The five year buffer doesn't stop studios from cutting deals to get shows and movies out to platforms of choice earlier and gives them time to sell the physical media.
So what? How does that benefit the public (which is the only valid purpose of copyright in the first place)?
I see no reason not to do compulsory licensing without some arbitrary and capricious "buffer."
I think "legal" and "ethical" are being conflated here. I get the impression that the OP was talking about sociopaths acting unethically, not about people in general acting illegally (which requires evaluation of the law as well as the person breaking it).
In other words, I think the difference between murdering someone for a peanut and speeding for $1000 is not due the difference between the penalties and rewards, but rather due to the fact that murder is unethical and speeding (considered abstractly) is not.
Seeing as Bernie isn't really a democrat, it is pretty disengenuous to claim that the party rules are unfair or unreasonable.
Political parties' existence is unfair and unreasonable, especially when those nominally-"closed" and "private" organizations have a privileged position in election law and public funding. They should be abolished entirely, but failing that, the least they can do is give everyone voting in their primaries (including the open primaries) an equal voice in choosing the candidate!
Because the proliferation of pages is not due to repetitive viewing of the same sites, it's due to a tree traversal over the pages linked from a starting page. Sooner or later, I plan to be finished reading them all and close the vast majority of the tabs without any intention of reopening them later.
French Asians are mostly Tunisian, Algerian, Moroccan, etc
LOL WTF? Those countries are in North Africa. (Hell, they don't even count as the "Middle East" either, because they're as far west as France is itself.) No way is the average French person that ignorant about geography!
Also, even if it had not been replaced by conquest, the GP's argument makes about as much sense as claiming Americans speak German because the Angles were speaking a northwest Germanic language 1500 years ago.
Generally it's from some stupid millennial, or the mouthpiece of a social networking company that offers a messaging feature that, for all intents and purposes, is email (except with centralization, censorship, advertising and data-mining). What they really mean is "we wish email were dead, so everyone would be forced to become one of our users and we could become the new defacto email".
No, he was suggesting exactly the opposite: that any sort of tolerance (let alone support) for war is anti-Christian, so priests etc. should be condemning armies instead of blessing them.
you don't get to save money by owning your own modem. The modem is "free".
It's entirely possible for that to be a lie anyway.
For example, when I had basic cable TV through Comcast (which I accepted solely because they refused to give me a lower internet-only rate than they would offer for the bundle), I was issued "free" cable box ("free" because it was the first one on the account). I later decided that if I'm forced to buy the service then I might as well use it and had them issue me a CableCard instead. When I got my next bill, I saw a line item subtracting the rental fee for the "free" cable box and another line item adding the rental fee for the CableCard. The CableCard fee was cheaper, so the total net cost actually dropped something like $2.50 below the advertised rate that I had been paying before.
Huh??? DOCSIS requires backwards compatibility, both for the head end and the modems themselves. Any DOCSIS n hardware is compatible with n+k and n-k for all values of k. There's absolutely no reason for your cable company's head end to not negotiate a connection with your existing cable modem. You just won't get the faster speeds provided by the newer standard.
Maybe that's true, the same thing happened to me: alleged backwards compatibility didn't stop Comcast from causing my DOCSIS 2.0 (Linksys BEFC-MU10) modem to stop being able to connect. The DOCSIS 3.0 replacement (Zoom 6341j) I bought worked.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Comcast intentionally configured their network to reject connections from DOCSIS 2.0 modems even if they were supposed to still work, in hopes that some people who owned modems would start renting (or just to punish people for having the audacity not to rent). It's just the kind of thing those criminal, corrupt fuckers would do.
Another European here going WTF at the implication that cities are considered corporations?
American here going WTF at the implication that Europeans still consider the alternative -- establishment by royal charter -- to be a good thing.
(FYI, a "municipal corporation" just means that the town was established by the free association of the people who live in it. The concept exists in parts of Europe too, by the way.)
That's not a solution because it still relies on having someone other than the owner decide what's "allowed" to run on the owner's device.
A real solution would be to have a hardware switch allowing the owner, who has physical access to the machine, to turn the DRM off and replace the master encryption key with one of his own choosing.
As I type this, Firefox 48.0.2 is using 1200 MB. There are 20 windows open, with a total of 95 tabs between them. I just closed one window with 23 tabs in it, and the memory usage didn't change.
It's open source, silly. Mozilla doesn't get to decide that; you do. Just download a 49 binary and install it, and if that doesn't work then compile it from source and make it work!
Several years ago, everything I ordered off Amazon with "free super saver shipping" would arrive in a day or so anyway, despite my picking the slow option. Then after they started really pushing Prime, the super saver shipping got much slower (I think because they'd just wait for a week before sending it out). Funny, that.
Android usage terms and conditions probably need updating to allow changes which are necessary to ensure product safety.
Changing the system tray icon color might be the best way to indicate safety to the user, but it's hardly the only way to do it. Therefore, you can't really claim the changes are "necessary," which means Google doesn't "need" to do anything.
go read the Constitution. All it says is that Congress must pass a system to enable inventors to benefit from their discoveries, but it doesn't describe how.
