I used to subscribe to Pandora in 2010-2011 until I found out I wasn't using the service, and I used it from 2007-2010 before then as a free listener. This debate isn't new, it was center-stage back in 2007 when the original totally retarded rates came into effect. And now they want to make it WORSE? Could we at least try to make the corruption less blatant?
The explosion of creative media in all its forms is more a battle for attention than a battle for money. I personally hate uninteractive media, hence my attraction to forums, books (where my mind creates the visualization), and video games, and aversion to movies and television.
I think that Nick Mason and Ed O'Brien are terrific starting points. As a fan of Pink Floyd sight unseen, I'm happy to see their drummer standing up for the artist's right to have access to their own work.
It means that if the United States government is the litigant (someone educate me if it's possible for the US to be the defendant in patent cases), that the legal costs recoupment clause is null and void. Since the United States typically only prosecutes direct violations of law, it's just a way to keep this law from overriding already-existent law dealing with the US government's role in legal cases.
Why is it even set up like that? Why do we have a system in place where they could functionally monitor everything, even if by the letter of the law they're fine? The spirit of the law is being crapped on in every sense of the word, and somehow that's alright?
Being patentable and actually being patented are two different things. People have explicitly declined to patent inventions, particularly ones related to the internet's structure, and by and large those refusals are the reason the internet has succeeded as well as it has.
Incorrect. Several countries (off the top of my head, Poland, I know there are others) have explicitly said that they will not ratify, regardless of whether or not the EUP ratifies.
No, it's moving at top speed, it's just managed to defy the laws of physics after careening off the tracks, plowing through several cornfields, and seemingly going airborne before nose-diving into a volcano.
Yes they are. This new-fangled internet thing is just the youth of America's way to stick it to their parents. Nobody mature or serious ever bothers to use the worthless pile of self-effacement that the internet obviously is. Right?
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I used to subscribe to Pandora in 2010-2011 until I found out I wasn't using the service, and I used it from 2007-2010 before then as a free listener. This debate isn't new, it was center-stage back in 2007 when the original totally retarded rates came into effect. And now they want to make it WORSE? Could we at least try to make the corruption less blatant?
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The explosion of creative media in all its forms is more a battle for attention than a battle for money. I personally hate uninteractive media, hence my attraction to forums, books (where my mind creates the visualization), and video games, and aversion to movies and television.
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I think that Nick Mason and Ed O'Brien are terrific starting points. As a fan of Pink Floyd sight unseen, I'm happy to see their drummer standing up for the artist's right to have access to their own work.
Re: "other than the United States."
It means that if the United States government is the litigant (someone educate me if it's possible for the US to be the defendant in patent cases), that the legal costs recoupment clause is null and void. Since the United States typically only prosecutes direct violations of law, it's just a way to keep this law from overriding already-existent law dealing with the US government's role in legal cases.
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Judges are not law makers, they are law interpreters. And if a law makes no sense, it's only logical to interpret it as null and void.
Re: Re: From the "law of unintended consequences" department
But robots are expensive to manufacture, even if you have Mad Scientist Tech on your side. Without revenue they can't do it.
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bob disagrees with you.
Re: Sometimes you need to know when to take your winnings and run, and the pro-copyright crowd clearly doesn't know when to do that.Re:
Have you ever been in one of those blower-based flying money booths? Rather hard to see out when you've got all those benjamins obscuring your vision.
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But the USTR is extremely transparent...about its intents to keep us in the dark.
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For sale: French gun
Never fired, dropped once.
I kid, I kid, his comment wasn't based in anything close to a plane of reality we would recognize.
Re: Re: I'd watch him...
Honestly, your "bride" typo is a funnier image than the intended "bribe".
Re: How do I get THAT job?
1. Recognize Trends
2. Notice what Trends my employers want to see
3. Give faulty recommendations based on 2.
4. ???
5. Profit!
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Why was I reminded of that one scene from the Hunger Games (book, not movie)?
Re: Explaining the NSA's predicament
Why is it even set up like that? Why do we have a system in place where they could functionally monitor everything, even if by the letter of the law they're fine? The spirit of the law is being crapped on in every sense of the word, and somehow that's alright?
Re: another biased article
Being patentable and actually being patented are two different things. People have explicitly declined to patent inventions, particularly ones related to the internet's structure, and by and large those refusals are the reason the internet has succeeded as well as it has.
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Incorrect. Several countries (off the top of my head, Poland, I know there are others) have explicitly said that they will not ratify, regardless of whether or not the EUP ratifies.
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No, it's moving at top speed, it's just managed to defy the laws of physics after careening off the tracks, plowing through several cornfields, and seemingly going airborne before nose-diving into a volcano.
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Yes they are. This new-fangled internet thing is just the youth of America's way to stick it to their parents. Nobody mature or serious ever bothers to use the worthless pile of self-effacement that the internet obviously is. Right?
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No, it's his donkey, and not a Democrat-type one.
Re: There's more
Issa and Wyden are Senators. This is a letter from the House of Representatives.