As someone attempting to get a creative work published:
1. I have no problem with this. I'd be happy with the original fourteen years. Though, if I haven't gotten it published until year 13, I may want a recount.:)
2. Unless it takes me most of the term of the copyright to get the work out there, I don't see a reason for an extension.
Perhaps the extension could be 0.5X years. So in the case of 14 years, you get up to 21 years. Not too terribly long, but if you can't make money off of something in two decades, it's probably not happening.
3. This is the interesting part. I wish like hell all of this was law, because there are a lot of things that aren't being distributed that I'd like to get my hands on -- old video games (DOS, Apple, Amiga, consoles) are a good example. Music and books that are out of print is another example.
4-5. Given.
I think a healthy public domain is a Good Thing(tm). Projects like Gutenberg could become amazing if copyright expired after fourteen years. Books written in 1994 would be available this year, instead of books written in the 1920s and 30s. As it stands, even a book as old as Gone With the Wind is too new to be on PG.
Eh, I went from Slackware to Ubuntu because I wanted it to just work. My printer randomly stopped working and refused to reinstall no matter what I did, I spent hours reading about my printer and Linux, CUPS, etc. Nothing worked, at all. I bought the printer for its linux support. After a while I decided that it wasn't worth my time to fuck with text file configurations, recompile things, and in general be frustrated that no one had an answer.
If that makes me a luser, it's a badge I'll wear proudly while I use my time to do something other than fight with programs written for people who live in basements and consider what distribution they use a realistic indicator of the size of their cocks.
I've been playing nethack since before this version came out, and I still enjoy it.
I simply don't play it to death. I recently played through another old game mentioned earlier on in comments, Mario 3. It was fun and still one of my favorite Marios. But I don't play it every single day.
For those of us who don't play games all the time or for many hours at a time, nethack can still be a great fun game, even without conducts.
also, people still play SOLITAIRE for hours a day. And minesweeper. Nethack is a LOT more complex than those.
I don't know, I think it'd be better NOT to have the two bodies in the safe. They'd start to stink... then you'd have to either explain to everyone who comes within smelling distance or keep adding to your collection.
- 90% "I want to pirate this stuff". (I'm in these 90%, but I don't fool myself) - 10% "I want to put the contents of the disk on my central media streaming server" (And I'm being generous here)
No.
Because the 90% who want to pirate would just torrent. No DRM has stopped piracy. No DRM will, because someone somewhere will figure a way around it. So the actual people being annoyed by DRM are the legitimate owners.
I don't fall into the group of people who oppose copyright as a whole (though the extensions and things such as the DMCA...), but I do absolutely detest DRM because time and time again it's shown to only hurt the people who buy movies.
Also, is it piracy if I rip a movie from DVD (that I bought) so I can watch it without that stupid "you wouldn't steal a car..." commercial and unskippable(tm) annoyances at the start? At least with VHS I could fast forward past the FBI warning...
while Wii and Xbox360 owners will be seeing more of the same as the limitations of their console hardware are already beginning to make themselves felt.
Yeah because, Jesus Christ, I need to see the sweaty zits as Mario saves the Princess.
There's obviously a rather large demographic that doesn't care about "the hardware." What is with this mentality of "dur my system is the PIMPEST"? Let me guess -- do you have spinners on your car?
Can't speak for OP, but... I don't like FPS games that much, at least not enough for them to be enough to ditch the console. Some people like other game types. Also, I'm one of the types of people who isn't big on multiplayer -- generally, I only play a multiplayer game if someone else asks. Not saying it isn't fun, it's just not for me.
This isn't to say I don't enjoy FPSs -- I've been playing them since Wolfenstein 3D (on the PC; please God save me from the SNES atrocity...). There are just enough games on consoles that aren't available for the PC to justify it for me, and apparently many others.
