The whole argument to extend copyright protection on existing works is a fraud and a lie. I hope you like being lied to about it. The fraud and lie is that every one of these existing works has already been created under the previous system of much shorter copyright protections. No extra creativity has fostered in any of those works by this extension. In fact, creativity has been hindered as all new and derivative properties are locked away beyond the lifetimes of any of us living now.
Only profits are protected, at the very expensive of fostering creativity that the Constitution is supposed to protect.
Now wasn't that simple? Why can't Congress and the Supreme Court understand this?
Just for grins and giggles, try explaining this to your local representative and see what they really say about it.
As a matter of fact, it does. The famous case is that of the waterbed - the patent was declared invalid because the device was described previously in a novel, specifically a Heinlein novel if I recall.
Fascinating. Of course, Heinlein is also prior art for common sense, and direct solutions to problem people.
In fact, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is part of a body of prior art for A.I., along with several later books.
wondering was if you took like five of those to say 40,000 feet towing a rocket and then launched from there
And throw away all that helium on every launch? Or did you also have some plan to retrieve and resue it? Send a compressor and some empty tanks up and pump down the balloons?
If anything goes wrong, if the suits fail, death would take about half a second.
This subject was discussed in science and science fiction decades ago. And I don't mean the slow motion exploding bodies in Total Recall. Last I heard, human skin is gas tight and really needs only the type of support an elastic suit provides to prevent major injury from vacuum. Also, suffocation takes minutes, not fractions of a second.
"Once you get past about 33,000ft, you are unable to breathe unaided. Even if you are breathing oxygen, it has to be forced in under pressure.
Boy, this really makes me feel good about those flimsy oxygen masks in 737s flying at 39K feet.
"At about 44,000ft, you need to be wearing a pressure suit, because if not the blood will start to heat and actually boil. At anything over 40,000ft, you are in big trouble if a suit fails," says Brian Jones, veteran of a round-the-world balloon flight, an altitude record holder, and mission controller to the flight of Qinetiq 1.
Good thing they retired the Concorde. IIRC it flys at upto 56K feet.
Last summer, NASA was granted a patent on lifter technology
Does this mean all US citizens can now use it? Since NASA develops its things with public money I seem to recall that they become available to everyone.
This could conceivably make the watermark almost indetectable, and allow the company to trace the song back to you.
Like hardly. Take two copies of the song with different watermarks, XOR together to locate a likely 50% of the watermark bits, inverse, and AND out so much of the watermark that it no longer identifies either of the uniquely tagged sources. While difficult to do with analog becuse of noise, not at all difficult with digital. Now you have a recording that does not relate to either original, and unless highly unlucky, no third person either.
And your method would have only worked provided that each user gives full and complete personal information at the time of purchase, which is not how we buy music today.
The total lack of patents would put the indivual inventor out of business, because he/she would never be able to compete with large corporations.
How many individual inventors actually produce their products? Most sell out to those large corprorations at the first good opportunity.
And this is not necessarily bad. Consider a small inventor with something wonderful. A big corporation is much more situated to mass produce such items and get them into your hands faster. You could have to wait years otherwise.
And if someone had managed to patent connecting two computers together over the internet to exchange data, would that have been considered a good idea?
Or how about the idea of digitally compressing music using a computer program to result in much smaller file sizes with minimal loss of quality, and then refused to license the patent for use. (Note: Macrovision has done something similiar when they patented all the ways they could think of to beat their system, and refuse to permit their use.)
I believe no one should be allowed to patent something in order to prevent its use. Compulsary licensing under fair terms should be enforced, or we all will be worse -- not better -- off from this system intended to foster inovation.
Wouldn't this have been subject to prior art considerations from S&H Green Stamps. A bonus system for customer loyality rewarding the customer with valuable and/or useful items.
The mail-order catalogue, the moving assembly line, the decentralized corporation, the frequent-flier mile, the category-killer store--none of these radical ideas were patented.
Perhaps in the beginning such radical ideas weren't even considered for patenting because they were so radical who ever thought they'd work out so well.
And afterwards it was too late.
Most people trying to make a radical idea work are usually too busy to think about patents.
How long before partially-sighted people start complaining that thumbnails discriminate against them and demand full-size images? Will the court protect that under the Americans With Disabilities Act?
In short, how many of our laws affect out other laws in unforseen ways?
they'll place a few kinds of watermarks on each song if they're smart. Once you rip and distribute, you create a trail, and all the RIAA needs
Excuse me, but...hypothetically (don't try this at home kids) I go to a CD store and buy the top CD for cash. Then I come home, rip it using (take your pick) direct digital rip, analogue hole, special software to bypass copy-protection, take your pick, and place the results out on all 57 or so P2P networks. You can't miss that it's out there and rapidly proliferating faster than you can trace.
How does any watermark in existance trace that mass produced piece of silver plastic back to me?
I didn't even mention that I cut this baby lose using the local WiFi hotspot while enjoying an extra large cup of coffee with endless free refills.
Maybe the RIAA threats to sue individuals, and the **AA's other ongoing campaigns have finally gone one step too far and provoked the sleeping giant. These sound like the first rumblings. File sharing companies banding together to lobby governments while the EFF works to rouse the substantial millions of individual file sharers.
There's a story told about ancient Rome where someone once asked why they didn't dress the slaves distinctively so that they could easily be identified. He was told this would never happened because if it did, the slaves would realize just how many of them there actually were.
Translation: The **AA does not have by far enough money to overcome a public backlash of voters if that backlash is ever sufficiently provoked.
