Original copyrights can only be granted to an individual and are good for the life of that individual.
The individual exercises sole control of the copyright, i.e., setting rates, limits, uses, etc.
If the copyright is sold or given to another individual or corporation, it is valid for 10 years from the date of transfer with the same rights
If the copyright is transferred again before the initial 10 years are up, the amount of time left is still measured from the date of the first transfer, also with the same rights
Well, you're right with respect to guilt, per se. Perhaps I was being a bit overboard. But the proposal does assume that one group of people might be doing something to deprive another group of people of rightful income and proposes to tax the first group to reimburse the second group for their assumed losses.
I find that distasteful.
It is just as odious as the CEO of Turner suggesting that people should have to pay to skip commercials
There are and will be, millions of computers with ISP connections and billions of blank CDs which will never be used to copy music. It is wrong to attach this tariff to the purchase of these goods and services.
It would be like taxing sewing machines and fabric and giving the money to Prada or Dior or Reebok becuase their fashions are counterfeited.
Board of director types have bazaar stigmas and FUD
I think you meant bizarre
Normally I don't point out mistakes in spelling, but this time I couldn't help it because it made your argument look like you were quoting Eric S. Raymond
General Armaments, the maker of the SideWinder 9mm pistol, will challenge a court order to track the shooting practices of customers and send the data to violent crime victims and family members, the company said Friday.
U.S. District Court Magistrate Charles Eick told GA to create software within 60 days to monitor everything customers shoot at, everything they miss and any bullets they transmit through others.
In an article mentioned earlier on Slashdot - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/15/134222
- this quote:
"Fossil fuel supplies are plentiful, and what will limit the usage of fossil fuels is the potential climatic and ecosystem changes you may see as a result of rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere."
and now, in this story, this assertion:
"Scientists have discovered vast quantities of hydrogen gas, widely regarded as the most promising alternative to today's dwindling stocks of fossil fuels..."
I can see Open Source software making it big in underdeveloped countries without introducing an equivalent opening of the "society", per se.
If Microsoft, the MPAA, the RIAA, and companies like Adobe get their way, Open Source software will be driven out of industrialized countries and into the less-developed corners of the planet.
I can easily imagine despotic, anti-American, anti-corporate governments joyously embracing Open-Source as a way to declare their independence while simultaneously achieving a level of parity with the "developed" world.
In addition, think of this - the power that Open-Source will give these "outlaw" countries to wreak havoc on closed-source systems is inestimable.
I was working in W2k and I thought I was hearing voices. A dull, monotone mumbling, barely audible. I couldn't make out words.
It turned out I had accidentally punched the hotkey combination to turn on the Accessibility feature which attempts to tell you what's available on the screen.
They're going to get this legislation, one way or another. Might as well just get it over with. I'm convinced our elected officials are incapable of comprehending the holocaust this will cause until it actually happens. There really is no other way.
I'm kind of looking forward to it. It's going to be fascinating.
I can't pretend to intimate knowledge of Mr. Valenti's intention, but I'd like to offer the following observation:
Nowhere does it appear that he is advocating forcing consumers to purchase copy-controlled hardware.
What he could be describing is the creation of dedicated hardware for internet movie distribution that will have copy-controls built in, and require a high-speed pipe.
In other words, you want to watch internet movies on your computer - you'll have to buy one ( or a card ) with the proper DRM system. You want to watch them some other way, you'll have to purchase that system ( set-top box, new tv, etc ).
It would seem that machines which aren't configured for DRM-internet-movies will still be available. (Of course people will hack them, but that's a different story.:)
I don't see in that piece where he's advocating forcing people to use copy-controlled machines for everything. Instead, he appears to be refuting claims that the MPAA is standing in the way of demand for high-speed access. And further, that the availability of a standard copy-control system is an absolute prerequisite for the existence of (MPAA) internet movies.
(AOL-TW, M$, etc) who are more powerful than governments, and will eventually manange to force the replacement of IP with a protocol which only lets you see what they want you to see.
It can only be our fervent hope that widespread adoption of wireless networking will create a ubiquitous network beholden to no one principal authority.
If every computer, house, car, pda was a peer node on a network, wouldn't it be virtually impossible to censor the entire thing?
Actually, I believe there was a Congressional investigation last year which revealed that the recording industry has been overcharging for CDs for the last 10 years.
Supposedly, IIRC, the CD was originally touted as being cheaper to manufacture than the vinyl LP and that consumers would eventually see a drop in recorded music prices. The results of the investigation were that that drop never ocurred.
