The recidivism rates of convicted pedophiles are known. Simply get a group of these people, split them in two, give one group child porno give the other group none, and see if the recidivism rates are statistically different between the two groups.
Yes its true that many public goods are not necessarily provided by governments. However, pure public goods, those goods that are 100% nonrivalrous and nonexcludable need to be provided by government.
If you cannot exclude someone from consuming a product, like national defense, then there is no way to charge for that good directly.
The study of public goods is usually under the perview of economics, and a standard definition is: "Goods whose benefits are shared by large groups of consumers and are nonrival and nonexclusive" Public Finance in Canada Hyman, Strick.
Air is a pure public good: Nonrival allows a given quantity to be consumed by all and, nonexclusionary since it is not feasible to try and prevent people from using the good by charging money.
Software can be considered a pure public good but for the artifical constraints put on it (copyright, patents) and enforced by government.
" or call SCO at 1-800-726-8649 or visit our web site at http://www.sco.com/scosource "
Call them up, they pay the toll. Also, if your on the line blabbing hopefully they maybe losing a sale to a retard who would otherwise pay this blackmail fee.
Have it auto-dial the number, and let it sit there.
However, isn't Lessig's ideas on copyright length against the Berne Convention(50+ years)?
Need to get everyone to withdraw from that treaty:).
-Quotes from Interview- # Speaking of copyright - what would a Lessig balance of copyright look like? Would you regulate books and computer programs different?
14 year term, renewable to 28 for all but computer programs. Deposit requirement. Registration requirement. Vastly limited "derivative rights". 10 years for software max, if and only if, the source code is deposited. No copyright protection at all for any software whose source code is not deposited.
But there are more than 60 million people in the United States alone who use
file sharing--more than the number of people who voted for our current
President. If we all band together and stand up for our rights, we can change
the law.
If everyone who used P2P voted on the basis to have it legalized, then they
could elect their own president next time;).
" In order to do that, every jurist is required to vote guilty only when they have absolutely no doubts that you did it."
No, it's reasonable doubt, not 'absolutely no doubt'.
Whats the difference? Well, I could perhaps conjure doubt with an arguement that perhaps aliens cloned the accused and did the crime. Is that a possiblity? Yes. Is that a *reasonable* explanation leading to *reasonable* doubt? I wouldn't think so.
This is an excellent point: Illegal copies == N lost licence fees.
As well, I suspect most of the people who pirate software are those that would not be able to afford it in the first place. If they were able to afford it, I am sure it would be just easier just to buy it instead of spending hours looking for it online.
For example, if i were a Lawyer making $200 an hour, it would be worth it for me just to pay the $50 instead of wasting 3 hours ($600 worth of my time) finding it online. If i were making $5 an hour though, it would be worth it for me to spend up to 10 hours ($50) online looking for it.
If you want to trade content anonymously then I suggest you use Freenet. It's
priorities are anonymous first, and speed second;). A link with more
information is found here:
Also you might consider donating money, so the progress is faster. They already
have a full time programmer paid for by donations, but they are always in need
of more:
I am sure that any help will be welcomed in the freenet project, and even if not
its open source so go ahead and port it over to your favourite language.
Yes this is right, specialization occurs via key names, not content.
This is good, since keys are a random sampling of content, so if a node goes down then no specific type of content is lost. (Not putting all your eggs in one basket idea.)
Freenet routing is exactly the same as routing for internet providers. They do not endorse the content; they just relay it, as so it is with Freenet.
As well, I think it is even safer after the ruling that networks like gnutella kazaa are not responsible, like napster is, for infringing copyrighted material on the network since there are legit uses for the network.
You have to realize that you will see speed gains if you leave your node, perminant node, on so it's routing table can adjust to the network.
As well, if you want p2p search why not develop one? (You can try out / look at Frazaa on the The Freedom Engine main website, I believe someone is trying to create one already).
Freenet is a protocol like tcp/ip, there are other tools that enchance freenet that exist (FIW, Fuqid, Frost). I'd try some of them before you judge Freenet, and you should stick around till the upcoming release of the Next Generation Routing system too.
Thank god patents are only 20 years, so the damage is minimized compared to, say, a 70 year patent;).
I know you can get a patent on business methods in the United States, but I thought that most other places they had stricter rules? A case in point is that in Canada, they rejected the idea of patenting living things (i.e. the Harvard Mouse) that was allowed in USA.
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder who pays the bill if the thing leaks, them, the computer manufacturer, or you.
Slashdot didnt put the 'puts pinky to lip' comment at the end grrrr.
"They'll remove one MILLION lines of code..."
SCO will next say that the amount of infringing lines of code is: ONE HUNDRED BILLION
Stop using credit cards.
The experiment could be done rather easily.
The recidivism rates of convicted pedophiles are known. Simply get a group of these people, split them in two, give one group child porno give the other group none, and see if the recidivism rates are statistically different between the two groups.
Yes its true that many public goods are not necessarily provided by governments. However, pure public goods, those goods that are 100% nonrivalrous and nonexcludable need to be provided by government.
If you cannot exclude someone from consuming a product, like national defense, then there is no way to charge for that good directly.
"Public goods need to benefit EVERYONE"
Not necessarily so.
The study of public goods is usually under the perview of economics, and a standard definition is: "Goods whose benefits are shared by large groups of consumers and are nonrival and nonexclusive" Public Finance in Canada Hyman, Strick.
