What point is there to have an exclusive? They should be trying to get the music on as many services as possible
To drive subscriptions to the service in which the artist owns a financial stake. It's the same reason that Nintendo releases the vast majority of its games only on Nintendo consoles.
every so often, visit an online used cd store like secondspin.com
Until a recording artist decides to stop releasing music on CDs, such as Kanye West. Or unless a recording artist never starts selling CDs in the first place and stays digital-only because "major labels are for chumps".
Currently, installing it requires installing git and Node.js first, and I imagine that the majority of home users of Windows or OS X aren't comfortable enough with the command line to do that. This is especially true on Windows, which (as far as I can tell) lacks a counterpart to sudo to run a single command with both command-line arguments and elevated privileges in the same Command Prompt window. One has to instead start an elevated Command Prompt window, which is like logging in as root.
Besides, let me know when there's anything on Butter that's worth watching and worth discussing with friends. Somehow family and co-workers want to discuss the latest proprietary movies and TV shows, not obscure pre-1964 movies.
I find your claim that only 7,000 people on this planet use overlapping or tiled windows hard to believe. I'd be more inclined to believe it with a citation.
Most people develop software with neither overlapping windows nor tiled windows. [...] Even those who do [use a debugger] - visual studio, eclipse, idea intellisense, emacs debugger (some of the most popular code editing tools used today) all split the window itself such that people can see the program and its variables together
By "tiled windows" I include splitting the window in this manner. This leaves including the output in the split.
Can you cite sources that only "one in a million" use tiled windows between, say, an HTML editor and the browser rendering it? Or can you cite sources that only "one in a million" use tiled windows between a web browser for viewing an HTML document and a text editor or word processor for taking notes on the document?
The world is inefficient. Get over it.
I find it more difficult to just "Get over" artificial inefficiencies, especially those enforced primarily through cryptographic lockdown, than inefficiencies with a substantial cost justification.
You are forgetting when it was possible for anyone to make controllers, the number of fake controllers was quite high, causing people to get ripped off and/or having a poor gaming experience.
By "fake" do you mean counterfeit, with falsely applied official logos? Or do you just mean unlicensed controllers with their own brand? I remember the days when unlicensed controllers for the NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64, and Nintendo GameCube were sold. Some sucked; others had build quality very close to that of official controllers. But even the maligned Turbo Touch 360 by Triax is better for gamepad-style games than a virtual gamepad on a phone.
It's a derivative work, but courts are more likely to find a derivative work to be fair use if said derivative work is not stored permanently nor distributed to the public. See for example Galoob v. Nintendo.
though the lack of apps, in general, is a downer for many Apple, which usually doesn't miss boasting sales number, remains tight-lipped on exactly how many Apple Watch units it has sold.
Apart from the bad grammar here, I wonder if the lack of apps is because Apple hasn't released sales figures. If a developer doesn't know the size of the market, the developer can't calculate how many people might try an app and thus can't estimate return on investment. The same is true of, for example, clip-on gamepads for phones. Companies make games for PlayStation Vita instead of iOS-with-gamepad or Android-with-gamepad because Sony at least releases sales figures that are credibly greater than zero.
It isn't a resource that is depleted after I use it. It's a service.
Then what's a better term for "entity to whom a product or service of a producer is delivered"?
For a paid service
Your entitlement to the service is a resource, which is consumed after all months of service for which you have paid have elapsed.
For a service provided without charge
It can't be "customer" if one is using only services provided without charge, such as Gmail (not Google Apps For Work) on a PC, iOS device, or out-of-warranty Android device.
The confusion is that "OTP" stands for one-time pad, which you're talking about, and one-time password, which people discussing Google Authenticator are talking about.
Seriously, what's the point of custom PC gaming devices when +99% of your software strictly expects a 360 controller?
True, games in the Windows Store tend to require specifically an XInput controller because Microsoft has deliberately locked down which joystick APIs are available to UWP apps. But for games distributed as Windows desktop apps, such as those distributed through GOG or Steam, where do you get this 99 percent figure?
If people want to reenact a story, and Disney is unwilling to offer reasonable terms to license its stories for reenactment, a boycott is the legally and morally correct answer. But if the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 wasn't enough to inspire a boycott that gains enough momentum to have a noticeable effect on Disney's policies, I can't imagine what is.
If it were PC (personal computer), there would be no such "bullshit". Anybody can build a generic USB Human Interface Device and count on the computer to recognize it. The "bullshit" arises from the lockout produced by the requirement of a cryptographic handshake between the console and the controller.
