What I find interesting is that almost everyone is glossing over how they found the proof that the copyright was invalid. Someone actually looked at the evidence presented at discovery, found blurred images, and tracked down the original pages. Why is it only *those* pages were blurred? Warner hid evidence. The question is if they will be punished for that.
I remember when we had to post to Usenet on cards. And we had to hunt down buffalo and make punch cards out of their hides. (And boy would the Hollerith!) And we were grateful!
For a long time when you would ask a company why you could not buy a product they would claim "there is not a big enough demand". The "pirates" would then find a way to get that product through some other means, building up the popularity through word of mouth (or net). Once it hit a threshold level, the copyright holders would figure out they could make money after all (since all the hard promotion work had been done for them) and started selling it, while stomping down hard on the people who made it popular in the first place.
A prime example of this is Japanese Anime. It used to be next to impossible to get it legally in the US is an acceptable form. (Like accurate subtitles instead of craptacular dubs, if at all.) Anime fandom spread through bootleg tapes and fan subs until the market was recognized by the distributors.
The same could be said for Doctor Who fandom. When the new series appeared the US markets did not want to carry it because it was "too British". (Yes, they actually said that!) It was not until they saw just how many people watched the bootleg copies from the UK that they changed their minds.
Piracy built the markets that they now try to claim.
The current mutual extortion system is to profitable for too many. It will never go away until it drags everyone into it like a giant black hole of legalism.
Makes it hard to be an independant programmer these days.
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The only way to fix copyright is bolt cutters and hot tar.
As my brother said to my father...
"What are you going to do? Get up?"
The only way this would work is if the judge was a PETAphile.
It sounds like...
Paramount is wanting A Piece of the Action.
The Breakdown of the Bicameral DA
What it really contains is the Snowcrash virus as transcribed from Babylonian tablets.
Another book of interest
Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias
edited by Peter Ludlow
MIT Press
ISBN 0-262-12238-3 or ISBN 0-262-62151-7
Amazon has it in paperback and hardbound. Some prices are pretty damn high. (And I have a hardbound copy.)
Of course McCain understands cryptography
He had to learn how to decrypt Sarah Palin's speeches.
Anyone who has a child makes backup copies
I got tired of my daughter destroying my CDs. I backup everything before she is allowed to listen to them.
David Cohen
I believe you are confusing "being a magician" and "turning tricks".
Allegedly.
Trademarks
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
What is missing in this discussion
What I find interesting is that almost everyone is glossing over how they found the proof that the copyright was invalid. Someone actually looked at the evidence presented at discovery, found blurred images, and tracked down the original pages. Why is it only *those* pages were blurred? Warner hid evidence. The question is if they will be punished for that.
Homeopatic Trump
I think dilution is the solution.
Trump should be repeatedly diluted until no actual molecule of him is left.
Trump is the placebo, not the cure.
The future's comin', and there's no place to hide!
I guess molesting your inner child is now a crime.
What they are actually building
What they are building is *jobs* that only the rich can afford.
If you can't afford even a dinky apartment on what you make, what good is living in Silicon Valley?
Re: Back in my day...
I remember when we had to post to Usenet on cards. And we had to hunt down buffalo and make punch cards out of their hides. (And boy would the Hollerith!) And we were grateful!
Hackers will pentest your daughters!
Hackers can now use rainbow tables to gain access to rainbow parties. Are your teens at risk?
What you don't know might KILL your hypothetical children!
Hackers can fork your children and kill them on a signal!
And there is nothing you do about it if you don't watch the News at 11pm.
Re: for USA collection societies
“Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?”
Re: Re: Many of those old products were promoted by piracy
Piracy is what got it shown in the US at all. The pricing of discs is not connected with reality, it is based on the greed of the BBC.
Many of those old products were promoted by piracy
For a long time when you would ask a company why you could not buy a product they would claim "there is not a big enough demand". The "pirates" would then find a way to get that product through some other means, building up the popularity through word of mouth (or net). Once it hit a threshold level, the copyright holders would figure out they could make money after all (since all the hard promotion work had been done for them) and started selling it, while stomping down hard on the people who made it popular in the first place.
A prime example of this is Japanese Anime. It used to be next to impossible to get it legally in the US is an acceptable form. (Like accurate subtitles instead of craptacular dubs, if at all.) Anime fandom spread through bootleg tapes and fan subs until the market was recognized by the distributors.
The same could be said for Doctor Who fandom. When the new series appeared the US markets did not want to carry it because it was "too British". (Yes, they actually said that!) It was not until they saw just how many people watched the bootleg copies from the UK that they changed their minds.
Piracy built the markets that they now try to claim.
Once you pay Danegeld...
You never get rid of the Dane.
The current mutual extortion system is to profitable for too many. It will never go away until it drags everyone into it like a giant black hole of legalism.
Makes it hard to be an independant programmer these days.