> There are already good equivalents so you don't need to resolve to piracy. Depends. For the indie studios in the article perhaps. But for mainstream stuff it's hard to find movies that ad-laden DRM-encumbered crap.
You do have a point wrt the hypocrisy, but as I see it, the innovation is the product itself, not the idea. Anyone can come up with an obvious idea like multitouch but integrating it into a good product, as several companies incl Apple have done, that's what I'd call innovation. Or figuring out how to actually make it instead of just patenting the idea.
You can have multiple overlapping patents, for example MP3. Something like 13 different entities patented various overlapping chunks of MP3. The way patent extortion works here is that you have to license all the patents to avboid being sued. In general, companies pay off the top few leeching extortionists and ignore the rest for mp3, sometimes leading to suits.
This i sjust one more piece of how patents are a minefield for legitimate innovators.
The problem is that these are people used to legislating their way to a business model. They have laws to create artifical scarcity, perpetual copyright, and once ACTA passes their own private police and lawyer force on tax dollars. If they viewed it as "competition" they might have a chance.
Instead, a whole generation of children are being raised with absolutely no respect for the copywrite bullshit. I don't think this is entirely due to the MAFIAA, but they are a contributing factor. Kids look at their BS ads about how "piracy is no different from stealing a tangible good" and realize the facts just don't add up...just like my generation looked at the "smoke marihuana once and become a crack whore" ads from DARE, GREAT, etc. All those lulzy comics about the kid who downloaded a song being dragged into criminal court (technically possible under DMCA but never happened yet -- good luck proving it beyond a reasonable doubt.), it just adds to the cynicism and disillusionment. The vast majority of people just don't give a fuck, and those who do don't tend to swallow this bs.
I'm not really sure precisely where this is going, but I do have to say that the fundamental disconnect in perception here is going to make for quite the firefight. After all, the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
There are rather large darknets out there that are closed to new members. If you can get a private tracker (protocol doesn't really matter) community large enough and then close it off BEFORE you get infiltrated, you're good to go. Harder to do these days unfortunately.
OR rather this is why we should make laws and then stick to them when a case comes up. Unforutnately, it's a lot easier to push a sob story over a jury than appeal to the actual laws.
They're a serious party. Politics is all about a meeting-in-the-middle fallacy, so wackos like these guys and Stallman help make Valenti and the MAFIAA appear extremists.
300 years of American history have shown us that our first-past-the-post system isn't going to support multiple parties. The two parties are essentially coalitions, except put together by Party management rather than our interests.
It's kind of sad how blurry the line between the two parties and the Government is. And by blurry, I mean what line.
To be completely free is to be a slave to one's own temptations. Likewise, to protect the freedom of the community, restrictions are voluntarily accepted by participants. Similar to how you may want to stab people, but get together with a bunch of other people and make it illegal since you don't want to get stabbed.
That said, I personally wouldn't use the term "free" to describe the GPL. It seems to me more like a self-interested unit for the benefit of its members. If you work at a for-profit, you can generally reuse internal code for company projects. Think of this as a company for tinkerers. I'm a big fan of the GPL, but I'm not sure free is the best word choice.
Think of it like a game of chess, where you spend a long time making opening moves, a careful dance of threats and counter-threats. Then, one player sees an opportunity, and move after move occurs, piece after piece taken in rapid succession.
Personally I believe we're just watching a dance that has long ago been choreographed to its conclusion.
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> There are already good equivalents so you don't need to resolve to piracy.
Depends. For the indie studios in the article perhaps. But for mainstream stuff it's hard to find movies that ad-laden DRM-encumbered crap.
To fight terrorist porn. Or was it child terrorism?
* Do it better
* Do it in a new way
* Don't know that someone else already did it
* Integrate it better into an overall system
All I got off the top of my head.
You do have a point wrt the hypocrisy, but as I see it, the innovation is the product itself, not the idea. Anyone can come up with an obvious idea like multitouch but integrating it into a good product, as several companies incl Apple have done, that's what I'd call innovation. Or figuring out how to actually make it instead of just patenting the idea.
