I would not dismiss Ron Gilbert's help too quick. All it took was mentioning Monkey Island and I was there throwing money. That has got to be one of the greatest games ever made.
What Walmart has to do with them is simple. If piracy is "theft" it should be treated as theft. Just like stealing an object from Walmart is theft.
So downloading a movie is equal too stealing a $20 object. So the actions taken by the *AA should be limited to the actions available to Walmart for someone who stole an item.
Well I want them to pick a side and stay on it. They like to say it is "theft" and that pirates "stole" the movie. Ok, so if someone grabs a $20 pair of shoes and walks out of Walmart can Walmart sue for thousands in "damages"?
Isn't that just a shock. Those in power are realizing that the general population is becoming unsettled. That leads to their cushy government jobs being threatened. So they do the only thing they know how to do. They lash out cluelessly trying to silence and suppress people instead of asking why they are upset to begin with.
Is it just me that gets sick of the "I'm saving you from yourself" argument?
If it really is so that all these terrible things people are doing will just result in no new content, then why not just let them do it? Before long they will see the error of their ways, there will be nothing to steal or copy. I think the problem is everyone knows that would NEVER happen.
People will create things for the sake of creating things. It really does happen. A guy walking down the street that comes up with a good beat in his head is not going to just toss it out because someone might steal it. Well, some might, but not everyone is totally devoted to making money.
You are paying for a name almost every time you buy anything. You say if I want to pay based on effort buy a car. Ok, you really think the guys at Ferrari put $257,000 worth of effort into building the 458 Spider? Somehow I don't think so. You are paying for the name Ferrari. It is the same with lower priced cars as well.
The value of art is just really interesting to me. The cost is purely based on the demand. No one "needs" that picture. They are paying millions for it because they want it. I just find it interesting the kind of things people want to buy. A lot of it has to do more with the social aspects than the actual art.
I'm willing to bet those spending millions on art like that are doing it in large part because they can. It allows them to show off. I see nothing at all wrong with this, I just think it is fun to look at and observe. I myself have spent plenty of hard earned money on art.
So are you seriously trying to suggest that anyone who does not show up to a protest counts as someone who doesn't care? You can try and play with the numbers like that if you want. Thing to remember is that if 3,000 will get out and protest in the streets there are going to be a lot more people who will protest in "smaller" ways. Like I don't know, voting against anyone who supports ACTA.
Yeah, I suspect that it is not as easy as one first thinks. Still hard to suppress that first instinct to go "he got a million for that?".
One of these days I want to try an experiment though. I'm going to go and make some "modern art". Not sure what to try first, welding random scrap metal together, splashing paint at something, or maybe just playing with sculpty while watching TV and baking the result.
Then I will go and try to sell my "art" and see what I can get for it. The really fun part of it would be to see if some art critic tries to find hidden meaning in my totally random mess.
Well I think that is just the point though. They are setting the bar HIGHER than lawyer or politician. Both lawyers or politicians could easily get confused by these pages using trademarks. So using them as the standard is too low. Everything would be infringing.
As such they went with "moron". This is a higher level and as such fewer sites would be found infringing. It is much harder to confuse a moron than a lawyer or politician after all.
If that second image is worth millions then I am in the wrong freaking business. What the hell am I doing working all day not even making enough to make a real living when a few minutes of Photoshopping can make millions?
But putting aside my jealously of how filthy rich that guy is getting, I really don't see how that should cause any copyright issues. He obviously did change the original and create something that was his own. I assume he was smart enough to never try claiming to have taken the original picture.
I would now like to take a moment to point out there is a BIG difference between morally wrong and illegal. What made the internet so great was that it was free of laws and restrictions dictating what is allowed or not. Just because it is illegal to speak out against the (insert unjust rulers) does not make it wrong.
Really what this shows is that at least 31,034 people see what happened as blatant admission of bribery. I happen to be one of them and I am no longer a child. Whats more I will not shut up because some "old fart" like you tells me to go back to bed.
In fact why don't you and your friends just go ahead and move to your assisted living communities and leave the rest of us to fix this mess.
