Having paid off our congress to continuously extend copyright far beyond its intended utility does not give them even a sliver of moral credibility.
For all I care, it may be perpetual — just like ownership of tangible property.
Who owns all the basics they are building on? Should we locate the heirs of Shakespeare and give them $1000 for each book, film and song containing quotes, references or straight out adaptions of his works? If copyright should be eternal that would be the logical thing to do.
The works in question did not spring from a vacuum. They are the fruits of our common culture.
Here comes the justification! That's right, Metallica would never have thought of that tune, if they weren't breathing the same air as me, so now they owe me. It is amazing, how people don't recognize, how slippery a slope this is — this justification is applied very easily to the theft of tangible property as well. Then, again, given the sudden surge in popularity of income-redistribution (a.k.a. wealth-spreading) recently, I guess, I should not be surprised...
Metallica did not invent Heavy Metal. They should pay their predecessors like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and others for using the sounds they invented instead of stealing it for their own profit.
Seriously, you still call copyright infringement "stealing" despite having it explained to you hundreds of times exactly why it isn't in any way related to stealing?
Seriously? Not in any way related? Not even in the getting something for nothing against the will of its creator way related? Please, don't come back, claiming, RIAA aren't creators, but merely owners — it is irrelevant. Metallica sells through their own label, but you would you steal from them just as well...
Why call it stealing instead of rape, murder or terrorism? If you just need to find a word to make it seem more morally wrong why not go all the way?
Is there a necessity for software to be proprietary?
It's necessary for there to be an economic incentive to develop software. Nobody is going to donate millions of man-hours to write the software for the F-22 out of the goodness of their heart.
As long as every F-22 is delivered to the Air Force with source code and the Air Force is free to use such source code as it sees fit, then the code could just as well be GPL.
Prepare to have your life sent back to the 1800's while the US government sifts through all your electronics to make sure you're not some America-bashing foreigner.
This is priceless:
"If the movie's a stiff, and word gets out too early that it's a stiff, it's devastating to the business model," Garland said."
In another words, if we can keep the movie audience quiet for several days, we will rip off enough people to cover our costs and make some extra dough.
That is the business model. Screwing the customer.
Strangely, the group from Texas didn't have any trouble at all with the loose berserkers... It was hell on the cleaning service though Except of course the slight problem that a berserker would keep fighting for a minute or two even with six '45 slugs in his chest. They were said to be in such a state (either high on mushrooms or something similar) that they felt no pain, not even mortal wounds. So the body didn't know it was supposed to shut down.
No, simple business logic would be to keep making games for the old console until the number of sold games fell below the profit line.
Like everyone did/does for PSone and PS2.
With Xbox they totally abandoned their existing customer base and only sold to the new crowd.
Spying on everyone, and having everyone spy on *each other*, is a fabulous way to run a civilization. As we all know, the former Soviet Union and China are the closest we've come to paradise-on-earth.
What the fuck is wrong with England? I mean, Orwell *showed* them in "1984" how bad it could be, but they keep moving towards it. It's very strange.
They didn't take "1984" as a warning. They took it as a manual.
And of course, everytime you steal from earlier comics you should lose all your property and go to jail. This includes homage splashes in the style of other more famous artists and in-jokes based on the intellectual property of others.
Right?
So, if your state has a sleeping law making it a crime to be unfaithful to your wife, then it is ok to extradite you to an arab country where you can be stoned to death for your sins?
Or if you commit blasphemy, which I believe is a crime many places, they can send you to whatever country in the world that has the harshest sentence for blaspheming against that particurlar religion?
>These days, they are. Or at least they are no better than the ones they are supposed to be protecting their member from. Its all about power.
And what is preventing intelligent people from creating a different and smarter union?
Why not have an IT union for IT professional. One that is run modeled on a democracy instead of a soviet republic.
One that cares just as much about professionalism and technical advancements as about salaries and working conditions? One that supports its members when they need it, and stays out of the way when they are not needed.
