exactly, thank you for this:
"Copyright infringement is as equal to jaywalking, littering, and not wearing your seatbelt."
spot on
EVEN IF we concede their laws in this area, it is the draconian enforcement and ruining of many lives over what is equivalent to jaywalking, for activity that has near ZERO 'harm' to society...
(in fact, it would be easier to argue the opposite case: that the draconian enforcement of antiquated copyright laws causes immeasurable harm to society for little/no gain...)
it is ONLY through the backroom machinations of the extortionist gatekeepers that their artificial monopoly on these industries remains in place...
these laws, trade agreements, etc have NOTHING to do with 'the greater good for the greatest number', and EVERYTHING to do with perpetuating a Mafia-style business 'model' for a small group of extortionists...
FOAD MAFIAA ! ! !
um, so you're going to have a webcam set up so we can watch you type all day ? ? ?
that'll be fun...
i joke...
in all seriousness...
okay, in partial seriousness, i find it difficult to envision how you 'share' this (mostly internal) creative process with people *other* than sharing the actual writing you do, and that seems fraught with problems...
otherwise, i seriously applaud your attitude and desire to create and connect in *some* manner. other than what inadequate outlets exist in the present system...
ps if you could work "MOTHERFUCKING EAGLES, bitchez!" in your screenplay, i would pay for that shit ! ! !
(heh! maybe *that* is your hook right there: have all your readers give lines they pay for you to assemble in some semi-coherent manner ! damn, i better patent that ! ! !)
like a previous commenter posted: we are reduced to voting for the korporate shill we hate the least; at least with the masnick/dh ticket we'll have some fun before daddy takes the t-bird away...
...is another man's challenger of the status quo...
*NOT* that there are not 'pure' trolls, but -more often than not- they are people who disagree vehemently, nothing wrong with that; in fact, that is what is 'right' with the openness of the inertnets...
as an aside (as others like ninja have commented on), i absolutely HATE crapcha; i have corrected vision, i can figure out puzzles better than most nekkid apes, yet i am CONSTANTLY stymied by retarded crapchas that are unreadable by man or machine...
*THAT* alone has stopped me from posting, visiting, or even buying crap from websites... when you go through 3-4-5 stupid fucking crapchas that are unreadable, i'm ready to strangle whoever invented the 'system'...
i had signed on with disqus some time ago thinking that *finally* we have a universal type of system where i don't have to sign up or get an 'account' or whatever, for a million web sites (slight exaggeration), but -instead of becoming a standard accepted 'everywhere'- i now have to sign up for a handful of *other* similar 'universal' services (plus farcebook, FOAD, zuck) in order to cover my bases...
pretty much sucks...
its almost as if gummints were to *serve* the people...
...what a concept ! ! !
you mean we could INVENT a system which formed a gummint to SERVE the 99% of real people, instead of slavishly following the dictates of the 1% of fictitious legal entities we call korporate persons ? ? ?
now, *who* would want such a system ? ? ?
(not the 'people' who actually count...)
in our little backwater, there is only ONE carrier who even has that service available, BUT it is for -literally- a couple block radius in town, NOWHERE else gets 50mbs, and you are LUCKY if you can get 3mbs...
your charming defense of a 50 mps WHICH DOES NOT EXIST for 90%+ of us is stupid... please smarten up...
yeah, stupid me, why would i want to pull unlimited electricity from the utilities... 10Kw Hours per month should be plenty for anyone...
*why* would anyone want virtually unlimited water supply coming into their house; 1000 gallons per month should be enough for anyone...
why would anyone want freedom, when they just stay within 5 miles of their home 99% of the time anyway...
dog damn, i hates me some telecommunications shills almost as much as i hate the telecommunications companies themselves...
...b-bu-but *you* stamping your feet and insisting what you say is right when it isn't, is, um, what exactly ? ? ?
i'm sorry your wrongheaded explanation doesn't comport with reality, but your repeated insistence that it is correct, does not bode well for a thing we call 'learning' on your part...
point the last: under the DerekCurrie skizzie of copywrongness, evidently we are totally dependent upon THE AUTHOR'S (rightsholders) interpretation of what *THEY* think constitutes 'fair use' ? ? ?
...and *that* makes sense -not to mention equity- to you ? ? ?
whale fail
do NOT let The They (tm) guilt-trip you into using YOUR resources to display THEIR ads...
