This goes beyond spiderman. These same restrictions are put on software, scientific papers, books, rules of games, the likeness of popular character, etc, etc.
Things which do matter beyond a pure entertainment level.
Copyright reaches way too far and is the reason innovation is forced to be driven by money and not by necessity.
That leaves you with one question:
Movies also make money from merchandise and actual theatre performaces - but even if they didn't, what's more important - the next "spiderman" movie, or the right to freely trade information?
Fair enough.
Except..
With the fire analogy
1) Since when have any of these ideas been totally invented by one person? They are all derivitive ideas in the first place.
2) Software isn't of purely asthetic value and does have practical purpose.
No, I was using it as an analogy. Of course software is nowhere near as important as food, but the why should you have any less reason to copy it for the benefit of your neighbors?
It goes beyond duplication costs. Titanic only costs a few cents to duplicate, it cost $200 million to make. That's the difference. You aren't paying for the DVD, your paying for the Actors, Producers, Film, Cameras, etc. Same goes for software, music, and any other "information".
No, movie investors are paying for that expecting me to pay for the distribution.
Some people don't seem to see the fundamental differences between copying information and taking tangible objects from somebody elses possession. Thus many analogies are skewed.
Today the value of CD's, Movies and Television Shows are artificially controlled by limiting the means of distribution. The problem the entertainment\software industry is having now is that anyone with a home computer can be their own distributer and as a result their business model is obsolete. So in order to protect their business they are investing in lawmakers to pass laws that make it illegal for consumers to copy certain types of information.
While making money is important, it is not as important as a consumers right to freely distribute information to friends, relatives or even strangers.
Say there was a man who could take a loaf of bread and make an exact copy of it. Then this man feeds everyone around him with the copies of this bread. Should he be put in jail for depriving the breadmakers of a living? Of course not, because it is understood that the distribution of the bread is more important than a few people profiting from it.
Say I buy an apple. I eat it down to it's core and then plant the seeds. The seeds grow into a tree full of apples that I choose to give away. Would that be considered stealing? Of course not. I bought the apple and I have the right to make copies of it.
Say I ask a man to light a candle so I can see in the dark. He charges me 50 cents. Afterwards I take my candle and transfer my flame to all my neighbors candles. Was this stealing? Of course not! This man has no right to control the spread of fire just because he is the originator.
Whether it's fire, a pattern of sounds and lights or a sequence of ones and zeros it should not be the property of any one person or corporation. It is to societies benefit that information flows freely.
I might be wrong, but this is just how I see things.
or a smooth rock rolling down the side of a pyramid, the same concept applies.
And, yes they had trees, genius.
Sycamore Fig,Myrrh,Persea,Tamarisk,Pomegranate
Date Palm, Sunt-tree, etc...
That is simply amazing - You can calculate the position of the stars, Build a massive pyramid from the ground up with preplanned tunnels, Amputate arms, invent beer, yet nobody ever
saw a log rolling a hill and thought "Gee, that could be useful!"
You create an arbitrarily sized table of randomly placed 1's and 0's...
Then what you trade is files that reference where in the table the bytes for your file located in sequence...
Would this still be considered piracy or intellectual property?
Hey, see that moon? No that one there.
I think that moon is a bit of a spy. Yes I do. There was a moon like that on the summer of my sixteenth year. Some say I was sixteen but [sigh] I don't know. And there was a girl, too; her name was Marie. At night together we would walk down by the sea and oh my god if you could see the body on this woman. The way at night her long legs would stick into the moist night sand like gods own barge poles, you know. And I longed to tell her the feeling I had in my heart for her but the words would not come, they would not come through my spotty adolescent face, they would not come through my angry hair or my sweaty feet or any other part on this body that I know call a man. So the words je t'aime were never passed between us but the moon, yes, that moon spied on us.
I wonder how they actually make it look clearer. Is it because they make the surroundings blurry, or put more colors, or is it simply the power of suggestion...
At some point the data gets unencrypted so it can be read... Wouldn't people just copy this information to disk rather than the encrypted information on the CD?
Because you might need the net in an emergency or something.
Say the international compter conspiracy ("The Beast") targets you and you, and suddenly you are being chased by the secret police and you need to hack into various agencies to clear your name or expose the truth to the public!!....
Maybe your wife is right, but I bet you if she heard a juicy conversation that got crossed over the neighbors baby monitor to yours, she would listen.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, that's what I tell my kids when I want to play Grand Theft Auto too.
they put the most horrid watermark overtop of the images and the workspace!
It obstructs so many things it is impossible to effectively learn from it.
I would have been happier if the renderer skipped every other line or was limited in some other way.
If they would have left the workspace alone and made the render watermark just a bit more translucent, it would have been perfect for learning.
If your product is just sound vibrations, anyone can replicate them for free.
Why should they pay you for something they can do themselves?
Could they have written your song? Probably not. But you arn't selling originial composition, you are selling the distribution of a performance.
Tell that to Gene Simmons.
Kiss Coffin anyone?
If god is offended by what is on those 3:12am web sites I will simply tell him:
"Don't complain to me, complain to the manufacturer."
