This isn't good enough. You also need something to balance the gross inequality between the two parties.
Not only are the corporations huge, but copyright grants additional monopoly leverage (to whoever argues that there is competition, it is monopolistic competition as evidenced by strong 'brand' preference. Software titles are not interchangable). The result is that even when all the terms are spelled out, people are very strongly compelled to accept. The seller is able to implement a take it or leave it policy and because each buyer is tiny, they have no clout.
What is needed is communist-style regulation. The mildest solution that will solve the EULA problem is to outlaw EULAs and all restrictive contracts (as opposed to ones which grant rights, like dsitribution agreements between corporations and licenses like the GPL) and leave copyrestrictions in place. A better solution, in my opinion, would be to eliminate both copyrestrictions and EULAs. Software and media that must be made for an entity to function will still get made. Much software and media will be made for artistic, propoganda, and charitable ends. The small chunk that is left can be government funded.
A single tankful of leaded petrol will ruin the catalytic converter.
Would you suggest making leaded petrol legal, but fining you $100 and revoking your registration until your emissions meet federal and local standards (which will require a new catalytic converter and cleaning the leaded fuel out of your gas tank). I guarantee you that if you put leaded petrol in a car that uses a catalytic converter, it will not meet emissions regulations by a long shot. Catalytic converters are the only practical way to get a gasoline car to meet emissions standards, and cities are polluted enough as it is, so no way you could relax those those standards.
Hydrogen and electric are allowed. It's only leaded petrol that specifically is disallowed, and there are substitutes for those with really old cars. The reason hydrogen and electric aren't popular is that they have some very major drawbacks, such as cost and convenience.
Censorship is a totally different story. There is a fundamental right to freedom of speech and noone has ever died from hearing a naughty word. People die by the tens of thousands from air pollution and there is no fundamental right to leaded petrol.
Let's see, perhaps a $300 bulb is more expensive than the replacement value of the largest TV in our house (25 inch).
And resolution is worthless if you're feeding noisy over the air analogue signals. Same goes with contrast, color, etc. I'm not too sure our digital signals are clean enough to use.
More simply put, economic strength is measured by the amount and quality of goods and services produced and provided. It is denominated in goods and services, not dollars.
Computer maintain their contribution to economic strength, if not increase it [since Linux does things better]. At the same time, more resources are available to make other goods and services, since resources previously diverted to Microsoft are in the control of consumers and the state (state for tax money, consumers for what is left over).
It's quite easy to copyprotect 1s and 0s. Just burn millions of CDs and bury them all over the world. Print pages of 0s and 1s and hide them wherever you can.
Now, making a 0 and 1 that cannot be copied, that would be a challenge.
To be serious, that probably would be the best thing that could ever happen to the music field. All the independant bands would finally get some attention from all the people having boy band hangovers and with no more RIAA, we'd actually have a chance at getting nasty laws like the DMCA repealed.
Even if 90% of all the indie band music is gotten off the internet for free, they'll still make 10x what the artists made under the RIAA because they'll get to keep most of the donations and CD sales, on top of touring and promotional revenue.
In fact, unless the DRM is ironclad, it will increase copying because the internet version is now superior to the one that is sold. Even if the CDs were given away (which at $15 a pop and a trip to the store, they're far from there), the downloaded version can be used any way you like, while the store bought one can only be used in very limited ways.
That's not even counting the people who will refuse to buy it on principle (though most who will do that are already boycotting them for other reasons like because they sue young girls and purchase laws with impunity).
Can this override your fstab and other cd-ripping related settings. I doubt it considering that generally takes root access and that's assuming you allow autorun (which probably takes some fancy configuration involving WINE to even work).
It only takes one copy to be made, and then everyone will get their on-DRM enhanced.mp3/.org/.flac files on the internet instead of paying for crippled CDs.
Each cube holds up to 80GB. Each of my proposed desktops (and I have seen people with 2TB on their personal machines) holds 2TB or 2,000GB.
2TB/80GB = 25 cubes/desktop, so you'd need 3 desktops to equal the 64 cube array. That's within the reach of a home network, no less a corporate quality LAN. With gigabit ethernet, that 3 desktop fileserver will have all the bandwidth you need too, without the cost of using bleeding edge overpriced cubes.
No taxation is going on. In fact, the corporation gets a tax deduction for issuing options. What this change is doing is forcing the company to report the same expense to the IRS as it reports to Wall Street.
You can already fit about 2TB is a large desktop case. These cubes only store 60GB/cube.
