The problem isn't so much that George is perpetrating a fraud. He is suppressing the originals. Part of his "ownership" is a social contract with the rest of us. It's part of the deal he made when he got to publish the originals and get a monopoly on their copying and distribution.
George owes us a usable copy of the original. That's a 35mm print BTW.
Also, his attempt to create derivative works and call them Star Wars are fraud and should be pointed out as such and perhaps even prosecuted as such.
Quite often whining about "following the rules" when it comes to copyright tends to be entirely one sided and in favor of publishers.
Without pirates, there would be no bogeyman for Big Content to complain about. There would be no one for them to blame their corruption and legislative shenanigans on.
They are lawyers. They are specially trained to "find reason". If they have an unlimited number of "for cause" objections, then they can cherry pick the exact jury they want. Your protestation are unconvincing.
However, that's a distraction from the real question of whether or not a 150K fine/judgement for an individual non-commercial act of file sharing is consistent with our founding principles (and the constitution).
A law originally intended for commercial bootleggers has been perverted by and for corporate interests.
No. What's stupid is having a stupid little dongle instead of an integrated port. Now I have an expensive little doo dad to lose rather than just being able to depend on my main device being up to the tasks I put it to. Your post is nothing more then mental gymnastics mean to justify a particular vendor's limitations post factum.
Twist yourself however much it takes to make it seem like your pet vendor never made a mistake.
Suggesting wireless is just retarded. It's slow, unreliable, and insecure.
It's also ultimately MORE USER HOSTILE than a nice simple wired connection. You remember the user? (perhaps not)
It seems like Apple has been abused by a tyrant and forgotten who it is.
> If you want a tablet that is a PC, go and build your own fucking tablet. Who decided? The people that actually make stuff, you lazy, selfish consumer.
Let me have a copy of gcc and I will GLADLY build my own stuff.
It's funny that you are trying to call people like us "lazy" and "selfish" when we're simply interested in being able to fully control our own personal property and have no problems putting a little work into it either.
We actually understand technology and realize what we have in our hands and see no reason to be arbitrarily limited.
> These counterparts aren't included with Ubuntu or Fedora due to > patent issues in the world's biggest industrialized anglophone market. > Which counterparts are you thinking of?
The counterparts that get automatically installed the first time you try to play an h264 file.
The whole idea of "not included" just doesn't make as much sense with a Debian based distribution.
This entire area is ABANDONWARE. It's an area of the market that was originally completely neglected by the relevant "owners" before enthusiasts decided to put a lot of work into breathing new life into these works. They should all rightfully be in the public domain by now. It's only due to very recent changes to copyright law that all of these ROMs aren't just free for the taking. Beyond the abandonment of these works is the fact that it's very awkward to use them in their original context. Technology has improved in the interim. These works are still interesting culturally and historically relevant. It's just impractical to use them in their original form.
This is simply an ignored patch of land that we should all have squatters rights to already.
The actual authors have no interest in preservation of these works or making them available for purchase. They would likely all be lost if not for "evil pirates".
The idea of abandonment comes up because some of us rightly point out that this concept exists for real property. So when we see people try to conflate creative works with real property, we bring this idea into the discussion. Media moguls want all of the upside of property as a natural right but none of the possible downsides of it of course.
So things like taxes and squatting are left for the rest of us to consider.
So they couldn't get a single laptop to fully exploit a gigabit connection?
Big deal.
The last ISP commercial I saw showed a house full of devices and some kid trying to upload a school project but unable to because the aggregate network usage of everything in the house was just too much. Clearly someone in the industry realizes that you might have more than one device at home.
Perhaps if networks were better, there would be a stronger motivation to release devices that can hog a gigabit connection all by their lonesome.
I've avoided the redone versions of TOS for this very reason.
I'm not going to bother with the BluRay versions of TOS ever. The same goes for TNG.
Anymore, there's way to much temptation to tinker or "improve" things. What you end up with is something other than the original and it may or may not have the same impact being that it is something not quite the same as it was before.
