For the citizens of democratic countries: Canada (and many English-speaking countries) is not a democracy but a geocracy, which ensure geographic regions (called ridings) are fairly represented. As can be seen on this official GoC website less than 4 in 10 Canadians voted for the party that somehow has an absolute majority in parliament.
Exactly. The big trick way back when was a limited written history. When craving into stone tablets you only hit the highlights and none of the gritty details. So people ended up duplicating each other's work hundreds if not thousands of times before paper copies started getting created.
Savages! Wonder why it took that long for Copyright to be invented.
The record labels (here CRIA, the Canadian RIAA, trying to hide behind the official-sounding 'Music Canada' moniker) often like to say that there is no benefit to society when works fall into the public domain.
Here is what I use. Suppose you haven't been in touch with your father and you learn he passed away, and you have inhereted whatever is in the house he rented. You go to this house, up the attic and find a few dusty containers full of old 50s and 60s vinyl records, most performed by artists you've never heard of, with a record player. You start listening... and can't get enough!
These records falling into the public domain, and being made available by volunteers, is like giving is all these dusty containers full of old vinyls to go through. Yes there might be the odd Leonard Cohen (haven't seen him line up at the food bank, by the way), but the large majority has been forgotten. This is our heritage! This needs to be preserved and widely shared.
On another note, people with vast vinyl collections purchased with the understanding that they would enter the public domain in the mid-to-late 2010s, are they eligible to demand compensation for the sudden drop in value?
Promising DoJ can slip whatever "black box" they want into any data centre / Internet hub owned/operated by TWComcast without question will go a long way.
Correct... it wouldn't be wise to point to "prior art" now would it? But inspiration is perfectly fine... really patent officer, that's all it was! Inspiration!
the U.S. Copyright Office is examining whether provisions of the law that protect intellectual property should prohibit people from modifying and tuning their cars.
I'm not seriously considering the two options mentioned in the subject, but one would be driven (cough) to do so. Really? Or is this some kind of smoke screen to hide other changes that are coming? As in "I'm going to KILL you!!" - "Oh, please don't kill me!" - "OK, I'll just take your money instead." - "Oh, thank you! Thank you!"
The fact that we're discussing the copyright and royalty payments on Joseph F'ing Goebbels diaries should tell everyone something about the crazy length of copyright terms... the seeds being laid in a "trade agreement" (of course) signed days after Geronimo surrendered. That same year Benz patented his gasoline internal combustion engine-driven vehicle, a/k/a the "first automobile". If patents (or I should say: inventors) got equal treatment with copyrights in 1886 (authors etc.) our world would look very different.
Slashdot is linking to Daily Dot is linking to a tweet from the author is linking to a pirated copy of the book!!! AARRRHHH!!!!!!!! They're all going to be charged with Conspiracy to Contributory Indirect Copyright Infringement of whatever the MPAA/RIAA/*AA write in their next bill to sign by their politician/employees.
Do you think it would make a difference in the voting booth? Of course not. Usually in English-speaking countries the voting system is undemocratic (i.e. not propotional) but some kind of geocratic system which keeps The Powers That Be just switching between Rulers and Opposition. When both are firmly in the US governments pocket, the people lose.
Mars will need a good Deep Space Internet connection with Earth with no extended black-out periods so there will be a 24 minute delay tops (and about 4 minutes best-case). So I can send a message home and have a 3D virtual reality video reply back within the hour. That's not really isolation.
One thing that needs to be taken care of is to make sure there is no copyright or any other form of so-called "intellectual property" on Mars. Not only will this save lifes by not having to worry about patents / design marks and whatever they come up with next, this also allows the Martians to have complete, full access to whatever media they want (think U.S.S. Enterprise-class storage systems with "the complete cultural accomplishments of planet Earth"), and create and share freely among themselves.
TF keeps calling them "police" so they keep answering their inquiries. We're talking here about "The City of London Corporation, officially and legally the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, is the municipal governing body of the City of London" (source: Wikipedia). Part of this is PIPCU, which is funded with taxpayer money.
"Since at least 2011 the BPI (= the british branch/version of RIAA, C.) had built close ties with the City of London Police's National Fraud Intelligence Bureau as well as advertising agencies to remove payment channels from pirate sites. The dedicated unit itself was first announced in December 2012 by Vince Cable MP. It was funded by £2.5m over two years of public money via the Intellectual Property Office and became operational in September 2013. In April 2014 Mike Weatherley, the Prime Minister's Intellectual Property Advisor called on the Prime Minister to commit to the permanent funding of the unit to extend its existence beyond 2015. In October 2014 additional funding was revived to operate until 2017."
