However, since I don't believe that content creators should be responsible for registration fees, I consider this a moot point.
Using that line of reasoning, a car owner shouldn't have to buy his own gas.
If I argued to abolish the tax on gasoline (as I am arguing to abolish the tax on copyright), would you accuse me of promoting "motorist welfare"?
Yes, I would. That tax is what should pay for the roads, insurance, etc.
By calling unconditional copyright "welfare", you are saying that government directly contributes monetary funds to content creators each time a work is published.
If the gov't is protecting a certain economic segment of our society without charging that segment specifically then it is contributing monetary funds to that segment. It's the same as corporate tax breaks. It is a subsidy.
I applaud your crusade against welfare in all its forms, but be careful how you define welfare.
I'm absolutely not against welfare in all its forms. Only where it is not deserved. Bill Maher said (paraphrase) "The biggest welfare queens wear overalls." I can add, "They also wear Armani"
My point is that if you want gov't service, you should pay the fees.
I'd like my computer to be silent, dissipate it's heat properly, and otherwise be transparent.
It might be a good idea to put it out in the garage and run some real long cables? It should stay nice and cool in the winter time. During the summer, put it in the freezer.
That won't happen until we get gamma lasers (for short wavelength) and Dual sided/dual layered discs and burners for all. Blue laser is just around the corner, waiting to wipe out the existing "antique" formats now in use. Probably the best thing to do is to wait until your old burner breaks (which should be about 3 or 4 years from now, considering how crappy they're made) Just make sure to have a back up reader to copy from old to new format.
...you then have to decide whether you think the government would do a better job of managing this system or if authors would be better off with a private free-market solution to defense of copyright.
I don't ever want to give any private company the power to levy fines or to determine punishment. That's why we have a gov't. That is only for the gov't set up by its citezens to do. I'll re-state for you: You pay for the police to protect your life and your property. You should also pay for this kind of protection.
Unconditional copyright is as cheap as it gets - free!
Looking for gov't freebies, are we? It's not free to the tax payer. It's just another form of welfare, every bit as bad as tobacco subsidies.
I didn't see the article, but if they were talking about the movable control surface on the vertical fin, that would be the rudder, thae fact that it "splits" to form an air brake not withstanding. (say what?)
I'd hardly say the Challenger Disaster was caused by a minor oversight. The people that overrode(?) the concerns of the engineers commited murder the way I see it.
I'd be willing to bet that the first sample-return mission will bring back sedimentary rocks...
I hope they don't do that. It would be a tremendous waste of resources. This is one case of many where it is much wiser to send the equipment up there to do the analyzing. Kind of like what we're already doing.
And your media burned in the meantime is compatible with 100% of the DVD players that are released since a few years now, so it will be readable.
While the format might be readable, the media may have rotted away. So many discs are barely readable when they're new. I won't depend on anything more than 2 or 3 years old now. Although film and vinyl seem to be holding up pretty well:-)
It costs money to register your work as copyrighted.
That's the way it should be. You have to pay for the police to protect yor real property like your house, car, etc. There is no reason you shouldn't have to pay to protect your IP (imaginary property) also. Otherwise it's IP welfare. I'd rather see my tax dollars go to a failed Mars landing than to go to that.
Of course, there would have to be some kind of definition for what constitutes abandonware...
This is why renewal should be mandatory. If you don't renew your IP every 5 years for instance, it should be considered abandoned and go to public domain, and no take backs.
Standard practice of trying to use the govt. to make your life easier at the expense of someone elses constitutional rights.
That's precisely what "unconditional copyright" does. The author is expecting the gov't to automatically protect his work without any effort on the author's part. If the author wants protection, he should have to go out and "buy" it like anything else. Too many people looking for a fast buck on everything they utter. "Endless copyrights"..."automatic copyrights"... What next? Do you want the gov't to go through the trouble of thinking up the idea for you also?
Going back to the old "no copyright until you register" system is something else, and pretty radical.
It also makes copyright an almost acceptable premise. To expect every idea to be "born copyrighted" is just a little too much. How greedy and lazy can one get? They want all this protection and don't want to put up ANY effort to apply for it. Talk about wanting a free lunch... If you want to have it and keep it, you should have to go out and get it and maintain it.
I'm sure Disney will have more say on the matter. They'll lobby congress to have Pluto declared to be Disney IP, and we can't change the name for 75 more years.
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However, since I don't believe that content creators should be responsible for registration fees, I consider this a moot point.
Using that line of reasoning, a car owner shouldn't have to buy his own gas.
If I argued to abolish the tax on gasoline (as I am arguing to abolish the tax on copyright), would you accuse me of promoting "motorist welfare"?
Yes, I would. That tax is what should pay for the roads, insurance, etc.
By calling unconditional copyright "welfare", you are saying that government directly contributes monetary funds to content creators each time a work is published.
