The only problem with this approach is that copyright is not a god-given right, but a 18th century founded trade agreement.
The society, with the help of the executive arm - the "Government" - grants temporary rights to help innovation so thus society in general.
That was the theory in the 18th century and it worked sort-of, but in today's world that theory breaks down because of new technologies and that because the content creators don't keep their end of the bargain. They don't contribute back to society as they should.
You can't have your cake and eat it too, its a simple choice:
You either adhere to the _spirit_ of the copyright and use the temporary timeframe given to you while you have "copyright" over something which after the required amount of time becomes public domain OR you are outside the scope of copyright and you receive NO LEGAL PROTECTION if someone else wants to do whatever he wants with the thing you "created".
Don't confuse NEVER, with "it takes a long long time".
Practically, you are right on a per person basis, that you will probably never get to see music produced today in the public domain in your lifetime, but the copyright law stands on the premise that eventually things will get back to the public where it rightfully belongs.
Of course media moguls had been lobbying for the extension for that "long long time" into "longer and longer time" over the course of the last century and they managed to bastardize the law using this loophole.
What libraries are talking about now is NEVER, not "long long time". As in, really, never. That is against the core fundation of the whole system of copyright. Why should the law grant priviledges to the authors if they will never contribute back to society?
I suspect the moderator modded up your comment only because the demonstration of such ignorance for the facts is interesting.
Pray tell me, if we won't emit CO2, how will most of the world do anything at an industrial level? Replicators out of star trek won't just appear next year, you know!
Do you know how much is that couple of degrees temperature and a few feet of water raise is?
It is fucking much. It pretty much changes the climate of the whole planet! In both directions.
I hope you'll enjoy scuba diving in summer above Central Park in NY, in 15C water.
Adaption is cheap if a few billion of people are expandable.
USA govt.: "Oh my god, our economy will SUFFER if we sign Kyoto, those liberal hippies will make us all staaarrveeee!!!!!1111"
Facts: "As of December 2005, 157 countries have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, aimed at combatting global warming."
Newsflash for the USA's govt.: There won't be any FUCKING ECONOMY to suffer if you keep putting your heads in the sand much longer. 157 other countries signed and ratified the treaty, their economy doesn't seem to be collapsing, does it?
I'd let your own stupidity kill yourselves, but unfortunately global warming is _global_, the CO2 YOUR COUNTRY is dumping into the atmosphere doesn't stop at the borders. It is messing with MY part of the planet aswell!
Global warming is called global for a reason. That is, the average temperature of the planet increases. The interesting and scary thing is the increase of average temperature translates into more rapid and extreme _changes_ in weather - including positive and negative changes in local temperature aswell.
The planet is a complex thing. For example global warming could change the direction of the Golf-stream and that could lead to the cooling of Europe - meanwhile having a global average warming.
Humans are utterly complex combinations of genetic material and surrounding circumstances which affects their development and therefore the way people think and look like.
WoW is a fantasy world and they just want to take the issues of contemporarly life out of it.
It's not like a gay couldn't play WoW, as I'm sure thousands of gay people do play, but rather that recruiting people to a gay guild is adding unnecessary tension. It's like naming a guild "republican lovers" and trying to recruit people in to that kind of guild. I'm sure many people would dislike that too and I'm almost certain Blizzard would act similarly.
Well, ok. You're right, in some meaning it is "brave", like maybe from a PR point. Although most people I think don't generally associate risking bad PR with being brave. Trading money for PR is a trade, a compromise, but there is nothing brave about it.
brave adj brav.er; brav.est
1: having courage: DAUNTLESS
2: making a fine show: COLORFUL <brave banners flying in the wind>
3: EXCELLENT, SPLENDID <the brave fire I soon had going --J. F. Dobie>
...a few months ago and here it is why it's stupid.
This is the animal-vaccine they are talking about. It offers next to nothing protection from a yet non-existant human to human spreading version of avian flu.
Btw, Hungary's one of the leading vaccine developing countries in avian flu research.