Eh as much as I hate IP bullshit, what precisely would America export if not IP? Food and weapons aren't going to carry us forever.
You can have multiple overlapping patents, for example MP3. Something like 13 different entities patented various overlapping chunks of MP3. The way patent extortion works here is that you have to license all the patents to avboid being sued. In general, companies pay off the top few leeching extortionists and ignore the rest for mp3, sometimes leading to suits.
This i sjust one more piece of how patents are a minefield for legitimate innovators.
...it doesn't involve granting more protections to the consumer or public interest.
The real question is how did the van catch the darknets? Seems like small and exclusive enough and you don't have much of a prayer.
That's one possible outcome and I couldn't agree more. Here's another, however: http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-double-agents-d-day-victory.htm
The problem is that these are people used to legislating their way to a business model. They have laws to create artifical scarcity, perpetual copyright, and once ACTA passes their own private police and lawyer force on tax dollars. If they viewed it as "competition" they might have a chance.
Instead, a whole generation of children are being raised with absolutely no respect for the copywrite bullshit. I don't think this is entirely due to the MAFIAA, but they are a contributing factor. Kids look at their BS ads about how "piracy is no different from stealing a tangible good" and realize the facts just don't add up...just like my generation looked at the "smoke marihuana once and become a crack whore" ads from DARE, GREAT, etc. All those lulzy comics about the kid who downloaded a song being dragged into criminal court (technically possible under DMCA but never happened yet -- good luck proving it beyond a reasonable doubt.), it just adds to the cynicism and disillusionment. The vast majority of people just don't give a fuck, and those who do don't tend to swallow this bs.
I'm not really sure precisely where this is going, but I do have to say that the fundamental disconnect in perception here is going to make for quite the firefight. After all, the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
Get a list of it? I bet half the interns are under-cover /b/tards. Can you imagine how lulzy that has the potential to be?
There are rather large darknets out there that are closed to new members. If you can get a private tracker (protocol doesn't really matter) community large enough and then close it off BEFORE you get infiltrated, you're good to go. Harder to do these days unfortunately.
OR rather this is why we should make laws and then stick to them when a case comes up. Unforutnately, it's a lot easier to push a sob story over a jury than appeal to the actual laws.
They're a serious party. Politics is all about a meeting-in-the-middle fallacy, so wackos like these guys and Stallman help make Valenti and the MAFIAA appear extremists.
If Sealand weren't common knowledge among nerden it would be a perfectly valid idle post.
Uh seriously? Can we please mention Israel without getting into a Zionists vs Hamas flame war?
I personally like the mbmp format I just patented. It's similar to mjpeg except using bitmaps instead of jpegs to improve video quality.
300 years of American history have shown us that our first-past-the-post system isn't going to support multiple parties. The two parties are essentially coalitions, except put together by Party management rather than our interests.
It's kind of sad how blurry the line between the two parties and the Government is. And by blurry, I mean what line.
Yes, when they create a proprietary extension to SVG that allows embedding smart code. Perhaps they'll call it ActiveSVG.
Actually I'm not sure if that's a EEE joke or a security problems joke.
I'll take the incinerate and telekinesis plasmids, please.
Or that any graphics intensive games will work with.
If we're going to go with this crap about "intellectual property" the consumers better get the benefits as well as the disadvantages.
*sigh* I guess we've always been at war with Eurasia.
To be completely free is to be a slave to one's own temptations. Likewise, to protect the freedom of the community, restrictions are voluntarily accepted by participants. Similar to how you may want to stab people, but get together with a bunch of other people and make it illegal since you don't want to get stabbed.
That said, I personally wouldn't use the term "free" to describe the GPL. It seems to me more like a self-interested unit for the benefit of its members. If you work at a for-profit, you can generally reuse internal code for company projects. Think of this as a company for tinkerers. I'm a big fan of the GPL, but I'm not sure free is the best word choice.
Think of it like a game of chess, where you spend a long time making opening moves, a careful dance of threats and counter-threats. Then, one player sees an opportunity, and move after move occurs, piece after piece taken in rapid succession.
Personally I believe we're just watching a dance that has long ago been choreographed to its conclusion.