Latest Techdirt Comments http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: WHOA! Stop at: "everyone just wants stuff for free". http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1367 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:09:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1367 I'm not asking Mike to debate me HERE.

Even if we believed that (which none of us here do), it's still completely wrong.

You have, repeatedly, asked Mike to debate you in these very comments.

Examples:
What variables are there? How are they weighted? How does one measure them? And what about all the things that simply cannot be measured? How do you account for that?[...]

Thoughts? I'd love to hear the details of how you think we obtain and agree upon this data. [...]

Let's assume that it's true that the biggest infringers are the biggest spenders. So what? What exactly do you think we should do about that fact, Mike?

In response to Mike's rational silence to your insulting and irrational comments, you insult him personally and misrepresent everything he's said on this site:
Mike never takes a concrete stand on copyright. He pretends like he is completely unable to form a solid opinion on things. And he claims that since he doesn't know something for a fact with 100% certainty, he is unable to form an opinion on it. [...]

Yeah, I'm pointing out that he isn't saying anything concrete or helpful. [...]

Does Mike tell us how to measure the progress? No. It's high-level rhetoric. [...]

I enjoy pointing out that Mike is too scared to ever talk about the specifics of his beliefs about copyright. [...]

Where does Mike explain his personal beliefs about the morality of infringement? No where. [...]

[Mike] wants to promote the progress so long as we don't do it by granting to authors exclusive rights. It's important to pretend like the two aren't interrelated since he hates the means so much. [...]

You fit right in with Mike's Army. With that logic, we should chuck every single thing that exists on earth.

You're not here for debate. You're not giving your impartial opinion. You are nothing other than an extremist advocate, whose motivations are to smear anyone who disagrees with your radical agenda.]]> Re: Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1350 Fri, 17 May 2013 23:48:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1350 I don't get your point.

Let's apply it to scientific progress.

Did David Hume actually tell us how to measure the speed of light in a vacuum? No, he didn't.

On the other hand, Hume gave us a "framework" for discovering how light traveled in a vacuum. That framework was empirical science. Hume said that unless your data about how fast light traveled was accompanied by actual, measured, empirical data, it shouldn't even be considered a scientific discovery.

Mike is saying something similar. Unless potential copyright statutes can actually be empirically proven to provide a public benefit, they should not be considered "good" copyright statutes. This is entirely in accord with copyright law, from the Founders forward. If, on the other hand, copyright statutes are only alleged to be for the public benefit, without any data whatsoever to back this assertion up, then they should be disregarded - exactly as Hume disregarded any scientific theory that was not based on empirical evidence.

The fact that it has taken copyright law centuries to catch up to scientific theory, says that copyright law is outdated, illogical, and not even remotely scientific. It condemns copyright law to the same kind of "truthiness" that said that the sun revolves around the earth.]]> Re: Am I not surprised http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/14465423109/aps-attempt-drming-news-shuts-down.shtml#c92 Fri, 17 May 2013 23:46:07 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/14465423109/aps-attempt-drming-news-shuts-down.shtml#c92
Why do hostile globalist elite defend Israel as a Jewish ethnostate with Jewish only immigration, but ravage White majority Europe/North America into a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Gulag with dystopian non-White colonization?

The world is 93% non-White, only 7% White. But 3rd world colonizers are aggressively advancing their agenda to annihilate gullible Whites, just as China annihilates Tibet.

How long will gullible Whites cuckold for murderous anti-White elite, who confiscate our guns, infiltrate/subvert our banks/FBI/CIA, indoctrinate White kids in academia/mass media, plunder White jobs/wages, & butcher White soldiers in bankrupting wars?

"Native" Americans! invaded from East Asia. Yellow & Brown races committed 10-times more genocide, slavery, imperialism than Whites. Since Old-Testament, Whites have been victims of Jewish/Crypto-Jewish, Turkic, Muslim, N.African imperialism, slavery, genocide.

Gullible Whites should reject subversive ideologies- libertarianism/feminism/liberalism- & reject hostile slanders of racism. Love to all humanity, but White people must organize to advance their interests, their fertility, their homelands. Spread this message. Reading list: goo.gl/iB777 , goo.gl/htyeq , amazon.com/dp/0759672229 , amazon.com/dp/1410792617]]> Cellphone videos not yet released http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/18051923103/footage-lethal-beating-deleted-seized-phone-sheriff-asks-fbi-to-take-over-investigation.shtml#c896 Fri, 17 May 2013 23:45:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/18051923103/footage-lethal-beating-deleted-seized-phone-sheriff-asks-fbi-to-take-over-investigation.shtml#c896
Earlier reports had indicated the cellphone videos could be released to the public on Friday, but now this article says that analysis of the videos may not be finished until Monday or Tuesday of next week. It is not entirely clear whether the videos will ever be released.


]]> Re: Here's the FCC's reasoning: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1226 Fri, 17 May 2013 23:39:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1226
That doesn't mean their reason is actually accurate, just that it's their reason.