Yeah, this is very true. If you keep moving your collection to keep it with the times then it can last forever. I personally enjoy a mix of e-books and physical books. This is just a personal preference though. I still just love to have a physical copy of books that I enjoy. I'm not going to try and force that on anyone though. It is all just a question of what each person enjoys more.
Also even if we were killing rain forests for paper maybe should blame all the useless things done with paper before going after books. Like how about mass mailing, credit offers, bank and credit card statements, checks, those magazines that are nothing but ads, 90% of warning tags, and many other things. Paper is wasted all over the place all the time. Printing off books is not the worst offender.
Well I have to admit there is some truth to electronics not being as perminant. Most consumer electronics are not built to stand the test of time. They are only built to last a few years before the user moves on. If you toss an Ipod into storage and come back in 20 years what are the odds you will be able to use it? By then USB will likely be gone, the battery will have long ago failed, the memory even could have failed.
A book in storage will last many many years if it is not exposed to the elements. So in a lot of ways better. It can also survive the collapse of society where as all these other devices are useless if the power grid were to go down for good.
I'm not saying that I'm against e-books though. I love them for their ease of use. It is great to carry a library worth of books in my pocket. I just see the good in both e-book and real books.
I for one still love the feel of a good book in my hands and enjoy the smell of books as well. E-books do loose some of the magic of a real book. Physical books often end up being special to me in that they bring back memories. They each have their own history and story. It is hard to really feel that connection to a digital file.
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So downloading a movie is equal too stealing a $20 object. So the actions taken by the *AA should be limited to the actions available to Walmart for someone who stole an item.
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Is Google licensed to link to them? If not maybe they should pull all those links before they get into trouble.
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If it really is so that all these terrible things people are doing will just result in no new content, then why not just let them do it? Before long they will see the error of their ways, there will be nothing to steal or copy. I think the problem is everyone knows that would NEVER happen.
People will create things for the sake of creating things. It really does happen. A guy walking down the street that comes up with a good beat in his head is not going to just toss it out because someone might steal it. Well, some might, but not everyone is totally devoted to making money.
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The value of art is just really interesting to me. The cost is purely based on the demand. No one "needs" that picture. They are paying millions for it because they want it. I just find it interesting the kind of things people want to buy. A lot of it has to do more with the social aspects than the actual art.
I'm willing to bet those spending millions on art like that are doing it in large part because they can. It allows them to show off. I see nothing at all wrong with this, I just think it is fun to look at and observe. I myself have spent plenty of hard earned money on art.
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One of these days I want to try an experiment though. I'm going to go and make some "modern art". Not sure what to try first, welding random scrap metal together, splashing paint at something, or maybe just playing with sculpty while watching TV and baking the result.
Then I will go and try to sell my "art" and see what I can get for it. The really fun part of it would be to see if some art critic tries to find hidden meaning in my totally random mess.
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As such they went with "moron". This is a higher level and as such fewer sites would be found infringing. It is much harder to confuse a moron than a lawyer or politician after all.
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If that second image is worth millions then I am in the wrong freaking business. What the hell am I doing working all day not even making enough to make a real living when a few minutes of Photoshopping can make millions?
But putting aside my jealously of how filthy rich that guy is getting, I really don't see how that should cause any copyright issues. He obviously did change the original and create something that was his own. I assume he was smart enough to never try claiming to have taken the original picture.
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In fact why don't you and your friends just go ahead and move to your assisted living communities and leave the rest of us to fix this mess.
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A book in storage will last many many years if it is not exposed to the elements. So in a lot of ways better. It can also survive the collapse of society where as all these other devices are useless if the power grid were to go down for good.
I'm not saying that I'm against e-books though. I love them for their ease of use. It is great to carry a library worth of books in my pocket. I just see the good in both e-book and real books.
I for one still love the feel of a good book in my hands and enjoy the smell of books as well. E-books do loose some of the magic of a real book. Physical books often end up being special to me in that they bring back memories. They each have their own history and story. It is hard to really feel that connection to a digital file.
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