Hopefully Paramount won't try to suppress the originals...
Binary Gigabyte would have been so nice and descriptive and simple and would have not looked so goofy that no one would want to ever use it.
Of course it was also far to obvious and simple. The beaurocrats that like to try and control these things can't have simple and obvious. It would make far too much sense and lessen the need for more beaurocrats.
Back when I was in school, the propaganda was always that SI units were better because they made more sense in terms of computation being simple base 10 things rather than being halves and thirds and whatnot. SI Units weren't meant to be some sort of alternate regal decree.
All of your droning on is essentially to declare that the new way of doing things is just another form of regal decree.
Forget about whether or not the units make sense, or are useful, or are convenient.
Just enforce the regal decree.
Yeah. All of the SI propaganda is just BS like any other propaganda.
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Star Wars is Star Trek without most of the pretense.
From the very beginning, you were perfectly aware of what the "DERIVATIVE" influences were and they weren't Star Trek.
Not surprisingly Shatner is just full of himself again.
So that's why Wesley Crusher was unable to get into the Academy on his first attempt.
Meanwhile, some medicore kid from the sticks (Biggs Darklighter) had absolutely no problem getting in.
Let's not forget the Bashir family.
Latter Trek really wasn't the nirvana it was cracked up to be.
> A work of art is entirely the work and creation of the artist creating it.
No it isn't. It's a derivative of the commons.
This is why US copyright is not framed as a personal property right, is supposed to be temporary, and is stated to exist for the public good.
The problem isn't so much that George is perpetrating a fraud. He is suppressing the originals. Part of his "ownership" is a social contract with the rest of us. It's part of the deal he made when he got to publish the originals and get a monopoly on their copying and distribution.
George owes us a usable copy of the original. That's a 35mm print BTW.
Also, his attempt to create derivative works and call them Star Wars are fraud and should be pointed out as such and perhaps even prosecuted as such.
Quite often whining about "following the rules" when it comes to copyright tends to be entirely one sided and in favor of publishers.
Without pirates, there would be no bogeyman for Big Content to complain about. There would be no one for them to blame their corruption and legislative shenanigans on.
Both are equally true.
As a commmander-in-chief or as a CEO, the President is ultimately responsible for those beneath him in his chain of command.
You just committed a nice self-nuke there.
They are lawyers. They are specially trained to "find reason". If they have an unlimited number of "for cause" objections, then they can cherry pick the exact jury they want. Your protestation are unconvincing.
Vor Dire is an entire sub-specialty of trial law.
There can be punitive damages in a civil case.
However, that's a distraction from the real question of whether or not a 150K fine/judgement for an individual non-commercial act of file sharing is consistent with our founding principles (and the constitution).
A law originally intended for commercial bootleggers has been perverted by and for corporate interests.
A fancy name doesn't alter the math of the situation nor time honored notice like "cruel and unusual'.
No. What's stupid is having a stupid little dongle instead of an integrated port. Now I have an expensive little doo dad to lose rather than just being able to depend on my main device being up to the tasks I put it to. Your post is nothing more then mental gymnastics mean to justify a particular vendor's limitations post factum.
Twist yourself however much it takes to make it seem like your pet vendor never made a mistake.
Suggesting wireless is just retarded. It's slow, unreliable, and insecure.
It's also ultimately MORE USER HOSTILE than a nice simple wired connection. You remember the user? (perhaps not)
It seems like Apple has been abused by a tyrant and forgotten who it is.
> If you want a tablet that is a PC, go and build your own fucking tablet. Who decided? The people that actually make stuff, you lazy, selfish consumer.
Let me have a copy of gcc and I will GLADLY build my own stuff.
It's funny that you are trying to call people like us "lazy" and "selfish" when we're simply interested in being able to fully control our own personal property and have no problems putting a little work into it either.
We actually understand technology and realize what we have in our hands and see no reason to be arbitrarily limited.
