...the old days of TRIPs, UCC and WCT are definitely over: quietly dealing in back rooms, and the news ended up on the 3rd page of the business section in the newspaper. Today, people are starting to notice. People are realizing how this directly affects them. People are becoming involved.
A lot of commenters predicted this would happen; Tarkin (RIAA/MPAA) kept on tightening his grip, and now systems are about to start to slipping through his fingers. And it's about time, too.
Will Wikipedia, Google and TotalBiscuit black out for us?
No?
Damn, we're screwed.
In related news, Dodd (MPAA) wants to meet with Silicon Valley behind closed doors, at the White House (the President also needs to be put back in his place?). Yes, it's the New York Times, but you better believe it. Also in the Hollywood Reporter.
The thing is, the Entertainment Industry controls the mainstream media (MSM), or: mass-consumption media, because they are part of the Industry. What the blackout did, was unprecented. Why the Media Moguls were so mad: Silicon Valley (the concerted effort of many independent tech companies) was able to get a news story out to hundreds of millions of people. For one day in history, Silicon Valley was a mainstream medium, and the masses were learning about things that should have been -and successfully had been so far- kept quiet. And millions of people actually did something.
What if Silicon Valley is going to actively promote the creation of a Public Domain by way of a drastic copyright term reduction for sound recordings, movies, software, etc.? It would be their worst nightmare come true. That is why Silicon Valley needs to be silenced. If Dodd (MPAA) is successful, Wikipedia, Google, etc. will no longer black out for anybody. They will meet behind closed doors and the masses can continue to live in blissful ignorance.
Rick Falkvinge and his colleagues in European Parliament: help us, you are our (North America's) only hope!
The US and Canadian election systems are inherently undemocratic (if democracy = every vote counts); in Canada a minority party (this interview the Green Party leader states clearly that a 12 year copyright term "seems reasonable". Unfortunately for most Canadians, a vote for the Green Party is a vote that ends up in the trashbin.
That being said, I do endorse the copyright monopoly... as long as the copyright term is reasonable, and Rufus Pollock's "optimal" 15 years sounds like a good line-in-the-sand maximum, and as long as there are generous exceptions for private, non-commercial and research use. The exceptions make the draconian laws obsolete.
The reason for my opening line: any change in this Culture of Copyright can only come out of Europe.
Note and case in point: for fellow Canadians, please be aware that the Canadian government is planning to enter into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact, which would "force" them to extend (!!!) copyright term by another 20 years. For background information and how to voice your opinion, see Dr. Geist's blog.
The fee is at the least needed to cover the cost of this system. A second reason is that there won't be a "Copyright Reregistration Service, Inc." where for a one-time low-low-fee the service will automatically take care of all the needed registrations for you! The third reason is that it needs to stop "frivolous" registrations - there needs to be an expected net economic benefit to the copyright and the fee needs to be at a level where the expected benefit is sufficient to warrant payment of this fee.
I love MAME and have been using it (on and off) since the very early MS-DOS days. The problem with MAME is that most of the needed ROM dumps are still copyrighted, and will remain under copyright for a very, very, very long time and it remains to be seen when they will enter the Public Domain, if at all.
The MAME community should be on the forefront of the Copyright Term Reduction struggle; freeing up ROMs should be a major goal. Some ROMs, with Exidy being the Shiny Example, have been made available to us, but everything that is not listed here should be treated as suspious if not downloaded from a trusted source.
So perhaps the answer isn't making all copyrights the same length as patents, but rather to differentiate between different art forms.
The problem is that, like now, Big Content will work around that make sure that the lyrics, screenplay, etc. will be published as a literary work (even at $25,000 a copy, it's still "published"). Since we have a Rule of the Longest Term, whatever little tidbit can be found in anything, the effective copyright for the entirety of the work is as long as the longest-copyrighed-part. Even recordings of Mozart performances have the directors "interpretation" = new copyright.
It also doesn't solve the problem of abandonware and orphaned works. With the 20 year copyright, all you need to do to be "in the clear" is to make sure that a published copy existed 20+ years ago.
As for the authors; I know many struggle. One of the problems is that there are way too many; this will get even worse with publish-direct-to-ebook platforms where no traditional publisher is involved. What we are talking about here is books that still sell/are still being printed 21 years after publication. How many books published in the year 1990 or before did you buy *new* in the year 2011? If any, please list the authors you would call "struggling". Also how many units were sold that year (to weed out low-volume titles would provide a couple hundred dollars per year at best to the author). For extra credit, for those titles identified written by the "struggling" authors please research the gross-to-date on that title and see how much of that actually went to the author.
