Regarding all your falsehoods, here's something you may consider: All the internet platforms have a right to moderate under the first amendment's freedom to peaceably assemble, otherwise it's compelled speech. It's obvious you're a big fan of compelled speech, because you think compelled speech is permitted under the first amendment, when many US courts (including the current SCOTUS) have ruled otherwise.
To be fair to the anonymous coward, it is legitimate to be afraid of governments cracking down on civil liberties after major disasters. After 9/11 the USA PATRIOT act passed.
That being said, there's a difference between warning about government overreach and using large-scale events to accelerate said overreach and thinking they caused said events without evidence*.
*keyword is "without evidence". We know all about what the CIA and FBI did because there is actual hard evidence for what they did. If 9/11 was an inside job and COVID-19 was created in a lab, I'd like to see evidence, such as government documents by a whistleblower.
There's also conspiracy theories around where all authors are lying bastards, so even when my marketing material honestly proclaims that there's 0 actual users, the techdirt spins it as lying.
"all authors"? Are you fucking kidding me?!?!? No, not "all authors"; just you. I offer statistics about my music career and nobody at Techdirt dismisses me or thinks I'm a liar. You are so far delusional, my good friend.
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copyright-wise [BSD/MIT Licenses are] no better than copyright infringement.
Oh Jesus, you're really dumber than what I enter into the toilet. You're comparing free licenses to Copyright Infringement? Maybe Larry Lessig should set you straight as to what the differences between free licenses and piracy are.
[Spoiler alert: it's the difference between allowing people to freely come and play on your garden and people trespassing on your garden]
Under US Law, Corporations can be authors if they pay people to do the work for them (i.e. "work for hire"). See here:
The author of a copyrighted work may be a person or an institution. Typically, the author of a work owns the copyright in the work. However, under the U.S. Copyright Law, for a work made for hire, that is a work prepared by an employee within the scope of employment or a specially ordered or commissioned work, the employer or other person for whom the work was prepared is considered the author.
The theory is that the one who pays the piper writes the tune, so to speak.
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One day you'll learn that there's more to creativity than getting an hourly wage - which is why you're stuck lying and complaining about the successful people who actually did quality work.
Exactly. As proof, see Jackey Rey Neyman Jones' story about Manos: The Hands of Fate and how that movie being in the public domain was actually the best thing that could've happened to her and her father's estranged relationship.
Not only that, but Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie was derived from Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill, Jr. (See here), which in turn came from the 1910 song "Steamboat Bill".
copyright was a censor licensing publication, and a means of regulating printers. It had nothing to do with creativity, other than the Hollywood accounting variety, which existed long before Hollywood became a thing.
Just so we're clear, Are you talking about the Conger?
Nintendo does make original games, like Good Job!, Snipperclips, ARMS, and Part-Time UFO (if we're counting the Wii U Generation, Splattoon). It's just that the sequels make more money, so…
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Yes, relying on someone elses work is always bad sign.
Congratulations. You just described Disney's Business model. Hell, you described Nintendo's ascent into being the Video Game Disney, considering that Mario's first appearance was in the game Donkey Kong, and Nintendo famously won a court case against Universal Studios by proving that King Kong was in the public Domain.
It doesn't end there. There was a Nintendo game called Balloon Fight which was just a ripoff of Atari's Joust.
So yeah, even the big companies aren't 100% original.
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You don't even have to go back that far. Just look at Boaty McBoatface for evidence!
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Koby, is that you?
Regarding all your falsehoods, here's something you may consider: All the internet platforms have a right to moderate under the first amendment's freedom to peaceably assemble, otherwise it's compelled speech. It's obvious you're a big fan of compelled speech, because you think compelled speech is permitted under the first amendment, when many US courts (including the current SCOTUS) have ruled otherwise.
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Fair enough. You're right that certain keywords should have clued me in but went over my head. For that, I apologize.
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To be fair to the anonymous coward, it is legitimate to be afraid of governments cracking down on civil liberties after major disasters. After 9/11 the USA PATRIOT act passed.
That being said, there's a difference between warning about government overreach and using large-scale events to accelerate said overreach and thinking they caused said events without evidence*.
*keyword is "without evidence". We know all about what the CIA and FBI did because there is actual hard evidence for what they did. If 9/11 was an inside job and COVID-19 was created in a lab, I'd like to see evidence, such as government documents by a whistleblower.
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Cold Comfort, but…
I'm actually relieved that my alma mater New York University didn't coalesce into this Patent Troll-tron.
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“Stanley” should be “Stankey”. Goddamn autocorrect!
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What you can’t say about Stanley is that he doesn’t live up to his name. 😉
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"all authors"? Are you fucking kidding me?!?!? No, not "all authors"; just you. I offer statistics about my music career and nobody at Techdirt dismisses me or thinks I'm a liar. You are so far delusional, my good friend.
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Oh Jesus, you're really dumber than what I enter into the toilet. You're comparing free licenses to Copyright Infringement? Maybe Larry Lessig should set you straight as to what the differences between free licenses and piracy are.
[Spoiler alert: it's the difference between allowing people to freely come and play on your garden and people trespassing on your garden]
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A lot of people forget that Nintendo is a business after all...
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Under US Law, Corporations can be authors if they pay people to do the work for them (i.e. "work for hire"). See here:
The theory is that the one who pays the piper writes the tune, so to speak.
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Exactly. As proof, see Jackey Rey Neyman Jones' story about Manos: The Hands of Fate and how that movie being in the public domain was actually the best thing that could've happened to her and her father's estranged relationship.
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A new Cruis'n game, though!
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You have to have a Nintendo Switch, and it's really easy to shop at the eShop.
As usual, you know nothing.
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Not even "Steamboat Willie" is original.
Not only that, but Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie was derived from Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill, Jr. (See here), which in turn came from the 1910 song "Steamboat Bill".
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Just so we're clear, Are you talking about the Conger?
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To be fair to Nintendo,
Nintendo does make original games, like Good Job!, Snipperclips, ARMS, and Part-Time UFO (if we're counting the Wii U Generation, Splattoon). It's just that the sequels make more money, so…
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While I don't want © to be abolished, I do agree that there will still be creations with or without copyright. Just look at what the Blender Studio has produced with free licenses!
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Congratulations. You just described Disney's Business model. Hell, you described Nintendo's ascent into being the Video Game Disney, considering that Mario's first appearance was in the game Donkey Kong, and Nintendo famously won a court case against Universal Studios by proving that King Kong was in the public Domain.
It doesn't end there. There was a Nintendo game called Balloon Fight which was just a ripoff of Atari's Joust.
So yeah, even the big companies aren't 100% original.
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I, um, think you meant to post that here.
Have a good day.
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