"Oh wait - so if a Govt site "just pulls the image" it's okay, but when Joe Small does it we pull his entire site? Yes,and send Joe S to prison for five years plus fine him 100k."
Exactly my point, you noticed what I was going after sir. Wasn't that delivered so smoothly we almost missed it?
Tangent Topic: Why were sex scandals enough to usually wreck a politician's career but they're small news in private life, yet copyright is what will wreck private life but they're small news for politicians? (Gotta luv parallel clause sentences! More wisdom in a pair of those than any other kind!)
I'll even give you the "best case" scenario, to agree with your point still more.
Let's say you don't even get any legal fees, you just get the ritual of checking your mail every Saturday morning (darn post offices not open past working-man's hours!) for This Week's DMCA letters.
You spend three hours every day fiddling with your code taking down and replacing the broken picture links because a big company is doing a slow seige by paying assistant paralegal Mr. X to send them to you every week. So then the company smiles innocently to the cameras and says they're "being reasonable" but the little site owner slowly becomes exhausted and gives up, and loses his visitors when he runs out of energy to keep updating anymore.
Part of my original comment that no one seems to have caught on to was that *lawmakers* need to be held to a higher standard. If *copyright infringement* is $150,000 per event per the **AA, then a *lawmaker* needs to be stuck with that level fine.
But then, yes, laws are only made for the little guys to follow.
Wait, in 2012 is it finally safe to say that CSS is confusing and not the L33T new thing of 2003? I certainly would never be a developer, but I amuse myself with a cute little homepage with my favorite link and draft maybe-blog fragments. I mostly understand tables.
But then various people told me years ago that "CSS is the future!" I took one look at it and it looked like cuneform to me.
I've idly wondered "what random new service could beat out the App store and/or Facebook?" And thinking that the possible answer could be "The Telcos" just really makes me start thinking of whether I want to be in a pit of snakes or a pit of scorpions.
Is it just me, or is the crusade to monitor everything accelerating? Now I know why the world ends in Dec 2012! All of these Big Brother movements will collide into a giant explosion!
You know - what if every page anyone has ever looked at leaked and became public domain?
"Hmm, I sense the possibility of a science fiction story here. Some alternate future where "even footing" is not accomplished by removing impediments from those who are limited, but by adding impediments to those who are unfairly gifted."
Great Minds and all that! Kurt Vonnegut already covered that! It's a story called Harrison Bergeron. There's a couple of modern indie remakes on the web too.
There's a whole angle you guys haven't covered yet.
There's tons of companies with aging products, but there isn't a next-generation replacement for them yet. So then really funny things happen in reverse. The sales side knows their product has horrible flaws and tries to weave smoke and mirrors to sell it anyway. Then they yell at the software team "why isn't that bug from last year fixed already?"
I'm not even talking about cool features of the week. A certain enterprise accounting package I use at work had a bug so bad that if you chose the wrong report menu option it crashed the entire program including the paid license allocator. It didn't get fixed for six months because the vendor only issued two update releases a year.
Less party-story side, that same package has a creaking 20 year old code base that they are desperately trying to overhaul while they (vendor) tries to put silk togas over the front of the pig hoping that it might still be Some Pig. The Vista switch nearly drilled them.
And policy administrators wonder why "nothing ever lasts anymore".
So in the fifth edition did they get around to making a "Firefox" or did someone not get around to the license rights? And what are the stats on a "Mozilla" and a "Bugzilla"?
I have heard that too, and I'll mention Joseph Chilton Pearce remarked on that. He says that in the early 30's many people get one more good boost in comprehension.
What's the License? (I looked but I couldn't see the terms.)
Do the individuals get to be lucky enough to retain copyright and "license" them to the government? Want to bet that a whole ton of them will get batch-sold to companies for other uses without your permission?
Could this be the chance to show them how dangerous copyright is? Ooh! I figured it out! It's the perfect Anti-SOPA weapon! "Hi Megacorp. You posted a copyrighted picture. Awww, too bad, your website comes down now." -- In theory anyway.
But then, that requires laws to actually be applied to anyone/entity with money to burn above the law.
Last I understood, Win XP acquired a fair amount of back end drivers that became the industry norm. Sure, take two hours to turn off most of the junk - no biggie. A lot of companies (citation needed, who cares) announced they wouldn't support lower than XP, so even though you're 3/4 right, XP ended up being the OS of the decade.
Awww. Microsoft doesn't like a "Mature Product". Too bad for them!
Vista sukked. The world knows it. Windows 7 is "the New Vista" - as far as I can tell, mostly usable.
The problem is, Windows 8 is a giant unknown, with this Metro business.
So we need XP to hang on STILL LONGER until we get perspective on Windows 9, to see what the fallout of 8 will be - whether Metro is another cheap fad, or the Way Things Will Be (aka something to disable with a hack).
