Except that you may have accidentally and unintentionally made a very good point about how to get the media giants to protect our cultural heritage.
I'd rather it be legally mandated for them to provide for the preservation of their works throughout and well after their copyright term, even if it means they have to release their copyright and works well before their expiration, as well as penalties proportional the the value of the work to future generations, being a multiple (not a divisor) of its value when it was extant.
I wouldn't put it past Disney that, if they even once don't get an extension for Mickey Mouse, they'd rather destroy all originals than allow the public domain to have them.
Further, anyone who is penalized for infringing a work that expires before its copyright (an "ephemeral work") would be freed and all penalties reversed in treble. Even freezing all company assets for the equivalent of any served term of incarceration or the transfer of the company to the incarcerated's heirs, such as is appropriate for copyright beyond even its creator's lifetime.
Thus should be the counter to the draconian laws they currently wield for impeding the Progress of Science and useful Arts by failing to also secure for the limited Times afforded their Writings their eventual entry into the public domain.
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if the purpose of limits really was to promote safety, cops wouldn't have to hide
Last time I checked, everyone slows around a cop on the road. So if the police want to catch speeders, they have to hide! If they want to make people drive safely, they have to be constantly visible. There just aren't enough to be constantly visible.
And this is why we now have traffic cameras.
Next will be RFID tags in the road identifying the limit and mandated readers in the cars that control governors to prevent compliant vehicles from exceeding the posted limit, and tags in the tires and readers in the road to identify and automatically ticket older vehicles for exceeding the limit.
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I'm more interested in how resilient they are to damage. If you corrupt one bit of an uncompressed file, you can usually fix it with little difficulty, but if it is a compressed file, you tend to lose the entire file, or at least all the contents at that bit and thereafter (depending on whether the decompresser will allow you to retain the work product of the partially decompressed file).
I have some GIFs that I've wanted to restore that have damage to multiple consecutive byte pairs in the file. The algorithm for GIF is simple enough that one could use trial and error to find what the damaged bytes were supposed to be (without trying the 65535 alternate possibilities) so that you could decode until the next damaged pair. Yet I still haven't found sufficient public documentation for this format due to the patents causing the code to be pulled from the net which haven't been republished since the patent expired. (I have less hope for restoring the damaged JPGs.)
They are images containing text from a website that no longer exists and which managed not to be preserved at archive.org. They are interlaced, so I wouldn't even need to repair the entire image to deduce the text. It was a short retelling of the story "The War of the Worlds" from a modern perspective of an IRC-like chat room. The story was entitled "The Last Chat Room". I was converting it to a Flash presentation when I tried hooking up an ATA drive as slave to a controller that didn't properly support both a master and slave drive (B&W G3), ironically for the purpose of making a backup.
Imagine where, if you wanted to buy a bar of soap, it was not only ridiculously priced, but you had to buy it as part of a "bundle" with other, less popular products that weren't selling. That's the sort of control that these people had over the market.
Wow, they had the same kind of control as does our music industry!
if you mix an match a lot of assumptions with some game theory what you get is that over time all politicians migrate toward the center and, ahah surprise, they end up looking the same no matter which party they belong to
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I'm sure you have your reasons for forcing me to load a page at a particular named anchor, but why would I want you to prevent me from linking to any named anchor I wanted in your page?
It also pisses me off when I want to see a page unframed and it keeps redirecting me back to the damn frameset, especially when they don't leave me enough space to read the damn page in the frameset without scrolling horizontally! Stupid scripting games like that make me glad to be browsing with NoScript.
this sort of thing could lead to the development of drugs that enhance the ability to learn in a temporary fashion. That is, you are able to remember everything you read in the few hours the drug is in effect, but once the drug wears off you keep the memories of what you learned while on it without having a permanent eidetic memory
And so would probably be made illegal in education like steroids are in sports.
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Not me. I stayed out of that story. From what I saw on the Firehose before, I suspected the elements to be public domain or algorithmically generated by another program, such as Difference Clouds in Photoshop, that used the same seed value. A common asset producer makes even more sense.
a ban on selling violent games to minors is the same [to the minors' perspective] as if [the games] were banned outright
But it still hurts the gaming companies in lost sales due to the illegality. And if it's legislated like alcohol, it'll be illegal to buy the games on the behalf of a minor, or even for parents to allow a minor to play violent games, even with supervision.
Why crush the head when the throat is such an easy choke point, right Homer?
So what exactly was the defect with these DVDs? I too am interested in exactly what the defect in the version of ARccOS copy protection was that prevented it from working in consumer players such as the Sony Disk Explorer 400. I'm hoping someone is purposely acquiring these damaged titles before they all get recalled and we get a follow-up story with a breakdown analysis of what went wrong.
