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  • On the post: The Copyright Lobotomy: How Intellectual Property Makes Us Pretend To Be Stupid

    Greevar ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2013 @ 07:58am

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    Crap, double post. Forgot to log in.

  • On the post: The Copyright Lobotomy: How Intellectual Property Makes Us Pretend To Be Stupid

    Greevar ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2013 @ 07:57am

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    Twisted? No, no. It's been corrupt every since its inception. The first copyright laws were created in opposition to the prospect of people being able to publish content faster and more easily. The monarchy of England didn't want any materials written and printed that spoke against them, so they created a law that gave an exclusive group the power to print. That group was required to submit all works to the monarchy for review and possible censorship.

  • On the post: The Copyright Lobotomy: How Intellectual Property Makes Us Pretend To Be Stupid

    Greevar ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2013 @ 08:23am

    Copyright should not exist.

    "This does not necessarily mean that there's no place for copyright in the world."

    I have to disagree. Copyright exists to create scarcities and as Ninja said, "they can sell real scarcities that don't need copyright to be protected: themselves." Copyright does one thing and one thing only, it forces the market to adapt to a business model rather than the business model adapting to the market. For that reason, copyright should not exist, because it's forcing reality to bend to the will of content owners. Copyright forces us to accept the idea that speech can be property and without this concept of property, copyright would be meaningless. There is nothing copyright can provide that can't be solved with smart business models and that's another reason copyright shouldn't exist. To say there might be a place for copyright is really nothing less than an apologist stance and in light of everything else you said, it smells like an attempt to calm the copyright supporters after reading everything prior to that. You can't really say all that and not come to the conclusion that copyright shouldn't exist given that there are perfectly successful alternatives to copyright.

    Copyright should not exist. Sell yourself, not your work. Nobody can take from you what you don't create. Nobody can make you work for free, but if you rely on copyright to protect you, you're allowing that to happen.

  • On the post: Angry Prenda Is Angry

    Greevar ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2013 @ 05:50am

    He went full retard.

    You never go full retard.

  • On the post: Attention Game Developers And Console Manufacturers: 'Always On' Is NOT The Same As 'Always Connectable'

    Greevar ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2013 @ 12:00pm

    I think this says it all.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pC7gIFUxaC0#t=262s

  • On the post: Oh Look, Rep. Mike Rogers Wife Stands To Benefit Greatly From CISPA Passing…

    Greevar ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2013 @ 06:04am

    But, but, but

    This will create more jobs, right? If defense contractors get more money, surely that translates to more jobs, doesn't it? CISPA is a job creating bill! How could it be bad?

  • On the post: How Big Agribusiness Is Heading Off The Threat From Seed Generics — And Failing To Keep The Patent Bargain

    Greevar ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2013 @ 10:53am

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    Property rights are highly profitable. The more you own, the more you can extort from the market. When you own everything, everyone has to come to you for what they need and then you own the people. Property rights are the source of all monopolies.

    We live in a slave society, formed through indirect ownership of the people. People are owned by creating mechanisms that artificially limit access to resources they need to live.

    In a world that is benefiting from an unprecedented level of abundance, people are still denied the basics of life simply because they don't have what the owners demand in exchange for access. For example, we have more than enough food to feed the entire human population. 40% of our food supply gets wasted in the journey from farm to plate because of marketing concerns. They won't sell food that doesn't live up to their idea of what the "product" should look like, so they throw it away. Yet people starve because the owners demand tribute in order to prolong their opulent existence.

  • On the post: Documentary On The History Of Apple And Microsoft Show It Was All About Copying, Not Patents

    Greevar ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2013 @ 04:01pm

    Re: Re: Microsoft copying

    "Good artists copy. Great artists steal, but not from me." - Steve Jobs

  • On the post: French Politician Wants To Limit How Cheaply Companies Can Sell Goods Online Compared to Physical Shop Prices

    Greevar ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2013 @ 10:51am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: There's more to life than economic efficiency.

    Actually I did, but clearly you didn't read it. Rather, you gleaned what you could use to distort and discredit my comment. I said, demand creates jobs and to increase demand, consumers need money to actually buy the goods that are produced. With all the money sitting at the top 0.1% and so little left for the remaining 99.9%, there's little demand for goods that people can't buy. But you didn't catch on that, you were too busy trying to make me look stupid and you made yourself look like a fool instead.

    That metaphor was clear. An upside down pyramid has no support. Just as putting the majority of the money supply with the top earners. There's more at the top than at the bottom. How is that so hard to understand? And a society with a balanced money supply between the top earners and the bottom creates a more stable economy because people can continue to participate in the market and create the demand for more workers.

    If you can't comprehend that, then you're either an idiot or a troll. Maybe both?

