That's what we're really arguing over, whether transaction fees rise to a fucking quarter or not.
If they do "rise to a fucking quarter", then Bitcoin is unlikely to be usable as a means for pay-per-page web browsing once ad blocking becomes widespread. So to what low-transaction-fee network should people who desire a low-transaction-fee network switch?
This is prosumerism, if we cannot buy them, we can make them.
I have a couple questions that would need to be answered before that can become practical: Who pays for their production? And who would pay the damages if, say, it turns out that costume design or music created for the film is an accidental infringement on someone else's work?
Unless the geographic restriction in the license from the film's copyright owner was to the effect "the United States and any foreign diplomatic or military territory completely surrounded thereby". Then use on a military base would have fallen into "Afghanistan and any foreign diplomatic or military territory completely surrounded thereby".
You appear to refer to a defense that an alleged infringer never had access to the copyright owner's work, in the "access plus similarity equals copying" formula from copyright case law. But I seem to remember reading that the court can impute access if the copyright owner can show that the alleged infringer reasonably should have heard the copyright owner's composition. This would appear to make the independent creation defense unavailable if the earlier work had been played on FM radio during the alleged infringer's lifetime.
or if it's really too close to a copy try to make a reasonable settlement.
I wonder what sort of settlement the incumbent music publishers would consider "reasonable", especially if it's something for which I never received royalties in the first place, such as the background music for a film or video game released under a Creative Commons license. I could stop infringing by taking down the work containing the piece immediately upon receiving notice, but I'd have no source of revenue from which to pay damages for past use.
They already have a port of office for Android which is based on linux.
Office is not ported to Android. It is ported to Android with Google Play. There's a difference.
I looked at Microsoft's publisher page on Amazon Appstore. OneNote and OneDrive were listed, but not Word. I searched briefly but could not find a legit copy of Microsoft Word for Android outside Google Play Store. And the only way to get a legit copy of Google Play Store is on a device that ships with it. This leaves users of Replicant, Fire OS, and other operating systems based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) without access.
Now most desktop and laptop PCs running Linux run GNU/Linux with X11, not Android. Android is more common on tablets and phones. In theory, it would be possible to compile AOSP for x86 or x86-64 run it alongside GNU on top of Linux. But you wouldn't be able to install Word because it wouldn't have Google Play Store.
[Phone numbers] are one-time use IDs that we use to contact someone else, then both people's phones remember the number forever.
until I buy a new phone
Not sure what phones you've been buying, but that isn't in any way a factor and hasn't been for a long time.
What mechanism ensures that my contacts are synchronized when I buy a new phone on a different platform and port my number to a different network? Because it's a different network, I can't store contacts on a SIM and carry them that way, and some phones for CDMA2000 networks don't even have a CSIM slot to move service to another phone on the same network. Because it's a different platform (Android vs. iOS vs. feature phones), I can't sync using the operating system publisher's backup server. Consider, for example, the case of porting my number from an Audiovox 8610 on Virgin Mobile USA to a Nexus 5 on Straight Talk.
What nationality are these people who speak broken English? Is it NATO or otherwise? Because my solution would teach the spelling alphabet worldwide to speakers of all languages that use Latin letters. Your Chinese collaborators would learn it alongside Pinyin.
artists take their content straight to Soundcloud with very little overhead and no gatekeepers
I thought the gatekeepers were the traditional music publishers. A music publisher differs from a record label in that a record label owns copyright in a recording (as embodied in a CD), while a music publisher owns copyright in the underlying musical work (as embodied in sheet music). There are millions of existing musical works, with BMI alone controlling a repertory of over nine million, and only so many possible hooks in the seven notes of the scale. (Proof available on request.) So when an artist writes and records a piece of music and uploads it to SoundCloud, what steps is the artist supposed to have taken to ensure that his song doesn't accidentally infringe copyright in one of the millions of existing songs? I ask because I compose music, am considering seeking extra exposure through SoundCloud, and want to limit my liability in cases of accidental infringement. Has anyone heard from a lawyer on this?
However, If you are Chinese for example, and have no reason to ever learn english words you are very unlikely to be exposed to it.
If you don't learn English, then you would also be very unlikely to "meet someone and want to exchange contact details" in English. If you do learn English, in my ideal system, you would also learn the names of the letters.
Or perhaps it's that the copyright owners sold long-term exclusive syndication rights to certain programs in certain regions many years ago, before Netflix Instant Watch was a thing.
Or my favorite, Steam will change the price on me during a sale when I'm in Europe and I have to pay %20 more.
