It's OK that Universal falsely claimed copyright on a song, prevented the true copyright owner from exercising his rights, and then persisted to maintain it's wrong position because the title of the song was close to one that it has in it's back catalog.
Did I get that about right? And in addition to this it appears (although I haven't confirmed it myself) that Universal continues to illegally distribute, and profit from, the CD.
Of course this is all OK because big recording industry companies should have complete ownership of all music (and all uses of music) regardless of where it came from, and the rest of us should just shut the hell up and fork over the cash.
Your entire argument seems to be based on one simple concept. That companies go trolling through the patent database to come up with their ideas. That is provably false as nearly all companies specifically forbid engineers from looking at patents for fear of getting caught in a willful infringement case.
"If the process is signficantly delayed because of the lead times required to make the next best thing, then progress slows. 24 months to market for a new product means that every new product with be the best for 24 months, because nobody else knows what is good until it hits the market. So instead of a dozen innovations a year, you would get 1 innovation every couple of years."
... BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Oh, you're serious... Wow that is demented reasoning. So everybody else just sits around and waits for one company to release a product, then the pick one to develop the next product, and so on, so that only one company is ever doing any work at one time. Riiiight, cause that's how the real world works. Sure.
I've been going over legal records for hours now, and no reference to a moron with a lot of time on his hands. A few morons in a hurry... A few hundred morons that get sent to DC... Nope, nothing about a moron with a lot of time on his hands. I'll get to work writing up a law to deal with this.
No I don't think it's right. I do feel for the individual radio stations, but this is what happens when NAB tries to use these same fees to kill off Internet radio.
So rather than allowing market forces to push prices to zero (yes zero price = marginal cost = 0) while removing ANY form of DRM, and having sane copyright laws, you'd rather have painful, confusing, cumbersome, technical intrusions on your computer that 'allow' things you wouldn't otherwise need.
And I'm sure he only hits you because he loves you.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: You still don't get it
I think I misunderstood you a bit there, and I think I know why.
You start off saying 'we wouldn't really need cooks', but then talk about all these people creating recipes but apparently their not cooks (that's the part I missed).
Yes the food replicator allows for much more creation. That creation is done by cooks, just like there are many more musicians today thanks to the cheap digital audio tools, and there are many more writers thanks to cheap publishing tools (blogs).
So I suppose we don't disagree that much after all, just a bit of terminology.
I can write a program that pumps out 'every possible permutation' (Which of course I assume you've never taken a discrete math course and don't understand the scale that means) of all cords, so I guess that's why we don't have musicians creating music any more... Oh, wait.
Seems to me the best way to deal with this would be to start mass accusing large sites with defamation. (not sure if this law only applies to 'bloggers' and not 'professional journalists').
As a developer who is looking at creating applications for Android phones, and possibly other devices, here is my opinion on the subject.
I personally plan to offer a free, and a paid version of my app, paid would probably a buck. In general yes I would like to charge for the software I create. All this is fine. The current market allows for such things. However I recognize this is artificial and will not last. My completed software has a zero marginal cost to produce. If I want to be successful as a developer I need to find ways to charge for those things that are scare, namely my time and expertise.
Selling software is not a good business model to bet your future on any more than selling digital copies of music. Even if they work out great now, they are artificial and temporary and if you are in business you need to recognize that and be able to make the transition when (or before) it comes.
You seem to think there is some magical difference between THE content and content. There isn't. The Broadway show is content, but it is also advertisement for the actors and director's abilities. The twitter adaptation is content, but it is also advertisement for the Broadway play and again the director's abilities. There is no special THE content, it's all just content. If it's good people will tune in, and then seek more.
I strongly suspect that the future of technology will push things to a more individual level, but not quite like that. I expect, within my lifetime (I'm early 30's), to see personal home power generators that take homes off the grid and are a source of practically free power. In my mind they are some form of fusion or fission reaction buried in the back yard like a septic tank that need some maintenance every 100 years or so.
But thats just part of the story. I would also expect nearly all small items a person needs to be 'printable' at home for the small costs of raw materials ("Honey, were out of carbon again"). Also for large scale production costs to plummet.
"open source" already has extensions into circuit boards, processors, small electronic devices, even things like UAV's. I expect this to extend to all aspects of design at some point.
Just on one point. 'Let's you easily install a completely open source OS on your PS3 and run any Linux/open source software on the system'
Sony doesn't 'let you', they didn't make it 'easily' installable, and in fact they didn't help the effort at all. The ability to run Linux on the PS3 is purely due to some very skilled Linux hackers that took the time and effort to reverse engineer a way to install other software on the PS3. Sony gets NO credit for that.
Although even after all that effort it's not incredibly useful, the performance is pretty bad.
The rest of course is all questionable fanboi crap.
You seem really confused. There is no law against getting 'into the middle of a legal business transaction'. You're right that there would be legal trouble if BK folks were standing next to McD's registers handing out coupons for free burgers, but that's called trespassing. If they stand right outside on a public sidewalk there is nothing McD's can do about it.
I don't see how creating an alternative somehow makes the original illegal. Do you somehow think that all things are illegal unless specifically allowed by the government and there can only be one?
How about they stop spending a crap ton of money suing people. Let their fans record/stream/comment/PROMOTE the games. The EPL can sell tickets (and probably more tickets now that some many people are involved in promoting the games).
So the EPL saves money by not throwing it down the lawsuit black hole. They get happier more dedicated fans. They get more promotion of the games. All this with much less effort than they are currently putting forth.
This doesn't make much sense to me. Americas laws don't extend beyond our shores. That's like saying 'If you stop listening to me I'll lose my power over you'.
