This is not freedom. Contact your senator and let them know how you feel. This is the first step to wholesale governmental intrusion in your life. Government will keep discovering new uses for the card--and any one particular use only needs a majority to pass. You may groove on the immigration use now, but what if you're in the minority opposing the next use some whacked-out legislator proposes???
Open source is NOT a democracy. It is a form of contract that people can choose to agree to or decline. It's a DEAL. If you don't like the terms, it's a friendly deal. You can walk away without penalty, you can retain your right to use and modify the code, and you can even sell the code to others (pursuant to a liberal license)!
But it's not a political system; it's just a deal.
CSPAN isn't always boring. Sometimes authors speak very compellingly about their books. When they've got a good author and a good topic, CSPAN is easily the best thing on the tube.
The music industry's big problems are not going to be solved by ACTA/DMCA, or whatever.
(1) The Internet has provided the revolution in marketing. If a musician sells a song on the internet for a dime, then he's making more money off his music with that CD than he would if he was bound by a music industry contract. The "big music contract" is a pyramid scheme. (2) People can find diverse music on the internet. (3) You can buy an awesome digital recorder for well under a thousand dollars. (4) Sound processing software is now beyond awesome. You can get awesome sampled instruments and can fully produce them (think VSTs and Ableton, Melodyne, Cubase, etc.). This stuff is not that expensive and it is really revolutionary.
Two things keeping the music industry from collapsing are the love that the young fogies have for hit music and the inertia of the musicians.
It's so much easier for people to be told what music to like than it is for them to discover music for themselves. The broadcast media have had about sixty years of dictating mass taste. Trendsetting has spawned from a very centralized location for the past few decades. Now, trends can be spawned globally. One cool thing from a group of kids in Argentina can become all the rage in Winnipeg or Singapore. Trends will become more like the weather and less like an idea spawned by some really "cool" people. William Gibson talks about similar themes in his books. People still really want to be a part of the herd, though. The success of "People", "US", "Star", the National Enquirer and fools like Perez Hilton are proof enough of that. The shape, form, and number of those herds will not be as predictable or easy to follow as they have been in the past. That's a bitch for the music industry, because the music industry has so many unnecessary middlemen.
Musicians are really beginning to market themselves now. That's the way for them to make money. The odds of hitting it big with a label are absurd. Even if you get a contract, the advance is the most money the musicians usually see. You don't have to be "cross-collateralized" when you sell your own music.
So, it's just a matter of time. Raving against the music industry is stupid. You're only raving against a soon-to-be-extinct dinosaur that doesn't even know you exist. If you really want to fight the music industry, develop shrink-wrapped ready-to-go open source music promotion & sales websites for bands! You'll help accelerate the death of big music much faster that way than by stupidly moaning for your Britney Spears albums. Facilitate an easy, cheap, and visible internet presence for independent musicians!
Big Business will ALWAYS cozy up to totalitarian government. Its interest is always greedy and short-sighted. Only government--powerful government--can stop it.
The CONTRACTUAL entitlement mindset is a VERY good thing. Commerce depends on it.
Parent is naive. Corporations will try ANY legal argument to get money from consumers and the government. The idea that a citizen should foreswear such BS entitlement arguments while they are exploited by corporations that freely make (and benefit from) them is ridiculous and absurd.
I finally sidelined my (very expensive) NVIDIA card because it kept bsodding. Damn nvlddmkm driver. This is a long term problem for NVIDIA. Check the web.
Don't know whether it's a software or hardware problem. Card used to work.
Nesson's conduct isn't justifiable. But that's not really my point.
I can't see how his behavior helps Mr. Tennenbaum. The lawyer is supposed to help his client, not grab attention for himself with patently improper tactics. Nesson looks like he's putting his own interests ahead of his client's interests.
Nesson hasn't demonstrated any technical legal tactics in this case. Nor has he provided any insightful new ways to approach the copyright law.
He's just dancing around on the stage like a really old Ziggy Stardust.
He'd garner more respect if he spent more time working for Mr. Tenenbaum.
Bankruptcy isn't the most wonderful solution if the debtor has anything of value. The Chapter 7 trustee gets to sell all the debtor's non-exempt assets.
On the other hand, if you have nothing, bankruptcy is a good way to make a fresh start.
I'd be willing to bet that people who don't own much of anything are big advocates of unrestrained piracy and people with property are much less eager to advocate piracy.
The world resulting from your 'one law' would be brutally violent. The only way you could enforce the 'one law' would be with police--and there would be a lot of pissed off people angry because somebody took their stuff (legally, in a 'one law' world). You'd need taxes to pay the police--but you couldn't enforce the tax collection law (in a 'one law' world). Violence would go unchecked.
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Social stability affects everyone.
This is not freedom. Contact your senator and let them know how you feel. This is the first step to wholesale governmental intrusion in your life. Government will keep discovering new uses for the card--and any one particular use only needs a majority to pass. You may groove on the immigration use now, but what if you're in the minority opposing the next use some whacked-out legislator proposes???
Open source is NOT a democracy. It is a form of contract that people can choose to agree to or decline. It's a DEAL. If you don't like the terms, it's a friendly deal. You can walk away without penalty, you can retain your right to use and modify the code, and you can even sell the code to others (pursuant to a liberal license)!
But it's not a political system; it's just a deal.
If artists make 13 times more money on CDs than they do on itunes, what does that tell you about efficiencies in the music marketplace?
Thanks so much!
You're not describing postmodernism--you're describing religion.
