I would love to be able to crowdsource donations for legal defenses. Many times copyright and patent trolls "lose" but still "win" because they've starved out the defendants with injunctions against sales and put them out of business in a mountain of legal fees.
I don't know if the United States has any room to complain when another country throws its weight around to achieve desired effects on international trade. Those who live by the sword...
They were created to encourage invention for the good of the public. Now they lean heavily toward the good of corporations instead, benefiting the public far less.
The internet is here. We can share our ideas with the human race faster than ever before, and any one of six billion people can collaborate with any other of the six billion, unlike when patents were invented and you maximum collaborators might be in the dozens.
Maybe not in sales, but the Tegra continuously lags behind many manufacturers both in performance and power consumption every generation. Nvidia's adventures in SOC Land might be profitable, but they're always the bottom of the barrel when it comes to performance.
I don't think anyone has been told who they can and can't be friends with since they were about 10. Now the government gets to decide? Alan Moore is a prophet.
You seem to be under the impression that people would be unwilling to pay money for media if the law didn't force them to do so under threat of violence and censor the internet to accomplish the same.
If nobody were required by law to pay for media, the media companies would adapt or die, just like every other business who doesn't have the government forcing people to buy their products. For example, you can get water for free or next to nothing, yet the water industry is booming.
They key is to make a convenient package and reasonable prices and people will pay for just about anything. You don't sell water; you sell convenience.
I don't disagree with you here...those words are interchangeable in my mind.
Also, purely non-loaded question that I'm asking out of genuine curiosity: Would you seed copyrighted works that are informational, like Carl Sagan's Cosmos?
Maybe this isn't the right place to ask, but I tried VLC a while back but I remember only being able to get it to put out stereo. Any VLC experts know if this works?
If people can't enforce copyright without rushing headlong into a police state, I think we should take away that privilege of copyright which society has afforded them. And this isn't some extreme slippery slope argument. We are on that slippery slope and we are sliding down it right now.
I'm sure there are defeatist pedants who will come along and say "Good luck taking it away! They're too powerful and they have too much money!", but you have to start somewhere. And having that attitude means they have one less person to fight.
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I would love to be able to crowdsource donations for legal defenses. Many times copyright and patent trolls "lose" but still "win" because they've starved out the defendants with injunctions against sales and put them out of business in a mountain of legal fees.
I think this story might be a fake. that's more children than there are in the entire world
...just like we have to pay for any other copyright enforcement actions?
I'd like to test this sometime and see if I can take someone's life, liberty, or pursuit of happiness from them.
They should just draw a picture of him in prison and consider his sentence served.
I thought that extra-judicial punishment was illegal in the US. Shows what I know.
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I don't know if the United States has any room to complain when another country throws its weight around to achieve desired effects on international trade. Those who live by the sword...
They were created to encourage invention for the good of the public. Now they lean heavily toward the good of corporations instead, benefiting the public far less.
The internet is here. We can share our ideas with the human race faster than ever before, and any one of six billion people can collaborate with any other of the six billion, unlike when patents were invented and you maximum collaborators might be in the dozens.
I think that "The Demon Haunted World" should be required reading for anyone who wants to criticize science in favor of pseudoscience.
Thanks, DHS! I have long been worried that terrorists could gamble online and somehow infringe my safety and freedom.
Really, I think we'd be happy with better laws. Even if they were more.
I have a feeling that the folks at InternetBlueprint.org have better intentions than Lamar Smith, too.
Right now, we get nothing in return for getting all our private data rummaged through by the government.
At least google gives us useful free stuff.
Maybe not in sales, but the Tegra continuously lags behind many manufacturers both in performance and power consumption every generation. Nvidia's adventures in SOC Land might be profitable, but they're always the bottom of the barrel when it comes to performance.
I don't think anyone has been told who they can and can't be friends with since they were about 10. Now the government gets to decide? Alan Moore is a prophet.
You seem to be under the impression that people would be unwilling to pay money for media if the law didn't force them to do so under threat of violence and censor the internet to accomplish the same.
If nobody were required by law to pay for media, the media companies would adapt or die, just like every other business who doesn't have the government forcing people to buy their products. For example, you can get water for free or next to nothing, yet the water industry is booming.
They key is to make a convenient package and reasonable prices and people will pay for just about anything. You don't sell water; you sell convenience.
I don't disagree with you here...those words are interchangeable in my mind.
Also, purely non-loaded question that I'm asking out of genuine curiosity: Would you seed copyrighted works that are informational, like Carl Sagan's Cosmos?
Whoops, meant to ask "Are you saying humanity doomed if we don't censor the internet and imprison people who don't pay royalties for spreading ideas?"
Are you saying humanity is doomed if we don't charge money for ideas?
Or are you saying humanity doomed if we don't censor the internet and imprison people charge money for ideas?
Or both?
Maybe this isn't the right place to ask, but I tried VLC a while back but I remember only being able to get it to put out stereo. Any VLC experts know if this works?
The FCC loves bribes. Of course Lightsquared's threat to the telecoms was going to fail. Any idiot could see that from the start.
Anyone who threatens incumbent telecoms will be demonized as puppy kickers and grandmother harassers, guaranteed.
If people can't enforce copyright without rushing headlong into a police state, I think we should take away that privilege of copyright which society has afforded them. And this isn't some extreme slippery slope argument. We are on that slippery slope and we are sliding down it right now.
I'm sure there are defeatist pedants who will come along and say "Good luck taking it away! They're too powerful and they have too much money!", but you have to start somewhere. And having that attitude means they have one less person to fight.
Maybe he should talk to Tim Schafer, Double Fine, et al. and tell all these people that they are having fun incorrectly.
Why spend so much money shipping these things to drop errant bombs on brown people when we can save the cash and do it right here at home?