The power isn't in the person doing issuing demands, it's in the receiver to chose to listen or not.
I'd have to say that five minutes isn't enough time to properly vet evidence. Therefore, with the presumption of innocence, I would have to rule in favor of the defendant.
Of course we don't live in a rational world, so who's to say how this would really go down.
As a parent of two boys, living on a street with more than a dozen kids, I just don't see any evidence that "today's youth are in poor health". citation?
Seriously people grow up and get some perspective. My older son loves to play games (has a Wii, Xbox, DS, PC), but he's also in martial arts, plays baseball, did soccer for a couple years, rides a dirt bike...
My youngest learned all his basic colors through video games (as well as picked up decent mouse abilities) at age 2 (gcompris). Now he's getting really good at the train memory game in gcompris, partially because he loves trains. He's 3 now by the way.
Video games are not in any way bad. Anything pushed to excess is bad. If you have kids, be a freakin parent.
I really don't think we've lost any privacy at all. What we've lost is that gray middle ground between private and public. Things that used to be 'private between me, my close friends, and family' were never really private. That information was reasonably hard to get at and had (really still has) very little value to the general public. The information doesn't have any more value, but it's vastly easier to get at, so the cost has gone down.
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Re: Re: Re:
It's OK that Universal falsely claimed copyright on a song, prevented the true copyright owner from exercising his rights, and then persisted to maintain it's wrong position because the title of the song was close to one that it has in it's back catalog.
Did I get that about right? And in addition to this it appears (although I haven't confirmed it myself) that Universal continues to illegally distribute, and profit from, the CD.
Of course this is all OK because big recording industry companies should have complete ownership of all music (and all uses of music) regardless of where it came from, and the rest of us should just shut the hell up and fork over the cash.
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
"If the process is signficantly delayed because of the lead times required to make the next best thing, then progress slows. 24 months to market for a new product means that every new product with be the best for 24 months, because nobody else knows what is good until it hits the market. So instead of a dozen innovations a year, you would get 1 innovation every couple of years."
... BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Oh, you're serious... Wow that is demented reasoning. So everybody else just sits around and waits for one company to release a product, then the pick one to develop the next product, and so on, so that only one company is ever doing any work at one time. Riiiight, cause that's how the real world works. Sure.
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Re: Wait, What?
I've been going over legal records for hours now, and no reference to a moron with a lot of time on his hands. A few morons in a hurry... A few hundred morons that get sent to DC... Nope, nothing about a moron with a lot of time on his hands. I'll get to work writing up a law to deal with this.
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I don't feel for them at all.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10052221-93.html
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Re: Sign me up - first sale and right of repair
And I'm sure he only hits you because he loves you.
On the post: Bad Ideas: Trying To Make Content More Like Physical Property
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: You still don't get it
You start off saying 'we wouldn't really need cooks', but then talk about all these people creating recipes but apparently their not cooks (that's the part I missed).
Yes the food replicator allows for much more creation. That creation is done by cooks, just like there are many more musicians today thanks to the cheap digital audio tools, and there are many more writers thanks to cheap publishing tools (blogs).
So I suppose we don't disagree that much after all, just a bit of terminology.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: You still don't get it
Now do you see how silly that sounds.
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Accuse?
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I personally plan to offer a free, and a paid version of my app, paid would probably a buck. In general yes I would like to charge for the software I create. All this is fine. The current market allows for such things. However I recognize this is artificial and will not last. My completed software has a zero marginal cost to produce. If I want to be successful as a developer I need to find ways to charge for those things that are scare, namely my time and expertise.
Selling software is not a good business model to bet your future on any more than selling digital copies of music. Even if they work out great now, they are artificial and temporary and if you are in business you need to recognize that and be able to make the transition when (or before) it comes.
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Re: free power
But thats just part of the story. I would also expect nearly all small items a person needs to be 'printable' at home for the small costs of raw materials ("Honey, were out of carbon again"). Also for large scale production costs to plummet.
"open source" already has extensions into circuit boards, processors, small electronic devices, even things like UAV's. I expect this to extend to all aspects of design at some point.
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Re: Mike Masnick Makes A Fool Of Himself
Sony doesn't 'let you', they didn't make it 'easily' installable, and in fact they didn't help the effort at all. The ability to run Linux on the PS3 is purely due to some very skilled Linux hackers that took the time and effort to reverse engineer a way to install other software on the PS3. Sony gets NO credit for that.
Although even after all that effort it's not incredibly useful, the performance is pretty bad.
The rest of course is all questionable fanboi crap.
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Re: Re: Re:
I don't see how creating an alternative somehow makes the original illegal. Do you somehow think that all things are illegal unless specifically allowed by the government and there can only be one?
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So the EPL saves money by not throwing it down the lawsuit black hole. They get happier more dedicated fans. They get more promotion of the games. All this with much less effort than they are currently putting forth.
I don't see the down side here.
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Re: Re: Newz
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The power isn't in the person doing issuing demands, it's in the receiver to chose to listen or not.
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If I were a Judge...
Of course we don't live in a rational world, so who's to say how this would really go down.
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Re: I've seen this movie before
Well, at least it's not my birthday.
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Re: Agree
Seriously people grow up and get some perspective. My older son loves to play games (has a Wii, Xbox, DS, PC), but he's also in martial arts, plays baseball, did soccer for a couple years, rides a dirt bike...
My youngest learned all his basic colors through video games (as well as picked up decent mouse abilities) at age 2 (gcompris). Now he's getting really good at the train memory game in gcompris, partially because he loves trains. He's 3 now by the way.
Video games are not in any way bad. Anything pushed to excess is bad. If you have kids, be a freakin parent.
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Re: Privacy is dead
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