He's not saying that copyright should necessarily be repealed, merely that it could be. The US Constitution authorizes but does not require Congress to provide copyright law. It is also useful to remember that copyright is an 18th-century invention: most of our culture was created without it.
So copyright is not a right comparable to freedom of speech but a legally constructed privilege.
The real problems are the duration of copyright and the obstruction of fair use (e.g. DMCA). Lawrence Lessing (in The Future of Ideas) points out that extending the duration of existing copyrights (as Congress has been doing) has no value as an incentive to authors, because they have already produced those works.
Actually, I'd say the real question here is why certain industries have laws enacted specifically to protect jobs and income while other industries are forced to adopt more realistic business models in order to survive?
This reminds me of those signs I saw in Virginia last summer, warning that you can lose your driving licence for driving away without paying for fuel. I thought that was ridiculous. Of course it's wrong -- but why should someone who steals $20 of fuel be punished any differently from someone who steals $20 of clothes?
Why? Because a special interest group has paid for the law!
What I find most galling about this case is that a European government (not in the EU, I know) is prosecuting one of its own citizens on behalf of US corporations. The Norwegian government (as well as the EU) should flatly refuse to bend its laws for American business interests. (Software patents, Euro-DMCA etc. ad nauseam)
Is the comma required?
Anyway, I've been doing it thus in LaTeX: "bla bla bla (e.g.~bla bla) bla bla bla, i.e.~bla bla.". (I used to use "bla, i.~e.~bla".) I've also read that these abbreviations should be italicized, but I think that's now considered old-fashioned.
One of my lecturers said he knows a blind person who won't check his e-mail anymore when there's anyone else in his office -- he uses a screen reader and the spam subjects are embarrassing.
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He's not saying that copyright should necessarily be repealed, merely that it could be. The US Constitution authorizes but does not require Congress to provide copyright law. It is also useful to remember that copyright is an 18th-century invention: most of our culture was created without it.
So copyright is not a right comparable to freedom of speech but a legally constructed privilege.
The real problems are the duration of copyright and the obstruction of fair use (e.g. DMCA). Lawrence Lessing (in The Future of Ideas) points out that extending the duration of existing copyrights (as Congress has been doing) has no value as an incentive to authors, because they have already produced those works.
Actually one of my favourite parts of the show was Muppet Labs. I think this may explain why I want a lab coat.
Isn't the main point of steganography to hide the presence of encrypted data? Use encryption first, then steganography.
This reminds me of those signs I saw in Virginia last summer, warning that you can lose your driving licence for driving away without paying for fuel. I thought that was ridiculous. Of course it's wrong -- but why should someone who steals $20 of fuel be punished any differently from someone who steals $20 of clothes? Why? Because a special interest group has paid for the law!
If copyright infringement isn't something you can be arrested for, perhaps they should work to change that.
No, copyright infringement should never have been allowed into criminal law to begin with. It should be a purely civil matter.
What I find most galling about this case is that a European government (not in the EU, I know) is prosecuting one of its own citizens on behalf of US corporations. The Norwegian government (as well as the EU) should flatly refuse to bend its laws for American business interests. (Software patents, Euro-DMCA etc. ad nauseam)
Is the comma required? Anyway, I've been doing it thus in LaTeX: "bla bla bla (e.g.~bla bla) bla bla bla, i.e.~bla bla.". (I used to use "bla, i.~e.~bla".) I've also read that these abbreviations should be italicized, but I think that's now considered old-fashioned.
One of my lecturers said he knows a blind person who won't check his e-mail anymore when there's anyone else in his office -- he uses a screen reader and the spam subjects are embarrassing.
What is the correct way to typeset "e.g." and "i.e."? I've been wondering about this.
The Google Toolbar is better than any similar thing I have seen in other browsers.
Isn't the Google Toolbar known to be spyware?