History goes in cycles. What seems like a good idea has faults, those faults are found and fought against, overfixed, and then the next generation sees the faults of the fixes and overfixes, etc.
Ideally we move toward balance. In reality, sometimes we just see-saw.
I do recall Apple publically stating that Samsung "stole" their design. The UK has pretty strict defamation laws, and I would guess that Apple will run afoul of those laws unless they offer an apology in the form of free advertising.
From what I've seen, you are correct. Normal people did not know the changes to copyright law which have occurred in the last 20-30 years. Hell, I have a coworker who watermarks "copyrighted material" on nearly everything he prints! They changed the laws, but didn't bother to tell anyone. But now that people are finding out, they are not at all happy. Every person I talk to about life +75 or software patents says, "that's not right" unless they are software project managers or software analysts. (Most of them are on par with lawyers, but too lazy to go to lawschool!)
I would say that the RIAA/MPAA "education" program has worked. More people know about copyright and are pissed off at the laws than ever.
Sorry I'm late to this, but it looks like Apple has a new legal strategy, and that's why they removed the app from their store.
Apple has decided that reselling products that infringe on patents is illegal, see here
To try and make this stick, the company will have to treat all patent-infringing material the same way, no matter how full of BS it is.
From the article:
A statement released by Samsung condemned Apple's actions, saying "Apple’s menacing letters greatly overreach, incorrectly claiming that third-party retailers are subject to the prohibitions of the preliminary injunction, which they clearly are not."
Beyond that, the controllers have a touchpad built in, so no dice on your "only 3 games" line, either. Somehow I think that the current developers of Android games could be compelled to bring gamepad support to their apps once this console becomes a reality.
This has been a long time coming, and the masses have spoken with their wallets.
FYI - The USPTO does not test for valid claims. They test (barely!) for prior art, and then only for previously granted patents.
The only valid patent is one that has been tested in court.
I'd love to call for disbanding the WIPO, but a more corrupt committee would take it's place, if history is any indication.
So I'll just call for more transparancy and oversight. Not that it will ever happen. The corrupt don't uncorrupt themselves.
Hell NO! He's the color guy. A dialog makes it entertaining. We don't need a site of yes men.
It's fascinating to watch someone's argument be trounced from my perspective, yet from their own feel that they have done the trouncing. There is a basic dicotomy in ethics and values in the world today, and each side needs to learn about the other, rather than just shouting at each other.
Wow. Just wow.
I was explaining the mentality of these individuals, and how they justify their behavior to themselves and others like them.
Some quotes:
In the beginning "...God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth (Gen. 1:26)."
...Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth (Gen. 1:28).”
And after the Great Flood where the whole world was destroyed, but for eight people (Noah and his wife, and their sons and their wives) and a boat-full of animals, GOD again gave man rule over HIS creation. In Genesis 9:2 it reads, "And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand."
These passages and others like them are used to justify exhausting the resources of the earth. Do I consider it right? No. But it is a fact that this is how some people interpret them.
But GOD will never allow us to perish! HE has said that HE will come and take the true believers to Heaven! That can't happen if humanity is destroyed, so we have nothing to worry about.
It's hokey, but that's what they believe. So they will continue to rape the planet, and take us along with them to oblivion.
Yeah, she's an idiot, but we don't need your moronic, anti-patriotic drivel trying to get us to choose sides. Or shall we examine the nonsensical positions of conservatives, trying to balance the budget in the middle of a recession and bitching about raising taxes on the rich to a fraction of what they were in the 1970's?
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Ideally we move toward balance. In reality, sometimes we just see-saw.
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To be fair...
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Copy? You mean invent.
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I would say that the RIAA/MPAA "education" program has worked. More people know about copyright and are pissed off at the laws than ever.
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Apple vs Samsung
Apple has decided that reselling products that infringe on patents is illegal, see here
To try and make this stick, the company will have to treat all patent-infringing material the same way, no matter how full of BS it is.
From the article:
A statement released by Samsung condemned Apple's actions, saying "Apple’s menacing letters greatly overreach, incorrectly claiming that third-party retailers are subject to the prohibitions of the preliminary injunction, which they clearly are not."
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Dang furiners! ;)
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This has been a long time coming, and the masses have spoken with their wallets.
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The only valid patent is one that has been tested in court.
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Try Reddit.
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So I'll just call for more transparancy and oversight. Not that it will ever happen. The corrupt don't uncorrupt themselves.
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Just one problem with your philosophy: the internet is not a thing. It is people. Communicating. Unfettered by industry.
So, to realize your vision, people have to stop communicating, or at least have a gatekeeper to censor their conversations.
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It's fascinating to watch someone's argument be trounced from my perspective, yet from their own feel that they have done the trouncing. There is a basic dicotomy in ethics and values in the world today, and each side needs to learn about the other, rather than just shouting at each other.
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But they have another opinion, and the power to enforce it.
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I was explaining the mentality of these individuals, and how they justify their behavior to themselves and others like them.
Some quotes:
In the beginning "...God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth (Gen. 1:26)."
...Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth (Gen. 1:28).”
And after the Great Flood where the whole world was destroyed, but for eight people (Noah and his wife, and their sons and their wives) and a boat-full of animals, GOD again gave man rule over HIS creation. In Genesis 9:2 it reads, "And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand."
These passages and others like them are used to justify exhausting the resources of the earth. Do I consider it right? No. But it is a fact that this is how some people interpret them.
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You need to read your old testament: everything was put on the earth for man's use.
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It's hokey, but that's what they believe. So they will continue to rape the planet, and take us along with them to oblivion.
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You can't innovate if you don't try...
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