I'd wager that peer to peer client technology grew at the rapid pace it did because of the infringing activities of Napster and its cousins. Web based video became mainstream thanks to YouTube, which as we have seen can have infringing and non-infringing uses.
PROTECT IP would block new technologies because the legacy industries would scream and yell about how this newfangled tech is infringing on their ability to make money.
Napster was an innovation. The music industry didn't like it so they didn't work with it to make it better and useful to their consumers, so it went down as a ball of fire.
A lot of times innovation will begin by people doing something outside the law, or something industry leaders don't want happening. Usually they come about because someone sees an economic or marketing need that isn't being filled.
Unless the major collection agencies are going to start paying YouTube to the money needed to fund content checkers, the responsibility still lies on the copyright holders to police and submit their take down notices as the current law says they have to.
Aye, stop educating just one side of the argument. If they are going to bring in industry execs who go on about the evils of piracy then they also need to bring in a scholar or other legally trained person who can go over the very broad details about what covers fair use. Besides.. the industry execs can scream all they want about what constitutes piracy, but until it gets brought up in front of a judge and the judge says "bad form, infringment" the execs need to chill.
Might irresponsible of the TSA. First they threaten to not allow any flights out of Texas if they couldn't assure the safety of passengers and flight crew. So they basically just said that they are 100% successful in catching anyone who might wish said passengers and crew harm. So if something does go wrong in the future and the flight originated out of Texas.. then we can lay all of the blame at TSA feet for failing to do their job in assuring the safety of crew and passengers.
You will please note, that those places they are showing off on MTV's Cribs are usually the most successful of artists. A very rarefied single digit percentage of all performing artists out there. By that very fact they are an exception to the "successful" artist label. How many garage bands are there out there who are as good, or even better then, whatever group is showing off their multi million dollar home struggling to make it with performances at bars and parties?
I'm just waiting to hear reports of ISPs blocking content to the various government broadcasts and postings. After all, I'm sure there is someone out there who finds those government posts obscene and objectionable and thus the ISPs have to block them.
Mind you, it very may well cause issues in terms of getting much needed info to their people so I'm not saying it would be the BEST thing for them to do.
Wow.. I'm dumbfounded. I'm not even sure where to begin much less end. Normally I would take a wait and see and hope the SCOTUS would knock it down faster then lightning strikes, but considering this move is in reply to the recent ruling.
*sigh* once they put it in action, and other states see it going through unchecked I fear the practice will spread.
For even more fun, Slashdot is reporting that SOE is back down again. Apparently the info they want you to enter for the password change.. is the same information that the hackers got away with.
If that picture is available as a publicly posted picture that anyone can view and or grab, does it matter? Remember, this boy is simply taking a public picture and asking for someone's opinion about it. Statements of opinion are protected speech.
Sure, but if what I understand from the article is correct, the boy wasn't even a student at the school when the incident occurred. I would think they would have had better grounds to get him arrested for trespassing then "disturbing the peace".
So I guess the owner/operators of all those Hot or Not websites should be arrested also? The only remote difference I could see would be that the girls this boy was sorting are potentially minors, but even then if he got the images off their facebook pages that were publicly available *shrug*.
First blush sounds like a very bad case of overreaction.
Well since the courts decided he was personally responsible instead of his company (LLC and INC protections didn't apply) then I figure the company can help the man out and give him the money to pay it.
Didn't the newspapers fight tooth and nail to get Anon source shield laws for their journalists? So that when they break these big huge scandal stories and congress and the courts drag them up they don't have to reveal their sources?
So then why are they trying to apply ANY of our laws to them hrm? If the First Amendment doesn't apply to them then I would argue that none of the offenses they are trying to charge them with apply either.
Back in 96 or so when I was in college (this was pre 9/11 so they didn't have as much theater going on) I was attending Project A-Kon in the Dallas/FW airport convention center. At the time I carried a very nice Benchmade lock blade knife with a half serrated blade just under 4 inches. Being a con in the airport there wasn't much to eat inside so we had to cross the breezeways to get to the food court to eat and the security checkpoint therein. Not thinking about it I pulled everything out of my pockets (including the knife and plastic disposable camera) and put it in the basket and walked through the metal detector. Guard picks up my knife, opens it up and measures the blade length against his plastic ID card attempts to close it (unsuccessfully given the lock takes some getting used to) and hands it back to me. He then picks up the camera and orders me to "Make it work". I looked at him dumbfounded for a few seconds because he was more worried about the plastic camera then he was the about 3.75" folding lock blade fighting knife he had just handed back to me. I snapped a picture of my friends (who's jaws were hanging just as low as mine was) and the guard let us go on our way to the food court.
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PROTECT IP would block new technologies because the legacy industries would scream and yell about how this newfangled tech is infringing on their ability to make money.
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A lot of times innovation will begin by people doing something outside the law, or something industry leaders don't want happening. Usually they come about because someone sees an economic or marketing need that isn't being filled.
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Mind you, it very may well cause issues in terms of getting much needed info to their people so I'm not saying it would be the BEST thing for them to do.
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*sigh* once they put it in action, and other states see it going through unchecked I fear the practice will spread.
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First blush sounds like a very bad case of overreaction.
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