Sales tax in Europe is on the order of 20 percent and typically included in prices. Also commonly included are the cost of translating the manual and the cost of a longer product warranty where applicable.
You control the silicon that postprocesses the signal.
The Commodore 64 computer's VIC-II GPU outputs S-Video signals using a 90/11 = 8.18 MHz pixel clock, which is 16/7 times the frequency of the color subcarrier. Put code on an FPGA that samples the luma and chroma signals at twice this rate, and it should be able to guess which color the VIC-II is producing. Then store lines of pixels in a circular buffer in block RAM feeding a line tripler circuit on the same FPGA. Kevin Horton did something like this for the NES.
I don't know if "many", but last time I checked, GNU/Linux distributions had problems with especially the 10.1" and 11.6" segment. There are stories of a lot of things (such as keyboard, touch, and sleep) not working on the ASUS EeeBook X205TA and Transformer Book T100TA in more than one distribution.
I think AC was trying to say that signing up for a Google account without a phone number requires either an Android tablet with Google Play or an iPad or iPod touch.
My phone, likewise, I've moved between multiple carriers over the years; if carrier A started pissing me off too much, I'd move to carrier B.
Once AT&T pisses you off and T-Mobile pisses you off, who's left? The other two major U.S. cellular carriers use CDMA2000, which is incompatible with the GSM/UMTS that AT&T and T-Mobile use. Or do most phones include both CDMA2000 and GSM/UMTS radios now?
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That's what we're really arguing over, whether transaction fees rise to a fucking quarter or not.
If they do "rise to a fucking quarter", then Bitcoin is unlikely to be usable as a means for pay-per-page web browsing once ad blocking becomes widespread. So to what low-transaction-fee network should people who desire a low-transaction-fee network switch?
Which feature films are non-DRM?
Maybe we could have lists of non-DRM movies (probably just Creative-Commons right now)
The Creative Commons movies I can think of are Blender tech demos such as "Big Buck Bunny" and "Sintel". These are shorts, not feature-length.
Even if we establish a DRM-free area in just one genre (e.g. sci-fi), that would still be worthwhile.
I was trying to allude to FSF's guide to DRM-free video, which links to GOG.com's movie section. And last time I checked, GOG.com's movie section was full of video game documentaries and little else.
This is prosumerism, if we cannot buy them, we can make them.
I have a couple questions that would need to be answered before that can become practical: Who pays for their production? And who would pay the damages if, say, it turns out that costume design or music created for the film is an accidental infringement on someone else's work?
My point is that Microsoft Office for Android with Google Play doesn't bring us any closer to Microsoft Office for desktop Linux.
It depends on whether the license for any non-free operating system or applications running on said mainframes could be transferred into an emulator.
Unless the geographic restriction in the license from the film's copyright owner was to the effect "the United States and any foreign diplomatic or military territory completely surrounded thereby". Then use on a military base would have fallen into "Afghanistan and any foreign diplomatic or military territory completely surrounded thereby".
You appear to refer to a defense that an alleged infringer never had access to the copyright owner's work, in the "access plus similarity equals copying" formula from copyright case law. But I seem to remember reading that the court can impute access if the copyright owner can show that the alleged infringer reasonably should have heard the copyright owner's composition. This would appear to make the independent creation defense unavailable if the earlier work had been played on FM radio during the alleged infringer's lifetime.
Boiling your comment down: Publish anyway and attempt to use the easier to ask forgiveness than permission (EAFP) principle. Now on mitigating risk of an exception:
or if it's really too close to a copy try to make a reasonable settlement.
I wonder what sort of settlement the incumbent music publishers would consider "reasonable", especially if it's something for which I never received royalties in the first place, such as the background music for a film or video game released under a Creative Commons license. I could stop infringing by taking down the work containing the piece immediately upon receiving notice, but I'd have no source of revenue from which to pay damages for past use.
They already have a port of office for Android which is based on linux.
Office is not ported to Android. It is ported to Android with Google Play. There's a difference.
I looked at Microsoft's publisher page on Amazon Appstore. OneNote and OneDrive were listed, but not Word. I searched briefly but could not find a legit copy of Microsoft Word for Android outside Google Play Store. And the only way to get a legit copy of Google Play Store is on a device that ships with it. This leaves users of Replicant, Fire OS, and other operating systems based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) without access.
Now most desktop and laptop PCs running Linux run GNU/Linux with X11, not Android. Android is more common on tablets and phones. In theory, it would be possible to compile AOSP for x86 or x86-64 run it alongside GNU on top of Linux. But you wouldn't be able to install Word because it wouldn't have Google Play Store.
