“Who should whistle, if they know the tune could be stolen?”
Who should whistle, if they might be infringing performance rights by doing so because someone else may have whistled a very similar tune already?
"Who should light a candle, if they know someone else could see by its light?"
Really? Really? You choose a candle, the quintessential metaphor for sharing knowledge, as an allegory for copyright? That's funny. And by funny, I mean fucked up.
For the record, lots of people might still light a candle even if it might help someone besides themselves. That’s kind of the reason it’s a great metaphor for sharing.
"Who should create, if the creation cannot be wholly theirs?"
Someone who wants more fulfillment than simply patting himself on the back, that’s who. The minute you allow someone to experience your creation, it exists in his or her mind and is no longer just yours. Or maybe you mean, “if they cannot control every single reproduction, performance, or mention of it.” In that case, that dumbass William Shakespeare would. As for Metallica: they’re too smart to fall for that.
Well done, Trolly. I really can't tell if you're serious with these.
The fact that only a website is taken down without a hearing is a mercy, because if it went to court every single one of these websites, without a doubt would be revealed as the slime of humanity that they truly are.
“If you set up the drums and mics and record the same drum break, you are AT LEAST doing the work yourself and not mooching off someone elses efforts.”
There’s a name for using existing components and not expending resources to recreate what’s already there; it’s called efficiency and it’s worked really well for us humans.
“The problem most remix morons have is that they think that taking the work of someone else and just cut/pasting it into their work makes it theirs. They haven't put a damn bit of effort into any step of creating the sounds that were originally recorded, they just rip off the work that someone else did.”
You left out the part about combining those pieces in a creative way. That’s an important part.
Lucus may have used all those scenes as references, but in no way did he "REMIX" them into Star Wars. There, I agree with you. As Herodotus (the younger) said:
“Remixing something is a very specific process. It involves, not only ideas, but recordings of actual realizations of those ideas. It is quite distinct from emulation or artistic influence, whether conscious or unintentional, neither of which involve actual recordings as raw material.”
I see the utility of maintaining a more specific definition of remix.
"Remix society is the society of using what was already done and piecing it together. Nothing new is created, except the collage."
Way to bury the lead there, dude. “Nothing new is created, except for the thing created.” What an elegant Zen statement. If Michelangelo takes a block of marble and some tools and carves a statue of David, nothing new is created. Except the statue. If you take some pieces of broken glass and make a mosaic, you haven’t created anything (except the mosaic). If you’re intention is to say that the creation is of lesser value, I can’t argue with a subjective valuation. I would just point out that even you admit that something is created.
“You can be influenced by something without replicating. Remixing is just replicating. Not the same thing.”
Copying is just replicating. When you do something to change the form, meaning, and context of an existing work, "That's Aremix!"
Literally. I don't want my naked self to be digitally imaged while someone sits huddled in front of a monitor, mocking my tiny penis. I also don't want to be touched in special places by ordinary people. If the government needs to see me naked, someone should do it in person. They can touch my clothes all they want without me in them, and I will proudly lift my junk up high for them or check for cancer or take a crap or whatever else they want ME to do.
And how is it a good thing that I can't see the people who see me? At the very least, they should be on CCTV for the scanee to see.
There's one simple reason why strip search isn't an option: time.
When these machines were first introduced, my chief complaint was (and remains) that they make it too convenient to invade one's privacy.
What they're paying for is to have their name on posts of only this type. Advertisers sponsor TV shows, and they're commercials play only on the shows they sponsor. Same thing.
Hi, Mike. Most of these sponsored posts are well worth the read. How did this get past your desk? Anyway, thanks for the great analysis, this post not withstanding.
"The story was certainly inspired by a recent blog post by Joann Bruso claiming that the Happy Meal she had purchased and placed on a shelf for an entire year looked virtually unchanged -- no mold, no decomposition or smells. In this case, McDonald's reacted by posting a response on its website, calling Bruso's story an urban legend."
I think she's saying that this Apr fools' joke was an opportunity to respond to Bruso's blog post. That would be almost as big a mistake as an angry response. A miscalculation of Streislandicâ„¢ proportions, if you will. Why call attention to some obscure (to me) blogger's accusation. I think Joyce happens to read Bruso's blog and wanted to bring everyone into the know. However, I still don't care. Two greasy thumbs up, Ronald!
"BTW, there are many valid and useful reasons to file a patent application besides ultimately securing a patent..."
These are all excellent justifications for applying for a patent. I have no beef with the peripheral objectives that you listed nor with the act of applying for a patent and I have no desire to see those mechanisms taken away. Thus, I would be greatly in favor of the patent office continuing to take patent applications as long as they never issued any patents.
I agree that it's not a problem for the telcos. If google blocks access to their subscribers they will quickly realize how little of a problem google is. In fact, similarly to Youtube/Warner, RIAA/College Radio, the telcos would immediately go crying to congress the minute google removed their reason for complaining. The telcos need to seriously grok on what business they're in.
I propose a new Technological Aptitude Test (TAT for short). If a court filing has anything to do with the Internet, software, DRM, video games, any electronically stored information, or E-voting, the pool of selectable judges shrinks to the subset of those who understand technology. Wisdom comes with age, but so can confusion. We need to identify the wise AND Savvy.
"Personally, in an average week, three of the six mail delivery days, I receive nothing but junk."
Yes, but you still go to your mailbox on each of those days, don't you?
