1. The oil eating bacteria patent will not help us clean up the gulf oil leak.
2. Living organism can be patented thanks to this patent and all I got was this lousy ability for biotech companies to block research of competitors who could come up with life saving medicines AND no solution for big oil leak clean up.
Are digital customers even the same as paper customers? I think they are different. If Marvel thinks even half of their paper customers are going to stop buying paper and start buying digital, I think they are dead wrong. Paper customers are collectors and admirers of physical media. Digital customers just want to be entertained. The digital versions should not cost more than paper versions, they should be free. In if retailers think their sales will decrease, f them, they are wrong anyway.
The irony here is that US Copyright Group could represents Time Warner's subsidiaries companies: Warner Bros. Music and Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. (film), and Wanrner Television. I think Wanrner wants to pick the lesser of two evils and allow some "inducement" so it does not find itself in trouble with it's own lawyers.
The problem here is that it is very easy to see an "exclusive right" to be the same as physical property right. Do to the nature of physical property, it rights have to be exclusive. So the semantic conclusion is exclusive = property. But this not how things work. The granting of exclusive rights to and idea by a government does not mean it turns into property wherein physical rights apply. Property should be thought of only as a physical, scarce good. Jefferson knew this when he said “He who receives an idea from me receives [it] without lessening mine, as he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening me.”
So a bunch of students support the views of telecoms, leave their site up supporting those views, and link to netcompetition.org, a lobbying group for the telecoms headed by Scott Cleland, a guy who loves to punch Google whenever he gets the chance.
The issue is so convoluted now. They are trying to reframe the legitimate neutrality we are all fans of as a regulation where the neutrality is guaranteed/enforced by the FCC or FTC. They are calling it "Obamacare for the Internet," "government takeover." This is not Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality is, for the most part, having everyone (ISPs, hosts, Google) not do anything differently than they are now.
I think the lead to this story is that Paul Bogaards lied to NPR. Importing a book from another country is not a violation of copyright law. The foreign publisher bought the rights to republish the book fair and square. Show me the section of copyright law that says import of a book that is not yet in the domestic marketplace is a violation. There is no such thing. It is a flat out lie.
I have not yet had a chance to read through all of the comments here yet, so excuse me if someone already made this point.
People are used to making MP3s from their CDs, tapes from their records, etc. Some cool labels sell records and then allow the free download of the tracks as MP3s.
One day, we will all own book scanning devices, probably similar to the automated page turning/systems/OCR systems Google probably uses for their book scanning program. We will feel entitled to rip all of our books into ebooks in this manner because we think it is more convenient, and we do not think it is unethical. These moral norms would take decades to change, and probably will not change in favor of monopolists.
To make the jump form book to movie and then say this too is ethical is not a fair analogy. These are not the same media.
What is the solution Mike? Another bureaucratic organization that will have jurisdiction over the internet that will be filled with telecom and content industry lobbyists? Mandates are meant to be expanded as communication technology changes.
I think the RIAA just made the argument: piracy is free payola.
And I think the RIAA has this set of conflicting beliefs:
• Payola has so much value it is illegal.
• Something is not right if a station does not want to play our members' music.
• Radio is a kind of piracy because we don't get all of the possible fees.
• The only kind of legal music promotion is membered sanctioned.
• There is no such thing as legitimate, non-sanctioned promotion because that is a performance in which we get a fee.
Since when did the RIAA become concerned with humanitarian causes? What about the humanitarian conditions of people like Brittany Kruger, Jamie Thomas, and Joel Tenenbaum?
Are you really a long time reader? If you were, you should remember this story. The other zinger of a quote was "If you had Coca-Cola coming through the faucet in your kitchen, how much would you be willing to pay for Coca-Cola? There you go. That's what happened to the record business." I guess he has not heard of bottled water. Here is Mike's original report on the story: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071127/011720.shtml
Maybe he means that the plastic will be around forever while his body is biodegradable, and thus the plastic discs are worth more because of this. Even if this is the truth, I don't see this as a compelling sales point. People want to care around less stuff and they want fewer plastics in the environment.
You are not giving very good reasons to buy in your examples, you are just being silly. I see from your blog roll that you are a fan of Seth Godin. Or, maybe not that much of a fan, because it seems you have not read his book Tribes, which pretty much says CwF+RtB. Here is more of Seth;s view of the music industry: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/02/music-vs-the-music-industry.html So, tell me you really are a fan of Seth but think Tribes was a terrible book.