In point of fact, some aspects of copyright law have been ruled as unconstitutional because of this
You refer to Golan v. Holder, which was a narrow ruling that the First Amendment defense against copyright term restoration applies only to "reliance parties", who had been using a work prior to the restoration of copyright in the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA). The URAA originally limited the duration for which reliance parties could make grandfathered use of a work whose copyright was restored. The Tenth Circuit in Golan held that this limit changed the contour of copyright in a way that violated the First Amendment, allowing them to continue to use the work for the entirety of the restored copyright term. But it did nothing for the general public apart from reliance parties.
Copyright does not prevent us from talking about stories.
It depends on how much of the story is talked about, and in how much detail. See Warner Bros. v. RDR Books, in which a U.S. district court judge ruled an unauthorized guide to the Harry Potter books to be transformative in to an extent but "not consistently transformative" and therefore infringing. The risk that a particular work may not qualify under the statutory limitations of copyright discourages some people from talking in great detail about others' stories for fear of having to pay statutory damages, attorney's fees, and court costs should he inadvertently step over the invisible line of what is permitted under fair use.
And the exclusive right to prepare derivative works or perform a work publicly certainly prevents us from reenacting said stories. This is where e-sports come into play, as video game publishers assert the exclusive right of public performance against tournament organizers. The same is true of extending said stories, as shown in 3D Realms' successful lawsuit over a third-party level pack for Duke Nukem 3D titled Nuke It (Micro Star v. FormGen). A public lightsaber battle might be seen as extending and/or reenacting Star Wars.
I have two questions for you. First, am I correct in interpreting this as "Someone who wants to run free software ought to be prepared to manufacture the device on which to run it"? Second, may I cite you on this?
You don't deny that the vast majority has no use for overlapping windows
You are correct that for the purpose of this present discussion, I did not deny this. But in general, I also don't assert this. In addition, in comment #51861459, I mentioned "side by side", referring to tiled windows. And I imagine that even people who have "no use for overlapping windows" have a use for tiled windows.
You're still worried about the loss of a feature with minuscule usage
You try writing and testing a computer program on a laptop computer with neither overlapping windows nor tiled windows. This means you can't see the program and its output, nor the program and its variables in a debugging session, nor the variables and output so far, side by side. I imagine programming in this sort of all-maximized environment would be far less efficient than even a two-way split.
That's easier said than done when the incumbent publishers' lawyers can play the "derivative work" card, claiming that your work is too similar to that of their clients.
<sarcasm>And enough with books and music and television and movies. Everyone should stay in their basement and never expose themselves to anyone else's creative works, much less celebrate them!</sarcasm>
I think 110010001000's idea is supposed to be that people are supposed to write their own "books and music and television and movies", put them under a license intended for sharing, and celebrate them instead of celebrating proprietary works. It's like e-sports: people take up a proprietary video game as a sport and then act all surprised when the game's publisher wants to tax or even shut down tournaments under its exclusive right to perform the work publicly. This realization about e-sports is why I quit the Tetris fan community in June 2012 after learning of a successful lawsuit by The Tetris Company.
Sharing stories and celebrating them is a fundamental part of human interaction.
Then do so within the boundaries of the law. Instead of misappropriating the industry's productions, make your own with proverbial blackjack and hookers.
If I like dressing up as Montgomery Scott and reciting Jorah Mormont's Doom poem whilst spanking Slave Leia with Andúril – that I bought from a sword maker at the Renaissance Festival that time I went dressed as Rexor from the 1982 version of Conan the Barbarian – I suppose you'll be telling me that I'm a worm because that doesn't fit into your version of the correct way for one to entertain oneself.
It's not that it doesn't fit into Rei's version as much as that it doesn't fit into the respective copyright owners' versions.
There are only three forms of IP: trademark, copyright and patent.
Citation needed. Some definitions include trade secrets, trademark-like rights of publicity, copyright-like "mask work" rights (sui generis rights in integrated circuit designs), and copyright-like sui generis rights in ship hulls under the umbrella term.
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In the UK, music publishers got a ruling that ripping CDs is illegal. What is the likely outcome of that?
The legal outcome? Try to emigrate before President Trump takes office and closes the border.
What point is there to have an exclusive? They should be trying to get the music on as many services as possible
To drive subscriptions to the service in which the artist owns a financial stake. It's the same reason that Nintendo releases the vast majority of its games only on Nintendo consoles.
every so often, visit an online used cd store like secondspin.com
Until a recording artist decides to stop releasing music on CDs, such as Kanye West. Or unless a recording artist never starts selling CDs in the first place and stays digital-only because "major labels are for chumps".
