Don't forget the attempts to extend the control to our homes through mostly mindless, but time consuming tasks and the endless, useless remember-answer-forget cycle.
Even if I really, really, really don't like piracy, I am not going to call it stealing, because that's not the correct word for it. As long as you continue to use words for other than their intended purposes, you come off as a dogmatist fishing to score emotional points rather than a rational participant in a mature discussion.
You appear to intend permanently depriving the copyright holder of the payment that they would expect to receive for their services.
Service is something you do when I ask you to, not something for which I will pay you after you have done at your own initiative. In reasonably free markets people are deprived of expected payments all the time, it's called concurrency and is considered an integral part of such markets.
[T]he percentage of the respondents in need of elective coronary bypass who had been waiting for more than three months was 0% in U.S., 18.2% in Sweden, 46.7% in Canada, and 88.9% in the United Kingdom" -- from an Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development study of waiting time for elective surgery in developed countries.
Ah, statistics... What was the percentage that couldn't aford it?
You have to agree to an EULA if you want to simply use the software, this is not the case with the GPL you can use the software without ever agreeing to it. The GPL becomes important when you distribute the software, but then you become a software disributer, not just an end user.
Free Software is indeed thriving, but:
1) This was far from clear 1985 when the GNU Manifesto was published, I haven't heard RMS talking about Free Software taxes lately, have you?
2) The only significant example of public domain software I know of is SQLite.
3) I'm not very familiar with US university founding so I don't know how much money the UCB and MIT get from the goverment.
As for roads, the commonly held belief is that they are public infrastructures that would not otherwise exist without government coercion. Whether or not that is true, the same cannot be said of software. We have a thriving market in software, and oodles of Free Software is being produced without any coercive software tax in sight.
Where exactly does the draft forbid encryption of documents?
Besides that DRM is not encryption. Encryption only governs access, not copying the information after the fact.
For example, GPL is touted as the ultimate in code freedom, but it's really about pushing a particular agenda.
No, it's not, you don't revision three of the ultimate in code freedom, it's just the best the FSF can come up with and it happens that they enjoy certain respect. And even the FSF recomends other licenses for strategic purposes... The agenda is made clear in the license itself ("Preamble"), so I don't see anything wrong there.
You keep saying "government granted monopoly". This is just not true.
I'm talking mostly about stories here, you can't make Star Wars without asking Lucas and if you make something that's different enough it's not starwars any more. There is competiton from other stories, but they are not the same.
The end result would be a gradual decimation of most copyright-based businesses.
New tech has changed markets before, less doing the same thing just different enough I say.
Most businesses would move somewhere else..where they could protect their work...which is why there aren't many software companies in china (or people buying software).
Are you... Nevermind let's step trought it.
Evidence that there is no software bussines in China, I mean seriously, just because there is no "Chinese Microsoft"...
Evidence that most Chinese bussines or indeed most bussiness is done in competition limited environments. Most products I see out of China could be produced identical or at least equivalently elsewhere as there is little protection on them.
Evidence that Microsoft-style money shifting is good for enyone but Microsoft shareholders. They simply do not produce a multi-billion product, what do the rest of us gain by having such a giant where smaller companies would do just fine with a fraction of the profits (prices aproaching costs of production and all other such economic non-sense you know...)
The only reason something is downloaded or shared, is because it is actually good.
No it's popular, I hope you know the difference.
After all, why would you download something you didn't want?
Yeah well, that's why I don't. I hunt down CC and public domain stuff and read books, but I know there is good stuff out there I simply don't have access to. And I want to see the good 50 year old stories retold.
You can't answer a request for evidence with 'yes', not if you don't give evidence.
It's not that hard to make money. it's hard, as a small company, to prevent a larger company from taking your ideas or product out right and using it as their own without the protection of the copyright laws.
