Because if I'm some inventor, and I come up with e.g. a top for baby beakers that really doesn't spill when it gets thrown across the floor, get an agreement with a supermarket to fund the manufacture and start producing and selling the things then without patent protection it will be a couple of months before every plastic utensil maker with products marketed at babies is also making them and because they've got a better manufacturing setup and can afford to invest more money in the product than I can, theirs are better and cheaper than mine and I can't sell any more. So the consumer gets a better cheaper product, to me that's a good thing.
But I can see you argument about quitting the inventing business, the problem is that if you sat on the idea and didn't go ahead with it you would be preventing the implementation of that technology.
We are already working on a second "Internet" its called "Freenet" and it aims to eliminate many of the current problems with the Internet such as censorship and accountability.
Segregating the Internet!!!! Why do I get dejavu when I think of that? Oh what that's how it all started.
Honestly this idiot is suggesting we work backwards and devolve the Internet.
~Dan
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Folks, be aware that one way that a mapmaker "improves" on a copyright protection is to intentionally alter a small section of a map (and in a book, a few at random) that is hopefully not used. This helps them to prosecute somebody that steals the map information and resells it. Granted, this is known for hard-copy maps, but I believe it is also true for GPS maps as well (call them the "soft-copy" versions).
That's pretty bad. I think it should be illegal to intentionally mess up a Map Pass a law that requires the map maker to pay someone $10,000 each time they find a flaw and I guarantee the problem will be solved very fast.
Agreed. Most ISPs already offer filtering software on a PC level, so why is there a need to enforce it on an ISP level? Why can we not just allow the parents to take control of their childrens' web viewing? They call them "Parental Controls", not "Government Controls". It all sounds a bit too sneaky for me. Why would they not mandate that all ISPs have to offer filtering software for the end user's PCs, in stead of making the ISP filter on their end? Because with software the end user has to much control.
This way the government is able to sneak in and change things with out users noticing freedom of speech is the biggest problem any government faces so if they can quietly subdue it they will.
I really hate the Medics in battlefield2 sometimes because they will hide behind a wall and keep resurrecting a teammate who is just beyond the protection of the wall the result is the the team mate being resurrected is instantly killed each and every time, and when you have 64 players per server its not uncommon to simply be stuck for a long period of time because some selfish person keeps resurrecting you for points in a place you cant get out of instead of just letting you die and comeback for real at a proper spawn point.
Medics can sometimes do more harm to the team than good when they hold teammates out of the game like this.
I've always preferred servers and games (DoD for example) that provided an instant 'blackout' effect on death.
It always annoyed me to spend a great deal of time moving my character into a unique hiding spot, only to have someone suicide rush me after my position was betrayed by the after-death features that pointed directly to my location. I have to agree with you!
Yet suddenly the retail stores are no longer victims if the studio sells it online.
I can't help but wonder.
If I put my Music collection in a web accessable folder such as mydomain.com/dansmusic (not linked to from root) an someone finds the folder and tells others about its existence.
Would I get in trouble for that under this ruling? In my opinion I'm not making it available because I'm not targeting any audience.
I think the rental DVDs via post might be a good way to go assuming they are real DVDs and not some proprietary format that needs proprietary software to run.
1. It's not theft. It's not even "basically the same thing". There are tons of people who believe that "intellectual property" is a laughable notion that somehow got twisted into law.
2. Any law that is violated by a sufficiently large percentage of it's population is an unjust law. Governments are supposed to be representative of the people. They have power because we as a whole agreed to let them have some power to enforce ideas that society as a whole sees as worthy of enforcing. If a law reaches a certain point where the majority of the country doesn't support it (say, Prohibition as an example), then it should be repealed. Copyright laws exist only to server the almighty $ No government that represented its people would impose such stupid laws.
Quite honestly, many just want to stay ahead of the risk/reward curve and are more than happy to let the rest pay for them. For example those that bring up the marketing argument, it critically depends on there being other people out there willing to pay - marketing from pirates to more pirates to even more pirates wouldn't bring in anything. Piracy has brought us the advancement of technology such as bittorrent the Pirates are always ahead I'm sure more people would buy if the Pirate product wasn't so superior.
I looked at a movie download service yesterday $4.99 per movie I'm happy to pay that for the convenience But the movie was 1.6GB I can get the same thing off thepiratebay (Which I did) and its only 700MB same quality plus no 24hour viewing time/DRM.
If its going to take so long to download a movie (Especially as its twice the size it should be) I don't want to just have it for 24hours I wont download it in the same day time will be up before I get round to watching it I'm checking the site now and it requires me to install a special Media player, No thanks just give me the.avi and no bullshit.
And a large number of people in the US are on analogue.
That's highly unlikely considering that mobile phone companies are decommissioning their analog networks this year. The largest US mobile providers turned off their analog service on Monday. There was talk about the use of analogue in the US only a week ago. Why do the analogue networks even exist in 2008? If no one uses them it would save a bit on the power bill to turn them off.
...and will cost $500 to get in your grubby paws. That is until the amazing powers of supply and demand take effect and the price drops over an unjustifiable period of time. The demand for 5G wireless will be huge... Considering its range why not just use a cable its allot cheaper.
