This points out the total fallacy of photos being copyrighted. Most competent photographers in the same situation would have produced essentially the same picture as would have most competent amateurs! Ansel Adams produced some iconic pictures of American landmarks. I contend that any skilled photographer—given the same opportunities—would have produced similar results. Yes there is a creative element in photography, but skill is far more important to the end result.
I agree with Anonymous Coward, there is no such thing as a free service. But there are plenty cases where paid services delete features or drop products MS office offers myriad examples. e.g. drop caps. Some are just too much trouble to maintain. I suspect that there are lots of examples like Google Reader that are hard to maintain compared to alternate services that offer more opportunity.
This is why SaaS is a terrible idea. I use Adobe cloud myself but can easily move to Vegas if its discontinued. When you own the product if the cloud service is disrupted or discontinued you can still use the product. If you depend on SaaS then you are sooo screwed!!
BTW there is a do it yourself RSS reader in Perl and another in Python kicking around as programming examples. They are easy to get going but would be a major pain to maintain.
Like 3D this is a chicken and egg problem. There's no content so why buy a 3D or 4k TV? Yes you can convert to either in post, but the results are markedly inferior. With a few exceptions all the 3D movies have been dogs—Avatar being the notable exception. (The Avengers in 3D came of well too.) I saw Alice and a couple other films in both regular and 3D and the 3D detracted from the presentation of the story. Will the Hobbit be successful? That remains to be seen—but the reviews aren't positive. (The remark "I see reality all the time and I don't like it" summarizes a lot of feelings.) 4K is similar, you can up convert in post but the result is not good. Against 4k is that most folks sit way too far away from their TVs. To get the HD effect you need to sit between 2x to 3x the diagonal for normal HDTV. That's way closer than most folks are set up for or use. Further broadcast TV quality sucks big time and cable is often worse
Something that over 100,000 people have access to and most of those don't need the access is NOT a secret! The old saying "if one person knows its a real secret, if two know its maybe a secret, if three know its not" applies.
The ld50 for caffene in humans is not well established but is at least 60mg/kg. e.g. someone weighing 60kg (121.2 lbs) would need to consume ~3600mg of caffene. 18 cans of Monster?! Anyone would be barffing on their boots long before. That doesn't count the caffene being pissed away. There are medical conditions and drugs that are serious problems with caffene--but what is someone with those doing with caffene at all.
To be taken seriously there would need to be a pathologists autopsy report and toxicology screen.
I am going to say up front that none of these companies reports anything meaningful on sales. Apparently Amazon lost ~$30/unit on the ~22M original Fire but made ~$2k/year in media sales. (BTW the new Kindle has adds but you can optout for $15.) But that's a MCD¹ not a full up tablet. Apple makes a full up tablet and price gouges on it depending on their Kool factor. iTunes trails Amazon, B&N, Google and when, if ever, it hits MS on media selection except for music. Their pricing is not competitive with Amazon that's why they had to resort to illegal price fixing.
So here is the question that should have been addressed "Is there money to be made from a high priced tablet (laptop wannabe) or just on MCD and media?" IMHO the whole BYOD is silly. Why should I pay someone to type at word per minute on a screen while sitting on the commuter train? After all the stuff still needs to be brought into the intranet, edited (using a keyboard), and cleaned up. Did I really gain anything from those 90 minutes of commute time?
Maybe I'd be better off if the guy played Angry Birds or World or Warcraft and got into the office in a better mood and ready to do productive work.
First any automated system should fall under the perjury section as it is not the holder of the copyright and can not represent them.
Second penalties should be the same as for copyright violation and the statutory penalties should apply but for live streams should be per person cut off from the stream.
Persistent violators (more than 5 a year) should be sentenced to death. The corporation should be forced to take chapter 11 bankruptcy with pensioners, and debtors given priority and executives and members of the board forfeiting all rights.
While this sound like a good idea it is a really bad idea. I am currently with a Fire Department and as an EMT for 20+ years. Today we are being required to upgrade our communications to a very expensive digital system. We don't have the funds to add some other WiFi thing nor could it really be of use given our training constraints. Most of our folks are volunteers and we need to train on Urban Interface fires like the recent Waldo Canyon fire, HAZMAT etc. not on an obscure alternate communications method.
