The problem with Section 230 is the same problem with many other federal regulations; enforcement. The same people want gun safety but don't want to prosecute people who flout the law; especially if they're a protected minority. The ruling elites are quite satisfied with the way Big Social Media works so long as it supports them.
The only way to get people to agree that the system needs fixing is by filing copyright complaints against everything. This is right out of Alinkskys rules for radicals.
The answer is simple. We give the copyright holders the option of extending copyright indefinitely so long as they're willing to pay a progressively increasing fee. If they convert a work to public domain, they get a tax break.
Actually the process is straightforward. The particular bacteria is cultured then treated with a solution from a bacteria rich environment to find something thats eats the bacteria. The best source for finding a bacteriophage is often barnyard effluent.
Bruce Sterling's book, "The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier" is an excellent example of this phenomena. When it was first published in 1992, Mr. Sterling decided to allow e-book versions to be circulated for free.
Whatever his reasoning, the result is that print copies sell out immediately when they hit the shelves. New runs are promptly snapped up by advance orders. I have my copy simply because I found a bookstore employee putting three copies on the shelf in 2012. I took my copy. The other two were gone before I left the store.
Bruce Sterling's book, "The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier" is an excellent example of this phenomena. When it was first published in 1992, Mr. Sterling decided to allow electronic versions to be circulated for free. I expect that Mr. Sterling felt this was a story that needed to be widely read and it is indeed worth reading.
Whatever his reasoning, print copies sell out immediately when they hit the shelves. When a new run is scheduled, advance orders snap up the run and the few books that actually make it to a book shelf disappear within hours. I have a copy simply because, in 2012, I happened across a bookstore employee putting three copies on the shelf. I took a copy for me; the others were gone before I left the store.
For those interested in reading this book, Project Gutenberg now has it.
Well, if Charlie Demerjian's 2004 article tilted, "The INQUIRER Guide to Exploding Batteries" is any indication, I'm surprised they haven't been banned sooner. Of course, this also means they have to ban things like police radios as well.
8% is not that far off from results from general civil suits; maybe about 15 to 20% lower than the average. In the case of the patent trolls, they don't have to win that many to make a living. On the other hand, they don't need to lose that many to lose everything. SCO should be a warning rather than an example.
One potential answer is the outright elimination of patents, copyrights and trademarks; These were supposed to facilitate production, not prevent it. We can do this by legislation or de facto when the whole sorry mess collapses from bureaucratic inertia.
Isn't it a bit too little too late. I remember when that several e-books circulated prior to the release of the last Harry Potter book. Within 12 hours of the sale of the first hard cover book, scanned versions were available. The latter revealed the former to be very, very good fan-fiction. Frankly, I liked the fan-fic better. In any case, failing to release an e-book version leaves a vacuum that others are only too willing to fill. As a result, I bought the hard cover, put it on the shelf and read the e-book.
There are all kinds of piracy and file sharing going on. For instance, here in my neighborhood, there are several libraries which buy one book them allow everyone and anyone to read that one book. The universities are even facilitating this. Their Library Science programs should be called how to commit piracy.
Then, when the original purchaser has read one of your books, they can sell the book at a used book store which will sell it to someone else, buy it back and sell it again and again until the book disintegrates or no one wants to buy it. By your measure, this is blatant piracy.
To answer this blatant theft, we need to burn down the libraries and used book stores. We also need the government to register books so that only authorized readers may possess registered books. Perhaps we should discontinue the teaching of reading in our schools. I will wait for your public support of these measures.
I can't speak for anyone else but Baen provides free e-books and I discovered several authors by this route. If file-sharing is so bad, has it dawned on any of these worthies that once they sell a print copy, it can be read and resold multiple times without the author or the publisher seeing another nickel. I can't do this with e-books.
Best way to deal with this is to focus attention on BMI. T-Mobile should boycott BMI and make sure that everyone who complains is told that BMI caused this. Turn off the T-Mobile ring tone store, cancel renewals on any BMI ring tones, and BMI is not allowed into the T-Mobile system from any 3rd party.
There is a way to restore the balance that our current administration would love; After, say 10 years, levy a progressively increasing annual intellectual property tax. Mot importantly, the copyright would not expire so long as the itellectual property tax was paid.
Profitable works would have no trouble paying the annual tax. The rest could be pay the tax either as a vanity or contribute the work to public domain.
Our government would love this. Think of all the billions they could collect for adult orphans, Anthropogenic Sunspot Depletion or whatever.
It would appear that Feinstein & Durbin are not attempting to protect the tame journalists in the collective media so much as establishing grounds for prosecuting anyone who has the temerity to check facts or even disagree with them. 200 years ago, such would be called petty tyrants. Of course, if the news appeared anonymously, who could they prosecute?
As a member of the collective media, AP has become largely irrelevant. One measure of relevance is whether one can e-mail or call the writer. In articles from AP,I've seen alleged U.S. writers who have no provenance whatsoever. These are distinctive names that should be easy to find. Yet there are no e-mail address, no web pages, no blogs, no location, invisible in deep web searches. Just who are these people writing for AP? Do I trust them? No I don't and that is the core of the issue.
Same circus, different monkey
The problem with Section 230 is the same problem with many other federal regulations; enforcement. The same people want gun safety but don't want to prosecute people who flout the law; especially if they're a protected minority. The ruling elites are quite satisfied with the way Big Social Media works so long as it supports them.
Re: The Only Way To Fix The System
The only way to get people to agree that the system needs fixing is by filing copyright complaints against everything. This is right out of Alinkskys rules for radicals.
What's sauce for the Trump
is sauce for the rest of us.