CSPAN isn't always boring. Sometimes authors speak very compellingly about their books. When they've got a good author and a good topic, CSPAN is easily the best thing on the tube.
If those videos could be downloadable for free (instead of for $30.00), I could make some wonderful mash-ups.
Post makes the point that Global Verge is suing Zer01.
Don't infer hostility!!!!!
Collusive (friendly) lawsuits are a fraudulent way one person can transfer money to another person (himself?), thereby dodging legitimate creditors.
Fyi.
You are wrong. Libel has multiple meanings. Some meanings infer defamation only. Other meanings imply UNJUST defamation.
The music industry's big problems are not going to be solved by ACTA/DMCA, or whatever.
(1) The Internet has provided the revolution in marketing. If a musician sells a song on the internet for a dime, then he's making more money off his music with that CD than he would if he was bound by a music industry contract. The "big music contract" is a pyramid scheme.
(2) People can find diverse music on the internet.
(3) You can buy an awesome digital recorder for well under a thousand dollars.
(4) Sound processing software is now beyond awesome. You can get awesome sampled instruments and can fully produce them (think VSTs and Ableton, Melodyne, Cubase, etc.). This stuff is not that expensive and it is really revolutionary.
Two things keeping the music industry from collapsing are the love that the young fogies have for hit music and the inertia of the musicians.
It's so much easier for people to be told what music to like than it is for them to discover music for themselves. The broadcast media have had about sixty years of dictating mass taste. Trendsetting has spawned from a very centralized location for the past few decades. Now, trends can be spawned globally. One cool thing from a group of kids in Argentina can become all the rage in Winnipeg or Singapore. Trends will become more like the weather and less like an idea spawned by some really "cool" people. William Gibson talks about similar themes in his books. People still really want to be a part of the herd, though. The success of "People", "US", "Star", the National Enquirer and fools like Perez Hilton are proof enough of that. The shape, form, and number of those herds will not be as predictable or easy to follow as they have been in the past. That's a bitch for the music industry, because the music industry has so many unnecessary middlemen.
Musicians are really beginning to market themselves now. That's the way for them to make money. The odds of hitting it big with a label are absurd. Even if you get a contract, the advance is the most money the musicians usually see. You don't have to be "cross-collateralized" when you sell your own music.
So, it's just a matter of time. Raving against the music industry is stupid. You're only raving against a soon-to-be-extinct dinosaur that doesn't even know you exist. If you really want to fight the music industry, develop shrink-wrapped ready-to-go open source music promotion & sales websites for bands! You'll help accelerate the death of big music much faster that way than by stupidly moaning for your Britney Spears albums. Facilitate an easy, cheap, and visible internet presence for independent musicians!
Big Business will ALWAYS cozy up to totalitarian government. Its interest is always greedy and short-sighted. Only government--powerful government--can stop it.
It sucks, but that's the way it is.
Of course. There is no other way. Let's try it another way!
The CONTRACTUAL entitlement mindset is a VERY good thing. Commerce depends on it.
Parent is naive. Corporations will try ANY legal argument to get money from consumers and the government. The idea that a citizen should foreswear such BS entitlement arguments while they are exploited by corporations that freely make (and benefit from) them is ridiculous and absurd.
Bilski is a good example for you.
The "appropriator" sued the originator of the work, and the originator was able to use the copyright law to make a successful counterattack.
But if it's comfortable, it might make an excellent base layer.
Nope. Still gotta prove intent to prove theft.
I finally sidelined my (very expensive) NVIDIA card because it kept bsodding. Damn nvlddmkm driver. This is a long term problem for NVIDIA. Check the web.
Don't know whether it's a software or hardware problem. Card used to work.
Won't buy NVIDIA for a long time.
Nesson's conduct isn't justifiable. But that's not really my point.
I can't see how his behavior helps Mr. Tennenbaum. The lawyer is supposed to help his client, not grab attention for himself with patently improper tactics. Nesson looks like he's putting his own interests ahead of his client's interests.
Nesson hasn't demonstrated any technical legal tactics in this case. Nor has he provided any insightful new ways to approach the copyright law.
He's just dancing around on the stage like a really old Ziggy Stardust.
He'd garner more respect if he spent more time working for Mr. Tenenbaum.
I have only one thing to say about NVIDIA: nvlddmkm. That says it all. I won't ever buy NVIDIA again.
Bankruptcy isn't the most wonderful solution if the debtor has anything of value. The Chapter 7 trustee gets to sell all the debtor's non-exempt assets.
On the other hand, if you have nothing, bankruptcy is a good way to make a fresh start.
I'd be willing to bet that people who don't own much of anything are big advocates of unrestrained piracy and people with property are much less eager to advocate piracy.
We gotta keep finding new threats. Otherwise defense contractor stock would drop! We can't have that!
The world resulting from your 'one law' would be brutally violent. The only way you could enforce the 'one law' would be with police--and there would be a lot of pissed off people angry because somebody took their stuff (legally, in a 'one law' world). You'd need taxes to pay the police--but you couldn't enforce the tax collection law (in a 'one law' world). Violence would go unchecked.
BTW: Good luck in fifth grade next year.
How does slashdot tell us to love the EFF? Tell me please. I want to know about this love!
The principal's legal bills will be paid by the taxpayers. He is insulated from the consequences of his actions.
That SOB hit the girl (whose care he was entrusted with) where it hurts--he kicked her out of her AP classes.
If ever anybody deserved microscopic public scrutiny of his personal life . . .