copyright can't serve a purpose here. It's black and white in the constitution.
That being said, professors are just as much to blame here as the publishers.
While taking undergrad courses in the past 3 years, every semester, I have a professor who orders the most recent textbook which always costs around $120. Seriously? $120? That's just not cool. Profiting on the backs of college students is way not cool. The textbook should be free for registered college students.
besides, when you say that the even horizon is very small, uhh, something is going to be there unless they're doing this in a vacuum. and even then, isn't something still going to be there?
and when a black hole eats something doesn't it grow?
1st, toyota already has 3d models of its vehicles because they FUCKING DESIGNED THEM! 2nd, meshwerx could have just employed workers skilled enough to make duplicates from photos. 3rd, even if they had used photos, the copyrights would be nil because it's a derivative work of a copyrighted photo. 4th, meshwerx is pretty stupid to think they they owned the 3d mesh of a vehicle they didn't design. 5th, they should have sued for breach of contract, if it was a breach of contract. 6th, and finally, the headline is not applicable in this instance because the models were derivative, not original work.
game developers have nothing to worry about, their assets are still copyrighted. Except for majestic studios of course, they're screwed.
completely agreed. If you bought the physical copy of the book, then bundling a download for a PDF is a negligible cost for them. They already have the infrastructure for selling ebooks. Why not provide one with a physical copy?
right, there are exceptions. But I don't see anyone under 50 or native. Even the over 50 and foreigners aren't buying new mainstream music though. That's my point. Can you honestly say that you go to the store to buy new release CDs? Are you buying these CDs by Akon or Death Cab for Cutie? Most aren't and that's my point. The music industry shouldn't be relying on sales in a format that most of their customers can't even play. How many kids under 20 do you know that own a CD player not in their car? How many own an ipod or similar? you are either a collector of outdated CDs or you are an idiot. The album art comes with a download purchase these days. now you can say there isn't a good enough selection, but that goes back to my original point. The content providers, in this case, the RIAA, refuses to provide the supply to meet demand. Instead, they insist that people still buy CDs. I haven't owned a portable CD player in over ten years. How about you?
They refuse to adapt their business model to the changing market.
the RIAA knows it is violating the law and tricking judges into believing their bullshit.
If someone steals a pizza and gives you a slice, does that mean you were going to buy a slice or even a whole pizza?
No, that's not a loss to the pizza joint. Only the original pizza is the loss. While we know pizzas can't replicate, it still bears resemblance.
Are you breaking the law by accepting a free slice from a stranger? I can't say you are. You may be playing gastronomical roulette, but not breaking the law.
Even if the pizza could replicate, accepting a free copy slice still isn't breaking the law. You're not initiating the replication. So, it's easy to see how the RIAA could make the false claims that their merchandise trickling downstream is a loss. They are, however ignoring the simple fact that there is no reliable way to determine how many recipients of said merch were potential customers. Probably a lot smaller amount than you think.
How many people buy the product after eating a free sample at the grocery store? They still give away free samples to increase the chances of purchase.
If the RIAA and MPAA want to truly stop piracy, the first thing they need to do is secure their supply chain. The second thing is, stop releasing r5 DVDs in asia before theatrical releases. And third, adapt their business model to the changing market. The only two CDs I've bought in the past 15 years have both been new releases by Paul McCartney. Buying mainstream music doesn't support artists. Since I don't listen to mainstream music, I don't have much to worry about.
The CD is a dead format. The DVD will be dead in less than 10 years.
The industry would rather lobby congress to pass laws to protect their revenues than adapt their business model to the changing market.
CD's are a niche product these days. When I go to the mall, I pass through FYE on the way to the movie theater. The only people I see buying CDs are over 50 or foreigners. Bands should give their music away for free in mp3 format, still sell a physical CD made in small batches for a price, and charge advertisers for reaching their audience. Ad supported music seems silly, but it's highly targeted and you know your demographic.
caching so called "legal p2p content" regionally is supposed to alleviate the web traffic crunch?
How about not throttling my HTTP streams you douchebag comcast?
I'm downloading my revision3 shows and some porn at the same time and all of a sudden, I can't load google?
try caching web content regionally. Oh wait, that's a stupid idea also.
their plan here is to say, ok you can legally download all of this content from local p2p servers. Anyone not using our servers is downloading illegally. At that point, it's no longer p2p. And, when you start altering p2p streams, who is then liable for downloading anything? I didn't download anything, they changed the stream in route.
