Also, this will be the MAFAA's point of contention. Everyman's "fair use" is the MAFIAA's "copytheft". Hence, that $$$ these companies are deriving from fair use rightfully belongs in the MAFAA's coffers.
It's not enough to argue that fair use is important because it generates value in the economy. We have to argue that fair use is indeed fair, and that certain provisions in copyright law are unfair, ridiculous, unenforceable, and impose an undue burden on all of us.
Possession is 9/10ths of the law. There's no way they should be able to arrest Gizmondo's journalists for receiving stolen property. If the story has changed from "iPhone4 was lost at a bar, found, and sold to Gizmondo" to "iPhone4 was stolen from a guy at a bar and sold to Gizmondo", how exactly is Gizmondo able to verify that it was stolen? Assuming the reporter was acting on good faith, and not in on the alleged theft. If they have any evidence of that, how'd it surface? Illegal wiretapping, hacked email, intercepted SMS?
simple as that. Only by refusing to buy DRM laden product will we win.
Not if a whole shit-ton of people who don't care go out and buy it anyway. The only way we can win is if Sony starts noticing a drop in sales. Which, predictably, they'll attribute to piracy... and crank up the DRM even more. So, basically we all win if we sit around and make up our own games and play with each other for free.
Looking back at it, I'm not so sure that the PC wars were really about Apple vs. Microsoft, so much as they were about open hardware vs. closed hardware. Microsoft won in the 80's and 90's not because they had a superior OS, but because it ran on commodity hardware that you could buy from anyone for cheaper than you could buy a Mac from Apple.
I think viewing it in that way yields genuine insight. Open hardware won the first PC wars. Open software is going to win the second PC wars.
Well, it will any year-of-the-desktop now. But even if Linux never dominates on the desktop, FOSS has forced companies to change the way they do business, for the better. (Unfortunately a lot of companies still do a lot of bad stuff. *cough*Apple*cough*)
. I don't need Google using yet another algorithm to fail at finding useful information - just employ 100 people spending 8 hours a day tagging the clone/spam/pricecheck/etc sites if you actually want to make a difference.
I think that would be giving too much power and responsibility to a tiny number of people who have no accountability to anyone except google.
But a better idea might be to allow the user to interact with the search results page, moderating the results and flagging results that weren't helpful.
With the proliferation of multi-core CPUs and GPU clustering, I wonder how long until VMs simply become entirely separate physical systems sitting on your motherboard.
Yeah, I bet we could really accelerate the performance of these virtual systems if we could run them on dedicated hardware.
I still credit the training I received for playing long hours of Night Driver with saving my life in 1981. I was cresting a hill late at night on a two-lane country road when I was suddenly faced with an oncoming car in my lane. Using the exact same right-left swerve that I practiced so many times in the video game, I avoided a head-on collision by hitting the shoulder just in time, and got off the shoulder before sliding down the ditch.
The real question should be "Would I have still missed him had I not played so much Night Driver?" There's no way to answer that, of course, but for now I'll stick with the "my anecdotal evidence runs counter to your theory" attitude.
Yes, but generally speaking, what google links to is being hosted on servers which have the copyright holder's permission to host and distribute the material. Obviously, not 100% of what google indexes is content hosted by the copyright holder, but it's not 99% infringing, either.
It's a pity they never made any sequels to that movie. It was really fantastic.
Matrix 2: A complete re-telling of the first story, this time told as a documentary with dramatic re-enactments, produced by a mainstream media infopinionewstainment law enforcement/most wanted show, colluding with the government of the Matrix world. Morpheus and Neo demonized and shown to be degenerate, immoral, psychopaths, and terrorists. By allegory this would show what our own culture does to radicals. The film ends with Neo being captured, the cliffhanger being his arraignment. Albino milli vanilli twins are conspicuously absent, and there is no goth night club anywhere.
Matrix 3: The trial of Neo. Rather than using kung fu, he has to use legal fu to get out of his predicament. The trial is mostly a show trial, the charges are bogus, well, ok the charges are legitimate but the order that Neo was trying to bring down was anything but... and somehow Neo's got to be able to take the stand in order to expose the truth of what the Matrix is to the virtual public.
That would have made the trilogy completely awesome.
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Also, this will be the MAFAA's point of contention. Everyman's "fair use" is the MAFIAA's "copytheft". Hence, that $$$ these companies are deriving from fair use rightfully belongs in the MAFAA's coffers.
It's not enough to argue that fair use is important because it generates value in the economy. We have to argue that fair use is indeed fair, and that certain provisions in copyright law are unfair, ridiculous, unenforceable, and impose an undue burden on all of us.
Possession is 9/10ths of the law. There's no way they should be able to arrest Gizmondo's journalists for receiving stolen property. If the story has changed from "iPhone4 was lost at a bar, found, and sold to Gizmondo" to "iPhone4 was stolen from a guy at a bar and sold to Gizmondo", how exactly is Gizmondo able to verify that it was stolen? Assuming the reporter was acting on good faith, and not in on the alleged theft. If they have any evidence of that, how'd it surface? Illegal wiretapping, hacked email, intercepted SMS?
