Yeah I think this a lot. The US has a government, their job is to govern, and yet it's always news when the government governs in a way the people don't like. And here I am just like HELLO, they're a government: it's their job to govern things JEEZ.
I feel like I'm living in a world full of awful people. All this shit is happening and half the people I see claim to have known all along but just conveniently forgot to make the biggest fucking deal about it. Why are so many smug to be living under this?
Actually being an adult means you are free to make the call about whether you can have your own way or not - it's children who must be blindly obedient to their parents.
Maybe there are good reasons to give people control over intellectual property, but I don't get why anyone would think that's obvious or some inherent right or entitlement. Why should making something prevent other people from making the same thing with their own resources? When you introduce an idea into popular culture you are planting a seed on someone else's soil. Then, like Monsanto, you are saying "you aren't allowed to use this plant without my permission, or in ways I don't approve of". It clearly doesn't have the same strength as physical property, and I can't take it as obviously something a creator is entitled to.
no one wants to control people who create things; nobody is trying to force the people who create things to do anything. they just want to remove the control over people who reproduce what other people have created.
The simplicity is appealing, but you're just wrong. Some people will buy if they can't pirate. Some people will buy if pirating is difficult. Some people will buy if buying is easy. There are all kinds of people out there.
Who cares if you knew it all along. Any time there's news everyone and their mother comes out of the woodwork to say they already knew and how can anyone be surprised yada yada yada. Hearing it corroborated in this way has an actual impact, unlike slashdotters telling us they told us so.
The proper channels do not work. There is no "right" way to be a whistleblower. The systems are in place to define any possible effective attempt to whistleblow something this big as "wrong".
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"withdrawing [...] rights from lawbreakers" I don't think that's how rights work?
How's their colony on LV-426 doing?
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yes - a third of the american population don't have a basic science education
don't be so sure about that - there are cases where something in the public domain has been recopyrighted and removed by changes to the law
I take it you've been dealt an above average hand then.
Yeah I think this a lot. The US has a government, their job is to govern, and yet it's always news when the government governs in a way the people don't like. And here I am just like HELLO, they're a government: it's their job to govern things JEEZ.
"surveillance being subject to judicial and legislative oversight" I guess you missed all the leaks which revealed that oversight is utterly useless?
Can we stop saying "females" when we mean "women". We're not Ferengi.
Swedish FRA were part of the conspiracy to weaken encryption implementations along with GCHQ and the NSA :(
what about every single average joe using netflix you're sharing your wireless with?
I feel like I'm living in a world full of awful people. All this shit is happening and half the people I see claim to have known all along but just conveniently forgot to make the biggest fucking deal about it. Why are so many smug to be living under this?
reality check: there already exist more quality pirateable games than any single person could ever play in their lifetime.
Actually being an adult means you are free to make the call about whether you can have your own way or not - it's children who must be blindly obedient to their parents.
Maybe there are good reasons to give people control over intellectual property, but I don't get why anyone would think that's obvious or some inherent right or entitlement. Why should making something prevent other people from making the same thing with their own resources? When you introduce an idea into popular culture you are planting a seed on someone else's soil. Then, like Monsanto, you are saying "you aren't allowed to use this plant without my permission, or in ways I don't approve of". It clearly doesn't have the same strength as physical property, and I can't take it as obviously something a creator is entitled to.
no one wants to control people who create things; nobody is trying to force the people who create things to do anything. they just want to remove the control over people who reproduce what other people have created.
The simplicity is appealing, but you're just wrong. Some people will buy if they can't pirate. Some people will buy if pirating is difficult. Some people will buy if buying is easy. There are all kinds of people out there.
Who cares if you knew it all along. Any time there's news everyone and their mother comes out of the woodwork to say they already knew and how can anyone be surprised yada yada yada. Hearing it corroborated in this way has an actual impact, unlike slashdotters telling us they told us so.
The proper channels do not work. There is no "right" way to be a whistleblower. The systems are in place to define any possible effective attempt to whistleblow something this big as "wrong".
Maybe it's just that it's late, but I have no idea what that summary was trying to say.
You don't get a lot for free in life, but at least you get your ass.
Hope we get these with our porn filters in the UK
dur, why does finances and/or law prescribe an archaic method of multiple copies?
How does that bode for cosmic rays?
Even warm fusion has fun poked at it for being constantly "fifty years away".