Many years ago there was a business model which collected things that other people said and republished them for profit without payment or attribution. It was called "newspapers".
What Google does here is just giving a taste, and pointing to the people who said it. I can totally see how that's unfair.
Just digging a hole across the street would cost $8K in permits and labor.
The claim that because Apple is next door anyone can get broadband is ridiculous. Apple no doubt has their own Tier 1 network drop and they don't have to share it. Comcast is the only option for much of the south bay, since AT&T advertises fiber but "doesn't yet serve your area" when you try to get it.
LTD is a PTMP provider. In Cupertino they would probably connect to a local Tier-2 or -3 network (which is available but not to the home) and set up wireless systems like those from Mimosa. So $8K would probably cover local permits, power, and a pole or two. I used a similar ISP in Santa Clara and was quite happy with it (and it was cheaper than LTD is advertising in rural Minnesota).
"in a work zone or school zone" could just mean an alarm and video record of people speeding through people in the road", to help the on-site law enforcement catch violators. Or it could be the good old ticket mill we know and loathe.
But "guidelines established by the Secretary" does seem like another way of saying "we'll change the rules when you stop watching".
I recently bought a house in a US city of ~100,000 people. My next-door neighbor has AT&T DSL, as did the previous owner of my house. AT&T (well, the person playing loud music in the background who handles their calls) tells me that they can't provide service to my address, because "the wires are old or something". There's a cable internet provider, but the nearest endpoint is 825 feet away (I measured it). They estimate it will cost me $4000 up front and "several months" to connect to my house. Those are my choices. Thanks, FCC.
Judge Alsup understood the issue. No one above him did. The Supremes recognized that something stupid was going on and stopped it, but for reasons that made sense to lawyers, not coders.
I've pondered a three-step process: 1. Register the work with the Library of Congress or equivalent, 2. Collect a fee on the sale of all writable media, 3. Distribute a percentage of that fee to the author of the work, based on how often it's shared or downloaded.
That last step needs some work, though. How would you track it? There are many preferred sources for digital goods - Amazon, publishers, Play Stores, Project Gutenberg - which would account for the majority of copies. Maybe they'd just publish their stats?
And you'd need some way to detect and discourage plagiarism or fraud, while still allowing derivative works. But if I was going to read a novel or a news article, I'd prefer to get the provably original version from a reliable source, and PKI works well for that. So that's probably not as big a challenge as trying to prevent all copying, which is what we have now.
It seems to me that Murdoch has adapted extremely well. He's made millions selling nonsense as "news" and now he has an entire government requiring people to pay him for the privilege of sending more business his way.
Obviously the patent examiner had never read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
"Yes, an electronic brain," said Frankie, "a simple one would suffice."
"A simple one!" wailed Aurthur.
"Yeah," said Zaphod with a sudden evil grin, "you'd just have to program it to say What? and I don't understand and Where's the tea? Who'd know the difference?"
Fine. Pass a law making ISPs common carriers, just like the phone company. They don't listen in, they don't care what you say or who you call. [That's the NSA's job].
Then whoever wants to spew nonsense of any sort can set up their own server and host it themselves. Of course, you won't get a large audience unless you can pay for a lot of bandwidth. So perhaps other companies could spread your message to whoever wanted to see it. But they'd need to be paid too, so they'd probably charge a lot or accept paid advertising. But they'd be aggregators or hosting providers, not common carriers. So when they spread someone's content that causes them to lose advertisers or that violates their terms of service and they drop it, you're back to hosting it yourself.
The only difference from now is that ISPs aren't common carriers, so they can say no right away.
Yes, that's the correct term. "Cyber" is a word used exclusively by people in government to let everyone know that they don't understand how computers work.
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(sorry, hit Enter accidentally or something)
I was trying to say that this idea isn't new.
Many years ago there was a business model which collected things that other people said and republished them for profit without payment or attribution. It was called "newspapers".
What Google does here is just giving a taste, and pointing to the people who said it. I can totally see how that's unfair.
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This isn
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Re: Next week on Bloomberg: Is the earth really round? You decid
Which newspapers are the serious ones, again? I can't remember.
Knoll's Law seems to be living up to its claims.
And it is journalists' job to decide what the truth is. We just don't have very many of those anymore.
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Re: Someone doth protest too much...