Don't be as dependent on scraps like TF and stop referring to them as "City of London Police" which might to the ininitiated be the metropolitan police of the British capital, while in fact it's some corporate task force that abuses the old City situation to give themselves public powers. Think of them like a Omni Consumer Products enforcement group, by Big Business, for Big Business, and paid for by the taxpayer. Can it get any better?
This only works because we're now in the Age of Political Correctness. Once we move over to either a completely anonymous commenting situation or back to a "I don't care what you do in your free time as long as you don't do it here or on the clock" attitude with employers, doxxing won't work anymore.
We, your neighbourly friends over at DHS got your back and we've provided a convient uninstaller for that nasty pieve of Chinese spyware a/k/a Superfish. Please indicate if you are a US Citizen/Resident* then click download, run and just click Yes to run as an Administrator. Kthxbye!
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and finally landed safely in the the Pacific Ocean
Good thing there were no passengers, or they'd be in need of their IXV seat cushions which double as flotation devices just in the event of a water landing like this.
Correct. "to better position our newly [X] for future growth opportunities (..) we have had to make some tough choices including realignment of resources." has MBA written all over it. It does not automatically mean it doesn't make sense, but if your smart people start thinking "sinking ship" they will be gone.
Ta gueule! Jamais will we permit ze casinos and ze bitzecoins to go first. C’est vraiment des conneries! It will of course be le droit d'auteur that should come first!
"Come on now, professor Falken... why all this hostility? It would be a shame if this email conversation with Melissa would somehow fall into the hands of your wife, would it? That's a good man!"
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For the citizens of democratic countries: Canada (and many English-speaking countries) is not a democracy but a geocracy, which ensure geographic regions (called ridings) are fairly represented. As can be seen on this official GoC website less than 4 in 10 Canadians voted for the party that somehow has an absolute majority in parliament.
Exactly. The big trick way back when was a limited written history. When craving into stone tablets you only hit the highlights and none of the gritty details. So people ended up duplicating each other's work hundreds if not thousands of times before paper copies started getting created.
Savages! Wonder why it took that long for Copyright to be invented.
The record labels (here CRIA, the Canadian RIAA, trying to hide behind the official-sounding 'Music Canada' moniker) often like to say that there is no benefit to society when works fall into the public domain.
Here is what I use. Suppose you haven't been in touch with your father and you learn he passed away, and you have inhereted whatever is in the house he rented. You go to this house, up the attic and find a few dusty containers full of old 50s and 60s vinyl records, most performed by artists you've never heard of, with a record player. You start listening... and can't get enough!
These records falling into the public domain, and being made available by volunteers, is like giving is all these dusty containers full of old vinyls to go through. Yes there might be the odd Leonard Cohen (haven't seen him line up at the food bank, by the way), but the large majority has been forgotten. This is our heritage! This needs to be preserved and widely shared.
On another note, people with vast vinyl collections purchased with the understanding that they would enter the public domain in the mid-to-late 2010s, are they eligible to demand compensation for the sudden drop in value?
So let's everyone swallow a chip that constantly identifies them! That's how we can get those dirty stealing bastards!
Promising DoJ can slip whatever "black box" they want into any data centre / Internet hub owned/operated by TWComcast without question will go a long way.
Correct... it wouldn't be wise to point to "prior art" now would it? But inspiration is perfectly fine... really patent officer, that's all it was! Inspiration!
the U.S. Copyright Office is examining whether provisions of the law that protect intellectual property should prohibit people from modifying and tuning their cars.
I'm not seriously considering the two options mentioned in the subject, but one would be driven (cough) to do so. Really? Or is this some kind of smoke screen to hide other changes that are coming? As in "I'm going to KILL you!!" - "Oh, please don't kill me!" - "OK, I'll just take your money instead." - "Oh, thank you! Thank you!"
In addition to this DAB/DAB+ is obsoleted by internet streaming services.
DAB(+) = Free
Data usage (+ roaming charges) = costly to expensive to "no signal".
Do you work for a wireless carrier?