There are already a huge demand for the animal-to-human spreading vaccination worldwide because of the huge media hype. This version of the disease only kills people with frequent contact with animals, still people are led to believe that they need protection.
Btw, as researchers said here in Hungary, it would take around two weeks to create a working vaccine for a human/human version of avian flu and to start mass producing it, so I'd wish people would just stop believing the "OMG THE SKY IS FALLING WE'LL GONNA DIE!!!1111" propaganda flowing from the media.
Just my take on the issue.
Although if people want to believe go do them: Hungary's govt. is expecting $10+ billion dollars of income from the vaccine and related research.
There are reasons to justify Google's involvement in China, but nothing would make it a "brave" one.
What they did is to cave in to the Chinese govt.'s pressure and although that has positive aspects, like still being accessible for chinese people, the censorship still exist and that cannot be called as a brave decision.
How do you make sure that your vote was recorded correctly WHILE noone else can know what you voted for? There is only one method for that: the vote takes place at the designated place and no record of the vote gets out from there.
If you can check your vote on the net, even by just looking up a seemingly random number, whats stopping your boss from demanding that you give him the receipt so he can check the number himself? Or worse: Suppose someone wants to buy people's votes: he gives you $5 after every vote for party X, he only requires you to give him the receipt and that you voted for the "correct" party.
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Hand in your geek badge right now. You're not worthy.
They just made the stuff more interesting!!
He was waxing his chest.
The only problem with this approach is that copyright is not a god-given right, but a 18th century founded trade agreement.
The society, with the help of the executive arm - the "Government" - grants temporary rights to help innovation so thus society in general.
That was the theory in the 18th century and it worked sort-of, but in today's world that theory breaks down because of new technologies and that because the content creators don't keep their end of the bargain. They don't contribute back to society as they should.
You can't have your cake and eat it too, its a simple choice:
You either adhere to the _spirit_ of the copyright and use the temporary timeframe given to you while you have "copyright" over something which after the required amount of time becomes public domain OR you are outside the scope of copyright and you receive NO LEGAL PROTECTION if someone else wants to do whatever he wants with the thing you "created".
Don't confuse NEVER, with "it takes a long long time".
Practically, you are right on a per person basis, that you will probably never get to see music produced today in the public domain in your lifetime, but the copyright law stands on the premise that eventually things will get back to the public where it rightfully belongs.
Of course media moguls had been lobbying for the extension for that "long long time" into "longer and longer time" over the course of the last century and they managed to bastardize the law using this loophole.
What libraries are talking about now is NEVER, not "long long time". As in, really, never. That is against the core fundation of the whole system of copyright. Why should the law grant priviledges to the authors if they will never contribute back to society?
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I've got better:
Microsoft came out with a secure OS within the timeframe DNF was developed.
Oh wait.
Thats what I'm doing! I'm refusing to buy their games until they change their policies!
Oh and also the games don't run on my OpenVMS Alpha. Pagans!
and in Hungary. Except that I don't buy blank media, just harddrives. They don't tax them here with that levy.
"But assuming that IPv6 is worth deploying, Microsoft is way ahead in getting computers IPv6-enabled."
You mean that you still need to install a patch for WinXp while Linux, BSD, etc. distributions have ipv6 enabled by default already?
"Does this rag smell like kloroform?"
The klorofil version is the one used for the dead ones.
I suspect the moderator modded up your comment only because the demonstration of such ignorance for the facts is interesting.
Pray tell me, if we won't emit CO2, how will most of the world do anything at an industrial level? Replicators out of star trek won't just appear next year, you know!
Do you know how much is that couple of degrees temperature and a few feet of water raise is?
It is fucking much. It pretty much changes the climate of the whole planet! In both directions.
I hope you'll enjoy scuba diving in summer above Central Park in NY, in 15C water.
Adaption is cheap if a few billion of people are expandable.
USA govt.: "Oh my god, our economy will SUFFER if we sign Kyoto, those liberal hippies will make us all staaarrveeee!!!!!1111"
Facts: "As of December 2005, 157 countries have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, aimed at combatting global warming."
