That said, trolls operate under a bunch of different business models and with a number of overlapping motivations, including the motivation of excluding or taxing small competitors who need to implement standards. Moreover, anyone who tries to create a patent pool that supposedly covers OGG, VP8 etc just as they are released as royalty-free totally deserves that description, if you ask me.
The MPEG LA is *NOT* affiliated with the MPEG committee. They are a separate *COMPANY* that puts together patent pools for MPEG standards -- basically they are a bunch of parasite lawyers living off software patents, at least in my opinion.
Or, to crowdsource the rating paragraphs or sections according to noteworthiness, which users can then interactively hide or display like we do with Slashdot comments...
Of course moderation will become a nightmare, but that's what you get for wanting it all.
the enemies gained operable knowledge they otherwise wouldn't have
Yes, they now know that --hold on to your seats, everybody-- Sarkozy is the emperor with no clothes and that Gaddafi lives like an emperor and is always accompanied by a voluptuous Russian nurse!!!!!!!!11!1
That's true, but do their conclusions sound wrong to you? Of course more people are learning to use the net to watch movies and download music (legally and illegally), that's normal, isn't it? Eventually, the majority of people will be doing that, I think, unless limits are imposed on the market (e.g. some anti-competitive, fucked up notion of 'net neutrality', metered billing or what have you, that ISPs lobbied for to limit the need for infrastructure investment).
It seems mighty obvious that SCO's lawsuits aimed to drain Open Source company and community resources, and to spread FUD about the IP status of Open Source code. SCO knew all along that there was no way it could win, as even their own experts were telling them so, yet they went on for years and years fighting a fight that couldn't be won. That goes against the basic formula of a copyright/patent troll, because in those cases the driving motivator is profit, and lack thereof means there's no point to keep going.
As SCO's first lawsuit was against Microsoft, who immediately settled for millions, my tinfoil headgear is picking up some very suspicious signals...
Ah, the magnum opus of the great comedic minds of Franklin, Washington, Jefferson et al. Spoiler alert: The words "limited time" were of course added for ironic effect, as they were a reference to "forever minus a day".
After limited times, meaning a short amount of time, the duration of the copyright expires, and new works can be made based on the old work. This is how copyright avoids stifling new works -- old works' copyright expires. This promotes progress in the arts and sciences because there is now not much (if any) profit in rehashing old works.
"Modern" copyright came over a hundred years after Shakespeare's death with the Statute of Anne. The "copy rights" you see there were most likely the "queen's licensing rights" that functioned as a form of censorship of what could be printed by the publishers.
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In corporate America, music is killing you!!!
Does that mean Megan Fox will be Sarah Connor?? Humanity is doomed!
That said, trolls operate under a bunch of different business models and with a number of overlapping motivations, including the motivation of excluding or taxing small competitors who need to implement standards. Moreover, anyone who tries to create a patent pool that supposedly covers OGG, VP8 etc just as they are released as royalty-free totally deserves that description, if you ask me.
The MPEG LA is *NOT* affiliated with the MPEG committee. They are a separate *COMPANY* that puts together patent pools for MPEG standards -- basically they are a bunch of parasite lawyers living off software patents, at least in my opinion.
For the illegal wiretappings, they were fined were $200. How much will it be this time?
Haha, how appropriate!
Or, to crowdsource the rating paragraphs or sections according to noteworthiness, which users can then interactively hide or display like we do with Slashdot comments...
Of course moderation will become a nightmare, but that's what you get for wanting it all.
the enemies gained operable knowledge they otherwise wouldn't have
Yes, they now know that --hold on to your seats, everybody-- Sarkozy is the emperor with no clothes and that Gaddafi lives like an emperor and is always accompanied by a voluptuous Russian nurse!!!!!!!!11!1
Is that your way of saying you disagree, or of showing you have no arguments and can't hold a debate?
Creepy and illegal and unethical.
That's true, but do their conclusions sound wrong to you? Of course more people are learning to use the net to watch movies and download music (legally and illegally), that's normal, isn't it? Eventually, the majority of people will be doing that, I think, unless limits are imposed on the market (e.g. some anti-competitive, fucked up notion of 'net neutrality', metered billing or what have you, that ISPs lobbied for to limit the need for infrastructure investment).
It seems mighty obvious that SCO's lawsuits aimed to drain Open Source company and community resources, and to spread FUD about the IP status of Open Source code. SCO knew all along that there was no way it could win, as even their own experts were telling them so, yet they went on for years and years fighting a fight that couldn't be won. That goes against the basic formula of a copyright/patent troll, because in those cases the driving motivator is profit, and lack thereof means there's no point to keep going.
As SCO's first lawsuit was against Microsoft, who immediately settled for millions, my tinfoil headgear is picking up some very suspicious signals...
He's not a terrorist. Merely Rabellino.
They're hardly being ignored here on Slashdot. Probably even Microsoft's blog doesn't post such a binge of Microsoft PR material...
Because it must be.
It possessed Dr. Fred!!
They're just discovering outsourcing.
Sony?
User satisfaction renders your flamebait irrelevant.
Now all the other kids are making fun of me!
Ah, the magnum opus of the great comedic minds of Franklin, Washington, Jefferson et al. Spoiler alert: The words "limited time" were of course added for ironic effect, as they were a reference to "forever minus a day".
After limited times, meaning a short amount of time, the duration of the copyright expires, and new works can be made based on the old work. This is how copyright avoids stifling new works -- old works' copyright expires. This promotes progress in the arts and sciences because there is now not much (if any) profit in rehashing old works.
Is that fantasy or sci-fi?
No! Video games kill people!
"Modern" copyright came over a hundred years after Shakespeare's death with the Statute of Anne. The "copy rights" you see there were most likely the "queen's licensing rights" that functioned as a form of censorship of what could be printed by the publishers.
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