E. Zachary Knight (profile), Mar 19th, 2013 @ 11:24am
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We don't have to think about copyright terms at all (except perhaps for things that should be in the public domain to begin with). All we have to consider is price. Is it cheap where you want to buy it? Yes. Will you make a profit selling here? Yes. Then you have a business model.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), Mar 18th, 2013 @ 10:15am
Re: Re: @"Ninja" - "how the fuck this is fair"?
It explicitly does NOT provide that those who don't pay for the works can still enjoy them for free.
That is dodging the actual question. We were asking how denying paying customers the content they paid for fair and just. Do you have an answer to that?
those who produce are to get the rewards, while those who merely use the products must TRADE something of value for goods or works.
So paying money, which most economists agree is something of value, does not guarantee access to a good or work?
E. Zachary Knight (profile), Mar 15th, 2013 @ 7:27am
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Is Techdirt going full on constitutionalist, if not what does this have to do with tech or copyright, patents or tech innovation?
Money in politics is a common theme on Techdirt, especially when it comes to new laws such as CISPA, SOPA, PIPA, etc being proposed. The Question often comes down to "Who is buying this law?"
So with this little bit of information, we can learn how much it costs to "buy" a Congressman or Senator.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), Mar 14th, 2013 @ 9:43am
Re: Arrrrgh, Matey.
Should be fairly simple to intercept whatever the game sends to the server, parse it and write it to a flat file locally. Then do the reverse when the game loads a save file.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), Feb 12th, 2013 @ 1:25pm
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Article 1 Section 6 of the US Constitution:
"The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."
E. Zachary Knight (profile), Feb 8th, 2013 @ 2:26pm
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The problem is not that 2 people in 7billion would come up with the same solution to the same problem. The problem is that 2 people in the same narrow expertise would come up with the same solution to the same problem. The fewer the number of people in a field and the more specialized the field, the more likely it is that individuals would independently come up with the same solution to the same problem.
There is no other way to consider it. That is the purpose of the obviousness requirement. It is not to measure whether a moron in a hurry would come up with the same idea, it is to measure if a software engineer would be able to write the same "software" a patent would cover or any other field of expertise..
E. Zachary Knight (profile), Jan 18th, 2013 @ 8:31am
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I don't particularly like the insinuation that Mormons in particular support this kind of legislation. This kind of legislation has an emotional appeal to a vast array of emotional and shortsighted people of all faiths and lack thereof.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), Jan 17th, 2013 @ 11:58am
Re: The Next Step
"I tell you, a clever person would form a political party."
People have been forming new parties for years now with little luck. The major problem with that idea is that the two major parties have so entrenched themselves in government and media that it is nearly impossible to gain national party status consistently between the 50 states. If you do manage to gain status in all 50 states, the problem then becomes a matter of exposure. With most media outlets being run by entrenched players in the current two parties, getting serious air time on their networks is near impossible.
Do we need new parties? Yes. Yes we do. However, short of a revolution, it will be near impossible for such an effort to take hold in the minds of the people.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), Jan 8th, 2013 @ 2:10pm
Re: don't tell those guys freed after 20 years by DNA evidence
What the court is saying is that if convicted, the time he has spent imprisoned without bail will apply to the final sentence. Sounds pretty fair to me, all things considered.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), Jan 8th, 2013 @ 2:07pm
Re: Re: Many anti-Manning people will argue that it is not his position to decide what is and what is not properly classified, and that's true.
If the corrupted have the power to suppress the evidence of their corruption through the classification process, exactly how are you proposing we go about exposing said secret corruption?
E. Zachary Knight (profile), Dec 12th, 2012 @ 10:13am
Re: Re: Re: Change to "Nintendo's is one of the most" SUCCESSFUL!
The DRM itself is not the reason for Steam's success. It is all the features that come with agreeing to use DRM. The Achievements, the play on any device with the same account. The cloud saving and storage., The massive friends lists. The gifting features. The sales. Many many more positive features. With all that, the DRM seems pretty much unnecessary.
E. Zachary Knight (profile), Dec 5th, 2012 @ 8:49am
Dollars to Pesos
If all else fails, Yahoo could send them 2.7 billion Pesos claiming they thought that was what they were asking for. While $208 million is still no laughing matter, it is a far less bitter pill to swallow.
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Re: Re: @"Ninja" - "how the fuck this is fair"?
That is dodging the actual question. We were asking how denying paying customers the content they paid for fair and just. Do you have an answer to that?
those who produce are to get the rewards, while those who merely use the products must TRADE something of value for goods or works.
So paying money, which most economists agree is something of value, does not guarantee access to a good or work?
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Re:
Money in politics is a common theme on Techdirt, especially when it comes to new laws such as CISPA, SOPA, PIPA, etc being proposed. The Question often comes down to "Who is buying this law?"
So with this little bit of information, we can learn how much it costs to "buy" a Congressman or Senator.
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Re: Arrrrgh, Matey.
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There are doctors fighting back.
http://reason.com/reasontv/2012/11/15/the-obamacare-revolt-oklahoma-doctors-fi
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Re: Uh, that's why it's called punishment
The "punishment" for sharing 24 songs online: $220,000 fine.
Do you not see a disconnect here?
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"The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."
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There is no other way to consider it. That is the purpose of the obviousness requirement. It is not to measure whether a moron in a hurry would come up with the same idea, it is to measure if a software engineer would be able to write the same "software" a patent would cover or any other field of expertise..
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That's not piracy...
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Re: The Next Step
People have been forming new parties for years now with little luck. The major problem with that idea is that the two major parties have so entrenched themselves in government and media that it is nearly impossible to gain national party status consistently between the 50 states. If you do manage to gain status in all 50 states, the problem then becomes a matter of exposure. With most media outlets being run by entrenched players in the current two parties, getting serious air time on their networks is near impossible.
Do we need new parties? Yes. Yes we do. However, short of a revolution, it will be near impossible for such an effort to take hold in the minds of the people.
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While 100% of the revenue would be the most ideal scenario for any creator, 70% of the sticker price is still leaps and bounds better than the
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Re: don't tell those guys freed after 20 years by DNA evidence
On the post: Bradley Manning's Defense: Releasing Over-Classified Information To The Public Would Be Good For The US, Not Bad
Re: Re: Many anti-Manning people will argue that it is not his position to decide what is and what is not properly classified, and that's true.
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Re: Protest
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Re: Re: Re: How much total was received?
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Re: Re: Re: Change to "Nintendo's is one of the most" SUCCESSFUL!
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Dollars to Pesos