Ad Block Plus is your friend...
(and Ghostery and NoScript, but ABP is a good start to stopping The They (tm) from taking over your machine, your experiences of the webiverse...
right, let's do away -as we are- with the pesky, quaint ole piece of hemp with ink spots on it, and simply outlaw all rights to peaceably assembly, petition our gummint, or otherwise cast a disparaging word on Empire...
...we'd all be safer and not inconvenienced by -you know- yucky people who actually believe in their rights, and *gasp* want to exercise them too ! ! !
the nerve ! ! !
(another authoritarian outed ! ! !
all in a day's work...)
1. you know, i'd be impressed by that argument IF i had even a microgram of respect for Big Pharma, who engage in rapacious behavior at every turn...
2. further, given that Big Pharma spends FAR MORE - i mean a LOT- on marketing bullshit than they do on actual R&D (with a LOT of marketing bullshit 'hidden' as R&D: 'research'), then i'm not too impressed by their herculean efforts...
3. not to mention, they piggy-back on TONS of research they semi-sponsor at PUBLIC universities, teaching hospitals, etc, who do Big Pharma's work/research with OUR public resources, THEN lock up all the research and results for Big Pharma's profit...
4. do i really have to unearth approximately 7 billion horror stories of Big Pharma bringing dangerous/toxic products to market, stiffing poor nations, locking up drugs that should fall out of patent by 're-purposing', etc, etc, etc...
in short, Big Pharma has ZERO goodwill, and an overall atrocious track record of screwing over the public for their profits...
please bear in mind that the sainted forefathers had quite a tussle amongst themselves over 'rights', simplistically speaking:
one faction did NOT want ANY rights specifically enumerated, since they felt (probably rightfully so, as it turns out), that future authoritarian types (like below-average joe), would insist that the literal words of the constitution and bill of rights constituted ALL of our 'rights'...
the other faction ALSO thought we had inalienable rights granted by our 'creator' (may his noodly appendages have a tomato-based meat sauce); BUT that we DID have to explicitly spell out *some* rights, otherwise they would be traduced...
BOTH sides wanted to ensure that the enumerated rights were NOT our complete and only set of rights, MERELY a small subset they wanted to ensure were codifed in law...
1. while the constitution is a fine document, not only does it have its flaws (anyone think they are 3/5ths of a human being ?), and not only didn't have to deal with many issues which arise because of new technologies, but i also do not worship at the altar of the almighty, 'infallible' forefathers...
2. having said that, they did a pretty good first draft, as well as allowing for changes as times changed...
3. however, as it happens with many/most laws: it isn't the words on the paper, it is the people charged with keeping us within those legal principles who determine what is/isn't adhered to...
(as andrew young once famously observed: the law is what 100 businessmen say it is.
*that* is the on-the-ground political reality...)
4. it ain't dead forefathers who concern me here, it is their 'descendants' who have weakened, watered-down, avoided, and -oftentimes- simply ignored any/all constitutional proscriptions...
for example, our right to not have unreasonable searches and seizures should NOT simply apply to our persons, houses and luggage, etc, as originally semi-defined; but EVERYTHING that has arisen in the meantime which *NOW* comprises 'our papers' etc...
that means WHATEVER the container is -a purse, a phone, a computer, an MP3 player, a storage locker, a cloud storage service, ANYTHING which houses OUR 'stuff' should be subject ot that same protection... whatever the form: actual paper, bits, or whatever...
instead, that 'right' has been chipped away and wished away based on nothing other than people in power being able to get away with it...
in other words, instead of strengthening our rights and updating them for new technologies, the new technologies have served as an excuse to erode our rights...
5. and, as a final bonus, just where is below-average joe on how we have simply ignored those bits of the constitution which are too onerous for 'our' (sic) gummint servants to follow...
i -for one- am now thinking the idea of 'no standing armies' makes a hell of a lot of sense... (not to mention monies)
where stand you on *that* little tidbit of 'strict constitutionalism' ? ? ?
yeah, thought so...
authoritarians are so predictable...
