No, it's not sad at all that somebody will put up a copy within hours. Copyright as we know it is ending - it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when and how.
The reason is simple; you can't charge for non-work in the long run. Making an additional copy of something digital is nonwork today; it wasn't when you had to produce an additional physical copy; there were tangible costs associated with that.
Yet, some people are stuck in yesterday's copyright-based business model and are trying to adapt it to a world when making an additional copy 1) is nonwork, 2) is done anyway, infringing on the copyright monopoly, by so many millions of people that the monopoly cannot possibly be enforced by less than draconian methods.
Copyright is ending, it's just a matter of how. And it's a good thing.
Developing a new drug is mostly paid for by public funding. TESTING a new drug takes 5-15 years and costs a couple million, last time I checked with the pharmas. Don't know where your billion figure comes from.
However, the testing that they do isn't patentable.
And with up to 15 years of lead before the copies can arrive, what do you need the patent protection for, anyway?
In Sweden, you only need four percent of the votes TOTAL to gain seats in parliament, in stark contrast to the UK or US systems where you need to gain majority in a certain area. There just aren't many enough technically savvy to gain absolute majority in a geographical region.
Four percent across the country may not sound like much, but if the left- and right-wing blocks get 48% each, like they typically do, then the Pirate Party will hold the balance of power. And that is a very good bargaining chip.
(In the last election, the Green Party achieved this position, counting in at 4.2% in the election, and they got basically everything they wanted.)
The party's home page is at http://www.piratpartiet.se/ -- the main site is in Swedish, but there's an English translation as well. And as a shameless plug, the party is currently doing a fundraiser to buy the necessary ballots.:-) Those small pieces of paper you put in the voting box cost obscene amounts.
Disclosure: I am involved with the party and am a paying member.
The story has some notes on the Pirate Bureau and the Pirate Party, too.
Overall, the pirate movement is very strong in Sweden. And I'm damn proud of that.
(Yes, that's Pirate Party as in political party. Pirates are running for office. Not a joke and they're serious about getting a foot in the door - they only need 225,000 votes, in a country with 1,2 million file sharers.)
...in case anyone's wondering, this is me (the founder). Don't have time to write more right atm. Yeah, and I realize anyone could write this. Go figure.:-)
If you actively pursue telling others you'll just annoy them and get labeled as a wacko.
Not necessarily.
I'm the IT manager at the company I work at. Removing Sony from the list of approved vendors was a pretty easy thing to do, and even easier to explain to my boss why it was for the best of the company and necessary for the security of our network, equipment, and communications.
You imply that authority and responsibility go hand in hand.
Rather, IMO, responsibility consists of equal parts accountability and authority. If you are responsible for X, then you have authority over X, and are held accountable for it.
If you agree to be held accountable for X without having authority to influence it, you've signed a recipe for disaster, regardless of what it's called. I guess "responsiblity for X" is a something nice for a boss to say, but it's a false premise unless you have accountability and authority both.
1) Ordinary people won't bother watching HD content on their computers - it will be too cumbersome.
2) Pirates won't care, as always, ripping to DivX or whatever and then watching as usual.
3) Ordinary people will discover DivX rips (family, friends of pirates) and watch HD content, not knowing that they're not supposed to. The pirates will mumble something about bad big corporations but they won't really care as long as they can watch the latest episode of Lost.
"Today, scientists discovered diamond rings smaller than the size of an electron. It is theorized that this can revolutionize microprocessors, electronics, physics as we know it, and apple pie."
I'm getting a bit bored with these wide remarks saying profound discovery X has been achieved and that it may affect future production of [whatever], when it's so far from even prototype production that the PhD thesis on it hasn't even been written yet.
Can we get stories with a little more substance? Please?
...ok, so the EFF wants eight PDFs printed on my printer. Fine.
When opening the PDFs, I find that they are made to be printed on a sheet of paper roughly 71 by 92 inches in size...?
