They need to ban children from online gaming! Seriously, have you ever played on Xbox Live? Those kids, with their creepy fast reflexes... as soon as I spawn, I see "Killed by Vold3mort13", and then the little bastich comes over and teabags me! There's your sexual assault, maybe I should file charges next time...
"""...seeing as TSA workers at airports ALREADY make minimum wage."""
Could you provide your source for this? Other than the infographic above, it seems like I've read that TSA workers in the field make well over minimum wage. Probably not in the 6 digit range, but definitely not minimum wage.
Hey Tudor, welcome to techDirt. Now that pleasantries are out of the way: No, you're wrong and AC lied, as he always does about a very key point:
That is to say that without the positive benefits to the authors and creators, there would be no benefit to the public because they might not create in the same manner.
This is 100% pure bullshit. Content creators have been creating all throughout mankind's short stay on this planet, and the lion's share of that time was without copyright protection. People will continue to create with or without copyright protection.
In the same manner? What does that mean? A few lucky artists (and I use that word loosely) hitting it mega-big and becoming millionaires? Guess what, that possibility is BRAND FREAKING NEW, it has never occurred before in history, and has only been possible in maybe the last 50 years or so. Personally, I don't consider it to be a big step forward (I'm looking at you, Kardashians). Minstrels used to travel from place to place and sing for their supper, and maybe a little extra coin, but there was never a shortage of minstrels, and I'll bet the music was a lot better too.
Re: Re: Harmed? I'm not harmed by rich artists. I'm made happier
Yeah, but two things:
1. His post was actually pretty funny. I'm glad I clicked to unhide it.
2. I believe that the report button should be reserved for the most egregious cases of "abuse", basically personal attacks and insults, obscenity (yeah, I know, define obscenity), profanity.
Otherwise, while it's not censorship in any kind of government sponsored way, it is a form of passive-agressive censorship by our little community, and we should try and stay away from that.
Software BELONGS covered under copyright law and not patent law.
Lord help us, yes. Software patents are, in my humble opinion, as bad an idea as patenting genes. But the software maker should have an opportunity to profit from their creation, so I can support software copyrights.
It's on par with the idiotic birthers (and I am sure there are a few here on Techdirt) going after Obama. It's a moronic argument, but they are noisy, they don't go away, and they will be back to dog Obama all through this election cycle.
Especially when the birther has deep pockets, for instance the birther whose name rhymes with Bonald Drump. He's not content to just be a birther though, he's decided to go full retard and jump on the 'vaccines cause autism' bandwagon too.
p.s. This is by no means any kind of endorsement of Obama, who has done almost exactly the opposite of anything he said he would do while he was campaigning.
It really is worth listening to the whole thing if you want to understand the institutional, unavoidable level of corruption in DC -- even if it's not the way you may have suspected it worked.
You know, I would, but I don't know what we'd do with all the vomit.
--Brad Garrett as Robert Barone (Everybody Loves Raymond)
"""Why do you choose to ignore what they say and read into it something completely different? They don't say time shifting is illegal, they say that tool CAN be used for piracy. It probably IS being used for piracy by others. At no point do they claim that what he is doing is illegal or immoral. The say they are blocking that tool because it can be used for piracy. Stop reading more into it than the radio station reps say."""
Well shit dude, according to your deranged logic, they need to shut down the whole station, because any "tool" that can be used to receive it can be used to commit worse crimes than piracy!
Listen to the radio station in your car? Your car can be used to KILL PEOPLE!
Listen to the radio station at home on your radio? You can bash someone over the head with it and KILL THEM!
A cop once asked me for some advice on figuring out how to jailbreak his iPhone so he could get free apps. So yeah, cops are people too, and people will copy.
Totally true. I totally didn't purchase Landslide, that's a lost sale right there.
By the way, that link is not for the faint-hearted. It is the stuff nightmares are made of. I would copy some article titles here for you, but I could be sued just for pondering the idea!
"""The issue with Diasey was that he took the storytelling tradition, and tried to make it out to be a "news" story in which he was really seeking to get things to happen. And that's where things fell down. If you're going to do that, your story has to check out."""
Your news story has to check out... unless you have the word "News" in your name, in which you are allowed to lie and distort, because it's really only entertainment.
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Re: Re: Re: Help me out here...