I don't see any real use for this it lacks the range to provide Internet access to ALL of my house and I hardly need high speed data transfer to my mouse.
from the article " If you splice into your neighbor's cable wire and get 150 channels for free, you're not diminishing the available supply of cable TV or depriving anyone else in the neighborhood of it."
That is wire tapping and its a bad example. With Peer2Peer file sharing users are using their OWN Internet connection and creating their OWN network to share media opposed to using someone else's without permission.
"Theft of Service" what about Denial of service that is what the RIAA is doing with each fake torrent they put online they are essentially spamming someone else's network.
My experience... at lease here in Australia... is that Mobile broadband works very well (remember much of our country is unpopulated desert).
May lower class people use it to get broadband at the place they rent. They dont have to involve the landlord to get an cables installed and can take it with them when they move elsewhere.
The big killer is that here is Oz mobile broadband typically comes with transfer limits in the order of 1 - 4 GBs per month. After that it gets very pricey.
So assuming its the same in the US... I would only go mobile broadband if you dont plan on downloading movies/tv shows etc over the connection. I was considering Wireless Internet for those reasons but the cost made it an unattractive option.
Australia is expensive for wireless data because there are not many alternatives since you cant get wired broadband in a lot of places.
Since your in Australia Ill let you off the lower class comment.
Do you have to give a pass-phrase though? Every bank I've seen gets you to set up a pass phrase but only ever asks you for two letters from it. If someone intercepts your phone call, it is going to be a long time before the bank asks that combination again, and most will telephone you after a few failed attempts and validate that it is you making them. Nope I get
AutoMessage: Please enter your personal access number./me Enters access number AutoMessage: Now I need your 4 digit pin/me Enters Pin
Its at this point that i get "Press 1 to hear your account balance" "Press 2 to make a payment" I have FULL access to my account via phone there are no humans involved just the pressing of buttons over whatever phone network you happen to be using.
A VOIP solution that allows calls to the regular phone network will also work (in theory) regardless of the security or lack of.
if the system is on and running but locked... think coffee/bathroom/smoke/etc break I guess they have to reboot or remove the drive. In the case of theft most thieves wouldn't think about the keys stored in ram and just want the laptop.
But if its the CIA and they know what they are looking for they could just take the ram out and steal your keys.
I think if you were in that much trouble they would probably just torture you for the key.
There are stories like this all the time, but tech people still have trouble convincing most users that end-to-end encryption is important. How is it that it caught on for the web (credit card payments over SSL), but still barely for personal communications (gpg, encrypted IM)? Even in the situations where it's easy to use encryption, many users still can't be made to care -- especially if it's not something enabled by default. Maybe just that those doing the sniffing are suitably quiet about it... -- Electronics kits for the digital generation. Its the Tech people who are to blame not the users.
I didn't get any say in the GSM protocol. I want end to end encryption but there is nothing a can do even if I did hack my phone to support SSL the network wont accept it. As for IM there is not point in using encryption with msn messenger because no one else can make use of it which of the thousands of available PlugIns should I use? and how can I convince my contacts to use it?
The people who implement these standards should be responsible the whole point of a standard is that everyone uses the same so leaving it up to the users to customise their own unique solution will never work.
Anyway, for those of you wondering what someone could possibly say over a cell phone that's so intercept-worthy, some fancy banks require a key-press or auditory password to access balances and even move funds. You know, like in the movies. You talk as if phone banking is only in the movies. Millions of people access bank accounts this way myself included.
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But I can see you argument about quitting the inventing business, the problem is that if you sat on the idea and didn't go ahead with it you would be preventing the implementation of that technology.
I can see now that there is a catch 22.
~Dan
I dont see a reason for the system to exist.
If someone wants to use an idea they should beable to do so without some money grabber waiting to sue them.
~Dan
We are already working on a second "Internet" its called "Freenet" and it aims to eliminate many of the current problems with the Internet such as censorship and accountability.
Segregating the Internet!!!! Why do I get dejavu when I think of that? Oh what that's how it all started.
Honestly this idiot is suggesting we work backwards and devolve the Internet.
~Dan
That's pretty bad.Folks, be aware that one way that a mapmaker "improves" on a copyright protection is to intentionally alter a small section of a map (and in a book, a few at random) that is hopefully not used. This helps them to prosecute somebody that steals the map information and resells it. Granted, this is known for hard-copy maps, but I believe it is also true for GPS maps as well (call them the "soft-copy" versions).
I think it should be illegal to intentionally mess up a Map
Pass a law that requires the map maker to pay someone $10,000 each time they find a flaw and I guarantee the problem will be solved very fast.
This way the government is able to sneak in and change things with out users noticing freedom of speech is the biggest problem any government faces so if they can quietly subdue it they will.
~Dan
In our society we have grown ADULTS who believe in fairy tails such as those found in the "Holy Bible" and "Quran"
First we have to get these people to listen to reason before science can have a go!
