The one issue that would make me vote for the Pirate Party when they come to my nation is that they platform on restoring an actual PUBLIC DOMAIN. None of this pretend public domain, if it doesn't expire in my lifetime there is no public domain - there is only lip-service. A period of say 20 years or so: imagine if you could go to any bittorrent site and download any movie, music, book, or software from 1990 or before? And that's not even whats important, whats important is derivative works: say a new movie based on Alien with actual alien characters, plot devices, and characters! These new works would then be eligible for their own copyright and with a well so deep to draw from you can imagine the explosion of works that would result from having a public domain! But of course, we have now, the content industry is hoarding every work to themselves in perpetuity stealing works that could have been right out from under our noses.
Sorry it was a $640 toilet seat and a $436 hammer. Where do you think Independence Day got the kernel of truth from? Source: Here. Anybody with a grain of sense knows they were slush funds, I'm sure today that money still flows around its just not as well accounted for as a $436 hammer;)
But in the end it terminates with $500 toilet seats for the Department of Defense. You don't think anyone would actually pay $500 for a toilet seat do you? Sure funds other companies to do whatever it is they do however, presumably build more toilet seats.
Its unfortunate that short-sighted fools are dragging everyone down. I think part of a way out is trumpeting a fair public domain. Get it down to 20 years and get people used to being able to download the original Alien and put it on all their devices for free. Instead of lip-service today, if it doesn't happen in my lifetime: there is no public domain.
The BBC are suckers. They fell for the first layer of negotiating tactics: providers said they wanted DRM. The BBC took this as an absolute not an initial position. Hardly surprising nowadays given the level of piracy: citizens being fleeced every which way. But still sad, that the BBC is in effect saying: "You must own a Dell computer to access BBC content!" or in other words shackling their information to third-parties who don't actually give a fuck about the BBC or UK citizens. Way to show your publicly funded stupidity Beeb.
I don't want to pirate, I want to buy with reasonable terms. Government right now is on a crusade to preserve old business models and damn everything else. I want to see more varied things tried because they represent competition. None of that benefits the incumbents right now so they are fighting tooth and nail against it with every dirty trick. I see piracy as a force to drag obsolete business models into the 21st century, they sure as hell won't come on their own. When it comes down to my decision: I want to buy my music from Ubuntu One, the record labels refuse to sell it to me there: there is something broken. Yet they insist on painting it in simplistic terms which makes them look like the victim when in fact it is the content industry which is the "Boston Strangler." Content industries are focused on short-term maximization of profits - they are missing the boat, unfortunately without them cooperating in a graceful changeover the alternative is to kill them off and let a new generation of more nimble players replace them. Yes, I'm still sore that while on paper we "have" a public domain in practice it has been stolen and all the potential works it could have spawned with it.
Vouching to get in and never seeing anyone above you like in World War II allied prison camps worked decently but is it scalable? If you could establish a backbone then go back a few decades and its people going over to their friends house (who happens to have access to the backbone or knows someone who does) to get data. Of course it won't be the latest stuff as this introduces lag into distribution. Then there is the sheer amount of data which is what p2p solves right now, someone having that exact mp3 your looking for would be rare in such a system. Of course the greatest weakness of such a system is if rights-holders actually offered access, decent prices, and sane formats for their information.. I know the Ubuntu One Music Store in Canada doesn't get any major record label music - perhaps this is what 301 status actually translates into;) They won't let me be a customer!
Rapidshare is changing, perhaps the catalyst was this decision: TorrentFreak and also the fact that they share uploader information with rights-holders: TorrentFreak. All in all I think this represents a change of strategy by rights-holders: they know they can't win any public sympathy by suing the life-blood out of a single-mother with a family of five so instead they are going after the faceless "platforms." So, geeks, write some decentralized platforms now! Something that ideally lets you put in a seed and that is your first connection and then web-of-trust from there!
Love how the story summary omits completely that Ati hardware for DirectX 11 exists now and has for months. nVidia gets treated like its the only player that matters?? Oh but Ati gets mentioned with 5 year old hardware... The article has a point but is surrounded by astroturfing.
Remember the Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode where Quark is trying to get a replacement module to go in the head of Garrak (my spellings are probably atrocious), anyway: he contacts a "supplier" in the Cardasian government and asks him to look up the part number for him. The supplier does so and his computer informs him that by looking up that part number he has been automatically sentenced to 20 years or so of hard labor. Now that's efficiency. Quark hastily says good bye and cuts the connection.
