Latest Techdirt Comments http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... Re: Copyright http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/10363322853/make-art-not-law.shtml#c91 Sat, 18 May 2013 01:25:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/10363322853/make-art-not-law.shtml#c91 everything is a derivative work. Every. Single. Thing.
Trying to pick out what's "too derivative" and requires a license is a game played by lawyers and corporations with the money to enforce it at the expense of anyone who actually creates culture and hopes to make a modest amount of money from their work.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15583223111/congress-grandstanding-over-google-glass-privacy-concerns-next-up-privacy-concerns-over-your-eyes.shtml#c2192 Sat, 18 May 2013 01:18:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15583223111/congress-grandstanding-over-google-glass-privacy-concerns-next-up-privacy-concerns-over-your-eyes.shtml#c2192 voice activated? As in, to take a picture, you have to either say "Glass, take a picture" or reach up and press a button. If there's a mind control feature included I certainly haven't read about it. I would think that talking out loud for recording would be kind of a big give away.

For filming, you have a similar issue, plus you have to disable the recording LED. The device itself is not inconspicious; if you're concerned about privacy, why not just ask someone to take it off? I wouldn't think there would be any more issues in bathrooms than there are now and I seriously doubt they'll become a permanent feature of corrective eye lenses.

Either way the fact that our government is concerned over our privacy is laughable. This is purely an attempt to get a legislative foothold on a new technology so they can ban it rather than compete. They're still trying to figure out this "internet" thing, can't have us getting some fancy...um...thing that's the same as a smart phone, but always being held in front of your face. Oooh, scary.

Privacy is a real concern. Google Glass just isn't the big threat to it. Cute attempt to divert attention, though.]]> A good reason to drop to flight mode http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1231 Sat, 18 May 2013 01:15:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1231
Probably the only reason to actually change anything when boarding a flight.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/991012/114222.shtml#c38862 Sat, 18 May 2013 01:07:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/991012/114222.shtml#c38862 daviesmicheal6@gmail.com.]]> Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/10233423003/bug-allows-same-sex-marriage-nintendo-game-nintendo-releases-patch-to-fix-it.shtml#c3624 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:41:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/10233423003/bug-allows-same-sex-marriage-nintendo-game-nintendo-releases-patch-to-fix-it.shtml#c3624
You obviously have no understanding what that means do you? A child in a public school in the US, in a school that receives funding from the state or federal government, CANNOT promote a religion. It's called the separation of church and state. The founders of the US were quite rightly scared of what would happen if one religion were to indoctrinate children on what is evil and what is not.
You have, in the US, a freedom of religion, to join whatever religion you want. Based on your comments, you're in one branch of Christianity (and for the record, I grew up in Catholic Ireland, went to three Catholic schools. In fact, I learned recently that my secondary (high) school, which is run by the Marianists, actually had an openly gay headmaster). The founders feared what would happen if a religion were to insert itself one way or another into a government body and use its influence to discriminate against a certain group of people.
That is precisely what you are doing. Care to tell me exactly how homosexuality is evil? Where's the harm it is causing? I myself am hetero, and I don't give a damn if the guy sitting next to me on the bus takes it up the ass from his partner when they're alone.
Define evil for me. What is it?

Here's why I don't obey the Bible. Because it is an out-date piece of shit. It is contradictory and in several places, glorifies acts that everyone on the planet rejects. Lot's daughters committed incest and the equivalent of date rape when they got their father drunk. Cities are wiped out in the Old Testament, whole populations massacred and we're told this is good.
Not only that, but in obeying it, I would willingly become a slave. A slave to a tyrannical Sky Daddy, who seems to have serious mental issues. Sky Daddy hates homosexuality...then why the fuck create it in the first place? God cannot judge us for going off and doing our own thing when he is supposedly the one who gave us free will in the first place. I would rather burn in hell for eternity than submit to your "loving" dictator, because that's what he is. Your god is a tyrant, one who creates arbitrary rules that make no sense and you are a slave who gladly puts on chains, simply because it's what you were told to do.]]> Re: Re: Re: Re: A sad misunderstanding http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1381 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:28:01 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1381 Re: Re: Re: A sad misunderstanding http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1371 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:27:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1371 It would be hard for you to honestly deny that ownership and control of an end product is good for artists.

Under copyright law, most artists did not have ownerhip or control over the end product. They were forced to assign ownership and control of their copyrights to a third party (record labels, publishers, or studios), and merely received some form of royalties due to the copyright owner's exploitation of these rights.

And even then, they made the vast majority of their income through other means. For example, in 2004, the highest grossing artist was Paul McCartney. He made less than 15% of his income through copyright royalties.

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.

Even with this protection, the vast majority of creative artists were forced to make their living "in other ways." Of the artists who were actually signed to labels (a very small minority), 9 out of 10 were forced to make their living outside of copyright industries. Less than 10% of artists on a major label wer ever able to recoup their costs, meaning that they made not one cent on artist royatlies. They were eventually forced to make their living in other ways (such as working at the local 7-11) in order to make ends meet.

Whatever you think copyright accomplishes, allowing artists to make a living at their art was never one of them.]]> 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.

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