Latest Techdirt Comments http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... Re: Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c303 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:42:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c303 > as an international commons

Treaties only apply to nations. Individuals are not bound by them.]]> Re: Re: @"the public do not respect copyright." http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c278 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:37:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c278
Copyright is *not* common law, at least in the U.S.

It's statutory law.]]> Re: Re: Re: I'm done http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c599 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:35:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c599 Re: Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c591 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:33:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c591 Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c584 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:28:44 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c584
In console gaming, for games...developers develop the game around the specific GPU architecture and thus strictly for what ever GPU is being used The CPU's Architecture is basically designed for the OS.

Case in point, Halo and Halo 2 for XBox were specifically meant for use with nVidia GPU chipsets in mind...you can play both on the XBox 360 no problem. The XBox used an X86 CPU from Intel...The XBox360 uses the IBM PowerPC 950 architecture.]]> Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c581 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:22:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c581
The XBox One is a very very bad thing because of the 8GB of GDDR3 RAM...which is much slower and far less efficient than the WiiU's use of esRAM...XBox One only reserves 3GB for gaming...that's including software and graphics in that 3GB space...given the average game will likely use 2GB of RAM just to run the software from the hard disk, that's 1GB for graphics. This means that not only is it running off of Graphics RAM technology from roughly 4 or 5 years ago, it's also means that in order to keep the efficiency and smooth gameplay, they have to keep the games natively at 720p .. The left over 5 GB of GDDR3 RAM is strictly for you to run the OS.]]> The person mentioned in this post. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c272 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:08:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c272 Re: If actually has Brain cancer http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c606 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:05:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c606 The only medical expense he claims is $700.00!
Read the document.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c520 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:03:31 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c520
You want it, fine go for it. It's just it's not going to be my money supporting this.]]> Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c255 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:03:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c255 (comes from posting BC, that is before coffee).]]> Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c604 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:00:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c604 If so, why does he not mention his medical bills?]]> Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c234 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:58:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c234 you cant work out the difference between something posted on a public domain (youtube) and a specific news broadcast from a commercial TV station?
Posting on youtube has nothing to do with the copyright status of a work. Like a TV transmission, it is an implicit license to view, and nothing else. Making a work available to the public at no cost is NOT placing it in the public domain.
If this person is trying to control what he posted on Youtube, is a bit different to someone trying to control why is a commercial production.

From the copyright perspective, there is no difference from commercial publication and self publication, the copyright owner has the right to control copying.
BTW: this idiot, (not you) get's to make the decision on fair use or not, that is a specific legal issue, and is decided by courts.

Fair use is a right, and does not need determination by the courts. If all fair use required such determination, there would be no fair use as licensing would be cheaper that fighting a court battle. The courts are only involved if their is a dispute over fair use, and when abused by publishers to try and extend their control over their works.]]> Re: Re: Support laborers, not the thieving Rich! http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c221 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:55:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c221 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02021423169/defense-digital-freedom-its-time-to-get-beyond-cyber-hyperbole.shtml#c36 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:52:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02021423169/defense-digital-freedom-its-time-to-get-beyond-cyber-hyperbole.shtml#c36 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02021423169/defense-digital-freedom-its-time-to-get-beyond-cyber-hyperbole.shtml#c24 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:32:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02021423169/defense-digital-freedom-its-time-to-get-beyond-cyber-hyperbole.shtml#c24 Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c512 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:22:24 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c512 Sherman http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16293423122/think-doj-spying-reporters-was-unprecedented-think-again.shtml#c69 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:22:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16293423122/think-doj-spying-reporters-was-unprecedented-think-again.shtml#c69 Re: Re: Dont like it?? DONT BUY IT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c501 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:20:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c501
You heard it here on Shilldirt.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16293423122/think-doj-spying-reporters-was-unprecedented-think-again.shtml#c56 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:18:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16293423122/think-doj-spying-reporters-was-unprecedented-think-again.shtml#c56 This is Tyranny.]]> Translation? http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c759 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c759