Lyntons' company, "Sony Pictures Entertainment" was created when Sony purchased Columbia Pictures. The guy that started and ran Columbia, Harry Cohn, was famous for saying "Give the public what they want and they'll come out for it."
It appears that Lynton actually knows what his customers want - he just chooses to ignore them, at his company's peril, even as other companies such as Apple have clearly shown the way.
The actual CEO of Sony, Sir Howard Stringer, is quite a bit more enlightened about the value of the Internet, but clearly has a long way to go to convince his divisional heads.
I was a Seaworld in San Diego a few weeks back and one of these was driving around the various pathways taking shots for Street View. Haven't seen the data go live yet, though.
It seems that every struggling newspaper in the country goes to some effort to tie Craigslist to any local crime. I don't recall any of these papers connecting crimes to their own classified ads. It's almost like these papers have some sort of agenda...
If you are right by the law, what can they really do besides putting fear in you?
Sue you. Even if you win, you're still out the money and time it cost to defend yourself. If you're lucky, you might get awarded your reasonable costs, but that doesn't pay for the stress and time.
And if they have a de-facto monopoly situation, other rules come into play.
Point me to a competing service that delivers software for the iPhone, and i'll grant that it's not a monopoly.
From a regulatory standpoint, monopolies don't apply to markets consisting of individual products from individual companies, only an individual company dominating an entire market segment.
The are many smart phones out there, and the iPhone doesn't even have the largest fraction of that market -according to NPD, RIM is by far the dominant player in the US, with three of the top five best-selling smart phone devices.
...without any copyright laws, would there be any need for GPL?
Without copyright law, there would be nothing to enforce access to source code, therefore a company could take an otherwise "open" pool of code, modify it and distribute it without disclosing the modifications. Add a dash of DRM to defeat unauthorized (but otherwise legal, without copyright) redistribution of binaries, and you've got a closed system.
The presidential election took place November 7, 2000, and Bush was sworn in January 20, 2001 - so Clinton was still president for the entire year of 2000.
I'm waiting to see the live video footage of that scene where the poor sweet little baby polar bear is trapped on an ice floe which shrinks until he falls off to be eaten by sharks or some garbage like that *splash*
It would be quite remarkable to have video footage of polar bears in the Antarctic.
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The "crypto processor" is simply an ARM7 CPU, and the source code for the firmware running on it is available here
To be a file-swapper you have to upload and/or download files.
Not according to the RIAA, which recently argued (unsuccessfully, fortunately) that simply making a file available was an act of copyright infringement, even if no download had actually occurred.
In the current litigation involving MP3tunes, they're even arguing that simply linking to freely available files on their own sites is copyright infringement.
Is it really the case that a company that hires only 4300 people is the *second* largest corporate employer in Ireland? That 1900 people losing their jobs is a "severe blow" to the economy of an entire country?
The population of Ireland is somewhere around 6 million - what does every *else* do there?
The block was originally created by Harry Fisher Page of the UK company Kiddicraft Ltd. in the late 1930â(TM)s, and later reproduced and marketed by Lego, Mega Bloks and other traders in the toy business.
In 1947 or 1948, Ole Kirk Christiansen and his son Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, respectively grandfather and father of Kirk Kristiansen, obtained samples of KIDDICRAFT self-locking toys and these samples led them to make the first LEGO toys. KIDDICRAFT brick construction sets with cylindrical knobs were designed, manufactured and sold by Mr. Harry Fisher Page, a British citizen, and protected by patents in the United Kingdom, Canada and France . These patents were obtained between 1940 and 1952.
From The LEGO toy business was founded in 1932. In 1949, Kirkbi produced its first toy building blocks. Those blocks were derived from a British product, the Kiddicraft blocks, which used a system of interlocking blocks. Kirkbi bought the patents covering the Kiddicraft system a few years later.
Check out the "links" page - there are links to PDF files of some of the court rulings in some of the litigation (Lego v Tyco, Lego v Megabloks) confirming much of this.
"Only the best is good enough" was the motto of Ole Kirk Christiansen, founder of the company and inventor of LEGO bricks, and today we still involve that spirit in every way we operate.
It's perfectly legitimate to trademark the shape and appearance of your product if it is unique.
Not if the shape or appearance is functional, as it is in the case of the LEGO brick. The Coke bottle appearance is not patentable, but the stud/tube elements of a LEGO brick are.
Having read the complaint, it doesn't look like Thomson has much in the way of a case - this probably won't get very far.
They're basically relying on license language that prohibits the reverse-engineering of the program itself - but there's nothing there that prohibits reverse engineering of the file format that it uses.
Additionally, if Amazon can sell so much music without copy protection, why can't Apple do so now?
By requiring DRM, the music companies basically handed Apple a monopoly on music, because the iPod was an overwhelmingly popular device and the store and the devices began reinforcing each other in the market.
When the music folks subsequently tried to get Apple to create a differential pricing scheme, they suddenly found out that Apple had all of the power. Apple called the bluff when the companies threatened to pull their music, and won.
The only way to weaken Apple's power is to create "better" alternatives, and since the music is that same across all of the stores, they only way to do that is by making it more flexible, hence the removal of DRM and lower prices at Amazon and others.
Of course, this behavior, if successful, would destroy any illusion that the music companies operate as anything other than an illegal cartel - Apple is biding its time and is probably ready to pounce once this becomes so obvious a court can't ignore it. If Apple is the *only* DRM-encumbered store (and it looks like that's the trend), then the music folks will have some explaining to do.
