It's not about "producing" a copy of something under copyright. This is legal.
It's about PUBLISHING which is restricted.
Really, even here on techdirt, where I would expect people to be a bit more educated about these things, the propaganda-induced idea that "copying" or "downloading" could be illegal is extremely widespread.
Conflating upload and download is of course the intention of the copyright MAFIAA which spreads this propaganda, and was of course helped by torrents and other peer2peer technology which uploads at the same time as it downloads.
But the truth is, copyright is about publishing, about uploads.
So you "Leia copy" is perfectly legal. You just can't publish her ;).
"At present, you can get well and truly bombed for much less than it would cost to eat at McDonald's. "
This costs SFR 11.70 here, 3dl beer in a restaurant or pub costs SFR 4.50, so no; but in a store, you can get 5dl beer for SFR 0.8 to SFR 2, so yes again.
But then, getting drunk is very much a question of speed. I can drink 6 liters of beer (SFR 9.60 to SFR 24) spread out over a day without getting drunk. But 3 liters spread over 3-4 hours will get me drunk.
"There's a case for a reasonable federal whiskey tax, say about fifty dollars a bottle ($250/gallon, $2/shot)."
"reasonable" only if you're a bloody puritan puke.
Nope. It's not the research that's banned, it's the launching of such an attack.
And actually, I think what they're doing is nearly a good thing. Of course, subverting XCode helps no-one, but breaking TPM with side-channel attacks does. On one condition: Publication.
That said, without publication, the CIA is of course not helping to make anything more secure, but making everyone less secure, including the rest of the USA.
Yes, we've had the same problem in the 90ies with techno parties. People milling about in dark places to monotonous music and popping pills? Clearly this was because of the bad influence from PacMan.
"to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the words of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living."
Of course, this was said in 1841 when some idiots wanted to make it last longer than lifetime. They didn't listen.
However, the idea that what "liberal" and "conservative" mean in Europe is different from what they mean in the United States is absolutely fact.
Yes. Here "liberal" usually refers to "corporatist", and "conservative" refers to "corporatist".
Whereas the usual (but of course also totally wrong) meaning of the US "liberal" would be called "socialist" here; whereas the usual US meaning of "conservative" would probably be called "reactionary". At least if you ask the others.
And "libertarian" refers to "anarchist", "green" to "green", and "pirate" to "liberal" (in the original sense).
"Was die Netzneutralität betrifft, da haben wir gerade in Deutschland Talbian-artige Entwicklungen. Da ist die Netzgemeinde, da sind die Piraten unterwegs, da gehts um perfekte Gleichmacherei."
I translate:
"Regarding net-neutrality, we have taliban-like developments, especially in germany. There's the net-community, there are the pirates on the move, this is about a perfect levelling down."
Well it is fascist. The "group to hate" is not really needed, it's just more convenient. Right now its ISIS, which of course is just as fascist, but that doesn't really matter.
And yes, this will be a very sad, cruel, prohibitionist century to live in. It already is.
Those 'indigenous communities are distressed about the commercial exploitation of their folklore and other forms of cultural expression by "outside" entities.' will be even more distressed if this comes through.
Because then, nobody else but them will be allowed to play around with their cultural heritage, leading to decline and finally extinction of their culture. In the end, all the cultural heritage of some group (let's say "Hopi") will be in the hand of some kind of "steward", most probably some kind of company, and nobody else will ever hear of it again, except when somebody uses some element by pure chance, in which case he will be sued.
.. hurts the MPAA/RIAA profits, as does all the legal content indexed by the search engines,
Yes, turns out there are people out there writing their own books, making their own music or even movies. And even giving them away under free licenses. And people might even learn such competing content exists by perusing search engines like google.
Clearly, there must be done something against this, otherwise people will NOT buy the things the MPAA or RIAA deigns to offer.
18 The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against a fellow Israelite, 19 then do to the false witness as that witness intended to do to the other party. You must purge the evil from among you.
Actually, this refers to something else completely. low justice is for minor infractions and civil disputes, high justice for big crimes, and has the right to capital punishment.
So if you publish a book without being authorized to do so, your case will go to the low court, which sorts out things like the new-fangled copy-right and other civil infractions.