Just because other unions have existed in the past, there is no reason for a new union not to learn from their mistakes and create something new and better.
What "facts" do you have supporting gravity?
If you can prove that there really is such a thing as gravity, and not just a curve in spacetime that looks to us like gravity, then I suspect they have a Nobel price waiting for you.
And how is gravity more proven than all the observed cases of evolution?
In science, there are no "known facts". Gravity - theory. That time moves forward - theory. The physical structure of matter - theory. Evolution - theory.
But, in science nothing gets elevated to the status of theory unless it is accepted to be the best explanation so far on how something works.
"Nettsider der det opphisses til hat mot offentlig myndighet, og der det framkommer diskriminerende og hatefulle ytringer."
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"Web pages where there is incitement to hatred against the government and where there are discriminating or hateful statements"
(my translation may not be perfect, but you get the essence)
Strawman argument. You can do all the legalese mumbojumbo you want, but you are still depriving someone of their rightful income. That some of us still use the word steal, instead of your newspeak and backpatting wording, is your problem.
Maybe you should try to create and make money of some content yourself? This view explains a lot of the patent cases we hear about.
"How dare you invent a better solution than me. You are depriving me of my rightful profit."
Thus patents get to be broad enough to encompass all possible future inventions to the problem instead of just the one you just made.
And of course, inventing a better mousetrap is from now on defined as stealing from the mousetrap builders.
The "poor" Americans are some of the richest people in the world, just look at the obesity levels. Truly "poor" people are literally dying of starvation, worry about their next meal, wonder where they will sleep tonight. That is partly because the cheap food is full of fat, but low on the stuff you really need like proteins. So in order to get the same amount of proteins a poor person will have to consume two or three times as much fat.
Can we expect this same software to be used by military recruiters?
After all, someone who won't kill will make very bad soldiers so anyone not flagged should be banned from service.
So that anyone in the vicinity of a passing car is unable to make a phone call?
Besides, studies show that talking to passengers is just as dangerous as talking on the phone. So maybe outlawing passenger seats would be a better idea.
Knowing Hollywood they will probably get someone who has never even read the books.
And they will use Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to draw in the crowds.
Or like the crossing of the Red Sea. Where the water first pulled back and then a short while later came crashing down with devastating force. Just like the Tsunami two years ago.
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Then at least have the honesty to punish them upfront instead of releasing them and then continually harassing them.
For all I care, it may be perpetual — just like ownership of tangible property.
Who owns all the basics they are building on?
Should we locate the heirs of Shakespeare and give them $1000 for each book, film and song containing quotes, references or straight out adaptions of his works?
If copyright should be eternal that would be the logical thing to do.
Here comes the justification! That's right, Metallica would never have thought of that tune, if they weren't breathing the same air as me, so now they owe me. It is amazing, how people don't recognize, how slippery a slope this is — this justification is applied very easily to the theft of tangible property as well. Then, again, given the sudden surge in popularity of income-redistribution (a.k.a. wealth-spreading) recently, I guess, I should not be surprised...
Metallica did not invent Heavy Metal. They should pay their predecessors like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and others for using the sounds they invented instead of stealing it for their own profit.
Seriously? Not in any way related? Not even in the getting something for nothing against the will of its creator way related? Please, don't come back, claiming, RIAA aren't creators, but merely owners — it is irrelevant. Metallica sells through their own label, but you would you steal from them just as well...
Why call it stealing instead of rape, murder or terrorism?
If you just need to find a word to make it seem more morally wrong why not go all the way?
Is there a necessity for software to be proprietary?
It's necessary for there to be an economic incentive to develop software. Nobody is going to donate millions of man-hours to write the software for the F-22 out of the goodness of their heart.
As long as every F-22 is delivered to the Air Force with source code and the Air Force is free to use such source code as it sees fit, then the code could just as well be GPL.
