"What's extraordinarily frustrating to me is that almost no one is thinking of these possibilities," or so says Martin...
Who, exactly, doe sthis guy think he is? People left and right are thinking about these things on a daily, no hourly, no minutely basis all over the world. Read Gibson, Read Stephenson, go to your local Egghead, wander around on usenet. People are coming up with these exact same ideas every minute of the day...
He goes on saying, "When people think about the future and the Internet, what they usually trot out is that example of 'the refrigerator that orders milk for you when you've run out.' "
Who are these "people" who talk like this? When was the last time this phrase was used outside of "60 Minutes"?
Does this suprise anyone at all?
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How many articles in the last week have been about a monopoly warning of doom and doubt if thier power is challenged by some fledgling smaller, fairer power? Now all we need is for M. Stuart Lynn to give us a Mundie-like speech and the news agencies won't even have to write new stories, just change the names...
Something that slightly bothers me is that no one is thinking of doing teh reverse to this, I mean no one is planning on sterilizing the Earth-ships before they heard to mars. There is always the possibility that some Earthling microbe has hitched a ride to mars and will start growing there, and before we know it we'll be finding "life" on Mars all over the place that looks suspisciously like the stuff already living on Earth.
Just because M$, the MPAA, and the RIAA are losing money because *some* people use the internet and file sharing services to distribute copyrighted materials doesn't mean they can restrict MY rights in any way. WELL. I mean shit, why should we put our bags on the belt and walk through metal detectors at the airport because *some* people use bombs to blow up airplanes? They're stomping all over my right to privacy! Just because the FAA, the airlines, and the airports are losing money doesn't mean they can restrict MY rights in any way.
Of course the airport issue is different becuase we are talking about hundreds of human lives, not just cash, and to compare those as though they were equal is wrong.
Instead, think of it this way: Xerox machines. Printers. Digital cameras. VCRs. Could you live in a world without these? Could you office funtion without the ability to copy documents and print out reports?
Well, suprise, all of these are used quite often to copy copywrited works. What you are saying is that the potential for something to be misused is tantamount to misusing it. Simply becuase a knife CAN kill, holding one is the same as murder. This is not a new concept. Orwell, Kafka, and many other of our great social thinkers have envisioned just such a world as we are slowly becomming.
>Why hasn't a group gotten together to sue the >MPAA and RIAA under these grounds? Surely the >ACLU would help with this!!
Why? Moeny and time. No one has the money to hire a lawyer, nor the time to fill out legal briefs alone. Thus the need for lawstudents to get into the act. They at least understand what papers to file, and it would look GREAT on thier resume to show them suing the RIAA and MPAA before they even got out of school...
Telephones = contributory kidnapping, extortion, conspiracy, treason, slander, etc.
Just becuase the Napster judge was paid to set a precident does not mean that such a precident is constitutional. The law doesn't have to be changed, the ruling just has to be overruled.
Who is breaking the law? I was using Aimster the other day to disseminate MY (i.e. as in MY, my own, beloning to me, copywrite and all) pictures withe my friends. By trying to take that ability away, *the RIAA* is breaking the law...
Pretty soon the RIAA will realize that the entire internet is nothing but a huge conspicacy to steal thier money. I'm pretty sure a few of the bytes that I sent in my last few Quake packets are exactly identical to those found in copywrited MP3's.
Seriously though, I think there is a GREAT case to be made by AMATUER ROCK STAR LAW STUDENTS (if there are any out there) who are looking for a project to do. Sue the RIAA for anti-competitive practices (after all, they are taking away YOUR right to disturibute YOUR music. Imagine how shrill the cries would be if you told them they couldn't sell CDs at blockbuster anymore...)
In the past, the only way to get from Ogg's cave to Z'nak's cave was by walking. Children had to be stong in order to avoid both the sabor-tooth tiger and the Calkraf cannabals along teh way. Today however, we have the wheel, which allows us to travel at speeds of up to 4 miles per hour, far outpacing even the fastest Calkraf hunters. But is it a good thing? Our children have been neglecting thier feet, and as such, now are becoming slow, and thier feet are withering away. Famous Child Psychologist Kog, has this to say, "Ug, ug, grraaaaah, ug, nrrrrrrruaaaaaaa!"
Actually, there is a REASON why they ship late to ther countries that has nothing to do with translating the film, and that is becuase they want to make sure the movie is a blockbuster in the US before they spend teh money on releasing it overseas. I remeber in Japan there were times that a movie would be show in trailers as "Coming Soon", but that never actally came to Japanese theaters becuase the movie flopped in the US. Other times, a movie that was doing stupendously well would be released months early in Japan to catch the wave of popularity. It is all about making the big movie bucks...
