Any and all content in this post is work of fiction and is in no way depicting any person living or dead or in any way ripping of a Fox Network animated series. Also, Disney only has the global public good in mind in all of business they partake in.
Aside from problems with Sony customer support (I have had many issues with Sony as a technician and customer - not the least of which was that root kit incident)
The core of the problem is not DRM it's the way DRM is handled.
If I buy a paper based book it's mine. I can read it, lend it to a friend, quote from it in my writing (attributing the source), or leave it on the public transit for someone else to read.
Digital media should be the same. How about having all of the media in one common format and you can copy to and from any device. There just has to be a DRM code number to enter for the eBook that is registered to you and can be transferred to another user.
There should also be a way to not allow the seller to delete your cop like Amazon did to Orwell's 1984 on Kindles.
I suppose I have been prevented from performing my job (research) in some way, but I can generally afford to get access to anything. I and other children past and present have and are being denied education by publishers demanding ridiculous sums from the public school system for text books.
It's not this that is of concern here, it is the loss of knowledge or, more importantly, the ideas that are being lost. Nazi Germany's first efforts were to remove any ideas other than their own simplistic lies. Chairman Mao ordered all the intellectuals into the countryside to dig and farm or be imprisoned and executed. We now are losing ideas to due to indifference to anything but profit. I personally really like to have money and am not about to support a call for a sort of "copy anything you want" utopia. But seeing the cultural record disintegrate is hard to take. I've been witnessing this for decades. A loss of ideas is a loss of freedoms.
The Hávamál (of which this is a verse) is from a time of passing down history through an oral tradition and it was profession to be a story teller and memorize history. Very important text was carved in stone and lasted for millennia. In this case you know of this passage from the Elder Edda a 12th century compilation of Icelandic poems. If it was copyrighted I doubt that it would have been known to you.
No, we can stop copyright holders from being greedy, it's called the law. The right of he individual (and in this case the corporation, mostly) has to be limited for the common good.
Off the topic: This is a public forum and you are allowed to speak your mind but you're being dismissive and obtuse. Try to be constructive and persuasive instead.
History and Culture Can Not be Left to the Copyright Holder
I'm watching a Monty Python documentary while I read this article and the responses. Terry Gilliam said he found out that the BBC was about to record over all of the Monty Python's Flying Circus old episodes because the tapes cost 90 Pounds each and they needed them for "football matches and horse shows". So, to save the show, literally, he bought all of the tapes. Twenty years later, when Python became in demand again, the BBC had to come begging him for the master tapes.
Ted Turner has saved much of the old nitrate films by buying all of those old classics and remastering them for his successful TCM network. I's good that he could
see the value of old works. However, his efforts are restricted to Hollywood, what have we lost from the 1920's school of French surrealism? We did lose part of Fritz Lang's brilliant 1927 'Metropolis' but, because the copyright expired in 1953 there was an effort to find and reconstruct the film and it was announced they has found most of the original and Turner is going to show it in 2010 (hopefully) with the original score.
If the copyright was still in play this would all not be possible and the mother of all science fiction movies would have been lost forever. I believe 'Avatar' will be gone in 83 years. A DVD only lasts a few to a maximum of about 20 years (about 40 minutes on the dash of a car on a hot day). Don't argue with my estimates. I have been using using CD's since the 1980's and some of my earlier music and computer data is not recoverable. DVD technology is even less robust. Don't look for Blueray to be any better.
Johnnie Carson once complained that NBC had destroyed much of the original Tonight Show recordings. He said it wasn't all brilliant television, but it was part of American culture.
Recently, NASA erased the moon landing recordings:
"An exhaustive, three-year search for some tapes that contained the original footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk has concluded that they were probably destroyed during a period when NASA was erasing old magnetic tapes and reusing them to record satellite data."
I am certain that this mindless corporate and government behavior is repeated often everywhere in the world. They are carrying out the actions of the firemen in F 451 every day.