How about a mass movement to respect the pre-1978 copyright law, but ignore the subsequent changes? Or another line in the sand could be drawn on international lines with the Universal Copyright Convention or the Berne Convention.
Have a lare number of web-sites and/or torrent sites with this material, and only this material.
The Berne Convention of the 1880s is where all this crazyness about 'copyright for life + another generation' started.
A couple of professors in a lab with a large team of students come up with an invention - they get 20 years, after which it becomes public domain. And that's all working out fine, given the number of new patented inventions. Why should this be any different for creators? Are they somehow 1st Class Humans and inventors are 2nd Class?
Yes please, bring those servers up, but use 20 years.
A little bit off-topic, but this comment by Ariely sums up perfectly why Big Music keeps extending copyright terms:
Had Apple created a really low minimum price for apps — say $0.15 — instead of offering free apps on day one, Ariely suggests, we would be anchored to the idea that apps should cost something
We need to be anchored to the idea that music should cost something, or at least that it isn't "free". It's not about those few recordings that still sell today; they are "few" compared to mass that hasn't sold (or at least in bulk) for decades. It's about keeping their monopoly intact, and for the public to find it "normal" that a sound recordings "is copyrighted" and can only be bought on a licensed medium (mostly used for older recordings). They will never admit to this, but as you can see from the Ariely comment, that line of reasoning is absolutely in their minds.
I don't see why HP should not revive the TouchPad Go (renamed to TouchPad 2, the other one renamed to Touch Pad Classic). There's a market out there, and they can make money other than on the hardware; (licensed) peripherals, App Catalog sales, there's already a Kindle app, perhaps also introduce a Nook Reader app and get a percentage of sales through that from B&N. Wouldn't that be cool, Kindle and Nook on one device?
Disclosure: I have a WiFi-only (= no GPS) TouchPad (32GB, $149) and use it as an e-reader about 75% of the time; unfortunately I have to convert everything to pdf as I haven't taken the time yet to use the alternate installer (for which I believe there is a proper reader that handles epub, etc.).
'Bigger innovation labs and companies are holding back on numerous innovations until they can properly monetize them.'"
The longer they wait, the less time they will have to "properly monetize them" as the patents will run out. So, what dark clouds do we see building on the horizon?
National Sheriffs
Association (NSA)
National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO)
Don't forget to move your domains away from GoDaddy on Dec 29th, and stock up on Botox and all kinds of rejuvenation creams so you can quit the
60 Plus Association
Yeah. That's the real WTF? moment. All those grampies and grannies don't care about the Intarwebz, eh? So you can print stories like this. It's a good thing Christmas is coming up; you'll be meeting a lot of 60plus people you can scold for this.
The PSP did get off to a rough start, and a lot of early adopters bought it to play pirated games,
Where did you get that? I remember a modified "Lumines" and maybe a few others that had hardcoded pathnames changed from the UMD to the memory card, but those were the exception. At the start, memorystick pro duo cards were very expensive. Fact is that there was a very successful homebrew scene (especially for those that remained on v1.50 firmware). Only when ISO-loaders came out, years into the PSP's life, piracy became a problem.
Be warned, you cannot change the battery yourself (officially).
I have a 2005 PSP-1000 (USA/Canada) and it's currently on it's third battery (1 original, 2 high-capacity), and I'm just an occasional player. The device is working perfectly, and because of the new battery holds it charge fine. If the battery had not been replaceable I'd either have a portable player I can use for 30 minutes, or use it off an AC adapter, or throw it out and buy a new one.
Sony's "solution" (after the Ah-oh moment) is an external battery pack.
Anybody have a link to the full lecture?
If only there was an easy download portal... (request is serious though, found a few other snippets on Youtube but it'd be interesting to see the full lecture.
Anonymous would have done better by releasing a couple of informational videos as to why to move to a credit union including a name-and-shame of Big Banks. They have a large audience. Hurting banks by hurting their "regular folk" customers is not going to work. Anonymous will be perceived as "the enemy" (with a little help from the Banking Clan and their friends). It appears they have forgotten the outrage that was caused by the PSN outage; whoever did that was not seen the David slaying the Evil Sony Goliath, but the a**holes who kept people's games and Netflix from working.
Stricter enforcement of Internet usage restrictions and recruitment of volunteer 'cyber-specials' are also planned."
