I didn't mean to detract from the gravity of your statement with a comedic riff. Big corporations are definitely pirating the pubic domain for private gain. I want to take your comment out behind the middle school and get it pregnant. Oh yeah.
Other languages are deemed piratical* and Languagesİ system users are prohibited from using them, doing so would be grounds for subscription termination.
*Until we change our minds and annex said language, at which point only Languagesİ users will be allowed its use.
Because once we copyright all the essential building blocks it will be easier than ever for our dipshit users to pick out specifically crafted and approved snippets to express whatever they want! Provided, of course, they have a current subscription to Englishİ*, Frenchİ*, Germanİ*, Spanishİ* or Latinİ*. Only 34.99 a month for the first 6 months**!
*No mixing languages into unapproved sentences. Sentences that are mistrustful of the Languagesİ system, Copyright, or Intellectual Property in general are not allowed. Frequent phrases can and will be revoked and broken into smaller blocks, necessitating a separate charge for each.
**After 6 months rates rise to as much as you can pay and increase monthly by 4%.
the internet has been for its entire existence a source of innovation, and it is intellectual property that helps drive that innovation.
Much like in Terminator 2 when the T-1000 was "helping drive" the car by hanging on the back trying to kill the passengers inside. What? They drove faster than they would have didn't they?
I dunno, certainly seems like forgoing prior art, allowing Apple to own things they didn't come up with and depriving others the use of them sure seems like Intellectual Property theft.
Copyright is the cornerstone of innovation; it allows creators to benefit from what they create
I certainly hope there is benefit from innovation/invention beyond the ability to own said creation. Otherwise I'm not sure why the first caveman tied a pointy rock onto a stick in the first place.
From skimming the title I thought the conjecture was going to be that erecting a paywall makes your commenters more thoughtful and polite. If only it were that easy to send the comment spewing AC's scampering into the brush.
Those guys are like squirrels in your garden; they're cute at first but after a while you're so fed up that trying to drown them in a bucket seems like the best solution foe everyone.
I imagine he means a "professional author" could not exist before copyright. Which may be true depending on further semantic wriggling on whether benefactors sponsored "professional authors" or merely extremely talented "normal" authors. The same could be said of painters, surely most of the greatest painters in history were not professionals.
Which confirms that "professional" is not a measure of talent, as I think Ewan believes, only that their primary motivation is money. (Wasn't sell-out a derisive term indicating compromised artistic integrity for money?) Surely there are many talented "authors" and even more untalented "professional authors".
The term "culture industries" really jumped out at me in Ewan's rant, and I have a huge problem both with its use and the philosophy behind it. Essentially it says "We will create the culture and let the plebes look at it when we're ready; for a price."
This "hands off, professionals only" concept certainly began to rise as Ewan suggests with the advent of copyright, however it bastardizes the original intent from "You can earn" to "Only those who earn". Take a look a the evolution of IP laws over the last 600 years, they're mostly a battle of privileged "owners" of culture battling technology that would enable the engagement and contribution of "unsanctioned" public masses.
But that isn't the way culture works, it is not a commodity held by the few, packaged up and doled out as a finished product. It is a collaboration and interaction of every individual expression of freedom and identity... Which surely must be disappointing to "culture industries".
I actually did just order a Galaxy SII on Sunday, not really because of the suit, but I can't be sure if the equation was effected by a potential ban on the SII. Get 'em while you can!
Thank you! I don't know what hotels most people are staying in but from a lot of comments they all have kleptomaniac hacker biker gangs loitering around in the corridors. Hotel security should be much more than a door lock; no matter the lock, if someone wants to get into a room they will.
Whoa, I promise I didn't see your comment before I chimed in with my "security is not binary" and "level of security" bits above. Though it does pump up my ego a bit to hear a locksmith using those terms too. Great minds?
Security isn't a binary state, the locks were meant to provide a level of security which I'm sure they do. All locks provide some level of security, none of it absolute. Frankly as time goes on that level will naturally drop as countermeasures advance.
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I feel like I heard this through the bathroom door when my nephew was potty-training.
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*Until we change our minds and annex said language, at which point only Languagesİ users will be allowed its use.
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*No mixing languages into unapproved sentences. Sentences that are mistrustful of the Languagesİ system, Copyright, or Intellectual Property in general are not allowed. Frequent phrases can and will be revoked and broken into smaller blocks, necessitating a separate charge for each.
**After 6 months rates rise to as much as you can pay and increase monthly by 4%.
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Motivation at any cost.
Much like in Terminator 2 when the T-1000 was "helping drive" the car by hanging on the back trying to kill the passengers inside. What? They drove faster than they would have didn't they?
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Really?
I certainly hope there is benefit from innovation/invention beyond the ability to own said creation. Otherwise I'm not sure why the first caveman tied a pointy rock onto a stick in the first place.
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Which confirms that "professional" is not a measure of talent, as I think Ewan believes, only that their primary motivation is money. (Wasn't sell-out a derisive term indicating compromised artistic integrity for money?) Surely there are many talented "authors" and even more untalented "professional authors".
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This "hands off, professionals only" concept certainly began to rise as Ewan suggests with the advent of copyright, however it bastardizes the original intent from "You can earn" to "Only those who earn". Take a look a the evolution of IP laws over the last 600 years, they're mostly a battle of privileged "owners" of culture battling technology that would enable the engagement and contribution of "unsanctioned" public masses.
But that isn't the way culture works, it is not a commodity held by the few, packaged up and doled out as a finished product. It is a collaboration and interaction of every individual expression of freedom and identity... Which surely must be disappointing to "culture industries".
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