If this isn't the smoking gun proof that copyrights last too long, then nothing is. If the original 28 year copyright maximum still existed, This Land is Your Land would have been in the public domain where it belongs long ago. Woody Guthrie is dead. He cannot be encouraged to keep creating through copyright protection.
For those who don't know, here is the portion of the U.S. Constitution that copyright and patent are based on:
"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." If they pass a copyright term extention every 20 years, then they are perpetual, and therefore not for limited times.
The RIAA throw away their garbage, and call it a settlement. This reminds me of assclowns who throw away garbage at Goodwill and call it charity. I am under whelmed. Boycott the recording industry.
In the United States of Avarice, music publishers would definately get away with this shakedown. Maybe in Canada, their attempted money grab will fail. We can only hope so.
Now who sent something into a black hole, and observed what happened? No one. One theory has been replaced by another theory, but neither has been tested, and neither can be tested. No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney!
It won't matter what we call them if we don't buy them. An industry that doesn't respect the property rights of customers after a sale is made doesn't deserve to have customers. Boycott them.
Maybe if Sunncomm and Macrovision piss off Microsoft by trying to suck up to Apple iPod users, Microsoft will squish them like bugs. They are powerful enough to do it, and have done it before.
Amen to that! An idea, once publicly expressed, is in the public domain. Copyright is a loan from the public domain that is meant to be temporary. If an artist who is still living faces the expiration of copyright, a very rare possibility, he or she should create something new. Encouraging people to create, not to sit on past creations, is what copyright was invented for in the first place.
Yes, they have no respect for the property rights of their customers. They want to convince congress that "intellectual property" is more important than real, tangible property. They intend to do it through bribery. The RIAA and the labels that make it up won't have money to do this if we boycott them until they are broke. Don't buy CD.
Everybody knows that all computers, and parts thereof are made here in the good old US of A, so if we don't export them, the moozlim ayrab terrorists can't get them. Our congressmen and senators are geniuses! /sarcasm
We like the moon, coz it is close to us
we like the moooon! but not as much as a spoon
cuz that's more use for eating soup
and a fork isn't very useful for that
unless it has got many vegetables
and then you might be better off with a chop-stick
unlike the moon
it is up in the sky it's up there very high
but not as high as maybe dirigibles or zeppelins
or lightbulbs and maybe clouds
and puffins also I think maybe they go quite high too maybe not as high as the moon
coz the moon is very high
we like the moon
the moon is very useful for everyone
everybody likes the moon
because it lights up the sky at night
and its lovely and it makes the tide go and we like it but not as much as cheese
we really like cheese we like zeppelins
we really like them
and we like kelp and we like moose
and we like deer and we like marmots
and we like all the fluffy animals
we really like the moon
I have an idea for a christian video game. It's called Crusade.
In the first portion of the game, you learn that moozlim ayrabs have seized the Holyland. God's chosen people, the Christians must take it back. Onward Christian soldiers!
Along the way to Jerusalem, stop at every village you find to rob, rape and pillage. When you get there, don't just kill the men. Women, children and livestock are fair game too.
In the second portion of the game, you are back in Europe. You must save Christendom from withches! Go from village to village, town to town armed with the Maleum Maleficarum, and hunt for them. Kill every woman and girl. They could easily be witches. If you encounter any Jewish ghettos in the towns, break down the walls, burn down the synagogues, and kill the Rabbis. All that stuff they do is probably witchcraft, too.
Part three is also in Europe. Catholics fight Protestants, and Protestants fight other Protestants that believe differently, all to determine who are the true christians. This fight will last 100 years!
The fourth phase of the game is set right here in The United States of America, that shining city on a hill of which scripture says, "Blessed is the nation whose God is The Lord". You go from door to door trying to save people who can only avoid going to hell by joining your church. You will deny health care to children, instead you will lay hands on them, and pray. You will handle venomous snakes and drink poison. After all, your church believes in the full gospel, it is not one of those false churches that ignores Mark 16:17 and 16:18.