No matter how well you try and copy protect something that you are putting into customer's hands, there will always be a way to crack it. The ONLY model that has any chance of working is the Everquest style of putting the actal servers somewhere that people can't touch.
Why can't people just figure this out by now. If you make a really great game, there are enough honest people in the world that you will get paid eventually...
Ok, let's say I have a library from microsoft.com, and a library from GPL.com, and I use both of them in the same program, does that make the Microsoft library GPL'd?
If not, then how is this different than just writing my own closed-source library and then trying THAT to a GPL'd pice of code?
When I was in Japan, I had a phone one that would tell me where the nearest train station was (using GPS) and tell me when the next train was coming, It even had a little map of where I was and pointed me the correct way to go to get to the station. I miss Japan...
"They use privacy sites on the Internet to anonymously contact one another and recruit our children."
So if I understand this right, these evile people, who can just as easily email from HOME to a remailer will be secure in thier anonymity, but the children, who may be doing thier emailing at the local school library will NOT be anonymous?
It looks to me like these congressmen are actually being lobbied by the "radical organizations" so that those pesky kids can't hide thier real names from them anymore. Good call, congress, way to keep our children safe.
A perfect defence in this case would be to take quotes out of context out of the bible (or, barring that, various world leaders, the procecuting DA, the Judge himself, fairy tales, whatever) and ask if they sound like "terrorist words" then reveal the souce is "Mother Goose" or whatever...
Sign the contract to get your last two months pay and THEN sue them. They won't be able to uphold that contract in court without facing criminal charges of conspiracy, fraud and extortion. Have fun...
What happens if one of the employees gets "Banned" (My brother did once for disagreeing with one of thier "guides" about who was a better baseball player). Do they get fired?
"But this young man did violate school rules and regulations and he understood the severity of the rules he broke." When "rules and regulations" take precidence over common sense the end is near. It is a terrible thing that he died, and it was preventable, but not when you live in a world where the great god bureaucracy rules all.
Wasn't this the entire basis for the idea of Catch-22? This isn't a new thing, this is just one of those things that was written about in th epast and finally has coem to fruition. I'm sure the Ministry of Love is just around the corner...
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Oh cool, well that solves it then.
"What's extraordinarily frustrating to me is that almost no one is thinking of these possibilities," or so says Martin...
Who, exactly, doe sthis guy think he is? People left and right are thinking about these things on a daily, no hourly, no minutely basis all over the world. Read Gibson, Read Stephenson, go to your local Egghead, wander around on usenet. People are coming up with these exact same ideas every minute of the day...
He goes on saying, "When people think about the future and the Internet, what they usually trot out is that example of 'the refrigerator that orders milk for you when you've run out.' "
Who are these "people" who talk like this? When was the last time this phrase was used outside of "60 Minutes"?
How many articles in the last week have been about a monopoly warning of doom and doubt if thier power is challenged by some fledgling smaller, fairer power? Now all we need is for M. Stuart Lynn to give us a Mundie-like speech and the news agencies won't even have to write new stories, just change the names...
Something that slightly bothers me is that no one is thinking of doing teh reverse to this, I mean no one is planning on sterilizing the Earth-ships before they heard to mars. There is always the possibility that some Earthling microbe has hitched a ride to mars and will start growing there, and before we know it we'll be finding "life" on Mars all over the place that looks suspisciously like the stuff already living on Earth.
...Except they call it "Rocket Cash" and you get the added chance of winning FREE SPRITE! Woo hoo.
"AIMStar; 332k" Looks like another AOL lawsuit brewing...
Just because M$, the MPAA, and the RIAA are losing money because *some* people use the internet and file sharing services to distribute copyrighted materials doesn't mean they can restrict MY rights in any way. WELL. I mean shit, why should we put our bags on the belt and walk through metal detectors at the airport because *some* people use bombs to blow up airplanes? They're stomping all over my right to privacy! Just because the FAA, the airlines, and the airports are losing money doesn't mean they can restrict MY rights in any way. Of course the airport issue is different becuase we are talking about hundreds of human lives, not just cash, and to compare those as though they were equal is wrong. Instead, think of it this way: Xerox machines. Printers. Digital cameras. VCRs. Could you live in a world without these? Could you office funtion without the ability to copy documents and print out reports? Well, suprise, all of these are used quite often to copy copywrited works. What you are saying is that the potential for something to be misused is tantamount to misusing it. Simply becuase a knife CAN kill, holding one is the same as murder. This is not a new concept. Orwell, Kafka, and many other of our great social thinkers have envisioned just such a world as we are slowly becomming.
>Why hasn't a group gotten together to sue the >MPAA and RIAA under these grounds? Surely the >ACLU would help with this!!
Why? Moeny and time. No one has the money to hire a lawyer, nor the time to fill out legal briefs alone. Thus the need for lawstudents to get into the act. They at least understand what papers to file, and it would look GREAT on thier resume to show them suing the RIAA and MPAA before they even got out of school...
