Back in September, I used the EFF's Action Center to send a letter to my senators expressing my concerns about COICA and and how much I was against it, (OK, I know it's a futile gesture, but it's something...) and, about a month later I got this in reply.
" Thank you for writing to express your support for the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act." I appreciate knowing of your support for this legislation.
America's copyright system is one of our most important economic engines, and giving artists and inventors the incentive to produce cutting edge works is vital to our country. The protection of intellectual property is particularly important to California, which is home to thriving film, music, and high-technology industries. I have worked in the Senate to curtail the theft of copyrighted works, and I believe copyright owners should be able to prevent their works from being illegally duplicated.
On September 20, 2010, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act" (S. 3804). You may be pleased to know that I am an original cosponsor of this bill. This legislation would help address the growing problem of online piracy and copyright infringement by allowing the U.S. Department of Justice to shut down websites selling pirated materials. The bill is currently awaiting action in the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which I am a member.
Throughout my career, I have consistently supported strong intellectual property protection. I was an original cosponsor of the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 13, 2008. This bill strengthened existing civil and criminal intellectual property laws, increased the resources available to federal and local law enforcement agencies to combat the theft of intellectual property, and created the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC). The IPEC serves in the Executive Office of the President and chairs an inter-agency committee to produce and implement a joint strategic plan to enforce intellectual property laws.
Again, thank you for taking the time to share your concerns with me. Should you have additional questions or concerns, please feel free to contact my staff in Washington, D.C. at (202) 224-3841. "
So I guess, according to her, I'm one of the majority of Americans who support the bill...
My old Canon S1IS had a 380mm equivalent lens on it http://goo.gl/jxdxu and my present Panasonic ZS5 has a 300mm equivalent in a pretty small pocket camera.
It didn't say they were supposed to be deleting the images, but de-rezzing them, which deletes data, as opposed to adding a filter on top of the images, which is apparently what they did.
I can see that... It's not like you can put the data back later if the German government changes its mind.
I don't think it's a browser plugin, at least not if the point is to make something that "works on iPhones, iPads and other devices that don't support Flash"
A agree about the dislike for buying digital books, but... 2) I keep my library on my computer, not my reader, and I back up my computer. I use calibre to manage my library. 3) In most cases, you're right. I've seen a lot of cases where the ebook price-matched the hardback even after the paperback was out for a third the cost. There are ebook sellers out there that do sell non-DRM and low price ebooks. Baen for one... and of course with non-DRM books, you've also taken care of issue. #1.
I think any book that's been out of print for 10 years should be available legally for free, electronic distribution.
The company that manages the library book-lending DRM has nothing to with Sony, and had been around for 6 years before the first Sony Reader came out.... not sure what you mean by "even when it's freely available elsewhere without restrictions, other than physical." but I guess it goes along with the semantic content of the rest of your rant.
"Only the wealthy can afford e-book readers and the subsequent fees."
1) Only the wealthy can afford computers to PUT ebooks on their ebook readers
2) The price of a reader is dropping to around the price of 5 hardbacks, if you buy hardbacks, which I don't. Maybe the price of 15-20 paperbacks?
3) What fees? I've had my Sony Reader for a couple of years now, and I've never paid a fee. Everything on my computer that I transfer to the Reader is either from Gutenberg, Baen Books (some free, some just cheap) Fictionwise, a few direct-from-the-author books, or the library. The only DRM books I have are from the library.
4) Sony has no control whatsoever over my books. Except for whatever books I might buy from the Sony store, which I haven't, they don't even KNOW what books I have. I download books to my computer and transfer a copy to my Reader. Books are backed up with everything else on my computer.
5) As others have pointed out, the library books use DRM to basically, 'auto check-back' the book. After the 3 weeks or whatever, you can't open the book any more and someone else can check it out. I'm cool with that; I believe in authors getting paid.
Your whole second paragraph seems to be based on the "Amazon deleted the Orwell books off the Kindles" story, which is why I don't have a Kindle. But it requires the vendor to have a way to communicate with the reader, which Amazon has and Sony doesn't.
And lastly, yes, this is old news. Overdrive has been around for awhile.
Amazon gets sued for providing read-aloud technology on its reader, and Target gets sued, and loses, for NOT having read-aloud capability on its website.
