> India now joins The Netherlands, Japan, Chile and Slovenia > in passing net neutrality rules that clearly prohibit zero > rating. Contrast that to the rules here in the States
If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide.
An agreement so secret cannot possibly be in the public interest. Or the national interest. Or even the interest of most businesses. (Unless you're one of the businesses or privileged who are more equal than others.)
Re: Re: Publicity rights used to stifle legitimate activities?
The mentally contaminated one is the same argument I remember from SCO vs IBM. (Which is still ongoing, in some sense of the word. It is worth checking up on the progress of the SCO vs IBM case about every one quarter of a galactic turn.)
Publicity rights used to stifle legitimate activities?
Just like copyright is used as a censorship tool to stifle undesired speech?
And trademark is used to stifle the ordinary use of ordinary english words? (usages which are not commercially competing or causing market confusion)
And patents are used to stifle independent innovators who do the actual work to build something that someone else vaguely and poorly described on paper and then did nothing further.
I guess I left out trade secrets from the IP food groups. But I don't remember any trade secrets being used to stifle anything.
I think you hit the nail on the head: "do they just *not* want people to watch their shows?"
That's it.
They only want you to watch: * when THEY want * where THEY want * on the specific devices THEY want you to use to view * and if you use a TiVo, you're a pirate commie terrorist thief
Re: Re: Re: Hey Time Warner / Hulu, here's a free clue!
While one might argue that they would go back to horse and buggy if they offer a product that is worth the price, there is more to it than just the price.
The fact is the automobile is vastly superior to the horse and buggy in many ways. Even if the horse and buggy were vastly cheaper (eg, worth the price), it would not appeal to me. And similarly, neither would cable TV.
My break with cable TV is permanent. Just like my 'break' with Microsoft products. If it could change to become what I want, then ok, but there's no way that can ever happen.
In order for me to go back to Cable TV, it would have to have morphed into something entirely different which is equal to or better than the internet services I use now.
Maybe the owners of GenerationB.otf are NOT trying to create an improper monopoly on the look of the output of their GenerationB.otf font, with its embedded computer instructions that decide how to adjust the font vectors to fit different resolutions of pixels.
But maybe they ARE trying to protect their GenerationB.otf file which Hasbro has used, and distributed, without a license.
Hasbro could expend the significant resources to develop their own vector type face font that looks the same. But they didn't. Or they could have licensed the one they used, but they didn't.
(Elsewhere in this thread, it is discussed that there is another look-alike font that was independently developed.)
It seems that Actual Damages would be what could have been earned by the copyright owner if Hasbro had done the right thing and licensed the font for their vast usage of the font.
Especially for such a fine company that seems to take the most minor of copyright infringements so deadly seriously.
You've hit the crux of the issue. He's trying to confuse the unprotectable result (the look) of using and executing the GenerationB.otf file, with the very copyrightable GenerationB.otf file itself -- which Hasbro HAS distributed without a license.
OK, then. Hasbro could expend significant effort to develop it's own look-alike font, using originally, newly created instructions which drive the adjustments of the shapes as the font is scaled to fit in different numbers of pixels.
The look may not be protectable, but the font, which does contain a form of computer software instructions, is protectable. Hasbro HAS distributed and used unauthorized copies of that font software.
Why pirate it? I doubt Time Warner has anything that is worth the effort. Even if they do, I won't find out if they don't put it on one of the internet streaming systems I subscribe to.
I'm sure I am not alone in saying that, for me, if it isn't on Netflix, Hulu, Prime, etc, then IT DOESN'T EXIST.
I don't care what your show, episodes or movie is. I won't miss it.
There a million and one ways I can fill my time. And not just in front of the TV. In addition to the above, I also use PBS, TED, YouTube and others. Thus I often watch more educational or just plain better content than whatever you are offering. But it doesn't matter if what you have is better. It simply is invisible to me. It doesn't exist.
I want to watch it on all of my devices. TV, Computer, phone, tablet, etc. When I want. Where I want. And without cable TV.
The spies already ONLY engage in Targeted surveillance
It's just that they target everyone.
