If anyone ever needs a reason to wallop copyright, let this quote from the article be that reason;
Most copies of The Blue Book had vanished from the SLAC Library, and the librarians wanted to make it available electronically. But they ran into a snag: No one could figure out who owned the copyright, so there was no one to give permission to put it on the Web.
"It's an orphan work," SLAC archivist Jean Deken told me Friday. The original publisher was bought by another, which was bought by another, and so on. Finally, with the help of an expert from Stanford Law School, librarian Abraham Wheeler tracked down the current owner of the copyright-which said that since it could not find any documentation on the book, it could not grant permission to reproduce it.
I found the abstract perfectly understandable. All you have to do is translate from english to greek and then greek to english. This gives you a very clear discription in laymans terms.
A good guide to just how prominent is to look at the number of comments on/. stories. At the time of writing this one has 553 comments. Almost two hundred more than the next highest story. I would imagine most of those were caused by someone mentioning religion....of course I can't be bothered counting them all. That would be like reading the articles:).
"Or are you you arrogant and ignorant as to believe the only things that have so influenced mankind have only been produced within the last century?"
We will never know, because we never really had the ability to record as much in the past. What we do have pre-twentieth century would amount to probably an hours worth of production in modern times. And the record we do have is usually one-sided (victor wins all) or didn't happen at all (victor wins all).
"Sounds like maybe this judge needs to think a little harder about how the Internet works."
I think the Judge has a fairly good idea about how the internet works. But, this is more about how people work. What he is trying to stop is jurors googling the information. It appears, according to Radio New Zealand this morning, that jurors have been googling peoples names and then seeing what popped up. Imagine the jurors in the Hans Reiser case getting a good dose of Slashdot......very impartial. New Zealand's not that big, if you Google someone here and their name comes up, it's probably the right person.
Why exactly has the parent been modded a troll? He/she has summarized the effect a virus in a local account could have, pointing out that what is really important to us is in the files we have permission to read/write.
All I can think of is how relieved the grandmother was when she found out Megan wasn't pregnant!
That being said, legal action against you isn't a laughing matter when you are young. You don't have the money, you don't know what you are doing, and you don't know where to get help.
A parady on this would be nice. Something along the lines of,"File-sharing is not a victim-less crime..... Look at Megan."
"A kleptocracy (sometimes cleptocracy, occasionally kleptarchy) (root: klepto+kratein = rule by thieves) is a term applied to a government that extends the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats) at the expense of the population. A kleptocratic government often goes beyond mere cronyism and nepotism, or awarding the prime contracts and civil service posts to relatives or personal friends rather than the most competent applicants. They also create projects and programs at a policy level which serve the primary purpose of funneling money out of the treasury and into the pockets of the executive with little if any regard for the logic, viability or necessity of those projects."
The primary difference between the American government and the Nigerian government is the word thieves.
I would like it better if this way of thinking was applied to business and government databases. Business and government have always kept databases, But, the speed with which they can gather information from them has increased massively. That is a real threat to privacy. Currently, it is being ignored by the courts under the impression that speed doesn't matter. As an analogy, imagine being in combat where you were given orders by post, and the enemy could use radio.....
I wasn't aware that serial killers formed colonies?
Then, I wasn't aware that Bumblebees did either (although they are pretty small, and they break up over winter while the queen buries herself, and I am buggered if I would call it a colony, but there it is in bold print on the Sex for vegetables website.).
DRM may not work, but that's just the band aid. The problem the content providers really face is that we all grew up. When we were children, if we found a $20 bill on the sidewalk, we would have handed it in. We believed in doing the right thing. As we grew up, we watched our heroes (eg; the people we looked up to) throw away their ideals in the name of pragmatism. We watched wars, and death, and crime, and no one seemed to be punished for doing "bad" things.
The problem that content providers face is that we don't care anymore. Times have changed. We have watched them rake in money for thirty years, and now they want to give us toys, make us pay for them, and then take them back. That isn't going to work. We don't value them that much, and if we feel a small twinge of guilt at keeping it, then that is oh so easily justified by the way in which we have been treated.
"I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them."
I think we can also safely ascertain that he has cracked Theo's webcam.:)
I think she has beaten you to it.
Third claim for relief: Abuse of legal process
From the document; "8.18 As detailed above and herein, the RIAA and the Record Companies pursued
litigation against Plaintiff, and many processes attendant to that litigation (including the filing
of an initial information-farming "John" and "Jane Doe" action to obtain subpoena power), not
for purposes of protecting or vindicating the copyrights purportedly at issue, but instead for the
primary unlawful purpose of intimidating Plaintiff and the general public in order to maintain
and preserve as long as possible their monopolistic control over the world's market for the
distribution of sound recordings."
IANAL though, so maybe I have it all wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
To true.
If anyone ever needs a reason to wallop copyright, let this quote from the article be that reason;
Most copies of The Blue Book had vanished from the SLAC Library, and the librarians wanted to make it available electronically. But they ran into a snag: No one could figure out who owned the copyright, so there was no one to give permission to put it on the Web.