If there's potential for interference with networks on the ground, there should be evidence supporting as such. Seeing as "the technical information provided was insufficient to prove (that it would not interfere with networks on the ground)", rather than stating that there was evidence that devices still interfered, it can be inferred that there is no evidence. (You don't say "there's no evidence I haven't been shot," you'd say "I've been shot.")

And frankly, it still comes back to: if planes can be adversely affected by devices sold by teenagers at Best Buy that a large portion of the US population has, the problem isn't the phones. It's the planes, and whoever set up such a stupid system.]]> ... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120504/03253518776/how-can-you-tell-if-uploading-your-cover-song-to-youtube-is-infringing-you-cant.shtml#c585 Fri, 17 May 2013 23:07:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120504/03253518776/how-can-you-tell-if-uploading-your-cover-song-to-youtube-is-infringing-you-cant.shtml#c585 Re: Saudi Religious Police http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c726 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:39:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c726 All religions -- it doesn't matter which one -- eventually lose their

Or they never really had one. Exhibit A: the old Testament.]]> Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1212 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:37:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1212
or that the miles and miles of wire in an aircraft make a very nice antenna system ?

That if you were going to engineer an aircraft with the EMC shielding, it would be too heavy to fly ?

That a 1% error on your heading setting when moving at 500Kmh could make the different between hitting a mountain or not ?

Or that the digital communications used on phones creates significant harmonic radiation ?]]> Re: Re: A sad misunderstanding http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1327 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:36:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1327
I think that you are trying to apply an incredibly narrow black and white approach to something that is many shades of grey.

It would be hard for you to honestly deny that ownership and control of an end product is good for artists. Being able to sell or market their works in a manner that helps them to support themselves as artists in the future always promotes the progress, it allows the best artists to continue being artists.

Do you think it is fair that an artist who paints a picture can sell the picture (or charge admission to see it, if they want), but a musician, computer programmer, movie actor, or writer should somehow be denied that right because their works are more easily put in a digital format?

Without some form of protection, there is a good possiblity that many of today's top artists would not be able to be artists on a full time basis, and would instead have to spend their time earning a living in other ways. Some of those ways may be related to their art, but for many it would be the good old 9 to 5 J.O.B. and not much more.

Promotion the progress and rights protection are not mutually exclusive, and so far, few arguments show that rights protection harms those who choose to freely distribute their work.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120104/04252517273/spanish-government-adopts-its-own-version-sopa-sinde-law-approved.shtml#c201 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:35:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120104/04252517273/spanish-government-adopts-its-own-version-sopa-sinde-law-approved.shtml#c201 Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15583223111/congress-grandstanding-over-google-glass-privacy-concerns-next-up-privacy-concerns-over-your-eyes.shtml#c2162 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:33:53 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15583223111/congress-grandstanding-over-google-glass-privacy-concerns-next-up-privacy-concerns-over-your-eyes.shtml#c2162 It is much easier for someone to plant cameras in such places if they are after such pictures.

Much easier than starting the video recorder, or setting the Glass to take a photo every nth second before entering the lockerroom and then walking around acting normal?]]> Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1320 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:33:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1320 Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c711 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:31:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c711 You have your opinion but consider one half of humanity
disagrees.

[citation needed]]]> Re: Re: Re: Re: Copyright http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/10363322853/make-art-not-law.shtml#c83 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:29:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/10363322853/make-art-not-law.shtml#c83 Re: Re: ... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c701 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:27:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c701 Monarchies have performed well in the past, don't be a hater.

Name three monarchies that weren't build on crimes against peasants. Hell, name one.]]> Re: Re: Re: Re: ... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c685 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:25:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/07281823105/saudi-religious-police-anyone-using-twitter-has-lost-this-world-his-afterlife.shtml#c685 While us Americans love freedom, it may not always be best.

Says who?]]> Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1204 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:24:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1204
Blutooth uses spread spectrum, ATC uses VHF, Amplitude Modulation narrow spectrum.

The radio antennas for VHF comms to aircraft are usually mount of the fuselage forward of the wings and aft of the cockpit, or sometimes on the tail section, they are Omni-directional, and it's the aircrafts weather radar that is mounted in the nose cone and using parabolic dishes and directional antennae.]]> Re: Re: Re: I don't think Nintendo is wrong, but... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c266 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:23:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c266 That's the main reason they get a free pass

The upcoming backlash doesn't look like a free pass to me.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c65 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:21:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c65 The second problem is the failure to recognize that people value some products and services provided by our fellow meat-sacks.

This is only true in the case that meat-sacks make 'better' products, like the example of the antiquated rug. But that's an exception to the rule.

Robots enable technologies we couldn't have dreamt about in history. If there's still a market for handmade circuit-boards, I'll bet it's not sufficient to employ even 1% of the workforce that robots have put out of work. These new circuits are much better than the old ones... and smaller and more durable and more energy efficient.

There's no market for handmade processors. There's no market for Low Frequency Trading... only people who don't have the ability to make High Frequency Trading happen.

Yes, people will retrain. But suggesting that we'll all make artisan versions of what we make today is just silly.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c249 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:21:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c249 Nintendo is well within their rights to monetize these videos and images

Are they? I think this is questionable. Zach (presumably) has paid for the games he is recording. Why should Nintedo get to double-dip?]]>