Re: Re: Conservatives lack the ability to turn shit off
You'd just love them in the 18th century. They would have been called "Whigs" (acutally, "Radical Whigs", because they stood against monarchy and for the american revolution), because the Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist party, mainly in opposition to the southern Democratic Party.
Then they could ask the uploaders to verify that they really own a license for what they distribute.
Could you please prove that you, bob, really wrote the above sentences yourself, and have not copied it from someone else?
You can't. And neither can all those uploaders for the movies of their kittens and their minecraft castles they uploaded.
Copyright happens to be a CIVIL right, which means if you feel yours is offended, YOU have the means to go to court against the violator. And NOBODY has any duty to act on your behalf preemptively.
It's NOT illegal to scan a book and keep it. Nobody needs to destroy his books just because he digitized it.
What is illegal is publishing this digitized book (= making it available on the internet for potentially everyone).
And as long as 1DollarScan doesn't publish any of its scans, its perfectly legal, just about anywhere.
Copyright is not actually about making copies, but about who has the right to publish these copies. You can print as many Harry Potter books as you like, but you won't be allowed to sell them (or even give them away in quantities). There are some specific exceptions regarding copying of software, but these don't apply to books, movies, music or pictures.
Different? Well for starters, Rapidshare is based in Switzerland. And we don't usually let US investigators participate in raids, and are even less inclined to let them steal evidence.
I've already written them, that it's NOT in their interest to blame linking sites. Responsible is only the uploader. Which is most probably the same person who sets the link.
Well, yes, some cave paintings from 40'000 years ago still exist. But that's probably only a tiny bit of all the culture at that time.
How many roman murals (only 2000 years old) still exist? They could have survived, as pompeii shows, and as pompeii also shows, the roman cities were full of them. And not only murals, but statues as well. An awful lot, surely more than 99%, were lost and destroyed in the meantime.
So just because the material (and the information) could theoretically survive several thousand years doesn't mean it will.
Do you believe just because of his healthcare pet project, I would think of Obama less a prohibitionist authoritarian than he is? You right-wing nuts don't even recognize one of your own.
He slept with two women (both affiliated to wikileaks, by the way) -- and the women found out he slept with both of them a few days later, got mad and decided to get even.
There are some nice tweets of one of the women regarding sex with Assange, and if you read them you'll immediately notice that she didn't feel abused then, quite the contrary..
So the reason for this trial probably has nothing to do with the USA, but the decision by the Swedish attorney general to take over and to go on with it pretty much happened because of US pressure.
I noticed a few month back, that for various videos which were underlied with music, people kept asking for the titles of that music. Minecraft videos, namely ;)
And indeed, yesterday I too found some japanese musician whose music I found appealing trough a minecraft-video..
I can't find anything in copyright which deals with fan fiction. It's an original work. It's only set in front of a background another author wrote, but the background consists of "ideas", and these aren't copyrightable. Anyone who wants to assert any "copyright violation" to fan fiction obviously does this out of a gut-feeling, and not with any basis in law.
Fan fiction might of course violate trademarks. But that's a totally different thing.
free software/content is competition just as illegal copies are
So what's going to stop the content-mafia from DMCA'ing legitimate free or public domain content? It's competition to their offerings, and google just gave them the tool to de-rank it.
the Google Books project has to be the single largest instance of copyright infringement in history.
Well, in some sense, it is. At least it's a one-stop-shop showcase of rampant Copyfraud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud Thousands of books in the public domain which are marked as "copyrighted" by rogue Publishers like Pearson, Elsevier, Hachette, McGraw-Hill, Random House etc.
Well, yes. But You don't need to compile it, because the Distribution does that for you, making nice packages you just install.
Debian alone offers 13'000 programs from their repositories, plus there are thousands of small third-party repositories or websites where you can download packages. Including but not limited to things like the "humble indie bundles" which also come mostly as debian-packages. And Ubuntu has even more Applications available.
Actually, "just install" is SOOO much easier on Debian or Ubuntu than of Windows/MacOS, because most software is available via package management, and the rest does not come with some weird installer, but as package for the package management.