I would rather use loads of desktops, each with a local RAID array. Depending on bandwidth needs, I would either connect them to a common gigabit ethernet router (not so scalable) or set up dedicated routers in a tree heirarchy with larger and larger pipes as you get near the root.
Scalability should not be too much of an issue, and with 10 or so HDDs in a single case, you don't waste too much electricity.
You can always generate a one time pad key that will convert any document into another of the same length. Just XOR all the bits of both documents together and that's your key. If you XOR the key with one of the 2 documents, you get the other document.
And you don't think that the people with the cruise missiles won't check and calibrate their GPS unit before launch and postpone the strike when they see the accuracy is too poor? Well, I guess your average gun fanatic isn't terribly bright, so maybe they wouldn't.
It might not be too bad if every single person's logs were published, including CIA spies, CEOs, and all the powerful people, and without any editing or blackouts.
It would force people to be more tolerant, because all their dirty laundry would be open to the world too.
According to my cost accounting, a downloaded movie costs about $1. It's $.20 for depreciation and electricity for your computer (I live in a place with $.18/kwh electricity), $.40 for your bandwidth, and $.40 for a CDR.
In that case, George Washington was nothing more than a murdurous traitor who was responsible for the deaths of many a fine troop of King George. Now had he actually listened to what you're saying, and not had a little insurrection (and no one else had an insurrection), we would still be grovelling at the English throne.
You need to look at each case individually. How is the general public effected and how much? How are the recipients and sources effected and by how much? Does the source inclusive-or the target have any natural or moral rights to do the act or be spared the act (in the case of IP, both can make a compelling case, though I side with the source [which is the copier in the case]).
And if it isn't clear cut, don't make a sweeping statement about it.
Only if said countries like seeing the pointy end of our bombs. If we can force countries to agree to stuff like TRIPPS and the WTO, they'll agree to repeal them.
Regarding theft: Rockerfeller and his Standard Oil had 'willing' purchasers of his monopoly priced oil. Carnegie and his Carnegie Steel had 'willing' purchasers of his monopoly steel. Guess what those two are commonly refered to. Yep, they're called robber barons. Record companies are just like Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel - big, fat, and lazy monopolies.
Regarding free art and music: Musicians and artists were payed by commission. A wealthy person would pay them to produce the work. They were often given far more leeway that is given in today's corporate climate and there was little or no concept of copyright. The respect garnerned for doing art and love of doing it were also major driving factors. I do not see why it could not happen today. If it works with a multi-billion dollar project like Linux, million dollar projects like movies should happen quite readily.
Not too hard to imagine. When I use P2P, I can max out my line for days on end. Considering I now use P2P (bittorrent) to get my Linux isos, there really isn't anything heavy on the bandwidth that I use that is not P2P.
P2P is designed to move bytes, and lots of them. To that end it has been very successful.
I don't see why the ISPs should be complaining though. Commodity bandwidth is fairly cheap these days and P2P is the killer app for upgrading to broadband.
I don't see any 'to all according to need' spirit in either corporations or copyright. Fascist dictatorship would be a more accurate description.
In a communist country the corporations would not exist and power would be in the state (whether or not you have freedom would depend on it being a democratic communist country or a dictatorial communist country).
[QUOTE]"Copyright violations aren't a free speech issue"[QUOTE]
Yes they are. Anything that reduces my access to information or my ability to send out informatiom is a restriction on free speech. (not being able to yell 'fire' is a restriction on free speech, albiet one that is generally a good thing).
Perhaps if there were compulsory licenses at reasonable cost for all works in all media the speech effect would be lessened since cost would be the only effect now. Reducing terms and having mandatory registration of the complete and duplicable work would also improve the speech balance tremendously, since is would minimise historical works being lost due to copyright and would ensure that there is plenty of public domain material around for making new works.
Best of all would be eliminating copyright, but that would require a new (but fairly modest in size - $50B/year perhaps) source of funding.
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Effort to delete is far from constant. The more constrained the storage, the harder it is to delete. At first you can delete stuff you also have on CDR and only have on the HDD for easy access. Then you can get rid of tarballs and RPMs and other redundant stuff that you can get off the net easily if you ever really needed it. As you start getting very lean, you have to decide between removing software (maybe you don't need both GNOME and KDE) and removing documents and other high-risk, low-reward deletes. Those later deletions are also generally of smaller files.
Deletion time might be square of the (space_i_could_use / space_i_have) ratio from my experience.
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This isn't good enough. You also need something to balance the gross inequality between the two parties.
