Let's say you have a house. You keep valuable things in it, but you don't have a front door. Anyone can just walk in.
In particular, you've regularly noticed shifty-looking people entering your house carrying a large black bag in order to steal your stuff.
Now from this, you might draw the conclusion that it is time to get a door and lock it.
Or you could set up a sophisticated system of cameras and image analyzing software that will scan everyone walking down your street and sound a loud alarm if one of them is carrying a large black bag.
For bonus points, overspecialize the system so that it only reacts to black bags, but not green ones.
Seriously, is everyone retarded? Yes, the first amendment dictates that the US government shall not infringe on its people's right to free speech and assembly, and yes, parody is (with certain conditions) exempt from copyright as Fair Use.
These two facts have nothing to do with each other.
- It's often more expensive than a hard copy - Its purchase does not affect the cost of getting a hard copy later (nor vice versa!) - It is intangible and can (and will) be remote-deleted for the flimsiest of excuses.
Why are we supposed to buy this again instead of getting something made of paper?
The BILD tabloid wouldn't dream of putting up a headline saying "Intellectual Property companies would like to spy on every citizen's internet access." Guess what they did report on in giant letters.:P
It appears that here in Germany, we don't care much whether our ISP is obliged to keep all our internet traffic on file for months, our web access can be arbitrarily and secretly limited, our radio organizations can demand listener fees from everyone with an internet connection and shit like ACTA can get dictated on us from the copyright mafia...... but DON'T YOU DARE put a photo of my HOUSE on the INTERNET.
Thanks for the tea party, America; at least that way there are a few things left we can feel smugly superior about.
The free software and culture movement wasted years coming up with ingenuous copyleft licenses like GNU, CreativeCommons, MIT, etc. and all along the web was public domain anyway? Well how about that?
Roughly until their business model of "sell an order of magnitude more bandwidth than we have, and bet on 99% of people never using it" runs up against "holy fuck, everyone is now using their advertised bandwidth." At that point, they will probably find some excuse to terminate the contract of people using much bandwidth.
There was no rush on owls reported anywhere in Europe or the US that I recall. Is Harry Potter more popular in India, or do Potter fans in India just get much more into it?
Safekeeping data and safekeeping material goods ARE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THINGS.
A physical object must be kept in a secure vault with physical access protection, because there is only one of it. Information can be kept orders of magnitude more safely simply by storing redundant copies of it. Even if you are after keeping the information secret rather than protecting its integrity, encryption is more effective than steel doors.
Or maybe you're after ensuring that the computers remain connected to the internet? But if the location is subject to a fraction of the force a bunker is needed to protect against, any cable connections to the outside are likely to be destroyed.
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Let's say you have a house. You keep valuable things in it, but you don't have a front door. Anyone can just walk in.
In particular, you've regularly noticed shifty-looking people entering your house carrying a large black bag in order to steal your stuff.
Now from this, you might draw the conclusion that it is time to get a door and lock it.
Or you could set up a sophisticated system of cameras and image analyzing software that will scan everyone walking down your street and sound a loud alarm if one of them is carrying a large black bag.
For bonus points, overspecialize the system so that it only reacts to black bags, but not green ones.
Just start a donation drive to dispose of him in space. I'm in! :P
Seriously, is everyone retarded? Yes, the first amendment dictates that the US government shall not infringe on its people's right to free speech and assembly, and yes, parody is (with certain conditions) exempt from copyright as Fair Use.
These two facts have nothing to do with each other.
So STFU about amendments already.
There are far too few idiotic patents submitted nowadays. These elitist barriers of entry have to stop!
So what you're saying is that those pirates are totally fucked.
- It's often more expensive than a hard copy
- Its purchase does not affect the cost of getting a hard copy later (nor vice versa!)
- It is intangible and can (and will) be remote-deleted for the flimsiest of excuses.
Why are we supposed to buy this again instead of getting something made of paper?
It's about priorities though.
The BILD tabloid wouldn't dream of putting up a headline saying "Intellectual Property companies would like to spy on every citizen's internet access." Guess what they did report on in giant letters. :P
It appears that here in Germany, we don't care much whether our ISP is obliged to keep all our internet traffic on file for months, our web access can be arbitrarily and secretly limited, our radio organizations can demand listener fees from everyone with an internet connection and shit like ACTA can get dictated on us from the copyright mafia... ... but DON'T YOU DARE put a photo of my HOUSE on the INTERNET.
Thanks for the tea party, America; at least that way there are a few things left we can feel smugly superior about.
That is always my first thought on reading about a parallel universe. :P
Does "all" include such quaint little places as "outside the US"?
Actually, I always thought that referred to their translation service. Using that in diplomatic channels might have disastrous effects.
I've used Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04 and now 10.10. Go ahead with this and I'll be installing SuSE.
Just curious to see the "religious freedom" point in there.
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The free software and culture movement wasted years coming up with ingenuous copyleft licenses like GNU, CreativeCommons, MIT, etc. and all along the web was public domain anyway? Well how about that?
Roughly until their business model of "sell an order of magnitude more bandwidth than we have, and bet on 99% of people never using it" runs up against "holy fuck, everyone is now using their advertised bandwidth." At that point, they will probably find some excuse to terminate the contract of people using much bandwidth.
Hey, at least this way they won't sue you for reading page two.
Come on, who wouldn't have thought of that?
"No deal," maybe. :P
With the Chinese government's view of technology?
Mary was a snake! It's obvious!
There was no rush on owls reported anywhere in Europe or the US that I recall. Is Harry Potter more popular in India, or do Potter fans in India just get much more into it?
Safekeeping data and safekeeping material goods ARE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THINGS.
A physical object must be kept in a secure vault with physical access protection, because there is only one of it. Information can be kept orders of magnitude more safely simply by storing redundant copies of it. Even if you are after keeping the information secret rather than protecting its integrity, encryption is more effective than steel doors.
Or maybe you're after ensuring that the computers remain connected to the internet? But if the location is subject to a fraction of the force a bunker is needed to protect against, any cable connections to the outside are likely to be destroyed.
How about we sell phones that the customer actually OWNS and CONTROLS?
Crazy thought, huh?
+1 Agreed.
Chrome doesn't support freaking cut-and-paste within Slashdot comments. Seriously WTF?