Dear RIAA: Convert the music on those records into convenient, downloadable mp3 format, and you won't have to worry about the MPAA's motion pictures breaking records.
I'm not sure what can be done about the other kind of record breaking motion pictures. Specifically, the kind of motion pictures that are so bad that you are enraged at how much you paid to see an overhyped movie, and resort to breaking records to express your frustration.
Finally, if we are talking about movies bringing in money which exceeds that of past box office receipts, then someone should be screaming about Hollywood Accounting.
Photos are a slippery slope. It starts with one person taking a photo of their food. Then they share it with their friends. Before you know it that food is being bittorrented and downloaded all over the planet, putting the chef out of business.
Imagine if a famous chef's food could be cheaply duplicated and sold at low prices by copycats.
* Shaving cream looks similar to whipped cream. * Wax fruits and vegetables can look better than the real thing. * That steaming hot sizzling look can be replicated with bits of dry ice. * And many other techniques used to create the beautiful food pictured on the overhead menus at your local McFastFood place.
If a cheap copycat made food using techniques like this to replicate a fantastic appearance, they would steal all of the business from the famous chef!
If an image (sacred or not) is generated by purely mechanical means, such as a spirograph or similar device, then it is NOT eligible for copyright. It doesn't meet the requirement of creativity. It doesn't need to have much creativity. Just some. This has none.
No. You cannot claim that your parameter settings of the spirograph wheels, or other mechanical initialization is creative. Someone could come up with the same settings just by playing around, by accident, or by results of a random number generator to set the initial values.
Suppose someone invented a new kind of office safe. One that was indestructible and impenetrable.
It would keep your stuff really safe! It would sell well. Banks and all kinds of other users would love it. It would be a true benefit to society.
According to the government...
Everyone using this new safe is now providing Material Support to ISIS and should be prosecuted accordingly.
The inventor of this new safe should be hanged for treason.
Safe makers should be smart enough to create a magical Golden Key embedded with pure ground unicorn horn particles. This golden key would open all safes -- because the government would mandate that safes use special locks that open when presented with the Golden Key.
But this Golden Key does not compromise all security of everyone everywhere, because, Trust Us, we'll make sure nobody misuses the golden key. And of course ISIS or the Chinese won't be able to create their own copy of the Golden Key that works just as good as the original at opening all safes everywhere.
I would agree, if you mean that someone should not deliberately cause him to get wrongly raided by police while he is on vacation. Nobody should do that.
Otherwise, I have to agree with the original poster that it WOULD be ironic justice and possibly even hilarious if he were to be wrongly raided by police while on his vacation. Yes, it would be.
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This has to stop.
Imagine if every consumer product were spying on how you use it?
And I mean the IoT. (Intarwebtubes of Things)
Your LED bulbs. Your toaster. Your refrigerator. Your TV. Your DVD player. Your car.
Imagine someone *cough* NSA *cough* being able to gather that data from all the various product manufacturers and then build up a highly detailed profile of every person's life. Just how much could they learn? When you move from room to room in your house. What entertainment you watch. What music you listen to. When, where, and how fast you drive.
The privacy violation is vastly unimaginable.
But it slowly creeps in. One appliance, one device at a time.
Yeah, that assumption is so basic. I take it for granted that hardware does what it is supposed to do. Also the firmware. But you're right. I should have thought of that.
OTOH, consider.
It would be difficult enough to modify firmware to compromise one of several well known OSes. Difficult to impossible to compromise an unknown OS.
It would be much harder to modify hardware to compromise even a well known OS. Although hardware could substitute in different firmware momentarily. Or have something like a 'micro firmware' that recognizes when a known OS is being loaded. Such compromised hardware would need a fair amount of storage built in.
Which hardware component would be compromised? The motherboard? The microprocessor? Maybe a major chipset that handles much of the IO? As I think about it, a chipset that is used across many major motherboards, and might easily have room for a bit of extra storage, might be an ideal location to sit in between the processor, memory and IO.
Open hardware has not gained nearly the traction as open source software.
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Solutions to Record Breaking motion pictures
I'm not sure what can be done about the other kind of record breaking motion pictures. Specifically, the kind of motion pictures that are so bad that you are enraged at how much you paid to see an overhyped movie, and resort to breaking records to express your frustration.
