What would be really interesting is taking what Obama said yesterday to the CoC, "Companies need to give back" and pointing straight to IP stuff. cough *Disney* cough.
Copyright is the *very definition* of 'giving back'.
a parent has the right to expect their children aren't going to be exposed to deadly childhood diseases while publicly provided school. The base way to do this is vaccinating all the children prior to allowing them to attend.
I think what AC meant was that if you also covered 'right' side in latex and made people scratch those off before buying, then you can't predict the game in the manner described because you don't know the frequency of occurrences on the right side.
As NBC reported last night, the shut off of internet and cell phones actually served to 'focus' the demonstrations.
Before the shut off there were small demonstrations in many places. Once people were no longer able to communicate/coordinate, they all just went to the one main square - making the protests seem even *bigger* (not to say they are small either).
The 'scarcity' in this case is of a very limited time frame. By the time you work out some financial compensation for the information, it will be obsolete and out of date, and thus no longer valuable.
Getting it out there (with attribution) burnishes the real 'scarcity' - the publishers reputation. (and I don't mean that Al Jazeera doesn't have a good reputation - I mean that reputation is something you can't buy, it's earned and thus a scarce good)
"in the end, are they really much more than an online sit in?"
it is different in one significant way. You can't use a 'sit in' to disrupt a company's or the gov'ts internal operations. By definition a sit in prevents the public interaction from happening by clogging up the front office.
But because of the internet housing 'all' operational aspects it is possible to stop Citibank from running its internal banking related functions that a sit in could never hope to do directly.
I would probably say it's closer to back in the POTS modem days, calling a phone number from 1000 other numbers to make sure the data calls between computers are not be able to complete successfully. That would likely constitute a violation of the law wouldn't it?
Not defending the Feds on this, but the situation isn't quite as simple as a 'sit in'.
He was charged and ticketed for civil trespassing but the couple declined to press criminal charges in order not to make his situation worse. A nice gesture in my opinion.
It seems he waited until the statute of limitations expired on the criminal charges before filing this civil suit.
"2. However, net sales of recorded music (digital, non-digital, whatever) has dropped signficantly."
Perhaps because the 'value' of the copy of recorded music has been significantly reduced by the infinite supply the copy recorded music and the price of said recording hasn't kept pace with the reduction in value?
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Actually that's a bad idea. Because MegaCorp, Inc. just uses 100 lawyers billing towards the case when you sue. Can you afford to be on the hook for those costs if you lose?
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Copyright is the *very definition* of 'giving back'.
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Now *that* would be funny to watch them try and sue a hundred million people :)
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a parent has the right to expect their children aren't going to be exposed to deadly childhood diseases while publicly provided school. The base way to do this is vaccinating all the children prior to allowing them to attend.
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All except that domain name server record that they seized anyway...
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How about this definition:
The 'free market' is about screwing as many people as possible while giving them the barest minimum you can get away with.
unadulterated capitalism isn't nearly as pretty as you might imagine. unadulterated gov't control isn't good either.
Compromise is how govt's form and function.
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unintended consequences
Before the shut off there were small demonstrations in many places. Once people were no longer able to communicate/coordinate, they all just went to the one main square - making the protests seem even *bigger* (not to say they are small either).
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Scarcity
Getting it out there (with attribution) burnishes the real 'scarcity' - the publishers reputation. (and I don't mean that Al Jazeera doesn't have a good reputation - I mean that reputation is something you can't buy, it's earned and thus a scarce good)
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The larger point is DDOS can attack more types of targets than just a 'sit in' could do.
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sit in vs DDOS
it is different in one significant way. You can't use a 'sit in' to disrupt a company's or the gov'ts internal operations. By definition a sit in prevents the public interaction from happening by clogging up the front office.
But because of the internet housing 'all' operational aspects it is possible to stop Citibank from running its internal banking related functions that a sit in could never hope to do directly.
I would probably say it's closer to back in the POTS modem days, calling a phone number from 1000 other numbers to make sure the data calls between computers are not be able to complete successfully. That would likely constitute a violation of the law wouldn't it?
Not defending the Feds on this, but the situation isn't quite as simple as a 'sit in'.
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That he filed this at all and moreover waited until the criminal charge expired to do so is news worth repeating as often as possible.
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It seems he waited until the statute of limitations expired on the criminal charges before filing this civil suit.
How delightful scummy of him
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Perhaps because the 'value' of the copy of recorded music has been significantly reduced by the infinite supply the copy recorded music and the price of said recording hasn't kept pace with the reduction in value?
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