I "Like" all my representatives regardless of party and whether or not I agree with them. In essence what I want to do is "follow" them so I can keep tabs on what my representative's PR machine is pumping out.
Individual creators don't really stand to gain much by stopping piracy. It's mostly the entities to whom the creations are transferred to, meaning individuals are (typically) benefited indirectly at best.
1. This is a choice (albeit usually a steady income is chosen over trying to market and distribute material yourself.
2. I wouldn't marginalize the indirect benefit. Actors still get paid well.
our society, for the longest time, did *not* put a price tag on culture. Music, knowledge, the arts
That may be true. But piracy is not just culture items. What about software? As a software engineer it would be nice to create an Android app and sell it and not have to worry about one person buying it and then everyone else getting it for free. I deserve (maybe) more than 99 cents for the effort I put into creating the game. I agree with patent reform (the current state of software patents makes me more scared to create that Android game than piracy) and reducing copy-write limitations (great video about the history of it). 28 years is plenty for me. If people still want to buy version 1.0 of my software after 28 years, then the masses can have it!
ps. I appreciate your time in having this constructive debate.
Maybe it is. I don't have the philosophical finesse right now to think of a way to support the statement "Stopping piracy is evil", but I imagine a somewhat convincing case could be made for it. In any event, "stopping piracy" should not be immediately and universally recognized as a Good Thing.
I'm not philosopher, but one of the reasons our society works is that there is general agreement that we own the product of our labors. In many cases we transfer that ownership to our employers for exchange of a steady income. If piracy were widespread and accepted, there would be many talented folks who would not expend the effort to create software, music, movies, etc. because they would get nothing tangible in return.
You could argue that we should all work for the good of society as a whole, but in the real world communism doesn't work. The important thing to do is find a balance between capitalism and individual rights. The creator should have the choice of whether they want to give it to everyone or charge 99 cents on then Android market. When it comes to stopping piracy I don't understand how anyone can be against creators having ownership and control over their creations.
I haven't seen any detailed legislation, but assuming it does what it says it does, it would be nice if those against SOPA could put some weight behind this approach instead.
One "space" that his could do well in, is those who want to read digital comic books. E-Readers can't do color. Phones are too small. Other tablets are too expensive for this.
I understand this is a small segment of the marketplace, but I would really like to see digital comic books take off.
My interpretation of your statement was that that industry (corporations) regulate (control) the government therefore causing laws that are so corporate friendly that they are designed to create/maintain the so-called "1%".
Ah, if only it involved killing foreigners. Then you don't have to worry about laws.
Bush is really lucky that Cheney did that whole 9/11 thing. After that he did whatever he wanted.
I heard on NPR today that while 2% of the latest increases in health insurance costs could be attributed to the ACA, the other 98% of the increases were a combination of insurance companies pre-emptively raising rates in case health care costs went up further in the future, and actual increases in current health care costs that had nothing to do with the Affordable Care Act.
Do you mean a serial number that could be tracked back to the store? A lot of games force online registering which would be a great way to track the thief to the incident! Or am I being naive to think that game companies track serials to that level of distribution?
When is the last time you voted for a member of the FCC board?
"The People" only have indirect influence on these kinds of organizations. All you can do is shout really loud and hope you can be heard over the deafening tone of corporate controlled media.
"In 1901, the American inventor King Camp Gillette, with the assistance of William Nickerson, invented a safety razor with disposable blades. Gillette realized that a profit could be made by selling an inexpensive razor with disposable blades. This has been called the Razor and blades business model, or a "loss leader", and has become a very common practice for a wide variety of products."
Could they store the data in the cloud like a RAID 0 array is set up? Only half the bits are on one server vs. another making it harder to extract data if a single server is compromised? Are they already doing something like this?
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I "Like" all my representatives regardless of party and whether or not I agree with them. In essence what I want to do is "follow" them so I can keep tabs on what my representative's PR machine is pumping out.
This is great. If real embarrassing information is leaked, they can just claim it was part of this program...
Individual creators don't really stand to gain much by stopping piracy. It's mostly the entities to whom the creations are transferred to, meaning individuals are (typically) benefited indirectly at best.
