The problem is not that the students were disruptive, it was that they exhibited independent thought and were questioning authority. We cannot have that in this country and especially not in this education system. The ability to reason and think for one's self is a danger to those that hold power and it must be punished at all cost.
The government's job is not to do what isbest for its citizens. If that were the case, then this would be legal and ethical. No. The job of the government is to do for the people what the people cannot do for themselves are are willing to give that ability to the governing body.
Whatever the future percentage of legal versus illegal home-use recording might be, an injunction which seeks to deprive the public of the very tool or article of commerce capable of some noninfringing use would be an extremely harsh remedy, as well as one unprecedented in copyright law.
How can we put them on Youtube. You said we should avoid any sites that are dominated by piracy. According to Viacom, Youtube is the pirate flagship.
As for your other suggestions, I don't think those would work, especially when someone is wanting to get mass exposure. Personal hosting is great when you already have a following, or when you have tons of money to make a large following. Using existing services that have large numbers of users is far better for independent artists to get the mass following necessary to make such self hosting worthwhile.
No it is not two faced. our arguments here is that just because it is cheap an easy for the government to trample human and Constitutional rights.
However, when it comes to the march of progress in consumer goods, the free markets will always end up with the cheaper and easier options being the ones to survive. What is happening in the entertainment world is a select few companies that benefit from an artificial monopoly trying to block progress from being made.
In the war on piracy, there is no such human rights being protected by fighting piracy or the technological progress that is fulled by it.
Wah! I don't like what someone else is doing with their property! Rabble-rabble. Whine-whine.
Yeah, I think you pretty much nailed WNYC's point of view there. For some reason they don't like that people can use consumer electronics to record broadcast radio. It doesn't make a lot of sense at all.
I am not really surprised to see that someone in radio considers time-shifting piracy. Since the cassette tape, radio stations at the behest of music labels have been at war against people who record music from broadcast streams. While most of those efforts have simply made recording more frustrating, it hasn't stopped it.
What really surprises me is that mass market recording devices have been staved off for so long. I would assume that this is more of a result of the market's focus on television as the primary source of entertainment.
Sometimes I think people complain way too much about derivative and fan works. Sometimes they can be horrible sure. But other times, they can be pure awesome:
A lot of it is people mentioning you in a post while linking to scammy way of getting your personal information. The people behind such spam will just scan twitter for accounts and send the spam directly to them. Others will search for certain topics and spam everyone that is found in the search.
The best you can do is report them and block them.
What you are describing is as Chosen Reject said, a problem with DRM'ed proprietary formats. I would also like to add that it is a problem with the insane copyright lengths we have today. If copyright were something more reasonable, such as the 14-28 years it was originally, your kids would be able to get those books in whatever format they wanted by that time.
Yes. A group of people appointed for often politically charged reasons who have a broad understanding of every point of law are going to know more about specific points of law that other people make themselves experts in. It all makes sense.
You are right in a way. The Odyssey and other works of Homer are true cultural icons as they have not only lastest years but millennia. They have been used for numerous other works of written literature, movies, games music etc.
However, culture can also be short term. It have a strong effect on a relatively small number of people for a short time. That does not make it any less significant. Let's take for example the Harry Potter series of books. These books have inspired a large number of fans to create derivative works. The works are part of the larger Potter culture. Most of these works are going to die in obscurity. Some will remain relavent and hold out as long as Harry Potter does, possibly beyond.
Copyright as it currently stands is a threat to such culture. Sure Rowling may be fine with it now, but what happens when she dies and her kids and/or estate takes over and decides that such cultural efforts should be killed off or be forced to pay an expensive license? Think about that.
Personally, I had no idea who John Carter was or what it was about when Disney announced its movie. I only recently learned about it. I understand why it is not very well known based on the actions of The writer's estate. They are killing any effort to build upon that culture unless it meets their narrow view of what the world should be like, and also pay an expensive licensing fee.
Heavy handed and expensive restrictions are not how you preserve culture. It never will be.
I love a good book myself and have been going out of my way to find hardcover versions of all of Michael Crichton's books. However, I would not balk at the idea of also having all his books on my ereader. I love the convenience.
Paper books, and specifically hardcover books, are not going to go away, but will become a premium offering. They will be for those collectors and mega fans. The idea that books should come out in the order of hardcover -> trade paper back -> ebook -> mass market paper back is going to be turned on its head. Books are shifting to ebook -> 'whatever paper version people want' Nothing can stop it.
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Whatever the future percentage of legal versus illegal home-use recording might be, an injunction which seeks to deprive the public of the very tool or article of commerce capable of some noninfringing use would be an extremely harsh remedy, as well as one unprecedented in copyright law.
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As for your other suggestions, I don't think those would work, especially when someone is wanting to get mass exposure. Personal hosting is great when you already have a following, or when you have tons of money to make a large following. Using existing services that have large numbers of users is far better for independent artists to get the mass following necessary to make such self hosting worthwhile.
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Give me a break.
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However, when it comes to the march of progress in consumer goods, the free markets will always end up with the cheaper and easier options being the ones to survive. What is happening in the entertainment world is a select few companies that benefit from an artificial monopoly trying to block progress from being made.
In the war on piracy, there is no such human rights being protected by fighting piracy or the technological progress that is fulled by it.
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Yeah, I think you pretty much nailed WNYC's point of view there. For some reason they don't like that people can use consumer electronics to record broadcast radio. It doesn't make a lot of sense at all.
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What really surprises me is that mass market recording devices have been staved off for so long. I would assume that this is more of a result of the market's focus on television as the primary source of entertainment.
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The best you can do is report them and block them.
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However, culture can also be short term. It have a strong effect on a relatively small number of people for a short time. That does not make it any less significant. Let's take for example the Harry Potter series of books. These books have inspired a large number of fans to create derivative works. The works are part of the larger Potter culture. Most of these works are going to die in obscurity. Some will remain relavent and hold out as long as Harry Potter does, possibly beyond.
Copyright as it currently stands is a threat to such culture. Sure Rowling may be fine with it now, but what happens when she dies and her kids and/or estate takes over and decides that such cultural efforts should be killed off or be forced to pay an expensive license? Think about that.
Personally, I had no idea who John Carter was or what it was about when Disney announced its movie. I only recently learned about it. I understand why it is not very well known based on the actions of The writer's estate. They are killing any effort to build upon that culture unless it meets their narrow view of what the world should be like, and also pay an expensive licensing fee.
Heavy handed and expensive restrictions are not how you preserve culture. It never will be.
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I love a good book myself and have been going out of my way to find hardcover versions of all of Michael Crichton's books. However, I would not balk at the idea of also having all his books on my ereader. I love the convenience.
Paper books, and specifically hardcover books, are not going to go away, but will become a premium offering. They will be for those collectors and mega fans. The idea that books should come out in the order of hardcover -> trade paper back -> ebook -> mass market paper back is going to be turned on its head. Books are shifting to ebook -> 'whatever paper version people want' Nothing can stop it.
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But since you brought up the fact that everything is copyrighted, why don't you explain to me why my 5 year-old's crayon drawings need copyright?
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