If you can't see the potential for abuse here, then you shouldn't be sitting at a computer in the comfort of your own home trolling EVERY FUCKING ARTICLE Techdirt writes with your anti-freedom anti-free speech drivel; instead, you should be transported back about 40-50 years to the old Soviet Union, stand in lines for milk and toilet paper, and get tossed into a Siberian Gulag for the previously mentioned anti-free-speech drivel you like to shovel here.
I'm thinking you're a so-called "law enforcement" fascist who's trying to beat us all into goosestepping submission.
Please cease and desist the use of the phrase, "You may fool some of the people all of the time...", as it is part of a phrase we have patented. Continued use of said phrase, along with iLetters and iPageTurn will lead to legal action.
Nope: GEMA will merely send goon squads to every door and every person in the street and beat the money out of them--'cuz, y'know, they were merely THINKING about one of "their" songs. :tard:s
Nope: massive jails housing all the nasty unwashed infringers that couldn't afford lawyers or bribe money to pay their way out of the bogus "infringement" charges ("Dear Mister Arcana: you are being served notice that you are in DMCA violation for your use of your name 'Tex Arcana'. Please report to the nearest internment center for forcible emptying of your pockets, and a thorough beating, forthwith.").
"Money doesn't grow on trees. Therefore, in order for the rich to fatten their wallets, they must find ways to STEAL it from the middle & lower class. In this instance, an extortion scheme is put in place by a MAFIAA-like agency pretending to be "protecting the artists". They get swim in piles of cash that they didn't rightfully earn. It's JUST PLAIN theft."
Fixed for truth. Because we all know the 1%ers anre incapable of actually working for a living--they'd rather just legalize stealing from the masses.
And there's just one way to stop them, and it involves pitchforks and torches...
You expect us to take you seriously, and yet you hide behind the A.C. moniker; and then accuse someone else of needing to do something to be taken seriously?
500 ebooks. WooOOOooo. And 50 RealBooks(TM). I'm so impressed! :rolleyes:
I've got about 1000 books, give or take; my wife over 5000; she has about 10-12 ebooks, I about 5. Woooo. Tell me something really impressive.
I'd rather read a RealBook(TM) because the human eye sees black ink on white page far better than the really shitty WYSIWYG screen simulacrum that ergonomically is far worse for your eyes (white letters on black background is far easier to see and read) than the single-focal-distance of words on a page. Electronic screens (even the Kindle's "e-ink") present the eye with multiple focal points that just induce eyestrain, even in this day of LCD screens; printed paper does not.
Doesn't matter. Amazon could create a root kit to sniff out all non-DRM ebooks that were bought from them, and have them erased or inject DRM into the code and render them a hunk of worthless electro-magnetic-bits.
The only way Amazon is getting ahold of my RealBook(TM), is to break into my house, or set it on fire. And either way, I'm suing them int the ground for trespassing and arson and endangerment. Not to mention destroying my books.
I'm certainly not afraid of tech: I own a very good gaming rig, hooked to my 58" Samsung plasma, I'm writing this reply on my ipad2, and I just got a nice new Galaxy S3.
On the other hand, my employer is pushing hard to digitize everything, which I distrust immensely--especially since the timekeeping system has already shown that management can make changes to scheduling and timesheets WITHOUT NOTIFICATION TO THE EMPLOYEES IN QUESTION!!
And it's already been shown many many times how mutable digital documents are, without any way to know said document has been changed. Ebooks can be subtly altered to change the original intent of the author, to "PC-ify" the passage; digital images we already know about ("photochops"). One of these days, we're going to hear about someone signing a contract, then finding it altered digitally by the holder of the contract, and the resulting firestorm.
Ultimately, all I'm saying is that we should be careful, and distrust digital stuff enough to check things before assuming everything is fine.
Y'all seem to have a misconception about the durability of digital media. Books have been proven to be able to last centuries, if not millennia, with minimally reasonable care (keep 'em dry, don't abse the, much). Digital media, otoh, is far more delicate: I wouldn't trust a hard drive to save my neck; CDs have been show to deteriorate after even just ten years or less, not to mention a form of fungal rot (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1402533.stm) that seems to eat discs and render them unplayable; and one stray cosmic ray can render any solid state device into an expensive paperweight. And it doesn't take much of a sunspot explosion to completely interrupt wireless communication.
If the scientists were really smart, they'd back those articles up onto something a bit more durable.
