"If you work by analogy, you'd better be cerrtain that you have the right analogy, based on the particular economic conditions". "Take the area, for example, of scholarly libraries. The case for protection there is very weak. Why? Well, scholarly material will likely be produced without any protection".
The person from Elsevier spoke right after a federal judge arguing there should be no copyright at all on scholarly journals! He must have fainted.
I'm not assuming that they only use German, but surely a good part of them do, and the Austrian news are mostly written and consumed in German, so I'd expect any excess publicity on the case to produce its effects on German-speaking users who read the German Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia has too much traffic, and too little from Austria, so any effect would probably be impossible to distinguish from noise.
I'm not sure that "people in the medical and scientific fields " are the main demographic using LibGen, by the way. I didn't check what kind of German-language content they have though.
Maybe the German press is more disciplined about keeping the things quiet? Just as they immediately fell in line when Öttinger demanded that the press support his copyright directive and crush the popular opposition.
My thought exactly. If a black kid, after speeding on their newly bought bicycle, had been just one tenth as arrogant as Liebowitz here, they would have been sent to jail with no second thoughts, and if they cried too loudly about it they might also happen to be shot.
My thught exactly. If a black kid, after speeding on their newly bought bicycle, had been just one tenth as arrogant as Liebowitz here, they would have been sent to jail with no second thoughts, and if they cried too loudly about it they might also happen to be shot.
«According to The Times, a patent application has been filed by Microsoft for
a computer software that can monitor the employees’ performance and state,
by means of wireless sensors linking workers to their computers.» https://edri.org/edrigramnumber6-2spying-tools-microsoft/
Not to mention all the business with the military-surveillance industrial complex.
Re: But his Grandfather really *did* die..3 days before!
He was so shocked that he lost consciousness of time! Now he only needs to convince the officers that they came on the wrong day and the arrest is not due yet.
Of course they can't avoid having some Coca Cola when their money largely comes from Warren Buffett and shares of Berkshire, whose entire theory of investment is based on "moats".
Yet, the Gates foundation appeares to promote so called "intellectual property" by encouraging inventors to use it "properly": http://globalaccess.gatesfoundation.org/
So, after the Monsanto debacle a few questions remain.
1) Is the Gates foundation still investing in/profiting from companies which profit from making people more ill?
2) Is there any evidence of the Gates foundation using one of its (licenses to) patents to expand affordable access somewhere?
3) Did the Gates foundation oppose or support EFF's initiative "Reclaim Invention" and Public Interest Patent Pledge/PIPP https://www.eff.org/reclaim-invention/pledge ?
4) Did the Gates foundation oppose or support efforts such as the compulsory licensing scheme in India, which faced oppositions and blackmailing from multinationals for decades and finally issued its first compulsory license in 2012 for a Bayer drug (Sorafenib)? https://www.ip-watch.org/2012/03/12/india-grants-first-compulsory-licence-for-bayer-cancer-drug/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#India
5) Did the Gates foundation ever support or oppose efforts to instate similar compulsory licensing schemes in the USA?
The EFF wrote in the early 2010s on https://trollingeffects.org/index9203.html?q=faq that "the average cost of defending a patent case all the way through trial approaches $2 million or more", is that figure an accurate estimate of the work involved in this case?
What kind of legal standing do you need to fight back? Cloudflare didn't try do invalidate the patents but only to make them easy to defend from with a database of prior art, right? https://www.cloudflare.com/blackbirdpatents/jengo/
You forgot the part where the computer you called over the phone connects to something else. It's described as a "secure drop off" by the Texas official in the video but it might be anything.
However, if Comcast complains so loudly, that's enough to convince me that it's probably a good move in terms of making life harder for at least one category of bad actors.
Chomsky in this books in the 1990s kept saying that where there is one the community is much more tight-knit and whatnot because they're only accountable to locals and not to some distant shareholder. I hope they did not all get bought out by Sinclair or other.
Radio still has the advantage of a very low marginal cost coupled with pervasiveness.
In Stuttgart, Germany, after investments into the road network in 1969, the traffic situation did not improve until a section of newly built road was closed for traffic again.
So the solution is not to change the apps but just to stop building roads and to close the existing ones (for cars). Strategically of course.
Re: George Smythe the plumber might very much prefer ...
No problem. The plumber website now only needs to have an "about" page which at the very end mentions in passing their acquittal from a certain accusation in year X, and then the page can be selected as the one and only legitimate first search result. For extra safety, in case someone looks for "plumber crime" and risks finding the older news, the page should be the first result for anyone searching "plumber" as well.
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Re: Will the Supremes Understand Copyright?
"If you work by analogy, you'd better be cerrtain that you have the right analogy, based on the particular economic conditions". "Take the area, for example, of scholarly libraries. The case for protection there is very weak. Why? Well, scholarly material will likely be produced without any protection".