And the surveillance is not indiscriminate. They specifically only collect information on persons whose data they are actually technically able to collect. Person's whose data does not fall within their capability to collect do not have their data collected.
I'm sure true practitioners of Orwellian doublespeak could do a better job with this than I have.
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But the US leads . . .
> India now joins The Netherlands, Japan, Chile and Slovenia
> in passing net neutrality rules that clearly prohibit zero
> rating. Contrast that to the rules here in the States
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OK, quick, anyone here, what's my cell site location?
You don't know it?
But I thought I was sharing it with everybody?
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Re: What is the big effing deal??
/s
(sadly, some people might think I was being serious)
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Re: Penalties
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What it is the government says again?
An agreement so secret cannot possibly be in the public interest. Or the national interest. Or even the interest of most businesses. (Unless you're one of the businesses or privileged who are more equal than others.)
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Re: Re: Publicity rights used to stifle legitimate activities?
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Publicity rights used to stifle legitimate activities?
And trademark is used to stifle the ordinary use of ordinary english words? (usages which are not commercially competing or causing market confusion)
And patents are used to stifle independent innovators who do the actual work to build something that someone else vaguely and poorly described on paper and then did nothing further.
I guess I left out trade secrets from the IP food groups. But I don't remember any trade secrets being used to stifle anything.
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Possible typo
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Re:
That's it.
They only want you to watch:
* when THEY want
* where THEY want
* on the specific devices THEY want you to use to view
* and if you use a TiVo, you're a pirate commie terrorist thief
Good riddance to them.
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Re: Re: Re: Hey Time Warner / Hulu, here's a free clue!
The fact is the automobile is vastly superior to the horse and buggy in many ways. Even if the horse and buggy were vastly cheaper (eg, worth the price), it would not appeal to me. And similarly, neither would cable TV.
My break with cable TV is permanent. Just like my 'break' with Microsoft products. If it could change to become what I want, then ok, but there's no way that can ever happen.
In order for me to go back to Cable TV, it would have to have morphed into something entirely different which is equal to or better than the internet services I use now.
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Re: Copyright misuse
But maybe they ARE trying to protect their GenerationB.otf file which Hasbro has used, and distributed, without a license.
Hasbro could expend the significant resources to develop their own vector type face font that looks the same. But they didn't. Or they could have licensed the one they used, but they didn't.
(Elsewhere in this thread, it is discussed that there is another look-alike font that was independently developed.)
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Re: Re:
On the post: Hasbro Sued For Font Piracy On My Little Pony Merchandise
Re: Font of earnings?
Especially for such a fine company that seems to take the most minor of copyright infringements so deadly seriously.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: 37 CFR 202.1(e)
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Re: Re: Re: 37 CFR 202.1(e)
The look may not be protectable, but the font, which does contain a form of computer software instructions, is protectable. Hasbro HAS distributed and used unauthorized copies of that font software.
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Re: Fonts
Hear that?
Please pay attention. Learn from this. And do by following Capt ICE Enforcer's wonderful example!
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Re: Go for it TW!
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Hey Time Warner / Hulu, here's a free clue!
I'm sure I am not alone in saying that, for me, if it isn't on Netflix, Hulu, Prime, etc, then IT DOESN'T EXIST.
I don't care what your show, episodes or movie is. I won't miss it.
There a million and one ways I can fill my time. And not just in front of the TV. In addition to the above, I also use PBS, TED, YouTube and others. Thus I often watch more educational or just plain better content than whatever you are offering. But it doesn't matter if what you have is better. It simply is invisible to me. It doesn't exist.
I want to watch it on all of my devices. TV, Computer, phone, tablet, etc. When I want. Where I want. And without cable TV.
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Re: ha ha ha
On the post: EU And US Come To 'Agreement' On Safe Harbor, But If It Doesn't Stop Mass Surveillance, It Won't Fly
The spies already ONLY engage in Targeted surveillance
And the surveillance is not indiscriminate. They specifically only collect information on persons whose data they are actually technically able to collect. Person's whose data does not fall within their capability to collect do not have their data collected.
I'm sure true practitioners of Orwellian doublespeak could do a better job with this than I have.
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