  • On the post: French Politician Wants To Limit How Cheaply Companies Can Sell Goods Online Compared to Physical Shop Prices

    Greevar ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2013 @ 09:29pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: There's more to life than economic efficiency.

    They'll change their tune when they realize their acquisitive compulsion leaves them with a lot of worthless money. The problem with holding the vast majority of the money is that when you have all of the money, it becomes completely worthless.

  • On the post: French Politician Wants To Limit How Cheaply Companies Can Sell Goods Online Compared to Physical Shop Prices

    Greevar ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2013 @ 09:04pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: There's more to life than economic efficiency.

    Out of all of what I said, you took a metaphor and interpreted it literally, just so you could take a jab at me? You can't make a decent counterpoint, so you resort to petty insults. If you don't have anything relevant or cogent to contribute, why don't you just keep it to yourself?

  • On the post: French Politician Wants To Limit How Cheaply Companies Can Sell Goods Online Compared to Physical Shop Prices

    Greevar ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2013 @ 08:20am

    Re: Re: There's more to life than economic efficiency.

    Businesses are not job creators. They only hire people if they absolutely have to. The real job creator is consumer demand. The more people can buy, the more need there is for workers to serve that demand. We currently have a crisis of money distribution. Far too much is at the top and far too little is at the bottom. It looks like an upside-down pyramid. That's not stable. If you tried to stand a pyramid on its tip, it would fall, for good reason and the same goes for the economy. A more reasonable distribution would be a column. A column is balanced, stable. It has support from the bottom up. When the millions in the bottom 1% has as much as the thousands in the top .1%, things will look better. More jobs will appear when more people are demanding goods and services from businesses, but they have to have the money to afford those goods. If nobody can afford the goods we're already producing, why would any business hire more people? They already have a surplus of labor and goods. The demand must be able to absorb the current surplus and beyond in order to spur the creation of more jobs.

    During the great depression a bunch of idiots thought that supply-side incentives and benefits would encourage the creation of more jobs. It failed. Our wonderful representatives still believe this load of horse crap.

  • On the post: John Steele To Court: You Have No Evidence That I've Done Anything Wrong

    Greevar ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2013 @ 08:58pm

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    There's always the charge of falsifying evidence. That's a crime too.

  • On the post: John Steele To Court: You Have No Evidence That I've Done Anything Wrong

    Greevar ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2013 @ 08:56pm

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    That requires a warrant. You can't seize anything without a warrant. To get a warrant, there has to be probable cause to believe there is evidence of a crime, which means they have to be accused of a crime.

  • On the post: Copyright Maximalist Disney Accused Of Copying Artist's Painting On Cosmetic Bag

    Greevar ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2013 @ 09:50pm

    That's how creativity works.

    No Mike, that's not how it works. Remixing ideas into new expressions is creativity, what Woodger did was creative. What Disney did was plagiarism. Woodger has a right to be offended. They took credit for her work. Even a lowlife, pirating, copyright abolitionist like myself can see that Woodger is justified to complain about the handbag. The T-shirt, she has nothing to complain about.

    Had you not known about Alice in Wonderland, would you have noticed there was a reference to it? No, you'd see a girl painting roses and nothing more. None of the elements in the image are particularly unique to Alice in Wonderland. Change the hair color, dress color, and rose colors. Now you have a new image.

  • On the post: Sen. Feinstein Says Congress 'Ready To Take Action' To Rein In Violent Video Games

    Greevar ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2013 @ 08:32am

    When the government treats its people as the enemy,

    the government becomes the enemy of the people.

    Honestly, our own government is waging a war against its own people. Patriot Act, FISA, DHS, DEA, IPEC. What the hell is going on here? Our government is run by a bunch of over-privileged bigots and demagogues. "For the children" has become the telltale indicator of approaching abusive policy.

  • On the post: Copyright As Censorship: University Threatens Own Faculty With Copyright Infringement For Campus Survey

    Greevar ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2013 @ 08:12am

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    No, it only matters if criticism is answered with criticism.

  • On the post: Copyright As Censorship: University Threatens Own Faculty With Copyright Infringement For Campus Survey

    Greevar ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2013 @ 01:25pm

    Re: Re: "And yet, the maximalists tell us..."

    But if we fix copyright/patents, we might be more free to feed that child in Africa (e.g. Monsanto).

  • On the post: Copyright As Censorship: University Threatens Own Faculty With Copyright Infringement For Campus Survey

    Greevar ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2013 @ 01:20pm

    Re: Re: I'll answer your question

    Wait, you mean to say that the value is in your labor rather than your expressions?! Madness!

  • On the post: Copyright As Censorship: University Threatens Own Faculty With Copyright Infringement For Campus Survey

    Greevar ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2013 @ 01:17pm

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    It must be exhausting to keep moving that goal post.

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