Finally, if we are talking about movies bringing in money which exceeds that of past box office receipts, then someone should be screaming about Hollywood Accounting.
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Re: Flawed Logic
Maybe it's a plan to make the world free of photographs.
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We must stop copycats
* Shaving cream looks similar to whipped cream.
* Wax fruits and vegetables can look better than the real thing.
* That steaming hot sizzling look can be replicated with bits of dry ice.
* And many other techniques used to create the beautiful food pictured on the overhead menus at your local McFastFood place.
If a cheap copycat made food using techniques like this to replicate a fantastic appearance, they would steal all of the business from the famous chef!
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Mecanically Generated sacred geometry
No. You cannot claim that your parameter settings of the spirograph wheels, or other mechanical initialization is creative. Someone could come up with the same settings just by playing around, by accident, or by results of a random number generator to set the initial values.
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Was this your handwriting?
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It's just another anomaly
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Material Support
It would keep your stuff really safe! It would sell well. Banks and all kinds of other users would love it. It would be a true benefit to society.
According to the government...
Everyone using this new safe is now providing Material Support to ISIS and should be prosecuted accordingly.
The inventor of this new safe should be hanged for treason.
Safe makers should be smart enough to create a magical Golden Key embedded with pure ground unicorn horn particles. This golden key would open all safes -- because the government would mandate that safes use special locks that open when presented with the Golden Key.
But this Golden Key does not compromise all security of everyone everywhere, because, Trust Us, we'll make sure nobody misuses the golden key. And of course ISIS or the Chinese won't be able to create their own copy of the Golden Key that works just as good as the original at opening all safes everywhere.
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That depends on what you mean.
I would agree, if you mean that someone should not deliberately cause him to get wrongly raided by police while he is on vacation. Nobody should do that.
Otherwise, I have to agree with the original poster that it WOULD be ironic justice and possibly even hilarious if he were to be wrongly raided by police while on his vacation. Yes, it would be.
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Not if it is made illegal. Maybe with jail time.
Once it is illegal only the 'developers' who are hackers and/or employed by scammers will do this.
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Re: It's Time for us Peaons to talk to our Gov'm'nt Representives
Imagine if every consumer product were spying on how you use it?
And I mean the IoT. (Intarwebtubes of Things)
Your LED bulbs. Your toaster. Your refrigerator. Your TV. Your DVD player. Your car.
Imagine someone *cough* NSA *cough* being able to gather that data from all the various product manufacturers and then build up a highly detailed profile of every person's life. Just how much could they learn? When you move from room to room in your house. What entertainment you watch. What music you listen to. When, where, and how fast you drive.
The privacy violation is vastly unimaginable.
But it slowly creeps in. One appliance, one device at a time.
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I don't want any ads from anyone
That's why I pay for Prime.
That's why I DO NOT pay for Hulu.
There is also an amazing amount of useful things to watch on . . . YouTube. Lectures. Tutorials. News Vlogs on specific subjects. Etc.
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Promisary Estoppel?
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The dumb bad guys
Only the Good Guys will have weak backdoored cryptography to make the Bad Guys* jobs easier.
* also meaning the government big brother snoops
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OTOH, consider.
It would be difficult enough to modify firmware to compromise one of several well known OSes. Difficult to impossible to compromise an unknown OS.
It would be much harder to modify hardware to compromise even a well known OS. Although hardware could substitute in different firmware momentarily. Or have something like a 'micro firmware' that recognizes when a known OS is being loaded. Such compromised hardware would need a fair amount of storage built in.
Which hardware component would be compromised? The motherboard? The microprocessor? Maybe a major chipset that handles much of the IO? As I think about it, a chipset that is used across many major motherboards, and might easily have room for a bit of extra storage, might be an ideal location to sit in between the processor, memory and IO.
Open hardware has not gained nearly the traction as open source software.
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"large scale" distribution is a slippery definition. And lawyers, MBAs, and especially the MPAA/RIAA are slippery with definitions.
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Limited market for the patent holder
In Texas it is illegal to have more than six dildos per household.
In Arizona it is illegal to have more than two.
You can google it yourself, but here is one source as an example.
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