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Lawyers are maggots. They thrive on human misery and are motivated only by greed. We may need them as a society, but when you start seeing too many it's a good indication that something is amiss. To counter one of your points, lawyers can only argue and judges decide - what do most judges do before they become judges? Speaking as a software developer who has been threatened by more than one sleazy lawyer over software patents from people I've never heard of, every one could vanish tomorrow and the world would be a better place for it.
When you think about the ease of piracy, the eBook industry should be lauded even more. You can theoretically download every book in a library's collection in the same amount of space as a single HD movie. If you add compression into the mix (text files compress marvelously), piracy has the potential to do far more damage to authors than to filmmakers.
The fact that it hasn't tells me two things: That the threat posed by copyright infringers is far overblown and/or that the book publishing industry is doing something less wrong (I won't go as far to say 'right') than the film and music industries.
I could probably whip up a script to replace this person. The difficult part is making it seem like the script is a human trying hard to sound like a script. Meta-humor isn't really my strong suit.
SOPA and its ilk are dead, but we all know that the critters will push it through as a rider on some other bill. I'm trying to campaign on diversifying the state economy and on paring back issues like the PATRIOT act and getting the TSA out of our pants. Unfortunately I'm young (30), single (soon to be engaged), and no democrat has ever won the 2nd district.
I appreciate the good wishes, I really do believe that the key to fixing politics is to remove the career politicians. The problem is that they're so entrenched it will take a major event to dislodge them.
District 2, Nevada - Democrat. I hate the two party system as much as anybody but in order to even stand a change you have to ally with one or the other.
I've been making campaign stops since March in my run to Washington. I can honestly tell you that no matter how much I rail against SOPA/PIPA/CISPA, almost nobody in the audience gives even a glimmer of understanding. We may be facing a losing battle here, guys.
Where I live, prostitution is legal, controlled, regulated, and taxed. As George Carlin said, selling is legal [sex] is legal, why isn't selling [sex] legal?
Where I live, prostitution is legal, controlled, regulated, and taxed. As George Carlin said, selling is legal [sex] is legal, why isn't selling [sex] legal?
I hate to tell you this, but my friends and I were ripping CDs and sharing them via sneakernet and good ole dorm LAN parties long before broadband was ubiquitous. Of course that was back when an 80gb hard drive was nearly $300, nowadays you can get a 2tb for under $100. Processing power and storage have at least as much to do with it as transfer speed.
Riiiight...and McCartney and Lennon wouldn't have made amazing works of art if it weren't for the millions of dollars and legions of groupies. I hate to break it to you, but real artists, enjoy creating art for the sake of art. Getting paid is nice, but I'd rather see 10,000 artists make $50,000 per year than 100 artists make $5,000,000 per year.
Sir, we promise to get off of your lawn soon. I must say that I take offense to your thesis that creative work cannot be made on a PC. Last time I checked, 98.4% of a Michael Bay movie is composed of CG (if you don't know what the 'C' stands for in that feel free to respond).
It is entirely possible for artists to reach their audience and sell their work online, and here's the important part...without a middle-man.
That fact is what terrifies the useless Luddites. The paper pushers are no longer needed, now they'll have to find some other way to milk money without contributing anything to society. I hear Walmart is always looking for greeters...
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Even more impressive.
The fact that it hasn't tells me two things: That the threat posed by copyright infringers is far overblown and/or that the book publishing industry is doing something less wrong (I won't go as far to say 'right') than the film and music industries.
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I appreciate the good wishes, I really do believe that the key to fixing politics is to remove the career politicians. The problem is that they're so entrenched it will take a major event to dislodge them.
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It is entirely possible for artists to reach their audience and sell their work online, and here's the important part...without a middle-man.
That fact is what terrifies the useless Luddites. The paper pushers are no longer needed, now they'll have to find some other way to milk money without contributing anything to society. I hear Walmart is always looking for greeters...
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