Remember DIVX discs? They would work on only one player, and only for 48 hours or so unless you paid again? Nobody wanted those. Circuit City couldn't give them away. Hollywood just never learns. Home video saved them from bankruptcy. It has been a license to print money. They should not be looking a gift horse in the mouth.
AOL's customers are mostly technically illiterate morans who need to get a brain, and old people who had a computer pushed on them by their children or grandchildren. Some of them even fell for the 2 free months with no commitment promotion only to be driven insane.
Comparing recipes and software was really a stretch to start with. I'm not sure how we got to it. I think the original question is whether software should be copyrighted. I think that makes more sense than patenting it, as it is not a tangible invention like a better mousetrap or a more efficient car engine.
If software is copyrighted, and eventually the copyright expires, does that put the source code in the public domain, or just the binaries? If the binaries are the only thing published, they are all that is copyrighted. If source code were held as a trade secret, not published, then the law would probably never require it to be revealed. I am not a lawyer, but my impression is that trade secrets can be protected forever.
Another twist in the copyright vs. patent for software debate is that source code would probably be part of what would be patented if software patents become the norm, and would then have to be revealed when a patent expired. The software industry may end up screwing themselves by pushing software patents over copyrights, as patents expire a lot sooner.
Mary Bono, Sonny's widow who got his seat in Congress after he died, got his name put on that bill as a memorial to him. His music copyrights were among those extended by the act, which is why he had been for extending copyright terms all along. He put his selfish interests ahead of the public interest like so many in that parliament of whores.
We were all robbed by that copyright extension, as we will be when it happens again on schedule in 2018, 2038, 2058, 2078 and in perpetuity. The Supreme Court had an opportunity to do something about it in Eldred Vs. Ascroft, but wouldn't. It is a shame that Breyer and Stevens, who considered it unconstitutional and wrote dissenting opinions, could not convince the other seven.
That's a trade secret that has never been disclosed, not a copyrighted work. A recipe published in a cookbook would be subject to a copyright expiring, but not Coke's secret formula.
If scribes and monks were anything like today's entertainment cartels and their apologists when Gutenberg built his printing press, they would have burned it and killed him. Turning ideas into property is stifling freedom of expression almost as much as that would have. Laws that prevent me from saying something that has been said before without permission and paying a fee, censor me. Censorship in any form can only stifle the progress of science and the useful arts. New technologies are no excuse for it.
While students should learn about copyright law, they don't need to be fed Hollywood and the recording industry's propaganda. Any course in copyright law should start with the US Constitution, Section VIII.
Congress shall have the power to... promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries
That is the constitutional basis of copyright law, and patent as well. The term "intellectual property" is a recenty invented bit of lawyerspeak, and a misnomer. Copyright is a loan from the public domain created by Congress, not property. A Supreme Court ruling to that effect was issued in the 1834 Wharton V Peters case. The court said that copyright is not a birth right, but
a "wholely statutory" grant. The Copyright grant exists by the grace of the public as a public investment for the
public benefit, much like a loan. "The sole interest of the United
States and the primary object in conferring the monopoly lie in the
general benefits derived by the public from the labors of authors".
Until lobbyists recently bought draconian legislation from Congress, copyright infringement was a civil offense, not a criminal offense such as stealing something that physically exists like a TV, or a CD in a store. The entertainment industry with their lawyers and lobbyists have made so-called intellectual propery even more valuable than things you can hold in your hand. This is patently absurd. Teaching students this absurdity in a classroom is as out of place as intelligent design.
For your information, I live in Covington Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati. I have first hand experience. If you were going to give America a high colonic, Cincinnati is where you would put the hose.
It does not surprise me at all that this is in Cincinnati, which has a horrible anti-worker culture. Employees are considered far less valuable than office fixtures, pay is below the national average in all industries, and flexible time is a foreign concept. Most employers there resent the emancipation proclaimation. Without it, they wouldn't have to pay the drones at all. This attitude has even spilled over to the sports teams, who have lost a lot more often than they have won over the years due to skinflint ownership.
