If new copies of a work are not available through legitimate channels, what compensation is the work's author losing?
In those cases, maybe nothing.
Then why isn't the copyright statute written to acknowledge that the copyright owner is losing "maybe nothing"?
But let's be honest, most infringement of DRM-protected works is not that situation at all.
Even if the majority of violating acts are clearly harmful, if there are an identifiable minority of violating acts that aren't provably harmful, it's still unjust to ban them.
The vast majority of online infringement is copying works that are recent and readily available via at least one legal channel.
What's the "at least one legal channel" for, say, the rights to make fan-made mashups of popular recorded music as a comment on the similarity of their compositions? And why is it just to continue to ban trade in the minority of works that lack "at least one legal channel"?
if we had no copyright law and nothing better to replace it, less content would be created and overall the content would be of lower quality.
Perhaps something "better to replace" three-generation copyright would involve a shorter copyright term and/or broader compulsory licensing. Otherwise, how does the legal power to ban the creation of fan-made derivative works decades later encourage the creation of a work now?
The economic effect is literally no different to paying for a work legally, enjoying that work as allowed by the deal, but then stealing that money back from the person who provided it to you.
In the case of things that aren't available from its author at all, such as out-of-print works or the rights to make a fan-made derivative work, how much is "that money"?
Your logical fallacy is that of the ridiculous example, because everyone doesn't do that.
Reductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy unless it involves a straw man. Could you elaborate on where you found a straw man?
Even if they did, then people would have to get paid through other means, like touring.
Not all work is in media and genres that can be performed live. How would "touring" support a video game? Or a movie? Or studio-produced music that can't be readily performed live, such as the second half of The Beatles' discography? Even in the case of a work that can be performed live, touring really only supports the performers, not the authors who wrote the work that the performer performs, such as playwrights and songwriters.
Today, work can be funded in a broad variety of means, including crowdsourcing
Crowdfunding's success stories are still two orders of magnitude smaller than the over 200 million dollar budget of a blockbuster motion picture.
direct sales
Direct sales before production are called "crowdfunding," for which see above. Direct sales after production are subject to the free rider problem, whose traditional solution is called "copyright."
public performance for hire, public performance for donations
Provided the work is in a performable medium. See above.
You don't want DRM, then buy DRM-free games of which there are plenty.
Are there plenty of DRM-free video games designed to be enjoyed on the big screen in the living room with one to three IRL friends holding gamepads? Or does "DRM-free local multiplayer" mean going back to tabletop games?
It's in quote blocks, it's a quote, the quote is correct.
As far as I can tell, Anonymous Coward #54772787 was expecting to see the more conventional expansion of the initialism at least somewhere in the summary, such as language to the following effect: "The FSF uses the term 'digital restrictions management' to refer to digital rights management."
if everyone did as the infringers do, taking a copy of a work without paying for it, would the creators receive any compensation at all
If new copies of a work are not available through legitimate channels, what compensation is the work's author losing? Examples include the film Song of the South and the English dub of the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea.
As I understand it, there's very, very, very, little resemblance between the two beyond what you'd expect between two operating systems that shared some designers.
How safe, really, is paying for Internet access online?:p
But seriously: I'm aware of the existence of online-only banks with no branches, such as Ally Bank. But then an account holder has to pay a fee to the owner of a local ATM every time he wants to get cash out, and he has to buy and mail a postal money order every time he wants to put cash in. Or were you referring to having a checking account at a local bank, meeting its minimum deposit requirements, using the local bank for all cash deposits and withdrawals, having the "utility bills only" account at the online bank, and periodically wiring money from the local bank to the online bank through ACH?
For location differences: I drop you 20 mins early if we start at the same time and I have to also get to work afterwards, and I pick you up 20 mins late.
But if the road is HOV-only, as in the former case of the road described in this article how do you legally even get from the drop-off point to where you actually work?
You seem to think LetsEncrypt is doing something different than everyone else here other than providing free when others charge.
I'm aware of what a DV SSL certificate does and does not do. Others aren't. Or they are but want browsers to display a more conspicuous indication of lack of organization validation for certificates that are only DV, such as an interstitial.
A. Every two months, sneakernet CSRs to a machine that isn't air-gapped, run the ACME DNS challenge on that machine, and sneakernet the certificates back to the air-gapped network. The one thing you can't do if both the server and the client are air-gapped is OCSP.