If you've beaten up a servant of your lord (or your city), or have been accused of having done so, you go to the high court. If it turns out said servant had committed perjury, he'd be stripped of his legal rights, including the right to ever again swear an oath in a court...
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It's about PUBLISHING which is restricted.
Really, even here on techdirt, where I would expect people to be a bit more educated about these things, the propaganda-induced idea that "copying" or "downloading" could be illegal is extremely widespread.
Conflating upload and download is of course the intention of the copyright MAFIAA which spreads this propaganda, and was of course helped by torrents and other peer2peer technology which uploads at the same time as it downloads.
But the truth is, copyright is about publishing, about uploads.
So you "Leia copy" is perfectly legal. You just can't publish her ;).
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Friggin undead, 50 years dead and still wanting royalties.
http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/aufstand-der-toten-per-urheberrecht/ ("Rise of the dead via copyright" german, sorry).
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This costs SFR 11.70 here, 3dl beer in a restaurant or pub costs SFR 4.50, so no; but in a store, you can get 5dl beer for SFR 0.8 to SFR 2, so yes again.
But then, getting drunk is very much a question of speed. I can drink 6 liters of beer (SFR 9.60 to SFR 24) spread out over a day without getting drunk. But 3 liters spread over 3-4 hours will get me drunk.
"There's a case for a reasonable federal whiskey tax, say about fifty dollars a bottle ($250/gallon, $2/shot)."
"reasonable" only if you're a bloody puritan puke.
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The problem is that they don't publish their findings, so the vulnerabilities can be fixed.
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And actually, I think what they're doing is nearly a good thing. Of course, subverting XCode helps no-one, but breaking TPM with side-channel attacks does. On one condition: Publication.
That said, without publication, the CIA is of course not helping to make anything more secure, but making everyone less secure, including the rest of the USA.
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"to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the words of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living."
Of course, this was said in 1841 when some idiots wanted to make it last longer than lifetime. They didn't listen.
http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/commentary/MacaulaySpeeches.html
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Yes. Here "liberal" usually refers to "corporatist", and "conservative" refers to "corporatist".
Whereas the usual (but of course also totally wrong) meaning of the US "liberal" would be called "socialist" here; whereas the usual US meaning of "conservative" would probably be called "reactionary". At least if you ask the others.
And "libertarian" refers to "anarchist", "green" to "green", and "pirate" to "liberal" (in the original sense).
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I translate:
"Regarding net-neutrality, we have taliban-like developments, especially in germany. There's the net-community, there are the pirates on the move, this is about a perfect levelling down."
Yes, this is a total incompetent idiot.
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And yes, this will be a very sad, cruel, prohibitionist century to live in. It already is.
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This would kill culture
Because then, nobody else but them will be allowed to play around with their cultural heritage, leading to decline and finally extinction of their culture. In the end, all the cultural heritage of some group (let's say "Hopi") will be in the hand of some kind of "steward", most probably some kind of company, and nobody else will ever hear of it again, except when somebody uses some element by pure chance, in which case he will be sued.
EOC
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Copyright is a conspiracy to facilitate infringement on creation?
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Yes, turns out there are people out there writing their own books, making their own music or even movies. And even giving them away under free licenses. And people might even learn such competing content exists by perusing search engines like google.
Clearly, there must be done something against this, otherwise people will NOT buy the things the MPAA or RIAA deigns to offer.
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That's like "conspiracy to not control your fellow passengers whether they have paid the fare?"
Very good, sounds like you're in for a post guarding a bridge and enforce that upon anyone who passes.
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Re: That used to be the case
18 The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against a fellow Israelite,
19 then do to the false witness as that witness intended to do to the other party. You must purge the evil from among you.
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High Court, Low Court
Actually, this refers to something else completely. low justice is for minor infractions and civil disputes, high justice for big crimes, and has the right to capital punishment.
So if you publish a book without being authorized to do so, your case will go to the low court, which sorts out things like the new-fangled copy-right and other civil infractions.
If you've beaten up a servant of your lord (or your city), or have been accused of having done so, you go to the high court. If it turns out said servant had committed perjury, he'd be stripped of his legal rights, including the right to ever again swear an oath in a court...
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