Actually, how about NOT letting them write all the laws they want? The laws may or may not stop piracy, but the abuse of these laws might bankrupt a lot of innocent people.
How do you know that when you give your credit card to a waitress that she's not memorizing your credit card number to sell to the highest bidder?
You can't tap her phone line, search her e-mail, or otherwise invade her privacy without reasonable cause. Yet you'll have a much harder time establishing reasonable cause without invading her privacy.
The best you can do (apart from tipping well and paying cash) is to trust her for now and hope that if she does do something malicious, she'll slip up and leave enough of a trail for someone to catch her.
Ditto for the government. Trust that they're not screwing you and hope that if they are, they'll leave enough clues for you to justifiably raise a stink.
If most / all of the ads are embedded in the videos, then Hulu gets to keep its ad revenue and saves a tiny amount on not having to serve the web page (although they still have to pay for serving the content).
My understanding is that patent holders typically send out information about their patent to every possible entity that might infringe, just so they can show that the possible infringer had notice of the patent and "should have known" about the invention. That makes showing truly independent invention pretty hard.
One thing I'd like to see explored is to get these possible infringers involved before the patent is granted. Given the presumption of guilt in patent cases, a more adversarial patent granting process might be worth looking at.
Can anything break this cycle? No device I've seen so far could. Palm and RIM haven't a hope. The only credible contender is Android. But Android is an orphan; Google doesn't really care about it, not the way Apple cares about the iPhone. Apple cares about the iPhone the way Google cares about search.
He then goes on to solicit startup founders with ideas on how to make a mainstream developer-friendly mobile device to apply for investment from Y-Combinator.
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Trust me
You can't tap her phone line, search her e-mail, or otherwise invade her privacy without reasonable cause. Yet you'll have a much harder time establishing reasonable cause without invading her privacy.
The best you can do (apart from tipping well and paying cash) is to trust her for now and hope that if she does do something malicious, she'll slip up and leave enough of a trail for someone to catch her.
Ditto for the government. Trust that they're not screwing you and hope that if they are, they'll leave enough clues for you to justifiably raise a stink.
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Actually this could save Hulu a penny
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One thing I'd like to see explored is to get these possible infringers involved before the patent is granted. Given the presumption of guilt in patent cases, a more adversarial patent granting process might be worth looking at.
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@Bah, Graham actually mentions Android:
He then goes on to solicit startup founders with ideas on how to make a mainstream developer-friendly mobile device to apply for investment from Y-Combinator.
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