I would even take that a step farther. Manning's leak might have remained anonymous had his accessing the information not been attributable to him. In the case of Mark Felt, he could easily have taken on an anonymous persona. Now, it might have created similar difficulties had he leaked actual documents, and posting anonymously does not generally carry the same amount of credibility as a "source" that wishes to remain anonymous, but never the less, to say that he definitely would not have posted something online is somewhat short sighted.
I think one of the most interesting things about the situation that is not being discussed is the number of young folks that won't be getting cable at all, ever. This trend is quickly going to dry up the market of potential new customers to cable in general. I mean, time was, if you left one company, you found another more often than not, so this was more or less neutral to the industry. Now, myself and many others of my generation are out on our own for the first time, and discovering that the avenues of accessing content we pursued in college work just as well out of school. Nothing, not even the comfort of the known, would incentivise me to buy cable in the first place, much less be in a position to cut it.
I'd like to know if the ad on backpages led directly to the pimps arrest. If so, I'd think this suit would have very little merit, and in fact would be the very reason that craigslist should not have shut down its own similar section. Even if it is not policed by the site owners it can still serve as a honey pot.
While this is a more balanced view, it still doesn't quite capture it. With a phone call, you can stay completely anonymous only if the company is not employing some form of caller ID, or you have actively had your number blocked. Usually when you send a letter, the return address includes your name, or the letter does. In the instance of file sharing, there is a good amount more work that needs to be done to discover an identity for anything past an organizational owner of the IP. Unless we were talking about an ISP where they have the info to connect with their customer (and this only functions on a home customer level), the situation is much more like following a random person on the street, and noting identifying characteristics that may allow you to get their full identity later on.
So, the negative of the picture, which you get BEFORE you get a finished print, is derivative of that finished print? Now I've heard everything. This argument is baseless. IF the negatives are in fact of photos taken by Adams, then they are the original work. Looking at things this way, any final product of Adams' is derivative of the negatives. This is fine from Adams' perspective, since he would have been making a derivative work based on HIS technically prior work. If you have a problem calling Adams' actual final product "derivative," then these are much closer by analogy to an early draft of a publication than they are to any sort of "derivative."
I was in fact referring to this concept in general, either from their own or their friends work, or previously uploaded video, and in some cases this is against Youtube's TOS, but this is dependent on the content creator's permission, there is no blanket barring done by youtube, as well as the protection afforded by fair use. Some of the kids had figured out how to do this on their own, so we have begun addressing licensing concerns and responsible/legal use of Youtube in our integrated technology curriculum. For an example of a video where this is allowed by the author, see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
I must say that at least regarding youtube your statement is incorrect. We have taught our students to use youtube in their school projects, as well as how to separate the audio from the video in order to create new works. This has not stopped the students from wanting to view the latest cat related media or music video, but it has given them a greator respect for what effort does or does not go into the creation of such things. Many of them have their own personal channels as well. The idea that students only do it because they are not allowed may be true of some things, but these services have inherint value to the students i know and interact with.
While embracing services like facebook is a fantastic idea, it is a little more difficult when the students that are being blocked are below the stated minimum age. Having worked at K-8 schools in an IT capacity, I can definitely say that the students are doing the exact same thing as their older peers, but what the educator's role should be is much harder to pin down. Also, many of the parents of such younger children are not even comfortable with services specifically targeted to that age group. We have been introducing collaboration tools like wikis, as well as personal blogs only accessible by students and faculty, but fighting to keep students from services like facebook when the school could possibly be liable if we did not is still the same impossible battle as the one wrongly being fought by 9-12 and higher ed. How do you teach students to interact responsibly with a service they should not even be on? We do attempt to teach responsible "netiquette," but if we go too far, we get in hot water for seeming to encuorage the students to explore services they are "too young" for. For older students it may be difficult finding the right way to teach the students responsible use, but for 5-8 especially it is a real catch 22.
"Hulu's a popular site, so why not test shows there before putting them on the broadcast network?"
They are in fact doing this. Right now there are at least two Pilot episodes of shows on Hulu. "Glee" and "Mental." Hopefully this release setup will help great new shows get more than 4 episodes.
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They are in fact doing this. Right now there are at least two Pilot episodes of shows on Hulu. "Glee" and "Mental." Hopefully this release setup will help great new shows get more than 4 episodes.
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