Three guesses (hint) what that means? I suggest the name "Special TAskforce Security Internet" or STASI, and it will recruit volunteers from the general public to spy on other members of the general public, to make sure they adhere to the Internet "usage restrictions" that are of course necessary to protect the rights holders.
We currently see a massive offensive aimed at the US's strongest allies: the UK, Canada and Australia. Once Big Content gets their agenda settled overseas, they will then try to implement the same thing domestically, pointing at these same allies and then saying US legislation should be brought in line with their allies' legislation.
So you are saying he made the choice to inhale lead due to bad judgement from his previous lead poisoning one year earlier (in 1923)
?
placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems whatsoever.
What happened was when he went outside, he looked up at the sun and accidentally farted and then the gas ignited, launching him on a slingshot trajectory around the sun, ending up back in 1923. He went to Miami to prevent him from meeting himself.
It's always an endless discussion pro and contra copyright, whether it's working or not, and whether it's fair and bla-di-bla.
Let's try a different angle: the Public Domain. The Public Domain is where all works go to for which the copyright expired. It's easy to see if copyright works - just examine the influx of new works into the Public Domain. And there's the problem right away. Aside from some old literary works, there *is* no Public Domain (with the exception of a few works that became public domain due to missing copyright notice, etc.).
I've posted before about the Great Wall of Copyright; a huge wall built around all the sound recordings ever released. But is Kroes attacking that archaic 1880s system that continues on until present day? No. She's perfectly fine with a 1935 recording still being copyrighted in 2011, almost three-quarters of a century after the fact. She's just about licensing deals and music-cloud business models. Hello, Neelie: as long as all works created after our fathers' birth are behind that Great Wall of Copyright and stay locked up there until most of us are dead, the copyright is a tool to punish and withhold!
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...the old days of TRIPs, UCC and WCT are definitely over: quietly dealing in back rooms, and the news ended up on the 3rd page of the business section in the newspaper. Today, people are starting to notice. People are realizing how this directly affects them. People are becoming involved.
A lot of commenters predicted this would happen; Tarkin (RIAA/MPAA) kept on tightening his grip, and now systems are about to start to slipping through his fingers. And it's about time, too.
Will Wikipedia, Google and TotalBiscuit black out for us? No? Damn, we're screwed.
In related news, Dodd (MPAA) wants to meet with Silicon Valley behind closed doors, at the White House (the President also needs to be put back in his place?). Yes, it's the New York Times, but you better believe it. Also in the Hollywood Reporter.
The thing is, the Entertainment Industry controls the mainstream media (MSM), or: mass-consumption media, because they are part of the Industry. What the blackout did, was unprecented. Why the Media Moguls were so mad: Silicon Valley (the concerted effort of many independent tech companies) was able to get a news story out to hundreds of millions of people. For one day in history, Silicon Valley was a mainstream medium, and the masses were learning about things that should have been -and successfully had been so far- kept quiet. And millions of people actually did something.
What if Silicon Valley is going to actively promote the creation of a Public Domain by way of a drastic copyright term reduction for sound recordings, movies, software, etc.? It would be their worst nightmare come true. That is why Silicon Valley needs to be silenced. If Dodd (MPAA) is successful, Wikipedia, Google, etc. will no longer black out for anybody. They will meet behind closed doors and the masses can continue to live in blissful ignorance.
The Dutch who fought the Nazis in WW2 are now bending over for the media Nazis of the 21st century.
...but isn't that a fact, too?
Rick Falkvinge and his colleagues in European Parliament: help us, you are our (North America's) only hope!
The US and Canadian election systems are inherently undemocratic (if democracy = every vote counts); in Canada a minority party (this interview the Green Party leader states clearly that a 12 year copyright term "seems reasonable". Unfortunately for most Canadians, a vote for the Green Party is a vote that ends up in the trashbin.
That being said, I do endorse the copyright monopoly... as long as the copyright term is reasonable, and Rufus Pollock's "optimal" 15 years sounds like a good line-in-the-sand maximum, and as long as there are generous exceptions for private, non-commercial and research use. The exceptions make the draconian laws obsolete.
The reason for my opening line: any change in this Culture of Copyright can only come out of Europe.
Note and case in point: for fellow Canadians, please be aware that the Canadian government is planning to enter into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact, which would "force" them to extend (!!!) copyright term by another 20 years. For background information and how to voice your opinion, see Dr. Geist's blog.
Really? Someone named "Poynter" is complaining about "use of content originated elsewhere"?
Exactamundo. I bet Poynter originated in his daddys balls!
