While I wouldn't burn most software, I do burn video files. They take up too much room on the HDD, and bittorrents do not last forever. I've got fairly obscure tastes (mostly animation) and when I find something, I jump on it and I will burn a copy, since there is a good chance I will not find it again easily.
It's also insurance if P2P ever was to be squelched by the [MP|RI]AA. I have my doubts that I could get my stuff replaced at any cost if that happened.
A well organized file system is worth its weight in gold (probably literally true, if you run a business and the weight is the weight of the platters). Clutter is okay so long as it goes into/home//clutter. Search is not terribly fast compared to typing the command from the command prompt and suffers more from scaling than a tree structure. I'm well organized, and can access my media very quickly (15 seconds start to finish so long as it is on the HDD and not on CDR [CDR access time is about a minute, mostly to find and load the disc]).
Typical sequence is: 1 - click on console button on my toolbar. 2 - type executable name (ie., mplayer) 3 - type ~/[first few letters of data type][TAB] (ie., ~/vid[TAB] ->/home/yartrebo/video/) 4 - type first few letters of TV series (TV shows), "mo" (movies), or language (music) and [TAB] again. 5 - type ** -zoom for TV shows, first few letters + [TAB] for movies, and either first few letters + [TAB] for a single of first few letters of Artist for an artist with 10+songs or an album.
If I want a directory listing, I press [TAB] without typing anything, and it will give me directory listing for wherever I am in the path I am typing.
I can't think of a faster way to access my data, and speed is convenience.
Assuming the disc itself is also 1/6th the thickness, it also means that a 50-spindle of CDs/DVDs would hold 300 blue ray disks in the same space. It would also takes 1/6th the raw materials to make (so long as the packaging is ont a significant portion of the total weight, probably true if you buy a 100-pack of recordables, but not for pre-recorded media). They do claim that there is a scratch-resistant coating applied to the disc.
What I'm more worried about is the discs breaking or warping. Is 100 um enough thinkness for the thing to stay in one piece even if you're a bit rough with the disc (as I often am when pulling the bottom disc out from a large spindle).
Trix, Lucky Charms, and Twizzlers are to kids as cigarettes, alchohol, and caffiene are to adults. They're addictive and harmful substances that should not be consumed by anyone.
While I wouldn't suggest banning them, they sure aren't "kid friendly". I would, however, favor a ban on advertising such junk food to people of any age.
According to the blue ray web site, blue ray already has PC recorders for it, though they cost about two grand and another twenty-five bucks per blank. Recordable media stores about 25 GB (GB == 2^33 bits?) on a single layer.
Considering that Sony wants to replace the VHS with this tech, I would expect blank media and recorders to become fairly cheap over the next several years. While the video format might be quite crippled with DRM, I doubt that the PC format will be much different from CD-R and DVD-R, and 25 GB/disc is what I'm most interested in.
Plagarism is legal (or at least so lightly enforced that it is flouted very openly). Ghostwriting is plagarism (technically, it's no different from paying someone to write your term paper or thesis paper), so if plagarism were illegal, ghostwriting and buying term papers would be illegal. To the best of my knowledge, both are legal though buying a term paper will get you in academic trouble if caught.
If I had it my way, copyright would be eliminated and anti-fraud laws would be extended to cover plagarism, including ghostwriting (consumers should have a right not to be lied to about the author of a book or script).
A metric tonne is 1000kg and is a unit of mass. A non-metric ton can have various weights and is a unit of weight. Common tons include the short ton (2000 lbs) and the long ton (2200 or 2240, [cannot remember which] lbs).
I cannot get the exploit to work on my machine using Konqueror. Perhaps it is the pop-up blocking or security settings (Very tightly set - javascript was enabled, but only because citibank and the exploit site requires it to work).
Let's see, pirates routinely kill the crew of the vessels they sieze, and being a pirate is a very dangerous profession. That and all the cargo they plunder and steal.
