The case can be made that not providing this service for pre-recorded videotapes is discriminatory and perhaps illegal. Possession of the tape is proof that you have purchased the right to view the content. Wal-Mart is providing the upverting of dvd to blu-ray, why not videotape?
Or could it just be the greedy, money grubbing, SOPA-loving, fascist MPAA ass-holes just want to soak the public for all they can get?
The guy has been a dick forever, Just ask John Fogerty.
You cannot copyright a word. And as for a trademark, one is unlikely to confuse a book/film with a pub.
Obama support of ACTA is contradicted by his statement against SOPA/PIPA:
".Any provision... must be transparent and designed to prevent overly broad private rights of action that could encourage unjustified litigation that could discourage startup businesses and innovative firms from growing"
His continued support of ACTA is hypocritical because, clearly, ACTA is designed to do exactly that.
One thing you can say about Teller is that he was not afraid of his own tools.
I met the guy once - in the late 1970's - and tried to persuade him of the potential of SPS (solar powered satellites). He'd have none of it. But I came away impressed. He was a great man.
_The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything_ by John D. MacDonald - a rare venture int SF by an amazing detective story writer
_Joyleg_ by Avram Davidson & Ward Moore - Just a wonderful and unappreciated novel
_Courtship Rite_ by Donald Kingsbury - simply the best SF novel of the 1980s
_Planetary Agent X_ by Mac Reynolds - a joyful romp
_Way Station_ by Clifford Simak - quiet and beautiful
A bogus take-down notice can be much more damaging than actually putting up infringing files. Yet putting up an infringing file can result in the dismantling of the company that put it up, the company hosting it, and imprisonment or even death (if arrest is resisted) for any real person involved.
The lack of appropriate and equitable punishment for wrongful take-down encourages recklessness and fraud on the part of alleged rights-holders or their agents. There have been multiple examples of fraudulent claims by bogus rights-holders, as well as by those who would trample fair use and criticism. All this has been done without any real consequence to those who issued the false take-down notices.
If you are that paranoid, you can pull the hard drive out of the laptop before you boot off a usb key/flash drive. Or buy your own internal drive and switch it for when you want to use the laptop for personal use.
The U.S. (well, Britain too) has a history of treating Canada as its bitch, but enough is enough. Act of War/terrorism/imperialism, choose your word, this certainly qualifies.
It seems more like this guy is fraking the system over to allow him the freedom to go out and make a difference. You know, if I had a way to pick the pockets of fat cats while giving me the time to spend volunteering in third world countries or doing explorative expeditions - I just might.
Seems you are saying the ends justify the means. That is not a philosophy I would espouse.
Rights holders (or false claimants in this case) can abuse copyright all that they want. But if the shoe were on the other foot, domains would be seized, people thrown in jail and lives ruined. Such is the silliness of the laws on the books.
It is sad to see that the U.S. has lost vision and become a nation of empty-headed belttlers. Certainly building a space elevator is a non-trivial task, but there is no scientific reason to dismiss it as impossible. Carbon nanotubes are theoretically strong enough to support a tether-style space elevator. And space elevators would make space travel economically feasible and open up the solar system to commercial exploitation and human occupation.
I would prefer if the entrepreneurial vision and spirit to build a space elevator came from the U.S. But, when you get down to it, that is simply selfish pride. If the Japanese, Chinese, Brazilians, Emirati or even Russians (it was their idea to begin with) are to do it, more power to them. It is going to get done eventually.
If you are willing to let your children die, and possibly infect and kill other children, that are not yours, and are too young to get vaccinated, you are to be both pitied and feared.
Having been subjugated by tyrannical Communist regimes during the lifetimes of most of their populations, Central European countries are the best equipped to spot the tools of tyranny like ACTA.
The feds don't need to honor due process and the presumption of innocence,anyway. There is a new White House Petition that seeks to remind them of their duty:
The contention is that since ACTA does not change any laws so it can just be considered an executive agreement and not a treaty. However, the President may have second thoughts on this in light of the poulist anti-SOPA/PIPA movement, the potential for a bribery scandal, and his declarations in favor of Internet freedom.
If Obama does want to dump ACTA, the best way to do it is to sent it to the Senate for ratification. He can do this by paying attention to a petition to do so:
Voluntarily sending ACTA to the Senate for ratification would alienate his Hollywood contributors. In this case he may wait for a law-suit to force the issue, in which case the Supreme Court may need to decide if ACTA needs to be ratified by the Senate.
There are three great principals embodied in -- or at least given lip service by - most modern nations, at least in the Western tradition. They are liberty, justice and democracy.
The agreement itself undermines due process and free speech. In their bypassing the EU Parliament with the signing of ACTA, the content cartel has reached the trifecta of subversion in undermining democracy as well.