B&N aren't "copyright maximalists": they are simple extortionists, holding your legally paid-for material until you pay again. And either way, it's illegal, and morally reprehensible.
Take your "Desert Survival Situation" and shove it up your collective asses. To quote my grandmother (which quote you may not reproduce in any way shape or form, unless you wish to rush the old battleaxe digging herself out of her hole and beating you with her cane): "I wouldn't piss on y'all if your collective guts were on fire."
And I certainly will have NOTHING to do with your ghodforsaken collection of extortionist idiots. And if I find out I'm doing business with anyone who is doing business with you, I will pull the plug hard and fast, and take my business to someone who has the sense to disassociate themselves from idiots that like to abuse the law for mere profit.
Not only can I squish various fauna; I can hit you (or some other unwitting victim) in the head with said RealBooks(TM).
That said: I somewhat agree with Piper. But I grew up reading books: flipping the pages is as ingrained into my very being as that feeling of satisfied finality as I read the last words, and close the book! So far, I have yet to read an ebook that gives me that feeling.
Perhaps it's the ADD-riddled youth of today (who cannot concentrate on a single thing long enough to read more than a few words, before having to flip out to Faceplant, or the favorite pr0n site, FarmVille, the Sims, a round of HALO, and some Mincraft, before popping back to the ebook to read a few more words) that scoff at the physicality of reading--and no wonder!! You have to actually concentrate on what you're doing, omfg!
When the ereader loses its battery, when the web dies in a paroxysm of EMP, when cellphones fail thanks to sunspots: you will still have books. You can read all day long; you can even read all night, with just a candle.
You need nothing more than a somewhat functioning brain to read a book. And THERE is what makes a book superior to any other form. You don't have to mess with EULAs; you don't have to ask permission; you don't have to worry that some publisher is going to decide you didn't pay enough, or that you stole it, and will erase it off your ereader.
Once you buy a book, or someone gives one to you, it's YOURS, for as long as you wish. You can read it as many times as you wish; you can read whatever parts you wish; you can underline passages or words, write notes in the margins (omfg, writing?? How primitive is that??), dogear pages with important information to you.
Sure, you can electronically bookmark a page or pages; you can even annotate electronically as well. But when the power fluctuates, or the sunspots go nuts, or the crazy dictator sets off an EMP over your hometown, or some nutty hacker decides to hack you ereader and mess up all your notes and bookmarks: your own work is gone. Poof. Or worse: altered, sometimes so subtly you would never know--which is the greatest danger we face in the digital age.
So don't diss books: when there's nothing left, books will remain... at least as long as I have a breath, there will be some somewhere. ;-)
Their point is that any form of transmission/watching/using/learning/occupying time and space with light and noise should incur a royalty payment, the steeper the better.
Re: So, streaming okay, downloading and saving whole file not...
Well, I've been wondering who the hell this OOTB is, and why he's suck a dick.
Well, now I know!!
He's a fucking MAFIAA shill! Probably some junior l̶a̶w̶y̶e̶r̶ slime spawn in the legal department; and, he's trying to b̶l̶o̶w̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶w̶a̶y̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶p̶ impress his overlords with his online trolling.
Hey, d̶i̶c̶k̶w̶e̶e̶d̶ OOTB: how's that workin' for ya? :tard:
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Re: I'm unable to see cause for concern here.
I'm thinking you're a so-called "law enforcement" fascist who's trying to beat us all into goosestepping submission.
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Please cease and desist the use of the phrase, "You may fool some of the people all of the time...", as it is part of a phrase we have patented. Continued use of said phrase, along with iLetters and iPageTurn will lead to legal action.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
Dead Steve Jobs
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Welcome to world Leninism.
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Fixed for truth. Because we all know the 1%ers anre incapable of actually working for a living--they'd rather just legalize stealing from the masses.
And there's just one way to stop them, and it involves pitchforks and torches...
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Anonymous Coward is... an anonymous coward? :wtf:
Hypocrite, much?
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I've got about 1000 books, give or take; my wife over 5000; she has about 10-12 ebooks, I about 5. Woooo. Tell me something really impressive.
I'd rather read a RealBook(TM) because the human eye sees black ink on white page far better than the really shitty WYSIWYG screen simulacrum that ergonomically is far worse for your eyes (white letters on black background is far easier to see and read) than the single-focal-distance of words on a page. Electronic screens (even the Kindle's "e-ink") present the eye with multiple focal points that just induce eyestrain, even in this day of LCD screens; printed paper does not.