Oh, wait, you mean that other kind of pirate. I guess I have to concede.
I must wonder, what is the movie industry thinking with this lawsuit. This device is their friend. Anybody with $27K to blow on a device is going to be buying legit anyway (except perhaps when it can't be bought at any price, but that's their fault there) and having such a device will induce them to buy even more DVDs.
The company has taken big steps to make copying hard and they appear to be in compliance with the license.
Suing them is going to both directly reduce sales, piss off a lot of hollywood people (who are supposed to benefit from copyrights according to the MPAA), and will hurt their credibility in legal circuits and the court of public opinion. Oh, and assuming it actually went to court, they would lose.
I'm guessing they're not releasing details because they don't want egg in their face when it is revealed that the restrictive hardware either is flawed because it can be bypassed (from the point of view of many companies holding copyrights), or flawed because it works (from the point of view of the users).
Personally, I make my picks (PS2 in this case) based on the ease of getting free (as in beer) software for the machine. I bought a PS2, but didn't buy a Gamecube or an Xbox. As a side note, I wouldn't mind paying twice the price for a console if games could be legally copied for free or bought from a distributor for cost of media + distribution.
Who cares about sledgehammers and pouring water on the outside. Here's some of the things I'd like demonstrated:
1 - Humidity resistance. Place the thing in humid conditions for a few years and let's see if there is any structural weakening or fungal growth. Normal cardboard will rot and absorb water from the air (making it heavier and weakening it structurally) very quickly.
2 - Flood damage. What happens if the thing goes under 1 foot of water. A normal house needs major interior repairs, but remains structurally sound.
3 - Insulation. Done right, cardboard is a decent insulator, and they can always put in extra, but for a house with a 20 year design life, I have a feeling that decent insulation has been omitted. The house also has a very low thermal mass.
4 - Paper Acid. Unless they're using acid-free paper to make the cardboard, the acid will eat and weaken the structure. Judging from how long books printed on paper with acid last, I'd say 20 years should leave the structure weak enough to be condemned. Of course, if they're using hemp cardboard, then they're in the clear (but it might get them into legal trouble).
5 - Wiring. Inverters don't grow on trees and using 12V wiring means much thicker wires will be needed. To provide 12kW of capacity (typical of a modern built house), the wires would have to sustain 1,000 A or current, which would entail some pretty fat wiring as well as precautions to prevent the self-impedence (which is substantial at 1000 amperes) from generating dangerous sparks. You'll also need an inverter for each of your appliances (unless you can find custom built 12V DC ones), and I just cringe at how expensive an inverter for central air conditioning is. Also, if you want to connect to the grid, you'll need a rectifier also capable of handling heavy loads. I really do wonder what they were thinking of using 12V. 12V is good for a boat or a car, but its got no place in a house.
6 - Hurricane and tornado resistance. If you live in hurricane country, I sure hope its tied down well, because that thing looks like it'll blow away being so light and having no foundation. Come to think of it, it probably acts a lot like a mobile home in a hurricane.
7 - Maintenance costs. I would disagree with their rosy outlook. If I have the normal amenities (air conditioning, heat, a computer, TV, telephone, cable), I'll be paying more per month for this house than a well built steel, concrete, or wooden house. High heating and cooling bills because of poor insulation. Unsightly wires because there's no place to hide them. Having to depreciate the thing over 20 years instead of the 100+ that a well built house will last. Hard to resell house, unless these things become very popular, so you'll take a big hit in moving unless you lug the piece of junk with you. If I were to buy a property with such cheap construction, it would be to get to the land, and I wouldn't pay a cent more than the land is worth minus demolition costs.
No, but from my understanding of the machine, they allow for the implementation of a nondeterministic Turing Machine without the potentially exponential costs of emulating a nondeterministic Turing Machine on a deterministic one. A nondeterministic Turing Machine can solve NP-Complete problems in polynomial time and a decent one should be able to do it in linear time.