B. Set up an internal certificate authority, and deploy its root certificate throughout the internal network. This may fail in Android 7, which distrusts user-installed root certificates unless each application's publisher explicitly opts in to trusting user-installed root certificates.
AC #54769865 probably believes that a web browser ought to be showing the same sort of interstitial before a cleartext HTTP site or an HTTPS site using a domain-validated certificate that it shows before an HTTPS site using a self-signed certificate. This interstitial would make it clear that the user is visiting the website of an entity other than an established business.
If your computer has a 32 GB internal eMMC for Windows and applications and a 64 or 128 GB SDXC card in its SD slot for user data, it's not very convenient to have to carry and plug in a USB NTFS HDD with its own separate power supply just to be able to use OneDrive.
Sorry, but if you are not paying them in some way, you are not a customer.
Customers are in fact paying Microsoft. Part of the price of a PC not made by Apple or System76 is a royalty for the OEM copy of Windows installed on the PC.
Other than a couple of neckbeards everyone else switched to NTFS when hard drives grew past 32GB.
Except for those people who switched from hard drives to a combination of internal eMMC and an SDXC slot. The eMMC is formatted NTFS, but the SDXC standard specifies exFAT.
Possibly more people are able to DRIVE to the city now, not GO in the general sense.
I thought the only way to go at all on certain days of the week was to drive, as public transportation systems in many cities tend to shut down entirely on the least busy days. In a plurality-Christian country, this is Sunday (source; source), but I don't know which day of the week would be the victim in a majority-Muslim country.
Only if A. they work at the same place and at the same time and shop at the same place and at the same time, and B. they weren't issued plates whose last digits are the same modulo 2.
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If new copies of a work are not available through legitimate channels, what compensation is the work's author losing?
In those cases, maybe nothing.
Then why isn't the copyright statute written to acknowledge that the copyright owner is losing "maybe nothing"?
But let's be honest, most infringement of DRM-protected works is not that situation at all.
Even if the majority of violating acts are clearly harmful, if there are an identifiable minority of violating acts that aren't provably harmful, it's still unjust to ban them.
The vast majority of online infringement is copying works that are recent and readily available via at least one legal channel.
What's the "at least one legal channel" for, say, the rights to make fan-made mashups of popular recorded music as a comment on the similarity of their compositions? And why is it just to continue to ban trade in the minority of works that lack "at least one legal channel"?
if we had no copyright law and nothing better to replace it, less content would be created and overall the content would be of lower quality.
Perhaps something "better to replace" three-generation copyright would involve a shorter copyright term and/or broader compulsory licensing. Otherwise, how does the legal power to ban the creation of fan-made derivative works decades later encourage the creation of a work now?
The economic effect is literally no different to paying for a work legally, enjoying that work as allowed by the deal, but then stealing that money back from the person who provided it to you.
In the case of things that aren't available from its author at all, such as out-of-print works or the rights to make a fan-made derivative work, how much is "that money"?
Your logical fallacy is that of the ridiculous example, because everyone doesn't do that.
Reductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy unless it involves a straw man. Could you elaborate on where you found a straw man?
Even if they did, then people would have to get paid through other means, like touring.
Not all work is in media and genres that can be performed live. How would "touring" support a video game? Or a movie? Or studio-produced music that can't be readily performed live, such as the second half of The Beatles' discography? Even in the case of a work that can be performed live, touring really only supports the performers, not the authors who wrote the work that the performer performs, such as playwrights and songwriters.
Today, work can be funded in a broad variety of means, including crowdsourcing
Crowdfunding's success stories are still two orders of magnitude smaller than the over 200 million dollar budget of a blockbuster motion picture.
direct sales
Direct sales before production are called "crowdfunding," for which see above. Direct sales after production are subject to the free rider problem, whose traditional solution is called "copyright."
public performance for hire, public performance for donations
Provided the work is in a performable medium. See above.
You don't want DRM, then buy DRM-free games of which there are plenty.
Are there plenty of DRM-free video games designed to be enjoyed on the big screen in the living room with one to three IRL friends holding gamepads? Or does "DRM-free local multiplayer" mean going back to tabletop games?
It's in quote blocks, it's a quote, the quote is correct.
As far as I can tell, Anonymous Coward #54772787 was expecting to see the more conventional expansion of the initialism at least somewhere in the summary, such as language to the following effect: "The FSF uses the term 'digital restrictions management' to refer to digital rights management."
if everyone did as the infringers do, taking a copy of a work without paying for it, would the creators receive any compensation at all
If new copies of a work are not available through legitimate channels, what compensation is the work's author losing? Examples include the film Song of the South and the English dub of the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea.