Now that they own Oswald, no one can sue saying that Mickey is an unauthorized derivative work based on Oswald. He obviously is. I am surprised that there wasn't a suit like that decades ago.
If you are looking for a virus that disables internet access, a sure-fire way to do that would be to take out the whole PC. Monkeypoo does just that!
VIRUS WARNING:
Attention: Computer Labs Inc., makers of Virucide antivirus software have identified a highly dangerous new Trojan worm, MONKEYPOO. It will usually appear in an e-mail with the subject, "Congratulations.You have won!" it will then prompt you to click a link to collect your cash prize. It can also freely spread across networks.
Monkeypoo will read your address book, and mail a copy of itself to every address it finds, and it will look like you sent it. It will then invoke the secret self-destruct command held over from the original IBM PC's
8086 command set. This short line of code will cause the processor, ram, hard drive and any floppy drives to spin out of control and overheat until key components melt together, and will most likely cause a fire.
James Winklee, a former IBM programmer had this to say. "We developed the self-destruct code so government agencies such as the FBI and CIA could quickly and completely destroy compromised computer systems before an enemy could get their hands on classified information. When we saw how violently a PC executing the command burst into flames, we decided not to publish its existence. It has been kept a secret successfully until now. If you get infected with the Monkeypoo Trojan worm, you may notice your computer going completely haywire. Physically unplug it from power as fast as you can, and send it in for repair. Only a professional can remove this one."
While Computer Labs Inc and other antivirus software makers are working on a solution, they haven't got one a home user could successfully run yet. "This is the worst kind of malicious code I have ever seen." said Marcus Polan of Computer labs Inc. Use extreme caution.
It is important that as many computer users as possible receive this warning, so send it out to as many people as you can. The entire Internet and every PC connected to it is at risk.
Using nuculer shit will definately provoke the Zhti Ti Kofft. They might even turn the dark side of the moon around to face us and use their death ray!
Bush had a tizzy, and insisted that America must return to the moon when he learned that the Chinese were planning to go. Now that the Russians are thinking the same thing and even want a permanent base, can he get to the green cheese in time?
When you are talking about Mac it is religion, not a third thing. Bill Thompson blasphemed the Mac religion, and they are calling for Jihad! It doesn't matter that what he said might be right.
Now seriously. Whatever you do for a living, you are not doing it when you are stuck in a meeting. They are usually a waste of time. The feeling that your time is being wasted will bring down your mood, and make the work you eventually get around to doing when not in meetings less effective. Feeling good isn't the only thing that matters, but it makes for a more productive worker.
Not only that, but you have to pay for satellite radio. Users are already coughing up dough for that music. Why should they have to pay even more? The RIAA are mobsters. Don't buy CDs.
Indeed! They were not ready in time for Christmas 2005, or even for the launch of XBOX 360. HD DVD has blown their one and only shot to become the standard in spite of Blu-Ray's higher capacity. They might as well just throw in the towel now.
Indeed. Hackers over the Internet cannot kill people and blow things up. Cyberterrorism is a buzzword for sensationalist headlines. Nothing more. Add the word Cyber to anything and yahoos ooh and aah.
Indeed! Making a stink will make conspiracy theorists suspect he really was involved. He is not helping himself by publicly pitching a fit and threatening to sue.
He would be wasting everyone's time with a libel suit. If the anonymous author who set him off really believed that what he was writing was true, and conspiracy theorists usually do, then it was not libel. To commit libel, a writer must willfully lie, or act with wanton disregard to the truth or falsehood of his claims. The writer must intend to harm the person or party in question, or have wanton disregard to whether he will cause harm. Also, someone alleging libel must prove that he was harmed. That would be the hardest part in this case, as reasonable people laugh off nearly anything conspiracy theorists say.
Personally, I think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing JFK. He wanted to become immortal by killing someone famous. If Nixon had been president, and had been in Dealey Plaza that day, Oswald would have shot Nixon.