Quantum computers can solve NP-Complete problems in linear time using linear resources.
A 16-kiloqubit quantum computer would make breaking most encryption trivial. A one-time pad and any encryption where you have no reliable way of figuring out if your guess was right will still be secure.
Luckily for people who rely on encryption, quantum computers are still very weak (under a dozen qubits) and quantum telecommunications does offer new ways of sending data securely that either aid encryption or make it redundant.
In a country with an awful savings rate and in over its head in consumer debt, maybe a little less credit might be a good thing in the macro scope. It would also start making a dent in our awful trade deficit.
Of course, banning advertising and teaching anti-consumerism in school would be much more humane methods of going about it, but no credit - no spending.
And I have a right not to be libeled. In my opinion, the credit agencies have still not filled their obligation no to libel because the burden is still on the person to get and check their credit reports. Generally with libel, it is up to the person writing to ensure or at least make a good effort that the information is correct. Credit bureaus make no effort to verify information, so I feel that they should be liable for any costs stemming from inaccurate information.
If I started ranting that Microsoft has racked up massive derivatives losses and is about to go bust and people believe me (and no such losses existed), I am liable to anyone who traded on that lie. Why should the credit bureaus get a free ride?
It sure isn't a zero-sum game... when I don't bootleg a piece of software and then don't buy it (whether it's because I don't have the money, because I've got a longstanding boycott of most copyright companies due to their lobbying, DRM, and marketing, or more likely both), I don't get to enjoy the product and the company doesn't get any money. It's lose-lose, though I don't feel too bad since I hope that the vast majority of media companies go bankrupt (no ill wishes on the actual artists) as it would eliminate their lobbying. There's often enough free substitutes anyway, given a bit of time to look around.
I don't know about your clothes, but other than making rags or as boiler fuel, I don't see much use for my clothes once I toss them. Mending and patching them would take a good deal of effort and would still give you an old and worn out piece of clothing. Generally once my clothes are too worn to be presentable, they'll get a second shift as in the house clothes (I am a geek, and on some days, mostly weekends, I might be inside all day).
Most of the charities that I see accepting clothing also wouldn't take my stuff, as they want it in a condition to be sold to third world customers.
Something being property doesn't stop the government from taking it via eminant domain. If an entity refuses to or cannot be bothered to sell a product, it means that its value is zero, and the government can legally take it and use it for the greater good by placing it into the public domain without compensation.
Of course, that is making the (false) assumption that copyrights are property when they're an really a priviledge bestowed by Congress.
The law is correct and moral if you believe in fascism, since the copyright as it is benefits the corporations and their state and that is the goal of fascism. It is neutral if you believe in despotism or monarchy, as the king is within his/her rights to sell the public domain though there is no mandate to do so.
Under most other moral philosophies, copyright will generally appear outlandish, especially the extreme version will live under today.
Communists: A command economy completely sweeps the rug from the only potential economic argument in favor of copyrights (that it encourages production). Since people should receive according to need and not according to commercial success of their works, copyrights would be unfair under communism.
Free-Market Capitalists: Copyrights are government granted monopolies and restrictions on trade. Both of those only lead to higher prices, lower production (of copies) and inefficiency.
Utilitarians: Copyrights reduce the benefit derived from a work to society as a whole, as fewer people will use it and there is more overhead such as legal teams, marketing departments, DRM, and other non-socially beneficial spending. The theory that copyrights foster production has been shown to be often overstated and often even reversed, as is the case with copyrights on databases.
Most Religions: Most religions promote sharing and are against greed. Essentially no religion promotes copyright and copyright is a foreign concept to most religions (exception: Scientology - but they're a cult, not a real religion). That copyrights and DRM prevent their followers from editing works to fit their moral values (by removing nudity, consumerism, sex, violence, etc) is another point against copyrights. Copyrights also reinforce the very coporations who push said smut and consumerism.