The history of the big media content cartel insinuating itself into the workings of the U.S. government over the past dozen or two years is depressing and leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This is the undermining of American democracy. From the orchestration of the extension of copyright protection to life plus 75 years, to the DMCA and its disregard for due process and freedom. To the secretive smoke-filed backroom history of ACTA, culminating in the arrogance of how SOPA and PIPA were show trialed through the judiciary committees of both houses of Congress. Now it appears that the money men of the MPAA, RIAA and others have been orchestrating this with concealed bribery and mock support of liberal principal. And that the leaders I secretly hoped were men and women of principal are, instead, pathetic opportunists, who have sold the American birthright out for a mess of pottage.
This history has taken a wrecking ball to the idea that my country, the once proud United States, is a democracy, is governed by the love of liberty or has any legitimacy left whatsoever. Rather it has become a disgusting perversion of what it once was. I cry for my country, my children and grandchildren.
This may be the biggest can of worms in the history of U.S. Federal corruption. The only way this can be handled is through a special prosecutor. The petition should request one.
It should get to the point of a special prosecutor, but I doubt it. And I wouldn't be surprised if the Wal-Mart argument was used -- the investigation would be too broad, covering the administration and 70% of Congress -- possibly going back as far as the 1990's or earlier. This corruption is potentially pervasive and a way of life inside the beltway.
Proponents of SOPA & PIPA need to know that its opponents will be ever vigilant to halt bills reincarnating their ideas. They also need to know that advocates of the Hollywood Media Mafia such as Lamar Smith, Harry Reid and the two-faced Al Franken (all for Internet freedom & net neutrality last year, and an unapologetic sponsor of PIPA this year) should fear for their jobs.
But the next target needs to be the U.S. administration. The President needs to be persuaded that repudiating ACTA is in the best interests of the country and his re-election campaign. Further, the Commerce Department and the State Department need to stop trying to force feed our allies ACTA.
Those of us in the U.S. need to take the momentum built up defeating SOPA/PIPA and focus it on the administration. They need to stop trying to force this trade agreement (ACTA) down the throats of our allies, right now. And we need to further push the President to follow up on his emerging anti-SOPA/PIPA stance and repudiate ACTA.
Many countries, including the U.S., have signed the ACTA treaty - the source and inspiration for SOPA/PIPA. So if there is a global symbol of the attempt to censor the Internet, it is the ACTA treaty. The US has already signed this and is using various, mostly economic, means to pressure other countries to sign as well.
The U.S. administration needs to stop pushing ACTA on to other countries and repudiate it for the attack on freedom that it is.
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The case can be made that not providing this service for pre-recorded videotapes is discriminatory and perhaps illegal. Possession of the tape is proof that you have purchased the right to view the content. Wal-Mart is providing the upverting of dvd to blu-ray, why not videotape?
Or could it just be the greedy, money grubbing, SOPA-loving, fascist MPAA ass-holes just want to soak the public for all they can get?
The guy has been a dick forever, Just ask John Fogerty. You cannot copyright a word. And as for a trademark, one is unlikely to confuse a book/film with a pub.
Obama support of ACTA is contradicted by his statement against SOPA/PIPA:
".Any provision... must be transparent and designed to prevent overly broad private rights of action that could encourage unjustified litigation that could discourage startup businesses and innovative firms from growing"
His continued support of ACTA is hypocritical because, clearly, ACTA is designed to do exactly that.
One thing you can say about Teller is that he was not afraid of his own tools.
I met the guy once - in the late 1970's - and tried to persuade him of the potential of SPS (solar powered satellites). He'd have none of it. But I came away impressed. He was a great man.
_The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything_ by John D. MacDonald - a rare venture int SF by an amazing detective story writer
_Joyleg_ by Avram Davidson & Ward Moore - Just a wonderful and unappreciated novel
_Courtship Rite_ by Donald Kingsbury - simply the best SF novel of the 1980s
_Planetary Agent X_ by Mac Reynolds - a joyful romp
_Way Station_ by Clifford Simak - quiet and beautiful
A bogus take-down notice can be much more damaging than actually putting up infringing files. Yet putting up an infringing file can result in the dismantling of the company that put it up, the company hosting it, and imprisonment or even death (if arrest is resisted) for any real person involved.
The lack of appropriate and equitable punishment for wrongful take-down encourages recklessness and fraud on the part of alleged rights-holders or their agents. There have been multiple examples of fraudulent claims by bogus rights-holders, as well as by those who would trample fair use and criticism. All this has been done without any real consequence to those who issued the false take-down notices.
If you are that paranoid, you can pull the hard drive out of the laptop before you boot off a usb key/flash drive. Or buy your own internal drive and switch it for when you want to use the laptop for personal use.
The U.S. (well, Britain too) has a history of treating Canada as its bitch, but enough is enough. Act of War/terrorism/imperialism, choose your word, this certainly qualifies.
It seems more like this guy is fraking the system over to allow him the freedom to go out and make a difference. You know, if I had a way to pick the pockets of fat cats while giving me the time to spend volunteering in third world countries or doing explorative expeditions - I just might.
