Fair use isn't really the answer. The US is proof of that.
I mean, it does help a little with things like this, but as long as some interests want to control what goes on in people's homes, and try all sorts of stupid things to enforce copyright in people's homes, keeping the current level of copyright seems like a horrific plan.
Well, they aren't "asking", they are actually making a trademark claim (!!). When they have to resort to bullying before they've even gotten started, it's proof that their business model is stupid beyond belief.
As for "free speech", perhaps the definition needs changing to reflect today's realities, specifically that the government has delegated censorship to private parties to circumvent the constitution (by refusing service, as Twitter could do, or by making IP claims, as in the NYT is doing).
Welcome to "the cloud". If they don't like you they refuse service, and it's totally within their rights, even if it destroys your business or stifles your ideas. Kind of like what they did to Wikileaks. Same Amazon, same story.
Fox News showed a map of the nuclear power plants in Japan. On that map, there was a suspect nuclear plant named "Shibuya Eggman". Turns out that's the name of a nightclub in the Shibuya area of Tokyo.
Now, how is that relevant? Give the fear-mongering media a piece of footage that can be misinterpreted to induce panic, and they won't waste a minute before misrepresenting it to induce panic. Sensationalism is how they get their ratings. The people of Tokyo leaving their jobs in fear and taking to the hills is NOT what Japan's battered economy needs right now. If you ask me, we simply shouldn't read too much into the authorities' actions just yet!
Oh, really?? I thought there were a bunch of different options, except the brainwashed unwashed seem to be blind to them. Keep voting for the two main parties and the two main parties is what you get.
The summary is incredibly misleading, I think. It's not a trick, it's not a trap. Ackbar lied to you.
What's happening is, the creators of the movie (who have always planned on releasing their movie on torrent) now also have a 'hard copy' DVD release planned. The DVD release is being distributed by Paramount HE, but it still seems quite clear that the rights are held by the movie creators, not the distributors as is usually the case. This is similar with what Paley did with Sita Sings the Blues, and it's a Good Thing (TM).
If you people can now stop speculating and go support this initiative, it would be great!!
In that case, wouldn't it make a lot more sense to stop asking for more and more enforcement of copyright and start finding ways to produce more useful things locally so money doesn't need to be sent out of the country? I mean enacting draconian and unconstitutional laws is not a good or sustainable long-term solution, and it may even backfire eventually. Just sayin'.
If you voted for what seemed the lesser evil of the two main parties, and then simply went on giving your money to the large corps so they could keep on buyin', you have gotten exactly what you voted/paid for. Sorry, no vote/money back guarantee.
But I think we could draw some parallels between intellectual monopolies and slavery, if we appreciate that such monopolies have become government-sanctioned limitations on the individual's property, free speech and privacy rights. Unlike slavery, not all the individual's rights are traded away, only some of the most important ones -- and the scope of the limitations is expanding all the time, with the blessing of our highest-ranking officials no less.
Not to mention his disgraceful attacks on the internet, the very thing that arguably helped north-African countries overthrow their repressive governments...
Very interesting comment. One thing though: While in an imaginary communist fairyland all labour could be replaced by machines that work at almost zero cost of production, the raw resources being fed into this process are not infinite -- that's the real bottleneck.
Perhaps a more sensible approach to dealing with the problems this implies is not to find ways to divide the "pie" into however many pieces are necessary, but to limit the number of pieces we need to dish out. In other words, perhaps in the future it will be a good idea to limit the planet's population if we want the human race to remain sustainable -- maybe the 50% population that would be unemployed shouldn't be born so the rest can have better lives.
I'm not suggesting eugenics or cullings or anything like that. Just limiting the number of children every couple can have (like they do in China)...
The competition in the console hardware market is PUNY compared to the competition PC hardware markers are faced with. It's relatively easy to make a console and sit on your loins for the next decade or so until somebody else bothers to innovate -- as long as the console hardware is impossibly to modify, the console marker has a monopoly on hardware as well as development licenses. On the other hand, PC market competition is FIERCE, because it's an open platform -- anyone can make PC hardware, anyone can make software without paying Microsoft for a license to develop on their OS.
That's why the PC is blazing ahead of the consoles, and as long as we are in a reasonably free market, it will always stay ahead.
That the article thinks "ray tracing" is a new Intel technology, or that it thinks "cloud" rendering is something that hasn't been around for 50 years?
Is a good model library of the future. All the world's information at my fingertips, with minimal hosting costs and minimal hassle. No need for taxpayer-paid fancy facilities, flat-screen TVs and all that shit. Fix copyright length and it might just become possible!
For better or worse, Blogger is a US company. Had they sent it a DMCA notice, it would have been upheld. Of course, it's always easier to censor stuff when you have something like COICA already in place!
These numbers mean one of two things. Either devs should:
1) Allocate more resources into developing Debian because it's the most important distro, or
2) Allocate more resources into the rest because Linux may be losing its diversity.
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Fair use isn't really the answer. The US is proof of that.
I mean, it does help a little with things like this, but as long as some interests want to control what goes on in people's homes, and try all sorts of stupid things to enforce copyright in people's homes, keeping the current level of copyright seems like a horrific plan.
