"Now, I don't think there's anything wrong with that (at all). In fact, it's pretty smart. The image perfectly conveys what they wanted, so build on it, as they did."
Yep, he was really irate there. Seriously, do you have a single brain cell left in your head?
I've actually used the "original" as desktop wallpaper in the past.
I put "original" in quotes because I don't see how the two are copies of each other at all. The trees are in different spots, the shoreline is different, etc. There is literally nothing "copied" beyond a vague "trees around a lake at night" style, and you can't copyright a style.
The first amendment applies to the government, not private entities. If I invite you to my house, and you start shouting obscenities at my family and guests, I'm going to kick your ass out, and good luck trying to sue me for violating your "first amendment rights".
(Why does TechDirt attract these kinds of people? o_O)
Ebert said he was glad the kid died? Make up some more shit, please.
He was an idiot, drove drunk, and killed himself and his passenger. If it were just some random guy, his name would be vilified across the internet, but because he's a movie star somehow he gets sympathy? Not from me.
His friends and family get my sympathy because they lost someone they cared about, but that guy was a complete jackass.
Does ANYONE understand the legal issues of a brand-new, non-nationally backed currency? ANYONE? I doubt it. Most governments have never even CONSIDERED the possibility (because until recently it WASN'T a possibility).
This is the first decentralized currency that I know of, but it's certainly not the first alternative currency in the US. Those have been around for a long, long time.
1. The person who sets up the account has the private key and thus full control over the wallet. Having someone else "set you up" a Bitcoin address would be like having a stranger "set you up" a new Chase bank account.
2. The address was available on the official donation site before they started back-pedaling.
Their explanation is ridiculous. They can't possibly be that cowardly, so I'm trying to imagine what the real explanation it.
It is either a regulated market designed to keep things balanced and prevent one/few business(es) from gaining destructive market dominance
A "regulated" market is how a business achieves market dominance. That's why I'm trying to say! You decry monopolies without realizing that the government is precisely what makes monopolies possible!
we need to remove incentives and opportunities for representatives to become corrupt or coerced into favoring businesses over the people
As long as you give the government the power to regulate corporations, corporations will use that power against competitors, to the detriment of consumers. This is not a deficiency that can be corrected by more rules.
I was assuming government corruption should be dealt with as well.
Your proposed course of action amounts to "first, let's keep our politicians from smelling like shit, and then we'll work on not throwing them in the sewer". If you want to end corruption by removing incentives, remove a politician's ability to pick winners and losers in the market.
Sony installs malware onto users' machines. Who goes to prison? Nobody.
Sony advertises products with certain features and then retroactively takes them away. Who is held responsible for this fraud? Nobody.
But just try to modify the device you yourself own, and they'll send you to prison faster than you can say "corporatist police state".
1. Stop selling new music in any portable form (CDs, mp3s, etc.)
2. Create "music centers" where people can go to put on a pair of headphones and listen to the recordings in person.
3. Put six layers of security screening in front of the centers to grope would-be customers (no secret recording devices!)
4. Charge $29.99 a song.
5. ???
6. Cultural relevance and profit!
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"Now, I don't think there's anything wrong with that (at all). In fact, it's pretty smart. The image perfectly conveys what they wanted, so build on it, as they did."
Yep, he was really irate there. Seriously, do you have a single brain cell left in your head?
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Re: How can it be made more clear?
You mean except for how it's not a "copy" in any way?
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Wow
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I put "original" in quotes because I don't see how the two are copies of each other at all. The trees are in different spots, the shoreline is different, etc. There is literally nothing "copied" beyond a vague "trees around a lake at night" style, and you can't copyright a style.
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Re: What does it matter? Its gone anyway.
(Why does TechDirt attract these kinds of people? o_O)
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He was an idiot, drove drunk, and killed himself and his passenger. If it were just some random guy, his name would be vilified across the internet, but because he's a movie star somehow he gets sympathy? Not from me.
His friends and family get my sympathy because they lost someone they cared about, but that guy was a complete jackass.
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If he got drunk on his own at home, do we let him off for the drunk driving because he was drunk and "hardly in his right mind"? Of course not.
If you voluntarily alter your state of mind through chemical means, you are responsible for everything you do in your new altered state. Period.
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This is the first decentralized currency that I know of, but it's certainly not the first alternative currency in the US. Those have been around for a long, long time.
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2. The address was available on the official donation site before they started back-pedaling.
Their explanation is ridiculous. They can't possibly be that cowardly, so I'm trying to imagine what the real explanation it.
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Re: Amazon filtering based on content
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A "regulated" market is how a business achieves market dominance. That's why I'm trying to say! You decry monopolies without realizing that the government is precisely what makes monopolies possible!
we need to remove incentives and opportunities for representatives to become corrupt or coerced into favoring businesses over the people
As long as you give the government the power to regulate corporations, corporations will use that power against competitors, to the detriment of consumers. This is not a deficiency that can be corrected by more rules.
I was assuming government corruption should be dealt with as well.
Your proposed course of action amounts to "first, let's keep our politicians from smelling like shit, and then we'll work on not throwing them in the sewer". If you want to end corruption by removing incentives, remove a politician's ability to pick winners and losers in the market.
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Who Owns Who
Sony advertises products with certain features and then retroactively takes them away. Who is held responsible for this fraud? Nobody.
But just try to modify the device you yourself own, and they'll send you to prison faster than you can say "corporatist police state".
Who owns who?
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Win.
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Applicable Quotes
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." - George Orwell
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I Can Do Them One Better
2. Create "music centers" where people can go to put on a pair of headphones and listen to the recordings in person.
3. Put six layers of security screening in front of the centers to grope would-be customers (no secret recording devices!)
4. Charge $29.99 a song.
5. ???
6. Cultural relevance and profit!
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Speaking of Peanuts
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Phew
It's good that they shut this down before it renewed any interest in the originals.
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