Perhaps this is the secret to the Grand Unified Theory! 90% of the energy in the Universe is unobservable and "dark" because it's avoiding lawsuits from the RIAA/MPAA!
I've been thinking this for a while, and wondering why no one has tried it out already - use this as a method to bring low ALL MPAA/RIAA sites with legitimate takedown requests.
Think if we keep them offline for an entire year with continual takedowns, they might start to reconsider the intended "unintended consequences" to their censorship lobbying?
A way to help balance the USPTO while *ahem* preserving it's business model: create an adversarial patent system.
At present, individuals pay to file and refile and, once granted, hold the patent until it is challenged in court. Since, as has been pointed out several times before, their operating budget is predominantly (if not entirely) derived from their filing fees, the economic incentive is to encourage people to FILE AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE - they make it difficult by rejecting patents, but only artificially so, as you can simply refile a modified patent with a new fee for reconsideration. After a rejection or two, they are likely to approve, since they don't want to DISCOURAGE you from filing at all - that would take away a revenue stream!
What if they instituted the ability to file a counter "anti-patent" displaying prior art and obviousness? Such an system would essentially "crowd source" the entire patent approval process and shift the balance of their incentives. By allowing individuals to submit prior art and obviousness research for a small fee, they can streamline and speedup the entire patent review process (for both new and old patents), lower fees for filing while increasing their revenue, decrease their operating costs (thereby maximizing profits), AND present themselves as "open source, modern government" with maximum transparency!
With this new system, to maximize profit, they must ensure as ROBUST AND PUBLIC DEBATE AS POSSIBLE.
If people can present counter evidence to a patent, then the patent will be reject/'on-hold' by the "reviewer" until the patent seeker files their counter argument against said claim. If they can't, they've lost their bogus patent and no one is worse off (though they may be free to refile, and the process begins again, but with precident from the counter-patent filers...)
"But wait!" (I hear you cry) "If they essentially crowdsource patent applications for us to do THEIR work, why do we need USPTO in the first place?!?"
Patience, Grasshoper. For now, they still are needed to be arbiters of the evidence provided. But one day... One day...
With all that lobbyist money he's been getting, I think Lamar Smith should by a house with a HUGE lawn...
So he can tell all those internet kids to get off it.
Stop banging this old drum!
Everyone knows they enjoy things better when an authority tells them it's good!
We need faceless, profiteering organizations telling us who is worth giving our money and paying attention to. Lord knows we can't ask our friends or think for ourselves...
Sheesh.
I bet you're one of those people who "like" things too...
Walking your dog without a leash = tasered
Sharing culture with internet links = extradition and trial on foreign soil
Operating a cyber locker = Full on SWAT assualt by Seal Team 6 (who were complaining that they couldn't use deadly force...)
Steal millions under a fake investment Ponzi scheme = police escort to shield you from the media
Bribing politicians and laundering money/prostitution = Job as a media political analyst
Stealing BILLIONS via mortgage backed securities and eviciting hundreds of people from their homes = Government fines you 10% of your ill gotten money.
I'm left without a humorous, possibly snarky comment to make...
*slow claps* Go team!
Even if this is just "passing the buck" to the EU, everyone faltering on it because they're afraid of public backlash will push ACTA to die.
Wandering alone.
A vagrant with no citizenship, no land to claim as his own.
Pity him, feel his pain, his uncertainty.
Poor, destitute, and downtrodden, he'll wander the blighted, war-stricken landscape, searching for news of his family.
But his parents SOPA and PIPA have already died in the war, and he hasn't heard from his brother TPP for months.
But... but...
It's a tsunami of information!
A torrent of data!
A media hurricane!
An explosion of details!
A flood of facts!
A deluge of discussion!
A squall of statistics!
A fire of figures!
A cyclone of knowledge!
An earthquake of news!
HOW MANY MORE NATURAL DISASTERS DO YOU WANT ME TO USE??!!
This just in...
Every millionaire in America has just become an LLC.
Hermn... If corporations are people... then it's illegal to discriminate against my LLC when I transfer my employment status over to it...
Combined with a severely reduced tax bracket with a three year startup exemption and all the write offs I can take...
Even DR. DOOM is against ACTA?
...Damn, that must be some SERIOUSLY EVIL stuff...
Though it makes sense - since the Fantastic 4 are probably pro-SOPA, what with the comic books and all...