You're not listening. Junk mail is not a drain. Junk mail requires less postage because it requires less work. Your first class mail is NOT subsidizing the junk mail. If anything, it's the reason the post office still delivers mail 6 days a week; it's because you always have some kind of mail that the USPS can afford to come to your mailbox daily.
Also, junk mail does not represent waste; junk mail exists because someone buys whatever it's selling. Junk mail is a valuable tool for all sorts of businesses. Get a Parakeet if you have no use for it.
My experience with privatization sucks. My mail is delivered by a guy in a minivan wearing a T-shirt. If he's sick on Tuesday, I get my mail on Wednesday. Granted, privatization doesn't have to work this way, but it's all-too-often the case. The post office gets it done.
Efficiency? Debatable. Reliability and effectiveness? Yes.
The post office delivers to places no one else wants to. If others want to compete, they absolutely MUST take on the responsibility of universal delivery. If they don't, they're not really competing, because that's a BIG part of the USPS's costs.
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Who should whistle, if they might be infringing performance rights by doing so because someone else may have whistled a very similar tune already?
"Who should light a candle, if they know someone else could see by its light?"
Really? Really? You choose a candle, the quintessential metaphor for sharing knowledge, as an allegory for copyright? That's funny. And by funny, I mean fucked up.
For the record, lots of people might still light a candle even if it might help someone besides themselves. That’s kind of the reason it’s a great metaphor for sharing.
"Who should create, if the creation cannot be wholly theirs?"
Someone who wants more fulfillment than simply patting himself on the back, that’s who. The minute you allow someone to experience your creation, it exists in his or her mind and is no longer just yours. Or maybe you mean, “if they cannot control every single reproduction, performance, or mention of it.” In that case, that dumbass William Shakespeare would. As for Metallica: they’re too smart to fall for that.
Well done, Trolly. I really can't tell if you're serious with these.
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Not quite "every single one of these websites":
http://www.rojadirecta.org/
They've already been to court.
I think many of these sites, if given a choice, would decline the "mercy" offered by ICE.
But I encourage you to believe what you want and perhaps attack me personally. I trust you'll have no trouble with that.
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There’s a name for using existing components and not expending resources to recreate what’s already there; it’s called efficiency and it’s worked really well for us humans.
“The problem most remix morons have is that they think that taking the work of someone else and just cut/pasting it into their work makes it theirs. They haven't put a damn bit of effort into any step of creating the sounds that were originally recorded, they just rip off the work that someone else did.”
You left out the part about combining those pieces in a creative way. That’s an important part.
Lucus may have used all those scenes as references, but in no way did he "REMIX" them into Star Wars. There, I agree with you. As Herodotus (the younger) said:
“Remixing something is a very specific process. It involves, not only ideas, but recordings of actual realizations of those ideas. It is quite distinct from emulation or artistic influence, whether conscious or unintentional, neither of which involve actual recordings as raw material.”
I see the utility of maintaining a more specific definition of remix.
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Way to bury the lead there, dude. “Nothing new is created, except for the thing created.” What an elegant Zen statement. If Michelangelo takes a block of marble and some tools and carves a statue of David, nothing new is created. Except the statue. If you take some pieces of broken glass and make a mosaic, you haven’t created anything (except the mosaic). If you’re intention is to say that the creation is of lesser value, I can’t argue with a subjective valuation. I would just point out that even you admit that something is created.
“You can be influenced by something without replicating. Remixing is just replicating. Not the same thing.”
Copying is just replicating. When you do something to change the form, meaning, and context of an existing work, "That's Aremix!"
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Strip Me
And how is it a good thing that I can't see the people who see me? At the very least, they should be on CCTV for the scanee to see.
There's one simple reason why strip search isn't an option: time.
When these machines were first introduced, my chief complaint was (and remains) that they make it too convenient to invade one's privacy.
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I think she's saying that this Apr fools' joke was an opportunity to respond to Bruso's blog post. That would be almost as big a mistake as an angry response. A miscalculation of Streislandicâ„¢ proportions, if you will. Why call attention to some obscure (to me) blogger's accusation. I think Joyce happens to read Bruso's blog and wanted to bring everyone into the know. However, I still don't care. Two greasy thumbs up, Ronald!
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I assume you meant to imply ignorance or the usual patent system defense of "they're just jealous."
I have a simpler explanation:
Why would someone use a system they oppose?
(that was rhetorical, Lonnie)
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These are all excellent justifications for applying for a patent. I have no beef with the peripheral objectives that you listed nor with the act of applying for a patent and I have no desire to see those mechanisms taken away. Thus, I would be greatly in favor of the patent office continuing to take patent applications as long as they never issued any patents.
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Yes, but you still go to your mailbox on each of those days, don't you?
You're not listening. Junk mail is not a drain. Junk mail requires less postage because it requires less work. Your first class mail is NOT subsidizing the junk mail. If anything, it's the reason the post office still delivers mail 6 days a week; it's because you always have some kind of mail that the USPS can afford to come to your mailbox daily.
Also, junk mail does not represent waste; junk mail exists because someone buys whatever it's selling. Junk mail is a valuable tool for all sorts of businesses. Get a Parakeet if you have no use for it.
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Congressmen have districts. Senators represent states. However, other than that, your question is valid.
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Natural Monopoly
Efficiency? Debatable. Reliability and effectiveness? Yes.
The post office delivers to places no one else wants to. If others want to compete, they absolutely MUST take on the responsibility of universal delivery. If they don't, they're not really competing, because that's a BIG part of the USPS's costs.
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