Seems you are saying the ends justify the means. That is not a philosophy I would espouse.
Rights holders (or false claimants in this case) can abuse copyright all that they want. But if the shoe were on the other foot, domains would be seized, people thrown in jail and lives ruined. Such is the silliness of the laws on the books.
It is sad to see that the U.S. has lost vision and become a nation of empty-headed belttlers. Certainly building a space elevator is a non-trivial task, but there is no scientific reason to dismiss it as impossible. Carbon nanotubes are theoretically strong enough to support a tether-style space elevator. And space elevators would make space travel economically feasible and open up the solar system to commercial exploitation and human occupation.
I would prefer if the entrepreneurial vision and spirit to build a space elevator came from the U.S. But, when you get down to it, that is simply selfish pride. If the Japanese, Chinese, Brazilians, Emirati or even Russians (it was their idea to begin with) are to do it, more power to them. It is going to get done eventually.
I assume there will also be apps for pedestrians with smart phones. SOL for those without....
Monopoly by litigation.
If you are willing to let your children die, and possibly infect and kill other children, that are not yours, and are too young to get vaccinated, you are to be both pitied and feared.
Having been subjugated by tyrannical Communist regimes during the lifetimes of most of their populations, Central European countries are the best equipped to spot the tools of tyranny like ACTA.
http://wh.gov/kvY
"Remind the DOJ and DHS of the importance of due process and the presumption of innocence when dealing with the Internet."
The contention is that since ACTA does not change any laws so it can just be considered an executive agreement and not a treaty. However, the President may have second thoughts on this in light of the poulist anti-SOPA/PIPA movement, the potential for a bribery scandal, and his declarations in favor of Internet freedom.
If Obama does want to dump ACTA, the best way to do it is to sent it to the Senate for ratification. He can do this by paying attention to a petition to do so:
http://wh.gov/KxA
Voluntarily sending ACTA to the Senate for ratification would alienate his Hollywood contributors. In this case he may wait for a law-suit to force the issue, in which case the Supreme Court may need to decide if ACTA needs to be ratified by the Senate.
There are three great principals embodied in -- or at least given lip service by - most modern nations, at least in the Western tradition. They are liberty, justice and democracy. The agreement itself undermines due process and free speech. In their bypassing the EU Parliament with the signing of ACTA, the content cartel has reached the trifecta of subversion in undermining democracy as well.
The history of the big media content cartel insinuating itself into the workings of the U.S. government over the past dozen or two years is depressing and leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This is the undermining of American democracy. From the orchestration of the extension of copyright protection to life plus 75 years, to the DMCA and its disregard for due process and freedom. To the secretive smoke-filed backroom history of ACTA, culminating in the arrogance of how SOPA and PIPA were show trialed through the judiciary committees of both houses of Congress. Now it appears that the money men of the MPAA, RIAA and others have been orchestrating this with concealed bribery and mock support of liberal principal. And that the leaders I secretly hoped were men and women of principal are, instead, pathetic opportunists, who have sold the American birthright out for a mess of pottage.
This history has taken a wrecking ball to the idea that my country, the once proud United States, is a democracy, is governed by the love of liberty or has any legitimacy left whatsoever. Rather it has become a disgusting perversion of what it once was. I cry for my country, my children and grandchildren.
This may be the biggest can of worms in the history of U.S. Federal corruption. The only way this can be handled is through a special prosecutor. The petition should request one. It should get to the point of a special prosecutor, but I doubt it. And I wouldn't be surprised if the Wal-Mart argument was used -- the investigation would be too broad, covering the administration and 70% of Congress -- possibly going back as far as the 1990's or earlier. This corruption is potentially pervasive and a way of life inside the beltway.
Proponents of SOPA & PIPA need to know that its opponents will be ever vigilant to halt bills reincarnating their ideas. They also need to know that advocates of the Hollywood Media Mafia such as Lamar Smith, Harry Reid and the two-faced Al Franken (all for Internet freedom & net neutrality last year, and an unapologetic sponsor of PIPA this year) should fear for their jobs. But the next target needs to be the U.S. administration. The President needs to be persuaded that repudiating ACTA is in the best interests of the country and his re-election campaign. Further, the Commerce Department and the State Department need to stop trying to force feed our allies ACTA.
Those of us in the U.S. need to take the momentum built up defeating SOPA/PIPA and focus it on the administration. They need to stop trying to force this trade agreement (ACTA) down the throats of our allies, right now. And we need to further push the President to follow up on his emerging anti-SOPA/PIPA stance and repudiate ACTA.
Many countries, including the U.S., have signed the ACTA treaty - the source and inspiration for SOPA/PIPA. So if there is a global symbol of the attempt to censor the Internet, it is the ACTA treaty. The US has already signed this and is using various, mostly economic, means to pressure other countries to sign as well. The U.S. administration needs to stop pushing ACTA on to other countries and repudiate it for the attack on freedom that it is.
And should be impeached along with whomever appointed or voted to confirm her.