Libertarians: Copyrights are an infringement on the right to do business between consenting parties and are a government sanctioned monopoly.
Liberals: Copyrights are extremely unfair by taking from many poor people and giving mostly to rich businessmen and lawyers as well as their enormous structural costs. They also require draconian measures to be enforced and effective enforcement would add to prisons which already have way too many pot smokers. Limiting the exlusive rights of copyright to for-profit uses and making copyrights non-transferable might turn liberals in favor of them, since it would become a business to business issue and copyrights could be used to prevent companies from profiting off of an artist's work without permission.
Intellectuals: Copyrights place direct restrictions, controls, and costs on the spread of knowledge and the arts. Most great discoveries have not been made in the pursuit of money. Many valuble works have been lost and will be lost because it is illegal to make copies of deteriorating or rare works. Copyright has no provisions against plagarism.
Artists: Copyrights severly limit the material they can copy from. It is extremely rare for an artist to make a living off of copyright royalties. Copyrights can be used by record labels, movie companies, software houses, and other companies to prevent the artist from using, giving, or expanding on their creations without the corporation's consent.
Environmentalists: Copyrights go against dematerialization by artificially making information expensive relative to physical goods and require far more shipping and packaging that the alternatives. Any advertising-based system is bad because it promoted consumption and waste, and copyright facilites advertising. Copyrights strengthen corporations, which are the enemy of the environment.
Hedonists: Copyrights prevent us from getting what we want, only slightly countered because copyright will make a small number of successful hedonists very rich.
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You're lucky. My school only gives 2MB or 250 files to each student. You can get a little more if you ask, but surely not 250MB.
For certain projects, I have to be very careful about intermediary files even when there is nothing else on the account.
While I wouldn't burn most software, I do burn video files. They take up too much room on the HDD, and bittorrents do not last forever. I've got fairly obscure tastes (mostly animation) and when I find something, I jump on it and I will burn a copy, since there is a good chance I will not find it again easily.
It's also insurance if P2P ever was to be squelched by the [MP|RI]AA. I have my doubts that I could get my stuff replaced at any cost if that happened.
A well organized file system is worth its weight in gold (probably literally true, if you run a business and the weight is the weight of the platters). Clutter is okay so long as it goes into /home//clutter. Search is not terribly fast compared to typing the command from the command prompt and suffers more from scaling than a tree structure. I'm well organized, and can access my media very quickly (15 seconds start to finish so long as it is on the HDD and not on CDR [CDR access time is about a minute, mostly to find and load the disc]).
/home/yartrebo/video/)
Typical sequence is:
1 - click on console button on my toolbar.
2 - type executable name (ie., mplayer)
3 - type ~/[first few letters of data type][TAB] (ie., ~/vid[TAB] ->
4 - type first few letters of TV series (TV shows), "mo" (movies), or language (music) and [TAB] again.
5 - type ** -zoom for TV shows, first few letters + [TAB] for movies, and either first few letters + [TAB] for a single of first few letters of Artist for an artist with 10+songs or an album.
If I want a directory listing, I press [TAB] without typing anything, and it will give me directory listing for wherever I am in the path I am typing.
I can't think of a faster way to access my data, and speed is convenience.
Assuming the disc itself is also 1/6th the thickness, it also means that a 50-spindle of CDs/DVDs would hold 300 blue ray disks in the same space. It would also takes 1/6th the raw materials to make (so long as the packaging is ont a significant portion of the total weight, probably true if you buy a 100-pack of recordables, but not for pre-recorded media). They do claim that there is a scratch-resistant coating applied to the disc.
What I'm more worried about is the discs breaking or warping. Is 100 um enough thinkness for the thing to stay in one piece even if you're a bit rough with the disc (as I often am when pulling the bottom disc out from a large spindle).
Cost does not always equal quality.
If you used that logic, MS Windoze is NaN times better than Linux.
