Re: why not? Google expects the artists to work for free?
Google doesn't compensate the creators when it sells ads next to their work. You would think they would at least help out.
Let's say this ad hom were true (it's not, every artist's site gets paid for activity on the ads it hosts). How would this be relevant to RIAA's begging? The RIAA are not artists, they are a trade group protecting the 'holdings' of a middle-man industry which is rapidly being outmoded by technology. Big difference.
Artists no longer need a middle man. That's what the protectionists (mercantilists) are really in an uproar about. Independents actually have a chance at standing on their own again.
Hate to say it, especially as a former copyright supporter, but "death to copyright" is catching on quick as a concept these days. This is not to say that MM is all about IP FUD, you can read through this blog (not the comments so much) and see that.
If they honestly care about the system at all, copyright supporters should distance themselves from the popular "enforcement" discussions (such as ACTA, Hadopi, the U.K.'s DEA) and demand the discussion change back to sensible copyright reform for the modern era.
One cannot expect to secure one's rights by taking away the rights of another without making some new enemies. As I see it, the only possible way to stop the de facto death of copyright (by practice, not law) is to stop ACTA, Hadopi, Britain's DEA, the Copyright and Counterfeit bill, and all other heads of this hydra that might spring up.
Enforcement should not enable censorship, abuse of due process, further gutting of the 1st and 4th amendment, non-participatory infringement or regulatory capture. These methods are certain death for copyright.
Wait...isn't copyright infringement void if it is done solely for educational or referential reasons?
Oh it's that kind of copyright they are somehow entitled to beg money for in general. It sure the hell looks like they are selling rights to use a copier someone else bought.
To get around this ethical problem, I attach the actual CD to my iPod with rubber bands whenever I listen to songs from that CD. Yes, it's time consuming and a royal pain in the butt, but it makes me feel good inside.
That's exactly the kind of initiative it takes to be an Eagle!
On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the RIAA Law;
Clearly Bill Gates is a Templar bent on using multiple Windows OS's to gather enough information and power to take over the world, bringing about Revelations and damnation for all....
Why didn't I guess this already? Of course the Rapture will be a Windows application. Duh!
is there anyone here who can see some modicum of merit to the positions adopted by people who are against unauthorized distribution via the internet?
Personally, I do think mass usage by an individual who contributes nothing back to be greedy and disrespectful to creators, especially with those who could pay for what they use.
However I do not feel that the existing 'middle man' industry of copyright ownership and exploitation is worth giving up freedoms to save. Plain and simple. Some of these industries (like RIAA players) might have a little more sympathy from me if their industry had not spent the last century locking out most creators and ripping off the rest. Even if they had represented artists, however, I feel I would not be supportive of writing 'dinosaur crossing' laws to lock out new industries.
Regulatory capture is regulatory capture, no matter how you write it.
I can agree with none of the positions where the remedies consist of limiting due process, unbridled censorship or stifling economic progress.
I realize we're talking about a mayor in a "podunk" town in the middle of nowhere, not unlike Chicago, but with fewer people. However the unfortunate fact remains that every mayor has instant access to the town Councils and to their city (or county) District Attorneys. The problem with ignoring small town stupidity (favoring large town stupidity) is that a dangerous precedent (in ordinance or court decision) can just as easily, perhaps even more readily be made in a rural area as it can in a cluster fuck of a big city.
Call them sheltered or ignorant if you must, but you can be sure big city mayors are not above taking "a good idea" from their "farm country" counterparts.
Having lived in many environments, my experience gives me the opinion that there are at least as many idiots per capita in urban areas as there are anywhere else. Like everyone else, they just stand out more in the country.
These people have problems agreeing on new technologies to make their lives easier, how is the government going to convince them to take down a system that's making them so much money?
Putting aside the technical complexities involved with making an effective "Internetz kill switch for terrorist attacks, parental uprisings and escaped truths" which you have put in a nutshell pretty well, I think I know the answer to that last question...