One also has to wonder why the ISPs haven't done that yet.
How so? It's an insanely stupid business model if they need to bring out the lawyers to stop people retweeting!
Well, they aren't "asking", they are actually making a trademark claim (!!). When they have to resort to bullying before they've even gotten started, it's proof that their business model is stupid beyond belief.
As for "free speech", perhaps the definition needs changing to reflect today's realities, specifically that the government has delegated censorship to private parties to circumvent the constitution (by refusing service, as Twitter could do, or by making IP claims, as in the NYT is doing).
Who cares? Throw them out the window! Forcing people to accept a stupid corporation's stupid business model is all that matters!
Welcome to "the cloud". If they don't like you they refuse service, and it's totally within their rights, even if it destroys your business or stifles your ideas. Kind of like what they did to Wikileaks. Same Amazon, same story.
Fox News showed a map of the nuclear power plants in Japan. On that map, there was a suspect nuclear plant named "Shibuya Eggman". Turns out that's the name of a nightclub in the Shibuya area of Tokyo.
Now, how is that relevant? Give the fear-mongering media a piece of footage that can be misinterpreted to induce panic, and they won't waste a minute before misrepresenting it to induce panic. Sensationalism is how they get their ratings. The people of Tokyo leaving their jobs in fear and taking to the hills is NOT what Japan's battered economy needs right now. If you ask me, we simply shouldn't read too much into the authorities' actions just yet!
Acknowledged. I wish more people did that.
Oh, really?? I thought there were a bunch of different options, except the brainwashed unwashed seem to be blind to them. Keep voting for the two main parties and the two main parties is what you get.
The summary is incredibly misleading, I think. It's not a trick, it's not a trap. Ackbar lied to you.
What's happening is, the creators of the movie (who have always planned on releasing their movie on torrent) now also have a 'hard copy' DVD release planned. The DVD release is being distributed by Paramount HE, but it still seems quite clear that the rights are held by the movie creators, not the distributors as is usually the case. This is similar with what Paley did with Sita Sings the Blues, and it's a Good Thing (TM).
If you people can now stop speculating and go support this initiative, it would be great!!
In that case, wouldn't it make a lot more sense to stop asking for more and more enforcement of copyright and start finding ways to produce more useful things locally so money doesn't need to be sent out of the country? I mean enacting draconian and unconstitutional laws is not a good or sustainable long-term solution, and it may even backfire eventually. Just sayin'.
If you voted for what seemed the lesser evil of the two main parties, and then simply went on giving your money to the large corps so they could keep on buyin', you have gotten exactly what you voted/paid for. Sorry, no vote/money back guarantee.
But I think we could draw some parallels between intellectual monopolies and slavery, if we appreciate that such monopolies have become government-sanctioned limitations on the individual's property, free speech and privacy rights. Unlike slavery, not all the individual's rights are traded away, only some of the most important ones -- and the scope of the limitations is expanding all the time, with the blessing of our highest-ranking officials no less.
Not to mention his disgraceful attacks on the internet, the very thing that arguably helped north-African countries overthrow their repressive governments...
Very interesting comment. One thing though: While in an imaginary communist fairyland all labour could be replaced by machines that work at almost zero cost of production, the raw resources being fed into this process are not infinite -- that's the real bottleneck.
Perhaps a more sensible approach to dealing with the problems this implies is not to find ways to divide the "pie" into however many pieces are necessary, but to limit the number of pieces we need to dish out. In other words, perhaps in the future it will be a good idea to limit the planet's population if we want the human race to remain sustainable -- maybe the 50% population that would be unemployed shouldn't be born so the rest can have better lives.
I'm not suggesting eugenics or cullings or anything like that. Just limiting the number of children every couple can have (like they do in China)...
The competition in the console hardware market is PUNY compared to the competition PC hardware markers are faced with. It's relatively easy to make a console and sit on your loins for the next decade or so until somebody else bothers to innovate -- as long as the console hardware is impossibly to modify, the console marker has a monopoly on hardware as well as development licenses. On the other hand, PC market competition is FIERCE, because it's an open platform -- anyone can make PC hardware, anyone can make software without paying Microsoft for a license to develop on their OS.
That's why the PC is blazing ahead of the consoles, and as long as we are in a reasonably free market, it will always stay ahead.
That the article thinks "ray tracing" is a new Intel technology, or that it thinks "cloud" rendering is something that hasn't been around for 50 years?
Is a good model library of the future. All the world's information at my fingertips, with minimal hosting costs and minimal hassle. No need for taxpayer-paid fancy facilities, flat-screen TVs and all that shit. Fix copyright length and it might just become possible!
Maybe it's the X-men character...
We have a cave troll!!!
For better or worse, Blogger is a US company. Had they sent it a DMCA notice, it would have been upheld. Of course, it's always easier to censor stuff when you have something like COICA already in place!
We are no longer friends. ;)
They're Dicks.
Sorry, OP was asking for it.
Nor is it a line.
Yes.
These numbers mean one of two things. Either devs should:
1) Allocate more resources into developing Debian because it's the most important distro, or
2) Allocate more resources into the rest because Linux may be losing its diversity.
It helps to know where you're going...