Well if your really going for the "protests and riots" then they need to all agree to open and have special "free drinks" night. Then suddenly shut down early and explain, to the now drunken crowd, that you can't afford to play any more music due to the crazy fees.
My point very simply is that your "lack of talent" attack is pointless and can be applied to anything. Everyone has different skills and talents. Just because someone can't make a movie does not mean they "lack talent".
As for your argument that copyright does not stifle competition, what do you think it does? Stifling competition is EXACTLY what it does. Now when done in reasonable manor there is nothing at all wrong with that.
I have no problem what so ever with copyright for its intended purpose. That purpose is to ENCOURAGE CREATION. Now I want you to explain to me how is Disney's copyright of steamboat willy encouraging Disney to make new things. (In case you missed it, Disney is DEAD, he is not going to make anything new... So WTF is his stuff still copyrighted for?)
What is really fun is that I bet they claim to have "Invented" wireless charging. Of course this will totally overlook the fact that Tesla was looking at wireless power transmission long before any of Apples engineers were even born.
"He should like living in a box, and shouldn't try and do anything to improve his life."
How about showing how the fuck he is trying to improve his life and I might give a damn. All he is doing is bitching that he is not getting more handouts. He got semi famous for someone giving him something and now he is bitching "hey, why is no one giving me more"
What is really funny is when you realize what a pathetic inventor Edison was. He held a ton of patents, most of them for ideas he took from other inventors and then patented. So much like most patent holders today.
It makes me sick when I see Edison held up as this wonderful inventor. The guy was a business man and he was quite good at that. He pales in comparison with guys such as Tesla. Yet because Tesla was an inventor and not a business man we only hear about Edison.
You really are a fool if you think all of us are upset about Megaupload because we lost our movie downloads. Megaupload was a mega pain in the ass for large files like that.
What I am mad about is loosing all the custom Android roms that I kept trying to download only to find they were hosted on Megaupload.
Re: Red meat for fanboys, thinking Mike has a victory!
You really are sad and desperate if you look at this as Mike looking for sympathy. In order for that to have been the case he would have needed to look like he was in some sort of trouble. To me it more looks like a victory dance after winning a rather lopsided fight.
You might could accuse him of gloating over knocking out a greatly under matched opponent, but definitely can't see where you got the "sympathy ploy" idea from.
You claim to know people so very well, and yet you seem to miss the point that some people go to theaters for the experience. Sure I can download a copy of a movie and watch it at home for free, Yet I still often go and pay the insane prices at the theater because I enjoy the experience it gives.
You know, there is this very funny thing I have been noticing. I have a lot of movies and TV shows already on my hard drives. For example Warehouse 13 I noticed I have buried away in my drive. I noticed it there and STILL I watch it on netflix. I do not even have to download it I already have it and yet still use netflix instead.
Why? Well netflix keeps track of where I am and I love how it starts back right where I stopped watching and it rolls to the next episode automatically.
So... If you want to stop piracy, the best option I see is to offer a SERVICE not slap me around with DRM because I can tell you now that DRM will just piss me off and make me less likely to buy something again.
While yes I will give in that what is "obscenity" varies from place to place I think you will have a hard time finding many people to agree that porn is "useful art". I'm sure you will find some lonely basement dwellers, but for the most part everyone agrees that porn is not art.
Yeah, and kind of like how no terrorist would ever think of taking a bomb and blowing up BEFORE the checkpoint. You know... in the huge crowd of pissed off people waiting to be groped.
One thing that really puzzles me in this entire debate are how a few key words are apparently just ignored in the law regarding this.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for LIMITED Times to AUTHORS and INVENTORS the exclusive Right to THEIR respective Writings and Discoveries"
So from my understanding of this ONLY the actual person creating the content SHOULD EVER HOLD COPYRIGHT and then only for LIMITED TIME. If that is the case then automatically at their death the copyright is void. You can't own something past your death.
Kind of funny you would say that "We'll lose vital infrastructure, but at least we won't all die."
Apparently you don't realize how many people could die as a direct result of an attack to that infrastructure. Hospitals are especially problematic. Just walk into any hospital and look around at how much is ran by computers. These days loosing the computers would cripple a hospital. This could easily cause the loss of many lives and it is just one example.
The use of computer viruses for warfare is just as stupid as using real viruses. You can never truly anticipate the effects it will have in the wild. Once a virus is loose their is no calling it back.
Of course in some cases they might not be infringing on a trademark but still using a name you don't want thought of in that way.
For example, Microsoft.sx could be a grate site for say... small strap-on dildos. Now it would not be infringing on trademark so long as they made it clear they were not associated with the software maker and that instead they were making their own "software".
I hate to burst your bubble but streaming a single 1080p video is not necessarily using "top speed". I know this as I sit at home quite often and steam a movie while other people in the house are streaming a different movie, then on top of that I will be in an online game AND downloading something else. This is on a connection that is only rated for max of 10meg.
So 2 HD videos and a online game will not max out a rather weak "high speed" and he is talking about much faster connection.
Now having said that, I think this guy is a moron for trying to say we shouldn't put money into high speed. The faster the internet becomes the more useful it becomes. As the story pointed out, streaming video used to be just crazy. In fact, it was not that long ago sending a picture was considered a massive waste of bandwidth. Now days we do not even think twice about the load time of an image.