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New York has the issue backwards
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Absolutely agree 100%, if by colloquialism you actually mean 'lie'.
On the post: TSA Security Theater Described In One Simple Infographic
Re:
Could you provide your source for this? Other than the infographic above, it seems like I've read that TSA workers in the field make well over minimum wage. Probably not in the 6 digit range, but definitely not minimum wage.
On the post: The Social Networking Patent Thicket Consists Of At Least 30,000 Patents
Re: It's worse than that (he's dead, JIm)
On the post: Yes, Copyright's Sole Purpose Is To Benefit The Public
Re: Re:
This is 100% pure bullshit. Content creators have been creating all throughout mankind's short stay on this planet, and the lion's share of that time was without copyright protection. People will continue to create with or without copyright protection.
In the same manner? What does that mean? A few lucky artists (and I use that word loosely) hitting it mega-big and becoming millionaires? Guess what, that possibility is BRAND FREAKING NEW, it has never occurred before in history, and has only been possible in maybe the last 50 years or so. Personally, I don't consider it to be a big step forward (I'm looking at you, Kardashians). Minstrels used to travel from place to place and sing for their supper, and maybe a little extra coin, but there was never a shortage of minstrels, and I'll bet the music was a lot better too.
On the post: Yes, Copyright's Sole Purpose Is To Benefit The Public
Re: Re: Harmed? I'm not harmed by rich artists. I'm made happier
1. His post was actually pretty funny. I'm glad I clicked to unhide it.
2. I believe that the report button should be reserved for the most egregious cases of "abuse", basically personal attacks and insults, obscenity (yeah, I know, define obscenity), profanity.
Otherwise, while it's not censorship in any kind of government sponsored way, it is a form of passive-agressive censorship by our little community, and we should try and stay away from that.
#piracyiseverywhere
On the post: Yes, Copyright's Sole Purpose Is To Benefit The Public
Re: Re: Re:
Lord help us, yes. Software patents are, in my humble opinion, as bad an idea as patenting genes. But the software maker should have an opportunity to profit from their creation, so I can support software copyrights.
#piracyiseverywhere
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Especially when the birther has deep pockets, for instance the birther whose name rhymes with Bonald Drump. He's not content to just be a birther though, he's decided to go full retard and jump on the 'vaccines cause autism' bandwagon too.
p.s. This is by no means any kind of endorsement of Obama, who has done almost exactly the opposite of anything he said he would do while he was campaigning.
On the post: Is Lobbying Closer To Bribery... Or Extortion?
You know, I would, but I don't know what we'd do with all the vomit.
--Brad Garrett as Robert Barone (Everybody Loves Raymond)
On the post: NY Public Radio Station WNYC Decides That Time Shifting = Piracy
Re:
On the post: NY Public Radio Station WNYC Decides That Time Shifting = Piracy
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Well shit dude, according to your deranged logic, they need to shut down the whole station, because any "tool" that can be used to receive it can be used to commit worse crimes than piracy!
Listen to the radio station in your car? Your car can be used to KILL PEOPLE!
Listen to the radio station at home on your radio? You can bash someone over the head with it and KILL THEM!
Tools are evil! Ban all tools!
#piracyiseverywhere
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Re: The Cold War and Arms Races
On the post: How Can You Be Register Of Copyrights If You Don't Even Understand Copyright's Most Basic Purpose?
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#piracyiseverywhere
On the post: How Can You Be Register Of Copyrights If You Don't Even Understand Copyright's Most Basic Purpose?
Re: And boom!
By the way, that link is not for the faint-hearted. It is the stuff nightmares are made of. I would copy some article titles here for you, but I could be sued just for pondering the idea!
#piracyiseverywhere
On the post: How Can You Be Register Of Copyrights If You Don't Even Understand Copyright's Most Basic Purpose?
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Yeah you're right, the country's founders surely intended for the term 'limited' to mean a few million years.
By the way, with your skull being that dense, how are you able to lift it up in the morning?
#piracyiseverywhere
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Or at the very least, strip searched...
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Re: Re: Yeeeahhhhh!
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Re: Guaranteed Abuse
On the post: Storytelling, Truth And Consequences
Oh rly?
Your news story has to check out... unless you have the word "News" in your name, in which you are allowed to lie and distort, because it's really only entertainment.
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/11-the-media-can-legally-lie/
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