It's no accident I built a high grade comp with a few extra bucks and called it "Twilight of XP", riding out XP until all this crap settles down... and 2014 is about when I gander we'll know.
Gutenberg is the right idea, but it has a fatal flaw - the need to abide by the ridiculous copyright laws.
It basically has nothing written after 1920, which is when the Copyright gang has grudgingly admitted that prior works are public domain.
The problem is, there are some 100,000 important books (and millions of "fun" ones) that were written in the 20th century, but they're all locked down by Copyright.
My answer was just to buy stuff for a buck a book at sales, along with some specialized stuff at retail. It was a medium expense.
What about a new penalty for (wait for it...) "False Flagging"?
That would then completely muddy the search engines to cover people running "False Flag" operations, preventing you from finding the reports of Whistleblowers.
Also, couldn't someone write a script/app that flags sites?
Well, I "could have predicted" this, it is indeed savvy to fix a few holes in the economy with a few tourist (Your Currency Here.)
I am a quiet fan of New Age. These books were coming out in 2006. So here we are. Trouble is, it "jut might be" the end if all the bad trends explode!
Far as I can tell, there's no subsequent compelling meme AFTER this when (not if!) we all survive with the same dullness as Y2K. Sux o be a new age writer then!!
You know what, you're right. This ended "way too fast". Look at SCO - someone(s) funded that zombie forever. Here they're doing the opposite strategy. "Ha Ha, if we win, be strike gold, if we lose, oops, we had no assets."
I'd like this to be bought by someone with a BIG pocket and use it to go after when the media companies themselves decide wholesale infringement is just dandy.
Really, they crumbled for just 60K+ ? Really? Tell me which species of fish that is smelling here. Red Herring?
Slashdot Mirror
"Oh wait - so if a Govt site "just pulls the image" it's okay, but when Joe Small does it we pull his entire site? Yes,and send Joe S to prison for five years plus fine him 100k."
Exactly my point, you noticed what I was going after sir. Wasn't that delivered so smoothly we almost missed it?
Tangent Topic: Why were sex scandals enough to usually wreck a politician's career but they're small news in private life, yet copyright is what will wreck private life but they're small news for politicians? (Gotta luv parallel clause sentences! More wisdom in a pair of those than any other kind!)
I'll even give you the "best case" scenario, to agree with your point still more.
Let's say you don't even get any legal fees, you just get the ritual of checking your mail every Saturday morning (darn post offices not open past working-man's hours!) for This Week's DMCA letters.
You spend three hours every day fiddling with your code taking down and replacing the broken picture links because a big company is doing a slow seige by paying assistant paralegal Mr. X to send them to you every week. So then the company smiles innocently to the cameras and says they're "being reasonable" but the little site owner slowly becomes exhausted and gives up, and loses his visitors when he runs out of energy to keep updating anymore.
Part of my original comment that no one seems to have caught on to was that *lawmakers* need to be held to a higher standard. If *copyright infringement* is $150,000 per event per the **AA, then a *lawmaker* needs to be stuck with that level fine.
But then, yes, laws are only made for the little guys to follow.
Well, they're doddering old fools who barely understand email but they have a finely honed sense of Big Brother and all the fun that flows from there.
Wait, who cares that it's gone! He used the offending image, right?
Pull his site!
Oh wait - so if a Govt site "just pulls the image" it's okay, but when Joe Small does it we pull his entire site?
How did you let him past that double standard?!
Can we get some Matrix Analogies?
Wait, in 2012 is it finally safe to say that CSS is confusing and not the L33T new thing of 2003? I certainly would never be a developer, but I amuse myself with a cute little homepage with my favorite link and draft maybe-blog fragments. I mostly understand tables.
But then various people told me years ago that "CSS is the future!" I took one look at it and it looked like cuneform to me.
Too long - the **AA already sued Ireland for not passing blocking laws!
I've idly wondered "what random new service could beat out the App store and/or Facebook?" And thinking that the possible answer could be "The Telcos" just really makes me start thinking of whether I want to be in a pit of snakes or a pit of scorpions.
Am I the only one thinking that they don't want money, they want precedent?
Really, can a corporation really sue a government for not passing a law and win??!
That's not even wink&nod bribery, that's outright treason!
Is it just me, or is the crusade to monitor everything accelerating? Now I know why the world ends in Dec 2012! All of these Big Brother movements will collide into a giant explosion!
You know - what if every page anyone has ever looked at leaked and became public domain?
"Hmm, I sense the possibility of a science fiction story here. Some alternate future where "even footing" is not accomplished by removing impediments from those who are limited, but by adding impediments to those who are unfairly gifted."
Great Minds and all that! Kurt Vonnegut already covered that! It's a story called Harrison Bergeron. There's a couple of modern indie remakes on the web too.