Besides, you're a christian. You have no secrets from God.
The eye in the sky is always watching you.
Who needs big brother, you got big daddy.
Gee, which religion has the most suffering?
This religion will surely bring the most rewards!
Anything else is just hippy-flower-sniffing!
Screw quality of life - it's quality of death that concerns us!
Look at yer heed! Eets like an orange on a toothpick!
It's a misdirection so they can steal your arctic circle candy!
No, spiderman is not a pressing matter.
This goes beyond spiderman. These same restrictions are put on software, scientific papers, books, rules of games, the likeness of popular character, etc, etc.
Things which do matter beyond a pure entertainment level.
Copyright reaches way too far and is the reason innovation is forced to be driven by money and not by necessity.
That leaves you with one question: Movies also make money from merchandise and actual theatre performaces - but even if they didn't, what's more important - the next "spiderman" movie, or the right to freely trade information?
Fair enough. Except.. With the fire analogy 1) Since when have any of these ideas been totally invented by one person? They are all derivitive ideas in the first place. 2) Software isn't of purely asthetic value and does have practical purpose.
Some people don't seem to see the fundamental differences between copying information and taking
tangible objects from somebody elses possession. Thus many analogies are skewed.
Today the value of CD's, Movies and Television Shows are artificially controlled by limiting the means
of distribution. The problem the entertainment\software industry is having now is that anyone with a home
computer can be their own distributer and as a result their business model is obsolete. So in order
to protect their business they are investing in lawmakers to pass laws that make it illegal for
consumers to copy certain types of information.
While making money is important, it is not as important as a consumers right to
freely distribute information to friends, relatives or even strangers.
Say there was a man who could take a loaf of bread and make an exact copy of it.
Then this man feeds everyone around him with the copies of this bread. Should he be put
in jail for depriving the breadmakers of a living? Of course not, because it is
understood that the distribution of the bread is more important than a few people
profiting from it.
Say I buy an apple. I eat it down to it's core and then plant the seeds. The seeds grow into a tree full
of apples that I choose to give away. Would that be considered stealing? Of course not. I bought the
apple and I have the right to make copies of it.
Say I ask a man to light a candle so I can see in the dark. He charges me 50 cents. Afterwards I take
my candle and transfer my flame to all my neighbors candles. Was this stealing? Of course not! This man
has no right to control the spread of fire just because he is the originator.
Whether it's fire, a pattern of sounds and lights or a sequence of ones and zeros it should not be the
property of any one person or corporation. It is to societies benefit that information flows freely.
I might be wrong, but this is just how I see things.
or a smooth rock rolling down the side of a pyramid, the same concept applies. And, yes they had trees, genius. Sycamore Fig,Myrrh,Persea,Tamarisk,Pomegranate Date Palm, Sunt-tree, etc...
I think it was more about religious fervor. Which is a type of slavery.
Probably happened like this:
Scholars calculate the eclipse down to the minute and then.
"I am all mighty pharoah, build me a pyramid, or I will hide sun!"
"Yeah right!"
"Okay, you asked for it! *waves hands*"
"HOLY SHIT!! OH PLEASE MAKE IT COME BACK!! WE PROMISE TO BE GOOD!"
"Hmm... Well, I am a benevolent god, so, if you work real hard..."
"Oh we will!"
*waits for scholars to give signal* *pharoah waves hand*
"OH THANK YOU PHAROAH!!! BACK TO WORK!"
That is simply amazing - You can calculate the position of the stars, Build a massive pyramid from the ground up with preplanned tunnels, Amputate arms, invent beer, yet nobody ever saw a log rolling a hill and thought "Gee, that could be useful!"
"oops, I did it again!
Cut a hole in your heart
and my watch fell in."
You create an arbitrarily sized table of randomly placed 1's and 0's... Then what you trade is files that reference where in the table the bytes for your file located in sequence... Would this still be considered piracy or intellectual property?
Give em a break, DorkKnox.
Hey, see that moon? No that one there. I think that moon is a bit of a spy. Yes I do. There was a moon like that on the summer of my sixteenth year. Some say I was sixteen but [sigh] I don't know. And there was a girl, too; her name was Marie. At night together we would walk down by the sea and oh my god if you could see the body on this woman. The way at night her long legs would stick into the moist night sand like gods own barge poles, you know. And I longed to tell her the feeling I had in my heart for her but the words would not come, they would not come through my spotty adolescent face, they would not come through my angry hair or my sweaty feet or any other part on this body that I know call a man. So the words je t'aime were never passed between us but the moon, yes, that moon spied on us.
I wonder how they actually make it look clearer. Is it because they make the surroundings blurry, or put more colors, or is it simply the power of suggestion...
At some point the data gets unencrypted so it can be read... Wouldn't people just copy this information to disk rather than the encrypted information on the CD?
Because you might need the net in an emergency or something.
....
Say the international compter conspiracy ("The Beast") targets you and you, and suddenly you are being chased by the secret police and you need to hack into various agencies to clear your name or expose the truth to the public!!
Maybe your wife is right, but I bet you if she heard a juicy conversation that got crossed over the neighbors baby monitor to yours, she would listen.