Yup I definitely liked(and at the time I believe it was still in progress, limited editing). That's a pretty dark universe you were setting up, so I didn't come away with a rainbows and butterflies feeling, as you might expect. But now I've got to know just how phreaky the mayor's daughter really is... I'll be buying your book.
I feel like I missed the DH Unmasked (again) Party.
Interesting... from the looks of your latest post, you are now dabbling in crowdsourcing as well crowdfunding. Very curious to see what comes out of that. (I read the first chapter of Midwasteland some months ago when you put it up on the blog).
Search engines such as Google would not break into a sweat. Torrent sites that may be located in the US would have to stock up on Arid.
Oh, I see, it's the "evil protocol" protocol.
Am I to assume I should also break a sweat if I need to update my Warcraft client (or FFXIV), or my Linux distribution, or use any free (sustainably) public sharing mechanism?
To answer myself, no I should not break a sweat, because Congress cannot, and never has been able to keep up with technology. Congress should go ahead and start stroking their keepers by targeting protocols, as this country and its people need more innovation.
"No torrents" = better sharing technology than torrents.
Can't you see she hurts when her profit growth slows?
(Of course these self-entitled choads don't care that the median national income has been dropping since 2006, while the CPI keeps rising. She reckons she's entitled to be in that special percentile of greedy fucks at the top who helped drive the mean income up in the same time period.)
Context can be paramount to propriety. There is a malady I like to call "brainless drone syndrome" which can be diagnosed by the repeated act of impulsively projecting context based on some completely unrelated predisposition where no context understood.
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Re: Obama's conundrum
If he couldn't dance the DC Shuffle without imploding, he would never have made a big party ticket. Dichotomy is the root of politic.
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Re: Re:
On the post: Wait, So The RIAA Is Offended That Google Won't Do Work For Free?
Re: why not? Google expects the artists to work for free?
Let's say this ad hom were true (it's not, every artist's site gets paid for activity on the ads it hosts). How would this be relevant to RIAA's begging? The RIAA are not artists, they are a trade group protecting the 'holdings' of a middle-man industry which is rapidly being outmoded by technology. Big difference.
Artists no longer need a middle man. That's what the protectionists (mercantilists) are really in an uproar about. Independents actually have a chance at standing on their own again.
On the post: Could The Enterprise D Replica In Minecraft Be A Copyright Minefield?
Re: Re:
If they honestly care about the system at all, copyright supporters should distance themselves from the popular "enforcement" discussions (such as ACTA, Hadopi, the U.K.'s DEA) and demand the discussion change back to sensible copyright reform for the modern era.
One cannot expect to secure one's rights by taking away the rights of another without making some new enemies. As I see it, the only possible way to stop the de facto death of copyright (by practice, not law) is to stop ACTA, Hadopi, Britain's DEA, the Copyright and Counterfeit bill, and all other heads of this hydra that might spring up.
Enforcement should not enable censorship, abuse of due process, further gutting of the 1st and 4th amendment, non-participatory infringement or regulatory capture. These methods are certain death for copyright.
On the post: Wait, So The RIAA Is Offended That Google Won't Do Work For Free?
Re: I'm still waiting for the *free* lawyer service that's not court-appointed
Those who demand something for nothing will inevitably offer nothing for something.
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Re:
Oh it's that kind of copyright they are somehow entitled to beg money for in general. It sure the hell looks like they are selling rights to use a copier someone else bought.
On the post: Boy Scout Magazine Says Don't Listen To Legally Burned CDs, As They're Too Similar To Piracy
Re: Re:
That's exactly the kind of initiative it takes to be an Eagle!
FTFT
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Re: Re: Re:
Why didn't I guess this already? Of course the Rapture will be a Windows application. Duh!
On the post: Even Without COICA, White House Asking Registrars To Voluntarily Censor 'Infringing' Sites
Re:
Personally, I do think mass usage by an individual who contributes nothing back to be greedy and disrespectful to creators, especially with those who could pay for what they use.
However I do not feel that the existing 'middle man' industry of copyright ownership and exploitation is worth giving up freedoms to save. Plain and simple. Some of these industries (like RIAA players) might have a little more sympathy from me if their industry had not spent the last century locking out most creators and ripping off the rest. Even if they had represented artists, however, I feel I would not be supportive of writing 'dinosaur crossing' laws to lock out new industries.
