No no no... just the IP lunacy. Even though I don't really respect "intellectual property," I do completely respect authorship; but because there will always be people who want to make money off of this stuff, instead of solely furthering science and/or the human cause, and because some people will plagiarize without enforcement and punishment (and some still with it) (geez, couldn't we have less destructive character defects?) I'm willing to accept decent copyright and patent laws.
Anybody up for a good old lynch mob? I think we've been under this IP lunacy for too long; it makes me sick. I fear we may very well have to resort to vigilante justice. I mean, what do you call P2P, the search for prior art, and the whole fsckin' OSS movement? It's an attempt to correct injustice, where government will never on a wide scale favor or condone such measures.
The sad thing is, if things don't turn around soon, it may be the only option.
Oh, and BTW, I at least hope all those modding this as Troll and Offtopic at least read this post; I am, in this case, NOT an anonymous coward.
OK, so let me get this straight. Somebody like my sister, who is 14, doesn't know a thing about copyrights, and is otherwise the RIAA posterchild, is liable to get my family sued, because she and her friends use KaZaa to share boy bands (that sounds dirty, doesn't it?), oldies, and rap?
<sarcasm>
No, really... </sarcasm>
Probably if I told her what she was doing was illegal, she wouldn't care.
This is true, that the maintainer of the index site is the one responsible for deciding the content. However, the main index sites are very permissive.
For instance, the author of The Freedom Engine currently has a medium-length treatise on the issue of child porn sites as an entry page.
An excerpt: "Whilst I intensely dislike some of the freesites I link to, whether they be child abuse related or otherwise, my goal is to treat them all as fairly as possible."
When you install Freenet, on the start page (http://127.0.0.1:8888 by default) are several links to index pages. Most people writing freenet sites submit a link to their own site, along with a description. While one cannot directly search for content, most freesites have a definite topic. I consider this "good enough," at least at this size of network.
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Well, there's always narcissism...
But of course, in retrospect, I miss the point entirely...
Can't Winzip handle tar and gzip? Isn't gzip fairly cross-platform?
This whole think irks me. If I leave a cd out on my front porch and someone steals it, makes a copy, then returns it how am I liable?
You aren't. Plausible deniability. You didn't leave the CD out on purpose so that it could be "stolen" and copied. It was an honest mistake.
Or was it?
Must... not... give in... to... M$ propaganda...
...owwww...
/me is dead.
[gurgle]
Does anybody else think that "quad PPC" sounds like some kind of super-weapon?
And while he's at it, convert NTFS to FAT32, so Windows can at least be a good neighbor and share well with Linux.
Fork out $70 for PartitionMagic, which can handle NTFS (which I assume is the default file system there). But hey, it's less than XP!
No no no... just the IP lunacy. Even though I don't really respect "intellectual property," I do completely respect authorship; but because there will always be people who want to make money off of this stuff, instead of solely furthering science and/or the human cause, and because some people will plagiarize without enforcement and punishment (and some still with it) (geez, couldn't we have less destructive character defects?) I'm willing to accept decent copyright and patent laws.
Anybody up for a good old lynch mob? I think we've been under this IP lunacy for too long; it makes me sick. I fear we may very well have to resort to vigilante justice. I mean, what do you call P2P, the search for prior art, and the whole fsckin' OSS movement? It's an attempt to correct injustice, where government will never on a wide scale favor or condone such measures.
The sad thing is, if things don't turn around soon, it may be the only option.
Oh, and BTW, I at least hope all those modding this as Troll and Offtopic at least read this post; I am, in this case, NOT an anonymous coward.
OK, so let me get this straight. Somebody like my sister, who is 14, doesn't know a thing about copyrights, and is otherwise the RIAA posterchild, is liable to get my family sued, because she and her friends use KaZaa to share boy bands (that sounds dirty, doesn't it?), oldies, and rap?
<sarcasm>
No, really...
</sarcasm>
Probably if I told her what she was doing was illegal, she wouldn't care.
How will we get folks to develop from the LGPL now?
Simple. We modify the LGPL to comply with its purpose. The GPL is on version 2, isn't it? Just edit section 6, name it LGPL 2.0, and call it a night.
Now, lemme get around to reading the article.
This is true, that the maintainer of the index site is the one responsible for deciding the content. However, the main index sites are very permissive.
For instance, the author of The Freedom Engine currently has a medium-length treatise on the issue of child porn sites as an entry page.
An excerpt: "Whilst I intensely dislike some of the freesites I link to, whether they be child abuse related or otherwise, my goal is to treat them all as fairly as possible."
When you install Freenet, on the start page (http://127.0.0.1:8888 by default) are several links to index pages. Most people writing freenet sites submit a link to their own site, along with a description. While one cannot directly search for content, most freesites have a definite topic. I consider this "good enough," at least at this size of network.
I think we can all agree that anything that lowers barriers to use of Linux, such as desktop publishing here, is a "good thing."
For the first time, 11 people were trained in Linux in Kabul.
Excuse me, but isn't that supposed to be GNAA/Linux?
Does that mean that if I watch pr0n through a hole in a sheet, it's OK?
The great thing about Congress is when they "understand" the issues in our favor. I'm so very glad they and their staffs are doing their homework.
-0.5, Shades of Troll
Do you believe that current IP laws stifle innovation?
If so, do you believe that the level of such inhibition is within "acceptable" bounds?