Tweet = half way between twat and seat
(use a bad-taste-band-aid if offended)
Hopefully these angry people have learned their practical lesson. Once it's on the open internet, consider it permanently public, period. This is just common sense. If you want to keep something private, make the extra effort to ensure privacy (and get a gold star sticker) or use a secure medium. I'm sure I've said plenty of stupid things on the internet (including in this post), but the price of such a wonderful tool is its very, very, very long memory.
Also, having now read the "tweets" myself... Streisand Effect.
The lawyers already own the rights to those thoughts. My incentive to independently create those thoughts is being hindered by their haughty sense of entitlement!
Take a bow! That's one of the better, if not the best, unintentional impressions of TAM I've ever seen. The general nature of it is pretty good, and so is the shout out to anonymous. The only fault I see is that you may have provided a template to would be trolls/shills.
"Don't make the mistake that there is no market for this or that MP3 is the final format."
The argument is that DIGITAL is the current format (for now) and that attempts to create artificial scarcities within a medium with no distribution cost barriers is futile. Simply repackaging what is in many cases arguably the same content ("take my high quality audio and move it to lesser systems") is simply a money grab. Yes, higher quality means the option of hearing fuller sound etc., but what about the legal aspect of the conversion process. Given the manner with which the legacy labels tend to constrain change of formats by consumers (with out their help or paying them a toll), I don't see a free and *authorized* means of the downgrading you see as a natural use being available for quite some time.
@Dark Helmet
You should consider compiling your comments into a short comedy work. I'm sure there are enough of us willing to pay/pirate your work for you to at least break even.
"A garden's constituent elements are alive and inherently changeable, not fixed."
The vast majority of digital memory is not really a fixed medium either. The bits themselves are "constituent elements" of digital intellectual property that are "inherently changeable." Though, the pattern supposedly being claimed as protected intellectual property is logically a fixed arrangement of said "inherently changeable" "constituent elements." Perhaps this could be used as precedent for strengthening fair use? It would be nice to have the substantive mutability of the digital medium critically considered when it comes to attempts to legislate its use.
As for the gardener, wouldn't copyrighting a garden arrangement be a moot action? The natural variance of plant growth makes the arrangement itself a high order abstraction of the tangible layout. To me, that would seem to be more of an idea in practice rather than a fixed form of expression. I guess that's what the judge was (succinctly) pointing out.
The only problem I see with your strategy (a good idea btw) is it relies on judges to rule COICA unconstitutional, whereas they have been a relatively mixed bag when it comes to copyright issues. It also relies on someone getting screwed over and having the means to take this law through the court system. I'm kind of torn as the ends might actually justify the means in this case.
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When she says "the united states of the government" I don't think she would believe there is any mistake.
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But it CAN rent it!
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Don't Feed the Trolls
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Exposing Privates
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Hopefully these angry people have learned their practical lesson. Once it's on the open internet, consider it permanently public, period. This is just common sense. If you want to keep something private, make the extra effort to ensure privacy (and get a gold star sticker) or use a secure medium. I'm sure I've said plenty of stupid things on the internet (including in this post), but the price of such a wonderful tool is its very, very, very long memory.
Also, having now read the "tweets" myself... Streisand Effect.
On the post: Copyright Is An Incentive... To Create Lawsuits
Re: Re: So true
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On the post: Record Labels Planning Yet Another Way To Try To Get You To Rebuy Music You Already 'Bought'
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The argument is that DIGITAL is the current format (for now) and that attempts to create artificial scarcities within a medium with no distribution cost barriers is futile. Simply repackaging what is in many cases arguably the same content ("take my high quality audio and move it to lesser systems") is simply a money grab. Yes, higher quality means the option of hearing fuller sound etc., but what about the legal aspect of the conversion process. Given the manner with which the legacy labels tend to constrain change of formats by consumers (with out their help or paying them a toll), I don't see a free and *authorized* means of the downgrading you see as a natural use being available for quite some time.
Also, if mp3 sucks, go with wav. :-D
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From Anonymous
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You should consider compiling your comments into a short comedy work. I'm sure there are enough of us willing to pay/pirate your work for you to at least break even.
On the post: More HBGary Federal Fallout: The Government Wants To Buy Software To Fake Online Grassroots Social Media Campaigns
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=william+gibson+the+beatles+fame+narrow+window
(pay attention to the steps; I know they're a bit harder than toasting a pop-tart, but hang in there!)
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On the post: Millennium Park Garden Deemed Not Copyrightable, Because Gardens Are Not Authored
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My God's better than yours,
My God's better 'cause he's got super powers,
My God's better than yours.
On the post: Can Senator Patrick Leahy Actually Provide The Proof That The COICA Censorship Law Is Needed?
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On the post: Millennium Park Garden Deemed Not Copyrightable, Because Gardens Are Not Authored
A Possible Digital Corollary?
The vast majority of digital memory is not really a fixed medium either. The bits themselves are "constituent elements" of digital intellectual property that are "inherently changeable." Though, the pattern supposedly being claimed as protected intellectual property is logically a fixed arrangement of said "inherently changeable" "constituent elements." Perhaps this could be used as precedent for strengthening fair use? It would be nice to have the substantive mutability of the digital medium critically considered when it comes to attempts to legislate its use.
As for the gardener, wouldn't copyrighting a garden arrangement be a moot action? The natural variance of plant growth makes the arrangement itself a high order abstraction of the tangible layout. To me, that would seem to be more of an idea in practice rather than a fixed form of expression. I guess that's what the judge was (succinctly) pointing out.
On the post: The Return Of COICA; Because Censorship Is Cool Again
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On the post: Once Again, Why Homeland Security's Domain Name Seizures Are Almost Certainly Not Legal
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I'm pretty sure the answer is all of the above.
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On the post: Can Senator Patrick Leahy Actually Provide The Proof That The COICA Censorship Law Is Needed?
Re: I say we let them have this law ...
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