Not only are the corporations huge, but copyright grants additional monopoly leverage (to whoever argues that there is competition, it is monopolistic competition as evidenced by strong 'brand' preference. Software titles are not interchangable). The result is that even when all the terms are spelled out, people are very strongly compelled to accept. The seller is able to implement a take it or leave it policy and because each buyer is tiny, they have no clout.
What is needed is communist-style regulation. The mildest solution that will solve the EULA problem is to outlaw EULAs and all restrictive contracts (as opposed to ones which grant rights, like dsitribution agreements between corporations and licenses like the GPL) and leave copyrestrictions in place. A better solution, in my opinion, would be to eliminate both copyrestrictions and EULAs. Software and media that must be made for an entity to function will still get made. Much software and media will be made for artistic, propoganda, and charitable ends. The small chunk that is left can be government funded.
A single tankful of leaded petrol will ruin the catalytic converter.
Would you suggest making leaded petrol legal, but fining you $100 and revoking your registration until your emissions meet federal and local standards (which will require a new catalytic converter and cleaning the leaded fuel out of your gas tank). I guarantee you that if you put leaded petrol in a car that uses a catalytic converter, it will not meet emissions regulations by a long shot. Catalytic converters are the only practical way to get a gasoline car to meet emissions standards, and cities are polluted enough as it is, so no way you could relax those those standards.
Hydrogen and electric are allowed. It's only leaded petrol that specifically is disallowed, and there are substitutes for those with really old cars. The reason hydrogen and electric aren't popular is that they have some very major drawbacks, such as cost and convenience.
Censorship is a totally different story. There is a fundamental right to freedom of speech and noone has ever died from hearing a naughty word. People die by the tens of thousands from air pollution and there is no fundamental right to leaded petrol.
36" is out of the speet spot for CRTs. CRTs are most price competitive around 25 and 27 inches and get far heavier and pricier beyond that.
Projectors are most competitive for insanely large sizes.
Let's see, perhaps a $300 bulb is more expensive than the replacement value of the largest TV in our house (25 inch).
And resolution is worthless if you're feeding noisy over the air analogue signals. Same goes with contrast, color, etc. I'm not too sure our digital signals are clean enough to use.
More simply put, economic strength is measured by the amount and quality of goods and services produced and provided. It is denominated in goods and services, not dollars.
Computer maintain their contribution to economic strength, if not increase it [since Linux does things better]. At the same time, more resources are available to make other goods and services, since resources previously diverted to Microsoft are in the control of consumers and the state (state for tax money, consumers for what is left over).
It's quite easy to copyprotect 1s and 0s. Just burn millions of CDs and bury them all over the world. Print pages of 0s and 1s and hide them wherever you can.
Now, making a 0 and 1 that cannot be copied, that would be a challenge.
To be serious, that probably would be the best thing that could ever happen to the music field. All the independant bands would finally get some attention from all the people having boy band hangovers and with no more RIAA, we'd actually have a chance at getting nasty laws like the DMCA repealed.
Even if 90% of all the indie band music is gotten off the internet for free, they'll still make 10x what the artists made under the RIAA because they'll get to keep most of the donations and CD sales, on top of touring and promotional revenue.
In fact, unless the DRM is ironclad, it will increase copying because the internet version is now superior to the one that is sold. Even if the CDs were given away (which at $15 a pop and a trip to the store, they're far from there), the downloaded version can be used any way you like, while the store bought one can only be used in very limited ways.
That's not even counting the people who will refuse to buy it on principle (though most who will do that are already boycotting them for other reasons like because they sue young girls and purchase laws with impunity).
Can this override your fstab and other cd-ripping related settings. I doubt it considering that generally takes root access and that's assuming you allow autorun (which probably takes some fancy configuration involving WINE to even work).
.mp3/.org/.flac files on the internet instead of paying for crippled CDs.
It only takes one copy to be made, and then everyone will get their on-DRM enhanced
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Each cube holds up to 80GB.
Each of my proposed desktops (and I have seen people with 2TB on their personal machines) holds 2TB or 2,000GB.
2TB/80GB = 25 cubes/desktop, so you'd need 3 desktops to equal the 64 cube array. That's within the reach of a home network, no less a corporate quality LAN. With gigabit ethernet, that 3 desktop fileserver will have all the bandwidth you need too, without the cost of using bleeding edge overpriced cubes.
No taxation is going on. In fact, the corporation gets a tax deduction for issuing options. What this change is doing is forcing the company to report the same expense to the IRS as it reports to Wall Street.
You can already fit about 2TB is a large desktop case. These cubes only store 60GB/cube.
I would rather use loads of desktops, each with a local RAID array. Depending on bandwidth needs, I would either connect them to a common gigabit ethernet router (not so scalable) or set up dedicated routers in a tree heirarchy with larger and larger pipes as you get near the root.
