GPL 3 is nothing more than anti corporate licensing, and has significantly diminished us all.
Tell that to frustrated Tivo users. Don't like GPL3 software? Use software with a BSD license. But getting the code and locking it in so that users can't modify THEIR software inside your box, isn't what we could consider "freedom".
You're still thinking commercially. ALL software should be free. The only reason why companies use "secret" software is so that they can implement their proprietary extensions and charge for them.
As a Christian, I find it humorous to see the tone people (athiests, I presume?) use when talking about this. It seems very similar to a "rapture" mentality, coming from people who claim to be 100% rational. It's like:
Innovation speeds up
AI sentience, nanotechnology, etc
Singularity
??????
We become GODS!!!!
Meanwhile, 3rd world countries become dominated by the technology-driven, post-singularity borgs, and end up hiding in caves and losing all their knowledge. That is, until a solar storm of apocalyptic proportions causes enough damage to the systems to drive them unusable. All artificial life is lost, and the few survivors go back to the dark ages.
And that's no wonder. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were cut with the same scissors. Back in the 80's, while Billy kept stealing whatever idea he stumbled upon, Steve Jobs only thought of becoming more powerful and promote a competitive environment inside Apple, even if that destroyed the moral of his employees.
Please do yourselves a favor and watch Pirates of Silicon Valley. It's an enlightening movie. And yes, Steve did even worse things, but they're too shocking to be mentioned in public.
don't think they would give this up - even with a string of defeats, they will eventually find a friendly judge or get enough laws passed in their favor to protect their antiquated business model.
Perhaps, but the judge's decision is an interesting one. Instead of punishing the **AA themselves, he suggested punishing their lawyers. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
You can direct your appreciation towards me. Yes, me, Anonymous Coward. I sent the 5 million dollars. Do you happen to have a spare million for me? Thanks. Sincerely, Dr. Evil.
Let's say Youtube is a huge storage house where you put many boxes. The problem is, you don't know what the boxes contain until you actually open them. Labelling each box (i.e. for a screenshot) isn't any guarantee - remember the rick rolls disguised as "cool stuff"? The videos were carefully crafted as to show a non-rickroll screenshot.
Searching by tags and title is no guarantee, since some videos are blatantly fake (i.e. latest anime series X episode Y that actually have a previous episode - the comments in these ones are hilarious to read) or can contain fair use material. Perhaps they're parodies which redub the entire episode, so even developing a "video fingerprint" for these wouldn't be accurate.
So how is youtube going to implement a filter for copyrighted stuff? The answer is simple: They just can't.
So the only choice to determine whether a video is an illegal copy of a copyrighted work or not, is to watch it.
So - viacom complains that there are tons of copyrighted videos in youtube. Could you please explain how youtube, with its limited human infrastructure, keep in pace with all the copyrighted videos uploaded daily - no, every minute?
So yes, there is something youtube can do to improve the situation - disabling accounts which repeatedly upload illegal videos. But how to handle situations where a company doesn't like a video ABOUT them and post a DMCA complaint (i.e.e Scientology, creationists)? Will the uploader be banned just by using free speech? Clearly, each case needs to be handled separately, and that takes a lot of time.
In the end, it only comes to two choices: Check each video before it's made available on youtube (yeah right), or keep the current approach of taking down videos on every DMCA complaint.
So this is not about youtube "assisting piracy", it's about viacom not wanting to spend a penny in hiring people to search youtube and file DMCA complaints.
Perhaps in your country they don't do this, but where I live there are lots of stores that assemble your PC with the specs you give, and no OS preinstalled. My PC costed me around 600 dollars.
Can we make Slashdot.org the "Smartest Website in the World?" (It's curretly number 2 behind ScienceBlogs.com.) Are they serious? Congratulations! You passed the spelling test!:)
You're right. Piracy CANNOT be stopped. What they can do, is minimizing the "financial damages" from piracy by offering people incentives to purchase original games.
EULA's on hardware like the game consoles should be illegal. We buy those, they are not returnable later if we discover a feature of it we don't agree with.
This is why I fully support emulation. If you actually don't require the console in question to play a game, why the heck are you spending 400 freakin' dollars to play the games?
Don't fool yourselves. *ANY* game console is already defective by design.
What they are being denied is the _exclusivity_ of the right to copy that copyright is supposed to actually have. So yes, copyright infringement *IS* theft.
I'd rather classify this particular case as unfair trading practice and trade secrets stealing. (You see, until they're released, the albums' content is supposed to be secret).
So partially you're right, regarding zero day warez and similar stuff. But after the albums are released, it's the same monopolistic crap we've had.
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Tell that to frustrated Tivo users. Don't like GPL3 software? Use software with a BSD license. But getting the code and locking it in so that users can't modify THEIR software inside your box, isn't what we could consider "freedom".