Correction: Congress may do that. The Constitution says they have the power; it does not say they are obligated to avail themselves of it.
Well, at least one big difference is the encryption... if Google's updated app is served via an encrypted request, it's much more likely that only they can send the updated apk to the target's phone.
That's not the point. The point is that users are giving the keys to the digital equivalent of their house to random third parties, and 99% of them don't even realize they're doing it.
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Back in the Ancient Times, there were colorful iMacs with cathode ray tube screens.
How could it ever be otherwise? The smart users turn off telemetry!
So what? How does that benefit the public (which is the only valid purpose of copyright in the first place)?
I see no reason not to do compulsory licensing without some arbitrary and capricious "buffer."
I have never watched a single "Netflix Original" show, and have no plans to start.
I think "legal" and "ethical" are being conflated here. I get the impression that the OP was talking about sociopaths acting unethically, not about people in general acting illegally (which requires evaluation of the law as well as the person breaking it).
In other words, I think the difference between murdering someone for a peanut and speeding for $1000 is not due the difference between the penalties and rewards, but rather due to the fact that murder is unethical and speeding (considered abstractly) is not.
Political parties' existence is unfair and unreasonable, especially when those nominally-"closed" and "private" organizations have a privileged position in election law and public funding. They should be abolished entirely, but failing that, the least they can do is give everyone voting in their primaries (including the open primaries) an equal voice in choosing the candidate!
It's so rare in history that, other than Washington and Cincinnatus, I can't think of any examples!
Because the proliferation of pages is not due to repetitive viewing of the same sites, it's due to a tree traversal over the pages linked from a starting page. Sooner or later, I plan to be finished reading them all and close the vast majority of the tabs without any intention of reopening them later.
https://xkcd.com/927/
Of the 108 billion people who have ever lived, about 7 billion are still alive. Therefore, statistically the chance of death is only about 93%.
LOL WTF? Those countries are in North Africa. (Hell, they don't even count as the "Middle East" either, because they're as far west as France is itself.) No way is the average French person that ignorant about geography!
Also, even if it had not been replaced by conquest, the GP's argument makes about as much sense as claiming Americans speak German because the Angles were speaking a northwest Germanic language 1500 years ago.
FTFY.
I was explaining what the grandparent poster said because the parent poster misunderstood.
Also, for Christians (as opposed to Jews or Muslims), stuff Jesus said should be considered to supersede stuff Moses said.
No, he was suggesting exactly the opposite: that any sort of tolerance (let alone support) for war is anti-Christian, so priests etc. should be condemning armies instead of blessing them.
It's entirely possible for that to be a lie anyway.
For example, when I had basic cable TV through Comcast (which I accepted solely because they refused to give me a lower internet-only rate than they would offer for the bundle), I was issued "free" cable box ("free" because it was the first one on the account). I later decided that if I'm forced to buy the service then I might as well use it and had them issue me a CableCard instead. When I got my next bill, I saw a line item subtracting the rental fee for the "free" cable box and another line item adding the rental fee for the CableCard. The CableCard fee was cheaper, so the total net cost actually dropped something like $2.50 below the advertised rate that I had been paying before.
Maybe that's true, the same thing happened to me: alleged backwards compatibility didn't stop Comcast from causing my DOCSIS 2.0 (Linksys BEFC-MU10) modem to stop being able to connect. The DOCSIS 3.0 replacement (Zoom 6341j) I bought worked.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Comcast intentionally configured their network to reject connections from DOCSIS 2.0 modems even if they were supposed to still work, in hopes that some people who owned modems would start renting (or just to punish people for having the audacity not to rent). It's just the kind of thing those criminal, corrupt fuckers would do.
American here going WTF at the implication that Europeans still consider the alternative -- establishment by royal charter -- to be a good thing.
(FYI, a "municipal corporation" just means that the town was established by the free association of the people who live in it. The concept exists in parts of Europe too, by the way.)
That's not a solution because it still relies on having someone other than the owner decide what's "allowed" to run on the owner's device.
A real solution would be to have a hardware switch allowing the owner, who has physical access to the machine, to turn the DRM off and replace the master encryption key with one of his own choosing.
As I type this, Firefox 48.0.2 is using 1200 MB. There are 20 windows open, with a total of 95 tabs between them. I just closed one window with 23 tabs in it, and the memory usage didn't change.
LOLWUT?
It's open source, silly. Mozilla doesn't get to decide that; you do. Just download a 49 binary and install it, and if that doesn't work then compile it from source and make it work!
Several years ago, everything I ordered off Amazon with "free super saver shipping" would arrive in a day or so anyway, despite my picking the slow option. Then after they started really pushing Prime, the super saver shipping got much slower (I think because they'd just wait for a week before sending it out). Funny, that.
Changing the system tray icon color might be the best way to indicate safety to the user, but it's hardly the only way to do it. Therefore, you can't really claim the changes are "necessary," which means Google doesn't "need" to do anything.
Correction: Congress may do that. The Constitution says they have the power; it does not say they are obligated to avail themselves of it.
That's not the point. The point is that users are giving the keys to the digital equivalent of their house to random third parties, and 99% of them don't even realize they're doing it.