"It's an orphan work," SLAC archivist Jean Deken told me Friday. The original publisher was bought by another, which was bought by another, and so on. Finally, with the help of an expert from Stanford Law School, librarian Abraham Wheeler tracked down the current owner of the copyright-which said that since it could not find any documentation on the book, it could not grant permission to reproduce it.
I found the abstract perfectly understandable. All you have to do is translate from english to greek and then greek to english. This gives you a very clear discription in laymans terms.
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A good guide to just how prominent is to look at the number of comments on /. stories. At the time of writing this one has 553 comments. Almost two hundred more than the next highest story. I would imagine most of those were caused by someone mentioning religion....of course I can't be bothered counting them all. That would be like reading the articles :).
We will never know, because we never really had the ability to record as much in the past. What we do have pre-twentieth century would amount to probably an hours worth of production in modern times. And the record we do have is usually one-sided (victor wins all) or didn't happen at all (victor wins all).
Heres a link to the audio of the midday report.
I think the Judge has a fairly good idea about how the internet works. But, this is more about how people work. What he is trying to stop is jurors googling the information. It appears, according to Radio New Zealand this morning, that jurors have been googling peoples names and then seeing what popped up. Imagine the jurors in the Hans Reiser case getting a good dose of Slashdot......very impartial. New Zealand's not that big, if you Google someone here and their name comes up, it's probably the right person.
Why exactly has the parent been modded a troll?
He/she has summarized the effect a virus in a local account could have, pointing out that what is really important to us is in the files we have permission to read/write.
All I can think of is how relieved the grandmother was when she found out Megan wasn't pregnant!
That being said, legal action against you isn't a laughing matter when you are young. You don't have the money, you don't know what you are doing, and you don't know where to get help.
A parady on this would be nice. Something along the lines of,"File-sharing is not a victim-less crime..... Look at Megan."
I know it's pedantic, but if you think about it, a spinning top will stabilize as well.
"A kleptocracy (sometimes cleptocracy, occasionally kleptarchy) (root: klepto+kratein = rule by thieves) is a term applied to a government that extends the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats) at the expense of the population. A kleptocratic government often goes beyond mere cronyism and nepotism, or awarding the prime contracts and civil service posts to relatives or personal friends rather than the most competent applicants. They also create projects and programs at a policy level which serve the primary purpose of funneling money out of the treasury and into the pockets of the executive with little if any regard for the logic, viability or necessity of those projects."
The primary difference between the American government and the Nigerian government is the word thieves.
"I'm not entirely sure my livestock porn is legal in this state."
So.....How's the weather in South Australia?
"history versus technological reality"
I would like it better if this way of thinking was applied to business and government databases. Business and government have always kept databases, But, the speed with which they can gather information from them has increased massively. That is a real threat to privacy. Currently, it is being ignored by the courts under the impression that speed doesn't matter. As an analogy, imagine being in combat where you were given orders by post, and the enemy could use radio.....
"Select-All"
Not if you are using Ubuntu. Orange on teal is disturbing.
I wasn't aware that serial killers formed colonies?
Then, I wasn't aware that Bumblebees did either (although they are pretty small, and they break up over winter while the queen buries herself, and I am buggered if I would call it a colony, but there it is in bold print on the Sex for vegetables website.).
"Is this what they call a sting operation?"
No, but it does lead to Flight of the Bumblebee!
DRM may not work, but that's just the band aid. The problem the content providers really face is that we all grew up. When we were children, if we found a $20 bill on the sidewalk, we would have handed it in. We believed in doing the right thing. As we grew up, we watched our heroes (eg; the people we looked up to) throw away their ideals in the name of pragmatism. We watched wars, and death, and crime, and no one seemed to be punished for doing "bad" things.
The problem that content providers face is that we don't care anymore. Times have changed. We have watched them rake in money for thirty years, and now they want to give us toys, make us pay for them, and then take them back. That isn't going to work. We don't value them that much, and if we feel a small twinge of guilt at keeping it, then that is oh so easily justified by the way in which we have been treated.
How's that for a hypothesis?
"I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them."
:)
I think we can also safely ascertain that he has cracked Theo's webcam.
I think she has beaten you to it.
Third claim for relief: Abuse of legal process
From the document; "8.18 As detailed above and herein, the RIAA and the Record Companies pursued litigation against Plaintiff, and many processes attendant to that litigation (including the filing of an initial information-farming "John" and "Jane Doe" action to obtain subpoena power), not for purposes of protecting or vindicating the copyrights purportedly at issue, but instead for the primary unlawful purpose of intimidating Plaintiff and the general public in order to maintain and preserve as long as possible their monopolistic control over the world's market for the distribution of sound recordings."
IANAL though, so maybe I have it all wrong.
It's quite like economics really, isn't it? We don't know where we are going, but we are sure as hell going somewhere......
Look on the bright side. He might have posted that his large files got corrupted.
"Do articles written by the editors themselves even go to the Firehose?"
This one was. Maybe there is a just_cracked_the_firehose dept though.
"True. Now how do you mod down whole subdomain?"
By not visiting it?
"Why am I an honest person again?"
Social conditioning. Fortunately, governments around the world are working to free you from this by making everything illegal!
"How do I mod down an entire article?"
Go to the Firehose.