This money bath is going to feel so good! - C-3POlas
I don't think they really care whether they win or lose. All they have to do is file a patent extension, and they'll be back at it in a year or so with ANOTHER set of patents to sue everyone with AGAIN.
It was an extended parable on the creation of a "duplicative transporter" which cut out the distributors involved in "packaging" food production.
Locking up knowledge created by and for the public is an attempt to hold back the flood of progress by restricting knowledge.
It will fail because it must. People will continue to share. Culture, Ideas, Innovations, it doesn't matter. People share because it can and will make the world better.
And those who don't wish to share will fade into obscurity, their ideas shuddering in the dark corners of their consciousness, hidden from the world out of fear and greed.
Too bad RIAA/MPAA aren't considered "companies" for the purposes of trust-busting. I would love to see them targeted for their crooked dealings, bribery, and collusion at the expense of the general public in order to pad their pockets.
Unfortunately, with the market-centric manner in which anti-trust laws are applied, there is a tendency to ignore the capacity to abuse their power with supra-market forces.
Laissez-faire economics = Great (it's why monopolies fail long term)
Laissex-faire politics = insidious evil (it's the only thing keeping the IP old-guard afloat)
Silly argument.
A news organization can take it upon itself to investigate whatever it wants. There's no reason to stop them.
If you do something they find newsworthy, then they can report on it. That's their job.
If it isn't newsworthy, then it'd be stupid for them to track you down.
Not really a problem here.
You're afraid that a NEWS AGENCY will try to perform a d0x? The people interesting enough to make the news will either not care, or be smart enough to avoid it. How many hackers work for CNN?
And create a method to "unfollow" or "opt out" of specific individuals comments? That way a troll like this would only be capable of truly insulting you once before you can just decide that you have no interest in what they have to say?
Loosing an audience for your trolling won't stop you entirely, but it DOES limit the overall volume of offensiveness while simultaneously not imposing on anyones right to speak freely.
You can speak, I just have a right to ignore.
On the other hand, this has the potential to exacerbate "echo chamber" issues on the net. Every solution has its unintended consequences, I guess.
At this rate, it will blow "Definitely NOT co-ordinating with" Colbert SuperPAC fundraising out of the water.
Wonder if Kickstarter can be used to fund an election campaign?
Do we think we can muster the support to create a new form of crowd-funded politics, where we actively work to supplant uninformed, corporately bribed politicians with intellegent, tuned-in, publicly "bribed" (in RIAA-speak) ones?
RIAA/MPAA - "You forget - I have LOTS of money, and extortion has proven itself to be a valuable and worthwhile business model. It's technology proof! As long as I have the power to bludgeon you, I have a cash flow!"
A large swath of religious Jews openly embrace the digital revolution with ebooks of sacred texts, yet will gladly pay $60 or more for a folio of Talmud that's leather bound and laser printed for them to take their copious notes in. But you can get all that and more on your phone with a $15 app.
People value high quality physical products, whether as a status symbol, an expression of inner self, or as a means to a connection with others.
And the tinfoil industry is secretly funded by the aliens themselves! It won't protect you - it merely makes your brain a better receiver of mind control waves!!
1) The critical event of Jan 18 was THE PUBLIC speaking up, not Google lobbying. If you were watching twitter, you got a front row view of it happening. Wikipedia Et Al came on later after a lot coaxing and member discussion tree: protest and npov.
2) This blog existed long before Google entered politics and operates it's own business models.
This is critical -
Perhaps this is the secret to the Grand Unified Theory! 90% of the energy in the Universe is unobservable and "dark" because it's avoiding lawsuits from the RIAA/MPAA!
Even Better
Title it: Professor Where, the 4th dimensional extraterrestrial!
I'm looking forward to this (as isaac Kotlicky)
I've been thinking this for a while, and wondering why no one has tried it out already - use this as a method to bring low ALL MPAA/RIAA sites with legitimate takedown requests.
Think if we keep them offline for an entire year with continual takedowns, they might start to reconsider the intended "unintended consequences" to their censorship lobbying?
Here's an idea.... (as isaac Kotlicky)
A way to help balance the USPTO while *ahem* preserving it's business model: create an adversarial patent system.