The big question that is unanswered is how do we know to switch to it? With our that it is useless at best and at worst will get someone killed.
The idea behind the current visa program was to encourage educated immigration. Instead its being used to suppress wages and export jobs. Even with the real jobless rate at nearly 18% immigration is not a problem (unless you consider Obama's inclusion of nearly a million unskilled illegals); but off shoring is.
There is one problem with this—copyrights can only be assigned in writing! I doubt that any court would consider this writing. (Also the copyright must either be registered or the assignment notarized—many states now allow Enotarization; but instead of free or $1-$5 the charge is typically $25 to $30 plus mileage. BTW does cragslist have provisions for accepting Enotarizations?) Also what if I don't own the copyright? If I make something from plans in say "Fine Wood Working", they own the copyright and any copyright on my photo of the object is limited at best.
Well done fun music.
The goofy rules are for the "as is parasites" at the big studios, not for real people. Except in a couple genre where the CD still lives—some world, folk and classical—the studios killed the album through greed. The last non-folk/classical I bought had 4 original songs; one of which was great, one OK and the other two dogs. That was 11 minutes out of 34minutes that I paid $15 for. The rest were covers and only one was really well done. What killed the CD—the greedy studios. Alex Day has a lot of talent and a real appreciation of his fans, he definitely deserves his success no matter how he gets there.
"Why won't the WSJ step up and issue a real correction on all of the errors?"
Because its become another lamestream media just like Pravda on the Potomic (OOPS the Washington Post. At least so far the WSJ hasn't started running batboy and Elvis sightings;but a lot of their material has been erroneous. That is why I subscribe to the "Financial Times" rather than the WSJ.
The US has NOT adopted ACTA,OHbummer never submitted the treaty to the Senate for approval and so ACTA is in no way binding on the US. Any attempt to enforce any provisions would be a violation of the US Constitution and a reason for impeachment proceedings. The victim could also likely sue for malicious prosecution.
With the EU out of the picture and Oz rethinking now all we need to do is kill TPP.
There are moral issues that are real. Mostly the 'net is stricter about these than the alternates.
They are:
Correct attribution/identification—I have amoral right to be correctly identified as the composer/author, performer, producer… of the music, article,etc. That is the ONLY MORAL RIGHT!!
Using "cyber" to thump the drum is pretty silly but the folks in DC think that they can't do no silly.
But tactical gets misused I relly like the tactical bra and thong.
Organic also gets misused. My favorites so far are: firewood, windshield washer fluid and vodka (in the US vodka is neutral grain spirits it can't contain any thing but water and ethanol;unless its flavored.
Anonymous Coward has nailed it. Under current copyright law it is impossible; as there is no way to know what is copyrighted nor not without a trial!! This is particularly true of photographs.
An obvious way out is to only screen for registered material, only allow OWNERS of registered coyrights to file for take downs and not allow photos to be screened or taken down.
Press + reminds me of the California Gold Rush. Almost all of the prospectors died broke. The guys who made out sold them food and jeans (Levis). Except they are like the saloons; they sell stuff that (in the long run)is bad for their clients and makes them objectionable to many folks.
If Oracle prevails in their copyright claims and gets big damages then Java is dead. Maybe they belatedly realized this and are trying to maneuver around it. That would let them claim copyrights over API and, in their tiny minds, not kill Java or require them to put the copyrights in the public domain—which would kill most of their case against Google. IMHO if the JAVA API is copyrighted and not in the Public domain I would never use JAVA!
Photos should not be elegable for copyright
This points out the total fallacy of photos being copyrighted. Most competent photographers in the same situation would have produced essentially the same picture as would have most competent amateurs! Ansel Adams produced some iconic pictures of American landmarks. I contend that any skilled photographer—given the same opportunities—would have produced similar results. Yes there is a creative element in photography, but skill is far more important to the end result.