I think I qualify as a "younger person" and I like the library of books I've built up for myself. It has nothing to do with ego; I don't parade my shelves around in front of people or point it out. They're not prominently displayed. They're just there. I like them. I still have the first fantasy novel I ever read, over ten years ago. I haven't read it in a while, but I might someday.
There's a sort of connection some of us have with books. We just like books. Some people collect stamps, or old computers. I collect books. It doesn't make me in any way superior to someone who collects funny looking rocks or slime. I just like 'em.
I also have a boatload of old video games. I don't use them to say "Look! I'm more gamer than you, I have more NES and Genesis games!"
Where did you get this mental image of people who keep books as some sort of demented supervillains who want their rings kissed?;)
My ISP actually has a set kb up/down. I am paying for these speeds. If I am using 100% of my upstream and say it's (something low like:) 128kb/s, and this kills my neighbor's connection?
Then my ISP has fucked up royally and it's not my fault.
maybe you should swipe some apples from the local food store
Not the same, unless the food store can produce exact copies of the apple for free. To make it the same: To compare, the apples would have to only taste like apples if I stole them, but if I bought them, they taste like apple flavored candy.
its just self righteous pricks like you that think the world owes them a living which means the rest of us, who are honest have to deal with the fallout in terms of DRM.
I'm honest, and I buy my media. But I avoid the RIAA and MPAA on principle. I also produce content that can be digitally ripped off, but I don't treat customers like they're fucking scumbags because of the possibility.
Didn't your parents teach you right from wrong?
Yes, and I'm pretty sure rootkitting someone's computer is wrong. I'm pretty sure expecting someone to pay you for the same media every time the format changes is wrong. What about the MLB downloaded video issue? People gave them money and now can't access their stuff. That's pretty wrong.
DRM only hurts paying customers. It never hurts pirates. So there is no justification for it.
Insisting on DRM (which only hurts people who pay for music), insisting on charging more than people are willing to pay (hence a slump in CD sales), suing twelve year olds... etc etc.
Also, they don't really have a right to make money. If they can't figure out a way to make their music and make a profit, I guess they'll have to stop making music, won't they? Guess they'll have to get new fucking jobs and pay their way.
Afghanistan and Iraq, we're not fighting a nation, but rather guerrillas.
Vietnam was pretty much fought to be a stalemate.
We have not unleashed a whole lot of force on the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan because we're trying to minimize civilian deaths. While civilians are dying, they're not dying in the numbers they could be. We have that luxury now; we're not fighting for the survival of the country so we can be slow and patient. If it was against China, we wouldn't have a choice, and we would be fighting a large, organized army and navy, not people who can very easily merge in with civilians.
You can't hide a bunch of tanks the way you can hide IEDs and AK-47s. Moving an IED takes one or two people. No army is going to move a tank or a soldier. They move in formations.
If people were willing to do this, we wouldn't have to make the above illegal... because the corporations behind it would be punished by "vote with your wallet."
Why do we need a.xxx TLD? It's stupid and won't result in moving porn to.xxx.
If you try to enforce it, you have to clearly define porn. What is porn, what is nude art? Should art be forced into.xxx? Who decides what is porn? Why should porn be treated differently, anyway?
I know dying didn't do any real harm, but it generally irritated me enough that I wanted to avoid it at all costs. Thus, I never tested if I could die from hacking. You *could* die infinite times in BioShock, but that didn't mean I necessarily wanted to.
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As someone attempting to get a creative work published:
:)
1. I have no problem with this. I'd be happy with the original fourteen years. Though, if I haven't gotten it published until year 13, I may want a recount.
2. Unless it takes me most of the term of the copyright to get the work out there, I don't see a reason for an extension.
Perhaps the extension could be 0.5X years. So in the case of 14 years, you get up to 21 years. Not too terribly long, but if you can't make money off of something in two decades, it's probably not happening.