A few thoughts
The Federal Highway Administration has their "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices" which recommends traffic light settings.
File a complaint with the state attorney general. Short yellow lights are traffic hazards.
Cities have been successfully sued under RICO statutes.
Also, insurance companies have recovered damages from cities for creating traffic hazards.
Unlimited copyright. ... for a price
The answer is simple. We give the copyright holders the option of extending copyright indefinitely so long as they're willing to pay a progressively increasing fee. If they convert a work to public domain, they get a tax break.
The fun starts
The fun starts when 100% of the votes are recorded for Pat Paulsen.
Phage therapy
Actually the process is straightforward. The particular bacteria is cultured then treated with a solution from a bacteria rich environment to find something thats eats the bacteria. The best source for finding a bacteriophage is often barnyard effluent.
An Example
Bruce Sterling's book, "The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier" is an excellent example of this phenomena. When it was first published in 1992, Mr. Sterling decided to allow e-book versions to be circulated for free.
Whatever his reasoning, the result is that print copies sell out immediately when they hit the shelves. New runs are promptly snapped up by advance orders. I have my copy simply because I found a bookstore employee putting three copies on the shelf in 2012. I took my copy. The other two were gone before I left the store.
An Example
Bruce Sterling's book, "The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier" is an excellent example of this phenomena. When it was first published in 1992, Mr. Sterling decided to allow electronic versions to be circulated for free. I expect that Mr. Sterling felt this was a story that needed to be widely read and it is indeed worth reading.
Whatever his reasoning, print copies sell out immediately when they hit the shelves. When a new run is scheduled, advance orders snap up the run and the few books that actually make it to a book shelf disappear within hours. I have a copy simply because, in 2012, I happened across a bookstore employee putting three copies on the shelf. I took a copy for me; the others were gone before I left the store.
For those interested in reading this book, Project Gutenberg now has it.
one answer
Class action lawsuit. There's bound to be some hungry lawyers somewhere and RIAA conspiring with ISPs represents some pretty deep pockets.
Exploding cell phones
Well, if Charlie Demerjian's 2004 article tilted, "The INQUIRER Guide to Exploding Batteries" is any indication, I'm surprised they haven't been banned sooner. Of course, this also means they have to ban things like police radios as well.
Civil Lawsuits
8% is not that far off from results from general civil suits; maybe about 15 to 20% lower than the average. In the case of the patent trolls, they don't have to win that many to make a living. On the other hand, they don't need to lose that many to lose everything. SCO should be a warning rather than an example.
One potential answer
One potential answer is the outright elimination of patents, copyrights and trademarks; These were supposed to facilitate production, not prevent it. We can do this by legislation or de facto when the whole sorry mess collapses from bureaucratic inertia.
Isn't it a bit too little too late. I remember when that several e-books circulated prior to the release of the last Harry Potter book. Within 12 hours of the sale of the first hard cover book, scanned versions were available. The latter revealed the former to be very, very good fan-fiction. Frankly, I liked the fan-fic better. In any case, failing to release an e-book version leaves a vacuum that others are only too willing to fill. As a result, I bought the hard cover, put it on the shelf and read the e-book.
Unrecognized pirates
Uh, Mr. Turow,
There are all kinds of piracy and file sharing going on. For instance, here in my neighborhood, there are several libraries which buy one book them allow everyone and anyone to read that one book. The universities are even facilitating this. Their Library Science programs should be called how to commit piracy.
Then, when the original purchaser has read one of your books, they can sell the book at a used book store which will sell it to someone else, buy it back and sell it again and again until the book disintegrates or no one wants to buy it. By your measure, this is blatant piracy.
To answer this blatant theft, we need to burn down the libraries and used book stores. We also need the government to register books so that only authorized readers may possess registered books. Perhaps we should discontinue the teaching of reading in our schools. I will wait for your public support of these measures.
File-sharing increases sales
I can't speak for anyone else but Baen provides free e-books and I discovered several authors by this route. If file-sharing is so bad, has it dawned on any of these worthies that once they sell a print copy, it can be read and resold multiple times without the author or the publisher seeing another nickel. I can't do this with e-books.
RE:
Best way to deal with this is to focus attention on BMI. T-Mobile should boycott BMI and make sure that everyone who complains is told that BMI caused this. Turn off the T-Mobile ring tone store, cancel renewals on any BMI ring tones, and BMI is not allowed into the T-Mobile system from any 3rd party.
Restoring the balance
There is a way to restore the balance that our current administration would love; After, say 10 years, levy a progressively increasing annual intellectual property tax. Mot importantly, the copyright would not expire so long as the itellectual property tax was paid.
Profitable works would have no trouble paying the annual tax. The rest could be pay the tax either as a vanity or contribute the work to public domain.
Our government would love this. Think of all the billions they could collect for adult orphans, Anthropogenic Sunspot Depletion or whatever.
Cui Bono
It would appear that Feinstein & Durbin are not attempting to protect the tame journalists in the collective media so much as establishing grounds for prosecuting anyone who has the temerity to check facts or even disagree with them. 200 years ago, such would be called petty tyrants. Of course, if the news appeared anonymously, who could they prosecute?
Who really cares about AP?
As a member of the collective media, AP has become largely irrelevant. One measure of relevance is whether one can e-mail or call the writer. In articles from AP,I've seen alleged U.S. writers who have no provenance whatsoever. These are distinctive names that should be easy to find. Yet there are no e-mail address, no web pages, no blogs, no location, invisible in deep web searches. Just who are these people writing for AP? Do I trust them? No I don't and that is the core of the issue.