you are correct, it will make people reconsider - they will reconsider even buying music at ALL. Where I might buy once in a while and also be a downloader, I can guarantee you that I will not ever buy music in my lifetime ever again if I get kicked off the net from some baseless DMCA accusation.
lol nice one. you should have spelled it raperist though ;)
I really wonder if the execs realize just how aggressive the refusal of their strategy is getting. If I was them, I would honestly be afraid to be in public, even in another country.
regulation's end result is not necessarily regulatory capture, so I disagree. In fact, I disagree strongly in your concept, mostly because government saying "we want you (businesses) to be hands off about something" is also a government regulation, and a good one (no arbitrary prioritizing of traffic by ISP's for example).
Not all regulations are restrictions are there to be abused. If all you do is shout about how government regulation needs to be lessened or increased, you're stifling potential useful debate and also doing what we call the "traditional republican strawman" and/or basically asking for your opinion to be made irrelevant.
nobody watches 60 minutes anymore. It's all fearmongering with the exception being andy rooney. Honestly I've had to watch it with my parents for years and the only part of actual interest nowadays would be the parts with Rooney.
this won't and shouldn't hold up in court, for certain.
meanwhile, it's important that people have to specify what they want in a contract. If it's "in the universe" why not just make it simply and say "anywhere"?
oh right, ambiguous/overbroad, same reason they're trying to make it overbroad with "universe".
Products can have iterations, derivatives specified. The more we allow this contract creep, the more it will cause further issues down the road too in copyright and patents, easily.
This morning, BLS backed off and changed their policy back to a more sane position:
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From: Announcements On Behalf Of Phil Allred
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:08 PM
To: All Users
Subject: [BLS] Update on illegal downloads e-mail notice
Yesterday, I sent out an e-mail regarding the recent spate of abuse notices we have received from our Internet service provider. Under our contract, users are prohibited from downloading copyrighted works. If we knowingly allow such activity to continue without taking action, we risk losing access to the Internet. When we can ascertain the people who are responsible for alleged illegal downloads, we will notify them to cease such activity. We will comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#512 ). Outside of the legal process, we are not obligated to turn over the names of the alleged infringers to copyright holders and will not do so.
AKA they realized how stupid this is.
"we could lose our internet service" sounds quite shady too.
1: lots of people either have an autofollow bot or follow those who follow you first, common courtesy.
2: sometimes people will look at a user to see who they follow to see if they have others of interest, this potentially leading to bad links.
meanwhile, it's very very easy to tell a bad link versus a legit twitterer, the bad link twitters are the same as bad ads: make money working from home, etc etc
Mike, I urge you to look at the website design that lendingclub.com uses to fund loans.
Basically, they put a request amount (say $7500) and people can fund in multiple's of 25$ the money for a loan. Basically they have a system to track each person's individual contributions to a total sum. Lendingclub apparently needs to do some kind of account verification for security but the end result is that they need your bank routing number/account number, so I imagine Redbox might in order to do what this idea suggests.
I'm sure such a system to crowdsource could be implemented *VERY* easily.
Mr. anonymous coward, what is the actual trademark there? I'm confused. Are people going to get confused that contributing money to buy spiderman 3 is a trademark violation of spiderman 3? That makes no sense.
oh it gets better. Who decides what is "illegal" or not? Oh right, back to DMCA claim equivalents. "filesharing could be illegal, it must be blocked". "web browsing could be illegal, it could be blocked".
I also don't get that police approval/requirement thing.
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federal judge?
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I really wonder if the execs realize just how aggressive the refusal of their strategy is getting. If I was them, I would honestly be afraid to be in public, even in another country.
They have ruined the lives of so many people.
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"there is no money in piping ads around the world".
Then you get to reality.
Meanwhile, there is money in driving interest to your show by giving people better access (aka online).
Lots of people are on BBC's ass about it, especially people in other countries who wish to watch.
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agreed with #1
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Re: I cling to hope for Canada
I'm still confused as to where the "safety" aspect of this document resides.
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Re: Re: Re: it gets better mike
Not all regulations are restrictions are there to be abused. If all you do is shout about how government regulation needs to be lessened or increased, you're stifling potential useful debate and also doing what we call the "traditional republican strawman" and/or basically asking for your opinion to be made irrelevant.
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it gets better mike
ACTA leaked, and it's not pretty.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/11/03/1943237
basically, global DMCA. This is why they're suddenly noisy to the FCC again.
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welcome to why
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easily stated as overly broad
meanwhile, it's important that people have to specify what they want in a contract. If it's "in the universe" why not just make it simply and say "anywhere"?
oh right, ambiguous/overbroad, same reason they're trying to make it overbroad with "universe".
Products can have iterations, derivatives specified. The more we allow this contract creep, the more it will cause further issues down the road too in copyright and patents, easily.
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Re: read updates!
it was and is stupid in the first place but nice to see a fast fix.
link to what I said: http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2009/10/brooklyn-law-school-backs-down-will-not.html#l inks
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read updates!
This morning, BLS backed off and changed their policy back to a more sane position:
________________________________________
From: Announcements On Behalf Of Phil Allred
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:08 PM
To: All Users
Subject: [BLS] Update on illegal downloads e-mail notice
Yesterday, I sent out an e-mail regarding the recent spate of abuse notices we have received from our Internet service provider. Under our contract, users are prohibited from downloading copyrighted works. If we knowingly allow such activity to continue without taking action, we risk losing access to the Internet. When we can ascertain the people who are responsible for alleged illegal downloads, we will notify them to cease such activity. We will comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#512 ). Outside of the legal process, we are not obligated to turn over the names of the alleged infringers to copyright holders and will not do so.
AKA they realized how stupid this is.
"we could lose our internet service" sounds quite shady too.
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well, 2 things here
2: sometimes people will look at a user to see who they follow to see if they have others of interest, this potentially leading to bad links.
meanwhile, it's very very easy to tell a bad link versus a legit twitterer, the bad link twitters are the same as bad ads: make money working from home, etc etc
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balance?
wrong question is which is more important, because they both are equally.
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programming
you need to be both logical and creative, and that doesn't necessarily go together.
on the one hand, you're coming up with something from scratch, and on the other, it's basically purely logical/organized/hierarchical.
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Re: great!
Maybe someone can have Mandelson impeached or something? Does the UK have such a policy for morons like him?
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Re: Great Redbox Product Idea
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lendingclub.com?
Basically, they put a request amount (say $7500) and people can fund in multiple's of 25$ the money for a loan. Basically they have a system to track each person's individual contributions to a total sum. Lendingclub apparently needs to do some kind of account verification for security but the end result is that they need your bank routing number/account number, so I imagine Redbox might in order to do what this idea suggests.
I'm sure such a system to crowdsource could be implemented *VERY* easily.
Mr. anonymous coward, what is the actual trademark there? I'm confused. Are people going to get confused that contributing money to buy spiderman 3 is a trademark violation of spiderman 3? That makes no sense.
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I also don't get that police approval/requirement thing.
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