The fact that we're discussing the copyright and royalty payments on Joseph F'ing Goebbels diaries should tell everyone something about the crazy length of copyright terms... the seeds being laid in a "trade agreement" (of course) signed days after Geronimo surrendered. That same year Benz patented his gasoline internal combustion engine-driven vehicle, a/k/a the "first automobile". If patents (or I should say: inventors) got equal treatment with copyrights in 1886 (authors etc.) our world would look very different.
Slashdot is linking to Daily Dot is linking to a tweet from the author is linking to a pirated copy of the book!!! AARRRHHH!!!!!!!! They're all going to be charged with Conspiracy to Contributory Indirect Copyright Infringement of whatever the MPAA/RIAA/*AA write in their next bill to sign by their politician/employees.
Do you think it would make a difference in the voting booth? Of course not. Usually in English-speaking countries the voting system is undemocratic (i.e. not propotional) but some kind of geocratic system which keeps The Powers That Be just switching between Rulers and Opposition. When both are firmly in the US governments pocket, the people lose.
Mars will need a good Deep Space Internet connection with Earth with no extended black-out periods so there will be a 24 minute delay tops (and about 4 minutes best-case). So I can send a message home and have a 3D virtual reality video reply back within the hour. That's not really isolation.
One thing that needs to be taken care of is to make sure there is no copyright or any other form of so-called "intellectual property" on Mars. Not only will this save lifes by not having to worry about patents / design marks and whatever they come up with next, this also allows the Martians to have complete, full access to whatever media they want (think U.S.S. Enterprise-class storage systems with "the complete cultural accomplishments of planet Earth"), and create and share freely among themselves.
Think there might be a market for an app the DOUBLES the amount of RAM?
Just goes to prove that the majority of voters in Australia are conservative. Do they complain as much as the Americans about their government?
Since this is Slashdot, you didn't read TFA. But if you had, it's clear that the US Government is the Australians' government.
TF keeps calling them "police" so they keep answering their inquiries. We're talking here about "The City of London Corporation, officially and legally the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, is the municipal governing body of the City of London" (source: Wikipedia). Part of this is PIPCU, which is funded with taxpayer money.
"Since at least 2011 the BPI (= the british branch/version of RIAA, C.) had built close ties with the City of London Police's National Fraud Intelligence Bureau as well as advertising agencies to remove payment channels from pirate sites. The dedicated unit itself was first announced in December 2012 by Vince Cable MP. It was funded by £2.5m over two years of public money via the Intellectual Property Office and became operational in September 2013. In April 2014 Mike Weatherley, the Prime Minister's Intellectual Property Advisor called on the Prime Minister to commit to the permanent funding of the unit to extend its existence beyond 2015. In October 2014 additional funding was revived to operate until 2017."
Don't be as dependent on scraps like TF and stop referring to them as "City of London Police" which might to the ininitiated be the metropolitan police of the British capital, while in fact it's some corporate task force that abuses the old City situation to give themselves public powers. Think of them like a Omni Consumer Products enforcement group, by Big Business, for Big Business, and paid for by the taxpayer. Can it get any better?
This only works because we're now in the Age of Political Correctness. Once we move over to either a completely anonymous commenting situation or back to a "I don't care what you do in your free time as long as you don't do it here or on the clock" attitude with employers, doxxing won't work anymore.
Since that "payback" is going to be forced out of our collective pockets, I for one welcome our new Neutrality overlords!
Australian ISPs are considering a draft industry code, developed in response to US government threats to step in and do it for them,
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* US Citizens/Residents will be provided by a similar download from our technology partners at gchq-dl.gov.uk.
Price-wise sounds like their PlayStation VITA 64GB memory cards...
and finally landed safely in the the Pacific Ocean
Good thing there were no passengers, or they'd be in need of their IXV seat cushions which double as flotation devices just in the event of a water landing like this.
Correct. "to better position our newly [X] for future growth opportunities (..) we have had to make some tough choices including realignment of resources." has MBA written all over it. It does not automatically mean it doesn't make sense, but if your smart people start thinking "sinking ship" they will be gone.
Ta gueule! Jamais will we permit ze casinos and ze bitzecoins to go first. C’est vraiment des conneries! It will of course be le droit d'auteur that should come first!
"The trophy would not fit in the brown suitcase because it was too big. What was too big?"
If you change this to "The trophy would not fit in the brown suitcase snugly because it was too big" I wouldn't be able to answer it, either.
"Come on now, professor Falken... why all this hostility? It would be a shame if this email conversation with Melissa would somehow fall into the hands of your wife, would it? That's a good man!"