~Dan
I really hate the Medics in battlefield2 sometimes because they will hide behind a wall and keep resurrecting a teammate who is just beyond the protection of the wall the result is the the team mate being resurrected is instantly killed each and every time, and when you have 64 players per server its not uncommon to simply be stuck for a long period of time because some selfish person keeps resurrecting you for points in a place you cant get out of instead of just letting you die and comeback for real at a proper spawn point.
Medics can sometimes do more harm to the team than good when they hold teammates out of the game like this.
~Dan
It always annoyed me to spend a great deal of time moving my character into a unique hiding spot, only to have someone suicide rush me after my position was betrayed by the after-death features that pointed directly to my location. I have to agree with you!
Death shouldent offer an advantage.
Yet suddenly the retail stores are no longer victims if the studio sells it online.
I can't help but wonder.
If I put my Music collection in a web accessable folder such as mydomain.com/dansmusic (not linked to from root) an someone finds the folder and tells others about its existence.
Would I get in trouble for that under this ruling? In my opinion I'm not making it available because I'm not targeting any audience.
~Dan
Ideas don't do anyone any good.
Implementation does.
Patent squatters rob us of potential technology because they sit on and ideas without implementation.
As far as I'm concerned if your not using your idea it should be free for someone else to take.
~Dan
I cant help but wonder how long it will be until the RIAA are allowed to wiretap just in case people are talking about their latest downloads.
~Dan
I think the rental DVDs via post might be a good way to go assuming they are real DVDs and not some proprietary format that needs proprietary software to run.
~Dan
2. Any law that is violated by a sufficiently large percentage of it's population is an unjust law. Governments are supposed to be representative of the people. They have power because we as a whole agreed to let them have some power to enforce ideas that society as a whole sees as worthy of enforcing. If a law reaches a certain point where the majority of the country doesn't support it (say, Prohibition as an example), then it should be repealed. Copyright laws exist only to server the almighty $
No government that represented its people would impose such stupid laws.
~Dan
I looked at a movie download service yesterday $4.99 per movie I'm happy to pay that for the convenience But the movie was 1.6GB I can get the same thing off thepiratebay (Which I did) and its only 700MB same quality plus no 24hour viewing time/DRM.
If its going to take so long to download a movie (Especially as its twice the size it should be) I don't want to just have it for 24hours I wont download it in the same day time will be up before I get round to watching it I'm checking the site now and it requires me to install a special Media player, No thanks just give me the
~Dan
...and will cost $500 to get in your grubby paws. That is until the amazing powers of supply and demand take effect and the price drops over an unjustifiable period of time. The demand for 5G wireless will be huge... Considering its range why not just use a cable its allot cheaper.I don't see any real use for this it lacks the range to provide Internet access to ALL of my house and I hardly need high speed data transfer to my mouse.
~Dan
The bank I'm with used to have one time passwords for business banking but they discontinued it because it was an inconvenience.
from the article
" If you splice into your neighbor's cable wire and get 150 channels for free, you're not diminishing the available supply of cable TV or depriving anyone else in the neighborhood of it."
That is wire tapping and its a bad example.
With Peer2Peer file sharing users are using their OWN Internet connection and creating their OWN network to share media opposed to using someone else's without permission.
"Theft of Service" what about Denial of service that is what the RIAA is doing with each fake torrent they put online they are essentially spamming someone else's network.
~Dan
What if I download a show I missed on TV?
While other people recorded it I can download it, I dont see any diffrence.
~Dan
May lower class people use it to get broadband at the place they rent. They dont have to involve the landlord to get an cables installed and can take it with them when they move elsewhere.
The big killer is that here is Oz mobile broadband typically comes with transfer limits in the order of 1 - 4 GBs per month. After that it gets very pricey.
So assuming its the same in the US... I would only go mobile broadband if you dont plan on downloading movies/tv shows etc over the connection. I was considering Wireless Internet for those reasons but the cost made it an unattractive option.
Australia is expensive for wireless data because there are not many alternatives since you cant get wired broadband in a lot of places.
Since your in Australia Ill let you off the lower class comment.
~Dan
AutoMessage: Please enter your personal access number.
AutoMessage: Now I need your 4 digit pin
Its at this point that i get "Press 1 to hear your account balance" "Press 2 to make a payment"
I have FULL access to my account via phone there are no humans involved just the pressing of buttons over whatever phone network you happen to be using.
A VOIP solution that allows calls to the regular phone network will also work (in theory) regardless of the security or lack of.
~Dan
What about whole drive encryption?
But if its the CIA and they know what they are looking for they could just take the ram out and steal your keys.
I think if you were in that much trouble they would probably just torture you for the key.
~Dan
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Electronics kits for the digital generation. Its the Tech people who are to blame not the users.
I didn't get any say in the GSM protocol. I want end to end encryption but there is nothing a can do even if I did hack my phone to support SSL the network wont accept it. As for IM there is not point in using encryption with msn messenger because no one else can make use of it which of the thousands of available PlugIns should I use? and how can I convince my contacts to use it?
The people who implement these standards should be responsible the whole point of a standard is that everyone uses the same so leaving it up to the users to customise their own unique solution will never work.
~Dan
~Dan