I also think that producers of intellectual content have the right to choose to not release works in the public domain and I think that should be respected.
You've got it all backwards, which explains your misunderstanding.
Speaking from the US standpoint, that's not at all what the constitution says. After a limited time their works are supposed to be free to the world, regardless of the author's wishes. Copyright is only a temporary incentive granted by the public to the author in order to encourage more works to be made. It's not to give authors some kind of moral right over their work. That concept doesn't exist in US copyright.
The public domain has been stolen, because most of the works under copyright today belong in it. If we had reasonable copyright laws the public domain would be orders of magnitude larger than it is now. That's theft of public domain.
If the public is no longer receiving more benefit from copyright than its cost of civil liberties, as is the case with current copyright, then it is no longer aligned with its intention as laid out by the constitution. It's plain wrong. So for now many of us will ignore it.
If you don't like the quality of the offering at the price it is offered, then don't buy it. It's quite simple.
So that's why I didn't buy it, I torrented it.:-)
On the other hand, there's no real ethical or legal excuse for pirating something
How about that copyright is fundamentally immoral and unconstitutional (i.e. "limited times")? So not only is breaking copyright law not morally wrong, but I'd say it's even our duty as citizens to violate copyright as an act of civil disobedience.
Copyright mostly exists merely because of government corruption (Mickey Mouse protection act, etc). The public domain was stolen from the public. That's why I see no reason to obey it. Breaking the law isn't and cannot be morally wrong.
Oh man, I can definitely see that. It's all slow and parallel in the traffic circle, so accidents aren't dangerous. But at the same time people turn into complete idiots in traffic circles, weaving between lanes like there is only one, cutting across other drivers (like exiting directly from the inner circle across a lane, or not exiting the outer circle when it ends), and not signaling anything. I go through one twice every day and I have to actively avoid other driver's mistakes on a weekly basis.
For some reason, people have associated high IQs with knowing a lot about everything.
I think this is reflected in the Google search for "iq test": after the first couple results all of the results have nothing to do with IQ but with knowledge.
Ha, yeah, I've got them completely blocked too. This means they're definitely under-reporting for Firefox users (or any browser with commonly used ad blocking), since these users tend to block this stuff.
Computation speed is only part of the problem. Even with the fastest possible computer there wouldn't be enough energy available to brute force a 128-bit symmetric key in a reasonable amount of time.
Despite the lower efficiency to increase anonimity I can still download a feature length 700MB film from Freenet inside of a few hours. And small stuff like a torrent distribution freesite wouldn't really be that slow at all. Browsing freesites feels much like browing the web in 1995 on a dialup modem.
Imagine if a torrent could contain dynamic content, like a web page. You download the torrent, the content has say thepiratebay.org indexed, somehow the creater of the official torrent can modify the files pointed to by the torrent, and thus make the piratebay itself distributed.
Luckily, what you're describing basically already exists! The problem is just that it currently has a significantly larger barrier to entry than BitTorrent itself.
I bet there are already trackers within Tor. BitTorrent trackers are really just web servers and Tor hidden web servers are already well established. The hard part is just getting the client to use the Tor proxy and resolve the.onion properly. But we have something even better already: distributed trackers based on a global distributed hash table.
The bottleneck on BitTorrent right now is in distributing and indexing.torrent files. Trackers are well taken care of.
Nobody has a right to illegally download copyrighted materials.
Yeah, I do. It's called Free Speech. Just because the media cartels convinced the government to use its monopoly on violence to suppress my rights doesn't make it not a right.
For awhile I was using TeXmacs, which is combination of Emacs and TeX WYSIWYG. After getting accustomed to it, typing out equations is really fast. I haven't used it in several years, though.
There is a Usenet-like system within Freenet called FMS (Freenet Message System). The FMS software exposes an NNTP interface so users can use whatever news reader they wish just like they were on Usenet. All identities are simply public keys, with a non-unique username to go along with it, and every post must be signed with a valid signature for that id. Underneath all of this is a web of trust moderation system for moderating identities. If an identity starts spamming, the first few people to see it will rate it down, which will cause the identity's visiblity for everyone (unless they choose not to accept anyone else's moderation) to drop off as the moderation propigates around the web.
Creating an identity isn't a cheap operation and involves solving a number of captchas and a bit a patience as the identity is "announced" by joining in on the web of trust. It's not possible to know of even the existance of an identity without it being in the web of trust. That way a spammer can't keep knocking out a lot of new id's for making spam. (But, unfortunately, this gives newbies a hard time too.)
The result has been a fantastic, completely spam-free network news system. It just needs more people right now. The downside, though, has been that the moderation system has been used to mod down identites simply for unpopular speech rather than outright spam.
And this isn't for lack of spam on Freenet. There's plenty of that where it's possible. The other threaded forum system on Freenet, Frost, doesn't have any useful spam protection and, because of this, it's currently unusable thanks to all the spam.
Obviously said by someone who hasn't had much experience with a good NNTP client.:-) Comparitively, web interfaces are so limiting and clunky, and conversation is usually non-threaded, which I really can't stand.
Saline solution is allowed, so just label your water bottles "saline" and you can bring them through security, even if it's multiple large bottles. You probably want to wait to drink any of them, though, until you're out of their sight!
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It's useful for the same reasons we have an tag instead of for images.
I also think that producers of intellectual content have the right to choose to not release works in the public domain and I think that should be respected.
You've got it all backwards, which explains your misunderstanding.
Speaking from the US standpoint, that's not at all what the constitution says. After a limited time their works are supposed to be free to the world, regardless of the author's wishes. Copyright is only a temporary incentive granted by the public to the author in order to encourage more works to be made. It's not to give authors some kind of moral right over their work. That concept doesn't exist in US copyright.