How does racist crap like this get modded insightful?
How does name-calling like that get modded insightful??
Telling the truth is never racist. It is simply the truth. And hiring someone from India for 35K to do the job of an American is one of the reasons citizens here can't find jobs in the tech sector.
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Only profits are protected, at the very expensive of fostering creativity that the Constitution is supposed to protect.
Now wasn't that simple? Why can't Congress and the Supreme Court understand this?
Just for grins and giggles, try explaining this to your local representative and see what they really say about it.
Fascinating. Of course, Heinlein is also prior art for common sense, and direct solutions to problem people.
In fact, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is part of a body of prior art for A.I., along with several later books.
It would make phone calls, just like everywhere else.
And throw away all that helium on every launch? Or did you also have some plan to retrieve and resue it? Send a compressor and some empty tanks up and pump down the balloons?
If anything goes wrong, if the suits fail, death would take about half a second.
This subject was discussed in science and science fiction decades ago. And I don't mean the slow motion exploding bodies in Total Recall. Last I heard, human skin is gas tight and really needs only the type of support an elastic suit provides to prevent major injury from vacuum. Also, suffocation takes minutes, not fractions of a second.
"Once you get past about 33,000ft, you are unable to breathe unaided. Even if you are breathing oxygen, it has to be forced in under pressure.
Boy, this really makes me feel good about those flimsy oxygen masks in 737s flying at 39K feet.
"At about 44,000ft, you need to be wearing a pressure suit, because if not the blood will start to heat and actually boil. At anything over 40,000ft, you are in big trouble if a suit fails," says Brian Jones, veteran of a round-the-world balloon flight, an altitude record holder, and mission controller to the flight of Qinetiq 1.
Good thing they retired the Concorde. IIRC it flys at upto 56K feet.
And all along I had thought it was more complicated than that.
Everything is bigger than cold fusion.
Does this mean all US citizens can now use it? Since NASA develops its things with public money I seem to recall that they become available to everyone.
Like hardly. Take two copies of the song with different watermarks, XOR together to locate a likely 50% of the watermark bits, inverse, and AND out so much of the watermark that it no longer identifies either of the uniquely tagged sources. While difficult to do with analog becuse of noise, not at all difficult with digital. Now you have a recording that does not relate to either original, and unless highly unlucky, no third person either.
And your method would have only worked provided that each user gives full and complete personal information at the time of purchase, which is not how we buy music today.
How many individual inventors actually produce their products? Most sell out to those large corprorations at the first good opportunity.
And this is not necessarily bad. Consider a small inventor with something wonderful. A big corporation is much more situated to mass produce such items and get them into your hands faster. You could have to wait years otherwise.
Or how about the idea of digitally compressing music using a computer program to result in much smaller file sizes with minimal loss of quality, and then refused to license the patent for use. (Note: Macrovision has done something similiar when they patented all the ways they could think of to beat their system, and refuse to permit their use.)
I believe no one should be allowed to patent something in order to prevent its use. Compulsary licensing under fair terms should be enforced, or we all will be worse -- not better -- off from this system intended to foster inovation.
Wouldn't this have been subject to prior art considerations from S&H Green Stamps. A bonus system for customer loyality rewarding the customer with valuable and/or useful items.
Perhaps in the beginning such radical ideas weren't even considered for patenting because they were so radical who ever thought they'd work out so well.
And afterwards it was too late.
Most people trying to make a radical idea work are usually too busy to think about patents.
In short, how many of our laws affect out other laws in unforseen ways?
Excuse me, but...hypothetically (don't try this at home kids) I go to a CD store and buy the top CD for cash. Then I come home, rip it using (take your pick) direct digital rip, analogue hole, special software to bypass copy-protection, take your pick, and place the results out on all 57 or so P2P networks. You can't miss that it's out there and rapidly proliferating faster than you can trace.
How does any watermark in existance trace that mass produced piece of silver plastic back to me?
I didn't even mention that I cut this baby lose using the local WiFi hotspot while enjoying an extra large cup of coffee with endless free refills.
Can't you stop this stuff at the firewall. The companies that do this are, thankfully, still few. Block their IPs and scan for illegal download types.
The patch is called 10.2.8, and arrives with the bill (not Gates) for $129.
Apple: service you can pay for.
If, as widely reported, the PPC 970 goes from 2GHz to 3GHz in the next 12 months it will definitely be more than competative.
It has been along time since I've seen performance increase by near 50% in a year. Takes me back to the 486DX2-66 days.
I was unfortunately not clear. I was also driving our 1971 Pinto when I was rear-ended.
Given that you're going to do it anyway, why not start with the RIAA, MPAA, and SCO sites. After that, any spammers anyone happens to know.
That's one way to keep your Pinto from exploading.
(Spoken by someone once rear-ended in a 1971 Pinto.)
Passanger: I'll have a nice glass of Bordeaux, and my laptop will have a vodka straight-up.
There's a story told about ancient Rome where someone once asked why they didn't dress the slaves distinctively so that they could easily be identified. He was told this would never happened because if it did, the slaves would realize just how many of them there actually were.
Translation: The **AA does not have by far enough money to overcome a public backlash of voters if that backlash is ever sufficiently provoked.
How does name-calling like that get modded insightful??
Telling the truth is never racist. It is simply the truth. And hiring someone from India for 35K to do the job of an American is one of the reasons citizens here can't find jobs in the tech sector.
And this is exciting because...
To quote Tom Hanks in Big: I don't get it.