E. Zachary Knight (profile), 21 Nov 2011 @ 11:59am
Re: Re: I am reminded
Yeah, I am not sure if the mix up was intentional on Lobo's part, but yeah that is aA Bug's Life.
The real story of the Ant and the Grasshopper was about an ant who worked hard to store food during the summer months while the Grasshopper lived in the day and failed to plan for his future. Then when winter came the Grasshopper starved to death because he was unprepared.
I can honestly say that the OWS protesters resemble the grasshopper more than the ant.
If you invent something, are you entitled to be paid for someone else's research and development? It happens all the time in the software world. Someone patents an "invention". Then a year or two later, someone else invents it completely unaware that a patent exists. Is the patent holder really entitled to be paid for that?
Nobody is being forced to use new services. People, content customers, are choosing to use those services and the content is not following the trend.
If you were the owner of a store and a new store opened up down the road and all your customers left, you have two choices, compete to bring back customers, or legislate the new store out of business. Competing brings you life long customers and more revenue. Legislating the problem away gets you hated for monopolistic practices.
If as a content producer, your fans tell you they want your music/movie/game/book/whatever on some new service, you have two choices, do it and get more revenue and fans or don't and die.
Adapt or die. That is the law of the land. These attempts at legislating away the need to adapt will fail and fail hard.
This is the third story of the day and the first one about SOPA. Mike made no promises yesterday that he wouldn't be posting any more SOPA stories, he siply said he would be posting more non-SOPA stories. I think a 2:1 ratio is pretty good for the morning.
Now, I am very interested in the impact SOPA will have and look forward to hearing more stories on the subject. Why? Because the issue is of the very utmost importance. There area lot of people who will simply forget about the issue until it is too late if they are not reminded. So let's make sure they don't forget.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), 16 Nov 2011 @ 12:18pm
Re: SOPA
I don't care who wins the next president election (republican or democrat) but please try to find someone who cares about the voters or soon you wont have to worry about voting anymore.
Sadly, You will be hard pressed to find such a person within the Democratic and Republican parties. Your best bet is to look out side the box.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), 16 Nov 2011 @ 12:09pm
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Ok. I really liked your whole comment. It was a nice concise discussion of what would be great to happen.
However, I Must take issue with something that you said:
Right now, the soft middle leans towards piracy because they can, because it's easy, it works, it's easy to find stuff, it's easy to download it, it's all automated and simple - and the risks are negligible.
With SOPA, there is great potential that many of the pirate sites out there today which facilitate the access, host the files, or otherwise contribute to piracy won't be accessible from the US - at least not easily. As it becomes harder to find stuff, harder to obtain it, and more effort and risk comes into trying to get it, the soft middle will start to lean back to legal sources. This will be doubly so if these laws encourage legal alternatives to become more prevalent. Already, things like netflix and other streaming services have to some extent started that process.
If Services like Netflix, and I would add Hulu, Spotify, Pandora etc to that, have already started the process of turning the soft middle from piracy, why do we need SOPA? Why not just create more services that are "easy, work, easy to find stuff, easy to download it, all automated and simple"? Wouldn't that be the better solution to legislating the Soft Middle out of piracy?
When you pass laws making something illegal, you run the risk of those people hating being forced to change their behavior. Yet, when you give them something better than the illegal means, they are more willing to like and trust you in the future. Wouldn't that be the ideal solution?
So you are saying that we should completely ignore all the lawyers who signed on stating they agree with the letter and that it reflects their thoughts and reasoning behind their opposition, just because they didn't write the letter themselves?
Ok. Then I completely dismiss Abrams letter because it was written by the MPAA/RIAA with his name just tagged on it to ride the coattails.
No. op-ed stands for "opposite editorial" for those days when people actually read newspapers and the op-eds were printed on the opposite page of the editorials.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), 10 Nov 2011 @ 12:51pm
Re: Did anyone else...
Libertarians subscribe to the view of "Do no Harm" SOPA violates that in that it give one private citizen or group to violate the IP rights of another.
They would also be against it on the stance that it is regulatory capture at its worse.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), 10 Nov 2011 @ 12:49pm
Re: Re: I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Actually, we have that right thanks to retailers who wanted to undercut the competition with book sales. Who wouldn't want to save $0.11 on the latest book?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Well, let's give up on all laws then.
They don't have to sue to get back to making money. THere are more avenues of legal distributions today then ever before. They have ample opportunity to make money, they just chose to sue their fans.
If copyright lengths were brought back to a reasonable level (28 years requiring registration as it was originally) then Viacom wouldn't have nearly as much content to police and would be free to do a little more due diligence before lashing out at new technologies.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Well, let's give up on all laws then.
