The people are confused. Tech has advanced such that many people can now do things for themselves that previously they would have had to pay for.
People use libraries when it is too time consuming or inefficient to copy a book. Now its easily done. Publishers may whine about the loss of profits, but that's a pricing issue for their business model. The majority of textbooks are just facts. No one wants to hear about copyrights on facts.
What about all of the professional printers that lost business because people can print at home? What about the recording studios that are losing business because people can record at home? What about all the other businesses that have been impacted by home computing?
You adapt your business model or become the next Kodak or buggy whip manufacturer.
Someone needs to drop a common sense bomb on all these "save the poor children online" types.
HELLO???? McFLY????
If these children are old enough to be unsupervised on the net, then why do they not know that murder is wrong, or beheading is wrong, or rape is wrong (oh wait... Steubenville).
My devices have off switches. If I don't like what I'm looking at or listening to, then I have the option to NOT consume.
I've seen exactly one beheading online. I watched it, found it distasteful and never looked for one again. I've never encountered one on Facebook, nor looked for one there. If I ever do get a beheading in my feed, I know how to delete it.
Limiting a person's options does not change the nature of a person. People who like to watch horrible things will still continue to do so.
No matter how much influence a company has and no matter how much an industry tries to fight, tech moves forward.
It does not care about protecting your business model. We moved to gasoline powered cars, we switched to email, we moved to mobile devices, we share content on the net, we will copy in 3D.
Adapt or die. Ask the good people at Kodak that thought film would never go away. Think TV won't move to a net based model???? Dream on.
IF Google changed the algo so that whenever ANY search for the pirate bay turned up ALL of the MPAA/RIAA sites first, here is what would happen.
The user would search through the results til they found the link for the pirate bay, then they would bookmark it or remember the page it showed up in the results.
Congress makes the laws, so they should leave the definitions to the people that make dictionaries.
journalist
1
a : a person engaged in journalism; especially : a writer or editor for a news medium
b : a writer who aims at a mass audience
2
: a person who keeps a journal
Seems easy enough. Those are the people that the shield law should protect.
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Re: Re:Seriously???
Try to explain this one away. The KKK
Largest domestic terrorist group ever and in the name of Christ.
On the post: India Wants Students And Researchers To Have The Right To Photocopy Books
WTF?
People use libraries when it is too time consuming or inefficient to copy a book. Now its easily done. Publishers may whine about the loss of profits, but that's a pricing issue for their business model. The majority of textbooks are just facts. No one wants to hear about copyrights on facts.
What about all of the professional printers that lost business because people can print at home? What about the recording studios that are losing business because people can record at home? What about all the other businesses that have been impacted by home computing?
You adapt your business model or become the next Kodak or buggy whip manufacturer.
On the post: Facebook Re-Opens The Door To Videos Featuring Beheadings; Breasts? Not So Much
Re: Re: DAMN!!!!!
Someone got a common sense bomb dropped on them.
On the post: Facebook Re-Opens The Door To Videos Featuring Beheadings; Breasts? Not So Much
Re: Re: Oh, the moral outrage
Someone needs to drop a common sense bomb on all these "save the poor children online" types.
HELLO???? McFLY????
If these children are old enough to be unsupervised on the net, then why do they not know that murder is wrong, or beheading is wrong, or rape is wrong (oh wait... Steubenville).
On the post: Facebook Re-Opens The Door To Videos Featuring Beheadings; Breasts? Not So Much
Re: Re: Re: Oh, the moral outrage
Using my or your mom in the example didn't add any logic to your argument.
Just for laughs I should add... Once you begin viewing content, it is not TOO LATE to decide if you like it or not.
On the post: Facebook Re-Opens The Door To Videos Featuring Beheadings; Breasts? Not So Much
Oh, the moral outrage
I've seen exactly one beheading online. I watched it, found it distasteful and never looked for one again. I've never encountered one on Facebook, nor looked for one there. If I ever do get a beheading in my feed, I know how to delete it.
Limiting a person's options does not change the nature of a person. People who like to watch horrible things will still continue to do so.
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On the post: Europe's Largest Internet Exchange Decides To Open US Office, Risks Making Itself Subject To NSA Demands
Not a big deal
Now the whole world is pointing at the US for spying on its citizens. The USA is not alone in that activity, it's just public information now.
You can be assured that most of the governments in the EU are snooping through their citizens' data as well.
On the post: Large Coalition Of Tech Companies And Advocacy Groups Demand Greater Transparency About NSA Surveillance
Where are the trolls???
If you've done nothing wrong then you have nothing to hide.
On the post: Another Court Won't Block Dish's AutoHopper; TV Networks Plan To Shoot Selves In Foot In Response
Tech doesn't care
It does not care about protecting your business model. We moved to gasoline powered cars, we switched to email, we moved to mobile devices, we share content on the net, we will copy in 3D.
Adapt or die. Ask the good people at Kodak that thought film would never go away. Think TV won't move to a net based model???? Dream on.
On the post: RIAA Whines To Congress That It Doesn't Like Google's Search Results
Dear MPAA/RIAA...
The user would search through the results til they found the link for the pirate bay, then they would bookmark it or remember the page it showed up in the results.
Net effect on piracy? 0
On the post: Shield Law Moves Forward, Defines Journalism So That It Leaves Out Wikileaks & Random Bloggers
Merriam-Webster doesn't make the law
journalist
1
a : a person engaged in journalism; especially : a writer or editor for a news medium
b : a writer who aims at a mass audience
2
: a person who keeps a journal
Seems easy enough. Those are the people that the shield law should protect.
On the post: Another Teen's Facebook 'Threat' Results In Criminal Charges Being Filed
Ummmm
Online.
On the post: Canada's Copyright Board Shuts Down Industry's Request For 'You Must Be A Criminal Tax' On MicroSD Cards
Wrong Target
Pirates do not steal, they infringe. Leeches are directly taking real money they haven't earned.
On the post: Desperate To Sew Up TPP Negotiations At Any Cost, Politicians Agree All Future Meetings Will Be Completely Secret
Who says politicians don't learn from the internet???
On the post: MLK Jr.'s Sons Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of 'I Have A Dream' By Suing His Daughter
Don't forget Bob Jones
On the post: MP Keith Vaz: If Anti-Terrorist Law Is Going To Be Abused To Detain Non-Terrorists, We Should At Least Be Upfront About It
Please Please Please
I would just LOVE to see what the little evidence of terrorism is. Show us so we can finally see what it looks like.
On the post: Journalist For Time Magazine Announces His Eagerness To Defend US Drone Strike Killing Julian Assange
And now you know...
On the post: Yet Another Newspaper Paywall Goes Bust: SF Chronicle Gives Up After Just Four Months
Re: Where all the freeloaders are
It's as if online is some magical place where there is an entirely different population of humans.
On the post: UK Prime Minister Calls ask.fm A 'Vile Site,' Blames It For The Behavior Of Some Vile Users
Help has arrived!!!!
So the NSA has a monitoring program to assist with that on a global scale.
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