They obviously haven't updated all the pages yet.
The price has recently been lowered from 100 to 20
Prepare to have your life sent back to the 1800's while the US government sifts through all your electronics to make sure you're not some America-bashing foreigner.
Now I get it.
It's really an Amish Conspiracy
This is priceless: "If the movie's a stiff, and word gets out too early that it's a stiff, it's devastating to the business model," Garland said."
In another words, if we can keep the movie audience quiet for several days, we will rip off enough people to cover our costs and make some extra dough.
That is the business model. Screwing the customer.
If he hasn't paid he has no right to use the designs. She should sue his ass off for copyright violations.
No, simple business logic would be to keep making games for the old console until the number of sold games fell below the profit line.
Like everyone did/does for PSone and PS2.
With Xbox they totally abandoned their existing customer base and only sold to the new crowd.
Is this a trick question?
What the fuck is wrong with England? I mean, Orwell *showed* them in "1984" how bad it could be, but they keep moving towards it. It's very strange.
They didn't take "1984" as a warning. They took it as a manual.
And of course, everytime you steal from earlier comics you should lose all your property and go to jail. This includes homage splashes in the style of other more famous artists and in-jokes based on the intellectual property of others. Right?
So, if your state has a sleeping law making it a crime to be unfaithful to your wife, then it is ok to extradite you to an arab country where you can be stoned to death for your sins?
Or if you commit blasphemy, which I believe is a crime many places, they can send you to whatever country in the world that has the harshest sentence for blaspheming against that particurlar religion?
>> unions are evil incarnate.
>These days, they are. Or at least they are no better than the ones they are supposed to be protecting their member from. Its all about power.
And what is preventing intelligent people from creating a different and smarter union?
Why not have an IT union for IT professional.
One that is run modeled on a democracy instead of a soviet republic.
One that cares just as much about professionalism and technical advancements as about salaries and working conditions?
One that supports its members when they need it, and stays out of the way when they are not needed.
Just because other unions have existed in the past, there is no reason for a new union not to learn from their mistakes and create something new and better.
To assume that the science of evolution is only based on Darwin is like assuming that physics is only based on Newton.
Like Newton, Darwin has been improved upon by his successors.
That is one of the differences between scientists and prophets.
What "facts" do you have supporting gravity?
If you can prove that there really is such a thing as gravity, and not just a curve in spacetime that looks to us like gravity, then I suspect they have a Nobel price waiting for you.
And how is gravity more proven than all the observed cases of evolution?
In science, there are no "known facts".
Gravity - theory.
That time moves forward - theory.
The physical structure of matter - theory.
Evolution - theory.
But, in science nothing gets elevated to the status of theory unless it is accepted to be the best explanation so far on how something works.
"Nettsider der det opphisses til hat mot offentlig myndighet, og der det framkommer diskriminerende og hatefulle ytringer."
=
"Web pages where there is incitement to hatred against the government and where there are discriminating or hateful statements"
(my translation may not be perfect, but you get the essence)
In most cases the cost per ounce of talent gives a DIVISION_BY_ZERO error.
"How dare you invent a better solution than me. You are depriving me of my rightful profit."
Thus patents get to be broad enough to encompass all possible future inventions to the problem instead of just the one you just made.
And of course, inventing a better mousetrap is from now on defined as stealing from the mousetrap builders.
Can we expect this same software to be used by military recruiters?
After all, someone who won't kill will make very bad soldiers so anyone not flagged should be banned from service.
So that anyone in the vicinity of a passing car is unable to make a phone call?
Besides, studies show that talking to passengers is just as dangerous as talking on the phone. So maybe outlawing passenger seats would be a better idea.
Really?
Knowing Hollywood they will probably get someone who has never even read the books.
And they will use Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to draw in the crowds.
Or like the crossing of the Red Sea. Where the water first pulled back and then a short while later came crashing down with devastating force. Just like the Tsunami two years ago.