The person from Elsevier spoke right after a federal judge arguing there should be no copyright at all on scholarly journals! He must have fainted.
Not to be outdone, the very next year Elsevier escalated the serials crisis, increasing the speed of price hikes by 300 %. "Prices have risen faster than inflation since the 1970's, and four times faster since 1986". https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4728931/suber_univactions.htm?sequence=1
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Re: Re: Not enough publicity
You are right, sorry. Here's the link for Austria:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&geo=AT&q=%2Fg%2F11bw7qx4t k,%2Fg%2F11bw82mb5j,LibGen
I'm not assuming that they only use German, but surely a good part of them do, and the Austrian news are mostly written and consumed in German, so I'd expect any excess publicity on the case to produce its effects on German-speaking users who read the German Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia has too much traffic, and too little from Austria, so any effect would probably be impossible to distinguish from noise.
I'm not sure that "people in the medical and scientific fields " are the main demographic using LibGen, by the way. I didn't check what kind of German-language content they have though.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Giant Publisher Macmillan Goes To War Against Li
Considering that for 87 % of professional writers (in UK) their main source of income is something other than writing, and a large majority get negligible amounts in royalties, statistically there is a very high chance that any author you write to has nothing to lose rom their publisher getting angry at them.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/27/publishers-pay-writers-pittance-philip-pullman-a ntony-beevor-sally-gardner
On the post: Elsevier Gets Sci-Hub And LibGen Blocked In Austria, Thereby Promoting The Use Of VPNs And Tor In The Country
Not enough publicity
So far the Streisand effect doesn't seem to be showing up in forces: barely any movement on the German Wikipedia pageviews.
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=de.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access& ;agent=user&start=2019-09-30&end=2019-11-17&pages=Sci-Hub|Library_Genesis
More or less stable in Google searches as well:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=DE&q=%2Fg%2F11bw7qx4tk,%2Fg%2F11bw82mb5j,LibG en
Maybe the German press is more disciplined about keeping the things quiet? Just as they immediately fell in line when Öttinger demanded that the press support his copyright directive and crush the popular opposition.
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Re: White privilege
My thought exactly. If a black kid, after speeding on their newly bought bicycle, had been just one tenth as arrogant as Liebowitz here, they would have been sent to jail with no second thoughts, and if they cried too loudly about it they might also happen to be shot.
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Re: Re: White privilege
Commented on the wrong page.
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Re: White privilege
My thught exactly. If a black kid, after speeding on their newly bought bicycle, had been just one tenth as arrogant as Liebowitz here, they would have been sent to jail with no second thoughts, and if they cried too loudly about it they might also happen to be shot.
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Re: Re: Giant Publisher Macmillan Goes To War Against Libraries
It would be interesting to contact all eligible authors to suggest that they exercise their right reversion, like:
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2019/11/12/rights-reversion-opening-classic-works-to-new-globa l-audiences/
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Microsoft is in the business of surveillance
Are you sure about that?
«According to The Times, a patent application has been filed by Microsoft for
a computer software that can monitor the employees’ performance and state,
by means of wireless sensors linking workers to their computers.»
https://edri.org/edrigramnumber6-2spying-tools-microsoft/
Not to mention all the business with the military-surveillance industrial complex.
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Microsoft products already declared illegal in EU
Competing on privacy? Yeah, sure:
https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/news/eu-institution-staff-unaware-of-microsof t-data-misuse-eu-data-chief-says/
On the post: Copyright Troll Lawyer Serves Up BS 'Dead Grandfather' Excuse For Missing Court; Now Facing Sanctions And Arrest
Re: But his Grandfather really *did* die..3 days before!
He was so shocked that he lost consciousness of time! Now he only needs to convince the officers that they came on the wrong day and the arrest is not due yet.
On the post: Bill Gates Foundation Investing In Monsanto?
What does the Gates foundation do with the patents it collects?
In 2013 the Gates foundation was still making some "curious" investments: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/12/gates-foundations-24-most-egregious-investments/
Of course they can't avoid having some Coca Cola when their money largely comes from Warren Buffett and shares of Berkshire, whose entire theory of investment is based on "moats".
On https://www.gatesfoundation.org/-/media/GFO/Who-We-Are/Financials/F_814061_18_BillMelindaGatesFounda tion_FS.ashx?la=en&hash=DC497C5BA4080637F79DCD76B89B541541DD108E to describe their investment strategy claim that «The majority of these equity investments [...] include investing in novel vaccine and therapeutic platforms, developing improved diagnostics, and strengthening agriculture and health delivery systems. The Foundation has also made equity investments in support of U.S. education.»
In other words they invest in the sectors of some of the worst profiteers, pharma, agri-business and private education?