What kind of printer do they think I have, anyway?
(and when scaling down to about 11% of original size, the detail of the original document was partly lost in printout... Somebody there obviously hasn't tested these PDFs...)
I have been informed that the investigations have more or less concluded (they'll still be watching, of course, but the labor-intensive scouring of data is complete). It has been determined that there is not a repeatable dupe exploit." I wonder if that means you can only do it once...
More likely, it means that they have classified it not as a repeatable dupe exploit, but as a repeatable dupe feature.:-)
Sweden has had 100 MBit (full duplex) home Internet connections for a long time, at least since four years. The news here is that some homes are getting full gigabit connections, also full duplex, servers allowed.
What's the next story up, something about DSL and cable penetration (which are also 20th century technology)?
You forgot to mention that the second article describes a house that is not without heating per se, but rather, describes a house that uses heating/cooling/electricity so efficiently that it is designed to survive off-grid (and still have today's expected standards with AC, lighting, heating etc) -- it's built to be self-sufficient energy-wise.
Quite a step forward from just "not having heating". Especially considered it's not a residential house, but a business conference center.
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland. The latter is particularly interesting as their militia system makes the "weapons" part equivalent to "assault rifles in every house".
You could probably use most of the West European countries as answers to this quiz...
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Wales.
Where women are women,
men are men,
and sheep are nervous.
- Do you realize what this would mean to the starving nations of the planet?
- WOW! They'd have enough salt to last forever!
No, it's not sad at all that somebody will put up a copy within hours. Copyright as we know it is ending - it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when and how.
The reason is simple; you can't charge for non-work in the long run. Making an additional copy of something digital is nonwork today; it wasn't when you had to produce an additional physical copy; there were tangible costs associated with that.
Yet, some people are stuck in yesterday's copyright-based business model and are trying to adapt it to a world when making an additional copy 1) is nonwork, 2) is done anyway, infringing on the copyright monopoly, by so many millions of people that the monopoly cannot possibly be enforced by less than draconian methods.
Copyright is ending, it's just a matter of how. And it's a good thing.
Developing a new drug is mostly paid for by public funding. TESTING a new drug takes 5-15 years and costs a couple million, last time I checked with the pharmas. Don't know where your billion figure comes from.
However, the testing that they do isn't patentable.
And with up to 15 years of lead before the copies can arrive, what do you need the patent protection for, anyway?
Are you saying that without patents, there will not be a market for things that people need and are prepared to pay for?
You, sir, seriously need a fresh perspective.
No, the 57% poll was achieved by online newspaper Aftonbladet, with almost 100,000 readers participating.
Very slim, unfortunately.
:-) Those small pieces of paper you put in the voting box cost obscene amounts.
In Sweden, you only need four percent of the votes TOTAL to gain seats in parliament, in stark contrast to the UK or US systems where you need to gain majority in a certain area. There just aren't many enough technically savvy to gain absolute majority in a geographical region.
Four percent across the country may not sound like much, but if the left- and right-wing blocks get 48% each, like they typically do, then the Pirate Party will hold the balance of power. And that is a very good bargaining chip.
(In the last election, the Green Party achieved this position, counting in at 4.2% in the election, and they got basically everything they wanted.)
The party's home page is at http://www.piratpartiet.se/ -- the main site is in Swedish, but there's an English translation as well. And as a shameless plug, the party is currently doing a fundraiser to buy the necessary ballots.
Disclosure: I am involved with the party and am a paying member.
Something like "Hum, de dum de dum, de dum de dum, de dum de yaaarrgh yaaargh yaaargh yaaargh bork bork bork".
The story has some notes on the Pirate Bureau and the Pirate Party, too.
Overall, the pirate movement is very strong in Sweden. And I'm damn proud of that.
(Yes, that's Pirate Party as in political party. Pirates are running for office. Not a joke and they're serious about getting a foot in the door - they only need 225,000 votes, in a country with 1,2 million file sharers.)