There's a whole angle you guys haven't covered yet.
There's tons of companies with aging products, but there isn't a next-generation replacement for them yet. So then really funny things happen in reverse. The sales side knows their product has horrible flaws and tries to weave smoke and mirrors to sell it anyway. Then they yell at the software team "why isn't that bug from last year fixed already?"
I'm not even talking about cool features of the week. A certain enterprise accounting package I use at work had a bug so bad that if you chose the wrong report menu option it crashed the entire program including the paid license allocator. It didn't get fixed for six months because the vendor only issued two update releases a year.
Less party-story side, that same package has a creaking 20 year old code base that they are desperately trying to overhaul while they (vendor) tries to put silk togas over the front of the pig hoping that it might still be Some Pig. The Vista switch nearly drilled them.
And policy administrators wonder why "nothing ever lasts anymore".
So in the fifth edition did they get around to making a "Firefox" or did someone not get around to the license rights? And what are the stats on a "Mozilla" and a "Bugzilla"?
I have heard that too, and I'll mention Joseph Chilton Pearce remarked on that. He says that in the early 30's many people get one more good boost in comprehension.
What's the License? (I looked but I couldn't see the terms.)
Do the individuals get to be lucky enough to retain copyright and "license" them to the government? Want to bet that a whole ton of them will get batch-sold to companies for other uses without your permission?
Could this be the chance to show them how dangerous copyright is? Ooh! I figured it out! It's the perfect Anti-SOPA weapon! "Hi Megacorp. You posted a copyrighted picture. Awww, too bad, your website comes down now." -- In theory anyway.
But then, that requires laws to actually be applied to anyone/entity with money to burn above the law.
Obligatory Family Guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDguY0jtzBQ
Last I understood, Win XP acquired a fair amount of back end drivers that became the industry norm. Sure, take two hours to turn off most of the junk - no biggie. A lot of companies (citation needed, who cares) announced they wouldn't support lower than XP, so even though you're 3/4 right, XP ended up being the OS of the decade.
Awww. Microsoft doesn't like a "Mature Product". Too bad for them!
Vista sukked. The world knows it. Windows 7 is "the New Vista" - as far as I can tell, mostly usable.
The problem is, Windows 8 is a giant unknown, with this Metro business.
So we need XP to hang on STILL LONGER until we get perspective on Windows 9, to see what the fallout of 8 will be - whether Metro is another cheap fad, or the Way Things Will Be (aka something to disable with a hack).
It's no accident I built a high grade comp with a few extra bucks and called it "Twilight of XP", riding out XP until all this crap settles down... and 2014 is about when I gander we'll know.
Gutenberg is the right idea, but it has a fatal flaw - the need to abide by the ridiculous copyright laws.
It basically has nothing written after 1920, which is when the Copyright gang has grudgingly admitted that prior works are public domain.
The problem is, there are some 100,000 important books (and millions of "fun" ones) that were written in the 20th century, but they're all locked down by Copyright.
My answer was just to buy stuff for a buck a book at sales, along with some specialized stuff at retail. It was a medium expense.
Shit, the Mayans were right!
We laughed at Y2K, because we were yet innocent enough before Innocence Ended on 9-11-2001, and the secondary Copyright Wars.
And we still have a year to go!
So now I know what our world ending risk is, it's SOPA-Clones passed, rampant Big Brother, and your choice of five more things.
Yikes!
What about a new penalty for (wait for it...) "False Flagging"?
That would then completely muddy the search engines to cover people running "False Flag" operations, preventing you from finding the reports of Whistleblowers.
Also, couldn't someone write a script/app that flags sites?
Well, I "could have predicted" this, it is indeed savvy to fix a few holes in the economy with a few tourist (Your Currency Here.)
I am a quiet fan of New Age. These books were coming out in 2006. So here we are.
Trouble is, it "jut might be" the end if all the bad trends explode!
Far as I can tell, there's no subsequent compelling meme AFTER this when (not if!) we all survive with the same dullness as Y2K. Sux o be a new age writer then!!
Hi c0lo
Can we get a playing of Coolio's Gangster's Paradise here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFK6H_CcuX8
You know what, you're right. This ended "way too fast". Look at SCO - someone(s) funded that zombie forever. Here they're doing the opposite strategy. "Ha Ha, if we win, be strike gold, if we lose, oops, we had no assets."
I'd like this to be bought by someone with a BIG pocket and use it to go after when the media companies themselves decide wholesale infringement is just dandy.
Really, they crumbled for just 60K+ ? Really? Tell me which species of fish that is smelling here. Red Herring?
Memo to AC:
English isn't *yours* either, it's now *everybody's*, except when they misspell two words in one sentence in an article about misspellings.