I'm the last one to quote my own grandmother here, but the Internet is keeping people occupied so they don't wake up and realize what's going on in their own country. France may be in for a heap of trouble from those who can't access the Internet. Idle hands on the Internet do no work.
there's not only screen shots, there are identical 3d meshes. identical environments straight down to stuff that shouldn't even be in LOtL.
this was definitely a team effort. You can't expect that one guy made the whole game.
and someone's getting their ass sued. TriSynergy is going to try and get as far away from this as possible.
I think TriSynergy should be sued for attemping to release a game that looks like a failed tech demo. Their trailers look as if QA was asleep at the wheel.
Just horrible horrible work. Majestic Studios should prepare to clean out their offices. They cannot recover from this unless they pull a FFB.
Ah yes, the Fast Florida Business. So coined due to how con men open up an LLC and bilk investors for a few months to a year and then disolve and open shop under a new name.
Most of the time, they produce shoddily thrown together work like this just to prove they have a product. I've seen in like 20 times in the past 10 years.
by the time that oil actually flows to market, it simply won't be enough to meet global demand which is already increasing at a rate of over 8% in china alone.
did you take economics?
It won't really affect the price of a barrel of oil by anything measurable.
And, the possible effects on the South Florida ecosystem are catastrophic.
one spill could destroy South Florida's drinking water and kill off marine life in the straits of Florida.
When this affects you, living in South Florida, then I'll consider your point of view.
sure, you could track down the owner, but it's in your best interest to just keep it.
This just proves how out of touch the old man is.
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Not to harp on semantics, he just recently said oil was $4 per BARREL. Then caught himself and joked about the "good old days".
If you want McCain as president, you're not considering the truth, or you're incapable of thinking for yourself.
He wants them to open Florida's west coast to offshore drilling. This won't have an effect on gas prices.
Since Florida governor Charlie Crist is being considered for VP, he did a 180 against the interests of his own state and supported McCain's plan.
It will only take one spill to destroy the everglades entirely. Before you go on about "we don't need the everglades", it's the source of fresh water for the entire Southern part of the state.
This is just out of touch with reality. No one will actually benefit from this except the oil companies.
yep, just don't vote for John McCain. Nothing he is, is what we need.
first is, your kid is not a genius. (chances are he's above average, but that's it.)
second, no child left behind should be called every child left behind. That's what it does. It makes the whole classroom work at the dummy's pace. while they try to put all high achievers in the same class, they also place low achievers and ESE or special needs kids in the same classes with no teacher's aides.
so the whole class works at the slow kids' pace.
the whole system is just ass backwards. Schools funding is based on their overall test scores. lower scoring schools get less money. Teachers get a monetary bonus if their school scores high. This has led to taking measures to ensure the school doesn't count low test scores.
We have principals of elementary schools cutting out being a kid in favor of the bottom line. In my wife's classroom, there is one day of science per year, if its not canceled. There is rarely any social studies if ever. The kids don't watch movies or sing any more. They also don't have parties like we did. They were promised a party at the end of the year, which the principal canceled the day before. (after waiting the whole year). They also don't go on field trips any more.
These kids are supposedly learning only three things. Reading, writing, and basic math. They actually have kindergarteners learning to read and write now. while that's not an entirely bad idea, it completely removes the purpose for kindergarten. (that's where you're supposed to learn most of your social skills.)
Yep, you'd be nuts to let your kid go to public school like this. In Florida, the FCAT test has surpassed everything else in terms of priorities. They spend the entire year prepping to pass a test instead of learning curriculum.
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agreed entirely.
copyright can't serve a purpose here. It's black and white in the constitution.
That being said, professors are just as much to blame here as the publishers.
While taking undergrad courses in the past 3 years, every semester, I have a professor who orders the most recent textbook which always costs around $120. Seriously? $120? That's just not cool. Profiting on the backs of college students is way not cool. The textbook should be free for registered college students.
Profit from advertisement in the book.
This is probably the dumbest fucking law ever. It was passed by the dumbest people on the planet.
Nothing good ever came out of Texas.
Now we're going to have private investigators fucking up people's computers and getting their asses sued for being entirely incompetent.
Let them eat the cake they've made. When all the computers in Texas stop working and no one can legally fix them, let them all fucking eat their cake.
it's faceless monster created to give us a common enemy.
it doesn't exist.
so does that mean we're all screwed or not?
besides, when you say that the even horizon is very small, uhh, something is going to be there unless they're doing this in a vacuum. and even then, isn't something still going to be there?
and when a black hole eats something doesn't it grow?
the NSA has had access since windows 98.
