Lack of copyright won't stop DRM. In fact, many companies will react by increasing it. Of course they'll also continue to lobby for draconian punishments for bypassing the DRM.
Indeed. I've pointed this out before: if your primary goal for your content not be infringed upon, all you have to do is never release it. A simple, cheap solution that will never, ever "lose" you money to illicit copying.
I haven't commented on much about SOPA because I'm not qualified enough to comment on your congress & statutes
Neither are many commenters here (myself included) but we're an opinionated lot. I admire your restraint. :)
and watching from the outside is utterly fascinating though.
Sort of like a train wreck in slow motion, yes?
Somehow though, I suspect that my welcoming will be a long time to come and might be dependant on a civil war or worse, hopefully that is not the case.
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of. What I'm hoping is that something will break so badly that it'll be obvious to even the most stubbornly reactionary that the thing is broken, but not so badly that it can't be fixed in a reasonable time period.
No, DMCA works only if the copyright holder actively searches and complains - and even then, they get no other satisfaction than seeing the content removed that might have been up for years.
Ah, so you admit this is all about making the copyright holders happy, and nothing to do with fairness, justice, or the public weal.
The internet archive, like other sites, will have to deal with what is and what is not legal in the US - it's the nature of the game.
Ah, so it's not about making laws that are fair and just. It's about using the US legal system to beat up people for their lunch money.
So all you have to do is pass a bunch of egregious laws and then frame all arguments in the context of what's legal, and you figure you've won all the arguments.
Between the privacy debacle (all of them) and the fact that they kept changing the way my page worked -- they have control over my priorities, and kept shoving that into my face -- I got pissed off and stopped visiting.
So, you insist that I MUST view "hottest topics" first, in spite of the fact that I want to sort by date? Fuck off, FB.
I have friends begging me to change my privacy settings because suddenly my settings affect their privacy (and they now default to "share all my friends' most intimate details with the whole world)? Jesus, FB, can you fail harder please?
Ah yes, another set of under-served customers. Don't try to give them what they want at a reasonable price -- assume they're just unlimited cash sources and try to force them into the channels you have direct control over. Obviously anybody who tries to do it another way is just a dirty stinking pirate who doesn't want to pay for content. Ignore the fact that the only choices you give them are "don't consume" and "pay far too much". Obviously anybody who isn't willing to "pay far too much" is just being greedy -- it can't POSSIBLY be that they're simply choosing to feed their kids over paying for your yacht.
Shouldn't have agreed to co-authorship in the first place. But any decent writer does a ton of research and gets all the people she can to critique the material before publishing.
My wife once wrote a fiction story about a boxer (one who engages in the sport of boxing) and spent a lot of effort reading up about boxing and running around interviewing people in the business. And of course many people (including me) were asked to read and critique.
Should she have named every one of those people as co-author? No. That's what the acknowledgements section is for. Not one of them penned a single word. She's the one who actually did the work writing the story.
(She never published, so don't bother looking. You will find authors with my last name, they're not related or are very distant relatives.)
However, I agree with other comments that if the author agreed to co-authorship in a contract, he was obligated.
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Nevertheless, well done, sir. My hat is off to you (regardless of the avatar :). Even with the closing tag a number of people got trolled.
P.S. It's spelled voila. (OK, technically it's voilà, but even I'm not that picky.) Sorry, I had to say something.
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It took you this long to figure that out?
I accept for my fellow countrymen, in the spirit in which it was given.
It's arrogant presumption on my part to claim to speak for the rest of the country, but hey, we're all about arrogance and presumption.
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Neither are many commenters here (myself included) but we're an opinionated lot. I admire your restraint. :)
and watching from the outside is utterly fascinating though.
Sort of like a train wreck in slow motion, yes?
Somehow though, I suspect that my welcoming will be a long time to come and might be dependant on a civil war or worse, hopefully that is not the case.
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of. What I'm hoping is that something will break so badly that it'll be obvious to even the most stubbornly reactionary that the thing is broken, but not so badly that it can't be fixed in a reasonable time period.
But I'm betting on civil war.
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(It's what I get for reading Techdirt at work.)
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Ah, so you admit this is all about making the copyright holders happy, and nothing to do with fairness, justice, or the public weal.
The internet archive, like other sites, will have to deal with what is and what is not legal in the US - it's the nature of the game.
Ah, so it's not about making laws that are fair and just. It's about using the US legal system to beat up people for their lunch money.
So all you have to do is pass a bunch of egregious laws and then frame all arguments in the context of what's legal, and you figure you've won all the arguments.
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Mmmmmm. I can smell the lynch mobs from here.
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Mmmmmm. I can smell the lynch mobs from here.
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So, you insist that I MUST view "hottest topics" first, in spite of the fact that I want to sort by date? Fuck off, FB.
I have friends begging me to change my privacy settings because suddenly my settings affect their privacy (and they now default to "share all my friends' most intimate details with the whole world)? Jesus, FB, can you fail harder please?
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My wife once wrote a fiction story about a boxer (one who engages in the sport of boxing) and spent a lot of effort reading up about boxing and running around interviewing people in the business. And of course many people (including me) were asked to read and critique.
Should she have named every one of those people as co-author? No. That's what the acknowledgements section is for. Not one of them penned a single word. She's the one who actually did the work writing the story.
(She never published, so don't bother looking. You will find authors with my last name, they're not related or are very distant relatives.)
However, I agree with other comments that if the author agreed to co-authorship in a contract, he was obligated.
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Farnsworth: "I can. But that's because I'm not a penniless hippie!"
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