Re: Ye old, "Govment-granted monoply priveledges, Mike we heard you the first million times you said it, we still done believe you.
Write a book and keep it under your mattress. Your book, your property.
Publish that book, make a million copies, sell it to a million people, and that book is no longer yours. It's now owned by a million others. You have no right to go into those people's homes and stop them from making copies of the book they now own, like they have no right to come into your home and take your unpublished book!
Copyright is a privilege conditionally granted, which temporarily suspends the right to copy from the million people and gives it only to you as the author. This is to encourage you to take the book from under your mattress and publish it, as you are promised you will retain control of your work for a limited time (which implies potential profit).
So it is not a right, it is a privilege of finite duration, that is granted at the expense of other people's property rights.
Unfortunately, the qualifications for these security jobs are probably not really very high, and even if these people come to hate their jobs and quit, there are many desperate people looking for jobs who'd be delighted to take their place...
Asking WIPO to reform/limit copyright would be like asking them to cut their own legs off. They are in the business of "promotion of IP protection" so any IP reform task would be a massive conflict of interest for them on two grounds:
1) Disagrees with their mission statement,
2) May ultimately result in their employees losing their jobs.
While there is no impartial and incorruptible way to reform IP, if this is left up to individual countries there is a better chance of democracy actually working rather than leaving it in the hands of an organisation like WIPO or a "panel of experts". Whatever the case, we need to bring more real economists and fewer industry lobbyists into the loop.
Hold on, was GoDaddy just the address registrar or also the host for the search engine?
If GoDaddy was only the registrar like TFA seems to suggest, then I don't see how on earth they should accept *any* DMCA requests, let alone take sites offline.
Netflix on the other hand uses Sliverlight, which is Microsoft's half-defunct Flash competitor, which of course doesn't work on Linux. There may be a way to play Silverlight content using Mono, but like most people I don't care enough to bother trying.
"the American voter is (oh my goodness!) smart enough not to care all that much about someone doing something silly that's caught in a photograph"
It appears to me that most elections are won through dishonest advertising and cheap shots against the opponents these days.
Perhaps it's a cynical way to look at things, but I think most politicians would be more than happy to spin their opponents' old facebook pics to tarnish their image.
The voters may normally be smart enough to realise that FB pics are silly and shouldn't make a difference, but with enough brainwashing and a well-thought smear campaign, they could make a difference.
"If it ever comes out that this lawsuit was instigated by Fox that would not surprise me, maybe Cablevision should get those same people to also sue Fox for breach of contract."
"Denmark was one of the players in the ACTA negotiations who was vehemently against transparency. Apparently, that's carried over into domestic discussions as well."
Techdirt definition of troll: the same definition as everywhere else on the internet, specifically someone who purposefully posts inflammatory or disrespectful comments to elicit an emotional response from the other commenters.
This forum is full of people with ZERO real world experience that just want to rationalize their ripping off of artist's work.
Ah yes, the good old days when the direct sale of music recordings was still considered a viable business model. The world has moved on I'm afraid, and what was a reasonable way for some musicians to operate no longer works -- musicians once again need to make their money the same way they did before recording technology came along, which was less than a century ago, and they can also use the internet to reach a wider audience.
I don't really listen to music any more, and I certainly don't pirate it. Yet, I still think that copyright as it stands is stupid and ridiculous and must be struck down. Why? Because it's draconian, unconstitutional and is being exploited by companies and governments that would love to see the internet in ruins. Losing the internet to save a dying business model is too high a price to pay, and it's my duty to make sure that business model dies quickly before it does more damage. I'm sure in time more and more concerned citizens will join the push to put copyright in its place.
At the end of the day, recording artists in the new age need to find new ways to make money, while the dinosaurs will need to accept their fate.
I've worked as a musician, producer etc. for years with real bands- successful bands that are well known. Some bought homes with their record label advances. One who I know never recouped on their advance. Did that mean he lost his home?
NO.
I'm happy for your "some" successful bands and their fancy houses, I really am. I'm also happy for the drugs they could afford to snort and their private jets. I'm happy the success of those bands was determined by suits in a board meeting rather than by the market. I'm happy about the way the labels distributed the money to the smaller, less-well-advertised (and less successful) artists. I'm happy about the royalty percentages given to artists and the number of records an artist needed to sell to be profitable. And I'm definitely ecstatic that the music industry is buying laws to spy on people's private communications in case a song changes hands.
All of those are signs of a healthy and vibrant cultural ecosystem that promotes creativity, artistic freedom, consumer choice and democracy. Anyone who opposes this regime is a villain and a pirate, and must be DMCAed, disconnected, hanged, drawn and quartered.
Looks like he is rewriting the entire engine in C# and is not distributing any of the original game resources. You can't play what he's making without owning a copy of the game.
Remember ScummVM? They had similar problems with Lucasarts, but eventually won.
While I agree with your logic, I think the problem is much more subtle than that.
Consumers have been conditioned to equate OS with Windows, and the methods used to achieve that were, imo, coercive. The monopoly they are sustaining is in market share, but more importantly in mind share.