... and we've advised our workers that they'd better not answer that question because, uh, reasons.
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Re:
Just digging a hole across the street would cost $8K in permits and labor.
The claim that because Apple is next door anyone can get broadband is ridiculous. Apple no doubt has their own Tier 1 network drop and they don't have to share it. Comcast is the only option for much of the south bay, since AT&T advertises fiber but "doesn't yet serve your area" when you try to get it.
LTD is a PTMP provider. In Cupertino they would probably connect to a local Tier-2 or -3 network (which is available but not to the home) and set up wireless systems like those from Mimosa. So $8K would probably cover local permits, power, and a pole or two. I used a similar ISP in Santa Clara and was quite happy with it (and it was cheaper than LTD is advertising in rural Minnesota).
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Hard to tell from here, but it does smell a bit
It depends on the final details.
"in a work zone or school zone" could just mean an alarm and video record of people speeding through people in the road", to help the on-site law enforcement catch violators. Or it could be the good old ticket mill we know and loathe.
But "guidelines established by the Secretary" does seem like another way of saying "we'll change the rules when you stop watching".
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I think maybe this should apply to ISPs, not web sites.
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Will It Turn Against The Internet?
No, but it will not allow MGM content to be paused, so that we'll have to pee in bottles while binge-watching, instead of taking bathroom breaks.
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Re: Re:
I cannot tell a lie. I published that paper under all the garbage.
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No broadband at all
I recently bought a house in a US city of ~100,000 people. My next-door neighbor has AT&T DSL, as did the previous owner of my house. AT&T (well, the person playing loud music in the background who handles their calls) tells me that they can't provide service to my address, because "the wires are old or something". There's a cable internet provider, but the nearest endpoint is 825 feet away (I measured it). They estimate it will cost me $4000 up front and "several months" to connect to my house. Those are my choices. Thanks, FCC.
On the post: Supreme Court Sides With Google In Decade-Long Fight Over API Copyright; Google's Copying Of Java API Is Fair Use
Not a catastrophe
Judge Alsup understood the issue. No one above him did. The Supremes recognized that something stupid was going on and stopped it, but for reasons that made sense to lawyers, not coders.
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I got my first covid vaccine dose last week, and my 5G reception has never been better!
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Re: sparkling consequences
How many times are you going to win the funniest comment of the week?
Congrats in advance, Stephen!
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Re: first sale doctrine?
I've pondered a three-step process: 1. Register the work with the Library of Congress or equivalent, 2. Collect a fee on the sale of all writable media, 3. Distribute a percentage of that fee to the author of the work, based on how often it's shared or downloaded.
That last step needs some work, though. How would you track it? There are many preferred sources for digital goods - Amazon, publishers, Play Stores, Project Gutenberg - which would account for the majority of copies. Maybe they'd just publish their stats?
And you'd need some way to detect and discourage plagiarism or fraud, while still allowing derivative works. But if I was going to read a novel or a news article, I'd prefer to get the provably original version from a reliable source, and PKI works well for that. So that's probably not as big a challenge as trying to prevent all copying, which is what we have now.
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For failing to adapt to a changing market?
It seems to me that Murdoch has adapted extremely well. He's made millions selling nonsense as "news" and now he has an entire government requiring people to pay him for the privilege of sending more business his way.
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prior art
Obviously the patent examiner had never read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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Re: A look at the near future…
Australian Government: [image not found]
/FTFY
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Re: network neutrality
Fine. Pass a law making ISPs common carriers, just like the phone company. They don't listen in, they don't care what you say or who you call. [That's the NSA's job].
Then whoever wants to spew nonsense of any sort can set up their own server and host it themselves. Of course, you won't get a large audience unless you can pay for a lot of bandwidth. So perhaps other companies could spread your message to whoever wanted to see it. But they'd need to be paid too, so they'd probably charge a lot or accept paid advertising. But they'd be aggregators or hosting providers, not common carriers. So when they spread someone's content that causes them to lose advertisers or that violates their terms of service and they drop it, you're back to hosting it yourself.
The only difference from now is that ISPs aren't common carriers, so they can say no right away.
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Re: Re:
I think they've put the coup before the hosts.
;-)
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Re:
Yes, that's the correct term. "Cyber" is a word used exclusively by people in government to let everyone know that they don't understand how computers work.
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