Bwahahahahaha.
Thanks George for all the laughs.
make sure to ask Jesus for the big porkchop.
aren't black holes those anomalies which have such a strong gravitational pull they suck everything in including light?
The earth doesn't move as fast as light.
black holes != safe.
I never said Portishead wasn't successful, in fact I'm a huge fan. I merely said, they're not mainstream. They never were.
SANDPAPER!
fail!
You would be a collector of outdated CDs, like I said.
But you're also an idiot for thinking that I don't know what quality CDs are made in or what DRM is.
you don't represent the mainstream customer. You should wake up and realize that.
The mainstream customer wants to listen to music and the CD is an obstacle for them.
you're further enforcing my point.
Portishead is not quite "my morning jacket".
Portishead has had a dedicated following since the mid 1990's, when we all had portable CD players.
again, further enforcing my point. You're not burning copies of the CD are you?
You're not good at thinking, huh?
here's how this is utterly stupid in many ways:
1st, toyota already has 3d models of its vehicles because they FUCKING DESIGNED THEM!
2nd, meshwerx could have just employed workers skilled enough to make duplicates from photos.
3rd, even if they had used photos, the copyrights would be nil because it's a derivative work of a copyrighted photo.
4th, meshwerx is pretty stupid to think they they owned the 3d mesh of a vehicle they didn't design.
5th, they should have sued for breach of contract, if it was a breach of contract.
6th, and finally, the headline is not applicable in this instance because the models were derivative, not original work.
game developers have nothing to worry about, their assets are still copyrighted. Except for majestic studios of course, they're screwed.
completely agreed. If you bought the physical copy of the book, then bundling a download for a PDF is a negligible cost for them. They already have the infrastructure for selling ebooks. Why not provide one with a physical copy?
right, there are exceptions. But I don't see anyone under 50 or native. Even the over 50 and foreigners aren't buying new mainstream music though. That's my point. Can you honestly say that you go to the store to buy new release CDs? Are you buying these CDs by Akon or Death Cab for Cutie? Most aren't and that's my point. The music industry shouldn't be relying on sales in a format that most of their customers can't even play. How many kids under 20 do you know that own a CD player not in their car? How many own an ipod or similar? you are either a collector of outdated CDs or you are an idiot. The album art comes with a download purchase these days. now you can say there isn't a good enough selection, but that goes back to my original point. The content providers, in this case, the RIAA, refuses to provide the supply to meet demand. Instead, they insist that people still buy CDs. I haven't owned a portable CD player in over ten years. How about you?
They refuse to adapt their business model to the changing market.
the RIAA knows it is violating the law and tricking judges into believing their bullshit.
If someone steals a pizza and gives you a slice, does that mean you were going to buy a slice or even a whole pizza?
No, that's not a loss to the pizza joint. Only the original pizza is the loss. While we know pizzas can't replicate, it still bears resemblance.
Are you breaking the law by accepting a free slice from a stranger? I can't say you are. You may be playing gastronomical roulette, but not breaking the law.
Even if the pizza could replicate, accepting a free copy slice still isn't breaking the law. You're not initiating the replication. So, it's easy to see how the RIAA could make the false claims that their merchandise trickling downstream is a loss. They are, however ignoring the simple fact that there is no reliable way to determine how many recipients of said merch were potential customers. Probably a lot smaller amount than you think.
How many people buy the product after eating a free sample at the grocery store? They still give away free samples to increase the chances of purchase.
If the RIAA and MPAA want to truly stop piracy, the first thing they need to do is secure their supply chain. The second thing is, stop releasing r5 DVDs in asia before theatrical releases. And third, adapt their business model to the changing market. The only two CDs I've bought in the past 15 years have both been new releases by Paul McCartney. Buying mainstream music doesn't support artists. Since I don't listen to mainstream music, I don't have much to worry about.
The CD is a dead format. The DVD will be dead in less than 10 years.
The industry would rather lobby congress to pass laws to protect their revenues than adapt their business model to the changing market.
CD's are a niche product these days. When I go to the mall, I pass through FYE on the way to the movie theater. The only people I see buying CDs are over 50 or foreigners. Bands should give their music away for free in mp3 format, still sell a physical CD made in small batches for a price, and charge advertisers for reaching their audience. Ad supported music seems silly, but it's highly targeted and you know your demographic.
There I just solved the music business model.
caching so called "legal p2p content" regionally is supposed to alleviate the web traffic crunch?
