The company with the deepest pockets to litigate its opponents into bankruptcy and bribe legislatures into passing laws only in its favor is the company that gets its products to market. Or, at least, that's the way it's been going for the last what, 50 years or so?
Also keep in mind the $35 'review fee'. They'll dump shitpiles of notices on people just to get those review fees. Another revenue stream to add to their gains from litigation.
Pretty much, except they're more up front about it. What they don't tell you about the US legal system is, you only get the justice you can afford. It's not blatantly obvious yet.
Anybody else get a flashback to 'Minority Report'?
The raging paranoid in me says this is a Very Bad Thing that will end up with politicians refusing to relinquish power by passing laws arresting people for 'crimes' they might commit based on this statistical analysis, followed up by lists of new 'crimes' demanding 'harsh penalties' covered by these same new laws. Aggrivated littering and felony loitering, anyone?
Um, last time I looked, cop promotions were based on performance. And I've read in the far past that DEA-types were bitching that they had to stop surveilling a few 'big time dealers' in order to make a couple fast flashy street dealer busts to put the agency in the papers and justify its budget. Arrests are a metric of police 'performance', the more arrests, the bigger the promotions. And it's way easier to bust a 4 block dope dealer than it is the guy who's setting up boatloads of dope to come in, even though busting the importer and breaking the network results in fewer drugs on the street until the new network gets into place.
Hell, just legalise them all. If they cause massive brain damage, so what? Think of it as evolution in action and let Darwin take the terminally stupid. A couple generations of that will solve the problem.
Oh, so sorry, someone should have told you... it only looks that way because we lock them in the same room as the trolls.
You DO understand that if you are locked in a room with nothing but an under-wire push-up bra and a pair of granny panties for 15 years, and are fed nothing but Double Cheese Whoppers and Pepsi, at the end of this you become a fat grandma, right?
Yup. Doesn't matter even if you started out as biological male. Welcome to the US, where a weird poor black boy turned into a weird rich white woman.
Copyright doesn't affect anyone's right to view something, only to distribute it.
How do public showings of private copies (e.g. a store bought Blu Ray shown to a neighbourhood on a big projection screen) fall under this simplified view of copyright? You're not distributing it, but lots of people are viewing it.
Look at the licensing blurb at the beginning of the video. It clearly states it's for private viewing only.
Point he was making is, playing a DVD on a computer is of questionable legality in that the computer itself is not a licensed dedicated DVD viewing device.
Your memory would be fucked up too if you took some brain damage in an airplane crash like Woz did. He thought he could fly it no problem after a few dozen hours on a simulator game. He found out the hard way it just ain't so.
Edison was a nut about direct current and wanted to find a way to transmit it over long distances. He never did. Tesla discovered how to make alternating current, which could be sent over long distances. Edison never forgave him for it.
Yeah, some of Tesla's inventions were 'tin-foil hat' quality, but those were mostly in his later years, and only because his notebooks were lost so his experiments aren't repeatable. If nobody tells you to put an emulsion of silver nitrate on a transparent strip of cellulose, do you really think you can clone an old-style film camera? Having been ripped off a few times too many by Westinghouse and Edison, Tesla tended to leave important details out of his lab books. Once bitten...
Edison wanted to make tons of money and live well. He did so. Tesla was interested in money only as long as it would finance his experiments. He was rather socialist about things.
Who was it that wrote about the scientist that went back for a dinosaur and came back with a dragon?
Niven also did a short story (and collection) called 'The Flight of the Horse' about a time traveller tasked with getting all kind of weird animals from the past. He brought back such things as a pegasus, Moby Dick, and a wolf from an alternate timeline. Great stuff, funny as hell.
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Of course not. Israel has nukes. It's just that nobody talks about them having nukes.
You never heard of the Soviet Reunion???
The F35 is basically a Swiss Army Knife of warcraft. It does a bunch of things, none of them well.
The company with the deepest pockets to litigate its opponents into bankruptcy and bribe legislatures into passing laws only in its favor is the company that gets its products to market. Or, at least, that's the way it's been going for the last what, 50 years or so?
Also keep in mind the $35 'review fee'. They'll dump shitpiles of notices on people just to get those review fees. Another revenue stream to add to their gains from litigation.
Dude, that's gonna have to be Pay-Per-View!!