In computer science, a pointer is a programming language data type whose value refers directly to (or "points to") another value stored elsewhere.
The fee is at the least needed to cover the cost of this system. A second reason is that there won't be a "Copyright Reregistration Service, Inc." where for a one-time low-low-fee the service will automatically take care of all the needed registrations for you! The third reason is that it needs to stop "frivolous" registrations - there needs to be an expected net economic benefit to the copyright and the fee needs to be at a level where the expected benefit is sufficient to warrant payment of this fee.
I love MAME and have been using it (on and off) since the very early MS-DOS days. The problem with MAME is that most of the needed ROM dumps are still copyrighted, and will remain under copyright for a very, very, very long time and it remains to be seen when they will enter the Public Domain, if at all.
The MAME community should be on the forefront of the Copyright Term Reduction struggle; freeing up ROMs should be a major goal. Some ROMs, with Exidy being the Shiny Example, have been made available to us, but everything that is not listed here should be treated as suspious if not downloaded from a trusted source.
So perhaps the answer isn't making all copyrights the same length as patents, but rather to differentiate between different art forms.
The problem is that, like now, Big Content will work around that make sure that the lyrics, screenplay, etc. will be published as a literary work (even at $25,000 a copy, it's still "published"). Since we have a Rule of the Longest Term, whatever little tidbit can be found in anything, the effective copyright for the entirety of the work is as long as the longest-copyrighed-part. Even recordings of Mozart performances have the directors "interpretation" = new copyright.
It also doesn't solve the problem of abandonware and orphaned works. With the 20 year copyright, all you need to do to be "in the clear" is to make sure that a published copy existed 20+ years ago.
As for the authors; I know many struggle. One of the problems is that there are way too many; this will get even worse with publish-direct-to-ebook platforms where no traditional publisher is involved. What we are talking about here is books that still sell/are still being printed 21 years after publication. How many books published in the year 1990 or before did you buy *new* in the year 2011? If any, please list the authors you would call "struggling". Also how many units were sold that year (to weed out low-volume titles would provide a couple hundred dollars per year at best to the author). For extra credit, for those titles identified written by the "struggling" authors please research the gross-to-date on that title and see how much of that actually went to the author.
How about a mass movement to respect the pre-1978 copyright law, but ignore the subsequent changes? Or another line in the sand could be drawn on international lines with the Universal Copyright Convention or the Berne Convention.
Have a lare number of web-sites and/or torrent sites with this material, and only this material.
The Berne Convention of the 1880s is where all this crazyness about 'copyright for life + another generation' started.
A couple of professors in a lab with a large team of students come up with an invention - they get 20 years, after which it becomes public domain. And that's all working out fine, given the number of new patented inventions. Why should this be any different for creators? Are they somehow 1st Class Humans and inventors are 2nd Class?
Yes please, bring those servers up, but use 20 years.
Grooveshark Support free speech on the web. We just moved 70+ domains from @godaddy to @namecheap while supporting @eff: tny.gs/tM5exW #SOPAsucks
Disclosure: I moved my single domain still at GD away to namecheap as well, but have nothing to do with either.
Had Apple created a really low minimum price for apps — say $0.15 — instead of offering free apps on day one, Ariely suggests, we would be anchored to the idea that apps should cost something
We need to be anchored to the idea that music should cost something, or at least that it isn't "free". It's not about those few recordings that still sell today; they are "few" compared to mass that hasn't sold (or at least in bulk) for decades. It's about keeping their monopoly intact, and for the public to find it "normal" that a sound recordings "is copyrighted" and can only be bought on a licensed medium (mostly used for older recordings). They will never admit to this, but as you can see from the Ariely comment, that line of reasoning is absolutely in their minds.
GoDaddy apparently had a material benefit in SOPA.
Shouldn't that be "has"?
By the way, Dump GoDaddy Day (or "move you domain day") appears to be still on for tomorrow, Dec 29 2011. And... even Danica Patrick isn't able to stop it!
I don't see why HP should not revive the TouchPad Go (renamed to TouchPad 2, the other one renamed to Touch Pad Classic). There's a market out there, and they can make money other than on the hardware; (licensed) peripherals, App Catalog sales, there's already a Kindle app, perhaps also introduce a Nook Reader app and get a percentage of sales through that from B&N. Wouldn't that be cool, Kindle and Nook on one device?
Disclosure: I have a WiFi-only (= no GPS) TouchPad (32GB, $149) and use it as an e-reader about 75% of the time; unfortunately I have to convert everything to pdf as I haven't taken the time yet to use the alternate installer (for which I believe there is a proper reader that handles epub, etc.).