"Free Services"
I agree with Anonymous Coward, there is no such thing as a free service. But there are plenty cases where paid services delete features or drop products MS office offers myriad examples. e.g. drop caps. Some are just too much trouble to maintain. I suspect that there are lots of examples like Google Reader that are hard to maintain compared to alternate services that offer more opportunity.
This is why SaaS is a terrible idea. I use Adobe cloud myself but can easily move to Vegas if its discontinued. When you own the product if the cloud service is disrupted or discontinued you can still use the product. If you depend on SaaS then you are sooo screwed!!
BTW there is a do it yourself RSS reader in Perl and another in Python kicking around as programming examples. They are easy to get going but would be a major pain to maintain.
Chicken and egg
Like 3D this is a chicken and egg problem. There's no content so why buy a 3D or 4k TV? Yes you can convert to either in post, but the results are markedly inferior. With a few exceptions all the 3D movies have been dogs—Avatar being the notable exception. (The Avengers in 3D came of well too.) I saw Alice and a couple other films in both regular and 3D and the 3D detracted from the presentation of the story. Will the Hobbit be successful? That remains to be seen—but the reviews aren't positive. (The remark "I see reality all the time and I don't like it" summarizes a lot of feelings.) 4K is similar, you can up convert in post but the result is not good. Against 4k is that most folks sit way too far away from their TVs. To get the HD effect you need to sit between 2x to 3x the diagonal for normal HDTV. That's way closer than most folks are set up for or use. Further broadcast TV quality sucks big time and cable is often worse
Not secret
Something that over 100,000 people have access to and most of those don't need the access is NOT a secret! The old saying "if one person knows its a real secret, if two know its maybe a secret, if three know its not" applies.
silly assertions
The ld50 for caffene in humans is not well established but is at least 60mg/kg. e.g. someone weighing 60kg (121.2 lbs) would need to consume ~3600mg of caffene. 18 cans of Monster?! Anyone would be barffing on their boots long before. That doesn't count the caffene being pissed away. There are medical conditions and drugs that are serious problems with caffene--but what is someone with those doing with caffene at all.
To be taken seriously there would need to be a pathologists autopsy report and toxicology screen.
Amazon's strategu versus Apple/Google
I am going to say up front that none of these companies reports anything meaningful on sales. Apparently Amazon lost ~$30/unit on the ~22M original Fire but made ~$2k/year in media sales. (BTW the new Kindle has adds but you can optout for $15.) But that's a MCD¹ not a full up tablet. Apple makes a full up tablet and price gouges on it depending on their Kool factor. iTunes trails Amazon, B&N, Google and when, if ever, it hits MS on media selection except for music. Their pricing is not competitive with Amazon that's why they had to resort to illegal price fixing.
So here is the question that should have been addressed "Is there money to be made from a high priced tablet (laptop wannabe) or just on MCD and media?" IMHO the whole BYOD is silly. Why should I pay someone to type at word per minute on a screen while sitting on the commuter train? After all the stuff still needs to be brought into the intranet, edited (using a keyboard), and cleaned up. Did I really gain anything from those 90 minutes of commute time?
Maybe I'd be better off if the guy played Angry Birds or World or Warcraft and got into the office in a better mood and ready to do productive work.
¹ Media Consumption Device
False takedowns
First any automated system should fall under the perjury section as it is not the holder of the copyright and can not represent them.
Second penalties should be the same as for copyright violation and the statutory penalties should apply but for live streams should be per person cut off from the stream.
Persistent violators (more than 5 a year) should be sentenced to death. The corporation should be forced to take chapter 11 bankruptcy with pensioners, and debtors given priority and executives and members of the board forfeiting all rights.
ACTA
ACTA has not been adopted by the US. The Senate never approved it nor was it presented for approval.
First responder WiFi
While this sound like a good idea it is a really bad idea. I am currently with a Fire Department and as an EMT for 20+ years. Today we are being required to upgrade our communications to a very expensive digital system. We don't have the funds to add some other WiFi thing nor could it really be of use given our training constraints. Most of our folks are volunteers and we need to train on Urban Interface fires like the recent Waldo Canyon fire, HAZMAT etc. not on an obscure alternate communications method.