If the gov't is protecting a certain economic segment of our society without charging that segment specifically then it is contributing monetary funds to that segment. It's the same as corporate tax breaks. It is a subsidy.
I applaud your crusade against welfare in all its forms, but be careful how you define welfare.
I'm absolutely not against welfare in all its forms. Only where it is not deserved. Bill Maher said (paraphrase) "The biggest welfare queens wear overalls." I can add, "They also wear Armani"
My point is that if you want gov't service, you should pay the fees.
So who do you call when your mouse got bugs?
The Orkin man?
I'd like my computer to be silent, dissipate it's heat properly, and otherwise be transparent.
It might be a good idea to put it out in the garage and run some real long cables? It should stay nice and cool in the winter time. During the summer, put it in the freezer.
As far as I know, time is the only nonrenewable resource. Everything else can be recycled
I put my computer in the oven. That way it stays relatively cool on the inside. (at least compared to the outside)
Sorry. It's KDE freedom fighters
Can you honestly rail on Microsoft? When was the last time their servers were compromised?
Well, Hotmail has been pretty slow lately...
Doesn't resource usage increase to the square of added features?
Or apples growing on an orange tree?
That won't happen until we get gamma lasers (for short wavelength) and Dual sided/dual layered discs and burners for all. Blue laser is just around the corner, waiting to wipe out the existing "antique" formats now in use. Probably the best thing to do is to wait until your old burner breaks (which should be about 3 or 4 years from now, considering how crappy they're made) Just make sure to have a back up reader to copy from old to new format.
...you then have to decide whether you think the government would do a better job of managing this system or if authors would be better off with a private free-market solution to defense of copyright.
I don't ever want to give any private company the power to levy fines or to determine punishment. That's why we have a gov't. That is only for the gov't set up by its citezens to do. I'll re-state for you: You pay for the police to protect your life and your property. You should also pay for this kind of protection.
Unconditional copyright is as cheap as it gets - free!
Looking for gov't freebies, are we? It's not free to the tax payer. It's just another form of welfare, every bit as bad as tobacco subsidies.
I didn't see the article, but if they were talking about the movable control surface on the vertical fin, that would be the rudder, thae fact that it "splits" to form an air brake not withstanding. (say what?)
Minor oversights...
I'd hardly say the Challenger Disaster was caused by a minor oversight. The people that overrode(?) the concerns of the engineers commited murder the way I see it.
There is no "up" at all. There is only "in" (towards the center) and "out" (away from the center).
I'd be willing to bet that the first sample-return mission will bring back sedimentary rocks...
I hope they don't do that. It would be a tremendous waste of resources. This is one case of many where it is much wiser to send the equipment up there to do the analyzing. Kind of like what we're already doing.
And your media burned in the meantime is compatible with 100% of the DVD players that are released since a few years now, so it will be readable.
:-)
While the format might be readable, the media may have rotted away. So many discs are barely readable when they're new. I won't depend on anything more than 2 or 3 years old now. Although film and vinyl seem to be holding up pretty well
It costs money to register your work as copyrighted.
That's the way it should be. You have to pay for the police to protect yor real property like your house, car, etc. There is no reason you shouldn't have to pay to protect your IP (imaginary property) also. Otherwise it's IP welfare. I'd rather see my tax dollars go to a failed Mars landing than to go to that.
Of course, there would have to be some kind of definition for what constitutes abandonware...
This is why renewal should be mandatory. If you don't renew your IP every 5 years for instance, it should be considered abandoned and go to public domain, and no take backs.
Standard practice of trying to use the govt. to make your life easier at the expense of someone elses constitutional rights.
That's precisely what "unconditional copyright" does. The author is expecting the gov't to automatically protect his work without any effort on the author's part. If the author wants protection, he should have to go out and "buy" it like anything else. Too many people looking for a fast buck on everything they utter. "Endless copyrights"..."automatic copyrights"... What next? Do you want the gov't to go through the trouble of thinking up the idea for you also?
Going back to the old "no copyright until you register" system is something else, and pretty radical.
It also makes copyright an almost acceptable premise. To expect every idea to be "born copyrighted" is just a little too much. How greedy and lazy can one get? They want all this protection and don't want to put up ANY effort to apply for it. Talk about wanting a free lunch... If you want to have it and keep it, you should have to go out and get it and maintain it.
You can always draw pretty pictures on them. Just don't leave any hanging chads.
I'm sure Disney will have more say on the matter. They'll lobby congress to have Pluto declared to be Disney IP, and we can't change the name for 75 more years.
Absolutely. Work for hire will do great in these circumstances. Plus it will help remove a lot of copyright and licensing hassles.
It will hit the market with all sorts of DRM wedged in, like DAT and mini-disc.
I want to see gamma lasers. Wavelength so small you can put a whole dvd in one pit of today's CD's:-)