Re: Re: How about publishing as an Amazon's 99 cent books?
good on you ! ! !
only goes to show the unfortunate truth of 'no good deed goes unpunished'...
the point the author of the article made (was it mike ?) that it is nearly *impossible* to actually contact a humanoid at google is an issue that i find reprehensible...
there are FAR TOO MANY korporations who set up their systems to make it obvious they don't want their customers to contact them; WHAT does that say about them, their products/service, and our society ? ? ?
it says NO ONE gives a shit: "we overcharge you, we don't guarantee shit, we subject you to one-sided EULAs, now go the fuck away stupid customer"...
*THAT* is bidness in amerika...
recalls are good in theory, not so much in practice...
hell, The They (tm) buy regular elections, what is to stop them from buying recalls ? ? ?
(see, Wisconsin recall)
nope, its getting to the point where the system is so locked down, there is NO ALTERNATIVE but massive disruption to the system itself...
unless/until we overthrow the entrenched money-based system in politics, our 'votes' don't mean shit...
On the post: Hollywood Star Rosario Dawson Speaks Out Against Hollywood's 'Six Strikes' Plan
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A thought...
"Copyright infringement is as equal to jaywalking, littering, and not wearing your seatbelt."
spot on
EVEN IF we concede their laws in this area, it is the draconian enforcement and ruining of many lives over what is equivalent to jaywalking, for activity that has near ZERO 'harm' to society...
(in fact, it would be easier to argue the opposite case: that the draconian enforcement of antiquated copyright laws causes immeasurable harm to society for little/no gain...)
it is ONLY through the backroom machinations of the extortionist gatekeepers that their artificial monopoly on these industries remains in place...
these laws, trade agreements, etc have NOTHING to do with 'the greater good for the greatest number', and EVERYTHING to do with perpetuating a Mafia-style business 'model' for a small group of extortionists...
FOAD MAFIAA ! ! !
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Next Time Someone Suggests Piracy Will Kill Music, Remind Them That Music Survived The Last Ice Age
Re:
that'll be fun...
i joke...
in all seriousness...
okay, in partial seriousness, i find it difficult to envision how you 'share' this (mostly internal) creative process with people *other* than sharing the actual writing you do, and that seems fraught with problems...
otherwise, i seriously applaud your attitude and desire to create and connect in *some* manner. other than what inadequate outlets exist in the present system...
ps if you could work "MOTHERFUCKING EAGLES, bitchez!" in your screenplay, i would pay for that shit ! ! !
(heh! maybe *that* is your hook right there: have all your readers give lines they pay for you to assemble in some semi-coherent manner ! damn, i better patent that ! ! !)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: No, Mitt Romney Didn't Personally Hack Your Facebook
Re: Re: Re:
like a previous commenter posted: we are reduced to voting for the korporate shill we hate the least; at least with the masnick/dh ticket we'll have some fun before daddy takes the t-bird away...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Supreme Court Won't Hear Case On Legality Of Retroactive Immunity For Telcos
Re:
oh looky there! a circus ! ! !
ain't that interestin'...
oh, and
MOTHERFUCKING EAGLES, bitchez ! ! !
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: UK Continues To Criminalize Bad Taste And Stupidity In Online Postings
Re: Re: Vice versa?
'free speech' does NOT mean a person is only allowed to say what you -or the state- approves of...
to paraphrase chomsky: if you do not defend the right of your worst enemy to say the vilest things, then you are not for 'free speech'...
sorry, that is simply true; trying to wormtongue out of that is telling...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Fight Over Real Estate Listings Escalates As NeighborCity Counters Copyright Claims With Antitrust Accusations
gatekeepers, gatekeepers everywhere, but not a gate to keep...
(check your conscience at the door)
*of course* they don't want real, honest, and spot-on reviews of their 'services', 'cause that would point out how slimy they are...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Human Rights Group Deploys An 'Empathy Test' Captcha System To Help Sites Fend Off Trolls
one man's troll...
*NOT* that there are not 'pure' trolls, but -more often than not- they are people who disagree vehemently, nothing wrong with that; in fact, that is what is 'right' with the openness of the inertnets...
as an aside (as others like ninja have commented on), i absolutely HATE crapcha; i have corrected vision, i can figure out puzzles better than most nekkid apes, yet i am CONSTANTLY stymied by retarded crapchas that are unreadable by man or machine...