It's harder to make money without having a monopoly? Adam Smith, is that you? Many small companies are successful in markets where everyone can sell a product that is for all intended purposes identical to theirs, we call it competition and small, agile companies seem to be good at it, so good that big companies routinely use anti-competitive tactics against them. "Intellectual property" in all it's current forms is one of the weapons used.
I know I am just repeating myself, but you didn't seem to get it the first time.
I get it all right, it's just that you aren't entitled to make money so you bitching and enjoy the law.
Many people bitch about how the recording industry puts out shit and charges too much. The funny thing is, it's all their *shit* that's flooding the p2p networks.
If you aren't producing that *shit*(tm) them the p2p networks aren't hurting you, are they? Quit your bitching and make something that people actaly want.
You are not entitled to getting things easily from the cartels.
But they are entitled to waste my tax money to protect it? Sorry, I don't want to subscribe to your newsletter.
You were ranting about how glorious the world would be without copyright laws.
Are you replying to somone else? I was saying that we might need to get rid of copyright alltogether just to make saner copyright laws, because going from life+50 to something like 20 years has a very slim chance of happening IMHO (not that getting rid of them would be easy).
I was just stating that it would probably be the same. Mostly because we would have some other type of law in place.
I was wondering if you suggested that a renamed copyright counts as no copyright in the last post, but I was giving you the benefit of doubt...
create a new product,art,movie, or song, and to sell it. Then tell me how long it takes, if ever, to make a profit. This is how I know most have busted their ass throughout their careers. It is damn hard to make money selling anything. Unless you win the lotto or are stealing something, making money is though...no matter what you do.
big companies may be in a position to market something and make money easily, but they pay the price in R&D, which many times is a big risk.
I'll take this as a big "no" answer to the question about evidence. Anyway, if selling your work is so hard that you need to sell it 50 years after your dead you need to look for another way to make money. There are even people who make a living wihout goverment granted monopolies on whatever they do!
copyright cartels don't keep you from breathing, eating, or living. You don't need a cartels product. You also are not forced to use it. If the record industry is too harsh, stop buying their product.
So why keep copyrights around if the product is of so little importance? The justification for copyright is that more and better copyrightable works will be created that way. If what it does is hinder effective distribution and the product isn't of grave importance why waste taxpayer money around the world in form of copyright enforcement and courtime on it. Why should I and the overhelming majority of hobby creators and non-creators support copyright so that a minority of creators and their parasites get to make a living in the way they want to.
If enough people get pissed, the cartels will be forced to change their ways.
Bullshit, I can't boycot something that isn't even sold to me. The only way I can get many-many interesting works is to order that from the net spending half of my months pay for the item+shipping. And getting non-cartel works is more not less difficult.
If the copyright was released, businesses would just find another model. It's not so cut and dry.
What does this have to do with anything, companies will always try to make money, this has nothing to do with the accessability of currently copyrighted material.
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Don't forget the attempts to extend the control to our homes through mostly mindless, but time consuming tasks and the endless, useless remember-answer-forget cycle.
s/concurrency/competition/
Well, don't give strangers local accounts!
Who needs facts if you have hyperbole!
The old or the new BSD license? ;)
You have to agree to an EULA if you want to simply use the software, this is not the case with the GPL you can use the software without ever agreeing to it. The GPL becomes important when you distribute the software, but then you become a software disributer, not just an end user.
Linux was originaly released under a non-comercial license...
Free Software is indeed thriving, but: 1) This was far from clear 1985 when the GNU Manifesto was published, I haven't heard RMS talking about Free Software taxes lately, have you? 2) The only significant example of public domain software I know of is SQLite. 3) I'm not very familiar with US university founding so I don't know how much money the UCB and MIT get from the goverment.
Where exactly does the draft forbid encryption of documents? Besides that DRM is not encryption. Encryption only governs access, not copying the information after the fact.
You are aware that Google first made a good search engine and only then figured out how to actualy make money?
It's German, for the first half he is complaining about the game not starting. Then he says he'll kill the sons of the bitches.
Six figures for posting on /.?