I can understand corporations and individuals wanting to maximize profits from a creative investment but without the public or (as in Gilliam's case) private involvement I can see much of our collective past being lost.
Perhaps the best solution is to enact a global law that requires all copyrighted works to be kept by the holders in a fail safe archive and if they refuse to pay for the storage the work goes public.
I only write technical material and may never get around to typing out the novel or two I have in mind, but this article has convinced me to call my lawyer next week and make sure my will clearly states that anything I wrote becomes public domain upon my death. Otherwise, my death may be the final word of me.
I hear MP3 players on the transit system while on my way to work every weekday. There is always one or two people in a train car of 30+ playing the music so loudly I can clearly make out the beat and often the lyrics from 20 feet away. These people create their own hearing loss.
I would to sue these mouth breather, over volume players for making the rest of us suffer the incredibly obnoxious and substandard music being pounded through our skulls twice a day.
In defense of the "cops" (I assume you mean the front line security people) they are people like you and me doing what the can with what they have to use and what the know, both of which are lacking. It's the near treasonous TSA directors and the idiot bureaucrats that are the f-wads.
I doubt the costs would be proportionately higher in the USA - much of the money given to TSA seems to be wasted. I agree that doing your best is not easy, but saving lives is not cost effective?
I dislike that attitude. Going the easy and cheap route is why GM is still nearly bankrupt and is getting more bailout money (for GMAC). It's indicative of the lazy and corrupt corporate culture that creates much of the problems facing the world.
So, what is the cost effective ratio of blown up aircraft to security expenditure?
TSA is a corporation whose purpose is to make money. Hiring ex-police officers with experience and training would cause reductions in profits due to rightful demands for better pay. Your average TSA (and most lower level airport security people) are under thirty, have a high school or equivalent diploma and no prior security training. They make less than $30,000 per year - if they are full time. They have the education, skills, and training of parking lot attendants.
It's hard to say if it's your father or brother who is the lucky one. It sure isn't the air traveler or the country.
Israel is considered to have the among best airport security. They hire highly paid experts with special training in behavior analysis, profiling, interrogation, anti-terrorism, and martial arts/weapons.
I search ed for "Foundem" on Google and Bing and they came up with nearly identical results. I then searched "price comparison UK" using both search engines. On Google Foundem came up 11th on Google and 142nd on Bing.
Adam Raff and the New York Times seem to have established themselves as confirmed jack-asses.
Let everyone copy your work. It worked well for many. Make your money from being recognized and popular and charge for added value. For example: If a musician - sell concert tickets. I sell IT consulting. I do not mind (actually I encourage) people to distribute my articles. As long as my name is on the material and they are not profiting from or misrepresenting the work I do not have a problem.
The real issue here is is recognition and maintenance of the integrity of an author's authorship. I want to hire the guy(s) that came up with the original 'A' material, not the schmuck that sole it.
Burns was right. He was the big star, Reiner and Brooks were new guys, he was helping them become the next big stars.
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What is the Solution?
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Re: Sigh...
Any and all content in this post is work of fiction and is in no way depicting any person living or dead or in any way ripping of a Fox Network animated series. Also, Disney only has the global public good in mind in all of business they partake in.
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Technology Woes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal
The core of the problem is not DRM it's the way DRM is handled.
If I buy a paper based book it's mine. I can read it, lend it to a friend, quote from it in my writing (attributing the source), or leave it on the public transit for someone else to read.
Digital media should be the same. How about having all of the media in one common format and you can copy to and from any device. There just has to be a DRM code number to enter for the eBook that is registered to you and can be transferred to another user.
There should also be a way to not allow the seller to delete your cop like Amazon did to Orwell's 1984 on Kindles.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html
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Re: Copyright and Profit
It's not this that is of concern here, it is the loss of knowledge or, more importantly, the ideas that are being lost. Nazi Germany's first efforts were to remove any ideas other than their own simplistic lies. Chairman Mao ordered all the intellectuals into the countryside to dig and farm or be imprisoned and executed. We now are losing ideas to due to indifference to anything but profit. I personally really like to have money and am not about to support a call for a sort of "copy anything you want" utopia. But seeing the cultural record disintegrate is hard to take. I've been witnessing this for decades. A loss of ideas is a loss of freedoms.