You can go into settings -> General -> Accessability -> Triple-click Home and set it to "Toggle VoiceOver".
So you're reading the book, you tripleclick the home button, swipe down with two fingers and it starts reading to you. Tap with two fingers to pause the reader. tripleclick home again to turn off VoiceOver.
Not something I'll probably ever use, but it works.
In Sacramento, and probably a lot of other cities, it's illegal to go down the street with your shopping cart and riffle through the garbage or recycle bins looking for 'the good stuff'.
Yes, I KNOW why. The county uses 'the good stuff' to lower the cost of the pickup service... it's just kinda sad.
correction: The music industry LOVES child pornography.
"Child pornography is great," the speaker at the podium declared enthusiastically. "It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they have done that, we can get them to start blocking file sharing sites".
and somebody on BoingBoing was monitoring or got alerted to the problem. The photo has been removed with an apology.
"Update: We've removed the CC-licensed image as it appears the photographer is unhappy with our usage of it here. We support the Creative Commons and will always do our best to honor the creator's interpretation of non-commerciality. Please accept our apologies. - Rob"
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But Apple is trying to get newspaper and magazine publisher to go to subscription models through the App Store?
Sure, as long as publishers don't want to say anything that isn't in Apple's interests.
I don't think Mickey D's is trying to set themselves as the world's newsstand.
I just checked, and you're right. My mistake.
I'm surprised, but not very, to see that the jurisdiction issue was part of the Patriot Act.
http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/archives/juris.shtml
Porn is the primary reason for the internet. We need to shut it down.
So an LA cop, or an FBI agent, can go to China and grab a shopkeeper and shut down their shop without consulting Chinese authorities?
DNS names are, in theory, not supposed to be under the control of the US government.
Back in September, I used the EFF's Action Center to send a letter to my senators expressing my concerns about COICA and and how much I was against it, (OK, I know it's a futile gesture, but it's something...)
and, about a month later I got this in reply.
"
Thank you for writing to express your support for the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act." I appreciate knowing of your support for this legislation.
America's copyright system is one of our most important economic engines, and giving artists and inventors the incentive to produce cutting edge works is vital to our country. The protection of intellectual property is particularly important to California, which is home to thriving film, music, and high-technology industries. I have worked in the Senate to curtail the theft of copyrighted works, and I believe copyright owners should be able to prevent their works from being illegally duplicated.
On September 20, 2010, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act" (S. 3804). You may be pleased to know that I am an original cosponsor of this bill. This legislation would help address the growing problem of online piracy and copyright infringement by allowing the U.S. Department of Justice to shut down websites selling pirated materials. The bill is currently awaiting action in the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which I am a member.
Throughout my career, I have consistently supported strong intellectual property protection. I was an original cosponsor of the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 13, 2008. This bill strengthened existing civil and criminal intellectual property laws, increased the resources available to federal and local law enforcement agencies to combat the theft of intellectual property, and created the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC). The IPEC serves in the Executive Office of the President and chairs an inter-agency committee to produce and implement a joint strategic plan to enforce intellectual property laws.
Again, thank you for taking the time to share your concerns with me. Should you have additional questions or concerns, please feel free to contact my staff in Washington, D.C. at (202) 224-3841.
"
So I guess, according to her, I'm one of the majority of Americans who support the bill...
My old Canon S1IS had a 380mm equivalent lens on it http://goo.gl/jxdxu
and my present Panasonic ZS5 has a 300mm equivalent in a pretty small pocket camera.
...and most of what you got two years ago was Flash, until Steve started his war on Flash.
Somebody's just trying to get the 'standard' fixed on a codec that you can write players for without paying through the nose for.
It didn't say they were supposed to be deleting the images, but de-rezzing them, which deletes data, as opposed to adding a filter on top of the images, which is apparently what they did.
I can see that... It's not like you can put the data back later if the German government changes its mind.
You think saying the people who have the software installed that is necessary to view half the video on the web have no brains might be flamebait?
Gee, really?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/html5_video_market_penetration.php
and you've been saying it since a long time ago?
So you just don't believe in online video at all, then.
... without mentioning the possible benefit of stopping Skynet when it attempts to take over?
but how does Adobe 'fix' the problem of site creators putting dozens of flash objects on pages, thus slowing down the page load?