Kudos to the late great George Carlin for this idea...
Pretty much, except they're more up front about it. What they don't tell you about the US legal system is, you only get the justice you can afford. It's not blatantly obvious yet.
Sucker must be behind the Great Firewall.
The submitter lost me with "Panama is somehow involved, too." It's like Idiocracy has come to life and obtained its own website.
Naw, it's just the US copyright cops grasping at straws. Not to worry, they'll just send in the Marines again to clean house.
Anybody else get a flashback to 'Minority Report'?
The raging paranoid in me says this is a Very Bad Thing that will end up with politicians refusing to relinquish power by passing laws arresting people for 'crimes' they might commit based on this statistical analysis, followed up by lists of new 'crimes' demanding 'harsh penalties' covered by these same new laws. Aggrivated littering and felony loitering, anyone?
Well, both of them had some multiple personality issues. I was hoping, send 'em both up, mebbe they'd do me the favor of my life & kill each other.
Um, last time I looked, cop promotions were based on performance. And I've read in the far past that DEA-types were bitching that they had to stop surveilling a few 'big time dealers' in order to make a couple fast flashy street dealer busts to put the agency in the papers and justify its budget. Arrests are a metric of police 'performance', the more arrests, the bigger the promotions. And it's way easier to bust a 4 block dope dealer than it is the guy who's setting up boatloads of dope to come in, even though busting the importer and breaking the network results in fewer drugs on the street until the new network gets into place.
Hell, just legalise them all. If they cause massive brain damage, so what? Think of it as evolution in action and let Darwin take the terminally stupid. A couple generations of that will solve the problem.
No clue. Howbout we send up both my ex-wives as a test case?
Oh, so sorry, someone should have told you... it only looks that way because we lock them in the same room as the trolls.
You DO understand that if you are locked in a room with nothing but an under-wire push-up bra and a pair of granny panties for 15 years, and are fed nothing but Double Cheese Whoppers and Pepsi, at the end of this you become a fat grandma, right?
Yup. Doesn't matter even if you started out as biological male. Welcome to the US, where a weird poor black boy turned into a weird rich white woman.
I'm surprised it was only 150 notices. That's what, 11 a day? Somebody is slipping there...
Copyright doesn't affect anyone's right to view something, only to distribute it.
How do public showings of private copies (e.g. a store bought Blu Ray shown to a neighbourhood on a big projection screen) fall under this simplified view of copyright? You're not distributing it, but lots of people are viewing it.
Look at the licensing blurb at the beginning of the video. It clearly states it's for private viewing only.
Point he was making is, playing a DVD on a computer is of questionable legality in that the computer itself is not a licensed dedicated DVD viewing device.
Your memory would be fucked up too if you took some brain damage in an airplane crash like Woz did. He thought he could fly it no problem after a few dozen hours on a simulator game. He found out the hard way it just ain't so.
Couple things worth mentioning...
Edison was a nut about direct current and wanted to find a way to transmit it over long distances. He never did. Tesla discovered how to make alternating current, which could be sent over long distances. Edison never forgave him for it.
Yeah, some of Tesla's inventions were 'tin-foil hat' quality, but those were mostly in his later years, and only because his notebooks were lost so his experiments aren't repeatable. If nobody tells you to put an emulsion of silver nitrate on a transparent strip of cellulose, do you really think you can clone an old-style film camera? Having been ripped off a few times too many by Westinghouse and Edison, Tesla tended to leave important details out of his lab books. Once bitten...
Edison wanted to make tons of money and live well. He did so. Tesla was interested in money only as long as it would finance his experiments. He was rather socialist about things.
1. Google bioprinter on net
2. Program network bioprinter to create highly illegal biologicals
3. Call the cops.
4. PROFIT!
Who was it that wrote about the scientist that went back for a dinosaur and came back with a dragon?
Niven also did a short story (and collection) called 'The Flight of the Horse' about a time traveller tasked with getting all kind of weird animals from the past. He brought back such things as a pegasus, Moby Dick, and a wolf from an alternate timeline. Great stuff, funny as hell.
What, did anyone think that copyright was intended to protect anyone except the rich and powerful?
It's not????????
... will end well. What could possibly go wrong?
Let me guess, they will patent it by adding "on a phone" to the end of the description.
That's so they can scam up a new patent. Nothing new there...