*THAT* alone has stopped me from posting, visiting, or even buying crap from websites... when you go through 3-4-5 stupid fucking crapchas that are unreadable, i'm ready to strangle whoever invented the 'system'...
i had signed on with disqus some time ago thinking that *finally* we have a universal type of system where i don't have to sign up or get an 'account' or whatever, for a million web sites (slight exaggeration), but -instead of becoming a standard accepted 'everywhere'- i now have to sign up for a handful of *other* similar 'universal' services (plus farcebook, FOAD, zuck) in order to cover my bases...
pretty much sucks...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Fighting Lack of Transparency And Engagement With Parliamentary Openness
its almost as if gummints were to *serve* the people...
you mean we could INVENT a system which formed a gummint to SERVE the 99% of real people, instead of slavishly following the dictates of the 1% of fictitious legal entities we call korporate persons ? ? ?
now, *who* would want such a system ? ? ?
(not the 'people' who actually count...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Time Warner Cable Suddenly Forced To Compete In Kansas City; Complains Google Has 'Unfair Advantage'
Re:
in what WORLD is 50 mps 'common' ? ? ?
in our little backwater, there is only ONE carrier who even has that service available, BUT it is for -literally- a couple block radius in town, NOWHERE else gets 50mbs, and you are LUCKY if you can get 3mbs...
your charming defense of a 50 mps WHICH DOES NOT EXIST for 90%+ of us is stupid... please smarten up...
yeah, stupid me, why would i want to pull unlimited electricity from the utilities... 10Kw Hours per month should be plenty for anyone...
*why* would anyone want virtually unlimited water supply coming into their house; 1000 gallons per month should be enough for anyone...
why would anyone want freedom, when they just stay within 5 miles of their home 99% of the time anyway...
dog damn, i hates me some telecommunications shills almost as much as i hate the telecommunications companies themselves...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Is It Really A Good Idea To Open A 'Mini' Patent Office Directly Within Cornell's NYC Tech Campus?
Re: Re: Re:
thanks for pointing out the obvious to the shill...
i was going to say ridiculous crap along the lines of:
'there have NEVER been as many MP3 players in the his story of the UNIVERSE until the last couple years; obviously, patents work...'
'there have NEVER been as much useless crap denuding our planet and filling up landfills faster than EVER; not *that* is progress ! ! !'
*snicker*
as it is, we human beans are NOT dealing with the consequences of unbridled growth, why do we need 'more' ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Copyright As Censorship: Author Removes Blog Post After Being Threatened For Quoting 4 Sentences
Re: Re: Re: References, Footnotes, Attribution
i'm sorry your wrongheaded explanation doesn't comport with reality, but your repeated insistence that it is correct, does not bode well for a thing we call 'learning' on your part...
point the last: under the DerekCurrie skizzie of copywrongness, evidently we are totally dependent upon THE AUTHOR'S (rightsholders) interpretation of what *THEY* think constitutes 'fair use' ? ? ?
...and *that* makes sense -not to mention equity- to you ? ? ?
whale fail
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Yes: Breaking Web Articles Into Multiple Pages Is A Pain
Re:
Ad Block Plus is your friend...
(and Ghostery and NoScript, but ABP is a good start to stopping The They (tm) from taking over your machine, your experiences of the webiverse...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Still All Talk: 19 Of 20 Presidential Cabinet Agencies Ignore Requirements Of The Freedom Of Information Act
wheeeeeee ! ! !
who's watching the watchers ? ? ?
well, the watchers are watching themselves, ain't they...
self-policing always ends well (for the police)...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: California Governor Vetoes Bill Barring Gov't From Turning Off Mobile Phone Service
Re: Re: Re:
...we'd all be safer and not inconvenienced by -you know- yucky people who actually believe in their rights, and *gasp* want to exercise them too ! ! !
the nerve ! ! !
(another authoritarian outed ! ! !
all in a day's work...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
On the post: Why It Could Make Sense To Get Rid Of Patents Entirely, Even If They Work In A Few Cases
Re: Re: Re: Re:
2. further, given that Big Pharma spends FAR MORE - i mean a LOT- on marketing bullshit than they do on actual R&D (with a LOT of marketing bullshit 'hidden' as R&D: 'research'), then i'm not too impressed by their herculean efforts...
