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Everyday Copyright Violations
Schneier has pointed out a great law review article about the problems with copyright. The author takes a look at normal daily practices and how many commonplace actions actually result in what can be considered copyright violations. "By the end of the day, John has infringed the copyrights of twenty emails, three legal articles, an architectural rendering, a poem, five photographs, an animated character, a musical composition, a painting, and fifty notes and drawings. All told, he has committed at least eighty-three acts of infringement and faces liability in the amount of $12.45 million (to say nothing of potential criminal charges). There is nothing particularly extraordinary about John's activities. Yet if copyright holders were inclined to enforce their rights to the maximum extent allowed by law, he would be indisputably liable for a mind-boggling $4.544 billion in potential damages each year. And, surprisingly, he has not even committed a single act of infringement through P2P file sharing."
for Bruce Schneier!
Why a link to his blog, when all he says is boilerplate comment about the original article. Yeah, I know it's a PDF, but anyway. I believe does not need techniques like Roland's Piquepaile to get hits.
hmm maybe I should watch my back now, considering I have bad-mouthed Bruce Schneier... brb, unplugging my box from the netwoGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAfldsfjadlkfw35r$@#%$ETW#TE%$T
Thanks,
The MAFIAA
My blog
O.K. if I encode the opening chords of Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" into a barcode and have it tatooed on my schlong, then sleep around, and then the RIAA comes after me, do I have a leg to stand on? Do I have a shot? Will they cut me off? Am I in violation? Can I be infected by a rootkit? Does taking viagra count as intent to mass distribute?
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Should I get a license to sing "Happy Birthday to You" from Warner Chappell? I guess I will, just to be safe...
Name of the Client: me
Description of the Presentation: birthday party
Who will view the presentation? friends and family
How many people will be attending the presentation? 20
What is the number of locations where the presentation will take place? 1
How many copies will be made? 25
Will any copies be sold? No
Please give a detailed description, including timing(s), of how the song will be used in the presentation: The song will be sung once before I blow out the candles on my birthday cake. There will be a camcorder set up and the recording will be sent to everybody at the party and some people who could not attend.
Are you going to license an original master recording or are you going to re-record the song? Rerecording
Will you be altering the Song's lyrics in any way: Yes
If yes, please type new lyrics.
Happy Birthday To You
Happy Birthday To You
Happy Birthday Dear RockMFR
Happy Birthday To You
And Many More
On Channel 4
And Scooby Doo
On Channel 2
And Frankenstein
On Channel 9
General Comments: no gifts, please
*submits*
Fee: $0.00
:)
However, you will then be scorned by the typographic community for doing so
I wonder exactly how it would change my life for the worse should this occur. Would I be relegated to dictating correspondence to a shady "letter merchant" in dark alleys? Would the psychological oppression from being a typographic outcast cause me to break under the steady gaze of traffic signs and theater marquees? Would all children's educational programming be mysteriously absent from all the PBS channels I receive? Would the BIC company blackball me from future writing implement purchases? Truly, these are the questions that keep one awake at night.
Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands!
Reminds me of a good joke:
A Soviet, An American and an Austria are talking in a bar
Soviet: You see, where I come from, we have the best system of laws: if it's not allowed, it is forbidden
American: No, no, no, you have it backwards, in the USA we have the best system: If it's not forbidden, then it is allowed
Austrian: Bah, both of you are wrong, we know what we're doing when it comes to the law: If it's forbidden, then it is allowed!
I will not give in to the terrorists. I will not become fearful.
I also doubt wether it will stand up in court.
Someone stop me!
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Do you always signal at least 200 feet before a turn and 500 in residential areas?
In Illinois it's 100 feet, and yes. And not signalling is a pet peeve of mine, as I try to conserve gas; when I see a signal I take my foot off the gas. The brakes convert my kinetic energy to heat and throw it away. And stopping on the crosswalk is another pet peeve, especially when I'm on foot.
The last time I was pulled over it was because I gave two young ladies a ride to a house in the ghetto after certain illegal services that should NOT be illegal in a free society were performed, and they pulled me over because it was a "known drug house".
"Have you ever been arrested for crack?"
"I ain't been arrested for NOTHIN'!"
"We can check."
"I figured you already did."
"Did you know those girls smoke crack?"
"They do?" (note that I did not make a false statement; yes I knew they were crackwhores but neither admitted nor denied it)
I wasn't actually pulled over; I was cut off by a big black SUV and several large men, armed sith firearms and tasers, with shirts that read POLICE, FBI, abnd DEA (one DEA fellow was wearing a ski mask in July) ordered us out of the car. After my 4th amendment rights against unwarranted search and seizure were violated (and I didn't appreciate that cop, who I assume was a homosucksyouall, grabbing by balls) we were let go after it was found that there was, in fact, no conrtaband.
When what happened to me hapens to enough people we will have another revolution. I fear that day more than I fear the God damned Gestapo that stopped us that day.
You don't have to do anything wrong to get pulled over, just be in the wrong part of town with the wrong color of skin!
-mcgrew
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Everyone treats the internet like laws can't apply, but were the laws reasonable there would be no problem. Take copyright for example - if copyright law were written in such a way that noncommercial use of a work would automatically be non-infringeing, there would be no problem.
IMO, anyone who believes that P2P really costs artists money has not given much thought to the matter. Clearly, if I've never heard of you I'm not going to buy your CD or book.
Plagairism is another matter entirely; it should be severely punished.
-pegr
They'll just make sure your eulogy is written in Comic Sans.
It's nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand.
My parents are lawyers and I remember them telling me when I was growing up that the FBI estimates that 99.8% of the population has committed some crime worthy of jail time.
As always, your duty is not to get caught and remember the "Computer is Your Friend"
"Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." Mark Twain
I for one welcome our new patent overlords. So how many copyright billions am I liable for?
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
what we need is a porn star with a Mickey Mouse tattoo clearly visible in a video.
can I volunteer to do some research!
The neutrality of the above post is disputed.
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia