"Copyrights are forever when compared to an artist's life."
Well if I live to be 90, you only have 75 years more years to wait before you can grab the sweat of my brow for your own purposes.
"I cannot legally build on any work produced in the last hundred years."
Patently false, you cannot legally build on someones work without paying for the privilege.
Saying wow that's a pretty good ride, and then complaining that the ride isn't free is disingenuous at best.
Besides the longer I can keep some hip hop freakin' idiot from corrupting my work the better as far as I'm concerned. Or even some politico with an agenda I hate from stealing my graphics.
Art isn't really where the innovations come from anyway if you think that copyright is stopping progress you are in the wrong business.
Don't know why you guys all have this knee jerk reaction. A lawyer is a lawyer, one bulldog looks pretty much like another. These guys rarely share the opinions of their handlers er I mean clients. And if he's a good lawyer I want him where he is.
Cause these are the bozo's we get to sic on the former Bush Administration guys.
Linux is a play ground and a professional opaque arcane tool. Simple and sad but it's a toy or it's an arcane server product that only gurus use. It will never be on a desktop as a mainstream product unless and until there is only one Linux.
Flexibility is great but when you can bend so many ways that you can't tell which end is up you lose all the perspective that you need to be a tool that a desktop user can just use. Take that last run on sentence for instance.
Mac OS X is not that far from Linux, as it's based on something called BSD (I forget which one now) but there is only one that I can use on the desktop. There is a server version but I don't need that on my desktop. So as far as a user is concerned there is only one. I buy software for Mac OS X. I Install that software and I don't have to worry about additional packages too much because in production packages they actually take care of that for you.
Windows is similar but it now has too many heads as well. However there is only one type of executable (I'll ignore 64 bit crap for now) to install and its again all in one package.
Open source is great I use quite a bit of it. But generally I go looking for a commercial package when I want something to just install and run. If I'm in the mood to play I'll try to install an open source package and hope that one of the packager type install things actually works to get all of the dependencies but it usually will not happen that way.
Don't even try to tell me that this tool does it right or that one does it right, I want to work not spend all day looking for all the parts of the one true tool to install everything. You won't be there next time I want to install something and I won't remember this conversation.
It would seem that the rabid free info crowd continues to miss the point of these type of restrictions. It's actually the TV people that need this restriction.
TV shows have value to a broadcaster based on the fact that you can sell advertising during a popular show for more than an unpopular one. If there is a commercial free alternative that value is lost and the TV production company/studio/rightsholder can no longer demand a price for the content.
This is a simple attempt to keep the value of their content as high as possible and make as much money as possible.
I don't blame them, I'd want to keep the value of my property as high as possible as well. Most of you would too I presume.
Now I'm going to get blasted by a half million unreasonable and anti copyright idiots and I expect that. You have your opinion and I'm free to ignore it as are the people trying to make a living off of their intellectual property.
But the fact remains that if you want "free" content you have to endure commercials and as long as that is true these people will do what they can to maintain the value of the show to which the commercials will be added.
Of course if you would simply rather pay a fee and have your TV commercial free you can always do what the BBC does. Or better yet the state can run and control all the content so that pesky commercial entities don't have any control of the message.
But wait, we have a barn and a TV camera and we can sing...
Every time something like this happens some idiot like this one tries to complain that he should be able to do anything he wants with what he bought. Even though the item was bought for a specific purpose and to be used in a specific way with a specific company's servers that they pay for and advertise and develop and put all the work into.
Please stop being MORONIC. No you don't have the right to do that. If you want to use it on another server, write your own damn code and create your own damn server and game and then pay the money to host it and the money to advertise it and market it. Then hope people show up to play it with you (I suppose you could play it all alone if you want).
Get over it morons you are buying into an ecosystem that they created advertised and monetized, you either play it on their terms or go somewhere else. I hate this entitlement crap that these morons feel they have simply because they bought something.
Why must I be one or the other. I am in fact both. The business of selling my art or the fruits of my labor if you will. Since you value my labor so little you are free to not own or enjoy it. Simply because I create it does not give you the right to enjoy it. I do in fact do many performances for the simple joy of making someone happy. This however does not mean that all of my performances are such, I do have to pay the bills and I do charge for my art sometimes.
Actually the sales lost there are the advertising that the SciFi channel would have been able to do had you actually legally waited to see them in their officially sanctioned time slots. There is always a loss. Downloading something simply because the timing of its release inconveniences you does not justify it either. So yes there were sales lost there as well.
If it is not worth the price then you have no right to download it instead of paying for it. You simply have the right not to download it. I hate to tell you this folks, but if it is priced above what you place its worth as then you simply don't get to have it. My god does no one understand this simple concept. It's why you don't get to drive the Caddy home when all you can afford is the Chevy. And if you don't think the Chevy is worth the price then buy a dodge or something but quit belly aching about the cost of something you place so little worth on. If you want it then the price is justified if you don't think its worth it you are free to buy something else.