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The only way Amazon is getting ahold of my RealBook(TM), is to break into my house, or set it on fire. And either way, I'm suing them int the ground for trespassing and arson and endangerment. Not to mention destroying my books.
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On the other hand, my employer is pushing hard to digitize everything, which I distrust immensely--especially since the timekeeping system has already shown that management can make changes to scheduling and timesheets WITHOUT NOTIFICATION TO THE EMPLOYEES IN QUESTION!!
And it's already been shown many many times how mutable digital documents are, without any way to know said document has been changed. Ebooks can be subtly altered to change the original intent of the author, to "PC-ify" the passage; digital images we already know about ("photochops"). One of these days, we're going to hear about someone signing a contract, then finding it altered digitally by the holder of the contract, and the resulting firestorm.
Ultimately, all I'm saying is that we should be careful, and distrust digital stuff enough to check things before assuming everything is fine.
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Y'all seem to have a misconception about the durability of digital media. Books have been proven to be able to last centuries, if not millennia, with minimally reasonable care (keep 'em dry, don't abse the, much). Digital media, otoh, is far more delicate: I wouldn't trust a hard drive to save my neck; CDs have been show to deteriorate after even just ten years or less, not to mention a form of fungal rot (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1402533.stm) that seems to eat discs and render them unplayable; and one stray cosmic ray can render any solid state device into an expensive paperweight. And it doesn't take much of a sunspot explosion to completely interrupt wireless communication.
If the scientists were really smart, they'd back those articles up onto something a bit more durable.
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Hey, "Inhuman Suckergistics InveterateMorons":
And I certainly will have NOTHING to do with your ghodforsaken collection of extortionist idiots. And if I find out I'm doing business with anyone who is doing business with you, I will pull the plug hard and fast, and take my business to someone who has the sense to disassociate themselves from idiots that like to abuse the law for mere profit.
Now die in a fire, you jackasses.
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That said: I somewhat agree with Piper. But I grew up reading books: flipping the pages is as ingrained into my very being as that feeling of satisfied finality as I read the last words, and close the book! So far, I have yet to read an ebook that gives me that feeling.
Perhaps it's the ADD-riddled youth of today (who cannot concentrate on a single thing long enough to read more than a few words, before having to flip out to Faceplant, or the favorite pr0n site, FarmVille, the Sims, a round of HALO, and some Mincraft, before popping back to the ebook to read a few more words) that scoff at the physicality of reading--and no wonder!! You have to actually concentrate on what you're doing, omfg!
When the ereader loses its battery, when the web dies in a paroxysm of EMP, when cellphones fail thanks to sunspots: you will still have books. You can read all day long; you can even read all night, with just a candle.
You need nothing more than a somewhat functioning brain to read a book. And THERE is what makes a book superior to any other form. You don't have to mess with EULAs; you don't have to ask permission; you don't have to worry that some publisher is going to decide you didn't pay enough, or that you stole it, and will erase it off your ereader.
Once you buy a book, or someone gives one to you, it's YOURS, for as long as you wish. You can read it as many times as you wish; you can read whatever parts you wish; you can underline passages or words, write notes in the margins (omfg, writing?? How primitive is that??), dogear pages with important information to you.
Sure, you can electronically bookmark a page or pages; you can even annotate electronically as well. But when the power fluctuates, or the sunspots go nuts, or the crazy dictator sets off an EMP over your hometown, or some nutty hacker decides to hack you ereader and mess up all your notes and bookmarks: your own work is gone. Poof. Or worse: altered, sometimes so subtly you would never know--which is the greatest danger we face in the digital age.
So don't diss books: when there's nothing left, books will remain... at least as long as I have a breath, there will be some somewhere. ;-)
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My wife's uncle is an ex-ICE dweeb, and he has this exact same mindset: "BLACK VS WHITE, RIGHT VS WRONG, AND IF YOU DISAGREE WE WILL LOCK YOU UP!"
Yeah... and we wonder why most of the world hates our guts??
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Re: Plaintifs: Streaming == Distribution?
Because, DMCA!
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Re: So, streaming okay, downloading and saving whole file not...
Well, now I know!!
He's a fucking MAFIAA shill! Probably some junior l̶a̶w̶y̶e̶r̶ slime spawn in the legal department; and, he's trying to b̶l̶o̶w̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶w̶a̶y̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶p̶ impress his overlords with his online trolling.
Hey, d̶i̶c̶k̶w̶e̶e̶d̶ OOTB: how's that workin' for ya? :tard:
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