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Re: In summary
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Re: Selfish
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Off the topic: This is a public forum and you are allowed to speak your mind but you're being dismissive and obtuse. Try to be constructive and persuasive instead.
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History and Culture Can Not be Left to the Copyright Holder
Ted Turner has saved much of the old nitrate films by buying all of those old classics and remastering them for his successful TCM network. I's good that he could
see the value of old works. However, his efforts are restricted to Hollywood, what have we lost from the 1920's school of French surrealism? We did lose part of Fritz Lang's brilliant 1927 'Metropolis' but, because the copyright expired in 1953 there was an effort to find and reconstruct the film and it was announced they has found most of the original and Turner is going to show it in 2010 (hopefully) with the original score.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)#Restorations_and_re-releases
If the copyright was still in play this would all not be possible and the mother of all science fiction movies would have been lost forever. I believe 'Avatar' will be gone in 83 years. A DVD only lasts a few to a maximum of about 20 years (about 40 minutes on the dash of a car on a hot day). Don't argue with my estimates. I have been using using CD's since the 1980's and some of my earlier music and computer data is not recoverable. DVD technology is even less robust. Don't look for Blueray to be any better.
Johnnie Carson once complained that NBC had destroyed much of the original Tonight Show recordings. He said it wasn't all brilliant television, but it was part of American culture.
Recently, NASA erased the moon landing recordings:
"An exhaustive, three-year search for some tapes that contained the original footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk has concluded that they were probably destroyed during a period when NASA was erasing old magnetic tapes and reusing them to record satellite data."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106637066
I am certain that this mindless corporate and government behavior is repeated often everywhere in the world. They are carrying out the actions of the firemen in F 451 every day.
I can understand corporations and individuals wanting to maximize profits from a creative investment but without the public or (as in Gilliam's case) private involvement I can see much of our collective past being lost.
Perhaps the best solution is to enact a global law that requires all copyrighted works to be kept by the holders in a fail safe archive and if they refuse to pay for the storage the work goes public.
I only write technical material and may never get around to typing out the novel or two I have in mind, but this article has convinced me to call my lawyer next week and make sure my will clearly states that anything I wrote becomes public domain upon my death. Otherwise, my death may be the final word of me.
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Self Inflicted Wounds
I would to sue these mouth breather, over volume players for making the rest of us suffer the incredibly obnoxious and substandard music being pounded through our skulls twice a day.
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Re: this isn't about security theatre
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I dislike that attitude. Going the easy and cheap route is why GM is still nearly bankrupt and is getting more bailout money (for GMAC). It's indicative of the lazy and corrupt corporate culture that creates much of the problems facing the world.
So, what is the cost effective ratio of blown up aircraft to security expenditure?
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Re: this is why i dont trust TSA
See:
Why Have 67,000 TSA Employees Left Their Jobs?
http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=1778
It's hard to say if it's your father or brother who is the lucky one. It sure isn't the air traveler or the country.
Israel is considered to have the among best airport security. They hire highly paid experts with special training in behavior analysis, profiling, interrogation, anti-terrorism, and martial arts/weapons.
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Re: invasive strip searches
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Re: DAMMIT!
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Re: Google and Foundem
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Google Objectiveness
Adam Raff and the New York Times seem to have established themselves as confirmed jack-asses.
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So, Make it That Copying isn't Stealing
The real issue here is is recognition and maintenance of the integrity of an author's authorship. I want to hire the guy(s) that came up with the original 'A' material, not the schmuck that sole it.
Burns was right. He was the big star, Reiner and Brooks were new guys, he was helping them become the next big stars.
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The Mini designer also made the seats purposely uncomfortable to keep the driver alert.
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