This reminds me of ass holes who take their garbage to Goodwill or The Salvation Army Thrift Store, dump it, and call that donating to charity. All the record labels which are members of the RIAA need to be boycotted into oblivion. Don't buy CDs.
Not all laws are to be respected. Civil disobedience is an acceptable way to bring about change.
And ridiculous laws like the 55 mile per hour speed limit are routinely ignored. Also, the more silly laws there are, the more people lose respect for all laws, and start ignoring important ones. Laws against things that aren't wrong need to be changed.
28 programs is reasonable. I am a computer repair technician, and spend every day cleaning up this garbage for people. If you count the cookies, and not just actual programs, then the average user has over one hundred spyware items.
The common user never imagines that just clicking on a pop-up window, hoping that will make it go away gives someone the right to take over their computer. They don't "get it" that kazaa is bundled with spyware either.
As for EULAs, even if people did read those things, they are in legalese jargon. No one understands that gabbledegook, so no one can possibly give informed consent to it.
I see a lot of brand new computers running like a 386 trying to use Windows XP because of spyware. I am surprised more people haven't given up on computers completely. If this new law is as full of loopholes as it seems, then people swearing off computers is still the inevitable result of spyware.
What is the answer to this problem? Don't buy Contraband by Velvet Revolver. For that matter, don't buy CDs from any of the big labels. Boycott is a consumer's only recourse. If we let them get away with this, then we give up our fair use and personal property rights forever, and accept the RIAA et al's pay for play model. Kids, stop feeding the hand that bites you!
Sound quality is a red herring, as it does not matter with the teen pop shiat the RIAA is marketing. After all, we aren't talking about symphonies here.
Sing songs written before 1923. They are in the public domain. If Congress had stuck to the original copyright law, anything more than 28 years old would be in the public domain.
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Ergo Ipso Facto? Ipsa This!
For those who don't know, here is the portion of the U.S. Constitution that copyright and patent are based on:
"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." If they pass a copyright term extention every 20 years, then they are perpetual, and therefore not for limited times.
The RIAA throw away their garbage, and call it a settlement. This reminds me of assclowns who throw away garbage at Goodwill and call it charity. I am under whelmed. Boycott the recording industry.
In the United States of Avarice, music publishers would definately get away with this shakedown. Maybe in Canada, their attempted money grab will fail. We can only hope so.
Now who sent something into a black hole, and observed what happened? No one. One theory has been replaced by another theory, but neither has been tested, and neither can be tested. No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney!
It won't matter what we call them if we don't buy them. An industry that doesn't respect the property rights of customers after a sale is made doesn't deserve to have customers. Boycott them.
Maybe if Sunncomm and Macrovision piss off Microsoft by trying to suck up to Apple iPod users, Microsoft will squish them like bugs. They are powerful enough to do it, and have done it before.
It's real simple, see! As long as yous keep payin' your protection to the mob, nobody has to get hurt, Capiche? That's an offer you can't refuse!
Amen to that! An idea, once publicly expressed, is in the public domain. Copyright is a loan from the public domain that is meant to be temporary. If an artist who is still living faces the expiration of copyright, a very rare possibility, he or she should create something new. Encouraging people to create, not to sit on past creations, is what copyright was invented for in the first place.
Romulanes Eunt Domus!
I've got a cruise missle,
huh huh huh,
huh huh huh,
in my pants!
Isn't it interesting that piracy happens most in countries where one piece of software would cost more than people make in a year?
Yes, they have no respect for the property rights of their customers. They want to convince congress that "intellectual property" is more important than real, tangible property. They intend to do it through bribery. The RIAA and the labels that make it up won't have money to do this if we boycott them until they are broke. Don't buy CD.