A huge part of the problem is them forcing people to buy a Windows license with every hardware purchase, which I believe is something the anti-trust people should take a good hard look at.
And don't think my beef is with Microsoft or with Windows. What I hate is their business practices, and I'm pissed off that my last laptop purchase included an expensive OS that I had no use for. I don't want ISPs to include a similar tax for the major record labels that I am forced to pay regardless of whether I love or hate Lady Gaga.
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Re: Ye old, "Govment-granted monoply priveledges, Mike we heard you the first million times you said it, we still done believe you.
Publish that book, make a million copies, sell it to a million people, and that book is no longer yours. It's now owned by a million others. You have no right to go into those people's homes and stop them from making copies of the book they now own, like they have no right to come into your home and take your unpublished book!
Copyright is a privilege conditionally granted, which temporarily suspends the right to copy from the million people and gives it only to you as the author. This is to encourage you to take the book from under your mattress and publish it, as you are promised you will retain control of your work for a limited time (which implies potential profit).
So it is not a right, it is a privilege of finite duration, that is granted at the expense of other people's property rights.
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On the post: Is WIPO Really The Right Organization To Fix Copyright?
1) Disagrees with their mission statement,
2) May ultimately result in their employees losing their jobs.
While there is no impartial and incorruptible way to reform IP, if this is left up to individual countries there is a better chance of democracy actually working rather than leaving it in the hands of an organisation like WIPO or a "panel of experts". Whatever the case, we need to bring more real economists and fewer industry lobbyists into the loop.
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http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=4859
On the post: Monster Cable Gets Classifieds Search Engine Taken Down With Bogus DMCA Notice
If GoDaddy was only the registrar like TFA seems to suggest, then I don't see how on earth they should accept *any* DMCA requests, let alone take sites offline.
On the post: Netflix Avoided Android Because It Didn't Have Enough DRM
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Netflix on the other hand uses Sliverlight, which is Microsoft's half-defunct Flash competitor, which of course doesn't work on Linux. There may be a way to play Silverlight content using Mono, but like most people I don't care enough to bother trying.
On the post: Are 'Indiscreet' Images On Social Networks Really Having An Impact On Elections?
It appears to me that most elections are won through dishonest advertising and cheap shots against the opponents these days.
Perhaps it's a cynical way to look at things, but I think most politicians would be more than happy to spin their opponents' old facebook pics to tarnish their image.
The voters may normally be smart enough to realise that FB pics are silly and shouldn't make a difference, but with enough brainwashing and a well-thought smear campaign, they could make a difference.
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On the post: Danish Discussion On 3 Strikes Plan Done In Secret, Leaving Consumers Out Of The Mix Again
Same people doing the lobbying probably.
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Funnily enough, I had formed my own opinions on this subject long before I even knew TechDirt existed. I'm sure the same goes for many others.
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Ah yes, the good old days when the direct sale of music recordings was still considered a viable business model. The world has moved on I'm afraid, and what was a reasonable way for some musicians to operate no longer works -- musicians once again need to make their money the same way they did before recording technology came along, which was less than a century ago, and they can also use the internet to reach a wider audience.
I don't really listen to music any more, and I certainly don't pirate it. Yet, I still think that copyright as it stands is stupid and ridiculous and must be struck down. Why? Because it's draconian, unconstitutional and is being exploited by companies and governments that would love to see the internet in ruins. Losing the internet to save a dying business model is too high a price to pay, and it's my duty to make sure that business model dies quickly before it does more damage. I'm sure in time more and more concerned citizens will join the push to put copyright in its place.
At the end of the day, recording artists in the new age need to find new ways to make money, while the dinosaurs will need to accept their fate.
I'm happy for your "some" successful bands and their fancy houses, I really am. I'm also happy for the drugs they could afford to snort and their private jets. I'm happy the success of those bands was determined by suits in a board meeting rather than by the market. I'm happy about the way the labels distributed the money to the smaller, less-well-advertised (and less successful) artists. I'm happy about the royalty percentages given to artists and the number of records an artist needed to sell to be profitable. And I'm definitely ecstatic that the music industry is buying laws to spy on people's private communications in case a song changes hands.
All of those are signs of a healthy and vibrant cultural ecosystem that promotes creativity, artistic freedom, consumer choice and democracy. Anyone who opposes this regime is a villain and a pirate, and must be DMCAed, disconnected, hanged, drawn and quartered.
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Remember ScummVM? They had similar problems with Lucasarts, but eventually won.
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Consumers have been conditioned to equate OS with Windows, and the methods used to achieve that were, imo, coercive. The monopoly they are sustaining is in market share, but more importantly in mind share.
A huge part of the problem is them forcing people to buy a Windows license with every hardware purchase, which I believe is something the anti-trust people should take a good hard look at.
And don't think my beef is with Microsoft or with Windows. What I hate is their business practices, and I'm pissed off that my last laptop purchase included an expensive OS that I had no use for. I don't want ISPs to include a similar tax for the major record labels that I am forced to pay regardless of whether I love or hate Lady Gaga.
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