In a better world, the MPD would not have the copyright; they would have hired a private company to produce the video and license it to them. Ideally with contract terms requiring the private company to police unauthorized use of the video.
This sounds awesome. It would just take a $2 billion dollar, 5 year software project that ends up costing $4.5 billion and takes 9 years and is still incomplete, and we are good to go!
Or, you know, they could get some people interested in automating their tax filing to start an open source project that would end up accomplishing the same goal in a hundredth the man-hours and a tenth of the time.
I'm reading that paragraph completely differently. To me, it is saying there is a carve out for "slowing down an end user’s connection to the Internet" if chosen by the end user, but *only* if it is not content-specific. So the user choice provision simply doesn't apply.
I'm not sure how you are interpreting "In contrast" that you reach a different conclusion.
"the reference to a 'parallel universe' are a sham" implies "the reference" is plural, which is only true if you accept that it exists in multiple parallel universes.
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Re: Steal their thunder
Start lobbying for the Patent and Trademark Office to be moved into the Library of Congress.
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Steal their thunder
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The problem here is clearly...socialism
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No accusation there
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Re: Second Article I've Seen on this Subject
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here be dragons
Or, you know, they could get some people interested in automating their tax filing to start an open source project that would end up accomplishing the same goal in a hundredth the man-hours and a tenth of the time.
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It's over
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Beautifully put
Almost worthy of putting on a T-shirt.
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We've always been at war with Eastasia
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In the original story
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SCRAWL
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choice by end user
I'm not sure how you are interpreting "In contrast" that you reach a different conclusion.
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proprietary technology
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Re: Re: Real creators get angry at those who pirate their works
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Real creators get angry at those who pirate their works
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"trademarked the idea"
Surprised you aren't calling out the article author for thinking you can trademark ideas. Maybe you think it's a lost cause?
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Self-radicalization poaching
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not only funny, but self-contradictory
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