1. This is a choice (albeit usually a steady income is chosen over trying to market and distribute material yourself.
2. I wouldn't marginalize the indirect benefit. Actors still get paid well.
our society, for the longest time, did *not* put a price tag on culture. Music, knowledge, the arts
That may be true. But piracy is not just culture items. What about software? As a software engineer it would be nice to create an Android app and sell it and not have to worry about one person buying it and then everyone else getting it for free. I deserve (maybe) more than 99 cents for the effort I put into creating the game. I agree with patent reform (the current state of software patents makes me more scared to create that Android game than piracy) and reducing copy-write limitations (great video about the history of it). 28 years is plenty for me. If people still want to buy version 1.0 of my software after 28 years, then the masses can have it!
ps. I appreciate your time in having this constructive debate.
Stopping piracy is not evil.
Maybe it is. I don't have the philosophical finesse right now to think of a way to support the statement "Stopping piracy is evil", but I imagine a somewhat convincing case could be made for it. In any event, "stopping piracy" should not be immediately and universally recognized as a Good Thing.
I'm not philosopher, but one of the reasons our society works is that there is general agreement that we own the product of our labors. In many cases we transfer that ownership to our employers for exchange of a steady income. If piracy were widespread and accepted, there would be many talented folks who would not expend the effort to create software, music, movies, etc. because they would get nothing tangible in return.
You could argue that we should all work for the good of society as a whole, but in the real world communism doesn't work. The important thing to do is find a balance between capitalism and individual rights. The creator should have the choice of whether they want to give it to everyone or charge 99 cents on then Android market. When it comes to stopping piracy I don't understand how anyone can be against creators having ownership and control over their creations.
Lesser evil does not make evil good. If it bears any resemblance to SOPA it's just as evil.
Stopping piracy is not evil. But the methods to do so can be.
Philip DeFranco would say Kansas!
Perma-link to Jerry Moran's Press Release
My Kansas Senator is proposing an alternative: http://moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ID=4a3d7f95-6208-445f-9e25-2f290a334938
I haven't seen any detailed legislation, but assuming it does what it says it does, it would be nice if those against SOPA could put some weight behind this approach instead.
Or are not all protesters created equal?
No. We are not created equal. We do however deserve equal rights. Some would even argue equal opportunity.
How is Comodo Dragon different from running Chrome in "Incognito" mode?
One "space" that his could do well in, is those who want to read digital comic books. E-Readers can't do color. Phones are too small. Other tablets are too expensive for this.
I understand this is a small segment of the marketplace, but I would really like to see digital comic books take off.
Good word choice.
My interpretation of your statement was that that industry (corporations) regulate (control) the government therefore causing laws that are so corporate friendly that they are designed to create/maintain the so-called "1%".
In other words... the problem is that industry regulates the government.
Is this the "job-killing" regulation everyone is talking about?
Ah, if only it involved killing foreigners. Then you don't have to worry about laws. Bush is really lucky that Cheney did that whole 9/11 thing. After that he did whatever he wanted.
Off topic but so true.
I heard on NPR today that while 2% of the latest increases in health insurance costs could be attributed to the ACA, the other 98% of the increases were a combination of insurance companies pre-emptively raising rates in case health care costs went up further in the future, and actual increases in current health care costs that had nothing to do with the Affordable Care Act.
Props for calling it ACA instead of Obamacare.
I think we are a long way from widespread streaming of HD movies. Until then, I want my Blu-ray.
Do you mean a serial number that could be tracked back to the store? A lot of games force online registering which would be a great way to track the thief to the incident! Or am I being naive to think that game companies track serials to that level of distribution?
True, but it made click on my RSS feed to go to Slashdot.
Yet another Slashdot misleading article FTW!
Kudos for a well thought out comment. Such a rare gem on a message board.
I used to be an optimist, but then I moved to Kansas...
I don't know how to do that with Congress.
Simple - Just vote! right?
When is the last time you voted for a member of the FCC board?
"The People" only have indirect influence on these kinds of organizations. All you can do is shout really loud and hope you can be heard over the deafening tone of corporate controlled media.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_blades
"In 1901, the American inventor King Camp Gillette, with the assistance of William Nickerson, invented a safety razor with disposable blades. Gillette realized that a profit could be made by selling an inexpensive razor with disposable blades. This has been called the Razor and blades business model, or a "loss leader", and has become a very common practice for a wide variety of products."
Apparently a lot of people have never heard of the capital of my state and need to do a search to find out. Google Trends: What does Topeka mean?
Could they store the data in the cloud like a RAID 0 array is set up? Only half the bits are on one server vs. another making it harder to extract data if a single server is compromised? Are they already doing something like this?