By this logic:
Pens & paper = contributory copyright infringement.
Guns, knives, pointy sticks = contributory murder.
Telephones = contributory kidnapping, extortion, conspiracy, treason, slander, etc.
Just becuase the Napster judge was paid to set a precident does not mean that such a precident is constitutional. The law doesn't have to be changed, the ruling just has to be overruled.
>They *are* breaking the law
Who is breaking the law? I was using Aimster the other day to disseminate MY (i.e. as in MY, my own, beloning to me, copywrite and all) pictures withe my friends. By trying to take that ability away, *the RIAA* is breaking the law...
Pretty soon the RIAA will realize that the entire internet is nothing but a huge conspicacy to steal thier money. I'm pretty sure a few of the bytes that I sent in my last few Quake packets are exactly identical to those found in copywrited MP3's.
Seriously though, I think there is a GREAT case to be made by AMATUER ROCK STAR LAW STUDENTS (if there are any out there) who are looking for a project to do. Sue the RIAA for anti-competitive practices (after all, they are taking away YOUR right to disturibute YOUR music. Imagine how shrill the cries would be if you told them they couldn't sell CDs at blockbuster anymore...)
...that's when I realized it was time to change the sawdust in the cage, phew!
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In the past, the only way to get from Ogg's cave to Z'nak's cave was by walking. Children had to be stong in order to avoid both the sabor-tooth tiger and the Calkraf cannabals along teh way. Today however, we have the wheel, which allows us to travel at speeds of up to 4 miles per hour, far outpacing even the fastest Calkraf hunters. But is it a good thing? Our children have been neglecting thier feet, and as such, now are becoming slow, and thier feet are withering away. Famous Child Psychologist Kog, has this to say, "Ug, ug, grraaaaah, ug, nrrrrrrruaaaaaaa!"
Well said, Kog, well said...
Actually, there is a REASON why they ship late to ther countries that has nothing to do with translating the film, and that is becuase they want to make sure the movie is a blockbuster in the US before they spend teh money on releasing it overseas. I remeber in Japan there were times that a movie would be show in trailers as "Coming Soon", but that never actally came to Japanese theaters becuase the movie flopped in the US. Other times, a movie that was doing stupendously well would be released months early in Japan to catch the wave of popularity. It is all about making the big movie bucks...
No matter how well you try and copy protect something that you are putting into customer's hands, there will always be a way to crack it. The ONLY model that has any chance of working is the Everquest style of putting the actal servers somewhere that people can't touch.
Why can't people just figure this out by now. If you make a really great game, there are enough honest people in the world that you will get paid eventually...
Ok, let's say I have a library from microsoft.com, and a library from GPL.com, and I use both of them in the same program, does that make the Microsoft library GPL'd?
If not, then how is this different than just writing my own closed-source library and then trying THAT to a GPL'd pice of code?
When I was in Japan, I had a phone one that would tell me where the nearest train station was (using GPS) and tell me when the next train was coming, It even had a little map of where I was and pointed me the correct way to go to get to the station. I miss Japan...
"They use privacy sites on the Internet to anonymously contact one another and recruit our children."
So if I understand this right, these evile people, who can just as easily email from HOME to a remailer will be secure in thier anonymity, but the children, who may be doing thier emailing at the local school library will NOT be anonymous?
It looks to me like these congressmen are actually being lobbied by the "radical organizations" so that those pesky kids can't hide thier real names from them anymore. Good call, congress, way to keep our children safe.
A perfect defence in this case would be to take quotes out of context out of the bible (or, barring that, various world leaders, the procecuting DA, the Judge himself, fairy tales, whatever) and ask if they sound like "terrorist words" then reveal the souce is "Mother Goose" or whatever...
His leaving the country makes a much bigger statement than going into appeals courts for the next 5-7 years and loosing all your money...
Sign the contract to get your last two months pay and THEN sue them. They won't be able to uphold that contract in court without facing criminal charges of conspiracy, fraud and extortion. Have fun...
What happens if one of the employees gets "Banned" (My brother did once for disagreeing with one of thier "guides" about who was a better baseball player). Do they get fired?
With any luck, they will continue the AOL CD campaign and start giving away free "700 minute" trial PS/2's.
"But this young man did violate school rules and regulations and he understood the severity of the rules he broke." When "rules and regulations" take precidence over common sense the end is near. It is a terrible thing that he died, and it was preventable, but not when you live in a world where the great god bureaucracy rules all.
Wasn't this the entire basis for the idea of Catch-22? This isn't a new thing, this is just one of those things that was written about in th epast and finally has coem to fruition. I'm sure the Ministry of Love is just around the corner...