There's a difference between the Mininova defense and the TPB defense:
Mininova: "These are copyrighted, yes, but we do our best to remove content when flagged and we've even installed a filter to remove it automatically. It's not our fault if people still try and get around that."
TPB: "These are copyrighted, yes, but we don't fucking care. Ahahaha, losers."
You do know that only one of the companies you have listed actually restricts people to their marketplace, and that it's trivially easy to find applications for the other two somewhere else?
I see no reason why you should keep getting a check for something you did 15 years ago
Mainly because that assumes that whatever I created spontaneously jumped out of my mind one day 15 years prior.
The large majority of things that this covers would take time to make that people aren't being paid for, e.g. books/music. If it takes you a large amount of unpaid time to write something, why shouldn't you get paid for that time after you wrote it?
As far as I'm concerned, it balances itself out, and I feel 15 years isn't so long it's ridiculous, but not so short it ceases before your work's popularity dies out. Maybe a shorter term would be better, but I'll freely admit that I'm not an expert.
Copyright shouldn't allow someone to collect forever for working once.
You're absolutely right. I can't think of a single compromise we could make between "expires on death" and "never expires at all".~
(My theory has always been this: 15 years. You either have 15 years or death of the author, whichever comes later. Allows people to collect off their work until they shuffle off this mortal coil, but ensures if they do die very early that the family still sees something from it. I would find that acceptable, though most of the people here probably wouldn't)
Me too - but, you can grab an adult and physically chuck them out if you need to. If you did that to a minor, the police would have you in a cell before you could shout "BUT HIS RINGTONE IS BRITNEY SPEARS!"
(NB. That's what good proof-reading does for you - I originally wrote 'psychically' rather than 'physically'...)
I think you just accidentally made one of the better arguments I've heard for not allowing every moron with a hundred quid and a letter certifying them as 'sane' to have a gun.
I was going to argue this, but I really can't. I'd never get an iPhone because of the App Store restrictions, but what it does support it supports very well indeed.
He used the term "deniers" to make the inference. Then he got called on it.
denier [di-nahy-er] -noun
a person who denies.
In Canada, where I live, you'd be put in jail for this.
Quick! Make sure everyone who has a dictionary is put in jail! I wonder if you ever considered that it was only you that made the inference? Following on from that, maybe you could conclude that instead of uncovering some over-arching anti-semitic conspiracy on Slashdot, all you've done is reveal that you're just an over-sensitive ego-centric tool?
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A fair point well made :)
Why not Harley Quinn?
I've been to <redacted>. Used to be a great town, but now...
There's a difference between the Mininova defense and the TPB defense:
Mininova: "These are copyrighted, yes, but we do our best to remove content when flagged and we've even installed a filter to remove it automatically. It's not our fault if people still try and get around that."
TPB: "These are copyrighted, yes, but we don't fucking care. Ahahaha, losers."
I'm sure you can pick up the subtleties...
You do know that only one of the companies you have listed actually restricts people to their marketplace, and that it's trivially easy to find applications for the other two somewhere else?
Not censorship, I agree, but instructing a device I own not to display content that doesn't offend me is far from ideal.
it works in Safari, Chrome and Opera.
As an Opera user, I have to ask you to qualify your definition of 'works'.
I see no reason why you should keep getting a check for something you did 15 years ago
Mainly because that assumes that whatever I created spontaneously jumped out of my mind one day 15 years prior.
The large majority of things that this covers would take time to make that people aren't being paid for, e.g. books/music. If it takes you a large amount of unpaid time to write something, why shouldn't you get paid for that time after you wrote it?
As far as I'm concerned, it balances itself out, and I feel 15 years isn't so long it's ridiculous, but not so short it ceases before your work's popularity dies out. Maybe a shorter term would be better, but I'll freely admit that I'm not an expert.
Copyright shouldn't allow someone to collect forever for working once.
You're absolutely right. I can't think of a single compromise we could make between "expires on death" and "never expires at all".~
(My theory has always been this: 15 years. You either have 15 years or death of the author, whichever comes later. Allows people to collect off their work until they shuffle off this mortal coil, but ensures if they do die very early that the family still sees something from it. I would find that acceptable, though most of the people here probably wouldn't)
I have previews on and I can tell you the address has 'ytmnd' in it.
I can't tell you what's past that, because my mouse hand has an aversion to those 5 letters in that particular order.
Wow, that straw man must have put up a real big fight. Who said it was a vulnerability?
Thanks! All I need is a Universal Lobotomiser and some herring.
You know, for the dolphins.
Sucks that it apparently harms marine life but what can you do?
Stop human beings from killing each other over nothing, obviating the need for submarines and therefore sonar?
I like to start small and work up.
Me too - but, you can grab an adult and physically chuck them out if you need to. If you did that to a minor, the police would have you in a cell before you could shout "BUT HIS RINGTONE IS BRITNEY SPEARS!"
(NB. That's what good proof-reading does for you - I originally wrote 'psychically' rather than 'physically'...)
I think you just accidentally made one of the better arguments I've heard for not allowing every moron with a hundred quid and a letter certifying them as 'sane' to have a gun.
They fucked up Deadpool
If he doesn't break the 4th wall at least once, I'm blowing up the cinema in his honour.
They're actually fixing this in a cinema near me - they have a screen that only over-18s can go in, regardless of the film.
You'd be surprised how many morons are filtered out when you do that.
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
I'm sorry, I'm OCD enough that I can't leave a quoting opportunity alone, even if it is better left unsaid ;)
Wilts is short for Wiltshire, which is in the UK. Let me Google that for you, just to confirm.
It's fine to list a state or county in lieu of listing a country, when it's made clear elsewhere in the summary that this took place in the UK.
He's got a point - I still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
I was going to argue this, but I really can't. I'd never get an iPhone because of the App Store restrictions, but what it does support it supports very well indeed.
Microsoft is the next victim of the recession.
You're living in a fantasy world.
There is a simple word over this type of behavior. Corporation bulling.
That was two words, and one of them was wrong.
Yeah, yeah, go on and mod me troll, I can handle it.
Alright then!
Wait a minute...
Shit.
He used the term "deniers" to make the inference. Then he got called on it.
denier [di-nahy-er]
-noun
a person who denies.
In Canada, where I live, you'd be put in jail for this.
Quick! Make sure everyone who has a dictionary is put in jail! I wonder if you ever considered that it was only you that made the inference? Following on from that, maybe you could conclude that instead of uncovering some over-arching anti-semitic conspiracy on Slashdot, all you've done is reveal that you're just an over-sensitive ego-centric tool?
Why did I read that as "panic and cheese!!!"?