Chris Thompson made so many errors in the piece that I'm surprised you're taking it seriously.
First, Thompson buys into the myth that YouTube was a bad purchase and is unprofitable.
Second, he considers Viacom's lawsuit to be highly meritorious, worthy of a huge settlement.
Third, he considers Google's attempt to scan every known book to pose a threat to libraries. I can't for the life of me understand how making the books of the world more accessible to everyone with a computer could ever be considered a bad thing.
What?! So Leo Kehoe is a fraudulent scumbag who will botch up your tax returns and forget to submit them, according to someone's allegation, and he has not denied raping and murdering a 12 year old girl in the 80s?!
In my humble and utterly sarcastic, uninformed, and subjective opinion, the guy is most likely a sociopath.
So let me get this straight, Leo Kehoe is a fraudulent scumbag who will botch up your tax returns and forget to submit them? Or not.
If Leo Kehoe is a fraudulent scumbag who will botch up your tax returns and forget to submit them, you probably should not use him as an accountant, in my humble and subjective opinion.
In fact if Leo Kehoe is a fraudulent scumbag who will botch up your tax returns and forget to submit them he should probably lose his license, in my humble and subjective opinion.
In conclusion, if Leo Kehoe is a fraudulent scumbag who will botch up your tax returns and forget to submit them, he's probably also douche, a retard, and gets his rocks off killing puppies, in my humble and subjective opinion.
If corporations are allowed to patent genes they'll get loads of money. Those corporations make promises to give politicians a cut for making these patents possible. We vote for those politicians because they've spent the most on their campaigns.
The corporations get what they want.
The politicians get what they want.
And we get the politicians we voted for.
Everyone's happy.
The mistake you're making is your assumption that Yoko Ono is a musician who creates music. Comparing the quality of a song to the quality of a bloody corpse is nonsensical.
Agreed, it costs a lot of money for Monsanto to research and figure out how natural processes work, so they can patent and lock up those natural processes.
I don't know if you realize this, but there is simply no security when it comes to mail boxes. Currently anyone, even if they work for FedEx or UPS can open and steal your mail. This law was not intended and does nothing to stop anyone from stealing your mail or your identity.
The purpose of this law is to prop up the USPS. Sure, UPS and FedEx does a great job with your packages, because currently it's essentially illegal to for it deliver first class mail. Why not also allow the UPS and FedEx do a "great job" delivering first class mail? Do you have any reason to think they'd do a worse job than the USPS?
And why should we erect a separate mail box? That makes no ficken sense. Let's make an asinine law for the sole purpose of protecting an inefficient service, and lets make it even less efficient by making everyone in the country install yet another mail box. I've never met you before, but I can tell you've never run a business. Your ideas are the opposite of efficiency.
One simple change in federal law could solve this problems Under the current law only the USPS can place mail and packages in your mail box. Fed Ex and UPS cannot.
That law is the biggest impediment to competition and innovation in mail delivery. Revoke the law, let everyone compete in the mail delivery process, and we'll all benefit in the long run.
"How about if your work can be easily replicated?"
Who the frick cares if the caricatures he drew can be easily replicated? Does that take away the $20 he received for doing them in the first place? Nope. He still got his twenty. And who is going to want a photocopy of someone else's caricature, it's not like there's a huge market for that.
"lets say, you put a lot of effort into designing your painting"
The nimrod admitted spending only two fricken minutes on the portraits. Painting a car is much more work than that.
"I am not saying what he is doing is right, but just that your situation is not comparable to his."
Did I miss something? You did nothing of the sort.
Here's a letter to the editor from Richard Pfohl, General Counsel, Canadian Recording Industry Association. He writes,
Downloading pirated music is not legal in Canada... In fact, the Federal Court of Appeal has subsequently twice ruled that the private copying regime doesn't apply to downloads made to hard drives.
Notice what he's saying. First, the general statement that downloading music is illegal in Canada. Then he narrowly says that music downloaded to "hard drives" is illegal. He never addresses the possibility of downloading music directly to a levied disc.
Considering the price of blank levied CDs and the technology involved, I don't think it'd be possible (economically or technologically) to directly download a song to a levied disc. It would certainly be cached on the hard drive or RAM, at least temporarily.
So I'm going to stand by my statement. In any meaningful sense, Canadians are paying the levy without receiving any benefit in return.
You gave plenty of reasons why these levies make little sense, but you missed the biggest reason. Even after paying these levies consumers still don't have the right to infringe copyrights. They're paying the copyright industries money without receiving anything in return. To me that's criminal.
If only we could have taxed the automotive industry to give to the buggy whip industry, we'd still have a thriving and utterly useless buggy whip industry.
Of course someone will argue that news is important and we can't let the news industry die. Sure, news is important, which is why it will not die. Even if the current news industry dies, as people demand news, a new and more efficient industry will take its place.
I have to admit it's pretty clever, in an evil and twisted sort of way. Basically he's saying, "Even if the world disagrees with what we're trying to accomplish with the ACTA, we have to keep trying."