I beg to differ.
Trix, Lucky Charms, and Twizzlers are to kids as cigarettes, alchohol, and caffiene are to adults. They're addictive and harmful substances that should not be consumed by anyone.
While I wouldn't suggest banning them, they sure aren't "kid friendly". I would, however, favor a ban on advertising such junk food to people of any age.
According to the blue ray web site, blue ray already has PC recorders for it, though they cost about two grand and another twenty-five bucks per blank. Recordable media stores about 25 GB (GB == 2^33 bits?) on a single layer.
Considering that Sony wants to replace the VHS with this tech, I would expect blank media and recorders to become fairly cheap over the next several years. While the video format might be quite crippled with DRM, I doubt that the PC format will be much different from CD-R and DVD-R, and 25 GB/disc is what I'm most interested in.
Plagarism is legal (or at least so lightly enforced that it is flouted very openly). Ghostwriting is plagarism (technically, it's no different from paying someone to write your term paper or thesis paper), so if plagarism were illegal, ghostwriting and buying term papers would be illegal. To the best of my knowledge, both are legal though buying a term paper will get you in academic trouble if caught.
If I had it my way, copyright would be eliminated and anti-fraud laws would be extended to cover plagarism, including ghostwriting (consumers should have a right not to be lied to about the author of a book or script).
A metric tonne is 1000kg and is a unit of mass.
A non-metric ton can have various weights and is a unit of weight. Common tons include the short ton (2000 lbs) and the long ton (2200 or 2240, [cannot remember which] lbs).
I cannot get the exploit to work on my machine using Konqueror. Perhaps it is the pop-up blocking or security settings (Very tightly set - javascript was enabled, but only because citibank and the exploit site requires it to work).
Let's see, pirates routinely kill the crew of the vessels they sieze, and being a pirate is a very dangerous profession. That and all the cargo they plunder and steal.
Oh, wait, you mean that other kind of pirate. I guess I have to concede.
I must wonder, what is the movie industry thinking with this lawsuit. This device is their friend. Anybody with $27K to blow on a device is going to be buying legit anyway (except perhaps when it can't be bought at any price, but that's their fault there) and having such a device will induce them to buy even more DVDs.
The company has taken big steps to make copying hard and they appear to be in compliance with the license.
Suing them is going to both directly reduce sales, piss off a lot of hollywood people (who are supposed to benefit from copyrights according to the MPAA), and will hurt their credibility in legal circuits and the court of public opinion. Oh, and assuming it actually went to court, they would lose.
I'm guessing they're not releasing details because they don't want egg in their face when it is revealed that the restrictive hardware either is flawed because it can be bypassed (from the point of view of many companies holding copyrights), or flawed because it works (from the point of view of the users).
Personally, I make my picks (PS2 in this case) based on the ease of getting free (as in beer) software for the machine. I bought a PS2, but didn't buy a Gamecube or an Xbox. As a side note, I wouldn't mind paying twice the price for a console if games could be legally copied for free or bought from a distributor for cost of media + distribution.
Who cares about sledgehammers and pouring water on the outside. Here's some of the things I'd like demonstrated:
1 - Humidity resistance. Place the thing in humid conditions for a few years and let's see if there is any structural weakening or fungal growth. Normal cardboard will rot and absorb water from the air (making it heavier and weakening it structurally) very quickly.
2 - Flood damage. What happens if the thing goes under 1 foot of water. A normal house needs major interior repairs, but remains structurally sound.
3 - Insulation. Done right, cardboard is a decent insulator, and they can always put in extra, but for a house with a 20 year design life, I have a feeling that decent insulation has been omitted. The house also has a very low thermal mass.
4 - Paper Acid. Unless they're using acid-free paper to make the cardboard, the acid will eat and weaken the structure. Judging from how long books printed on paper with acid last, I'd say 20 years should leave the structure weak enough to be condemned. Of course, if they're using hemp cardboard, then they're in the clear (but it might get them into legal trouble).