From the most recent financial statements of the Trust https://www.gatesfoundation.org/-/media/GFO/Who-We-Are/Financials/F_814054_18_BillMelindaGatesFounda tionTrust_FS.ashx?la=en&hash=4B5B53FAF5C8452C333863FFAB94F696816ED99A they have some 12 G$ in Berkshire, plus 7 G$ in "industrials" and 5 G$ in "consumer goods" which might be anything. The MSCI World Industrials index has a market cap of less than 5 T$ https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/54b1293a-00fc-4bb9-8308-d03484f0c3db so Gates foundation may own some 0.1 % on average. Nobody seems to own as much of Bayer: https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/pinx/bayry/ownership
Yet, the Gates foundation appeares to promote so called "intellectual property" by encouraging inventors to use it "properly":
http://globalaccess.gatesfoundation.org/
They ask to receive a non-exclusive license, sublicenseable, and they don't exclude getting royalties for them. The apparent objective is to be able to grant "humanitarian licenses":
https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/Documents/Humanitarian-License-Nonbinding-FAQ.pdf
T hat can make sense: it's better if more entities have licenses and use them, unlike the NIH which funds inventions and then lets companies rip off the heathcare system: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101207/18030712173/nih-wont-let-others-supply-life-saving-drug-e ven-though-genzyme-cant-make-enough.shtml
Yet, Bill Gates appears to oppose the healthcare plan https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/paying-for-m4a which includes provisions for statutory licensing/compulsory licenses (the Medicare Negotiation and Competitive Licensing Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6505/text is mentioned)
So, after the Monsanto debacle a few questions remain.
1) Is the Gates foundation still investing in/profiting from companies which profit from making people more ill?
2) Is there any evidence of the Gates foundation using one of its (licenses to) patents to expand affordable access somewhere?
3) Did the Gates foundation oppose or support EFF's initiative "Reclaim Invention" and Public Interest Patent Pledge/PIPP https://www.eff.org/reclaim-invention/pledge ?
4) Did the Gates foundation oppose or support efforts such as the compulsory licensing scheme in India, which faced oppositions and blackmailing from multinationals for decades and finally issued its first compulsory license in 2012 for a Bayer drug (Sorafenib)? https://www.ip-watch.org/2012/03/12/india-grants-first-compulsory-licence-for-bayer-cancer-drug/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#India
5) Did the Gates foundation ever support or oppose efforts to instate similar compulsory licensing schemes in the USA?
On the post: Cloudflare Explains What It Takes To Slay A Patent Troll
How to replicate and destroy more trolls?
The EFF wrote in the early 2010s on https://trollingeffects.org/index9203.html?q=faq that "the average cost of defending a patent case all the way through trial approaches $2 million or more", is that figure an accurate estimate of the work involved in this case?
What kind of legal standing do you need to fight back? Cloudflare didn't try do invalidate the patents but only to make them easy to defend from with a database of prior art, right? https://www.cloudflare.com/blackbirdpatents/jengo/
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Re: A tiny quibble
You forgot the part where the computer you called over the phone connects to something else. It's described as a "secure drop off" by the Texas official in the video but it might be anything.
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The president said the truth
Now, you can't say that often. I did learn something new from the video!
https://youtu.be/svEuG_ekNT0?t=1064
On the post: Comcast Insists It's An Innocent Little Daisy On Consumer Privacy
One clear benefit
There are various arguments to be made on default DNS-over-HTTPS:
https://blog.apnic.net/2019/10/03/opinion-centralized-doh-is-bad-for-privacy-in-2019 -and-beyond/
However, if Comcast complains so loudly, that's enough to convince me that it's probably a good move in terms of making life harder for at least one category of bad actors.
On the post: Google And Facebook Didn't Kill Newspapers: The Internet Did
Local and community radio
Is local radio still a thing in USA?
Chomsky in this books in the 1990s kept saying that where there is one the community is much more tight-knit and whatnot because they're only accountable to locals and not to some distant shareholder. I hope they did not all get bought out by Sinclair or other.
Radio still has the advantage of a very low marginal cost coupled with pervasiveness.
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Re: Braess's Paradox
So the solution is not to change the apps but just to stop building roads and to close the existing ones (for cars). Strategically of course.
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Re: George Smythe the plumber might very much prefer ...
No problem. The plumber website now only needs to have an "about" page which at the very end mentions in passing their acquittal from a certain accusation in year X, and then the page can be selected as the one and only legitimate first search result. For extra safety, in case someone looks for "plumber crime" and risks finding the older news, the page should be the first result for anyone searching "plumber" as well.
On the post: Thinking Of Privacy As A Property Right Will End Badly
Pamela Samuelson on privacy as property
Now Pamela Samuelson too:
https://twitter.com/PamelaSamuelson/status/11762 12213536821249
The linked article is from 1997. She was probably telling the same to Lessig back in 1999 too, and Lessig changed mind.
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