All these network exclusives which are not re-licensed and distributed make me pretend the product doesn't exist.
Until your co-workers start discussing details of the new releases, thereby making you feel left out.
Isn't that the Butter project?
Currently, installing it requires installing git and Node.js first, and I imagine that the majority of home users of Windows or OS X aren't comfortable enough with the command line to do that. This is especially true on Windows, which (as far as I can tell) lacks a counterpart to sudo to run a single command with both command-line arguments and elevated privileges in the same Command Prompt window. One has to instead start an elevated Command Prompt window, which is like logging in as root.
Besides, let me know when there's anything on Butter that's worth watching and worth discussing with friends. Somehow family and co-workers want to discuss the latest proprietary movies and TV shows, not obscure pre-1964 movies.
one in a million use use this feature.
I find your claim that only 7,000 people on this planet use overlapping or tiled windows hard to believe. I'd be more inclined to believe it with a citation.
Most people develop software with neither overlapping windows nor tiled windows.
[...]
Even those who do [use a debugger] - visual studio, eclipse, idea intellisense, emacs debugger (some of the most popular code editing tools used today) all split the window itself such that people can see the program and its variables together
By "tiled windows" I include splitting the window in this manner. This leaves including the output in the split.
Can you cite sources that only "one in a million" use tiled windows between, say, an HTML editor and the browser rendering it? Or can you cite sources that only "one in a million" use tiled windows between a web browser for viewing an HTML document and a text editor or word processor for taking notes on the document?
The world is inefficient. Get over it.
I find it more difficult to just "Get over" artificial inefficiencies, especially those enforced primarily through cryptographic lockdown, than inefficiencies with a substantial cost justification.
You are forgetting when it was possible for anyone to make controllers, the number of fake controllers was quite high, causing people to get ripped off and/or having a poor gaming experience.
By "fake" do you mean counterfeit, with falsely applied official logos? Or do you just mean unlicensed controllers with their own brand? I remember the days when unlicensed controllers for the NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64, and Nintendo GameCube were sold. Some sucked; others had build quality very close to that of official controllers. But even the maligned Turbo Touch 360 by Triax is better for gamepad-style games than a virtual gamepad on a phone.
It's a derivative work, but courts are more likely to find a derivative work to be fair use if said derivative work is not stored permanently nor distributed to the public. See for example Galoob v. Nintendo.
though the lack of apps, in general, is a downer for many Apple, which usually doesn't miss boasting sales number, remains tight-lipped on exactly how many Apple Watch units it has sold.
Apart from the bad grammar here, I wonder if the lack of apps is because Apple hasn't released sales figures. If a developer doesn't know the size of the market, the developer can't calculate how many people might try an app and thus can't estimate return on investment. The same is true of, for example, clip-on gamepads for phones. Companies make games for PlayStation Vita instead of iOS-with-gamepad or Android-with-gamepad because Sony at least releases sales figures that are credibly greater than zero.
If you so desperately want to modify then just buy a PC, you can do whatever you want
And if the particular games you want to play are console-exclusive, tough shit.
How do I "consume" e-mail hosting?
It isn't a resource that is depleted after I use it. It's a service.
Then what's a better term for "entity to whom a product or service of a producer is delivered"?
For a paid service Your entitlement to the service is a resource, which is consumed after all months of service for which you have paid have elapsed. For a service provided without charge It can't be "customer" if one is using only services provided without charge, such as Gmail (not Google Apps For Work) on a PC, iOS device, or out-of-warranty Android device.The confusion is that "OTP" stands for one-time pad, which you're talking about, and one-time password, which people discussing Google Authenticator are talking about.
Seriously, what's the point of custom PC gaming devices when +99% of your software strictly expects a 360 controller?
True, games in the Windows Store tend to require specifically an XInput controller because Microsoft has deliberately locked down which joystick APIs are available to UWP apps. But for games distributed as Windows desktop apps, such as those distributed through GOG or Steam, where do you get this 99 percent figure?
chrome or edge or firefox (pretty much any browser that supports source map debugging of javascript)
Thank you. That was the piece I was worried about.
"Scientology" is also both an established religion and a closely guarded trademark-copyright complex.
Let's boycott disney?
If people want to reenact a story, and Disney is unwilling to offer reasonable terms to license its stories for reenactment, a boycott is the legally and morally correct answer. But if the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 wasn't enough to inspire a boycott that gains enough momentum to have a noticeable effect on Disney's policies, I can't imagine what is.
That'd be fine if Disney published a report listing typical royalty rates for common licensing scenarios.
sjw with this PC bullshit.
