... Because it makes perfect sense to allow Sony to install rootkits on people's computers because they think they have the right to enforce "copy protection" themselves...
So the option is in between having less shared ideas or a minefield? Then I pick less shared ideas, thanks.
Uhm, wait... Well, in *your* business, maybe. I'm running Ubuntu here with 100% free software with all source code available.
If an idea is patented, the patentee should make sure everybody knows. The GIF case, where the company let everybody use it for free until the patent was granted, is a clear demonstration that patents suck.
The free PNG format was actually created because of the GIF patents. And with the fresh aPNG:s (Animated Portable Networks Graphics, supported by Firefox since 3.5), they now beat GIF:s in ALL regards.
Many of the best ideas WOULD be shared, many of them for honor (like in matematics and with the Nobel prize).
"If you know the solution, contact the newspaper industry because you will be a well-paid consultant. The problem will soon be this: If newspapers decide they can't afford beat writers, where will that information come from? Somebody has to get on the plane, go to Toronto and ask the questions."
Nobody has to get on the plane if you have people there from the begging. Like websites have with their large communities that are spread around the world.
Want news from Sweden? Ask me and I'll get you some.
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2. I own the priviligie to interpret this EULA in case something is unclear.
3. This is unclear.
4. I've got no responsibilities.
I demand that everything related to copyright and licensing SHALL be rephrased into "paying for a license" rather than "buy", and that the phrase "buy the game/movie/song now" shall be ILLEGAL!
At least in Sweden there are laws that says that this is to lie to the customers (or at least distort information) in a way that is harmful to them.
So in theory I could sue any given record store here and say that they are fooling their customers to think that they own what they have payed for when they don't.
Oh, wait - I don't have to sue since it's against "criminal law" rather then "civil law", so I just have to report it!
Not really.
Internet is email, IM, distributed processing, etc...
It's communication.
What do you mean with content? Photographs and videos? IP data packages? Everything stated in communications? Everything that's sent in between computers?
"I resolved a long time ago that if I was going to put a comment after an article I read that I was going to identify myself. Why? Because they are my words and opinions."
I just posted a comment to another article while not logged in. Then I noticed that I wasn't logged in. So I logged in and posted a reply to my first comment so that my nickname would be visible.
"The lack of industry leadership championing economic returns threatens consumer choice and survival of niche TV channels."
The lack of dominating giants making the rules will give less space for niche TV channels and making it harder for indipendent producers to create stuff and distribute their work in indipendent channels.
Industry leadership means big TV networks. Economic returns means money to then big TV networks. Less giants and less money directed to the giants will leave lesser space to small TV networks according to them, because like with the internet - if there are no big sites where everything are that are moderated by internet giants, then there wouldn't be any small sites.
Yeah, sure. There absolutely weren't several millions sites already before Google (who actually are a search engine rather than a public directory with 100 sites.)
... Wait a little now, what did just happen here...!?
Somebody's logic just broke.
The idea is basicly that if some blood-sucker can trick one person to pay for something, then it should be illegal for averybody else to not pay for it in order to protect the business for the blood-sucker who profits on it.
"whenever you requested to play a song, if it isn't in your library, it would download it from another computer -- but also delete it from the remote computer. So long as the copy count across the entire network stayed the same (as opposed to normal p2p where the old copy is not deleted), you'd have very good legal arguments that you're not infringing."
+1 xD FTW!
Let's make a OneSwarm fork that does that!
(OneInstanceSwarm?)
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Re: Govt Can't Authorize
Or in english: FAIL!
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Re: patent alternatives?
http://sciencecommons.org/
I'm not sure if it's what you want, but it should be.
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Re: accidental infringement -> obvious?
Uhm, wait... Well, in *your* business, maybe. I'm running Ubuntu here with 100% free software with all source code available.
If an idea is patented, the patentee should make sure everybody knows. The GIF case, where the company let everybody use it for free until the patent was granted, is a clear demonstration that patents suck.
The free PNG format was actually created because of the GIF patents. And with the fresh aPNG:s (Animated Portable Networks Graphics, supported by Firefox since 3.5), they now beat GIF:s in ALL regards.
Many of the best ideas WOULD be shared, many of them for honor (like in matematics and with the Nobel prize).
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Re: Re: Journal News
"If you know the solution, contact the newspaper industry because you will be a well-paid consultant. The problem will soon be this: If newspapers decide they can't afford beat writers, where will that information come from? Somebody has to get on the plane, go to Toronto and ask the questions."
Nobody has to get on the plane if you have people there from the begging. Like websites have with their large communities that are spread around the world.
Want news from Sweden? Ask me and I'll get you some.
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On the post: Forget Clickthrough EULAs; Are There Really Walkby EULAs For NYC Parks?
Re: Well, hell
2. I own the priviligie to interpret this EULA in case something is unclear.
3. This is unclear.
4. I've got no responsibilities.
On the post: How Copyright Can Be Viewed As Anti-Property
Re: Group ownership rights
At least in Sweden there are laws that says that this is to lie to the customers (or at least distort information) in a way that is harmful to them.
So in theory I could sue any given record store here and say that they are fooling their customers to think that they own what they have payed for when they don't.
Oh, wait - I don't have to sue since it's against "criminal law" rather then "civil law", so I just have to report it!
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Re:
Internet is email, IM, distributed processing, etc...
It's communication.
What do you mean with content? Photographs and videos? IP data packages? Everything stated in communications? Everything that's sent in between computers?
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Re: Re: Hulser
I just posted a comment to another article while not logged in. Then I noticed that I wasn't logged in. So I logged in and posted a reply to my first comment so that my nickname would be visible.
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Re: It's just buggy programming...
It's getting entertained by for free.
On the post: Media Analyst Calls Hulu 'Anti-American' For Providing Free Content
Re: Re: Re: Unsubstantiated?
The lack of dominating giants making the rules will give less space for niche TV channels and making it harder for indipendent producers to create stuff and distribute their work in indipendent channels.
Industry leadership means big TV networks. Economic returns means money to then big TV networks. Less giants and less money directed to the giants will leave lesser space to small TV networks according to them, because like with the internet - if there are no big sites where everything are that are moderated by internet giants, then there wouldn't be any small sites.
Yeah, sure. There absolutely weren't several millions sites already before Google (who actually are a search engine rather than a public directory with 100 sites.)
... Wait a little now, what did just happen here...!?
Somebody's logic just broke.
They're talk about incentives are stupid.
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And the $300 billion - they are probably talking about their own profits that will decrease with $300 billion.
On the post: Media Analyst Calls Hulu 'Anti-American' For Providing Free Content
Re: Well, then
The idea is basicly that if some blood-sucker can trick one person to pay for something, then it should be illegal for averybody else to not pay for it in order to protect the business for the blood-sucker who profits on it.
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Re:
...
Please continue.
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Re: Re: Re: Unsubstantiated?
On the post: If Downloading A Song Is Just Like Stealing A CD, Why Won't The RIAA Allow Reselling MP3s?
Re: This issue was already resolved
+1 xD FTW!
Let's make a OneSwarm fork that does that!
(OneInstanceSwarm?)
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