You're still thinking commercially. ALL software should be free. The only reason why companies use "secret" software is so that they can implement their proprietary extensions and charge for them.
You know, like the iPhone.
As a Christian, I find it humorous to see the tone people (athiests, I presume?) use when talking about this. It seems very similar to a "rapture" mentality, coming from people who claim to be 100% rational. It's like:
- Innovation speeds up
- AI sentience, nanotechnology, etc
- Singularity
- ??????
- We become GODS!!!!
Meanwhile, 3rd world countries become dominated by the technology-driven, post-singularity borgs, and end up hiding in caves and losing all their knowledge. That is, until a solar storm of apocalyptic proportions causes enough damage to the systems to drive them unusable. All artificial life is lost, and the few survivors go back to the dark ages.Believe what you want, but I sincerely doubt anything like that will happen when corporate interests keep stiffling innovation.
We're still stuck with primitive programming languages, defective (by design?) platforms, unimplementable document formats (OOXML anyone?), carbon-based power plants, software patents....
There CANNOT be any singularity. The chilling effect of Mankind's stupidity is a factor too great to ignore.
And meanwhile, Custom Emoticons support is still stalled :(
By geeks you mean guys like Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer or even Steve Jobs? :(
And that's no wonder. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were cut with the same scissors. Back in the 80's, while Billy kept stealing whatever idea he stumbled upon, Steve Jobs only thought of becoming more powerful and promote a competitive environment inside Apple, even if that destroyed the moral of his employees.
Please do yourselves a favor and watch Pirates of Silicon Valley. It's an enlightening movie. And yes, Steve did even worse things, but they're too shocking to be mentioned in public.
Wanna know why? Because they called Comcast and could get in touch with a HUMAN!
Now *THAT'S* hacking.
Perhaps, but the judge's decision is an interesting one. Instead of punishing the **AA themselves, he suggested punishing their lawyers. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Sincerely,
Dr. Evil.
Let's say Youtube is a huge storage house where you put many boxes. The problem is, you don't know what the boxes contain until you actually open them. Labelling each box (i.e. for a screenshot) isn't any guarantee - remember the rick rolls disguised as "cool stuff"? The videos were carefully crafted as to show a non-rickroll screenshot.
Searching by tags and title is no guarantee, since some videos are blatantly fake (i.e. latest anime series X episode Y that actually have a previous episode - the comments in these ones are hilarious to read) or can contain fair use material. Perhaps they're parodies which redub the entire episode, so even developing a "video fingerprint" for these wouldn't be accurate.
So how is youtube going to implement a filter for copyrighted stuff? The answer is simple: They just can't.
So the only choice to determine whether a video is an illegal copy of a copyrighted work or not, is to watch it.
So - viacom complains that there are tons of copyrighted videos in youtube. Could you please explain how youtube, with its limited human infrastructure, keep in pace with all the copyrighted videos uploaded daily - no, every minute?
So yes, there is something youtube can do to improve the situation - disabling accounts which repeatedly upload illegal videos. But how to handle situations where a company doesn't like a video ABOUT them and post a DMCA complaint (i.e.e Scientology, creationists)? Will the uploader be banned just by using free speech? Clearly, each case needs to be handled separately, and that takes a lot of time.
In the end, it only comes to two choices: Check each video before it's made available on youtube (yeah right), or keep the current approach of taking down videos on every DMCA complaint.
So this is not about youtube "assisting piracy", it's about viacom not wanting to spend a penny in hiring people to search youtube and file DMCA complaints.
we claim a patent on web browsers and hold the world hostage for... ONE MILLIONS DOLLARS!
Perhaps in your country they don't do this, but where I live there are lots of stores that assemble your PC with the specs you give, and no OS preinstalled. My PC costed me around 600 dollars.
I wonder how idle.slashdot.org fares....
You're right. Piracy CANNOT be stopped. What they can do, is minimizing the "financial damages" from piracy by offering people incentives to purchase original games.
Like: SELLING THEM CHEAP YOU GREEDY BASTARDS!
So a more accurate phrase would be "If you can play it, you can clone it".
This is why I fully support emulation. If you actually don't require the console in question to play a game, why the heck are you spending 400 freakin' dollars to play the games?
Don't fool yourselves. *ANY* game console is already defective by design.
I think this is becoming our own personal slashdot meme :) Kudos to you.
Introducing... clichefit!
I'd rather classify this particular case as unfair trading practice and trade secrets stealing. (You see, until they're released, the albums' content is supposed to be secret).
So partially you're right, regarding zero day warez and similar stuff. But after the albums are released, it's the same monopolistic crap we've had.
Most of the time i use WINE to run games and windows-only emulators. For serious work, I use linux or cross-platform apps.
Um, if you can make Helium-4 atoms without fusion, I'd love to hear about it.
There. Much better.