"Look kid, there are a lot of dumb people out there, and your teachers and principals are no exception. They have been trained by Hollywood movies as to what a bomb looks like, and have probably never seen or heard of an electronic project kit. So, in the future, house your project in project box so that no one can see the wires or batteries."
The terrorists win again by making everyone unreasonably vigilante, resulting in possibly fewer kids experimenting with electronic kits, making us a less technically literate society, causing innovations to occur elsewhere.
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1. The oil eating bacteria patent will not help us clean up the gulf oil leak.
2. Living organism can be patented thanks to this patent and all I got was this lousy ability for biotech companies to block research of competitors who could come up with life saving medicines AND no solution for big oil leak clean up.
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On the post: US Copyright Group Says ISPs Who Don't Cough Up User Names May Be Guilty Of Inducing Copyright Infringement
On the post: How Many Bad Assumptions Can You Make In A Single Article About Content Creation And Copyright?
Re: Re: Re: Infinite Supply fallacy
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On the post: Net Neutrality Battle Gets Silly... Astroturfers, Sock Puppets, Student Projects, Overwritten Word Docs... Oh My
The issue is so convoluted now. They are trying to reframe the legitimate neutrality we are all fans of as a regulation where the neutrality is guaranteed/enforced by the FCC or FTC. They are calling it "Obamacare for the Internet," "government takeover." This is not Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality is, for the most part, having everyone (ISPs, hosts, Google) not do anything differently than they are now.
On the post: How Many Bad Assumptions Can You Make In A Single Article About Content Creation And Copyright?
On the post: USTR Continues To Lie: Claims ACTA Release Proved Internet Rumors About ACTA Were False
On the post: Publisher Warns Fans That Liking A Book Too Much May Be Illegal
Paul Bogaards lied to NPR
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On the post: Misguided Outrage At NY Times' Ethicist Over Ethics Of Downloading A Book
People are used to making MP3s from their CDs, tapes from their records, etc. Some cool labels sell records and then allow the free download of the tracks as MP3s.
One day, we will all own book scanning devices, probably similar to the automated page turning/systems/OCR systems Google probably uses for their book scanning program. We will feel entitled to rip all of our books into ebooks in this manner because we think it is more convenient, and we do not think it is unethical. These moral norms would take decades to change, and probably will not change in favor of monopolists.
To make the jump form book to movie and then say this too is ethical is not a fair analogy. These are not the same media.
On the post: Court Tells FCC It Has No Mandate To Enforce Net Neutrality (And That's A Good Thing)
On the post: Commerce Dept. Supports RIAA Bailout Radio Tax
And I think the RIAA has this set of conflicting beliefs:
• Payola has so much value it is illegal.
• Something is not right if a station does not want to play our members' music.
• Radio is a kind of piracy because we don't get all of the possible fees.
• The only kind of legal music promotion is membered sanctioned.
• There is no such thing as legitimate, non-sanctioned promotion because that is a performance in which we get a fee.
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On the post: Australian Censor Master Censors His Own Tagcloud To Hide Anger Over Censorship
var size = getTagClass(z);
//Customise the tag-cloud to display what shows up
if (unique[i] == "ISP Filtering")
{
continue;
}
On the post: Universal Music Gets A New CEO... Who Thinks CDs Are The Future
Re: UMG technology
Are you really a long time reader? If you were, you should remember this story. The other zinger of a quote was "If you had Coca-Cola coming through the faucet in your kitchen, how much would you be willing to pay for Coca-Cola? There you go. That's what happened to the record business." I guess he has not heard of bottled water. Here is Mike's original report on the story: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071127/011720.shtml
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On the post: Yes, If You Don't Do Anything, You Shouldn't Expect People To Just Give You Money
Re: Re: I'll keep posting examples.
You are not giving very good reasons to buy in your examples, you are just being silly. I see from your blog roll that you are a fan of Seth Godin. Or, maybe not that much of a fan, because it seems you have not read his book Tribes, which pretty much says CwF+RtB. Here is more of Seth;s view of the music industry: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/02/music-vs-the-music-industry.html So, tell me you really are a fan of Seth but think Tribes was a terrible book.
On the post: If School Officials Got Confused By Kid's Science Project, Why Does The Kid Need Counseling?
"Look kid, there are a lot of dumb people out there, and your teachers and principals are no exception. They have been trained by Hollywood movies as to what a bomb looks like, and have probably never seen or heard of an electronic project kit. So, in the future, house your project in project box so that no one can see the wires or batteries."
The terrorists win again by making everyone unreasonably vigilante, resulting in possibly fewer kids experimenting with electronic kits, making us a less technically literate society, causing innovations to occur elsewhere.
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