Even just reading though, most modern e-readers are not a good format for text books. They are made to be nice little pocket sized things. Great for a novel but not for a text book where you might want larger charts or diagrams.
The interface is also normally terrible for anything other than straight liner reading, you know like how you read a novel, but terrible for jumping back and forth like you do with reference books.
I find myself having to agree with you there. I think the technology is available to replace paper, BUT we need some competent device builders to step in and make a device worth having.
For example, How about a e-paper device with a screen the size of standard textbook page. Touch screen that accepts a REAL stylus, not a clunky thing that is no better than you finger.. You know, so you can actually write with it. Then also have back lighting that can be used to highlight parts in the book. (How awesome would that be, take your stylus and drag over some text and have it highlighted with soft colored glow)
So in other words a device that allows you to do what is natural. Be able to open your book in class and read, highlight and doodle just like a normal book. Once this is done then I think e-books can replace paper. The e-readers now though are just too clunky a device for reference books.
I almost forgot that you also need a VERY well developed book mark system for reference books. Something most e-readers also suck at.
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As for your argument that copyright does not stifle competition, what do you think it does? Stifling competition is EXACTLY what it does. Now when done in reasonable manor there is nothing at all wrong with that.
I have no problem what so ever with copyright for its intended purpose. That purpose is to ENCOURAGE CREATION. Now I want you to explain to me how is Disney's copyright of steamboat willy encouraging Disney to make new things. (In case you missed it, Disney is DEAD, he is not going to make anything new... So WTF is his stuff still copyrighted for?)
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Umm, really? Lets stop and look at this another way....
So what is preventing you from creating your own house, car or food? Oh, your lack of talent? Never mind.
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How about showing how the fuck he is trying to improve his life and I might give a damn. All he is doing is bitching that he is not getting more handouts. He got semi famous for someone giving him something and now he is bitching "hey, why is no one giving me more"
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Re: Ain't it funny...
It makes me sick when I see Edison held up as this wonderful inventor. The guy was a business man and he was quite good at that. He pales in comparison with guys such as Tesla. Yet because Tesla was an inventor and not a business man we only hear about Edison.
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What I am mad about is loosing all the custom Android roms that I kept trying to download only to find they were hosted on Megaupload.
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Re: Red meat for fanboys, thinking Mike has a victory!
You might could accuse him of gloating over knocking out a greatly under matched opponent, but definitely can't see where you got the "sympathy ploy" idea from.
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Why? Well netflix keeps track of where I am and I love how it starts back right where I stopped watching and it rolls to the next episode automatically.
So... If you want to stop piracy, the best option I see is to offer a SERVICE not slap me around with DRM because I can tell you now that DRM will just piss me off and make me less likely to buy something again.
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Re: Now, I'm not going to claim to be smarter than these politicians
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"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for LIMITED Times to AUTHORS and INVENTORS the exclusive Right to THEIR respective Writings and Discoveries"
So from my understanding of this ONLY the actual person creating the content SHOULD EVER HOLD COPYRIGHT and then only for LIMITED TIME. If that is the case then automatically at their death the copyright is void. You can't own something past your death.
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Apparently you don't realize how many people could die as a direct result of an attack to that infrastructure. Hospitals are especially problematic. Just walk into any hospital and look around at how much is ran by computers. These days loosing the computers would cripple a hospital. This could easily cause the loss of many lives and it is just one example.
The use of computer viruses for warfare is just as stupid as using real viruses. You can never truly anticipate the effects it will have in the wild. Once a virus is loose their is no calling it back.
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Re: Don't we already have laws for that?
For example, Microsoft.sx could be a grate site for say... small strap-on dildos. Now it would not be infringing on trademark so long as they made it clear they were not associated with the software maker and that instead they were making their own "software".
Embarrassing for Microsoft? Yes, Infringing? No
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So 2 HD videos and a online game will not max out a rather weak "high speed" and he is talking about much faster connection.
Now having said that, I think this guy is a moron for trying to say we shouldn't put money into high speed. The faster the internet becomes the more useful it becomes. As the story pointed out, streaming video used to be just crazy. In fact, it was not that long ago sending a picture was considered a massive waste of bandwidth. Now days we do not even think twice about the load time of an image.
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The interface is also normally terrible for anything other than straight liner reading, you know like how you read a novel, but terrible for jumping back and forth like you do with reference books.
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For example, How about a e-paper device with a screen the size of standard textbook page. Touch screen that accepts a REAL stylus, not a clunky thing that is no better than you finger.. You know, so you can actually write with it. Then also have back lighting that can be used to highlight parts in the book. (How awesome would that be, take your stylus and drag over some text and have it highlighted with soft colored glow)
So in other words a device that allows you to do what is natural. Be able to open your book in class and read, highlight and doodle just like a normal book. Once this is done then I think e-books can replace paper. The e-readers now though are just too clunky a device for reference books.
I almost forgot that you also need a VERY well developed book mark system for reference books. Something most e-readers also suck at.
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The FBI worries me a LOT more than any "terrorist" organization.
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