I can't wait to see which is going to be the first movie in which all the high-tech, power-crazy computer geeks are controlling the world with their new iMacs.
Matthew Gerson, the vice president for public policy at Vivendi Universal S.A., which produces and sells both music (Universal Music Group) and movies (Universal Studios, Inc.), is quick to dispute the prediction that the music companies face cottage-industry status.
I have to say, I believe the recording industry is already doomed. Let's say they do get the intense digital-rights management abilities they appear to be angling for...
What happens? Cheap, sophisticated technology exists for musicians to create and distribute their own music. Heavy-handed digital rights management will spur a market where none now exists. Bands looking for acceptance will easily be able to do so by releasing music without copy restrictions, or with restrictions less onerous than the recording industry's, and they'll stand a better chance of getting heard and gathering an audience. People have gotten used to being able to do whatever they want with content; even if they don't understand the intricacies of the digital rights battles, this inertia will propel them to 'vote with their wallets'. If it means listening to no-name bands, rather than paying an arm and a leg to listen to whoever's on the charts, it will happen.
The recording industry's got a hell of a challenge ahead of them - protecting their assets while simultaneously satisfying their customers. The number of people who will be willing to pay more for inflexible music from 'name' groups are going to be vastly outnumbered by the less fortunate who will be satisfied just fine with listening to unknown groups (whose music may be even more appealing to them for personal reasons, i.e., closer to their interests, current situation, age, etc) wherever and whenever they want for much less.
Same thing for the movie and television industries. The ability to create content gets cheaper all the time. (How many of you know people who are working on a digital-video movie?:)
Digital piracy is rightfully scaring the beejesus out of the likes of Disney, and with good reason - but even if they get draconian legal protection, it'll bite 'em in the ass - it will do no good against the mom and pop content shops that will spring up to fill the void between the people who don't care and can afford restricted premium content and those of us who by any combination of economics, idealism or preference buy generic.
You can tell right away if a commercial on the show is real or not - the (usually) hilarious SNL bogus commercials have the damn Comedy Network logo on 'em.
Slashdot Mirror
Need to start zipping those MP3s
MjM
Original copyrights can only be granted to an individual and are good for the life of that individual.
The individual exercises sole control of the copyright, i.e., setting rates, limits, uses, etc.
If the copyright is sold or given to another individual or corporation, it is valid for 10 years from the date of transfer with the same rights
If the copyright is transferred again before the initial 10 years are up, the amount of time left is still measured from the date of the first transfer, also with the same rights
See my reply to kilonad, eh?
MjM
I find that distasteful.
It is just as odious as the CEO of Turner suggesting that people should have to pay to skip commercials
There are and will be, millions of computers with ISP connections and billions of blank CDs which will never be used to copy music. It is wrong to attach this tariff to the purchase of these goods and services.
It would be like taxing sewing machines and fabric and giving the money to Prada or Dior or Reebok becuase their fashions are counterfeited.
MjM
This still presupposes that the consumers of the above items are going to engage in 'illegal' copying.
I think we should adamantly refuse to support any proposal which presupposes guilt - I think it's a dangerous precedent.
MjM
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Board of director types have bazaar stigmas and FUD
I think you meant bizarre
Normally I don't point out mistakes in spelling, but this time I couldn't help it because it made your argument look like you were quoting Eric S. Raymond
MjM
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U.S. District Court Magistrate Charles Eick told GA to create software within 60 days to monitor everything customers shoot at, everything they miss and any bullets they transmit through others.
MjM
Or The Eighth Day...
MjM
...simply for the use of j'accuse
:)
MjM
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Should be:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/
In an article mentioned earlier on Slashdot - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/15/134222
- this quote:
"Fossil fuel supplies are plentiful, and what will limit the usage of fossil fuels is the potential climatic and ecosystem changes you may see as a result of rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere."
and now, in this story, this assertion:
"Scientists have discovered vast quantities of hydrogen gas, widely regarded as the most promising alternative to today's dwindling stocks of fossil fuels..."
What's it gonna be boys?
 
MjM
I can see Open Source software making it big in underdeveloped countries without introducing an equivalent opening of the "society", per se.
If Microsoft, the MPAA, the RIAA, and companies like Adobe get their way, Open Source software will be driven out of industrialized countries and into the less-developed corners of the planet.
I can easily imagine despotic, anti-American, anti-corporate governments joyously embracing Open-Source as a way to declare their independence while simultaneously achieving a level of parity with the "developed" world.
In addition, think of this - the power that Open-Source will give these "outlaw" countries to wreak havoc on closed-source systems is inestimable.
MjM
The first is legal, the second is not.
