One of things you have to remember about intellectual property is that it is all about property. When a company files an IP patent what they are doing is creating an asset. That asset can be assingned a value. The value may not be in anyway realistic, but it does show up on the plus side of the companys accounting.
As an example I file a patent for using computers to send notes to people (very much like say E-mail (and yes I know there is prior art)). But then I have some appraser say that the patent is worth $100 Million. Now on the plus side of my accounting I have a $100 million dollars asset. So I look better on the stock market and my shares go up.
That is true of course until a Finish auto mechanic name Tinus Lorvads creates a version of the Ferrari from scratch completely free of patented or copywritten source. Of course after this core capability become availably millions of auto mechanics the world over start to make improvements to the Tirrari until through their combined effort a vehicle is developed that can go 1000 MPH gets a million miles to the gallon and is almost impossible to crash.
Most of the major auto makers of course will than start a propaganda campaign about how bad an dangerous the Tirrari is because the builder has to bolt the seats in himself.
Is that after you have an accident, stalls or run out of gas the vehicle still has to land on something. It will bring a whole new meaning to the phrase multi car pile up. Air travel is very restrictive about where one can and cannot fly for a reason.
The early adopters would fall under the FAA immediately because safety concerns are so great that flying cars would simply be regulated as private planes.
I think that the ramifications of this are being missed.
Could Webster sue the OED?
How much does each of us owe the phone company for our personal address books?
What is the sir charge for getting a ladies number in a bar? (Unfortunately I probably don't have to much to worry about there.)
Who do I owe for my e-mail address book?
What about DNS records?
The list just goes on and on. My inbound access logs must replicate some part several ISP's outbound logs.
Actually, the more that I think about it the more I realize that the law is just non-functional. The only thing this can do is prove there is obviously a reason that facts must be excluded from copyright.
It seems very very odd to me that a company that make ATMs should have such profound security issues in one of their products. ATMs leave a great deal of a paper trail. (I assume never having gotten inside one.) So why did they design the voting machine without a paper trail.
JACEM
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One of things you have to remember about intellectual property is that it is all about property. When a company files an IP patent what they are doing is creating an asset. That asset can be assingned a value. The value may not be in anyway realistic, but it does show up on the plus side of the companys accounting.
As an example I file a patent for using computers to send notes to people (very much like say E-mail (and yes I know there is prior art)). But then I have some appraser say that the patent is worth $100 Million. Now on the plus side of my accounting I have a $100 million dollars asset. So I look better on the stock market and my shares go up.
JACEM
1) anounce game, setup preorder
2) delay game so long that people forget they pre ordered and buy another copy.
3) Profit!
Its a real busness plan.
JACEM
But will you still be charged for the bandwith by the Gig, like most hosting services do today?
JACEM
What about us 30 year old kids who are always looking for a fun new way to play with many aging boxen.
JACEM
Speeking as a Process server and skip tracer I can only say: YEAH
JACEM
That is true of course until a Finish auto mechanic name Tinus Lorvads creates a version of the Ferrari from scratch completely free of patented or copywritten source. Of course after this core capability become availably millions of auto mechanics the world over start to make improvements to the Tirrari until through their combined effort a vehicle is developed that can go 1000 MPH gets a million miles to the gallon and is almost impossible to crash.
Most of the major auto makers of course will than start a propaganda campaign about how bad an dangerous the Tirrari is because the builder has to bolt the seats in himself.
Why does this sound familiar?
Jacem
Is that after you have an accident, stalls or run out of gas the vehicle still has to land on something. It will bring a whole new meaning to the phrase multi car pile up. Air travel is very restrictive about where one can and cannot fly for a reason.
The early adopters would fall under the FAA immediately because safety concerns are so great that flying cars would simply be regulated as private planes.
JACEM
I think that the ramifications of this are being missed.
Could Webster sue the OED?
How much does each of us owe the phone company for our personal address books?
What is the sir charge for getting a ladies number in a bar? (Unfortunately I probably don't have to much to worry about there.)
Who do I owe for my e-mail address book?
What about DNS records?
The list just goes on and on. My inbound access logs must replicate some part several ISP's outbound logs.
Actually, the more that I think about it the more I realize that the law is just non-functional. The only thing this can do is prove there is obviously a reason that facts must be excluded from copyright.
JACEM
It seems very very odd to me that a company that make ATMs should have such profound security issues in one of their products. ATMs leave a great deal of a paper trail. (I assume never having gotten inside one.) So why did they design the voting machine without a paper trail. JACEM