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Copyright Infringement In the News
Lots of newsbits about copyright infringement today - let's mash them all together with some egg whites and breadcrumbs and see what we get. marklyon writes "The DOJ announced that they are planning to prosecute filesharers under the The No Electronic Theft ("NET") Act. John Malcolm, a deputy assistant attorney general, made the pronouncement at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's annual technology and politics summit Tuesday. Cnet has extended coverage." Reader M_Talon writes "According to this article on ZDNET the RIAA is using one of the DMCA's more nasty clauses...the right to subpoena an ISP for a suspected pirate's personal information. They want to force Verizon to reveal the customer's information, and Verizon is refusing on the grounds that the pirated material isn't on their servers." Reader MattW writes "Apparently some theaters are consenting to run anti-piracy ads before movies. After all, these are not a bunch of fat cats we're talking about -- piracy now threatens the livelihood of the rank and file workers of Hollywood. After all, the movie studios are having a terrible year,
right?" Finally, the Washington Post (probably one of the last articles we post from their site, as they go registration-required) discovers spoofed files on Gnutella, and public radio is reporting that the RIAA will drop their suit against listen4ever.com, since it's, uh, gone.
Finally, the Washington Post (probably one of the last articles we post from their site, as they go registration-required)
Yeah, that sure stopped you from linking to the NY Times...
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
I don't mind registering for the Wash. Post (after all, it's local to me & my father worked as a press operator there for almost 30 years). However, apparently mozilla has a problem with the new format (even after registering, when going to some pages either you get a blank page or it continuously tries to connect). I wrote them - I received a reply that mozilla wasn't supported (changing the User-Agent in konqueror to IE allowed me access, and I pointed that out in my re-reply).
The last article from the Washington Post, because they are about to require registration??
Registration never stopped you from posting all the New York Times (Free Registration required blah blah blah.) articles. This, inspite of the fact that people were complaining heavily about it.
Real Question here, not a troll: What problem philosophically do the SlashDot Editors, or SlashDot Community, have with a registration-required site? Why would this prevent its inclusion as a source for editors' stories?
Is this another one of those generational things, like "music must be free," that I've never quite been able to wrap my mind around?
I'm over forty, so explain it to me slowly...
Perhaps all those first posters could actually make themselves useful and kindly create a new account and post a user name and password for the rest of us.
Also not to troll (but it's definately gonna come across as one), is that some editors like to sit on their soapboxes about certain stances, like Censorship, but are often caught in situations that make them oppose themselves when it suits them (for example, the story about an ISP banning the RIAA ips, which is blatant censoring, even though you don't like the RIAA).
Registration = spam, and no one likes spam (although most of us have filters and are overprotective and paranoid, but I digress). So which is more important, not registering at a site (remember, you CAN provide bogus data), or getting information when needed (for free, except the registration)??
I guess michael deems that stopping one possibility of spam is, by far, more important to getting news from a very respected news source. And, remember, he's making this decision FOR YOU.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
The Bionic man, ahhh the memories...
I watched a couple of episodes recently, I noticed a funny thing.
In the early seasons, they died Rudy's hiar to make him look older, but later they died it to make him look younger.
by latter, a mean the specials that came out after words.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Napster obviously killed the RIAA. They barely had enough money to pay mobs of lawyers to sue people. Forget the fact that year after napster was shut down that record sales was lower than any of the years while napster was in use. I believe I saw this in some infoporn. And liebowitz says that file sharing could be good for the music industry
I Personally mis napster, it was so much easier to actually get what you wanted than using gnutella, and I don't dare install kazaa. Obviously record sales must be hurting even more now to pay for all of the politicians they are buying off.
Sure piracy is bad. But I've never heard of an industry attacking it's customers. The RIAA might suggest that they're attack the people who aren't paying, while in reality somebody has to be buying the CDs to rip them. I believe It's not like the music companies are an oligopaly so there's plenty of good old competition there.
How long will it be before these dinsaurs go extinct?
i could not think of anything clever.