If you put a couple dozen animated GIFS on a page it will kinda slow things down too.
I don't think it's a browser plugin, at least not if the point is to make something that "works on iPhones, iPads and other devices that don't support Flash"
A agree about the dislike for buying digital books, but...
2) I keep my library on my computer, not my reader, and I back up my computer. I use calibre to manage my library.
3) In most cases, you're right. I've seen a lot of cases where the ebook price-matched the hardback even after the paperback was out for a third the cost.
There are ebook sellers out there that do sell non-DRM and low price ebooks. Baen for one...
and of course with non-DRM books, you've also taken care of issue. #1.
I think any book that's been out of print for 10 years should be available legally for free, electronic distribution.
The company that manages the library book-lending DRM has nothing to with Sony, and had been around for 6 years before the first Sony Reader came out. ... not sure what you mean by "even when it's freely available elsewhere without restrictions, other than physical." but I guess it goes along with the semantic content of the rest of your rant.
You do realize that the point of this article is that the libraries will lend you ebooks for FREE?
So do you have a solution to an author actually getting paid for their work, or a musician, or a filmmaker?
Or are they all just supposed to produce their works just for the joy of it?
I'm really asking here... I'm curious as to what your solution is, once 'they get their heads around and adapt to" this new way of distributing media.
"Only the wealthy can afford e-book readers and the subsequent fees."
1) Only the wealthy can afford computers to PUT ebooks on their ebook readers
2) The price of a reader is dropping to around the price of 5 hardbacks, if you buy hardbacks, which I don't. Maybe the price of 15-20 paperbacks?
3) What fees? I've had my Sony Reader for a couple of years now, and I've never paid a fee. Everything on my computer that I transfer to the Reader is either from Gutenberg, Baen Books (some free, some just cheap) Fictionwise, a few direct-from-the-author books, or the library. The only DRM books I have are from the library.
4) Sony has no control whatsoever over my books. Except for whatever books I might buy from the Sony store, which I haven't, they don't even KNOW what books I have. I download books to my computer and transfer a copy to my Reader. Books are backed up with everything else on my computer.
5) As others have pointed out, the library books use DRM to basically, 'auto check-back' the book. After the 3 weeks or whatever, you can't open the book any more and someone else can check it out. I'm cool with that; I believe in authors getting paid.
Your whole second paragraph seems to be based on the "Amazon deleted the Orwell books off the Kindles" story, which is why I don't have a Kindle. But it requires the vendor to have a way to communicate with the reader, which Amazon has and Sony doesn't.
And lastly, yes, this is old news. Overdrive has been around for awhile.
You owe me a new keyboard.
I love your sig.
I think the meerling was saying that the artists "working with the RIAA" seem to be doing ok.
Amazon gets sued for providing read-aloud technology on its reader, and Target gets sued, and loses, for NOT having read-aloud capability on its website.
Whose rights dominate?
You can go into settings -> General -> Accessability -> Triple-click Home and set it to "Toggle VoiceOver".
So you're reading the book, you tripleclick the home button, swipe down with two fingers and it starts reading to you. Tap with two fingers to pause the reader. tripleclick home again to turn off VoiceOver.
Not something I'll probably ever use, but it works.
In Sacramento, and probably a lot of other cities, it's illegal to go down the street with your shopping cart and riffle through the garbage or recycle bins looking for 'the good stuff'.
Yes, I KNOW why. The county uses 'the good stuff' to lower the cost of the pickup service... it's just kinda sad.
Don't know about Washington, but it was illegal in Colorado until last year, and still is unless you have a well on your property.
It's apparently still illegal in Utah.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/us/29rain.html?_r=1&em
correction: The music industry LOVES child pornography.
"Child pornography is great," the speaker at the podium declared enthusiastically. "It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they have done that, we can get them to start blocking file sharing sites".
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/28/music-industry-spoke.html
and somebody on BoingBoing was monitoring or got alerted to the problem. The photo has been removed with an apology.
"Update: We've removed the CC-licensed image as it appears the photographer is unhappy with our usage of it here. We support the Creative Commons and will always do our best to honor the creator's interpretation of non-commerciality. Please accept our apologies. - Rob"