The same way that justice and what the law says are not always the same thing. More people need to read and understand Les Miserables. Is stealing a loaf of bread to feed a starving child illegal or justified? Where does the nature of justice and mercy get weighed. Praising someone for performing an illegal act simply because it sometimes has a positive result is not justice? The gap between law and compassion is supposed to be bridged by the judge and that looks like what is happening in this particular case.
Actually you are quite wrong. The copyright law is not a contract and there is no implied contract. You cannot do "anything you like" with the track simply because you downloaded it. This is why the RIAA is there at all, to educate misguided consumers like yourself. Their methods leave quite a bit to be desired but if you give the track with out the original media to another person you have violated copyright laws not broken a contract.
I see you have never created anything in your life. As an artist, I like copyrights but I think you can get a bit excessive. Your link points to an intellectually bankrupt idiot who thinks that all ideas need to be free. Sorry but as long as this is a capitalist society I like having my monopoly for as long as I can legally maintain it. And yes a monopoly is perfectly legal as long as you don't use proscribed methods to maintain it.
The unmitigated arrogance and lack of understanding of this post leaves me well not speechless exactly but darn near.
What makes you think she would understand the data that "a few Google searches" would reveal, what makes you think she understands what "a few Google searches" are in the first place. If she did think that she needed the "magic CD" then who are you to say that she didn't. I doubt very much that she could even install the cable modem herself.
All interviews are personality tests. Whether written or not the questions are designed to determine how much the interviewer is likely to want to work with you. Even the technical questions are a landmine, if you know more than the interviewer you are at risk of not being hired because you threaten him/her.
They grow it in huge tanks that take up very little space compared to the mass they produce. It's actually one of the most viable sources of biomass that they have come up with yet, and the waste after extracting the oils can be used as fertilizer. So Algae is a win win bio fuel.
The consumer always wants the best stuff for free. The job of the seller/manufacturer/distributor is to guess how much the consumer will part with for the quality you can give. This has always been and will always be.
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Article 2 section 8 of What? The only article 2 section 8 I could find was about the executive branch of the government.
"Copyrights are forever when compared to an artist's life."
Well if I live to be 90, you only have 75 years more years to wait before you can grab the sweat of my brow for your own purposes.
"I cannot legally build on any work produced in the last hundred years."
Patently false, you cannot legally build on someones work without paying for the privilege. Saying wow that's a pretty good ride, and then complaining that the ride isn't free is disingenuous at best. Besides the longer I can keep some hip hop freakin' idiot from corrupting my work the better as far as I'm concerned. Or even some politico with an agenda I hate from stealing my graphics. Art isn't really where the innovations come from anyway if you think that copyright is stopping progress you are in the wrong business.
Don't know why you guys all have this knee jerk reaction. A lawyer is a lawyer, one bulldog looks pretty much like another. These guys rarely share the opinions of their handlers er I mean clients. And if he's a good lawyer I want him where he is. Cause these are the bozo's we get to sic on the former Bush Administration guys.
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Linux is a play ground and a professional opaque arcane tool. Simple and sad but it's a toy or it's an arcane server product that only gurus use. It will never be on a desktop as a mainstream product unless and until there is only one Linux.
Flexibility is great but when you can bend so many ways that you can't tell which end is up you lose all the perspective that you need to be a tool that a desktop user can just use. Take that last run on sentence for instance.
Mac OS X is not that far from Linux, as it's based on something called BSD (I forget which one now) but there is only one that I can use on the desktop. There is a server version but I don't need that on my desktop. So as far as a user is concerned there is only one. I buy software for Mac OS X. I Install that software and I don't have to worry about additional packages too much because in production packages they actually take care of that for you.
Windows is similar but it now has too many heads as well. However there is only one type of executable (I'll ignore 64 bit crap for now) to install and its again all in one package.
Open source is great I use quite a bit of it. But generally I go looking for a commercial package when I want something to just install and run. If I'm in the mood to play I'll try to install an open source package and hope that one of the packager type install things actually works to get all of the dependencies but it usually will not happen that way.
Don't even try to tell me that this tool does it right or that one does it right, I want to work not spend all day looking for all the parts of the one true tool to install everything. You won't be there next time I want to install something and I won't remember this conversation.
It would seem that the rabid free info crowd continues to miss the point of these type of restrictions. It's actually the TV people that need this restriction.
TV shows have value to a broadcaster based on the fact that you can sell advertising during a popular show for more than an unpopular one. If there is a commercial free alternative that value is lost and the TV production company/studio/rightsholder can no longer demand a price for the content.
This is a simple attempt to keep the value of their content as high as possible and make as much money as possible.
I don't blame them, I'd want to keep the value of my property as high as possible as well. Most of you would too I presume.