At present, individuals pay to file and refile and, once granted, hold the patent until it is challenged in court. Since, as has been pointed out several times before, their operating budget is predominantly (if not entirely) derived from their filing fees, the economic incentive is to encourage people to FILE AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE - they make it difficult by rejecting patents, but only artificially so, as you can simply refile a modified patent with a new fee for reconsideration. After a rejection or two, they are likely to approve, since they don't want to DISCOURAGE you from filing at all - that would take away a revenue stream!
What if they instituted the ability to file a counter "anti-patent" displaying prior art and obviousness? Such an system would essentially "crowd source" the entire patent approval process and shift the balance of their incentives. By allowing individuals to submit prior art and obviousness research for a small fee, they can streamline and speedup the entire patent review process (for both new and old patents), lower fees for filing while increasing their revenue, decrease their operating costs (thereby maximizing profits), AND present themselves as "open source, modern government" with maximum transparency!
With this new system, to maximize profit, they must ensure as ROBUST AND PUBLIC DEBATE AS POSSIBLE.
If people can present counter evidence to a patent, then the patent will be reject/'on-hold' by the "reviewer" until the patent seeker files their counter argument against said claim. If they can't, they've lost their bogus patent and no one is worse off (though they may be free to refile, and the process begins again, but with precident from the counter-patent filers...)
"But wait!" (I hear you cry) "If they essentially crowdsource patent applications for us to do THEIR work, why do we need USPTO in the first place?!?"
Patience, Grasshoper. For now, they still are needed to be arbiters of the evidence provided. But one day... One day...
you know what (as Isaac the k)
With all that lobbyist money he's been getting, I think Lamar Smith should by a house with a HUGE lawn...
So he can tell all those internet kids to get off it.
Come on, Mike! (as isaac Kotlicky)
Stop banging this old drum!
Everyone knows they enjoy things better when an authority tells them it's good!
We need faceless, profiteering organizations telling us who is worth giving our money and paying attention to. Lord knows we can't ask our friends or think for ourselves...
Sheesh.
I bet you're one of those people who "like" things too...
Priorities, people... (as isaac Kotlicky)
You gotta know where they lie...
Walking your dog without a leash = tasered
Sharing culture with internet links = extradition and trial on foreign soil
Operating a cyber locker = Full on SWAT assualt by Seal Team 6 (who were complaining that they couldn't use deadly force...)
Steal millions under a fake investment Ponzi scheme = police escort to shield you from the media
Bribing politicians and laundering money/prostitution = Job as a media political analyst
Stealing BILLIONS via mortgage backed securities and eviciting hundreds of people from their homes = Government fines you 10% of your ill gotten money.
Sounds fair to me...
Speechless... (as isaac Kotlicky)
I'm left without a humorous, possibly snarky comment to make...
*slow claps* Go team!
Even if this is just "passing the buck" to the EU, everyone faltering on it because they're afraid of public backlash will push ACTA to die.
Wandering alone.
A vagrant with no citizenship, no land to claim as his own.
Pity him, feel his pain, his uncertainty.
Poor, destitute, and downtrodden, he'll wander the blighted, war-stricken landscape, searching for news of his family.
But his parents SOPA and PIPA have already died in the war, and he hasn't heard from his brother TPP for months.
There. Found my sarc.
Did a double take... (as isaac Kotlicky)
http://www.techdirt.com/user/Crosbie is a copytroll? Nah... Though the irony is hilarious.
But... but...
It's a tsunami of information!
A torrent of data!
A media hurricane!
An explosion of details!
A flood of facts!
A deluge of discussion!
A squall of statistics!
A fire of figures!
A cyclone of knowledge!
An earthquake of news!
HOW MANY MORE NATURAL DISASTERS DO YOU WANT ME TO USE??!!
NEWS FLASH! (as isaac Kotlicky)
This just in...
Every millionaire in America has just become an LLC.
Hermn... If corporations are people... then it's illegal to discriminate against my LLC when I transfer my employment status over to it...
Combined with a severely reduced tax bracket with a three year startup exemption and all the write offs I can take...
This may explain Romney's 15% tax rate...
Whoa! (as isaac Kotlicky)
Even DR. DOOM is against ACTA?
...Damn, that must be some SERIOUSLY EVIL stuff...
Though it makes sense - since the Fantastic 4 are probably pro-SOPA, what with the comic books and all...
