Wait, what? I can see employees (including professors) having to give their patents to employers, because they are being paid to do their jobs. But students are paying the schools. What possible right do the schools have to take the business of their customers?
Well, Madonna gets +1 from me now! She at least has a thinking brain.
It would be easy to write a program that made minor modifications to file bits and titles and kept uploading files via Tor. Before long the poisoned files would vastly outnumber the real ones. It would take pirates many manual hours to identify the poisoned files and take them down. Meanwhile they will have proliferated to other seeds. You can't fight automated with manual, no matter how many ways you paraphrase John Gilmore.
The AAholes can do this legally (or at least as legally as their opponents) and I would support it if that would mean they would get off their imperial control trips and stop attacking liberty.
If I were a studio, I would create a digital version of the movie that starts out great, but degrades slowly over the next 20 or so minutes, then gets completely unwatchable, followed by some kind of scolding anti-piracy message. Then I would use my astroturf minions to upload that file to all the torrent sites. That would teach those downloaders a lesson in their own language. All this other heavy-handed bullshit they are doing is just stupid.
Morality in online gaming isn't always so cut and dried. It's a gray area whether or not to use the program as it is offered or to stick to more stringent written or unwritten rules. The abilities coded into the software can validly be called a set of rules. What some call an exploit others call using the potential of the game to its fullest. Every game has this issue, and game boards are rife with arguments among believers on both sides claiming the gray area zealously.
It is telling that the man likens direct donations to artists to political donations to politicians, and having fans expect a quid pro quo. It shows you exactly where his mind is.
Part of the problem is the right wing has deadlocked Washington for anything important. So, congress critters are reduced to this sort of thing just to look like they are doing something, anything at all.
I agree with everything you said. I just mean that something else is lost when you DIY/CWF, so it's only a little better than letting a label rip you off.
TechDirt likes to tell the story of Dickens getting copied mercilessly here in America, so he toured America and made a lot of money that way instead. Fine, but what Dickens novel is the world missing because he was out glad-handing for a year? If we believe that the purpose of copyright is to promote the arts and sciences, then we have to account for the missing Dickens novel on the debit side.
If musicians can't get paid for making music, they get a day job. Then they might be able to keep making music or they might not, but even if so, the music suffers because it has to come after the day job.
Spending time connecting with fans is nice, but isn't all this fundraising just another form of a day job? So is merchandising. All these things take time away from making music.
This may be the new reality, but I don't think it's an equal substitute for getting paid for each copy of your music.
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Wait, what? I can see employees (including professors) having to give their patents to employers, because they are being paid to do their jobs. But students are paying the schools. What possible right do the schools have to take the business of their customers?
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What in the world does it mean for an industry to be "dependent on patents"? It only sounds bad to me.
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Those reports about the costs of piracy never seem to mention the costs of patents and copyrights.
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Well, Madonna gets +1 from me now! She at least has a thinking brain.
It would be easy to write a program that made minor modifications to file bits and titles and kept uploading files via Tor. Before long the poisoned files would vastly outnumber the real ones. It would take pirates many manual hours to identify the poisoned files and take them down. Meanwhile they will have proliferated to other seeds. You can't fight automated with manual, no matter how many ways you paraphrase John Gilmore.
The AAholes can do this legally (or at least as legally as their opponents) and I would support it if that would mean they would get off their imperial control trips and stop attacking liberty.
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If I were a studio, I would create a digital version of the movie that starts out great, but degrades slowly over the next 20 or so minutes, then gets completely unwatchable, followed by some kind of scolding anti-piracy message. Then I would use my astroturf minions to upload that file to all the torrent sites. That would teach those downloaders a lesson in their own language. All this other heavy-handed bullshit they are doing is just stupid.
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Who do you think will be the first President to go to Berlin and say "Ich bin ein Pirat"?
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"when they want it, where they want it and how they want it"
It does appear that MPAA is reading TechDirt. They are at least paying lip service to this mantra. This is a new development, right?
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Today's xkcd.
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It would be so sweet to see someone win American Idol and be offered a contract and say, "No thanks."
Er, I should say, hear about someone willing American Idol. I'd never actually watch that crap!
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Morality in online gaming isn't always so cut and dried. It's a gray area whether or not to use the program as it is offered or to stick to more stringent written or unwritten rules. The abilities coded into the software can validly be called a set of rules. What some call an exploit others call using the potential of the game to its fullest. Every game has this issue, and game boards are rife with arguments among believers on both sides claiming the gray area zealously.
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Cord cutting is a fad, just like home foreclosures are a fad.
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But 99% of DVDs are only worth watching at most once.
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It is telling that the man likens direct donations to artists to political donations to politicians, and having fans expect a quid pro quo. It shows you exactly where his mind is.
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Part of the problem is the right wing has deadlocked Washington for anything important. So, congress critters are reduced to this sort of thing just to look like they are doing something, anything at all.
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I pop in the DVD 10 or more minutes before I even turn on the TV (or switch its input from cable to DVD). That skips all the ads too.
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If you don't want Kevin Smith weight jokes, please don't put "Kevin Smith" and "ton" in the same headline!
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I'll rephrase it to be more accurate in both halves:
If you are homophobic, you are more likely than the average person to be gay.
If you are a large rights-holding corporation, you are definitely a thief.
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If you are rabidly homophobic, you are probably gay.
Similarly, if you are rabidly anti-pirate, you are probably a thief.
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I agree with everything you said. I just mean that something else is lost when you DIY/CWF, so it's only a little better than letting a label rip you off.
TechDirt likes to tell the story of Dickens getting copied mercilessly here in America, so he toured America and made a lot of money that way instead. Fine, but what Dickens novel is the world missing because he was out glad-handing for a year? If we believe that the purpose of copyright is to promote the arts and sciences, then we have to account for the missing Dickens novel on the debit side.
A day job by any other name...
If musicians can't get paid for making music, they get a day job. Then they might be able to keep making music or they might not, but even if so, the music suffers because it has to come after the day job.
Spending time connecting with fans is nice, but isn't all this fundraising just another form of a day job? So is merchandising. All these things take time away from making music.
This may be the new reality, but I don't think it's an equal substitute for getting paid for each copy of your music.