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• On the post: Teenager And Composer Argue Over File Sharing

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2010 @ 08:08am

  Re: Re: Re: Illegal is Illegal

  any time, effort, or money spent trying to stop file sharing is time, effort and money that is not just wasted, but actually invested in ill will against you and your product.
  
  Investing in ill will. Well said.

• On the post: The Myth That Without Gov't Monopolies Or Subsidies, Discoveries Will Be Hidden By Secrets

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2010 @ 07:04am

  True of other culture, too

  It costs as much to access information as it does to make it.
  
  Same with the rest of culture. I am continually baffled that people fail to acknowledge the work that goes into "consuming" art. In fact it's not "consuming," it's attending.
  
  Attention is scarce. Information is not. Do the math.

• On the post: Pushing For More Stringent Copyright Laws Is The Opposite Of Allowing 'Market Forces' To Act

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2010 @ 05:29am

  Re: Re: Re: timely

  Er...Cory Doctorow does favor some copyright, and releases his books under -NC ("non-commercial") CC licenses, aka commercial monopolies. The whole point of -NC restrictions is to prevent commercial competition; the justification is that these monopolies provides incentives for works to be created that wouldn't be created otherwise.
  
  I strongly disagree with -NC licenses and commercial monopolies, which happen to be incompatible with a functional market. Others believe they are worth the social cost.
  
  So I am probably one of those "radical extremists," but Cory is not.

• On the post: Pushing For More Stringent Copyright Laws Is The Opposite Of Allowing 'Market Forces' To Act

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2010 @ 10:45am

  timely

  A video of me saying just that went up just the other day!

• On the post: As Google Voice Opens For All… It's Hit With Patent Infringement Claims

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2010 @ 03:17pm

  Re: ...Ok, that's it, I'm convinced now...

  Free Markets?! What are you, a COMMUNIST???

• On the post: Terrible News: Court Says It's Okay To Remove Content From The Public Domain And Put It Back Under Copyright

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2010 @ 03:23pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I'm starting to see the side of the copyright abologists

  I need to send a stronger signal that my work is Free. Viewers need to know they can legally copy and share the work, which is vital to the film's distribution. Other artists and innovators need to know they won't be sued for building on the work. Otherwise it will be assumed "owned" by default - and the law backs that up. Free licenses aren't a perfect solution, but they're the best solution we've got in this everything-copyrighted-by-default regime.

• On the post: Terrible News: Court Says It's Okay To Remove Content From The Public Domain And Put It Back Under Copyright

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2010 @ 10:53am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: I'm starting to see the side of the copyright abologists

  Creative Commons is worse than copyright as it promotes the same kind of dangerous "permission culture" it purports to eliminate. It creates an entirely new thicket around terms like "attribution" and "noncommercial use" that are entirely unnecessary.
  
  Not worse than copyright, but I agree with the rest, and I hate that CC's genuinely Free licenses (Share-Alike (copyleft), CC-0, and Attribution only) are lumped in with their restrictive -NC and -ND licenses, so all are called just "Creative Commons licenses." CC-NC and CC-ND are CC-BS.
  
  I don't want license proliferation, which is why I use CC's BY-SA, but I wish there were a viable competing organization that offered only Free licenses. I don't support over half of CC's licenses, and hate the implication that my use of their Free license means I support all their unfree crap.

• On the post: Armenia Decides It Needs Incredibly Strict Copyright Laws

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2010 @ 10:14am

  Re: Re: Re: Excellent

  I meant it's hard to persuade by using facts. Unfortunately, the facts bear that out.

• On the post: Armenia Decides It Needs Incredibly Strict Copyright Laws

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2010 @ 10:12am

  Re: Re: Excellent

  It's very hard to argue with facts, as the ongoing copyright "debate" proves. Facts aren't at all persuasive, unfortunately.

• On the post: Successful Content Creators Who Use YouTube To Get Around Gatekeepers Worried About Viacom Lawsuit

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2010 @ 01:33pm

  copyright criminalizes competition

  Hollywood has been the gatekeeper for entertainment content for ages. It doesn't like the fact that it's losing that role. This fight isn't so much about copyright as it is about Hollywood's continued need to block out alternative routes for distribution that it cannot control.
  
  Yes. But it is about copyright, because that's what copyright is for: eliminating competition.

• On the post: Four Years In, How Successful Has Hollywood's Attack On The Pirate Bay Been?

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2010 @ 08:55am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:comparing so-called piracy to drug dealing ?

  If true, it's not a pirate; it's a plagiarist.

• On the post: Hurt Locker Producer Says That Criticizing His Plan To Sue Fans Means You're A Moron And A Thief

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 19 May, 2010 @ 06:02pm

  Re: Re: You're Missing a Point...

  Hahahahahahaha!

• On the post: Hollywood Gets Injunction Against Pirate Bay Bandwidth Provider?

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 13 May, 2010 @ 08:15am

  Kill 'em all

  Let's just say Germany is harboring pirates, and invade. That's what we do to any countries harboring terrorists, right? Except Florida, of course. And everywhere else in the world. Fortunately, since every state harbors pirates and terrorists somewhere, we can invade anywhere we like!

• On the post: Effort Underway For Defensive Patent Pool For Open Source Developers

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 11 May, 2010 @ 06:20am

  Re: Re: Re: What about those who don't believe in patents at all?

  And maintain commercial monopolies via the -NC licenses. :-(

• On the post: Costa Rican Money Might Infringe On Artist's Copyright?

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 04 May, 2010 @ 07:13am

  Dear World,

  Please print money using images from Sita Sings the Blues. That would be the coolest "commercial use" ever. Talk about turning art into money!
  
  You're welcome.

• On the post: Now That The Exaflood's Debunked, Fear The Exacloud!

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 04 May, 2010 @ 07:06am

  names

  "Capacitastrophe" is excellent.
  
  I've always thought of it as "infopocalypse," but apparently some people use that term to mean something else.

• On the post: Nina Paley: My Decision To Turn Down Netflix Due To DRM

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2010 @ 01:06pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Here we go...

  Netflix already offers DRM free streaming.
  
  No, they don't.

• On the post: Avatar Blu-Ray Customers Not Enjoying Their DRM-Crippled Discs

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2010 @ 08:26am

  Re: Citizens Rebellion from Anti-Piracy STupidity On Recorded Media

  I meant, nice acronym.

• On the post: Avatar Blu-Ray Customers Not Enjoying Their DRM-Crippled Discs

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2010 @ 08:25am

  Re: Citizens Rebellion from Anti-Piracy STupidity On Recorded Media

  Nice anagram.

• On the post: Nina Paley: My Decision To Turn Down Netflix Due To DRM

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2010 @ 07:54am

  Competition

  Interestingly, Netflix competitor IndiePix picked up this story, to point out their video-on-demand (VOD) service is unencumbered with DRM.
  
  I hope other competitors to Netflix, iTunes, etc. come forward to stress the value of their DRM-free services. This is how competition is supposed to work. If it's clear there is demand for DRM-free VOD, ultimately even the "big guys" will see it's in their interest to offer it too. But first audiences need to know what DRM is, and that DRM-free alternatives exist.

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