He covered his windows with cardboard and proceeded to browse.
With all the cameras in the UK, I can see why seeking to maintain ones privacy in a public place would now be considered a crime, or at least reasonable suspicion leading to probable cause for invading that privacy to search for evidence of criminal activity.
Keep in mind, the smoking gun reported is light behind cardboard. He would have probably been hassled even without the light.
So accepting people's invitation to use their Wifi (by not securing it) is a crime...
So you mean I cannot crawl into an open window and use someones couch and get some food and beverages from their refrigerators? What kind of world is this?
According to the MAFIAA (and some ISP service contracts too), having an open window into which someone could crawl and use your couch and get food and beverages from your refrigerator is a crime against the manufacturers of your couch, food, beverages, refrigerator, carpeting, and even your electric company for which you can be prosecuted for failure to secure products nontransferably licensed to you.
In most cases, you would know by common sense whether the network is public or the owner is security challenged. Almost all public wi-fi services will require you to register before using the service.
"Most"? "Almost all"? Sounds like a basis for a defense to me.
Muslims are trained from birth that Jews are going to turn into pigs... one day Real Soon Now. They can show you pictures of Jews turning into pigs. Isn't that a scene from "Lamina Farm"?
Acting without thinking, right? Just like the school officials did in this case. In this case, they acted and didn't start thinking until 12 days later!
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I wouldn't put it past Disney that, if they even once don't get an extension for Mickey Mouse, they'd rather destroy all originals than allow the public domain to have them.
Further, anyone who is penalized for infringing a work that expires before its copyright (an "ephemeral work") would be freed and all penalties reversed in treble. Even freezing all company assets for the equivalent of any served term of incarceration or the transfer of the company to the incarcerated's heirs, such as is appropriate for copyright beyond even its creator's lifetime.
Thus should be the counter to the draconian laws they currently wield for impeding the Progress of Science and useful Arts by failing to also secure for the limited Times afforded their Writings their eventual entry into the public domain.
At a Radio Shack yesterday I saw they had signs up offering people the ability to sign up to receive AMBER Alerts (a.k.a. Levi's Call, Maile Amber Alert, and Morgan Nick Amber Alert) on their cell phones.
It's here already.
I'm more interested in how resilient they are to damage. If you corrupt one bit of an uncompressed file, you can usually fix it with little difficulty, but if it is a compressed file, you tend to lose the entire file, or at least all the contents at that bit and thereafter (depending on whether the decompresser will allow you to retain the work product of the partially decompressed file).
I have some GIFs that I've wanted to restore that have damage to multiple consecutive byte pairs in the file. The algorithm for GIF is simple enough that one could use trial and error to find what the damaged bytes were supposed to be (without trying the 65535 alternate possibilities) so that you could decode until the next damaged pair. Yet I still haven't found sufficient public documentation for this format due to the patents causing the code to be pulled from the net which haven't been republished since the patent expired. (I have less hope for restoring the damaged JPGs.)
They are images containing text from a website that no longer exists and which managed not to be preserved at archive.org. They are interlaced, so I wouldn't even need to repair the entire image to deduce the text. It was a short retelling of the story "The War of the Worlds" from a modern perspective of an IRC-like chat room. The story was entitled "The Last Chat Room". I was converting it to a Flash presentation when I tried hooking up an ATA drive as slave to a controller that didn't properly support both a master and slave drive (B&W G3), ironically for the purpose of making a backup.
Jack Johnson: And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!
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It also pisses me off when I want to see a page unframed and it keeps redirecting me back to the damn frameset, especially when they don't leave me enough space to read the damn page in the frameset without scrolling horizontally! Stupid scripting games like that make me glad to be browsing with NoScript.
"Where's my revision timetable, Lister? It's Saturday night. No one works Saturday night. You don't work any night. You don't work any day. Skive hard, play hard, that's our motto. Lister, where did you put my revision timetable. It's Saturday night. No one works Saturday night. You don't work..."
Not me. I stayed out of that story. From what I saw on the Firehose before, I suspected the elements to be public domain or algorithmically generated by another program, such as Difference Clouds in Photoshop, that used the same seed value. A common asset producer makes even more sense.
Why crush the head when the throat is such an easy choke point, right Homer?
Expect Jack Thompson to be interviewed on television about this faster than he can say "activist judges".
It would be good to know what the enemy is up to.
Keep in mind, the smoking gun reported is light behind cardboard. He would have probably been hassled even without the light.
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