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Lyntons' company, "Sony Pictures Entertainment" was created when Sony purchased Columbia Pictures. The guy that started and ran Columbia, Harry Cohn, was famous for saying "Give the public what they want and they'll come out for it."
It appears that Lynton actually knows what his customers want - he just chooses to ignore them, at his company's peril, even as other companies such as Apple have clearly shown the way.
Lynton is the CEO of Sony *Pictures*, not Sony.
The actual CEO of Sony, Sir Howard Stringer, is quite a bit more enlightened about the value of the Internet, but clearly has a long way to go to convince his divisional heads.
I was a Seaworld in San Diego a few weeks back and one of these was driving around the various pathways taking shots for Street View. Haven't seen the data go live yet, though.
Anyone notice the increase in stories in the mainstream media connecting Craigslist to various crimes - the "Craigslist robber", selling babies on Craigslist, Cragislist hookers, Craigslist attempted murderers, Craigslist scammers, etc, etc.
It seems that every struggling newspaper in the country goes to some effort to tie Craigslist to any local crime. I don't recall any of these papers connecting crimes to their own classified ads. It's almost like these papers have some sort of agenda...
If you are right by the law, what can they really do besides putting fear in you?
Sue you. Even if you win, you're still out the money and time it cost to defend yourself. If you're lucky, you might get awarded your reasonable costs, but that doesn't pay for the stress and time.
And if they have a de-facto monopoly situation, other rules come into play.
Point me to a competing service that delivers software for the iPhone, and i'll grant that it's not a monopoly.
From a regulatory standpoint, monopolies don't apply to markets consisting of individual products from individual companies, only an individual company dominating an entire market segment.
The are many smart phones out there, and the iPhone doesn't even have the largest fraction of that market -according to NPD, RIM is by far the dominant player in the US, with three of the top five best-selling smart phone devices.
...without any copyright laws, would there be any need for GPL?
Without copyright law, there would be nothing to enforce access to source code, therefore a company could take an otherwise "open" pool of code, modify it and distribute it without disclosing the modifications. Add a dash of DRM to defeat unauthorized (but otherwise legal, without copyright) redistribution of binaries, and you've got a closed system.
I hear Somalia is more receptive to piracy.
Clinton was president in mid-2000?
The presidential election took place November 7, 2000, and Bush was sworn in January 20, 2001 - so Clinton was still president for the entire year of 2000.
I'm waiting to see the live video footage of that scene where the poor sweet little baby polar bear is trapped on an ice floe which shrinks until he falls off to be eaten by sharks or some garbage like that *splash*
It would be quite remarkable to have video footage of polar bears in the Antarctic.
The "crypto processor" is simply an ARM7 CPU, and the source code for the firmware running on it is available here
Not according to the RIAA, which recently argued (unsuccessfully, fortunately) that simply making a file available was an act of copyright infringement, even if no download had actually occurred.
In the current litigation involving MP3tunes, they're even arguing that simply linking to freely available files on their own sites is copyright infringement.
Is it really the case that a company that hires only 4300 people is the *second* largest corporate employer in Ireland? That 1900 people losing their jobs is a "severe blow" to the economy of an entire country? The population of Ireland is somewhere around 6 million - what does every *else* do there?
Actually, it's more like a stack of one-dollar bills the size of a football field inside the Library of Congress in the shape of a car.
From http://www.megabloks.com/en/corpo/pdf/20040802.pdf :
From: http://www.marquedor.com/telemarque/archives/02-06-01b_en.htm :
From: http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2005/2005scc65/2005scc65.pdf :
Check out the "links" page - there are links to PDF files of some of the court rulings in some of the litigation (Lego v Tyco, Lego v Megabloks) confirming much of this.
Apparently LEGO would prefer to rewrite history.
Not if the shape or appearance is functional, as it is in the case of the LEGO brick. The Coke bottle appearance is not patentable, but the stud/tube elements of a LEGO brick are.
Not correct - read GPLv2 Section 3 again.
If you don't provide the source *with* the binaries (Section 3(a)), then you must make the source available to everyone (Section 3(b)).
The third option, pointing to the upstream provider (Section 3(c)) only applies to non-commercial distribution, which this isn't.
So, if somebody creates a Wikipedia article called "Everything on Wikipedia is a Lie ", will it start arguing with itself, then explode?
Do you always write like a trailer for Steven Seagal movie?
They're basically relying on license language that prohibits the reverse-engineering of the program itself - but there's nothing there that prohibits reverse engineering of the file format that it uses.
By requiring DRM, the music companies basically handed Apple a monopoly on music, because the iPod was an overwhelmingly popular device and the store and the devices began reinforcing each other in the market.
When the music folks subsequently tried to get Apple to create a differential pricing scheme, they suddenly found out that Apple had all of the power. Apple called the bluff when the companies threatened to pull their music, and won.
The only way to weaken Apple's power is to create "better" alternatives, and since the music is that same across all of the stores, they only way to do that is by making it more flexible, hence the removal of DRM and lower prices at Amazon and others. Of course, this behavior, if successful, would destroy any illusion that the music companies operate as anything other than an illegal cartel - Apple is biding its time and is probably ready to pounce once this becomes so obvious a court can't ignore it. If Apple is the *only* DRM-encumbered store (and it looks like that's the trend), then the music folks will have some explaining to do.
Which is it? Again, FTFA:
Sound like the track copying limit is "zero", since it appears you can only play it with a custom player in a browser.
They go back even earlier than that. They were called "desk accessories" on the original Macintosh.