Problems arise of course when running Windows-Application on wine. Not just because wine is chasing a moving target, but also because all windows-applications themselves are using different installers, bundled and conflicting libraries and so on. Nevertheless, thousands of windows games and applications can be made to run, sometimes out of the box, sometimes with some work. http://appdb.winehq.org/ will give you some overview on what works, and also what might be needed to get them to work. Some of the games are rather recent (I've got Skyrim installed from Steam running on wine, for instance).
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Re: This probably doesn't help
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Inheritance does not work for copyright, known since 1841
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Copyright_Law_%28Macaulay%29
You've been warned.
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Looks like something weel-known
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/000/Graph/poland-krakow-checkpoint-t13138_2.jpg
There is NO EXCUSE, absolutely NONE, for doing something like this.
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Re: Re: Conservatives lack the ability to turn shit off
On a different note, the republicans are of course not conservative, because conservativism isn't. http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/conservativism-isnt/
Neither is usually liberalism: http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/liberalism-isnt-either/
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you can absolutely make money from public domain material, you just can't stop others from doing the same thing
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Like whores trying to shut down wives, because they do sex for free.
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Could you please prove that you, bob, really wrote the above sentences yourself, and have not copied it from someone else?
You can't. And neither can all those uploaders for the movies of their kittens and their minecraft castles they uploaded.
Copyright happens to be a CIVIL right, which means if you feel yours is offended, YOU have the means to go to court against the violator. And NOBODY has any duty to act on your behalf preemptively.
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What is illegal is publishing this digitized book (= making it available on the internet for potentially everyone).
And as long as 1DollarScan doesn't publish any of its scans, its perfectly legal, just about anywhere.
Copyright is not actually about making copies, but about who has the right to publish these copies. You can print as many Harry Potter books as you like, but you won't be allowed to sell them (or even give them away in quantities). There are some specific exceptions regarding copying of software, but these don't apply to books, movies, music or pictures.
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It's the uploader, stupid
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Lost Ancient Art
How many roman murals (only 2000 years old) still exist? They could have survived, as pompeii shows, and as pompeii also shows, the roman cities were full of them. And not only murals, but statues as well. An awful lot, surely more than 99%, were lost and destroyed in the meantime.
So just because the material (and the information) could theoretically survive several thousand years doesn't mean it will.
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Re: Those Who Paid for Ameica Will Get Their Money's Worth
HA-HA! Impossible. These judges aren't "liberal", and neither are Romney or Obama: http://politicalcompass.org/charts/us2012.php
Do you believe just because of his healthcare pet project, I would think of Obama less a prohibitionist authoritarian than he is? You right-wing nuts don't even recognize one of your own.
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There are some nice tweets of one of the women regarding sex with Assange, and if you read them you'll immediately notice that she didn't feel abused then, quite the contrary..
So the reason for this trial probably has nothing to do with the USA, but the decision by the Swedish attorney general to take over and to go on with it pretty much happened because of US pressure.
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Music from unrelated videos
And indeed, yesterday I too found some japanese musician whose music I found appealing trough a minecraft-video..
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Copyright
Fan fiction might of course violate trademarks. But that's a totally different thing.
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free software/content is competition just as illegal copies are
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Re: pivot case
Well, in some sense, it is. At least it's a one-stop-shop showcase of rampant Copyfraud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud Thousands of books in the public domain which are marked as "copyrighted" by rogue Publishers like Pearson, Elsevier, Hachette, McGraw-Hill, Random House etc.
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http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/imbookfinal04.pdf
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Distributed as source code?
Debian alone offers 13'000 programs from their repositories, plus there are thousands of small third-party repositories or websites where you can download packages. Including but not limited to things like the "humble indie bundles" which also come mostly as debian-packages. And Ubuntu has even more Applications available.
Actually, "just install" is SOOO much easier on Debian or Ubuntu than of Windows/MacOS, because most software is available via package management, and the rest does not come with some weird installer, but as package for the package management.
Problems arise of course when running Windows-Application on wine. Not just because wine is chasing a moving target, but also because all windows-applications themselves are using different installers, bundled and conflicting libraries and so on. Nevertheless, thousands of windows games and applications can be made to run, sometimes out of the box, sometimes with some work. http://appdb.winehq.org/ will give you some overview on what works, and also what might be needed to get them to work. Some of the games are rather recent (I've got Skyrim installed from Steam running on wine, for instance).
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