Right, and what if Apple comes out with a program that duplicates the functionality of an existing 3rd party program? Are they going to remove yours then? Will they honor their own logic and withhold their app?...
You're right that this isn't 1st amendment free speech, but it's a similar concept, and one consumers are having to deal with only recently. Corporations regularly placing strict and difficult to enforce restrictions on use of their products is a rather recent development.
Imagine buying a horse with the EULA that you can only use Acme-approved saddles with it.
It's a new consumer rights issue that needs to be fought out. Not because it's a right that consumers suddenly decided they need, but because it's one that was always there, and is now being taken away.
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As an exercise, I usually try to mentally calculate the total cost of my purchases when shopping. Ten years ago, I'd find an error (usually error in list price vs ring-up price) every other shopping trip. If it was significant and not in my favor I'd have it corrected. I'd say the error rate is down to about 1 in 10 trips. Of course that could just be a sign of my mental degredation.
Ya, the fact that Mr. Brennan doesn't have representation might be in that story summary, but I didn't catch that. The key line seems to be,"asked the Clerk of the Court to certify that the defendant is again in default, which the Clerk did." Clerk sounds like secretary to me, why does his opinion matter? I suppose "certified in default" means "approved the case", but I'm guessing here.
The three cases Mr Beckerman summarizes in the story sound important, and even the fact that there are three stories. But the summary is uncharacteristically(for him) dense and legal.
America's founders were capable, wealthy men who took significant risks and turned down opportunities in supporting the formation of the U.S. I know you don't have to worry about having you house torched and family killed, but we know there are more profitable ways to make a living then defending people who can't pay you against very wealthy aggressive corporations. You give American Patriots a good name. Thanks for all you do.
The way the CRB and SoundExchange are structured make it very difficult for copyright owners to negotiate anything besides the default rate.
Try this: record yourself humming your own tune, get a fictitious recording business name with your state government, file with the Copyright Royalty Board and then tell them you want no revenues collected on your "song" for webcast. You should be able to do all that from your laptop in under an hour. They'll tell you can't opt out. They will bully, resist and ignore you. I think it can be done, but I lack the persistence to do it.
If you go to the SoundExchange website, they have a list of thousands of musicians for whom they collected revenue but have not contacted them for payment. Their right to those funds expires after a certain period of time, and SoundExchange would keep 50% in any case. In most case musicians would prefer to have their music broadcast as widely as possible. It is possible to opt out of representation by SoundExchange, but then the guidelines are written so that they have to waive ALL rights to revenue from that track. They can also make exceptions for particular webcast sites, which is made quite difficult and challenged aggressively. One exception is polka music, a group representing American polka music negotiated a broad agreement with SoundExchange that polka stations don't have to pay any revenues.
Ya know, I found myself wishing the book had more eye-candy. Charts, graphs, perhaps pictures of the patented items, etc. The book reads smoothly, but a bit light and dry. I'd love to see a Wired Mag style make-over of the book.
If you buy it directly from O'Reilly they also offer a DRM-free pdf version, or book/pdf bundle: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517960/index.html
I'm glad to see this becoming more common, I'd like to have pdf version of more books I use for reference. Digital search is so much faster than flipping through a book, even if the Index is accurate.
When my grandfather was dying he was a bit upset about it and noone was able to talk to him about death until my mother showed up and went off about how wonderful heaven would be when he got there. Most of the time I find her superstition pretty annoying, but it worked wonders; getting the topic out in the open, calming everyone down, providing a framework to explain things to grandma. I'd like to think I can die gracefully without superstition, guess I'll find out...
Side note reply: 12V battery still is unlikely to kill, the voltage is too low to get past skin resistance. 330V will definitely flow, and it only takes 100mA or so to stop the heart, so 6.5A is literally overkill.
Is that this is good news for most of/. readers. A lot of big corporatations are being reminded of how important it can be to not cut corners when hiring programmers and IT.
If the redirect is in place I'm not seeing it. I know DNS info takes awhile to propagate, but I've found Godaddy get the word around pretty quick. I'll check a bit later. If someone knows a public dns server that has picked this up perhaps you can post it here.
Since there were a few earlier threads where it didn't work, I'm guessing facebook jumped on this.
I'm betting this is a "do not fly list" problem. A bunch of lists of offending words and problematic websites were thrown together, and a few benign ones got caught up in the list. And now it's hard to figure out what shouldn't be on the list.
"Voting Machine Manufacturers" is right up there with "poll workers" for demographics critical to the success of any campaign. No official seeking reelection is going to risk upsetting them.
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That is so freakin cool. My inner 13year old is drooling for one of our own.
Right, and what if Apple comes out with a program that duplicates the functionality of an existing 3rd party program? ...
Are they going to remove yours then?
Will they honor their own logic and withhold their app?