I think the exact same words apply to politics in the United States! They are more arbitrary in their decisions over there but the lack of players also reverberates over here..
You Americans have the beginnings of civil war on your hands... I'm not kidding: the raping and pillaging of your nation is beginning to bite even ordinary people in the ass. When that happens all it will take is for some kook to fire a potshot at Ferdinand and watch it snowball from there. This'll be interesting, first time of a civil war with a nation that has nuclear weapons. Perhaps your military should just sequester them?
Is nVidia turning into an "also-ran"? I'm not stating, I'm asking. The reason they are "protecting" their drivers is because it "contains" proprietary secrets. If I'm not mistaken Ati is kicking their ass right now so is their strategy paying off for them? nVidia spent a lot of money promoting themselves in game title screens while arguably Ati just went out and built better hardware. Perhaps nVidia needs to refocus on "technical" advances instead of "marketing" ones.
Nothing beats a: Popcorn Hour device. It integrates into your home network and is great for getting media off of your PCs to your TV - wherever your network is it is. It doesn't handle DRM well but hey if your files are DRM'd your doing it wrong;) It is a Linux device that integrates fine with Windows stuff that is what it is meant for but being Linux it also handles all your Linux systems, it supports NFS and even has Linux versions of the media servers to run on your Linux box.
I was excited about the Ubuntu One Music Store but then I found out it is gimped in Canada: indie artists only. So once again record labels keep my money out of their pockets!;)
So the reason Microsoft is not allowing native applications is because they are requiring apps to run in either Silverlight or XNA. This is a classic strike against for-profit closed-source: their priorities do not always line up with their users. Remove the profit-motive and all of a sudden you are following your users not trying to make your own tech the standard of the day. I like my software bottom-up please, not top-down.
I never used to support the NRA when I was a kid, now I think it should be a legal requirement for every household to own at least one fully-automatic machine gun and enough ammunition to take out a city block. This realization emerged when I began to see random loss of life as less important than shooting the soldier who won't listen to you - a Citizen - but instead listens to centralized government. I don't trust my local government any more but I can go to my representatives house and beat the snot out of him/her, the bunch in Washington it too insulated from a good old fashioned hanging to make balanced decisions anymore.
I happen to think that piracy is stealing. I also happen to think that copyright needs a major re-write to catch up to information networks. My opinion is not consensus although the consensus might agree with it.
You're confusing me with an "us." To me theft is theft and I call it what I will. There is no "us." Trying to average out all slashdot comments into a abstract individual will inevitably lead to schizophrenia in whatever that definition ends up being.
My code is GPL because I believe in stone-soup. I'm sitting before a Free operating system and eco-system of applications because enough people feel the same. As a philosophy, and not as a practical matter, I'm against my code being close-sourced. I want people to be able to change my code in ways I didn't imagine - not lock it up behind a profit motive. If someone does have a profit motive then let them choose whatever license suits them - and not use my code. I'm into Free software and the reason those lesser licenses ended up being the basis for some good infrastructure is because the closed-source people could lock them up and sell it. I say lets finish killing closed-source! Then we won't have to worry about those lock-up licenses. Enough people have seen the benefits of cooperation already, the GPL is here to stay.
I've always viewed the GPL as democracy for software. It is an inclusive license not a divisive one. The restriction it does have against close-sourcing is there to preserve the, as you say, commons. Without preserving itself the GNU philosophy values of GPL code would be ripped off even more than now and incorporated into closed-source offerings without credit, recognition of ownership, or the Freedom to cooperate. Closed-source offerings that steal GPL code don't often recognize the irony that they are saying it is ok to steal their code as well. The basis for all licenses right now is copyright. I don't think it is ok to steal GPL code and by saying that I also don't think it is ok to steal Microsoft Office. If it is legal to steal GPL code then the same logic says burn a copy of Microsoft Office for WINE.
Then don't use it. Anywhere. The Freedom to rip it off is not included. It's is - as someone else mentioned - Freedom for EVERYONE not Freedom for YOU.