Regulatory capture is regulatory capture, no matter how you write it.
I can agree with none of the positions where the remedies consist of limiting due process, unbridled censorship or stifling economic progress.
Mercantilism still sucks.
On the post: Illinois Mayor Claims Anonymous Bloggers No Different Than 9/11 Terrorists; Says Anonymity Is A First Amendment Challenge
Re: C'mon...
I realize we're talking about a mayor in a "podunk" town in the middle of nowhere, not unlike Chicago, but with fewer people. However the unfortunate fact remains that every mayor has instant access to the town Councils and to their city (or county) District Attorneys. The problem with ignoring small town stupidity (favoring large town stupidity) is that a dangerous precedent (in ordinance or court decision) can just as easily, perhaps even more readily be made in a rural area as it can in a cluster fuck of a big city.
Call them sheltered or ignorant if you must, but you can be sure big city mayors are not above taking "a good idea" from their "farm country" counterparts.
Having lived in many environments, my experience gives me the opinion that there are at least as many idiots per capita in urban areas as there are anywhere else. Like everyone else, they just stand out more in the country.
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Re: I hated that movie
Putting aside the technical complexities involved with making an effective "Internetz kill switch for terrorist attacks, parental uprisings and escaped truths" which you have put in a nutshell pretty well, I think I know the answer to that last question...
Bailouts!
On the post: Our Own Dark Helmet Shares Lessons From Crowdfunding Experiment
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Thank you everyone...
Doh! Stupid volatile RAM. That's what I get for rebooting.
Yes I did mean sister unless it turns out the mayor has a previously undisclosed, hotter, phreak daughter.
On the post: RIAA Claims That If COICA Isn't Passed, Americans Are 'Put At Risk'
Re: The icing on the cake.
On the post: Our Own Dark Helmet Shares Lessons From Crowdfunding Experiment
Re: Re: Re: Thank you everyone...
Yup I definitely liked(and at the time I believe it was still in progress, limited editing). That's a pretty dark universe you were setting up, so I didn't come away with a rainbows and butterflies feeling, as you might expect. But now I've got to know just how phreaky the mayor's daughter really is... I'll be buying your book.
Thanks for sharing!
On the post: Our Own Dark Helmet Shares Lessons From Crowdfunding Experiment
Re: Thank you everyone...
Interesting... from the looks of your latest post, you are now dabbling in crowdsourcing as well crowdfunding. Very curious to see what comes out of that. (I read the first chapter of Midwasteland some months ago when you put it up on the blog).
Oh, and ...
Spielberg
FTFY
Couldn't resist. :)
On the post: Patrick Leahy Against Internet Censorship In Other Countries, But All For It At Home
Re: Re: Re:
Oh, I see, it's the "evil protocol" protocol.
Am I to assume I should also break a sweat if I need to update my Warcraft client (or FFXIV), or my Linux distribution, or use any free (sustainably) public sharing mechanism?
To answer myself, no I should not break a sweat, because Congress cannot, and never has been able to keep up with technology. Congress should go ahead and start stroking their keepers by targeting protocols, as this country and its people need more innovation.
"No torrents" = better sharing technology than torrents.
On the post: Denial Of Service Attacks On RIAA & MPAA Are A Really Dumb Idea
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Where I work we call people with this ability "users".
If you can install an app, you can keep up with today's /b/
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Re: Classic Logical Fallacy
(Of course these self-entitled choads don't care that the median national income has been dropping since 2006, while the CPI keeps rising. She reckons she's entitled to be in that special percentile of greedy fucks at the top who helped drive the mean income up in the same time period.)
On the post: Police Misunderstand Internet Meme: Warn People About Pedobear
Re:
Context can be paramount to propriety. There is a malady I like to call "brainless drone syndrome" which can be diagnosed by the repeated act of impulsively projecting context based on some completely unrelated predisposition where no context understood.
Dumb cops are dumb. Nothing to see here.
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Re: copyfraud
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