3. not to mention, they piggy-back on TONS of research they semi-sponsor at PUBLIC universities, teaching hospitals, etc, who do Big Pharma's work/research with OUR public resources, THEN lock up all the research and results for Big Pharma's profit...
4. do i really have to unearth approximately 7 billion horror stories of Big Pharma bringing dangerous/toxic products to market, stiffing poor nations, locking up drugs that should fall out of patent by 're-purposing', etc, etc, etc...
in short, Big Pharma has ZERO goodwill, and an overall atrocious track record of screwing over the public for their profits...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Can We Kill The Myth That The Constitution Guarantees Copyrights And Patents?
Re:
one faction did NOT want ANY rights specifically enumerated, since they felt (probably rightfully so, as it turns out), that future authoritarian types (like below-average joe), would insist that the literal words of the constitution and bill of rights constituted ALL of our 'rights'...
the other faction ALSO thought we had inalienable rights granted by our 'creator' (may his noodly appendages have a tomato-based meat sauce); BUT that we DID have to explicitly spell out *some* rights, otherwise they would be traduced...
BOTH sides wanted to ensure that the enumerated rights were NOT our complete and only set of rights, MERELY a small subset they wanted to ensure were codifed in law...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Can We Kill The Myth That The Constitution Guarantees Copyrights And Patents?
Re:
1. while the constitution is a fine document, not only does it have its flaws (anyone think they are 3/5ths of a human being ?), and not only didn't have to deal with many issues which arise because of new technologies, but i also do not worship at the altar of the almighty, 'infallible' forefathers...
2. having said that, they did a pretty good first draft, as well as allowing for changes as times changed...
3. however, as it happens with many/most laws: it isn't the words on the paper, it is the people charged with keeping us within those legal principles who determine what is/isn't adhered to...
(as andrew young once famously observed: the law is what 100 businessmen say it is.
*that* is the on-the-ground political reality...)
4. it ain't dead forefathers who concern me here, it is their 'descendants' who have weakened, watered-down, avoided, and -oftentimes- simply ignored any/all constitutional proscriptions...
for example, our right to not have unreasonable searches and seizures should NOT simply apply to our persons, houses and luggage, etc, as originally semi-defined; but EVERYTHING that has arisen in the meantime which *NOW* comprises 'our papers' etc...
that means WHATEVER the container is -a purse, a phone, a computer, an MP3 player, a storage locker, a cloud storage service, ANYTHING which houses OUR 'stuff' should be subject ot that same protection... whatever the form: actual paper, bits, or whatever...
instead, that 'right' has been chipped away and wished away based on nothing other than people in power being able to get away with it...
in other words, instead of strengthening our rights and updating them for new technologies, the new technologies have served as an excuse to erode our rights...
5. and, as a final bonus, just where is below-average joe on how we have simply ignored those bits of the constitution which are too onerous for 'our' (sic) gummint servants to follow...
i -for one- am now thinking the idea of 'no standing armies' makes a hell of a lot of sense... (not to mention monies)
where stand you on *that* little tidbit of 'strict constitutionalism' ? ? ?
yeah, thought so...
authoritarians are so predictable...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Why Everyone Should Care About DRM's Punishment Of The Visually Impaired
only fitting...
although, justice can see money well enough...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Google's Copyright Crackdown Punishes Author For Torrenting His Own Book
Re: Re: How about publishing as an Amazon's 99 cent books?
only goes to show the unfortunate truth of 'no good deed goes unpunished'...
the point the author of the article made (was it mike ?) that it is nearly *impossible* to actually contact a humanoid at google is an issue that i find reprehensible...
there are FAR TOO MANY korporations who set up their systems to make it obvious they don't want their customers to contact them; WHAT does that say about them, their products/service, and our society ? ? ?
it says NO ONE gives a shit: "we overcharge you, we don't guarantee shit, we subject you to one-sided EULAs, now go the fuck away stupid customer"...
*THAT* is bidness in amerika...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Texas Municipal Officials Fight 'Open Meeting Act,' Get Shot Down By Fifth Circuit Court
Re:
hell, The They (tm) buy regular elections, what is to stop them from buying recalls ? ? ?
(see, Wisconsin recall)
nope, its getting to the point where the system is so locked down, there is NO ALTERNATIVE but massive disruption to the system itself...
unless/until we overthrow the entrenched money-based system in politics, our 'votes' don't mean shit...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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