Air is a pure public good: Nonrival allows a given quantity to be consumed by all and, nonexclusionary since it is not feasible to try and prevent people from using the good by charging money.
Software can be considered a pure public good but for the artifical constraints put on it (copyright, patents) and enforced by government.
If you are mad at SCO then tell them personally by clicking here and filling out their feed back form.
" or call SCO at 1-800-726-8649 or visit our web site at http://www.sco.com/scosource " Call them up, they pay the toll. Also, if your on the line blabbing hopefully they maybe losing a sale to a retard who would otherwise pay this blackmail fee. Have it auto-dial the number, and let it sit there.
That copyright length is a dream come true.
:).
However, isn't Lessig's ideas on copyright length against the Berne Convention(50+ years)?
Need to get everyone to withdraw from that treaty
-Quotes from Interview-
# Speaking of copyright - what would a Lessig balance of copyright look like? Would you regulate books and computer programs different?
14 year term, renewable to 28 for all but computer programs.
Deposit requirement.
Registration requirement.
Vastly limited "derivative rights".
10 years for software max, if and only if, the source code is deposited.
No copyright protection at all for any software whose source code is not deposited.
I'm surprised this article was not posted, it is very factual:
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/mai n/0,14179,2914364,00.html
Here is a good quote from EFF's campaign site ( http://www.eff.org/share/ ):
;).
But there are more than 60 million people in the United States alone who use file sharing--more than the number of people who voted for our current President. If we all band together and stand up for our rights, we can change the law.
If everyone who used P2P voted on the basis to have it legalized, then they could elect their own president next time
If you want to know what the problem with DRM is then you should read this story by one of the leading minds of the GPL/GNU, Richard Stallman:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
It's an article in which reading is outlawed, made possible by Microsoft's DRM, and corporations' ideas of what copyright should be.
He also has many other essays too.
" In order to do that, every jurist is required to vote guilty only when they have absolutely no doubts that you did it."
No, it's reasonable doubt, not 'absolutely no doubt'.
Whats the difference? Well, I could perhaps conjure doubt with an arguement that perhaps aliens cloned the accused and did the crime. Is that a possiblity? Yes. Is that a *reasonable* explanation leading to *reasonable* doubt? I wouldn't think so.
This is an excellent point: Illegal copies == N lost licence fees.
As well, I suspect most of the people who pirate software are those that would not be able to afford it in the first place. If they were able to afford it, I am sure it would be just easier just to buy it instead of spending hours looking for it online.
For example, if i were a Lawyer making $200 an hour, it would be worth it for me just to pay the $50 instead of wasting 3 hours ($600 worth of my time) finding it online. If i were making $5 an hour though, it would be worth it for me to spend up to 10 hours ($50) online looking for it.
If you want to trade content anonymously then I suggest you use Freenet. It's priorities are anonymous first, and speed second ;). A link with more
information is found here:
a te
http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
Also you might consider donating money, so the progress is faster. They already have a full time programmer paid for by donations, but they are always in need of more:
http://freenet.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=don
Yes, now is not the time to sit back and do nothing; SCO has crossed the line demanding money for what should be free software.
As well, asking a segment of the Australian Government to investigate was a good idea, it costs little money, if any, in comparison to litigation.
Are there any competition enforcers, or other agencies, elsewhere that could be used to file a complaint?
There is a GPL project to bring p2p searching to freenet, although I do not know if there has been much activity. Try this link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/frazaa/
Hopefully someone will get it running soon.
Why doesn't someone put there money where their mouth is and port it over to another language if they dont like Java so much?
I do believe someone is porting over Freenet from Java to another C language, and the project is called Entropy:
http://entropy.stop1984.com/en/intro.html
I am sure that any help will be welcomed in the freenet project, and even if not its open source so go ahead and port it over to your favourite language.
Yes this is right, specialization occurs via key names, not content.
This is good, since keys are a random sampling of content, so if a node goes down then no specific type of content is lost. (Not putting all your eggs in one basket idea.)
Freenet routing is exactly the same as routing for internet providers. They do not endorse the content; they just relay it, as so it is with Freenet.
As well, I think it is even safer after the ruling that networks like gnutella kazaa are not responsible, like napster is, for infringing copyrighted material on the network since there are legit uses for the network.
The parent message has a lot of good tips!
You have to realize that you will see speed gains if you leave your node, perminant node, on so it's routing table can adjust to the network.
As well, if you want p2p search why not develop one? (You can try out / look at Frazaa on the The Freedom Engine main website, I believe someone is trying to create one already).
Freenet is a protocol like tcp/ip, there are other tools that enchance freenet that exist (FIW, Fuqid, Frost). I'd try some of them before you judge Freenet, and you should stick around till the upcoming release of the Next Generation Routing system too.
Thank god patents are only 20 years, so the damage is minimized compared to, say, a 70 year patent
I know you can get a patent on business methods in the United States, but I thought that most other places they had stricter rules? A case in point is that in Canada, they rejected the idea of patenting living things (i.e. the Harvard Mouse) that was allowed in USA.
A lot of the Freenet tools can be located here:
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http://freenet.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=too
Fuqid is hosted on Freenet, if you Freenet installed click the link above.
Another good trick is to use Freenet to add high bandwidth content (like Mp3s) to your websites
In order to make full use of Freenet you have to get Fuqid (A tool that works with freenet), it allows you to que downloads, and uploads.
There exists many other tools that work with Freenet that really enhance its usability.