Yeah... these 'somebody died' news stories always result in a few predictable reactions:
Genuine tears - reserved for people with actual emotional connections to the guy (unless it's a celebrity death, in which case a wierd social dynamic kicks in)
Fake tears - its a social BS thing related to the golden rule. You earn brownie points by demonstrating your sensitivity for the dead. If you want people to boohoo at your funeral, then you're expected to register your gushing in public if you want to collect.
Silence - If you don't care, this should have been your choice.:)
Crass trolls - That'd be your generic shit-flinging monkey.
I thought font hinting only really mattered if you were running at a low crap resolution (like on PDAs) or when you wanted to have tiny printed text look a bit more legible (not that I read the fineprint anyway:)
So if fontsets aren't copyrightable but their 'special' truetype encoding is, what's preventing someone from ripping, mutating, and leaving out the hinting and such?
(guess you can tell I don't know much about fonts)
Spare me the equal protection BS. No matter your size, MOST of your money is made in the first X years. If you're still making a tidy sum on select works after that period, you could opt to reinvest in a few copyright extensions. Also, just because your work ends up in the public domain doesn't mean that people won't go support the original author for official collectors editions and such. And as for the "I wasn't a hit until 50 years later" complaint: well, you now have more name recognition to trade on, and that's pretty valuable.
("crap" was in "quotes" because it's not really crap, it's just not sell'n like hotcakes so why keep it locked up when it can do greater good in the wild?)
How about if after 10 (or rather 14) years you have to pay increasing amounts to extend your copyright. The vast majority of "crap" will lapse into the public domain sooner, but your gems can be held onto for a bit longer since the profit is paying for the renewal (up to a point).
Ever read the short story Melancholy Elephants? It's the sad story of what happens when everything is locked up in perpetual copyright for the benefit of the few.
Truly superior technology would reduce our material needs and wants, not increase them.
So when will todays hyper-consumers begin to view sustainability as sexier than More Stuff(tm)? The chicks want to have babies by guys with More Stuff(tm), so...
(I agree with ya, I'm just being a quick devils advocate:)
And I suppose if enough people went around killing other people too, they wouldn't be able to have laws against that either.
Except that that's not a good analagy because murder is inherently wrong according to 99.98% of people.
If you don't draw the line at where the law is already laid, you can't stop it from being pushed back.
That's not stopping it from being pushed forward either (in the name of terrorism, columbine, the wittle childwren, etc). How better to push back than to be disobediant when grievences aren't really being redressed.
NOT caching to begin with would be irresponsible. Why should the proxies be throwing away (popular) data that they'll just end up requesting again? Stupid waste of bandwidth ontop of the waste of bandwidth that is anon proxies.
You just better make sure that your pseudo private key is physically secure and securely passphrased when the MIBs show up to tie you to your evil nym.:)
You won't find many full albums (or movies) on gnutella or kazaa because those networks work best on small to medium sized files. eDonkey2000 is the home of large files.
It's usually a waste to download the full album though, because 90% of the songs are crap filler (and you don't have to dl the whole album for a "test drive" to know that that's going to be the case).
Just because you don't see a reason for a law doesn't invalidate the law.
Sure it does; if enough people flaunt it.
As John Perry Barlow said:
"[IP] laws are so practically unenforceable and breaking them has become so socially acceptable that only a thin minority appears compelled...to obey them....
Whenever there is such profound divergence between the law and social practice, it is not society that adapts."
That $10/mo wouldn't cover bandwidth costs if you downloaded more than a few movies per month (@ 1.4GB per 2CD compressed movie).
That's why certain companies - like eDonkey2000 creators' Transimission Films - are looking to exploit p2p by moving the costs to your computer and your ISP bill.
If I cant rise to the top by working hard then I wont do it. I would rather wallow in mediocrity like everyone else than strive for greatness only to get ripped off.
And you define greatness how? As stepping on other people and exploiting THEIR natural resources to get power, and more stuff than everyone else? What sense does that make in a world where the even poorest of the poor could live better than the rich do today? Capitalism only works when resources are scarce, and it doesn't make sense to keep abundant resources artificially limited in order to prop up old economic systems.
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Then go buy some Nike's you fuckwad.
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I wonder if it'll ever get to the point that being a stealth shill is a career choice. "Yeah, I'm majoring in Mental Engineering too!"
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Putting atoms together eh? So nanotech covers transmutation now too? :)
Guess that could have been worded better.
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So if fontsets aren't copyrightable but their 'special' truetype encoding is, what's preventing someone from ripping, mutating, and leaving out the hinting and such?
(guess you can tell I don't know much about fonts)
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("crap" was in "quotes" because it's not really crap, it's just not sell'n like hotcakes so why keep it locked up when it can do greater good in the wild?)
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p.s. Everybody knows Courtney shot Kurt Cobain. :)
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What... you think she's not secure with her age or something?
"...ah...grandma...she's only 99 years young..."
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I thought the more advanced tech for instant hot water was tankless water heating on demand at the point-of-use.
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So when will todays hyper-consumers begin to view sustainability as sexier than More Stuff(tm)? The chicks want to have babies by guys with More Stuff(tm), so...
(I agree with ya, I'm just being a quick devils advocate :)
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"Copyright Infringement" is *NOT* piracy.
Thanks.
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Except that that's not a good analagy because murder is inherently wrong according to 99.98% of people.
If you don't draw the line at where the law is already laid, you can't stop it from being pushed back.
That's not stopping it from being pushed forward either (in the name of terrorism, columbine, the wittle childwren, etc). How better to push back than to be disobediant when grievences aren't really being redressed.
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NOT caching to begin with would be irresponsible. Why should the proxies be throwing away (popular) data that they'll just end up requesting again? Stupid waste of bandwidth ontop of the waste of bandwidth that is anon proxies.
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It's usually a waste to download the full album though, because 90% of the songs are crap filler (and you don't have to dl the whole album for a "test drive" to know that that's going to be the case).
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Sure it does; if enough people flaunt it.
As John Perry Barlow said:
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That's why certain companies - like eDonkey2000 creators' Transimission Films - are looking to exploit p2p by moving the costs to your computer and your ISP bill.
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And you define greatness how? As stepping on other people and exploiting THEIR natural resources to get power, and more stuff than everyone else? What sense does that make in a world where the even poorest of the poor could live better than the rich do today? Capitalism only works when resources are scarce, and it doesn't make sense to keep abundant resources artificially limited in order to prop up old economic systems.
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Nan-dayo omae-wa?! :)
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Oshaberi!
Damare-yo!
Stolen from here ... :)
thanks - I got the impression that 'ano' was the same as excuse me since was almost always used to the same effect in getting someone's attention.
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