5 - Wiring. Inverters don't grow on trees and using 12V wiring means much thicker wires will be needed. To provide 12kW of capacity (typical of a modern built house), the wires would have to sustain 1,000 A or current, which would entail some pretty fat wiring as well as precautions to prevent the self-impedence (which is substantial at 1000 amperes) from generating dangerous sparks. You'll also need an inverter for each of your appliances (unless you can find custom built 12V DC ones), and I just cringe at how expensive an inverter for central air conditioning is. Also, if you want to connect to the grid, you'll need a rectifier also capable of handling heavy loads. I really do wonder what they were thinking of using 12V. 12V is good for a boat or a car, but its got no place in a house.
6 - Hurricane and tornado resistance. If you live in hurricane country, I sure hope its tied down well, because that thing looks like it'll blow away being so light and having no foundation. Come to think of it, it probably acts a lot like a mobile home in a hurricane.
7 - Maintenance costs. I would disagree with their rosy outlook. If I have the normal amenities (air conditioning, heat, a computer, TV, telephone, cable), I'll be paying more per month for this house than a well built steel, concrete, or wooden house. High heating and cooling bills because of poor insulation. Unsightly wires because there's no place to hide them. Having to depreciate the thing over 20 years instead of the 100+ that a well built house will last. Hard to resell house, unless these things become very popular, so you'll take a big hit in moving unless you lug the piece of junk with you. If I were to buy a property with such cheap construction, it would be to get to the land, and I wouldn't pay a cent more than the land is worth minus demolition costs.
No, but from my understanding of the machine, they allow for the implementation of a nondeterministic Turing Machine without the potentially exponential costs of emulating a nondeterministic Turing Machine on a deterministic one. A nondeterministic Turing Machine can solve NP-Complete problems in polynomial time and a decent one should be able to do it in linear time.
If this program isn't open source and under a decent licence (GPL, BSD, MIT, public domained, etc) I'm not going to use it.
The official free software version of bittorrent and the many available derivatives are good enough for me.
Quantum computers can solve NP-Complete problems in linear time using linear resources.
A 16-kiloqubit quantum computer would make breaking most encryption trivial. A one-time pad and any encryption where you have no reliable way of figuring out if your guess was right will still be secure.
Luckily for people who rely on encryption, quantum computers are still very weak (under a dozen qubits) and quantum telecommunications does offer new ways of sending data securely that either aid encryption or make it redundant.
In a country with an awful savings rate and in over its head in consumer debt, maybe a little less credit might be a good thing in the macro scope. It would also start making a dent in our awful trade deficit.
Of course, banning advertising and teaching anti-consumerism in school would be much more humane methods of going about it, but no credit - no spending.
And I have a right not to be libeled. In my opinion, the credit agencies have still not filled their obligation no to libel because the burden is still on the person to get and check their credit reports. Generally with libel, it is up to the person writing to ensure or at least make a good effort that the information is correct. Credit bureaus make no effort to verify information, so I feel that they should be liable for any costs stemming from inaccurate information.
If I started ranting that Microsoft has racked up massive derivatives losses and is about to go bust and people believe me (and no such losses existed), I am liable to anyone who traded on that lie. Why should the credit bureaus get a free ride?
It sure isn't a zero-sum game ... when I don't bootleg a piece of software and then don't buy it (whether it's because I don't have the money, because I've got a longstanding boycott of most copyright companies due to their lobbying, DRM, and marketing, or more likely both), I don't get to enjoy the product and the company doesn't get any money. It's lose-lose, though I don't feel too bad since I hope that the vast majority of media companies go bankrupt (no ill wishes on the actual artists) as it would eliminate their lobbying. There's often enough free substitutes anyway, given a bit of time to look around.
Sneakernet works best for movies and tv shows in my opinion. When I want mp3s, I'm usually looking for a particular song or album.
