Well answered. Lengthy, and a little dry but guess what? That's what IP is all about!
It does seem though that although they are lawyers who are interested in technology and how it intersects with the law, and that they research tech issues etc before a case, that they don't have enough of a tech background / training.
I propose that they should find more avenues to have contact with 'techies.' They should have opportunities to attend some programming and compSci classes, so that when someone tries to invoke the DMCA on some trivial (eg/ ROT13) 'encryption' mechanism, they understand just how much the wool is being pulled over their eyes.
Similarly, they should talk to FOSS project leaders, try out leading FOSS tools, try running their own LAMP powered website, etc.
I think it's key that these people see how empowering FOSS software is and the resultant benefit to society, before they put forward copyright cases, as after all, the purpose of copyright (and dare I say it, all laws) is to benefit society.
One majour thing preventing the shift is the lack of high quality english in those countries...allows me to win some contracts because I can accuractetly understand the proposal..
I dont understand why everyone is so negative. Its cool for the consumer and game designers -
You get basically unlimited games for a flat fee. Try a game, dont like it? Move on to another. You dont end up with a pile of crappy carts or CDs.
Second, for parents, they can control the games kids see. Have 8 year old kids? You can block unreal and Doom and just allow access to the Blues-Clues genre.
Third, having the network in place means it easy to have multiplayer games.
Fourth, it runs Windows XP - Porting the games from regular PCs or XBoxes will be easy / cheap
Fifth, becuase of the huge catalog and no need for middlemen, lots of little game publishers will get the chance to shine. They arent restricted to convincing Circuit City to give them shelfspace plus they dont have to worry about all the hassles of duplication and packaging they'd need to sell through regular channels
dave
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Re:What would the founding fathers think?
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Jefferson also said:
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea."
I think one of my original comments was wrong anyways - It would be the MPAA/RIAA/MS that owns the keys to decide which apps are trusted or not.. My main point was that the article didnt go into enough depth on how 'Trusted computing' could be used in P2P although all the stuff on the economics of piracy was interesting and well written
dave
..the section on how 'Trusted Computing' can defend P2P is far too short. They dont explain a lot of things such as how protected memory and storage would be ued in P2P. Or who would own the security keys that lock all this up? As soon as a P2P network sprang up the RIAA/MPAA/bad corpde jour would track down the key owned and sue their ass
dave
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It's a fun idea but flawed -
Shallit assumed that every amount of change between 0 and 99 cents is equally likely.
Is obviously not true - prices are clustered at certain points, eg 95c or 99c, so the typical amount of change would be skewed as well. Would be nice to see the experiment using real data for typical prices.
Also, I wonder to what extent the demoninations of currency in use effect the prices of goods?
Hey! Is there a way to get in touch with you? I've never bothered to create a/. user before, so I'm not sure if there's any sort of messaging facility built into this.
Anyways, I'm a NYC resident, interested in playing around with ideas to help reduce government IT costs (and my taxes;)
I'm not representing any company or trying to sell anything. Just wanna kick around some ideas. You can mail me at tempmail(a)isoga.net
thx
dave
Slashdot Mirror
It does seem though that although they are lawyers who are interested in technology and how it intersects with the law, and that they research tech issues etc before a case, that they don't have enough of a tech background / training.
I propose that they should find more avenues to have contact with 'techies.' They should have opportunities to attend some programming and compSci classes, so that when someone tries to invoke the DMCA on some trivial (eg/ ROT13) 'encryption' mechanism, they understand just how much the wool is being pulled over their eyes.
Similarly, they should talk to FOSS project leaders, try out leading FOSS tools, try running their own LAMP powered website, etc.
I think it's key that these people see how empowering FOSS software is and the resultant benefit to society, before they put forward copyright cases, as after all, the purpose of copyright (and dare I say it, all laws) is to benefit society.
Dave
www.davidgoodwin.net
ahhh..shouldda gone and looked up the port no...
I dont get it? How is this funny?
well, in the last 2 years ;)
Slashdot is getting pretty poor recently. More and more like the sensationalist British tabloids. Anyone recommend a better place for my tech news?
dave
www.davidgoodwin.net
yeah, your command of english is great.
dave - www.davidgoodwin.net
You get basically unlimited games for a flat fee. Try a game, dont like it? Move on to another. You dont end up with a pile of crappy carts or CDs.
Second, for parents, they can control the games kids see. Have 8 year old kids? You can block unreal and Doom and just allow access to the Blues-Clues genre.
Third, having the network in place means it easy to have multiplayer games.
Fourth, it runs Windows XP - Porting the games from regular PCs or XBoxes will be easy / cheap
Fifth, becuase of the huge catalog and no need for middlemen, lots of little game publishers will get the chance to shine. They arent restricted to convincing Circuit City to give them shelfspace plus they dont have to worry about all the hassles of duplication and packaging they'd need to sell through regular channels
dave -- Check out my website!
damn i suck
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea."
Which I think is very sensible dave
dave
Actually, I'm amazed how many people clicked on the link...about 400 according to the web logs!
dave
that's too funny dave -- you, yes you, are stupid
I was being sarcastic...where do I say 'alot'? That's a typo
dave
I think one of my original comments was wrong anyways - It would be the MPAA/RIAA/MS that owns the keys to decide which apps are trusted or not.. My main point was that the article didnt go into enough depth on how 'Trusted computing' could be used in P2P although all the stuff on the economics of piracy was interesting and well written dave
..the section on how 'Trusted Computing' can defend P2P is far too short. They dont explain a lot of things such as how protected memory and storage would be ued in P2P. Or who would own the security keys that lock all this up? As soon as a P2P network sprang up the RIAA/MPAA/bad corpde jour would track down the key owned and sue their ass dave
Is obviously not true - prices are clustered at certain points, eg 95c or 99c, so the typical amount of change would be skewed as well. Would be nice to see the experiment using real data for typical prices.
Also, I wonder to what extent the demoninations of currency in use effect the prices of goods?
dave
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Hey! Is there a way to get in touch with you? I've never bothered to create a /. user before, so I'm not sure if there's any sort of messaging facility built into this.
Anyways, I'm a NYC resident, interested in playing around with ideas to help reduce government IT costs (and my taxes;)
I'm not representing any company or trying to sell anything. Just wanna kick around some ideas. You can mail me at tempmail(a)isoga.net
thx
dave