Now I'm going to get blasted by a half million unreasonable and anti copyright idiots and I expect that. You have your opinion and I'm free to ignore it as are the people trying to make a living off of their intellectual property.
But the fact remains that if you want "free" content you have to endure commercials and as long as that is true these people will do what they can to maintain the value of the show to which the commercials will be added.
Of course if you would simply rather pay a fee and have your TV commercial free you can always do what the BBC does. Or better yet the state can run and control all the content so that pesky commercial entities don't have any control of the message.
But wait, we have a barn and a TV camera and we can sing...
Every time something like this happens some idiot like this one tries to complain that he should be able to do anything he wants with what he bought. Even though the item was bought for a specific purpose and to be used in a specific way with a specific company's servers that they pay for and advertise and develop and put all the work into.
Please stop being MORONIC. No you don't have the right to do that. If you want to use it on another server, write your own damn code and create your own damn server and game and then pay the money to host it and the money to advertise it and market it. Then hope people show up to play it with you (I suppose you could play it all alone if you want).
Get over it morons you are buying into an ecosystem that they created advertised and monetized, you either play it on their terms or go somewhere else. I hate this entitlement crap that these morons feel they have simply because they bought something.
Um yeah it didn't manage to not augur in to someone's house right!
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Why must I be one or the other. I am in fact both. The business of selling my art or the fruits of my labor if you will. Since you value my labor so little you are free to not own or enjoy it. Simply because I create it does not give you the right to enjoy it. I do in fact do many performances for the simple joy of making someone happy. This however does not mean that all of my performances are such, I do have to pay the bills and I do charge for my art sometimes.
I'm not sure that enjoying the fruits of someone's labor without compensating them is theft, but it is certainly treating them as a slave.
Actually the sales lost there are the advertising that the SciFi channel would have been able to do had you actually legally waited to see them in their officially sanctioned time slots. There is always a loss. Downloading something simply because the timing of its release inconveniences you does not justify it either. So yes there were sales lost there as well.
If it is not worth the price then you have no right to download it instead of paying for it. You simply have the right not to download it. I hate to tell you this folks, but if it is priced above what you place its worth as then you simply don't get to have it. My god does no one understand this simple concept. It's why you don't get to drive the Caddy home when all you can afford is the Chevy. And if you don't think the Chevy is worth the price then buy a dodge or something but quit belly aching about the cost of something you place so little worth on. If you want it then the price is justified if you don't think its worth it you are free to buy something else.
The same way that justice and what the law says are not always the same thing. More people need to read and understand Les Miserables. Is stealing a loaf of bread to feed a starving child illegal or justified? Where does the nature of justice and mercy get weighed. Praising someone for performing an illegal act simply because it sometimes has a positive result is not justice? The gap between law and compassion is supposed to be bridged by the judge and that looks like what is happening in this particular case.
Actually you are quite wrong. The copyright law is not a contract and there is no implied contract. You cannot do "anything you like" with the track simply because you downloaded it. This is why the RIAA is there at all, to educate misguided consumers like yourself. Their methods leave quite a bit to be desired but if you give the track with out the original media to another person you have violated copyright laws not broken a contract.
I see you have never created anything in your life. As an artist, I like copyrights but I think you can get a bit excessive. Your link points to an intellectually bankrupt idiot who thinks that all ideas need to be free. Sorry but as long as this is a capitalist society I like having my monopoly for as long as I can legally maintain it. And yes a monopoly is perfectly legal as long as you don't use proscribed methods to maintain it.
Wow, an industry shill this early in the morning. And one who STILL doesn't understand the meaning of THEFT. Somebody mod this crap as trolling.
Yes the RIAA is the cockroach of professional associations. Or perhaps that's giving them too much cred.
This wins the current record for the stupidest thing I've ever posted a reply to. And it doesn't even really deserve a reply.
The unmitigated arrogance and lack of understanding of this post leaves me well not speechless exactly but darn near.
What makes you think she would understand the data that "a few Google searches" would reveal, what makes you think she understands what "a few Google searches" are in the first place. If she did think that she needed the "magic CD" then who are you to say that she didn't. I doubt very much that she could even install the cable modem herself.
All interviews are personality tests. Whether written or not the questions are designed to determine how much the interviewer is likely to want to work with you. Even the technical questions are a landmine, if you know more than the interviewer you are at risk of not being hired because you threaten him/her.
You can't win, you can't even quit the game.
They grow it in huge tanks that take up very little space compared to the mass they produce. It's actually one of the most viable sources of biomass that they have come up with yet, and the waste after extracting the oils can be used as fertilizer. So Algae is a win win bio fuel.
The consumer always wants the best stuff for free. The job of the seller/manufacturer/distributor is to guess how much the consumer will part with for the quality you can give. This has always been and will always be.
OOOh! Cool now we know that industry shills read slash dot too!
Which intensive purposes... oh all of them. But wait I care and whom is a very important word.
But for all intents and purposes your sig is irrelevant.