I also think Sirhan Sirhan acted alone, and did it for the reasons he stated at the time. He was an angry young man and a Palestinian. RFK's public support for Israel greatly offended Sirhan, making RFK a symbol of everything he detested.
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Remember DIVX discs? They would work on only one player, and only for 48 hours or so unless you paid again? Nobody wanted those. Circuit City couldn't give them away. Hollywood just never learns. Home video saved them from bankruptcy. It has been a license to print money. They should not be looking a gift horse in the mouth.
AOL's customers are mostly technically illiterate morans who need to get a brain, and old people who had a computer pushed on them by their children or grandchildren. Some of them even fell for the 2 free months with no commitment promotion only to be driven insane.
If software is copyrighted, and eventually the copyright expires, does that put the source code in the public domain, or just the binaries? If the binaries are the only thing published, they are all that is copyrighted. If source code were held as a trade secret, not published, then the law would probably never require it to be revealed. I am not a lawyer, but my impression is that trade secrets can be protected forever.
Another twist in the copyright vs. patent for software debate is that source code would probably be part of what would be patented if software patents become the norm, and would then have to be revealed when a patent expired. The software industry may end up screwing themselves by pushing software patents over copyrights, as patents expire a lot sooner.
We were all robbed by that copyright extension, as we will be when it happens again on schedule in 2018, 2038, 2058, 2078 and in perpetuity. The Supreme Court had an opportunity to do something about it in Eldred Vs. Ascroft, but wouldn't. It is a shame that Breyer and Stevens, who considered it unconstitutional and wrote dissenting opinions, could not convince the other seven.
That's a trade secret that has never been disclosed, not a copyrighted work. A recipe published in a cookbook would be subject to a copyright expiring, but not Coke's secret formula.
If scribes and monks were anything like today's entertainment cartels and their apologists when Gutenberg built his printing press, they would have burned it and killed him. Turning ideas into property is stifling freedom of expression almost as much as that would have. Laws that prevent me from saying something that has been said before without permission and paying a fee, censor me. Censorship in any form can only stifle the progress of science and the useful arts. New technologies are no excuse for it.
Congress shall have the power to... promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries
That is the constitutional basis of copyright law, and patent as well. The term "intellectual property" is a recenty invented bit of lawyerspeak, and a misnomer. Copyright is a loan from the public domain created by Congress, not property. A Supreme Court ruling to that effect was issued in the 1834 Wharton V Peters case. The court said that copyright is not a birth right, but a "wholely statutory" grant. The Copyright grant exists by the grace of the public as a public investment for the public benefit, much like a loan. "The sole interest of the United States and the primary object in conferring the monopoly lie in the general benefits derived by the public from the labors of authors".
Until lobbyists recently bought draconian legislation from Congress, copyright infringement was a civil offense, not a criminal offense such as stealing something that physically exists like a TV, or a CD in a store. The entertainment industry with their lawyers and lobbyists have made so-called intellectual propery even more valuable than things you can hold in your hand. This is patently absurd. Teaching students this absurdity in a classroom is as out of place as intelligent design.
For your information, I live in Covington Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati. I have first hand experience. If you were going to give America a high colonic, Cincinnati is where you would put the hose.
I still have mine! load "frogger" ,8 ,1
Those old games were fun!
It does not surprise me at all that this is in Cincinnati, which has a horrible anti-worker culture. Employees are considered far less valuable than office fixtures, pay is below the national average in all industries, and flexible time is a foreign concept. Most employers there resent the emancipation proclaimation. Without it, they wouldn't have to pay the drones at all. This attitude has even spilled over to the sports teams, who have lost a lot more often than they have won over the years due to skinflint ownership.
Now that they own Oswald, no one can sue saying that Mickey is an unauthorized derivative work based on Oswald. He obviously is. I am surprised that there wasn't a suit like that decades ago.