As I understand it, there's very, very, very, little resemblance between the two beyond what you'd expect between two operating systems that shared some designers.
Such as how the NT kernel resembles VMS in several key ways.
Internet access?
How safe, really, is paying for Internet access online? :p
But seriously: I'm aware of the existence of online-only banks with no branches, such as Ally Bank. But then an account holder has to pay a fee to the owner of a local ATM every time he wants to get cash out, and he has to buy and mail a postal money order every time he wants to put cash in. Or were you referring to having a checking account at a local bank, meeting its minimum deposit requirements, using the local bank for all cash deposits and withdrawals, having the "utility bills only" account at the online bank, and periodically wiring money from the local bank to the online bank through ACH?
For location differences: I drop you 20 mins early if we start at the same time and I have to also get to work afterwards, and I pick you up 20 mins late.
But if the road is HOV-only, as in the former case of the road described in this article how do you legally even get from the drop-off point to where you actually work?
I keep a second checking account with debit card. I keep $20 in it normally
How much does the bank withdraw to cover the monthly fee for having a second checking account? If nothing, how did you qualify for free checking?
Real stick built houses. But most are at least 2 hours and more from an urban area.
In your experience, what effect does a four hour round trip commute to and from work in your field have on your morale?
You seem to think LetsEncrypt is doing something different than everyone else here other than providing free when others charge.
I'm aware of what a DV SSL certificate does and does not do. Others aren't. Or they are but want browsers to display a more conspicuous indication of lack of organization validation for certificates that are only DV, such as an interstitial.
Let's Encrypt offers certificates for as long as your automatic renewal cron job continues to run, provided that your domain also remains paid-up.
Why not just fucking use cacert.org?
Last I heard is that they didn't have the finances to do the sort of third-party auditing that the CA/Browser Forum requires.
You have two options on an air-gapped network:
A. Every two months, sneakernet CSRs to a machine that isn't air-gapped, run the ACME DNS challenge on that machine, and sneakernet the certificates back to the air-gapped network. The one thing you can't do if both the server and the client are air-gapped is OCSP.
B. Set up an internal certificate authority, and deploy its root certificate throughout the internal network. This may fail in Android 7, which distrusts user-installed root certificates unless each application's publisher explicitly opts in to trusting user-installed root certificates.
The certificate guarantees that if you were trying to connect to fraud.com that you in fact connected to fraud.com
Then what makes it clear to Bank of America account holders that "bankofarnerica.com" (that's ARNERICA) isn't the site they're looking for?
AC #54769865 probably believes that a web browser ought to be showing the same sort of interstitial before a cleartext HTTP site or an HTTPS site using a domain-validated certificate that it shows before an HTTPS site using a self-signed certificate. This interstitial would make it clear that the user is visiting the website of an entity other than an established business.
i think the news is that you won't have to spend beaucoup bucks per year for such a certificate.
If your computer has a 32 GB internal eMMC for Windows and applications and a 64 or 128 GB SDXC card in its SD slot for user data, it's not very convenient to have to carry and plug in a USB NTFS HDD with its own separate power supply just to be able to use OneDrive.
Sorry, but if you are not paying them in some way, you are not a customer.
Customers are in fact paying Microsoft. Part of the price of a PC not made by Apple or System76 is a royalty for the OEM copy of Windows installed on the PC.
Why would you possible format hard drives with 100s of GB or multi-terabyte as FAT32?
They're not hard drives, and they're not FAT32. SDXC cards are formatted as exFAT.
Other than a couple of neckbeards everyone else switched to NTFS when hard drives grew past 32GB.
Except for those people who switched from hard drives to a combination of internal eMMC and an SDXC slot. The eMMC is formatted NTFS, but the SDXC standard specifies exFAT.
Possibly more people are able to DRIVE to the city now, not GO in the general sense.
I thought the only way to go at all on certain days of the week was to drive, as public transportation systems in many cities tend to shut down entirely on the least busy days. In a plurality-Christian country, this is Sunday (source; source), but I don't know which day of the week would be the victim in a majority-Muslim country.
most people can carpool with a neighbour.
Only if A. they work at the same place and at the same time and shop at the same place and at the same time, and B. they weren't issued plates whose last digits are the same modulo 2.