3. This is the interesting part. I wish like hell all of this was law, because there are a lot of things that aren't being distributed that I'd like to get my hands on -- old video games (DOS, Apple, Amiga, consoles) are a good example. Music and books that are out of print is another example.
4-5. Given.
I think a healthy public domain is a Good Thing(tm). Projects like Gutenberg could become amazing if copyright expired after fourteen years. Books written in 1994 would be available this year, instead of books written in the 1920s and 30s. As it stands, even a book as old as Gone With the Wind is too new to be on PG.
6. Given.
His account doesn't seem to have a history of trolling; more likely he's just a pissy elitist.
Eh, I went from Slackware to Ubuntu because I wanted it to just work. My printer randomly stopped working and refused to reinstall no matter what I did, I spent hours reading about my printer and Linux, CUPS, etc. Nothing worked, at all. I bought the printer for its linux support. After a while I decided that it wasn't worth my time to fuck with text file configurations, recompile things, and in general be frustrated that no one had an answer.
If that makes me a luser, it's a badge I'll wear proudly while I use my time to do something other than fight with programs written for people who live in basements and consider what distribution they use a realistic indicator of the size of their cocks.
8. Clip says "OFFICIAL TRAILER" in the title but is a fanmade POS that doesn't even contain scenes from the movie in question.
How about not being a dick unnecessarily in regards to someone making use of a common expression?
I've been playing nethack since before this version came out, and I still enjoy it.
I simply don't play it to death. I recently played through another old game mentioned earlier on in comments, Mario 3. It was fun and still one of my favorite Marios. But I don't play it every single day.
For those of us who don't play games all the time or for many hours at a time, nethack can still be a great fun game, even without conducts.
also, people still play SOLITAIRE for hours a day. And minesweeper. Nethack is a LOT more complex than those.
I don't know, I think it'd be better NOT to have the two bodies in the safe. They'd start to stink... then you'd have to either explain to everyone who comes within smelling distance or keep adding to your collection.
And that'd be one big, smelly safe...
- 90% "I want to pirate this stuff". (I'm in these 90%, but I don't fool myself)
- 10% "I want to put the contents of the disk on my central media streaming server" (And I'm being generous here)
No.
Because the 90% who want to pirate would just torrent. No DRM has stopped piracy. No DRM will, because someone somewhere will figure a way around it. So the actual people being annoyed by DRM are the legitimate owners.
I don't fall into the group of people who oppose copyright as a whole (though the extensions and things such as the DMCA...), but I do absolutely detest DRM because time and time again it's shown to only hurt the people who buy movies.
Also, is it piracy if I rip a movie from DVD (that I bought) so I can watch it without that stupid "you wouldn't steal a car..." commercial and unskippable(tm) annoyances at the start? At least with VHS I could fast forward past the FBI warning...
This is where I mention that I still play nethack.
while Wii and Xbox360 owners will be seeing more of the same as the limitations of their console hardware are already beginning to make themselves felt.
Yeah because, Jesus Christ, I need to see the sweaty zits as Mario saves the Princess.
There's obviously a rather large demographic that doesn't care about "the hardware." What is with this mentality of "dur my system is the PIMPEST"? Let me guess -- do you have spinners on your car?
Get orange box and CS and you'll never look back.
Can't speak for OP, but... I don't like FPS games that much, at least not enough for them to be enough to ditch the console. Some people like other game types. Also, I'm one of the types of people who isn't big on multiplayer -- generally, I only play a multiplayer game if someone else asks. Not saying it isn't fun, it's just not for me.
This isn't to say I don't enjoy FPSs -- I've been playing them since Wolfenstein 3D (on the PC; please God save me from the SNES atrocity...). There are just enough games on consoles that aren't available for the PC to justify it for me, and apparently many others.
I don't suppose there's a link anywhere to read the comments, especially those of the lone dissenting country? I'm curious as to their reasoning.