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The one issue that would make me vote for the Pirate Party when they come to my nation is that they platform on restoring an actual PUBLIC DOMAIN. None of this pretend public domain, if it doesn't expire in my lifetime there is no public domain - there is only lip-service. A period of say 20 years or so: imagine if you could go to any bittorrent site and download any movie, music, book, or software from 1990 or before? And that's not even whats important, whats important is derivative works: say a new movie based on Alien with actual alien characters, plot devices, and characters! These new works would then be eligible for their own copyright and with a well so deep to draw from you can imagine the explosion of works that would result from having a public domain! But of course, we have now, the content industry is hoarding every work to themselves in perpetuity stealing works that could have been right out from under our noses.
Sorry it was a $640 toilet seat and a $436 hammer. Where do you think Independence Day got the kernel of truth from? Source: Here. Anybody with a grain of sense knows they were slush funds, I'm sure today that money still flows around its just not as well accounted for as a $436 hammer ;)
But in the end it terminates with $500 toilet seats for the Department of Defense. You don't think anyone would actually pay $500 for a toilet seat do you? Sure funds other companies to do whatever it is they do however, presumably build more toilet seats.
Its unfortunate that short-sighted fools are dragging everyone down. I think part of a way out is trumpeting a fair public domain. Get it down to 20 years and get people used to being able to download the original Alien and put it on all their devices for free. Instead of lip-service today, if it doesn't happen in my lifetime: there is no public domain.
The BBC are suckers. They fell for the first layer of negotiating tactics: providers said they wanted DRM. The BBC took this as an absolute not an initial position. Hardly surprising nowadays given the level of piracy: citizens being fleeced every which way. But still sad, that the BBC is in effect saying: "You must own a Dell computer to access BBC content!" or in other words shackling their information to third-parties who don't actually give a fuck about the BBC or UK citizens. Way to show your publicly funded stupidity Beeb.
I don't want to pirate, I want to buy with reasonable terms. Government right now is on a crusade to preserve old business models and damn everything else. I want to see more varied things tried because they represent competition. None of that benefits the incumbents right now so they are fighting tooth and nail against it with every dirty trick. I see piracy as a force to drag obsolete business models into the 21st century, they sure as hell won't come on their own. When it comes down to my decision: I want to buy my music from Ubuntu One, the record labels refuse to sell it to me there: there is something broken. Yet they insist on painting it in simplistic terms which makes them look like the victim when in fact it is the content industry which is the "Boston Strangler." Content industries are focused on short-term maximization of profits - they are missing the boat, unfortunately without them cooperating in a graceful changeover the alternative is to kill them off and let a new generation of more nimble players replace them. Yes, I'm still sore that while on paper we "have" a public domain in practice it has been stolen and all the potential works it could have spawned with it.
Vouching to get in and never seeing anyone above you like in World War II allied prison camps worked decently but is it scalable? If you could establish a backbone then go back a few decades and its people going over to their friends house (who happens to have access to the backbone or knows someone who does) to get data. Of course it won't be the latest stuff as this introduces lag into distribution. Then there is the sheer amount of data which is what p2p solves right now, someone having that exact mp3 your looking for would be rare in such a system. Of course the greatest weakness of such a system is if rights-holders actually offered access, decent prices, and sane formats for their information.. I know the Ubuntu One Music Store in Canada doesn't get any major record label music - perhaps this is what 301 status actually translates into ;) They won't let me be a customer!
Rapidshare is changing, perhaps the catalyst was this decision: TorrentFreak and also the fact that they share uploader information with rights-holders: TorrentFreak. All in all I think this represents a change of strategy by rights-holders: they know they can't win any public sympathy by suing the life-blood out of a single-mother with a family of five so instead they are going after the faceless "platforms." So, geeks, write some decentralized platforms now! Something that ideally lets you put in a seed and that is your first connection and then web-of-trust from there!
Love how the story summary omits completely that Ati hardware for DirectX 11 exists now and has for months. nVidia gets treated like its the only player that matters?? Oh but Ati gets mentioned with 5 year old hardware... The article has a point but is surrounded by astroturfing.
I think your full of it. The republic that is the US serves very few interests and none of them are you.
Remember the Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode where Quark is trying to get a replacement module to go in the head of Garrak (my spellings are probably atrocious), anyway: he contacts a "supplier" in the Cardasian government and asks him to look up the part number for him. The supplier does so and his computer informs him that by looking up that part number he has been automatically sentenced to 20 years or so of hard labor. Now that's efficiency. Quark hastily says good bye and cuts the connection.