Scalability should not be too much of an issue, and with 10 or so HDDs in a single case, you don't waste too much electricity.
Naturally, they would be running Linux.
You can always generate a one time pad key that will convert any document into another of the same length. Just XOR all the bits of both documents together and that's your key. If you XOR the key with one of the 2 documents, you get the other document.
And you don't think that the people with the cruise missiles won't check and calibrate their GPS unit before launch and postpone the strike when they see the accuracy is too poor? Well, I guess your average gun fanatic isn't terribly bright, so maybe they wouldn't.
It might not be too bad if every single person's logs were published, including CIA spies, CEOs, and all the powerful people, and without any editing or blackouts.
It would force people to be more tolerant, because all their dirty laundry would be open to the world too.
According to my cost accounting, a downloaded movie costs about $1. It's $.20 for depreciation and electricity for your computer (I live in a place with $.18/kwh electricity), $.40 for your bandwidth, and $.40 for a CDR.
In that case, George Washington was nothing more than a murdurous traitor who was responsible for the deaths of many a fine troop of King George. Now had he actually listened to what you're saying, and not had a little insurrection (and no one else had an insurrection), we would still be grovelling at the English throne.
You need to look at each case individually. How is the general public effected and how much? How are the recipients and sources effected and by how much? Does the source inclusive-or the target have any natural or moral rights to do the act or be spared the act (in the case of IP, both can make a compelling case, though I side with the source [which is the copier in the case]).
And if it isn't clear cut, don't make a sweeping statement about it.
Only if said countries like seeing the pointy end of our bombs. If we can force countries to agree to stuff like TRIPPS and the WTO, they'll agree to repeal them.
It's happened before. All the major antivirus companies knowingly allow magic lantern in. Hasn't dented sales at all apparently.
I do wonder if WINE emulates magic lantern well?
A tree will do the trick. A nice 3ft diameter one.
Regarding theft: Rockerfeller and his Standard Oil had 'willing' purchasers of his monopoly priced oil. Carnegie and his Carnegie Steel had 'willing' purchasers of his monopoly steel. Guess what those two are commonly refered to. Yep, they're called robber barons. Record companies are just like Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel - big, fat, and lazy monopolies.
Regarding free art and music: Musicians and artists were payed by commission. A wealthy person would pay them to produce the work. They were often given far more leeway that is given in today's corporate climate and there was little or no concept of copyright. The respect garnerned for doing art and love of doing it were also major driving factors. I do not see why it could not happen today. If it works with a multi-billion dollar project like Linux, million dollar projects like movies should happen quite readily.
Not too hard to imagine. When I use P2P, I can max out my line for days on end. Considering I now use P2P (bittorrent) to get my Linux isos, there really isn't anything heavy on the bandwidth that I use that is not P2P.
P2P is designed to move bytes, and lots of them. To that end it has been very successful.
I don't see why the ISPs should be complaining though. Commodity bandwidth is fairly cheap these days and P2P is the killer app for upgrading to broadband.
Communist country? Where?
I don't see any 'to all according to need' spirit in either corporations or copyright. Fascist dictatorship would be a more accurate description.
In a communist country the corporations would not exist and power would be in the state (whether or not you have freedom would depend on it being a democratic communist country or a dictatorial communist country).
[QUOTE]"Copyright violations aren't a free speech issue"[QUOTE]
Yes they are. Anything that reduces my access to information or my ability to send out informatiom is a restriction on free speech. (not being able to yell 'fire' is a restriction on free speech, albiet one that is generally a good thing).
Perhaps if there were compulsory licenses at reasonable cost for all works in all media the speech effect would be lessened since cost would be the only effect now. Reducing terms and having mandatory registration of the complete and duplicable work would also improve the speech balance tremendously, since is would minimise historical works being lost due to copyright and would ensure that there is plenty of public domain material around for making new works.
Best of all would be eliminating copyright, but that would require a new (but fairly modest in size - $50B/year perhaps) source of funding.
Effort to delete is far from constant. The more constrained the storage, the harder it is to delete. At first you can delete stuff you also have on CDR and only have on the HDD for easy access. Then you can get rid of tarballs and RPMs and other redundant stuff that you can get off the net easily if you ever really needed it. As you start getting very lean, you have to decide between removing software (maybe you don't need both GNOME and KDE) and removing documents and other high-risk, low-reward deletes. Those later deletions are also generally of smaller files.
Deletion time might be square of the (space_i_could_use / space_i_have) ratio from my experience.