I commend this fellow. His abilities and his persistence are inspirational. Whether or not he has patented or something has been done before, he deserves praise for his inventiveness and willingness to work on and share ideas that are new to him.
Maybe I should just patent a process for feeding instructions to a cpu from RAM to obtain an intended result (computer program) and solve the whole problem. Every time anyone anywhere turns on a computer, I'll get royalties.:)
This software patent crap is absolutely idiotic!
I shouldn't be so facetious. It is coming to that. That day will arrive and soon. It is surprising that someone hasn't thought of this and tried it already.
Just goes to show you how out-of-touch with reality the dimwitted corporate puppets we were dimwitted enough to elect really are.
It's time to vote out the lot of them. Every one that is corrupt, criminal, on the corporate take, etc. should be ousted. There are a few that actually want to do some good and they should be supported by getting rid of the deadwood that is stifling progress.
Keep voting out the lot until the message gets through that the public runs the government not the other way around.
The mass copying of music should be an indicator to the purveyors of copyrights, restrictive marketing, etc. that something is wrong with the current situation and should be fixed. At least, it should let our 'elected' people in congress know that the public doesn't agree with the laws as they currently are written.
If you produce a quality product at a reasonable price, people will buy it instead of going through the hassle of trying to make a decent copy.
When you buy a CD, you are paying for the music and hopefully at some point, the artist(musicians) see some of the money resulting from their work. We are not paying for the music to be obliterated, in some cases almost beyond recognition, with idiotic quality destroying copy protection schemes. The quality of the music has already been degraded enough by being digitized.
We aren't paying for, in the case of DVD's, long commercials (trailers of additional movies(put them in a trailers menu item don't force us to see them)), forced propoganda from the regime (FBI warnings), trailers of the current movie before seeing the movie.
We are paying for the actual disk (media) on which it is shipped. That is our property. We are also paying for fair use of the content of the media that we own.
Making copies of copyrighted materials for others is wrong.
Use of P2P for violating copyrights is wrong but there are so many other good uses to which we can put this technology that we should definitely not stifle its development.
Legislation like this proposal has one primary result, it forces people to go underground and make much better programs.
The day this passes, which it won't, we will have to 'pull the plug' on the internet in the US. By providing the means to move the data, it is conducive to such conduct as moving and sharing data.
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I commend this fellow. His abilities and his persistence are inspirational. Whether or not he has patented or something has been done before, he deserves praise for his inventiveness and willingness to work on and share ideas that are new to him.
Maybe I should just patent a process for feeding instructions to a cpu from RAM to obtain an intended result (computer program) and solve the whole problem. Every time anyone anywhere turns on a computer, I'll get royalties. :)
This software patent crap is absolutely idiotic!
I shouldn't be so facetious. It is coming to that. That day will arrive and soon. It is surprising that someone hasn't thought of this and tried it already.
Just goes to show you how out-of-touch with reality the dimwitted corporate puppets we were dimwitted enough to elect really are.
It's time to vote out the lot of them. Every one that is corrupt, criminal, on the corporate take, etc. should be ousted. There are a few that actually want to do some good and they should be supported by getting rid of the deadwood that is stifling progress.
Keep voting out the lot until the message gets through that the public runs the government not the other way around.
The mass copying of music should be an indicator to the purveyors of copyrights, restrictive marketing, etc. that something is wrong with the current situation and should be fixed. At least, it should let our 'elected' people in congress know that the public doesn't agree with the laws as they currently are written.
If you produce a quality product at a reasonable price, people will buy it instead of going through the hassle of trying to make a decent copy.
When you buy a CD, you are paying for the music and hopefully at some point, the artist(musicians) see some of the money resulting from their work. We are not paying for the music to be obliterated, in some cases almost beyond recognition, with idiotic quality destroying copy protection schemes. The quality of the music has already been degraded enough by being digitized.
We aren't paying for, in the case of DVD's, long commercials (trailers of additional movies(put them in a trailers menu item don't force us to see them)), forced propoganda from the regime (FBI warnings), trailers of the current movie before seeing the movie.
We are paying for the actual disk (media) on which it is shipped. That is our property. We are also paying for fair use of the content of the media that we own.
Making copies of copyrighted materials for others is wrong.
Use of P2P for violating copyrights is wrong but there are so many other good uses to which we can put this technology that we should definitely not stifle its development.
Legislation like this proposal has one primary result, it forces people to go underground and make much better programs.
The day this passes, which it won't, we will have to 'pull the plug' on the internet in the US. By providing the means to move the data, it is conducive to such conduct as moving and sharing data.