Except they are not free. They lose all methods of accepting payment, accepting ads and having people being able to find them. That is far more punishment than sitting in jail for a few hours while you parents post bail.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Well, let's give up on all laws then.
The problem is that is not how justice works.
The accuser should always be the one who has to prove their side, not the defendant.
Additionally, this is not about making the process in some way equal for both sides. SOPA is about forcing the defendant to have to exert more effort in proving innocence.
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Re: Late in the game...
Not surprised that he only have to change a total of 6 lines of code to bypass a software patent.
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Re: Re: I am reminded
The real story of the Ant and the Grasshopper was about an ant who worked hard to store food during the summer months while the Grasshopper lived in the day and failed to plan for his future. Then when winter came the Grasshopper starved to death because he was unprepared.
I can honestly say that the OWS protesters resemble the grasshopper more than the ant.
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If you were the owner of a store and a new store opened up down the road and all your customers left, you have two choices, compete to bring back customers, or legislate the new store out of business. Competing brings you life long customers and more revenue. Legislating the problem away gets you hated for monopolistic practices.
If as a content producer, your fans tell you they want your music/movie/game/book/whatever on some new service, you have two choices, do it and get more revenue and fans or don't and die.
Adapt or die. That is the law of the land. These attempts at legislating away the need to adapt will fail and fail hard.
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Re: Just one SOPA post today please...
Now, I am very interested in the impact SOPA will have and look forward to hearing more stories on the subject. Why? Because the issue is of the very utmost importance. There area lot of people who will simply forget about the issue until it is too late if they are not reminded. So let's make sure they don't forget.
On the post: A Question For SOPA Supporters: How Will You Gauge SOPA's Success?
Re: SOPA
Sadly, You will be hard pressed to find such a person within the Democratic and Republican parties. Your best bet is to look out side the box.
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However, I Must take issue with something that you said:
If Services like Netflix, and I would add Hulu, Spotify, Pandora etc to that, have already started the process of turning the soft middle from piracy, why do we need SOPA? Why not just create more services that are "easy, work, easy to find stuff, easy to download it, all automated and simple"? Wouldn't that be the better solution to legislating the Soft Middle out of piracy?
When you pass laws making something illegal, you run the risk of those people hating being forced to change their behavior. Yet, when you give them something better than the illegal means, they are more willing to like and trust you in the future. Wouldn't that be the ideal solution?
On the post: Over 100 Lawyers, Law Professors & Practitioners Come Out Against SOPA
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Ok. Then I completely dismiss Abrams letter because it was written by the MPAA/RIAA with his name just tagged on it to ride the coattails.
On the post: First Amendment Expert Floyd Abrams Admits SOPA Would Censor Protected Speech, But Thinks It's Okay Collateral Damage
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For someone who claims to know the ends and outs of copyright law, you sure don't know much when it counts.
On the post: Time Magazine Says SOPA Is 'A Cure Worse Than The Disease'; Would Encourage Censorship
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On the post: When Even The Librarians Are Against SOPA...
Re: Did anyone else...
They would also be against it on the stance that it is regulatory capture at its worse.
On the post: When Even The Librarians Are Against SOPA...
Re: Re: I've said it before and I'll say it again.
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Please explain how you came to the conclusion that this is an "op-ed"
op-ed in journalism is a reader submitted article, usually in response to an editorial or other article.
This is an article submitted by a Time contributor, not a reader.
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op-ed in journalism is a reader submitted article, usually in response to an editorial or other article.
This is an article submitted by a Time contributor, not a reader.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Well, let's give up on all laws then.
On the post: Viacom Exec: 'Everyone Knows A Rogue Site When They See One'… Except He Doesn't
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Well, let's give up on all laws then.
Yes, just like an arrest. An arrest without the prospect of bail. You know, that thing the Eight amendment protect us from.
I don't know about you, but I like my Constitutional rights the way they are. I prefer to have justice play out in a fair and partial way.
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On the post: Viacom Exec: 'Everyone Knows A Rogue Site When They See One'… Except He Doesn't
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Well, let's give up on all laws then.
On the post: Viacom Exec: 'Everyone Knows A Rogue Site When They See One'… Except He Doesn't
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Well, let's give up on all laws then.
Under SOPA, the site is kept in "jail" without bail until the trial is over if it ever happens.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Well, let's give up on all laws then.
The accuser should always be the one who has to prove their side, not the defendant.
Additionally, this is not about making the process in some way equal for both sides. SOPA is about forcing the defendant to have to exert more effort in proving innocence.
Justice: Innocent until proven guilty.
Injustice: Guilty until proven innocent.
Justice: Good
Injustice: Bad
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