Oh wait...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latveria
THANK THE MAKER! (as isaac Kotlicky)
This money bath is going to feel so good! - C-3POlas
I don't think they really care whether they win or lose. All they have to do is file a patent extension, and they'll be back at it in a year or so with ANOTHER set of patents to sue everyone with AGAIN.
That reminds me of the article I read this morning. (as isaac Kotlicky)
It was an extended parable on the creation of a "duplicative transporter" which cut out the distributors involved in "packaging" food production.
Locking up knowledge created by and for the public is an attempt to hold back the flood of progress by restricting knowledge.
It will fail because it must. People will continue to share. Culture, Ideas, Innovations, it doesn't matter. People share because it can and will make the world better.
And those who don't wish to share will fade into obscurity, their ideas shuddering in the dark corners of their consciousness, hidden from the world out of fear and greed.
Damn... (as isaac Kotlicky)
Too bad RIAA/MPAA aren't considered "companies" for the purposes of trust-busting. I would love to see them targeted for their crooked dealings, bribery, and collusion at the expense of the general public in order to pad their pockets.
Unfortunately, with the market-centric manner in which anti-trust laws are applied, there is a tendency to ignore the capacity to abuse their power with supra-market forces.
Laissez-faire economics = Great (it's why monopolies fail long term)
Laissex-faire politics = insidious evil (it's the only thing keeping the IP old-guard afloat)
http://pressurecookertheatre.blogspot.com/2012/02/laissez-faire-economics-vs-politics.htm l
Re: This isn't good news (as isaac Kotlicky)
Silly argument.
A news organization can take it upon itself to investigate whatever it wants. There's no reason to stop them.
If you do something they find newsworthy, then they can report on it. That's their job.
If it isn't newsworthy, then it'd be stupid for them to track you down.
Not really a problem here.
You're afraid that a NEWS AGENCY will try to perform a d0x? The people interesting enough to make the news will either not care, or be smart enough to avoid it. How many hackers work for CNN?
Maybe take a lesson from Twitter... (as isaac Kotlicky)
And create a method to "unfollow" or "opt out" of specific individuals comments? That way a troll like this would only be capable of truly insulting you once before you can just decide that you have no interest in what they have to say?
Loosing an audience for your trolling won't stop you entirely, but it DOES limit the overall volume of offensiveness while simultaneously not imposing on anyones right to speak freely.
You can speak, I just have a right to ignore.
On the other hand, this has the potential to exacerbate "echo chamber" issues on the net. Every solution has its unintended consequences, I guess.
Hi-friggin-larious (as isaac Kotlicky)
At this rate, it will blow "Definitely NOT co-ordinating with" Colbert SuperPAC fundraising out of the water.
Wonder if Kickstarter can be used to fund an election campaign?
Do we think we can muster the support to create a new form of crowd-funded politics, where we actively work to supplant uninformed, corporately bribed politicians with intellegent, tuned-in, publicly "bribed" (in RIAA-speak) ones?
But, but, but, ... (as isaac Kotlicky)
RIAA/MPAA - "You forget - I have LOTS of money, and extortion has proven itself to be a valuable and worthwhile business model. It's technology proof! As long as I have the power to bludgeon you, I have a cash flow!"
physical culture will always exist (as Isaac the k)
Just as Facebook friends don't substitute for physical relationships, ephemeral goods are a means to enhance the value of real, scarce ones.
Here's a good article I read on that just this morning:
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/my-dinner-with-clay-shirky-and-what-i-learned-about -friendship/
A large swath of religious Jews openly embrace the digital revolution with ebooks of sacred texts, yet will gladly pay $60 or more for a folio of Talmud that's leather bound and laser printed for them to take their copious notes in. But you can get all that and more on your phone with a $15 app.
People value high quality physical products, whether as a status symbol, an expression of inner self, or as a means to a connection with others.
Re: Yes, it was Google-- and the people Google pays.... (as Isaac the k)
And the tinfoil industry is secretly funded by the aliens themselves! It won't protect you - it merely makes your brain a better receiver of mind control waves!!
1) The critical event of Jan 18 was THE PUBLIC speaking up, not Google lobbying. If you were watching twitter, you got a front row view of it happening. Wikipedia Et Al came on later after a lot coaxing and member discussion tree: protest and npov.
2) This blog existed long before Google entered politics and operates it's own business models.
3) Chris Dodd, your mask is slipping off.