I think the exact same words apply to politics in the United States! They are more arbitrary in their decisions over there but the lack of players also reverberates over here..
You Americans have the beginnings of civil war on your hands... I'm not kidding: the raping and pillaging of your nation is beginning to bite even ordinary people in the ass. When that happens all it will take is for some kook to fire a potshot at Ferdinand and watch it snowball from there. This'll be interesting, first time of a civil war with a nation that has nuclear weapons. Perhaps your military should just sequester them?
Is nVidia turning into an "also-ran"? I'm not stating, I'm asking. The reason they are "protecting" their drivers is because it "contains" proprietary secrets. If I'm not mistaken Ati is kicking their ass right now so is their strategy paying off for them? nVidia spent a lot of money promoting themselves in game title screens while arguably Ati just went out and built better hardware. Perhaps nVidia needs to refocus on "technical" advances instead of "marketing" ones.
Nothing beats a: Popcorn Hour device. It integrates into your home network and is great for getting media off of your PCs to your TV - wherever your network is it is. It doesn't handle DRM well but hey if your files are DRM'd your doing it wrong ;) It is a Linux device that integrates fine with Windows stuff that is what it is meant for but being Linux it also handles all your Linux systems, it supports NFS and even has Linux versions of the media servers to run on your Linux box.
This person is the last in line for people with a voice, next up all the little people. A dirty war with lots of "disappeared."
I was excited about the Ubuntu One Music Store but then I found out it is gimped in Canada: indie artists only. So once again record labels keep my money out of their pockets! ;)
So the reason Microsoft is not allowing native applications is because they are requiring apps to run in either Silverlight or XNA. This is a classic strike against for-profit closed-source: their priorities do not always line up with their users. Remove the profit-motive and all of a sudden you are following your users not trying to make your own tech the standard of the day. I like my software bottom-up please, not top-down.
I never used to support the NRA when I was a kid, now I think it should be a legal requirement for every household to own at least one fully-automatic machine gun and enough ammunition to take out a city block. This realization emerged when I began to see random loss of life as less important than shooting the soldier who won't listen to you - a Citizen - but instead listens to centralized government. I don't trust my local government any more but I can go to my representatives house and beat the snot out of him/her, the bunch in Washington it too insulated from a good old fashioned hanging to make balanced decisions anymore.
Oracle has a profit motive to release buggy products?
I happen to think that piracy is stealing. I also happen to think that copyright needs a major re-write to catch up to information networks. My opinion is not consensus although the consensus might agree with it.
You're confusing me with an "us." To me theft is theft and I call it what I will. There is no "us." Trying to average out all slashdot comments into a abstract individual will inevitably lead to schizophrenia in whatever that definition ends up being.
My code is GPL because I believe in stone-soup. I'm sitting before a Free operating system and eco-system of applications because enough people feel the same. As a philosophy, and not as a practical matter, I'm against my code being close-sourced. I want people to be able to change my code in ways I didn't imagine - not lock it up behind a profit motive. If someone does have a profit motive then let them choose whatever license suits them - and not use my code. I'm into Free software and the reason those lesser licenses ended up being the basis for some good infrastructure is because the closed-source people could lock them up and sell it. I say lets finish killing closed-source! Then we won't have to worry about those lock-up licenses. Enough people have seen the benefits of cooperation already, the GPL is here to stay.
I've always viewed the GPL as democracy for software. It is an inclusive license not a divisive one. The restriction it does have against close-sourcing is there to preserve the, as you say, commons. Without preserving itself the GNU philosophy values of GPL code would be ripped off even more than now and incorporated into closed-source offerings without credit, recognition of ownership, or the Freedom to cooperate. Closed-source offerings that steal GPL code don't often recognize the irony that they are saying it is ok to steal their code as well. The basis for all licenses right now is copyright. I don't think it is ok to steal GPL code and by saying that I also don't think it is ok to steal Microsoft Office. If it is legal to steal GPL code then the same logic says burn a copy of Microsoft Office for WINE.
Then don't use it. Anywhere. The Freedom to rip it off is not included. It's is - as someone else mentioned - Freedom for EVERYONE not Freedom for YOU.