The public domain has been stolen, because most of the works under copyright today belong in it. If we had reasonable copyright laws the public domain would be orders of magnitude larger than it is now. That's theft of public domain.
If the public is no longer receiving more benefit from copyright than its cost of civil liberties, as is the case with current copyright, then it is no longer aligned with its intention as laid out by the constitution. It's plain wrong. So for now many of us will ignore it.
If you don't like the quality of the offering at the price it is offered, then don't buy it. It's quite simple.
So that's why I didn't buy it, I torrented it. :-)
On the other hand, there's no real ethical or legal excuse for pirating something
How about that copyright is fundamentally immoral and unconstitutional (i.e. "limited times")? So not only is breaking copyright law not morally wrong, but I'd say it's even our duty as citizens to violate copyright as an act of civil disobedience.
Copyright mostly exists merely because of government corruption (Mickey Mouse protection act, etc). The public domain was stolen from the public. That's why I see no reason to obey it. Breaking the law isn't and cannot be morally wrong.
Oh man, I can definitely see that. It's all slow and parallel in the traffic circle, so accidents aren't dangerous. But at the same time people turn into complete idiots in traffic circles, weaving between lanes like there is only one, cutting across other drivers (like exiting directly from the inner circle across a lane, or not exiting the outer circle when it ends), and not signaling anything. I go through one twice every day and I have to actively avoid other driver's mistakes on a weekly basis.
I don't think those people ever came into power. Taxes always get higher and government always gets bigger.
But the people who are responsible for this kind of crap in this country are US.
It can't be my fault when no one I ever voted for has held the office in question. I still get to blame everyone else. :-)
I think he was trying to make a pun more than say anything about that moron.
For some reason, people have associated high IQs with knowing a lot about everything.
I think this is reflected in the Google search for "iq test": after the first couple results all of the results have nothing to do with IQ but with knowledge.
Ha, yeah, I've got them completely blocked too. This means they're definitely under-reporting for Firefox users (or any browser with commonly used ad blocking), since these users tend to block this stuff.
And since he's prankster, he probably used it to play a prank on the car dealer too.
Vox Day? The guy who thinks legalizing gay marriage will depopulate the US? Just another faux-libertarian that doesn't use his brain very much.
Parent: Don't go into a stranger's car, even if they have candy.
Kid: Sorry, I don't have time to try to understand this. I'm not a car buff.
Computation speed is only part of the problem. Even with the fastest possible computer there wouldn't be enough energy available to brute force a 128-bit symmetric key in a reasonable amount of time.
Despite the lower efficiency to increase anonimity I can still download a feature length 700MB film from Freenet inside of a few hours. And small stuff like a torrent distribution freesite wouldn't really be that slow at all. Browsing freesites feels much like browing the web in 1995 on a dialup modem.
Imagine if a torrent could contain dynamic content, like a web page. You download the torrent, the content has say thepiratebay.org indexed, somehow the creater of the official torrent can modify the files pointed to by the torrent, and thus make the piratebay itself distributed.
Luckily, what you're describing basically already exists! The problem is just that it currently has a significantly larger barrier to entry than BitTorrent itself.
I bet there are already trackers within Tor. BitTorrent trackers are really just web servers and Tor hidden web servers are already well established. The hard part is just getting the client to use the Tor proxy and resolve the .onion properly. But we have something even better already: distributed trackers based on a global distributed hash table.
The bottleneck on BitTorrent right now is in distributing and indexing .torrent files. Trackers are well taken care of.
If it weren't for copyright, Sony wouldn't need to pay musicians at all.
Heh, so you're saying that's different than right now? :-)
Nobody has a right to illegally download copyrighted materials.
Yeah, I do. It's called Free Speech. Just because the media cartels convinced the government to use its monopoly on violence to suppress my rights doesn't make it not a right.
For awhile I was using TeXmacs, which is combination of Emacs and TeX WYSIWYG. After getting accustomed to it, typing out equations is really fast. I haven't used it in several years, though.
There is a Usenet-like system within Freenet called FMS (Freenet Message System). The FMS software exposes an NNTP interface so users can use whatever news reader they wish just like they were on Usenet. All identities are simply public keys, with a non-unique username to go along with it, and every post must be signed with a valid signature for that id. Underneath all of this is a web of trust moderation system for moderating identities. If an identity starts spamming, the first few people to see it will rate it down, which will cause the identity's visiblity for everyone (unless they choose not to accept anyone else's moderation) to drop off as the moderation propigates around the web.
Creating an identity isn't a cheap operation and involves solving a number of captchas and a bit a patience as the identity is "announced" by joining in on the web of trust. It's not possible to know of even the existance of an identity without it being in the web of trust. That way a spammer can't keep knocking out a lot of new id's for making spam. (But, unfortunately, this gives newbies a hard time too.)
The result has been a fantastic, completely spam-free network news system. It just needs more people right now. The downside, though, has been that the moderation system has been used to mod down identites simply for unpopular speech rather than outright spam.
And this isn't for lack of spam on Freenet. There's plenty of that where it's possible. The other threaded forum system on Freenet, Frost, doesn't have any useful spam protection and, because of this, it's currently unusable thanks to all the spam.
Obviously said by someone who hasn't had much experience with a good NNTP client. :-) Comparitively, web interfaces are so limiting and clunky, and conversation is usually non-threaded, which I really can't stand.
Saline solution is allowed, so just label your water bottles "saline" and you can bring them through security, even if it's multiple large bottles. You probably want to wait to drink any of them, though, until you're out of their sight!
This isn't the privately owned airline denying access. It's the federal government (the TSA).
I can get to Blogspot, as well as other Blogspot blogs. It's just Linus's that's blocked under "sex".