How about not throttling my HTTP streams you douchebag comcast?
I'm downloading my revision3 shows and some porn at the same time and all of a sudden, I can't load google?
try caching web content regionally. Oh wait, that's a stupid idea also.
their plan here is to say, ok you can legally download all of this content from local p2p servers. Anyone not using our servers is downloading illegally.
At that point, it's no longer p2p. And, when you start altering p2p streams, who is then liable for downloading anything? I didn't download anything, they changed the stream in route.
I'm the last one to quote my own grandmother here, but the Internet is keeping people occupied so they don't wake up and realize what's going on in their own country. France may be in for a heap of trouble from those who can't access the Internet. Idle hands on the Internet do no work.
oh, how mistaken you are.
there's not only screen shots, there are identical 3d meshes. identical environments straight down to stuff that shouldn't even be in LOtL.
this was definitely a team effort. You can't expect that one guy made the whole game.
and someone's getting their ass sued. TriSynergy is going to try and get as far away from this as possible.
I think TriSynergy should be sued for attemping to release a game that looks like a failed tech demo. Their trailers look as if QA was asleep at the wheel.
Just horrible horrible work. Majestic Studios should prepare to clean out their offices. They cannot recover from this unless they pull a FFB.
Ah yes, the Fast Florida Business. So coined due to how con men open up an LLC and bilk investors for a few months to a year and then disolve and open shop under a new name.
Most of the time, they produce shoddily thrown together work like this just to prove they have a product. I've seen in like 20 times in the past 10 years.
tsk tsk Mr. Conifer. You don't have leaves.
by the time that oil actually flows to market, it simply won't be enough to meet global demand which is already increasing at a rate of over 8% in china alone.
did you take economics?
It won't really affect the price of a barrel of oil by anything measurable.
And, the possible effects on the South Florida ecosystem are catastrophic.
one spill could destroy South Florida's drinking water and kill off marine life in the straits of Florida.
When this affects you, living in South Florida, then I'll consider your point of view.
If you're responsible for the integrity of the system, why not make sure your colleagues aren't misusing or harming the system.
it's like finding money in a parking lot.
sure, you could track down the owner, but it's in your best interest to just keep it.
Not to harp on semantics, he just recently said oil was $4 per BARREL. Then caught himself and joked about the "good old days".
If you want McCain as president, you're not considering the truth, or you're incapable of thinking for yourself.
He wants them to open Florida's west coast to offshore drilling. This won't have an effect on gas prices.
Since Florida governor Charlie Crist is being considered for VP, he did a 180 against the interests of his own state and supported McCain's plan.
It will only take one spill to destroy the everglades entirely. Before you go on about "we don't need the everglades", it's the source of fresh water for the entire Southern part of the state.
This is just out of touch with reality. No one will actually benefit from this except the oil companies.
yep, just don't vote for John McCain. Nothing he is, is what we need.
two points:
first is, your kid is not a genius. (chances are he's above average, but that's it.)
second, no child left behind should be called every child left behind. That's what it does. It makes the whole classroom work at the dummy's pace.
while they try to put all high achievers in the same class, they also place low achievers and ESE or special needs kids in the same classes with no teacher's aides.
so the whole class works at the slow kids' pace.
the whole system is just ass backwards. Schools funding is based on their overall test scores. lower scoring schools get less money. Teachers get a monetary bonus if their school scores high. This has led to taking measures to ensure the school doesn't count low test scores.
We have principals of elementary schools cutting out being a kid in favor of the bottom line. In my wife's classroom, there is one day of science per year, if its not canceled. There is rarely any social studies if ever. The kids don't watch movies or sing any more. They also don't have parties like we did. They were promised a party at the end of the year, which the principal canceled the day before. (after waiting the whole year). They also don't go on field trips any more.
These kids are supposedly learning only three things. Reading, writing, and basic math. They actually have kindergarteners learning to read and write now. while that's not an entirely bad idea, it completely removes the purpose for kindergarten. (that's where you're supposed to learn most of your social skills.)
Yep, you'd be nuts to let your kid go to public school like this. In Florida, the FCAT test has surpassed everything else in terms of priorities. They spend the entire year prepping to pass a test instead of learning curriculum.
His employers can never be certain that it wasn't him, despite professional computer security experts testifying to the fact.
This is what happens when you assume your system is protected.
It certainly wasn't his job to ensure the machine had functioning anti-virus software. It was some other person's job, and they didn't do it.