It seems to me that this allows copyright length to be retroactively changed by treaty. If it can be changed by treaty, then it can be changed by any other legislative process.
That seems like a blank check to put works into perpetual copyright to me.
The point of the headline is that this ruling gives congress the power to put Romeo and Juliet back into copyright anytime it chooses. It makes a mockery of copyrights original intent.
Techdirt raised awareness and generated a good mob. Others taking that work and building upon it is exactly the kind of thing that techdirt has advocated for as long as I have read it.
That shell corporation's Swedish secretary set it up. She doesn't have access to the code anymore, never met anyone involved directly, and they have since let her go.
The shell corporation is shocked, shocked, that the whois is now out of date. I'm sure they will fix it soon.
Meh, let the snakes eat each other. Maybe when all the dust settles, a couple of litigious asses will learn some valuable business lessons, and of course a few lawyers will be much richer.
SOPA and PIPA are about jobs. If these laws are not passed, some of these politicians may not have high paid, comfy, jobs from campaign contributors to fall back on after getting thrown out of office.
"What it'll ultimately come down to is an economic decision by the various industries on whether or not to distributing content in places with minimal protections is worth it."
I disagree. It will come down to the industry realizing that distributing to different markets at different times, or skipping markets entirely, is not a viable business model.
Someone will distribute to the under served market. If it's not the rights holder, someone else will eat their lunch.
Another word for this is distributed denial of service attack. The only difference being that instead of DDOSing a website to make it unviewable, you'd be doing it to yourself and your neighbors.
He meant, if you want to spend the next 10 (20? 30?) years rewriting DNS and internet routing in general, and then spending the untold millions (billions? trillions?) to roll out the changes, good luck with that. He welcomes you to the industry debate.
It was hard enough getting stakeholders together to do something (anything) about DNS security. Getting stakeholders together to completely redo the internet isn't going to happen quickly, and you probably won't be happy with the result.
That is also easy to bypass. An encrypted proxy or VPN that is only used for DNS requests is cheap and easy. Non traditional DNS tools can/will/have been developed. I bet if I were dropped in China with a laptop and an internet connection, I could bypass the "Great Firewall" in less than 3 minutes.
Adding a "blocked" signal to the DNS protocol will not make piracy magically disappear.
Well, I guess if it will keep censorship proponents busy for the next 5-10 years developing and rolling the new DNS protocol, that's not so bad. It will give the rest of us time to innovate and move onto whatever comes next.
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That seems like a blank check to put works into perpetual copyright to me.
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That shell corporation's Swedish secretary set it up. She doesn't have access to the code anymore, never met anyone involved directly, and they have since let her go.
The shell corporation is shocked, shocked, that the whois is now out of date. I'm sure they will fix it soon.
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It is the same strategy that the recording lobby has been pursuing since Napster, and it will not work.
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Those that refuse to innovate, or innovate too slowly will fail. A piece I read on the economist about Kodak vs FujiFilm illustrates this point well.
http://www.economist.com/node/21542796
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I disagree. It will come down to the industry realizing that distributing to different markets at different times, or skipping markets entirely, is not a viable business model.
Someone will distribute to the under served market. If it's not the rights holder, someone else will eat their lunch.
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It was hard enough getting stakeholders together to do something (anything) about DNS security. Getting stakeholders together to completely redo the internet isn't going to happen quickly, and you probably won't be happy with the result.
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Well, I guess if it will keep censorship proponents busy for the next 5-10 years developing and rolling the new DNS protocol, that's not so bad. It will give the rest of us time to innovate and move onto whatever comes next.
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