I think I qualify as a "younger person" and I like the library of books I've built up for myself. It has nothing to do with ego; I don't parade my shelves around in front of people or point it out. They're not prominently displayed. They're just there. I like them. I still have the first fantasy novel I ever read, over ten years ago. I haven't read it in a while, but I might someday.
;)
There's a sort of connection some of us have with books. We just like books. Some people collect stamps, or old computers. I collect books. It doesn't make me in any way superior to someone who collects funny looking rocks or slime. I just like 'em.
I also have a boatload of old video games. I don't use them to say "Look! I'm more gamer than you, I have more NES and Genesis games!"
Where did you get this mental image of people who keep books as some sort of demented supervillains who want their rings kissed?
Because it's not my fault the ISP is stupid.
My ISP actually has a set kb up/down. I am paying for these speeds. If I am using 100% of my upstream and say it's (something low like:) 128kb/s, and this kills my neighbor's connection?
Then my ISP has fucked up royally and it's not my fault.
Which?
Can you even point to one specific patent?
maybe you should swipe some apples from the local food store
Not the same, unless the food store can produce exact copies of the apple for free. To make it the same: To compare, the apples would have to only taste like apples if I stole them, but if I bought them, they taste like apple flavored candy.
its just self righteous pricks like you that think the world owes them a living which means the rest of us, who are honest have to deal with the fallout in terms of DRM.
I'm honest, and I buy my media. But I avoid the RIAA and MPAA on principle. I also produce content that can be digitally ripped off, but I don't treat customers like they're fucking scumbags because of the possibility.
Didn't your parents teach you right from wrong?
Yes, and I'm pretty sure rootkitting someone's computer is wrong. I'm pretty sure expecting someone to pay you for the same media every time the format changes is wrong. What about the MLB downloaded video issue? People gave them money and now can't access their stuff. That's pretty wrong.
DRM only hurts paying customers. It never hurts pirates. So there is no justification for it.
They could start by not being raging cockbags.
Insisting on DRM (which only hurts people who pay for music), insisting on charging more than people are willing to pay (hence a slump in CD sales), suing twelve year olds... etc etc.
Also, they don't really have a right to make money. If they can't figure out a way to make their music and make a profit, I guess they'll have to stop making music, won't they? Guess they'll have to get new fucking jobs and pay their way.
Afghanistan and Iraq, we're not fighting a nation, but rather guerrillas.
Vietnam was pretty much fought to be a stalemate.
We have not unleashed a whole lot of force on the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan because we're trying to minimize civilian deaths. While civilians are dying, they're not dying in the numbers they could be. We have that luxury now; we're not fighting for the survival of the country so we can be slow and patient. If it was against China, we wouldn't have a choice, and we would be fighting a large, organized army and navy, not people who can very easily merge in with civilians.
You can't hide a bunch of tanks the way you can hide IEDs and AK-47s. Moving an IED takes one or two people. No army is going to move a tank or a soldier. They move in formations.
Fight for your rights, America.
If people were willing to do this, we wouldn't have to make the above illegal... because the corporations behind it would be punished by "vote with your wallet."
I'm not a lawyer, but no way would I initial a blank page. That's asking for trouble.
Why do we need a .xxx TLD? It's stupid and won't result in moving porn to .xxx.
.xxx? Who decides what is porn? Why should porn be treated differently, anyway?
If you try to enforce it, you have to clearly define porn. What is porn, what is nude art? Should art be forced into
Dude.
...What did the WWE do to deserve being compared to those two?
That was mean.
Well, based on those figures, I can't tell you where Sony is headed.
But I'm guessing Nintendo is going in the general direction of the bank.
...I wish I'd known that during the game.
I know dying didn't do any real harm, but it generally irritated me enough that I wanted to avoid it at all costs. Thus, I never tested if I could die from hacking. You *could* die infinite times in BioShock, but that didn't mean I necessarily wanted to.
It's also one reason they limited how many games a company could produce per year: To avoid an influx of crappy games.