The problem with the argument of free-market health care is that there have to be a few casualties before word gets around that some provider doesn't know what he/she is doing.
People die under the current system where the AMA has 'our best interest' at heart. No one ever said the free market is perfect. It's the best system we have. The bad examples are the exception not the rule. Everyone likes to point out Enron as the free market 'gone bad'. But there are hundreds of corporations that satisfy their customers each and every day.
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Cotton is saying is that people's personal safety is less important than protecting a few corporations. The MPAA and RIAA could care less about the ordinary citizen, so long as their bottom line continues to grow.
They can't. Copyright infringement costs the members of the MPAA and RIAA nothing. There is no "Losses due to copyright infringement" line on the balance sheet.
Wait, let me correct my position: copyright infringement does cost the companies - money spent on useless copy-protection schemes, money spent on useless lawsuits on music sharers, money spent on PR campaigns, and so on.
Some companies and artists get it. I recently bought the new Rush CD 'Far Cry' for $11.99 Canadian. No copy protection. CD plays in my car and computer. The week the album came out, it was the second most purchased CD on Amazon. So much for the while "we need to copy protect CDs/DVDs to sell them" argument. The MPAA and RIAA are idiots. Plain and simple.
Are the RIAA and MPAA seriously discounting the impact of "theft, to fraud, to burglary, bank-robbing, all of it"? Perhaps Mr. Cotton should ask people who have been robbed at gunpoint, defrauded or subjected to a home invasion what they think of his proposal to shift law enforcement services from protecting people to protecting a few corporations?
The RIAA and MPAA have hit rock bottom - instead of focusing on improving the experience they want to shift scarce law enforcement resources to protect their bottom line. Absolutely sad.
So are you saying that the US colonies should have just kept on paying taxes with representation? Do you believe that Rosa Parks should have just moved to the back of the bus? After all, those were the laws of the land at that time. Sometimes, laws have to be broken to show the politicians how stupid they are.
And the world's most powerful military is doing a wonderful job in Iraq. The Soviet Union had a powerful military and had it's ass kicked in Afghanistan.
Second, there is this little thing called Fair Use that trumps anything that a publisher or copyright owners may say about how a book can be used or reproduced. The book scanning project falls under fair use. Contrary to popular belief, the fact that you make money via fair use does not invalidate fair use.
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they provide search and all these software goodies for free
That's an 'old school' way of looking at it, as in the end user does not have to hand over any money to use most Google services. But there is a 'cost' or 'payment' in the form of data or information.
Google says, fine, you won't have to pay to use our search engine, but we are going to anonymously track your searches to fine tune our search engine and to deliver more relevant advertising. The currency is data and Google is one of the few companies that have been able to convert that data into gold.
That patent cites some 40 or 50 other patents and is nothing more than broadly defined systems or methods tied together by several flowcharts. I can't believe that it took 14 people to 'invent' and 'innovate' this baby. I remember drawing flowcharts in some of my computer science courses back in the 80s.
This strategy only reveals how bad things are at Britannica and how desperate they are to stay alive. It's been nice knowing you Encyclopaedia Britannica, but your time to shut down has come. Thanks for all the good times.
Now lets get to the important stuff like how Apple sucks or how MS is evil or how someone got fired via a text...you know the stuff we all actually care about!
Journalists gather and review background information, conduct thorough fact-checks and know how to present various sides of an argument or issues. These fake 'journalists' who argue that Google should be doing more for journalism and democracy or that newspapers should sue Google are nothing but hacks looking for some attention.
Last time I looked, when you search in Google News it presents you with a list of links to articles all over the world. The user decides which links to click on. Sounds democratic to me. Sending more traffic to a newspaper web site sounds like helping journalism to me.
The problem with journalists these days is that are unable to perform simple fact-checking.
f any of these detractors bothered to visit the Google News portal, they will notice that Google copies the headline, a one or two sentence snippet and maybe an image. There are no ads on Google News, so Google makes no money directly from this page. Clicking on a link takes you directly to the article.
But why let the facts get in your way when your solution is to sue a company only because it is successful.
Disney exists largely because it was able to create new works based on content in the public domain - exactly what the Constitution calls for. Now it wants to have it's cake and eat it too: Disney initially benefited from limited copyright and wants to benefit from 'as long as possible' copyright.
But that school of thought has been a disaster for Disney. It admitted as much when it bought Pixar - a company that has been much better at innovating than Disney over the past 15 years.
When you increase the length of copyright, you reduce the incentive to innovate and you shrink the public domain.
Protection of the public is how professional organizations justify their government granted monopoly powers. Before the internet how easy was to get information on a medical professionals? Surely, if 'protection of the public' is so important, shouldn't I, the lay person, know everything about a professional like a doctor or lawyer?
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People die under the current system where the AMA has 'our best interest' at heart. No one ever said the free market is perfect. It's the best system we have. The bad examples are the exception not the rule. Everyone likes to point out Enron as the free market 'gone bad'. But there are hundreds of corporations that satisfy their customers each and every day.
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Wait, let me correct my position: copyright infringement does cost the companies - money spent on useless copy-protection schemes, money spent on useless lawsuits on music sharers, money spent on PR campaigns, and so on.
Some companies and artists get it. I recently bought the new Rush CD 'Far Cry' for $11.99 Canadian. No copy protection. CD plays in my car and computer. The week the album came out, it was the second most purchased CD on Amazon. So much for the while "we need to copy protect CDs/DVDs to sell them" argument. The MPAA and RIAA are idiots. Plain and simple.
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The RIAA and MPAA have hit rock bottom - instead of focusing on improving the experience they want to shift scarce law enforcement resources to protect their bottom line. Absolutely sad.
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Re: I for one, am with Macmillan.
Second, there is this little thing called Fair Use that trumps anything that a publisher or copyright owners may say about how a book can be used or reproduced. The book scanning project falls under fair use. Contrary to popular belief, the fact that you make money via fair use does not invalidate fair use.
Fair Use - US Copyright Office
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Re: They are not all that different from other com
That's an 'old school' way of looking at it, as in the end user does not have to hand over any money to use most Google services. But there is a 'cost' or 'payment' in the form of data or information.
Google says, fine, you won't have to pay to use our search engine, but we are going to anonymously track your searches to fine tune our search engine and to deliver more relevant advertising. The currency is data and Google is one of the few companies that have been able to convert that data into gold.
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Re: Google next?
This strategy only reveals how bad things are at Britannica and how desperate they are to stay alive. It's been nice knowing you Encyclopaedia Britannica, but your time to shut down has come. Thanks for all the good times.
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That place is called digg.com
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Last time I looked, when you search in Google News it presents you with a list of links to articles all over the world. The user decides which links to click on. Sounds democratic to me. Sending more traffic to a newspaper web site sounds like helping journalism to me.
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f any of these detractors bothered to visit the Google News portal, they will notice that Google copies the headline, a one or two sentence snippet and maybe an image. There are no ads on Google News, so Google makes no money directly from this page. Clicking on a link takes you directly to the article.
But why let the facts get in your way when your solution is to sue a company only because it is successful.
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But that school of thought has been a disaster for Disney. It admitted as much when it bought Pixar - a company that has been much better at innovating than Disney over the past 15 years.
When you increase the length of copyright, you reduce the incentive to innovate and you shrink the public domain.
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