Personally, I'd likely pick a greater chance of being assaulted over a greater chance of being shot and killed, all else being equal, particularly as "assault" has a very broad legal definition.
(For background, I emigrated from the UK, and I can see both sides of the gun control argument. I just thought this was an odd argument to make)
To me, the fault seems to lie with the festival organizers.
They charged food vendors for space to sell food and then gave other people permission to give food away ("they had permission to make food and give it to attendees"). If I were one of the food vendors, I'd be asking for my money back, asking the festival to change this policy or not going to the next one.
"Where IP rights once was a field for experts, now it drives the masses to the streets"
Of course the reasons for both of these are the same - once upon a time, IP rights didn't affect "the masses", only corporations (and creators). The world and IP laws have changed so that now all sorts of things that we want to do in the privacy of our own homes break some IP law or other.
Surprise, surprise - when IP rights start to restrict "the masses", "the masses" start to push back against them. The solution, of course, is to change the law so that IP rights once again only affect people making money from them, but it's going to be a long time before they start to realize that (if the reaction doesn't lead to no IP rights at all first).
Re: But will the computers be put in jail for theft?
Ahh yes, the "obvious infringers", because it's just so easy to tell who is authorised to distribute what, even if you don't take fair use into account.
After all, the content industries (I'm not gong to stoop to calling them "big content") have never asked to have anything taken down that later turned out to be authorised, have they ?
"Well, if they are gonna ratify ACTA at some point, the DRM-crap is a necessity. All of these exceptions are all acceptable from ACTA's standpoint as long as you make breaking DRMs illegal."
Actually, the consensus seems to be that you can be ACTA-compliant with a law that says something like "you can't break DRM in order to infringe". That's the approach taken in New Zealand, Switzerland, and India, for example.
Of course with a phone call the person making the call is the one who wants it to happen. With the Internet, the party sending the most data is usually responding to an information request from the other person. So this proposal is exactly backwards.
It's like making me pay for received phone calls, but not for ones I initiate.
It's also interesting in that we've been telling the various "content industries" for years that "the internet isn't like TV, it's a communication medium not a broadcast one". Now we have to tell the phone companies "it's not like the telephone system either".
How is it any different than speeding tickets, where cops say "the radar gun told me they were doing 90". Isn't that just "the software told me so" ? Judges accept that every day (not sure that they *should*, but they definitely *do*).
"they have to swear that they have a good faith belief that there really is infringing material on those sites, and they can't do that if they don't actually look at them."
Hmmm. I'm not completely convinced by this. I could have a "good faith belief" in something based on a two-stage process. Something like "the software told me so" plus "the software is carefully written, has been well-tested, and has always been right in the past". Of course, you would need *both* parts, not just the first.
"more worried about cybersecurity threats than terrorism" - check.
I think I'm far more likely to come across a cybersecurity issue than terrorism, so I *should* be more worried about the former than the latter. I actively take steps to avoid "cybersecurity" problems (I firewall my home network from the Internet, check for intrusions on my machines, don't connect "important" machines (or data) to the Internet at all. What do I do to counter terrorism ? Nothing (well, I guess you could count getting groped by the TSA every now and then, but that's not through choice).
Of course the risks of any serious danger from *either* is very low, so I worry even more about crossing the road...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
(For background, I emigrated from the UK, and I can see both sides of the gun control argument. I just thought this was an odd argument to make)
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Re:
They charged food vendors for space to sell food and then gave other people permission to give food away ("they had permission to make food and give it to attendees"). If I were one of the food vendors, I'd be asking for my money back, asking the festival to change this policy or not going to the next one.
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Exceptions to exceptions
So fair use and the like are exceptions to those exceptions.
DRM is an exception to the exception to the exception.
And the rulemaking in the DMCA that allows you do things like unlock your cellphone are exceptions to the exception to the exception to the exception.
It does illustrate nicely how absurd copyright law has become.
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Why would the studio give a copy to a theater that didn't pay ?
Yes, without copyright, that theater could then give a copy to...their competitors. That doesn't sound like a great business model, though.
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Re: Q4
And yes, this got me to (finally) register for an account, too ("reason to buy" ?)
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Q4
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Hmmm
Of course the reasons for both of these are the same - once upon a time, IP rights didn't affect "the masses", only corporations (and creators). The world and IP laws have changed so that now all sorts of things that we want to do in the privacy of our own homes break some IP law or other.
Surprise, surprise - when IP rights start to restrict "the masses", "the masses" start to push back against them. The solution, of course, is to change the law so that IP rights once again only affect people making money from them, but it's going to be a long time before they start to realize that (if the reaction doesn't lead to no IP rights at all first).
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First two comments complement each other nicely
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Re: Aw c'mon
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Re: But will the computers be put in jail for theft?
After all, the content industries (I'm not gong to stoop to calling them "big content") have never asked to have anything taken down that later turned out to be authorised, have they ?
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I think I understand
Poor piggies...
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Re: Re:
Actually, the consensus seems to be that you can be ACTA-compliant with a law that says something like "you can't break DRM in order to infringe". That's the approach taken in New Zealand, Switzerland, and India, for example.
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Sender pays
It's like making me pay for received phone calls, but not for ones I initiate.
It's also interesting in that we've been telling the various "content industries" for years that "the internet isn't like TV, it's a communication medium not a broadcast one". Now we have to tell the phone companies "it's not like the telephone system either".
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Re: Re: "Good faith belief"
After all, there's still quite a push to expand from voting by software to voting over the internet.
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Re: Re: "Good faith belief"
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"Good faith belief"
Hmmm. I'm not completely convinced by this. I could have a "good faith belief" in something based on a two-stage process. Something like "the software told me so" plus "the software is carefully written, has been well-tested, and has always been right in the past". Of course, you would need *both* parts, not just the first.
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Re: Re: Size does matter.
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Re: EASY!
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Down With Copyright Protectionism
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Count me in
I think I'm far more likely to come across a cybersecurity issue than terrorism, so I *should* be more worried about the former than the latter. I actively take steps to avoid "cybersecurity" problems (I firewall my home network from the Internet, check for intrusions on my machines, don't connect "important" machines (or data) to the Internet at all. What do I do to counter terrorism ? Nothing (well, I guess you could count getting groped by the TSA every now and then, but that's not through choice).
Of course the risks of any serious danger from *either* is very low, so I worry even more about crossing the road...
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