> Your 100MHz Win95 computer could not handle "web browsing" on today's internet.
Neither can a tablet.
You have to "dumb down" stuff to a level very much like what was present in 1998.
This is both to accommodate the limited hardware of the tablet and the pisspoor wireless networks you have to deal with in order to even use them.
Who needs to pay for something like Angry Birds when the web is full of Flash games?
It's not "when it was released", it's when it was "sold to you".
XP is far younger when you consider the meaningful age from the point of view of a consumer.
XP is only really as old as it's last service pack.
Flash is proprietary and cross platform. So in a perverse way it is more vendor neutral than some alternatives.
It's kind of like AACS vs PlaysForSure.
> These counterparts aren't included with Ubuntu or Fedora due to
> patent issues in the world's biggest industrialized anglophone market.
> Which counterparts are you thinking of?
The counterparts that get automatically installed the first time you try to play an h264 file.
The whole idea of "not included" just doesn't make as much sense with a Debian based distribution.
Hate speech is nothing more than speech that has been classified in a way that makes it easy to devalue.
It's much like using the same sort of racial and ethnic slurs that Nazi's employed.
Dehumanizing the person or the speech is just the first step in tyranny and oppression.
I was going to say something similar but you beat me to it.
This is yet another instance of industry shill bullshit.
A copy of a work is it's own thing. You have a right to use it under copyright law. There is no implied license associated with it.
The First Sale doctrine still applies as does standard copyright law.
This nonsense was adjudicated a VERY long time ago with books.
This entire area is ABANDONWARE. It's an area of the market that was originally completely neglected by the relevant "owners" before enthusiasts decided to put a lot of work into breathing new life into these works. They should all rightfully be in the public domain by now. It's only due to very recent changes to copyright law that all of these ROMs aren't just free for the taking. Beyond the abandonment of these works is the fact that it's very awkward to use them in their original context. Technology has improved in the interim. These works are still interesting culturally and historically relevant. It's just impractical to use them in their original form.
This is simply an ignored patch of land that we should all have squatters rights to already.
The actual authors have no interest in preservation of these works or making them available for purchase. They would likely all be lost if not for "evil pirates".
The idea of abandonment comes up because some of us rightly point out that this concept exists for real property. So when we see people try to conflate creative works with real property, we bring this idea into the discussion. Media moguls want all of the upside of property as a natural right but none of the possible downsides of it of course.
So things like taxes and squatting are left for the rest of us to consider.
So they couldn't get a single laptop to fully exploit a gigabit connection?
Big deal.
The last ISP commercial I saw showed a house full of devices and some kid trying to upload a school project but unable to because the aggregate network usage of everything in the house was just too much. Clearly someone in the industry realizes that you might have more than one device at home.
Perhaps if networks were better, there would be a stronger motivation to release devices that can hog a gigabit connection all by their lonesome.
You can't really.
I've avoided the redone versions of TOS for this very reason.
I'm not going to bother with the BluRay versions of TOS ever. The same goes for TNG.
Anymore, there's way to much temptation to tinker or "improve" things. What you end up with is something other than the original and it may or may not have the same impact being that it is something not quite the same as it was before.
Hopefully Paramount won't try to suppress the originals...
Binary Gigabyte would have been so nice and descriptive and simple and would have not looked so goofy that no one would want to ever use it.
Of course it was also far to obvious and simple. The beaurocrats that like to try and control these things can't have simple and obvious. It would make far too much sense and lessen the need for more beaurocrats.
Back when I was in school, the propaganda was always that SI units were better because they made more sense in terms of computation being simple base 10 things rather than being halves and thirds and whatnot. SI Units weren't meant to be some sort of alternate regal decree.
All of your droning on is essentially to declare that the new way of doing things is just another form of regal decree.
Forget about whether or not the units make sense, or are useful, or are convenient.
Just enforce the regal decree.
Yeah. All of the SI propaganda is just BS like any other propaganda.