You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
You are in a maze of twisty passages, all different.
"Which, predictably, they'll attribute to piracy..."
Which would be incredibly stupid on their part,
So, then, it's virtually assured that Sony will indeed attribute a dip in sales to piracy.
simple as that. Only by refusing to buy DRM laden product will we win.
Not if a whole shit-ton of people who don't care go out and buy it anyway. The only way we can win is if Sony starts noticing a drop in sales. Which, predictably, they'll attribute to piracy... and crank up the DRM even more. So, basically we all win if we sit around and make up our own games and play with each other for free.
As soon as someone jailbreaks the DRM on it, which should be in 5... 4... 3... 2...
Had Apple won the PC wars,
Looking back at it, I'm not so sure that the PC wars were really about Apple vs. Microsoft, so much as they were about open hardware vs. closed hardware. Microsoft won in the 80's and 90's not because they had a superior OS, but because it ran on commodity hardware that you could buy from anyone for cheaper than you could buy a Mac from Apple.
I think viewing it in that way yields genuine insight. Open hardware won the first PC wars. Open software is going to win the second PC wars.
Well, it will any year-of-the-desktop now. But even if Linux never dominates on the desktop, FOSS has forced companies to change the way they do business, for the better. (Unfortunately a lot of companies still do a lot of bad stuff. *cough*Apple*cough*)
This sucks Cox.
When Hitler finds out that YouTube has taken down all the Downfall parody videos, he's gonna be hella pissed!
Well the updates applied successfully, so I guess I'm rootkit free.
I think that there are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of hackers. Maybe even millions.
CHUDs?
Some of us are still suffering from it.
And a few of us are enjoying it.
Opt me out on this one. I don't need anyone monitoring me 24x7.
I'm putting my Library of Congress stock recommendation to STRONG SELL.
This is going to be my next my password.
Paying $4000 for a thousand gigabytes is not so bad. Some of us have worked on:
DEC DF-32: 32K 12-bit words for around $5000 (1971)
DEC RKO5- 2.5 megabytes for $10,000 ( 1973 )
Mac HD-20: 20 megabytes for $1000 ( 1985 )
All those were like, 1000x or more per byte. AND WE WERE PERFECTLY HAPPY. (Well, a little cramped on the DF32)
Wow. I will be getting of your lawn now, sir.
. I don't need Google using yet another algorithm to fail at finding useful information - just employ 100 people spending 8 hours a day tagging the clone/spam/pricecheck/etc sites if you actually want to make a difference.
I think that would be giving too much power and responsibility to a tiny number of people who have no accountability to anyone except google.
But a better idea might be to allow the user to interact with the search results page, moderating the results and flagging results that weren't helpful.
With the proliferation of multi-core CPUs and GPU clustering, I wonder how long until VMs simply become entirely separate physical systems sitting on your motherboard.
Yeah, I bet we could really accelerate the performance of these virtual systems if we could run them on dedicated hardware.
I still credit the training I received for playing long hours of Night Driver with saving my life in 1981. I was cresting a hill late at night on a two-lane country road when I was suddenly faced with an oncoming car in my lane. Using the exact same right-left swerve that I practiced so many times in the video game, I avoided a head-on collision by hitting the shoulder just in time, and got off the shoulder before sliding down the ditch.
The real question should be "Would I have still missed him had I not played so much Night Driver?" There's no way to answer that, of course, but for now I'll stick with the "my anecdotal evidence runs counter to your theory" attitude.
I don't remember Night Driver being third-person.
The chances are either 0 or 1. We just don't know which it is.
Yes, but generally speaking, what google links to is being hosted on servers which have the copyright holder's permission to host and distribute the material. Obviously, not 100% of what google indexes is content hosted by the copyright holder, but it's not 99% infringing, either.
Do you always refer to yourself with the royal "we"?
He's referring to himself, the laptop, his tapeworms, and the infected PDF .
It's a pity they never made any sequels to that movie.
It was really fantastic.
Matrix 2: A complete re-telling of the first story, this time told as a documentary with dramatic re-enactments, produced by a mainstream media infopinionewstainment law enforcement/most wanted show, colluding with the government of the Matrix world. Morpheus and Neo demonized and shown to be degenerate, immoral, psychopaths, and terrorists. By allegory this would show what our own culture does to radicals. The film ends with Neo being captured, the cliffhanger being his arraignment. Albino milli vanilli twins are conspicuously absent, and there is no goth night club anywhere.
Matrix 3: The trial of Neo. Rather than using kung fu, he has to use legal fu to get out of his predicament. The trial is mostly a show trial, the charges are bogus, well, ok the charges are legitimate but the order that Neo was trying to bring down was anything but... and somehow Neo's got to be able to take the stand in order to expose the truth of what the Matrix is to the virtual public.
That would have made the trilogy completely awesome.
Say your name is the one your Comcast account is under, but someone else such as a neighbor leeching on your wireless network ...
They'll probably nail you for negligence, somehow.