The big question that is unanswered is how do we know to switch to it? With our that it is useless at best and at worst will get someone killed.
Foreign entrepreneurs
The idea behind the current visa program was to encourage educated immigration. Instead its being used to suppress wages and export jobs. Even with the real jobless rate at nearly 18% immigration is not a problem (unless you consider Obama's inclusion of nearly a million unskilled illegals); but off shoring is.
Crags list copyright
There is one problem with this—copyrights can only be assigned in writing! I doubt that any court would consider this writing. (Also the copyright must either be registered or the assignment notarized—many states now allow Enotarization; but instead of free or $1-$5 the charge is typically $25 to $30 plus mileage. BTW does cragslist have provisions for accepting Enotarizations?) Also what if I don't own the copyright? If I make something from plans in say "Fine Wood Working", they own the copyright and any copyright on my photo of the object is limited at best.
Alex Day
Well done fun music.
The goofy rules are for the "as is parasites" at the big studios, not for real people. Except in a couple genre where the CD still lives—some world, folk and classical—the studios killed the album through greed. The last non-folk/classical I bought had 4 original songs; one of which was great, one OK and the other two dogs. That was 11 minutes out of 34minutes that I paid $15 for. The rest were covers and only one was really well done. What killed the CD—the greedy studios. Alex Day has a lot of talent and a real appreciation of his fans, he definitely deserves his success no matter how he gets there.
WSJs screw up
"Why won't the WSJ step up and issue a real correction on all of the errors?"
Because its become another lamestream media just like Pravda on the Potomic (OOPS the Washington Post. At least so far the WSJ hasn't started running batboy and Elvis sightings;but a lot of their material has been erroneous. That is why I subscribe to the "Financial Times" rather than the WSJ.
Good for the IDL!!
Its unfortunate that this is needed, but the ITU has plans to censor the 'net to suit Russia, Ethopia and other repressive regimes like the EU.
Not to mention that some congressmen from Wyouming are forwarding a plan to tax the 'net.
ACTA Fraud by Obama
The US has NOT adopted ACTA,OHbummer never submitted the treaty to the Senate for approval and so ACTA is in no way binding on the US. Any attempt to enforce any provisions would be a violation of the US Constitution and a reason for impeachment proceedings. The victim could also likely sue for malicious prosecution.
With the EU out of the picture and Oz rethinking now all we need to do is kill TPP.
Moral issues
There are moral issues that are real. Mostly the 'net is stricter about these than the alternates.
They are:
Correct attribution/identification—I have amoral right to be correctly identified as the composer/author, performer, producer… of the music, article,etc. That is the ONLY MORAL RIGHT!!
Cyber not the only silly
Using "cyber" to thump the drum is pretty silly but the folks in DC think that they can't do no silly.
But tactical gets misused I relly like the tactical bra and thong.
Organic also gets misused. My favorites so far are: firewood, windshield washer fluid and vodka (in the US vodka is neutral grain spirits it can't contain any thing but water and ethanol;unless its flavored.
Screen youtube video
Anonymous Coward has nailed it. Under current copyright law it is impossible; as there is no way to know what is copyrighted nor not without a trial!! This is particularly true of photographs.
An obvious way out is to only screen for registered material, only allow OWNERS of registered coyrights to file for take downs and not allow photos to be screened or taken down.
Pawall nonsense
Press + reminds me of the California Gold Rush. Almost all of the prospectors died broke. The guys who made out sold them food and jeans (Levis). Except they are like the saloons; they sell stuff that (in the long run)is bad for their clients and makes them objectionable to many folks.
Oracle Strategy?
If Oracle prevails in their copyright claims and gets big damages then Java is dead. Maybe they belatedly realized this and are trying to maneuver around it. That would let them claim copyrights over API and, in their tiny minds, not kill Java or require them to put the copyrights in the public domain—which would kill most of their case against Google. IMHO if the JAVA API is copyrighted and not in the Public domain I would never use JAVA!