Legal precedent exists whereas the government cannot outlaw tools that have possible illegal uses if they also have overwhelming legal ones.
Good Luck!
MjM
I was working in W2k and I thought I was hearing voices. A dull, monotone mumbling, barely audible. I couldn't make out words.
It turned out I had accidentally punched the hotkey combination to turn on the Accessibility feature which attempts to tell you what's available on the screen.
It was downright spooky.
MjM
Ah fuck it.
They're going to get this legislation, one way or another. Might as well just get it over with. I'm convinced our elected officials are incapable of comprehending the holocaust this will cause until it actually happens. There really is no other way.
I'm kind of looking forward to it. It's going to be fascinating.
MjM
I can't pretend to intimate knowledge of Mr. Valenti's intention, but I'd like to offer the following observation:
Nowhere does it appear that he is advocating forcing consumers to purchase copy-controlled hardware.
What he could be describing is the creation of dedicated hardware for internet movie distribution that will have copy-controls built in, and require a high-speed pipe.
In other words, you want to watch internet movies on your computer - you'll have to buy one ( or a card ) with the proper DRM system. You want to watch them some other way, you'll have to purchase that system ( set-top box, new tv, etc ).
It would seem that machines which aren't configured for DRM-internet-movies will still be available. (Of course people will hack them, but that's a different story.
I don't see in that piece where he's advocating forcing people to use copy-controlled machines for everything. Instead, he appears to be refuting claims that the MPAA is standing in the way of demand for high-speed access. And further, that the availability of a standard copy-control system is an absolute prerequisite for the existence of (MPAA) internet movies.
MjM
-rw-rw-rw- the new number of the beast
(AOL-TW, M$, etc) who are more powerful than governments, and will eventually manange to force the replacement of IP with a protocol which only lets you see what they want you to see.
It can only be our fervent hope that widespread adoption of wireless networking will create a ubiquitous network beholden to no one principal authority.
If every computer, house, car, pda was a peer node on a network, wouldn't it be virtually impossible to censor the entire thing?
MjM
Actually, I believe there was a Congressional investigation last year which revealed that the recording industry has been overcharging for CDs for the last 10 years.
Supposedly, IIRC, the CD was originally touted as being cheaper to manufacture than the vinyl LP and that consumers would eventually see a drop in recorded music prices. The results of the investigation were that that drop never ocurred.
MjM
Or an incurable drunken-driver.
MjM
rw-rw-rw- : The new sign of the Beast
You can opt-out!
MjM
rw-rw-rw- : the new sign of the Beast
I can't wait to see which is going to be the first movie in which all the high-tech, power-crazy computer geeks are controlling the world with their new iMacs.
MjM
rw_rw_rw - the new sign of the Beast
I have to say, I believe the recording industry is already doomed. Let's say they do get the intense digital-rights management abilities they appear to be angling for...
What happens? Cheap, sophisticated technology exists for musicians to create and distribute their own music. Heavy-handed digital rights management will spur a market where none now exists. Bands looking for acceptance will easily be able to do so by releasing music without copy restrictions, or with restrictions less onerous than the recording industry's, and they'll stand a better chance of getting heard and gathering an audience. People have gotten used to being able to do whatever they want with content; even if they don't understand the intricacies of the digital rights battles, this inertia will propel them to 'vote with their wallets'. If it means listening to no-name bands, rather than paying an arm and a leg to listen to whoever's on the charts, it will happen.
The recording industry's got a hell of a challenge ahead of them - protecting their assets while simultaneously satisfying their customers. The number of people who will be willing to pay more for inflexible music from 'name' groups are going to be vastly outnumbered by the less fortunate who will be satisfied just fine with listening to unknown groups (whose music may be even more appealing to them for personal reasons, i.e., closer to their interests, current situation, age, etc) wherever and whenever they want for much less.
Same thing for the movie and television industries. The ability to create content gets cheaper all the time. (How many of you know people who are working on a digital-video movie?
Digital piracy is rightfully scaring the beejesus out of the likes of Disney, and with good reason - but even if they get draconian legal protection, it'll bite 'em in the ass - it will do no good against the mom and pop content shops that will spring up to fill the void between the people who don't care and can afford restricted premium content and those of us who by any combination of economics, idealism or preference buy generic.
MjM
...on re-runs of Saturday Night Live.
You can tell right away if a commercial on the show is real or not - the (usually) hilarious SNL bogus commercials have the damn Comedy Network logo on 'em.
MjM
I thought those things were on there for copyright protection. Sort of like video watermarking.
MjM
Just tried with NS 6.1. Everything displayed okay.
MjM