Please use .govDaddy if you want to refer to that company; they're in bed with the .gov and the "Who's yo Daddy?!" attitude.
'Bigger innovation labs and companies are holding back on numerous innovations until they can properly monetize them.'"
The longer they wait, the less time they will have to "properly monetize them" as the patents will run out. So, what dark clouds do we see building on the horizon?
Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP)
ASOP supports SOPA? How about these guys:
National Sheriffs Association (NSA)
National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO)
Don't forget to move your domains away from GoDaddy on Dec 29th, and stock up on Botox and all kinds of rejuvenation creams so you can quit the
60 Plus Association
Yeah. That's the real WTF? moment. All those grampies and grannies don't care about the Intarwebz, eh? So you can print stories like this. It's a good thing Christmas is coming up; you'll be meeting a lot of 60plus people you can scold for this.
I guess the sarcasm tag is missing in the parent posting (reference to the _NSAKEY cryptographic API key exposed by the WinNT SP5 updater).
The PSP did get off to a rough start, and a lot of early adopters bought it to play pirated games,
Where did you get that? I remember a modified "Lumines" and maybe a few others that had hardcoded pathnames changed from the UMD to the memory card, but those were the exception. At the start, memorystick pro duo cards were very expensive. Fact is that there was a very successful homebrew scene (especially for those that remained on v1.50 firmware). Only when ISO-loaders came out, years into the PSP's life, piracy became a problem.
Be warned, you cannot change the battery yourself (officially). I have a 2005 PSP-1000 (USA/Canada) and it's currently on it's third battery (1 original, 2 high-capacity), and I'm just an occasional player. The device is working perfectly, and because of the new battery holds it charge fine. If the battery had not been replaceable I'd either have a portable player I can use for 30 minutes, or use it off an AC adapter, or throw it out and buy a new one. Sony's "solution" (after the Ah-oh moment) is an external battery pack.
Anybody have a link to the full lecture? If only there was an easy download portal... (request is serious though, found a few other snippets on Youtube but it'd be interesting to see the full lecture.
Anonymous would have done better by releasing a couple of informational videos as to why to move to a credit union including a name-and-shame of Big Banks. They have a large audience. Hurting banks by hurting their "regular folk" customers is not going to work. Anonymous will be perceived as "the enemy" (with a little help from the Banking Clan and their friends). It appears they have forgotten the outrage that was caused by the PSN outage; whoever did that was not seen the David slaying the Evil Sony Goliath, but the a**holes who kept people's games and Netflix from working.
Stricter enforcement of Internet usage restrictions and recruitment of volunteer 'cyber-specials' are also planned."
Three guesses (hint) what that means? I suggest the name "Special TAskforce Security Internet" or STASI, and it will recruit volunteers from the general public to spy on other members of the general public, to make sure they adhere to the Internet "usage restrictions" that are of course necessary to protect the rights holders.
Australians can currently join the Pirate Party of Australia for free.
We currently see a massive offensive aimed at the US's strongest allies: the UK, Canada and Australia. Once Big Content gets their agenda settled overseas, they will then try to implement the same thing domestically, pointing at these same allies and then saying US legislation should be brought in line with their allies' legislation.
So you are saying he made the choice to inhale lead due to bad judgement from his previous lead poisoning one year earlier (in 1923)
?
placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems whatsoever.
What happened was when he went outside, he looked up at the sun and accidentally farted and then the gas ignited, launching him on a slingshot trajectory around the sun, ending up back in 1923. He went to Miami to prevent him from meeting himself.
It's always an endless discussion pro and contra copyright, whether it's working or not, and whether it's fair and bla-di-bla.
Let's try a different angle: the Public Domain. The Public Domain is where all works go to for which the copyright expired. It's easy to see if copyright works - just examine the influx of new works into the Public Domain. And there's the problem right away. Aside from some old literary works, there *is* no Public Domain (with the exception of a few works that became public domain due to missing copyright notice, etc.).
I've posted before about the Great Wall of Copyright; a huge wall built around all the sound recordings ever released. But is Kroes attacking that archaic 1880s system that continues on until present day? No. She's perfectly fine with a 1935 recording still being copyrighted in 2011, almost three-quarters of a century after the fact. She's just about licensing deals and music-cloud business models. Hello, Neelie: as long as all works created after our fathers' birth are behind that Great Wall of Copyright and stay locked up there until most of us are dead, the copyright is a tool to punish and withhold!