Yep. Politics is about relationships, and the larger the group, the larger the relationship. One person sending an email is a grain of sand on an endless shore. One (funded) group such as the EFF is more like a rock laying on top of the sand. It is much better to voice your opinion through a group!
I agree it would be a bad fight because the poster was anonymous, rather than a named individual such as myself who has now published on his tiny website a permanent link to OT III, and is now working on a parody of COS's website similar to the one I did here of a like-minded 'religious' organization and doesn't have any money to lose anyway...
One of the best ways to develop a 'cost model' is to gain actual experience for yourself. Then you aren't at the mercy of some throwaway PC Magazine telling you what to do.
So next time you need to install 200 copies of Windows, be brave and install Linux instead.
Yes. Narrow enough for me to be sure I NEVER give Amazon my credit card number. What I haven't found out is how we got in this IP patent mess in the first place.
Who made IP patents legal? Why can't someone patent a novel or a song? Who owns your thoughts if somebody thought the same thing a week earlier?
I used to make about 75% of my income from designing and typesetting books for small publishers. In the past 6 months I haven't done a single title. It seems the muse to get one's ideas out there has turned to the web.
There was a huge cry when Gutenburg invented moveable type. It put a lot of illuminating biblical scribes out of business. Now, books, music maybe movies and TV shows aren't going to be worth as much as they were in the past.
We'll either make the change, and maybe put some people out of business in the meantime, or we'll become more of a contraband society. Depending on how the laws go, we could end up with a lot of 'law breakers' and the average citizenry cowtowing to the illusion that etheric data is as real as a granite rock.
Only the unions complained about the fact that technology in the past 20 years made some occupations irrevalent. We progressed through that time and are still here! Now huge corporate media are clinging very tightly to the old ways -- and are getting a lot of government support.
Here's an old metaphisical yarn that nails it on the head:
The Forces of Darkness are powerful energies, working to preserve that which is ancient and material; hence they are pre-eminently the forces of crystallization, of form preservation, of the attractiveness of matter, and of the lure of that which is existent in the form life of the three worlds. They consequently block deliberately the inflow of that which is new and life-giving; they work to prevent the understanding of that which is of the New Age[sic]; they endeavor to preserve that which is familiar and old, to counteract the effects of the oncoming culture and civilization, to bring blindness to the peoples and to feed steadily the existing fires of hate, of separateness, of criticism and of cruelty. These forces, as far as the intelligent peoples of the world are concerned, work insidiously and cloak their effort in fair words, leading even disciples to express hatred of persons and ideologies, fostering the hidden seeds of hatred found in many human beings. They fan to fury the fear and hate of the world in an effort to preserve that which is old and make the unknown appear undesirable, and they hold back the forces of evolution and of progress for their own ends.
I agree. The internet continues to grow. Until the Coca-Colas of the world wise up to the potential of internet advertising, we will be in for a slump.
I'm also dead set against the lame clik-thru mentality of the current thinking in internet advertising. Trying to get someone to stop what they're doing and do something else because of an obnoxious ad is stupid.
Banner ads should be thought of like highway billboards. Advertisers should be concerned with mindshare and identity instead of attempting to direct people's wills.
The guy is scared but is misreading the PC marketplace. A recent downturn in public PC buying habits means there is too much PC hardware on the market. Sure, lots of suppliers are hurting, but the supply will eventually achieve parity with demand. I've seen this cycle happen many times.
A stable of appliances isn't going to replace general purpose PCs because of the cost.
Look up what fair use actually is before you start spouting nonsense.
Don't be condescending. I've had my share of copyright nonsense and WON. Now, just read here , and see my offensive yet untouchable web site here. Really read it beyond the context. Read the snips of Supreme court opinion. Serving the PUBLIC interest is the purpose of copyright. Having files on one's disk is not copyright violation (see Sony vs. the Movie Pigs), and neither does being on a network, even if they are passively available for copying. Only if you put those files on a disk and give or sell that DISK to another do you violate copyright.
Do you have any backing for that claim?