If it were PC (personal computer), there would be no such "bullshit". Anybody can build a generic USB Human Interface Device and count on the computer to recognize it. The "bullshit" arises from the lockout produced by the requirement of a cryptographic handshake between the console and the controller.
In point of fact, some aspects of copyright law have been ruled as unconstitutional because of this
You refer to Golan v. Holder , which was a narrow ruling that the First Amendment defense against copyright term restoration applies only to "reliance parties", who had been using a work prior to the restoration of copyright in the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA). The URAA originally limited the duration for which reliance parties could make grandfathered use of a work whose copyright was restored. The Tenth Circuit in Golan held that this limit changed the contour of copyright in a way that violated the First Amendment, allowing them to continue to use the work for the entirety of the restored copyright term. But it did nothing for the general public apart from reliance parties.
Copyright does not prevent us from talking about stories.
It depends on how much of the story is talked about, and in how much detail. See Warner Bros. v. RDR Books , in which a U.S. district court judge ruled an unauthorized guide to the Harry Potter books to be transformative in to an extent but "not consistently transformative" and therefore infringing. The risk that a particular work may not qualify under the statutory limitations of copyright discourages some people from talking in great detail about others' stories for fear of having to pay statutory damages, attorney's fees, and court costs should he inadvertently step over the invisible line of what is permitted under fair use.
And the exclusive right to prepare derivative works or perform a work publicly certainly prevents us from reenacting said stories. This is where e-sports come into play, as video game publishers assert the exclusive right of public performance against tournament organizers. The same is true of extending said stories, as shown in 3D Realms' successful lawsuit over a third-party level pack for Duke Nukem 3D titled Nuke It ( Micro Star v. FormGen ). A public lightsaber battle might be seen as extending and/or reenacting Star Wars.
Imagine if [copyright and trademark restrictions] had stopped Star Trek conventions through the years.
Star Trek conventions are licensed.
Handling Star Wars analogously would be fine if Lucasfilm had posted an offer of terms under which to host a licensed Star Wars convention. Has it?
So make a device then.
I have two questions for you. First, am I correct in interpreting this as "Someone who wants to run free software ought to be prepared to manufacture the device on which to run it"? Second, may I cite you on this?
You don't deny that the vast majority has no use for overlapping windows
You are correct that for the purpose of this present discussion, I did not deny this. But in general, I also don't assert this. In addition, in comment #51861459, I mentioned "side by side", referring to tiled windows. And I imagine that even people who have "no use for overlapping windows" have a use for tiled windows.
You're still worried about the loss of a feature with minuscule usage
You try writing and testing a computer program on a laptop computer with neither overlapping windows nor tiled windows. This means you can't see the program and its output, nor the program and its variables in a debugging session, nor the variables and output so far, side by side. I imagine programming in this sort of all-maximized environment would be far less efficient than even a two-way split.
Come up with your own stories.
That's easier said than done when the incumbent publishers' lawyers can play the "derivative work" card, claiming that your work is too similar to that of their clients.
<sarcasm>And enough with books and music and television and movies. Everyone should stay in their basement and never expose themselves to anyone else's creative works, much less celebrate them!</sarcasm>
I think 110010001000's idea is supposed to be that people are supposed to write their own "books and music and television and movies", put them under a license intended for sharing, and celebrate them instead of celebrating proprietary works. It's like e-sports: people take up a proprietary video game as a sport and then act all surprised when the game's publisher wants to tax or even shut down tournaments under its exclusive right to perform the work publicly. This realization about e-sports is why I quit the Tetris fan community in June 2012 after learning of a successful lawsuit by The Tetris Company.
Sharing stories and celebrating them is a fundamental part of human interaction.
Then do so within the boundaries of the law. Instead of misappropriating the industry's productions, make your own with proverbial blackjack and hookers.
If I like dressing up as Montgomery Scott and reciting Jorah Mormont's Doom poem whilst spanking Slave Leia with Andúril – that I bought from a sword maker at the Renaissance Festival that time I went dressed as Rexor from the 1982 version of Conan the Barbarian – I suppose you'll be telling me that I'm a worm because that doesn't fit into your version of the correct way for one to entertain oneself.
It's not that it doesn't fit into Rei's version as much as that it doesn't fit into the respective copyright owners' versions.
There are only three forms of IP: trademark, copyright and patent.
Citation needed. Some definitions include trade secrets, trademark-like rights of publicity, copyright-like "mask work" rights (sui generis rights in integrated circuit designs), and copyright-like sui generis rights in ship hulls under the umbrella term.