Newsflash for the USA's govt.: There won't be any FUCKING ECONOMY to suffer if you keep putting your heads in the sand much longer. 157 other countries signed and ratified the treaty, their economy doesn't seem to be collapsing, does it?
I'd let your own stupidity kill yourselves, but unfortunately global warming is _global_, the CO2 YOUR COUNTRY is dumping into the atmosphere doesn't stop at the borders. It is messing with MY part of the planet aswell!
Global warming is called global for a reason. That is, the average temperature of the planet increases. The interesting and scary thing is the increase of average temperature translates into more rapid and extreme _changes_ in weather - including positive and negative changes in local temperature aswell.
The planet is a complex thing. For example global warming could change the direction of the Golf-stream and that could lead to the cooling of Europe - meanwhile having a global average warming.
Genetics is a tad more complex than that.
Humans are utterly complex combinations of genetic material and surrounding circumstances which affects their development and therefore the way people think and look like.
Exactly. For example if there would be a giant asteroid heading towards Earth, they'd know who to call.
WoW is a fantasy world and they just want to take the issues of contemporarly life out of it.
It's not like a gay couldn't play WoW, as I'm sure thousands of gay people do play, but rather that recruiting people to a gay guild is adding unnecessary tension. It's like naming a guild "republican lovers" and trying to recruit people in to that kind of guild. I'm sure many people would dislike that too and I'm almost certain Blizzard would act similarly.
Well, ok. You're right, in some meaning it is "brave", like maybe from a PR point. Although most people I think don't generally associate risking bad PR with being brave. Trading money for PR is a trade, a compromise, but there is nothing brave about it.
brave adj brav.er; brav.est
1: having courage: DAUNTLESS
2: making a fine show: COLORFUL <brave banners flying in the wind>
3: EXCELLENT, SPLENDID <the brave fire I soon had going --J. F. Dobie>
...a few months ago and here it is why it's stupid.
This is the animal-vaccine they are talking about. It offers next to nothing protection from a yet non-existant human to human spreading version of avian flu.
Btw, Hungary's one of the leading vaccine developing countries in avian flu research.
There are already a huge demand for the animal-to-human spreading vaccination worldwide because of the huge media hype. This version of the disease only kills people with frequent contact with animals, still people are led to believe that they need protection.
Btw, as researchers said here in Hungary, it would take around two weeks to create a working vaccine for a human/human version of avian flu and to start mass producing it, so I'd wish people would just stop believing the "OMG THE SKY IS FALLING WE'LL GONNA DIE!!!1111" propaganda flowing from the media.
Just my take on the issue.
Although if people want to believe go do them: Hungary's govt. is expecting $10+ billion dollars of income from the vaccine and related research.
There are reasons to justify Google's involvement in China, but nothing would make it a "brave" one.
What they did is to cave in to the Chinese govt.'s pressure and although that has positive aspects, like still being accessible for chinese people, the censorship still exist and that cannot be called as a brave decision.
They don't have to give out code. They can choose not to do business in Europe.
Oh you mean they want to? Then comply with antitrust regulations and laws.
I used my huge army of proxies to manipulate the poll results!
Oh wait, what do you mean it was an offline poll?!
Your post is misleading too, I think you wanted to write non-renewable energy sources. :)
But thats millions in $AU.
/me ducks.
I should know better than to read /. during breakfast.
Excuse me...
Then you didn't understand what I was saying.
How do you make sure that your vote was recorded correctly WHILE noone else can know what you voted for? There is only one method for that: the vote takes place at the designated place and no record of the vote gets out from there.
If you can check your vote on the net, even by just looking up a seemingly random number, whats stopping your boss from demanding that you give him the receipt so he can check the number himself? Or worse: Suppose someone wants to buy people's votes: he gives you $5 after every vote for party X, he only requires you to give him the receipt and that you voted for the "correct" party.
This kind of scenario shouldn't happen.