You're right that this isn't 1st amendment free speech, but it's a similar concept, and one consumers are having to deal with only recently. Corporations regularly placing strict and difficult to enforce restrictions on use of their products is a rather recent development.
Imagine buying a horse with the EULA that you can only use Acme-approved saddles with it.
It's a new consumer rights issue that needs to be fought out. Not because it's a right that consumers suddenly decided they need, but because it's one that was always there, and is now being taken away.
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That's quite a story. Thanks for the link.
As an exercise, I usually try to mentally calculate the total cost of my purchases when shopping. Ten years ago, I'd find an error (usually error in list price vs ring-up price) every other shopping trip. If it was significant and not in my favor I'd have it corrected.
I'd say the error rate is down to about 1 in 10 trips. Of course that could just be a sign of my mental degredation.
Ya, the fact that Mr. Brennan doesn't have representation might be in that story summary, but I didn't catch that.
The key line seems to be,"asked the Clerk of the Court to certify that the defendant is again in default, which the Clerk did."
Clerk sounds like secretary to me, why does his opinion matter? I suppose "certified in default" means "approved the case", but I'm guessing here.
The three cases Mr Beckerman summarizes in the story sound important, and even the fact that there are three stories. But the summary is uncharacteristically(for him) dense and legal.
America's founders were capable, wealthy men who took significant risks and turned down opportunities in supporting the formation of the U.S. I know you don't have to worry about having you house torched and family killed, but we know there are more profitable ways to make a living then defending people who can't pay you against very wealthy aggressive corporations. You give American Patriots a good name. Thanks for all you do.
The way the CRB and SoundExchange are structured make it very difficult for copyright owners to negotiate anything besides the default rate.
Try this: record yourself humming your own tune, get a fictitious recording business name with your state government, file with the Copyright Royalty Board and then tell them you want no revenues collected on your "song" for webcast. You should be able to do all that from your laptop in under an hour. They'll tell you can't opt out. They will bully, resist and ignore you. I think it can be done, but I lack the persistence to do it.
If you go to the SoundExchange website, they have a list of thousands of musicians for whom they collected revenue but have not contacted them for payment. Their right to those funds expires after a certain period of time, and SoundExchange would keep 50% in any case.
In most case musicians would prefer to have their music broadcast as widely as possible. It is possible to opt out of representation by SoundExchange, but then the guidelines are written so that they have to waive ALL rights to revenue from that track. They can also make exceptions for particular webcast sites, which is made quite difficult and challenged aggressively.
One exception is polka music, a group representing American polka music negotiated a broad agreement with SoundExchange that polka stations don't have to pay any revenues.
Ya know, I found myself wishing the book had more eye-candy. Charts, graphs, perhaps pictures of the patented items, etc. The book reads smoothly, but a bit light and dry.
I'd love to see a Wired Mag style make-over of the book.
If you buy it directly from O'Reilly they also offer a DRM-free pdf version, or book/pdf bundle:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517960/index.html
I'm glad to see this becoming more common, I'd like to have pdf version of more books I use for reference. Digital search is so much faster than flipping through a book, even if the Index is accurate.
Not that I'm volunteering, but it's been done. The confusion is social, not biological.
http://www.unassistedchildbirth.com/miscarticles/milkmen.html
When my grandfather was dying he was a bit upset about it and noone was able to talk to him about death until my mother showed up and went off about how wonderful heaven would be when he got there. Most of the time I find her superstition pretty annoying, but it worked wonders; getting the topic out in the open, calming everyone down, providing a framework to explain things to grandma. I'd like to think I can die gracefully without superstition, guess I'll find out...
This is kinda like an updated market version of the Orson Wells' "War of the Worlds" event.
Now that's a well supported reply.
Side note reply: 12V battery still is unlikely to kill, the voltage is too low to get past skin resistance. 330V will definitely flow, and it only takes 100mA or so to stop the heart, so 6.5A is literally overkill.
Is that this is good news for most of /. readers. A lot of big corporatations are being reminded of how important it can be to not cut corners when hiring programmers and IT.
I poked around a bit but there's not much public information out there. If the problem has been diagnosed no one's talking.
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If the redirect is in place I'm not seeing it. I know DNS info takes awhile to propagate, but I've found Godaddy get the word around pretty quick. I'll check a bit later. If someone knows a public dns server that has picked this up perhaps you can post it here.
There is no bad publicity
Since there were a few earlier threads where it didn't work, I'm guessing facebook jumped on this.
I'm betting this is a "do not fly list" problem. A bunch of lists of offending words and problematic websites were thrown together, and a few benign ones got caught up in the list. And now it's hard to figure out what shouldn't be on the list.
Because I hold the copyright on the copyrighting of copyright laws.
"Voting Machine Manufacturers" is right up there with "poll workers" for demographics critical to the success of any campaign.
No official seeking reelection is going to risk upsetting them.
They happen every year too and are rather predictable. The dirty tricks are kinda birthday-like too.