And again with that argument. He is complaining about a lack of legal alternative, and you come up with that sort of comparison? Sure, if there was no legal way to stand in line, then he would just walk out.
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I see what you did there.
No one is saying that the time and creativity going into a work is 'artificially scarce.' That is real scarcity. However, slapping DRM on a digital file to try and make it act like a physical object IS artificial scarcity. That file can be copied over and over again with little or no change at all the the bits that make it up, at a marginal cost approaching zero, if not actually zero. Guess what? That's an infinite good!
You say DRM helps everyone. I call bullshit on that.
Yes, it is something that's been discussed here often, and yet no proof of that position has ever been brought forward. On the other hand we have many (myself included) who have attested (not assetted, attested, choose your words carefully) that we have downloaded things not to get out of spending a buck, but to try it out so we know it's worth purchasing. Excuse me, 'extended-term renting.'
You might also note that the person sued did not know they were counterfeit. British law doesn't care, so defending this suit seems questionable at best.
As usual, you start your rant with 'little mikee' making your point irrelevant. We get it, you don't like Mike. Which begs the question: How big a loser are you to spend your time trying to trash a blogger?
'the cost to those whose domains were seized will result in them not being back on the internet, regardless of whether they win any case taken against those agencies or not'
You assume that they are off the internet. In many cases they are not. It's quite simple to get a new domain name registered to a company working outside the US.
You missed the 'nor excluded from' part that you, yourself, highlighted. So... it would indicate that the First Amendment exception does apply, except in specific cases. Try 'trademark' cases.
Actually, I do this. I miss some of my favorite artists, but so long as they are attached at the hip to the recording industry, they will not see a single cent of my money.
Let me be clear on this point: Most music coming from the recording industry falls under the 'noise' category in my opinion. In your opinion, the non-recording industry stuff is 'noise.' In this case, you cannot say as a standard point that what you call 'noise' isn't music. That is only an opinion.
Since Wikileaks isn't a US company, is this even the proper venue for him to be filing? I would think he'd have to travel to Australia and file there, so wouldn't that be yet another fail?
Heh. That was pretty much my thought when I saw the title of this. ' of the month' has been around for a long, long time. I can't think of ever having connected it to any one company.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Freely giving books to other to read. Hmm...
No one is saying that the time and creativity going into a work is 'artificially scarce.' That is real scarcity. However, slapping DRM on a digital file to try and make it act like a physical object IS artificial scarcity. That file can be copied over and over again with little or no change at all the the bits that make it up, at a marginal cost approaching zero, if not actually zero. Guess what? That's an infinite good!
You say DRM helps everyone. I call bullshit on that.
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You assume that they are off the internet. In many cases they are not. It's quite simple to get a new domain name registered to a company working outside the US.
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Correct Venue?
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