Everybody knows that all computers, and parts thereof are made here in the good old US of A, so if we don't export them, the moozlim ayrab terrorists can't get them. Our congressmen and senators are geniuses!
/sarcasm
We like the moon, coz it is close to us we like the moooon! but not as much as a spoon cuz that's more use for eating soup and a fork isn't very useful for that unless it has got many vegetables and then you might be better off with a chop-stick unlike the moon it is up in the sky it's up there very high but not as high as maybe dirigibles or zeppelins or lightbulbs and maybe clouds and puffins also I think maybe they go quite high too maybe not as high as the moon coz the moon is very high we like the moon the moon is very useful for everyone everybody likes the moon because it lights up the sky at night and its lovely and it makes the tide go and we like it but not as much as cheese we really like cheese we like zeppelins we really like them and we like kelp and we like moose and we like deer and we like marmots and we like all the fluffy animals we really like the moon
In the first portion of the game, you learn that moozlim ayrabs have seized the Holyland. God's chosen people, the Christians must take it back. Onward Christian soldiers!
Along the way to Jerusalem, stop at every village you find to rob, rape and pillage. When you get there, don't just kill the men. Women, children and livestock are fair game too.
In the second portion of the game, you are back in Europe. You must save Christendom from withches! Go from village to village, town to town armed with the Maleum Maleficarum, and hunt for them. Kill every woman and girl. They could easily be witches. If you encounter any Jewish ghettos in the towns, break down the walls, burn down the synagogues, and kill the Rabbis. All that stuff they do is probably witchcraft, too.
Part three is also in Europe. Catholics fight Protestants, and Protestants fight other Protestants that believe differently, all to determine who are the true christians. This fight will last 100 years!
The fourth phase of the game is set right here in The United States of America, that shining city on a hill of which scripture says, "Blessed is the nation whose God is The Lord". You go from door to door trying to save people who can only avoid going to hell by joining your church. You will deny health care to children, instead you will lay hands on them, and pray. You will handle venomous snakes and drink poison. After all, your church believes in the full gospel, it is not one of those false churches that ignores Mark 16:17 and 16:18.
This reminds me of ass holes who take their garbage to Goodwill or The Salvation Army Thrift Store, dump it, and call that donating to charity. All the record labels which are members of the RIAA need to be boycotted into oblivion. Don't buy CDs.
The little boy dresses in animal skins, wears a turtle shell hat, carries a club, and can constantly be heard saying, "Bam! Bam! Bam bam bam!".
Instead of letting them argue about their rights, the people responsible for spyware should be lined up and shot.
A new OS from scratch? Not if it is based on Minux, or anything else that already exists. How about an original idea?
And ridiculous laws like the 55 mile per hour speed limit are routinely ignored. Also, the more silly laws there are, the more people lose respect for all laws, and start ignoring important ones. Laws against things that aren't wrong need to be changed.
The common user never imagines that just clicking on a pop-up window, hoping that will make it go away gives someone the right to take over their computer. They don't "get it" that kazaa is bundled with spyware either.
As for EULAs, even if people did read those things, they are in legalese jargon. No one understands that gabbledegook, so no one can possibly give informed consent to it.
I see a lot of brand new computers running like a 386 trying to use Windows XP because of spyware. I am surprised more people haven't given up on computers completely. If this new law is as full of loopholes as it seems, then people swearing off computers is still the inevitable result of spyware.
What is the answer to this problem? Don't buy Contraband by Velvet Revolver. For that matter, don't buy CDs from any of the big labels. Boycott is a consumer's only recourse. If we let them get away with this, then we give up our fair use and personal property rights forever, and accept the RIAA et al's pay for play model. Kids, stop feeding the hand that bites you!
Sound quality is a red herring, as it does not matter with the teen pop shiat the RIAA is marketing. After all, we aren't talking about symphonies here.
Sing songs written before 1923. They are in the public domain. If Congress had stuck to the original copyright law, anything more than 28 years old would be in the public domain.