People ARE getting organized.
Yes, the tide is definitely turning.
A year ago, this would have been considered ludicruous and impossible. Now it's for real.
...in case anyone's wondering, this is me (the founder). Don't have time to write more right atm. Yeah, and I realize anyone could write this. Go figure. :-)
/ Rick
We just need one-quarter of the ones that already think like this to consider this their most important issue.
/ Rick (the founder)
If you actively pursue telling others you'll just annoy them and get labeled as a wacko.
Not necessarily.
I'm the IT manager at the company I work at. Removing Sony from the list of approved vendors was a pretty easy thing to do, and even easier to explain to my boss why it was for the best of the company and necessary for the security of our network, equipment, and communications.
You imply that authority and responsibility go hand in hand.
Rather, IMO, responsibility consists of equal parts accountability and authority. If you are responsible for X, then you have authority over X, and are held accountable for it.
If you agree to be held accountable for X without having authority to influence it, you've signed a recipe for disaster, regardless of what it's called. I guess "responsiblity for X" is a something nice for a boss to say, but it's a false premise unless you have accountability and authority both.
1) Ordinary people won't bother watching HD content on their computers - it will be too cumbersome.
2) Pirates won't care, as always, ripping to DivX or whatever and then watching as usual.
3) Ordinary people will discover DivX rips (family, friends of pirates) and watch HD content, not knowing that they're not supposed to. The pirates will mumble something about bad big corporations but they won't really care as long as they can watch the latest episode of Lost.
When Will These Idiots Get It?
"Today, scientists discovered diamond rings smaller than the size of an electron. It is theorized that this can revolutionize microprocessors, electronics, physics as we know it, and apple pie."
I'm getting a bit bored with these wide remarks saying profound discovery X has been achieved and that it may affect future production of [whatever], when it's so far from even prototype production that the PhD thesis on it hasn't even been written yet.
Can we get stories with a little more substance? Please?
...ok, so the EFF wants eight PDFs printed on my printer. Fine.
When opening the PDFs, I find that they are made to be printed on a sheet of paper roughly 71 by 92 inches in size...?
What kind of printer do they think I have, anyway?
(and when scaling down to about 11% of original size, the detail of the original document was partly lost in printout... Somebody there obviously hasn't tested these PDFs...)
I have been informed that the investigations have more or less concluded (they'll still be watching, of course, but the labor-intensive scouring of data is complete). It has been determined that there is not a repeatable dupe exploit." I wonder if that means you can only do it once...
:-)
More likely, it means that they have classified it not as a repeatable dupe exploit, but as a repeatable dupe feature.
Ah, so the news was 100Mbit modulation over DSL, not that there were 100Mbit connections to homes. I stand corrected...
Sweden has had 100 MBit (full duplex) home Internet connections for a long time, at least since four years. The news here is that some homes are getting full gigabit connections, also full duplex, servers allowed.
What's the next story up, something about DSL and cable penetration (which are also 20th century technology)?
Power over Ethernet is not necessary, use the electricity in the TCP/IP connectivity.
See RFC3251, Electricity over TCP/IP. It's a very interesting read if you're not familiar with it.
You forgot to mention that the second article describes a house that is not without heating per se, but rather, describes a house that uses heating/cooling/electricity so efficiently that it is designed to survive off-grid (and still have today's expected standards with AC, lighting, heating etc) -- it's built to be self-sufficient energy-wise.
Quite a step forward from just "not having heating". Especially considered it's not a residential house, but a business conference center.
Off the top of my head:
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland. The latter is particularly interesting as their militia system makes the "weapons" part equivalent to "assault rifles in every house".
You could probably use most of the West European countries as answers to this quiz...
The transcription to Latin glyphs is Sklyarov, even though it's an uncommon construct in English. It's pronounced just like that: Skl - ya - rov.
It's not spelled Skylarov, even if that looks better in English.