If you are looking for a virus that disables internet access, a sure-fire way to do that would be to take out the whole PC. Monkeypoo does just that! VIRUS WARNING: Attention: Computer Labs Inc., makers of Virucide antivirus software have identified a highly dangerous new Trojan worm, MONKEYPOO. It will usually appear in an e-mail with the subject, "Congratulations.You have won!" it will then prompt you to click a link to collect your cash prize. It can also freely spread across networks. Monkeypoo will read your address book, and mail a copy of itself to every address it finds, and it will look like you sent it. It will then invoke the secret self-destruct command held over from the original IBM PC's 8086 command set. This short line of code will cause the processor, ram, hard drive and any floppy drives to spin out of control and overheat until key components melt together, and will most likely cause a fire. James Winklee, a former IBM programmer had this to say. "We developed the self-destruct code so government agencies such as the FBI and CIA could quickly and completely destroy compromised computer systems before an enemy could get their hands on classified information. When we saw how violently a PC executing the command burst into flames, we decided not to publish its existence. It has been kept a secret successfully until now. If you get infected with the Monkeypoo Trojan worm, you may notice your computer going completely haywire. Physically unplug it from power as fast as you can, and send it in for repair. Only a professional can remove this one." While Computer Labs Inc and other antivirus software makers are working on a solution, they haven't got one a home user could successfully run yet. "This is the worst kind of malicious code I have ever seen." said Marcus Polan of Computer labs Inc. Use extreme caution. It is important that as many computer users as possible receive this warning, so send it out to as many people as you can. The entire Internet and every PC connected to it is at risk.
What the article didn't reveal was that Toy Story 3 was full of adult jokes that the MPAA was going to have a fit over. Here is an example.
Using nuculer shit will definately provoke the Zhti Ti Kofft. They might even turn the dark side of the moon around to face us and use their death ray!
Bush had a tizzy, and insisted that America must return to the moon when he learned that the Chinese were planning to go. Now that the Russians are thinking the same thing and even want a permanent base, can he get to the green cheese in time?
When you are talking about Mac it is religion, not a third thing. Bill Thompson blasphemed the Mac religion, and they are calling for Jihad! It doesn't matter that what he said might be right.
If anyone is still wondering where the any key is, wonder no more!
Now seriously. Whatever you do for a living, you are not doing it when you are stuck in a meeting. They are usually a waste of time. The feeling that your time is being wasted will bring down your mood, and make the work you eventually get around to doing when not in meetings less effective. Feeling good isn't the only thing that matters, but it makes for a more productive worker.
Not only that, but you have to pay for satellite radio. Users are already coughing up dough for that music. Why should they have to pay even more? The RIAA are mobsters. Don't buy CDs.
If you can't literally create a Star Trek stylo holodeck with this, then what's the point?
William Smythe says "Leave my little buddy Scruffy alone, you dirty hackers!"
Indeed! They were not ready in time for Christmas 2005, or even for the launch of XBOX 360. HD DVD has blown their one and only shot to become the standard in spite of Blu-Ray's higher capacity. They might as well just throw in the towel now.
They are trying all kinds of crazy stuff since the loss of Saskra Root ruined the taste of Coke Classic.
Indeed. Hackers over the Internet cannot kill people and blow things up. Cyberterrorism is a buzzword for sensationalist headlines. Nothing more. Add the word Cyber to anything and yahoos ooh and aah.
He would be wasting everyone's time with a libel suit. If the anonymous author who set him off really believed that what he was writing was true, and conspiracy theorists usually do, then it was not libel. To commit libel, a writer must willfully lie, or act with wanton disregard to the truth or falsehood of his claims. The writer must intend to harm the person or party in question, or have wanton disregard to whether he will cause harm. Also, someone alleging libel must prove that he was harmed. That would be the hardest part in this case, as reasonable people laugh off nearly anything conspiracy theorists say.
Personally, I think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing JFK. He wanted to become immortal by killing someone famous. If Nixon had been president, and had been in Dealey Plaza that day, Oswald would have shot Nixon. I also think Sirhan Sirhan acted alone, and did it for the reasons he stated at the time. He was an angry young man and a Palestinian. RFK's public support for Israel greatly offended Sirhan, making RFK a symbol of everything he detested.