Do you have backing that it is not? There has never been a case before the Supremes that has dealt with IP without corresponding physical representation of that IP. The corporate piggies are going to get a rude awakening when their lame software patents and excessive music/literature copyrights get dumped by the Supremes because their is no objective property to protect. If Napster goes all the way to the Supremes, they will win.
By the way... in spite of your nationalistic indoctrination, this isn't an issue of 'Commies vs. the good guys'. The commies are gone now, remember?
Yes it does, and my use of mp3 files would never get me a conviction. The preeminence of the constitution (U.S.) means that 'fair use' has trumped all the wankers time after time.
Intellectual 'property' is not property unless is has a corresponding physical objectivity.
Why bother? The government is being forced to renounce their lame IP laws. I am a citizen, not a subject. A subject is obligated to obey all laws, a citizen is not.
I don't think artists should be paid for mp3 songs. Mp3s are low quality facsimilies of what we actually pay for. Mp3s are good advertisements for an artist's performances or CDs.
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Even though there are CPUs that are a lot better than the x86, x86 won the marketplace.
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and can tell you that Bangor isn't at all like Glasgow. So head down to New Jersey... maybe Newark. Lots of culture and cuisine and stuff like that!
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OK then... how about Catholics, Pentecostals, Hasidic Jews, and Republicans?
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Yes, and the DMCA will never be overturned until somebody like Slashdot forsakes greed and fights the good fight.
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So next time you need to install 200 copies of Windows, be brave and install Linux instead.
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Here's a copy of the post I made on Slashdor last night. I think you'll especially like the line, "It runs all the apps users want to run."
I'll be back in Redmond Friday.
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Who made IP patents legal? Why can't someone patent a novel or a song? Who owns your thoughts if somebody thought the same thing a week earlier?
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I wouldn't be surprised if they found out Windows Update itself was a huge security hole.
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There was a huge cry when Gutenburg invented moveable type. It put a lot of illuminating biblical scribes out of business. Now, books, music maybe movies and TV shows aren't going to be worth as much as they were in the past.
We'll either make the change, and maybe put some people out of business in the meantime, or we'll become more of a contraband society. Depending on how the laws go, we could end up with a lot of 'law breakers' and the average citizenry cowtowing to the illusion that etheric data is as real as a granite rock.
Only the unions complained about the fact that technology in the past 20 years made some occupations irrevalent. We progressed through that time and are still here! Now huge corporate media are clinging very tightly to the old ways -- and are getting a lot of government support.
Here's an old metaphisical yarn that nails it on the head:
Evil, in other words.blessings,
I'm also dead set against the lame clik-thru mentality of the current thinking in internet advertising. Trying to get someone to stop what they're doing and do something else because of an obnoxious ad is stupid.
Banner ads should be thought of like highway billboards. Advertisers should be concerned with mindshare and identity instead of attempting to direct people's wills.
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A stable of appliances isn't going to replace general purpose PCs because of the cost.
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Don't be condescending. I've had my share of copyright nonsense and WON. Now, just read here , and see my offensive yet untouchable web site here. Really read it beyond the context. Read the snips of Supreme court opinion. Serving the PUBLIC interest is the purpose of copyright. Having files on one's disk is not copyright violation (see Sony vs. the Movie Pigs), and neither does being on a network, even if they are passively available for copying. Only if you put those files on a disk and give or sell that DISK to another do you violate copyright.
Do you have any backing for that claim?
Do you have backing that it is not? There has never been a case before the Supremes that has dealt with IP without corresponding physical representation of that IP. The corporate piggies are going to get a rude awakening when their lame software patents and excessive music/literature copyrights get dumped by the Supremes because their is no objective property to protect. If Napster goes all the way to the Supremes, they will win.
By the way... in spite of your nationalistic indoctrination, this isn't an issue of 'Commies vs. the good guys'. The commies are gone now, remember?
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Intellectual 'property' is not property unless is has a corresponding physical objectivity.
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Intellectual 'property' that lacks a physical representation is an illusion. Without a disk or an lp, music is free.
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