or change.
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If only that were true, it would never self destruct!
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/rant on
That can apply to all types of streaming or transmission. It can even be arguably applied to renting a DVD. It's that kind of ridiculous legal doublespeak that has guaranteed I will never respect copyright law.
/rant off
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Infrastructure spending
I'm not talking about boondoggles and "bridges to nowhere" (those are broken window fallacies). I'm referring to real infrastructure spending that encourage efficiencies. In some cases it could be mass transit (subways, light rail) to more efficiently move people from where they live to where they work. Another might be upgrades to the electrical lines so that less electricity is lost through transmission. I'm sure other examples can be found. Where does this fit in?
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Wrong wrong wrong, and this has been discussed previously.
Long distance calls made on your phone is a billing issue between you and your phone company. And its a near certainty that you signed or agreed to be held responsible for the billing costs of those calls when you got the service.
A copyright infringement claim is a legal issue between you and a third party copyright holder. I would consider it highly unlikely that you signed an agreement with the copyright holder to be held legally responsible for copyright infringement that occurred on an IP address that happened to be leased to you at the time of infringement.
If someone breaks into a house and calls in a bomb threat from the phone, I have no problems with the police using the subscribers information as a starting point for an investigation into the identity of who called it in.
Under the law, I don't have a legal argument against a copyright holder filing an individual infringement suit for discovery of additional evidence against an individual unknown holder if they have more than just "this IP address was detected sharing content" - and then using the subscriber info from the ISP for further evidence collection that they have the correct person who was sharing the content.
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However, DNS standards are in the IETF's RFCs 1034 and 1035.
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That doesn't make it right. It breaks the accepted DNS standards, and thus can cause some applications to fail or produce unexpected results - and that's exactly why it was caught, since it was hijacking Google searches.
Google Chrome browser takes incomplete addresses typed into the address bar as searches.
That is a known and expected feature of the product, and is clearly stated and promoted, and is completely agnostic to the particular word or phrase. Are these ISPs clearly telling users that they'll redirect certain search terms to a marketing company?
It really doesn't sound like paxfire is doing anything particularly nasty.
That's what was said about Phorm.
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So I can stream every show minutes after it airs for the first time? Can I download the shows in convenient formats so I can watch them later? Or take them with me on my laptop/Android/iPod to watch them away from home?
If those answers are no, then it is not as easy as piracy.
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CIVIX-DDI
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Whether you're trolling or not, its because neither Hulu or Netflix meet Wil's conditions of: "that makes it just as easy [as Bittorrent or piracy] for honest people to get access to the programming."
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The only fashion related event that could generate that many views (especially back then) was probably the Victoria's Secret event.
I think I remember helping to crash that one, too.
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Re: Key word being "sound"
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Please remember your statement. Then refresh the main page in about 10 minutes.
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Well if they did that then the bureaucrats would start investigating them back. And we couldn't possibly have a fair system if politicians were held accountable for what they do!
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