And all US carriers are moving to SIMs and LTE anyway.
Even for voice, or only for data?
Fighting is simple: buy non-DRM content only.
Which feature films are non-DRM? And do they cover a wide variety of genres?
[Phone numbers] are one-time use IDs that we use to contact someone else, then both people's phones remember the number forever.
until I buy a new phone
Not sure what phones you've been buying, but that isn't in any way a factor and hasn't been for a long time.
What mechanism ensures that my contacts are synchronized when I buy a new phone on a different platform and port my number to a different network? Because it's a different network, I can't store contacts on a SIM and carry them that way, and some phones for CDMA2000 networks don't even have a CSIM slot to move service to another phone on the same network. Because it's a different platform (Android vs. iOS vs. feature phones), I can't sync using the operating system publisher's backup server. Consider, for example, the case of porting my number from an Audiovox 8610 on Virgin Mobile USA to a Nexus 5 on Straight Talk.
What nationality are these people who speak broken English? Is it NATO or otherwise? Because my solution would teach the spelling alphabet worldwide to speakers of all languages that use Latin letters. Your Chinese collaborators would learn it alongside Pinyin.
artists take their content straight to Soundcloud with very little overhead and no gatekeepers
I thought the gatekeepers were the traditional music publishers. A music publisher differs from a record label in that a record label owns copyright in a recording (as embodied in a CD), while a music publisher owns copyright in the underlying musical work (as embodied in sheet music). There are millions of existing musical works, with BMI alone controlling a repertory of over nine million, and only so many possible hooks in the seven notes of the scale. (Proof available on request.) So when an artist writes and records a piece of music and uploads it to SoundCloud, what steps is the artist supposed to have taken to ensure that his song doesn't accidentally infringe copyright in one of the millions of existing songs? I ask because I compose music, am considering seeking extra exposure through SoundCloud, and want to limit my liability in cases of accidental infringement. Has anyone heard from a lawyer on this?
However, If you are Chinese for example, and have no reason to ever learn english words you are very unlikely to be exposed to it.
If you don't learn English, then you would also be very unlikely to "meet someone and want to exchange contact details" in English. If you do learn English, in my ideal system, you would also learn the names of the letters.
Or perhaps it's that the copyright owners sold long-term exclusive syndication rights to certain programs in certain regions many years ago, before Netflix Instant Watch was a thing.
Or my favorite, Steam will change the price on me during a sale when I'm in Europe and I have to pay %20 more.
Sales tax in Europe is on the order of 20 percent and typically included in prices. Also commonly included are the cost of translating the manual and the cost of a longer product warranty where applicable.
And their monies are better spend licensing content
Perhaps the geoblocking makes the license affordable.
You get what you desire by adding silicon.
Then get an FPGA development board and write your CPU in Verilog.
You control the silicon that postprocesses the signal.
The Commodore 64 computer's VIC-II GPU outputs S-Video signals using a 90/11 = 8.18 MHz pixel clock, which is 16/7 times the frequency of the color subcarrier. Put code on an FPGA that samples the luma and chroma signals at twice this rate, and it should be able to guess which color the VIC-II is producing. Then store lines of pixels in a circular buffer in block RAM feeding a line tripler circuit on the same FPGA. Kevin Horton did something like this for the NES.
Or clone the VIC-II. (If you dare.)
BSD existed since 1970-ies.
But was it free in 1984? Wikipedia says it didn't start to become free software until 1991. And was it a complete free operating system, entirely free of AT&T encumbrances, in 1992? Once Linux was combined with what the GNU project had produced by the early 1990s, it succeeded in part because of the legal uncertainty surrounding BSD prior to the 1993 settlement.
The most successful GPL-program is gcc
It depends on how you define "success". I'd bet there are more Android devices running Linux than developer PCs running GCC.
I don't know if "many", but last time I checked, GNU/Linux distributions had problems with especially the 10.1" and 11.6" segment. There are stories of a lot of things (such as keyboard, touch, and sleep) not working on the ASUS EeeBook X205TA and Transformer Book T100TA in more than one distribution.
I think AC was trying to say that signing up for a Google account without a phone number requires either an Android tablet with Google Play or an iPad or iPod touch.
My phone, likewise, I've moved between multiple carriers over the years; if carrier A started pissing me off too much, I'd move to carrier B.
Once AT&T pisses you off and T-Mobile pisses you off, who's left? The other two major U.S. cellular carriers use CDMA2000, which is incompatible with the GSM/UMTS that AT&T and T-Mobile use. Or do most phones include both CDMA2000 and GSM/UMTS radios now?