It puts the debate in the context of being "us versus them." I.e., us versus China, Europe, and everyone else who is "using our technologies" without paying.
That takes the focus off the fact that the "us versus them" fight is actually between the citizens of the world against the IP industry, including the music industry, the film industry, the broadcast industry, the pharma industry, etc.
From now on, every time some country stands up for our rights as citizens against the IP industry, Obama will just argue that the country is blocking his fight to protect our technologies from being stolen.
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First, Thompson buys into the myth that YouTube was a bad purchase and is unprofitable.
Second, he considers Viacom's lawsuit to be highly meritorious, worthy of a huge settlement.
Third, he considers Google's attempt to scan every known book to pose a threat to libraries. I can't for the life of me understand how making the books of the world more accessible to everyone with a computer could ever be considered a bad thing.
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Under Section 230 the host site is not responsible for user created content.
Someone's going to make a fortune off of underagesexting.com
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In my humble and utterly sarcastic, uninformed, and subjective opinion, the guy is most likely a sociopath.
On the post: Accountant Sues Craigslist Over Negative Post About His Services
If Leo Kehoe is a fraudulent scumbag who will botch up your tax returns and forget to submit them, you probably should not use him as an accountant, in my humble and subjective opinion.
In fact if Leo Kehoe is a fraudulent scumbag who will botch up your tax returns and forget to submit them he should probably lose his license, in my humble and subjective opinion.
In conclusion, if Leo Kehoe is a fraudulent scumbag who will botch up your tax returns and forget to submit them, he's probably also douche, a retard, and gets his rocks off killing puppies, in my humble and subjective opinion.
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If corporations are allowed to patent genes they'll get loads of money. Those corporations make promises to give politicians a cut for making these patents possible. We vote for those politicians because they've spent the most on their campaigns.
The corporations get what they want.
The politicians get what they want.
And we get the politicians we voted for.
Everyone's happy.
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The mistake you're making is your assumption that Yoko Ono is a musician who creates music. Comparing the quality of a song to the quality of a bloody corpse is nonsensical.
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Re: I got it!
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The purpose of this law is to prop up the USPS. Sure, UPS and FedEx does a great job with your packages, because currently it's essentially illegal to for it deliver first class mail. Why not also allow the UPS and FedEx do a "great job" delivering first class mail? Do you have any reason to think they'd do a worse job than the USPS?
And why should we erect a separate mail box? That makes no ficken sense. Let's make an asinine law for the sole purpose of protecting an inefficient service, and lets make it even less efficient by making everyone in the country install yet another mail box. I've never met you before, but I can tell you've never run a business. Your ideas are the opposite of efficiency.
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One simple change in federal law could solve this problems Under the current law only the USPS can place mail and packages in your mail box. Fed Ex and UPS cannot.
That law is the biggest impediment to competition and innovation in mail delivery. Revoke the law, let everyone compete in the mail delivery process, and we'll all benefit in the long run.
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Re: Re: If I paid you for a product....
Who the frick cares if the caricatures he drew can be easily replicated? Does that take away the $20 he received for doing them in the first place? Nope. He still got his twenty. And who is going to want a photocopy of someone else's caricature, it's not like there's a huge market for that.
"lets say, you put a lot of effort into designing your painting"
The nimrod admitted spending only two fricken minutes on the portraits. Painting a car is much more work than that.
"I am not saying what he is doing is right, but just that your situation is not comparable to his."
Did I miss something? You did nothing of the sort.
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Notice what he's saying. First, the general statement that downloading music is illegal in Canada. Then he narrowly says that music downloaded to "hard drives" is illegal. He never addresses the possibility of downloading music directly to a levied disc.
Considering the price of blank levied CDs and the technology involved, I don't think it'd be possible (economically or technologically) to directly download a song to a levied disc. It would certainly be cached on the hard drive or RAM, at least temporarily.
So I'm going to stand by my statement. In any meaningful sense, Canadians are paying the levy without receiving any benefit in return.
On the post: Surprising: Charlie Angus Proposing iPod 'You Must Be A Criminal' Tax In Canada
You gave plenty of reasons why these levies make little sense, but you missed the biggest reason. Even after paying these levies consumers still don't have the right to infringe copyrights. They're paying the copyright industries money without receiving anything in return. To me that's criminal.
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Of course someone will argue that news is important and we can't let the news industry die. Sure, news is important, which is why it will not die. Even if the current news industry dies, as people demand news, a new and more efficient industry will take its place.
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According to the RIAA that's equivalent to downloading about 100 crappy songs.
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It puts the debate in the context of being "us versus them." I.e., us versus China, Europe, and everyone else who is "using our technologies" without paying.
That takes the focus off the fact that the "us versus them" fight is actually between the citizens of the world against the IP industry, including the music industry, the film industry, the broadcast industry, the pharma industry, etc.
From now on, every time some country stands up for our rights as citizens against the IP industry, Obama will just argue that the country is blocking his fight to protect our technologies from being stolen.
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