What about the new copyright law? If Matel claims that this is to break their protection on the filtering software, like they did originaly then the software becomes "illegal" and regardless of the license you can be held liable for distributing it.
You can absolve yourself of responsibility. Have you every gone skiing/snowboarding, skydiving, bunge jumping or the like. They have you sign a disclamer. If you include in the license that a piece of software is intended for use A and the author is not resposibile for use B the author would be absolved of resposibility.
But there were distinct signs that interactivity which is about content, not just the means of delivery -- is beginning to creep into even this arrogant culture One would think that based on this statement the author would demonstrate how this year the Oscars changed and gave the views some input into the content. However, Jon just rambles on about nice new sets and behind the scenes views. I don't get it. I usually enjoy Jon's subject material but where is the substance of this essay. What is the point?????
How is this possible if stadiums hold 100,000 and record sales can reach millions (you figure if they fill a 100,000 person stadium they will be distributing lots of cds)???????????????????
Perhaps on the small scale with indie bands and the like, concert revenue is larger since dedicated fans goto multiple concerts but only buy one copy of an album. However, once you scale up it doesn't add up.
I'd be interested to see an example if what you say is realy true.
Good idea using an album as shareware to sell the full product of a concert. The only problem is you are using the larger market (people who buy the album) to try and make money in the smaller market. (fewer people can fit in a concert arena.) The economics doesn't make any sense/cents.
In order to make money the record labels have to push a single option to consumers. Non-free Speech and Non-free Beer. So if you only like two songs on an album you have two options. Pirate or by the entire album. The concept of digital music frees the consumer from these constraints. The problem is finding a business model that provides Free Speech and Non-free Beer. I wonder...how many companies sell you their product (not service) and give you the source code. If you look at Homesteading the Nosphere. ESR spends no time on this model. The reason being it makes the product way to easy to pirate especially if the open source licenses allow the software to be redistributed. The person who creates a business model that circumvents this problem will be very wealthy indeed!!
I'm not sure which part of this scares me the most. The net becoming a "Balkanized" culture or how much this would add to Big Brother is watching.
The real question is how would this "new technology" be implemented. If it is used to provide people with geographical specific content then hey great. If it is used to chop up the net into little serfdoms then hey very evil.
I like the part where they have taken out a patent on the technology. Maybe this is one place where patents be usefull by keeping a potentialy armfull technology contained in one sector.
Great point. We (the community) should have seen this earlier. If Amazon's intention had been to use the patent to cause their competitors to cease and disist they would have used it by now.
Jeez, what is a standard? A standard is something you are compatable with not something you adhere to strictly. If every web sever was strictly to standard then where would the web be.
Actually MS did a pretty good job implementing Kerberos....maybe to good of a job. The problem is if you don't talk to a W2K Kerberos Server you don't get your sercurity permisions so it reverts to netlogon.
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What prevents me from taking the source code changing a variable name here and there and re-releasing it as kcahpc ???? Sign over the rights to FSF??
I still think that the issue is here stealing trade secrets which is under the states juristiction.
It is too bad. They had an oportunity to point out all that is evil in FilterWare and they sold out.
I find it interesting that a distributed culture is trying to protest using traditional methods. One which requires the culture to come together.
Why don't we use distributed tactics: Email writing and the like?
So are were they sueing b/c of copyright infingement or that they stole trade secrets??
If trade secrets are covered under state law, then there definitly are some juristiction issues!!
Hmmm.... Good point could I be confusing proprietary information with copyrighted information. Does the DCMA make a distinction??
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I haven't the patience to read the damn thing
What about the new copyright law? If Matel claims that this is to break their protection on the filtering software, like they did originaly then the software becomes "illegal" and regardless of the license you can be held liable for distributing it.
You can absolve yourself of responsibility. Have you every gone skiing/snowboarding, skydiving, bunge jumping or the like. They have you sign a disclamer. If you include in the license that a piece of software is intended for use A and the author is not resposibile for use B the author would be absolved of resposibility.
But there were distinct signs that interactivity which is about content, not just the means of delivery -- is beginning to creep into even this arrogant culture One would think that based on this statement the author would demonstrate how this year the Oscars changed and gave the views some input into the content. However, Jon just rambles on about nice new sets and behind the scenes views. I don't get it. I usually enjoy Jon's subject material but where is the substance of this essay. What is the point?????
How is this possible if stadiums hold 100,000 and record sales can reach millions (you figure if they fill a 100,000 person stadium they will be distributing lots of cds)???????????????????
Perhaps on the small scale with indie bands and the like, concert revenue is larger since dedicated fans goto multiple concerts but only buy one copy of an album. However, once you scale up it doesn't add up.
I'd be interested to see an example if what you say is realy true.
Good idea using an album as shareware to sell the full product of a concert. The only problem is you are using the larger market (people who buy the album) to try and make money in the smaller market. (fewer people can fit in a concert arena.) The economics doesn't make any sense/cents.
In order to make money the record labels have to push a single option to consumers. Non-free Speech and Non-free Beer. So if you only like two songs on an album you have two options. Pirate or by the entire album.
The concept of digital music frees the consumer from these constraints. The problem is finding a business model that provides Free Speech and Non-free Beer.
I wonder...how many companies sell you their product (not service) and give you the source code. If you look at Homesteading the Nosphere. ESR spends no time on this model. The reason being it makes the product way to easy to pirate especially if the open source licenses allow the software to be redistributed. The person who creates a business model that circumvents this problem will be very wealthy indeed!!
I'm not sure which part of this scares me the most. The net becoming a "Balkanized" culture or how much this would add to Big Brother is watching.
The real question is how would this "new technology" be implemented. If it is used to provide people with geographical specific content then hey great. If it is used to chop up the net into little serfdoms then hey very evil.
I like the part where they have taken out a patent on the technology. Maybe this is one place where patents be usefull by keeping a potentialy armfull technology contained in one sector.
Great point. We (the community) should have seen this earlier. If Amazon's intention had been to use the patent to cause their competitors to cease and disist they would have used it by now.
If you consider that Kerberos's function is to say with authority that "yes you are who you say you are and here is a ticket to prove it."
It has been a long running debate that guns don't kill people, people kill people. The gun manufacturers are rarely sued for misuse of their products.
The MPAA is claiming: people don't copy DVDs, DeCSS does. It is like putting a gun on trial for murder.
What is scary about the situation is that now they have legislation and legal precedent to back them up.
Yes the primary purpose of mp3 has been to allow easier distrobution of audio for indie artists. But the primary use has been to pirate audio.
Jeez, what is a standard? A standard is something you are compatable with not something you adhere to strictly. If every web sever was strictly to standard then where would the web be.
Actually MS did a pretty good job implementing Kerberos....maybe to good of a job. The problem is if you don't talk to a W2K Kerberos Server you don't get your sercurity permisions so it reverts to netlogon.