Linux ISOs aren't too bad either.
I prefer this version.
if (!(copyright_bit = 0))
return song_name;
else
return COPYRIGHT_ERROR;
I don't know about your clothes, but other than making rags or as boiler fuel, I don't see much use for my clothes once I toss them. Mending and patching them would take a good deal of effort and would still give you an old and worn out piece of clothing. Generally once my clothes are too worn to be presentable, they'll get a second shift as in the house clothes (I am a geek, and on some days, mostly weekends, I might be inside all day).
Most of the charities that I see accepting clothing also wouldn't take my stuff, as they want it in a condition to be sold to third world customers.
Something being property doesn't stop the government from taking it via eminant domain. If an entity refuses to or cannot be bothered to sell a product, it means that its value is zero, and the government can legally take it and use it for the greater good by placing it into the public domain without compensation.
Of course, that is making the (false) assumption that copyrights are property when they're an really a priviledge bestowed by Congress.
Well, here's my answer to that.
The law is correct and moral if you believe in fascism, since the copyright as it is benefits the corporations and their state and that is the goal of fascism. It is neutral if you believe in despotism or monarchy, as the king is within his/her rights to sell the public domain though there is no mandate to do so.
Under most other moral philosophies, copyright will generally appear outlandish, especially the extreme version will live under today.
Communists: A command economy completely sweeps the rug from the only potential economic argument in favor of copyrights (that it encourages production). Since people should receive according to need and not according to commercial success of their works, copyrights would be unfair under communism.
Free-Market Capitalists: Copyrights are government granted monopolies and restrictions on trade. Both of those only lead to higher prices, lower production (of copies) and inefficiency.
Utilitarians: Copyrights reduce the benefit derived from a work to society as a whole, as fewer people will use it and there is more overhead such as legal teams, marketing departments, DRM, and other non-socially beneficial spending. The theory that copyrights foster production has been shown to be often overstated and often even reversed, as is the case with copyrights on databases.
Most Religions: Most religions promote sharing and are against greed. Essentially no religion promotes copyright and copyright is a foreign concept to most religions (exception: Scientology - but they're a cult, not a real religion). That copyrights and DRM prevent their followers from editing works to fit their moral values (by removing nudity, consumerism, sex, violence, etc) is another point against copyrights. Copyrights also reinforce the very coporations who push said smut and consumerism.
Libertarians: Copyrights are an infringement on the right to do business between consenting parties and are a government sanctioned monopoly.
Liberals: Copyrights are extremely unfair by taking from many poor people and giving mostly to rich businessmen and lawyers as well as their enormous structural costs. They also require draconian measures to be enforced and effective enforcement would add to prisons which already have way too many pot smokers. Limiting the exlusive rights of copyright to for-profit uses and making copyrights non-transferable might turn liberals in favor of them, since it would become a business to business issue and copyrights could be used to prevent companies from profiting off of an artist's work without permission.
Intellectuals: Copyrights place direct restrictions, controls, and costs on the spread of knowledge and the arts. Most great discoveries have not been made in the pursuit of money. Many valuble works have been lost and will be lost because it is illegal to make copies of deteriorating or rare works. Copyright has no provisions against plagarism.
Artists: Copyrights severly limit the material they can copy from. It is extremely rare for an artist to make a living off of copyright royalties. Copyrights can be used by record labels, movie companies, software houses, and other companies to prevent the artist from using, giving, or expanding on their creations without the corporation's consent.
Environmentalists: Copyrights go against dematerialization by artificially making information expensive relative to physical goods and require far more shipping and packaging that the alternatives. Any advertising-based system is bad because it promoted consumption and waste, and copyright facilites advertising. Copyrights strengthen corporations, which are the enemy of the environment.
Hedonists: Copyrights prevent us from getting what we want, only slightly countered because copyright will make a small number of successful hedonists very rich.
Have I missed any major philosophies?