That way we have someone to put for all the spam that we get. If he was so smart to invent the system, he should have put safeguards in it.
Let's say he sues Google for gMail. Wins a billion dollars, cause that's the going rate for suing the Goog. Google gets to counter-sue for the 50 trillion or so spam e-mails it filtered out of our inboxes and leaves Shiva with $1.00.
Take your information and throw a big encrypted wrapper on it (truecrypt volume) and upload it to usenet. from there, any person in any country could download the file, but only those who hold the keys can unlock the file.
Not only that, but usenet would serve as a free online backup for the file, and you could download it later. This is easier than a cyberlocker, and it would be held for three years plus on the servers, effectively for free.
Your only problem would be DMCA complaints against the file, taking it off the servers faster than you can say "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
(Just thought of this: Ideally put three wrappers on the files, just to hamper cracking efforts.)
On TV, you fast forward through the commercials. Billboards, no matter how flashy they are, can be ignored.
Enter trap advertisement. Every time you pick up your kindle, you will see the ad. You probably have to swipe through it or enter a key sequence to open the document. That is free advertisement to them.
Another example of the trap advert: The gas pump. You can ignore the credit card offers/rewards gallons/what have you plastered on the top of the pump. You can bypass the prompt for the carwash if you pay cash or go inside.
It is harder to escape the panhandlers/salesmen that approach you while you are pumping fuel, but usually reaching into the truck bed for the steel pipe deters that approach.
What you cannot do is escape the ~75db ad that blares at you from the screen once you start the pump. (I also could have sworn that it actually took longer for that gallon of gas to come out.) After a minute I shut off the pump and went back inside to the balance of what I had pre-paid.
The cashier actually quipped to me about how I didn't need as much as I thought, and my reply was, "I don't need the ads, I'm going somewhere else."
It's nice to be able to go somewhere else. As for the branded lock screens and special offers? there will always be something else to switch to.
Research 'Fritz Chip' or 'CBDTPA' The TV companies already tried to put DRM on their 'HDTV' at the point of recording.
Also research 'Broadcast Flag' and 'Replay TV.' They tried to get the FCC to issue a mandate that all technology that can record HDTV must abide by the rules. 'COPY NEVER' would be good for Presidential speeches.....
Anyways, the broadcast flag is probably embedded in tv tech by threat of lawsuit rather than law. There have already been several documented glitches, which means that somebody is getting ready to flip a switch.
We are rapidly approaching a saturation point where any given sentence can be found in somebody else's work. Pretty soon every work could possibly be infringing on another.
Another example, less obvious.
Person on deathbed, "Who's that? Who's there?"
Me, "I don't see anybody."
"He's there...He's reaching out to me."
Light dawns on my marble head. "That's the reaper. Don't fear the reaper, take his hand and he'll lead you into the light."
that they are a non-profit organization. If they were a for-profit organization like every record label (RIAA) and every movie studio (MPAA) then they could use the logo on every page of Wikipedia.
That includes, of course, subjecting you to a 60-second picture of the logo above some text that tells you that copying, even not-for-profit, personal use copying, is stealing and the FBI will HUNT YOU DOWN!.
was to go to the IMDB and give one-star ratings to all the films that belong to the companies are doing this. (Not that they were 8-or-9 star films to begin with.) I am not a pirate, nor have I seen any of the movies. UWE BOLL, watch out, all your movies are going to visit the one-star devil.
taking away value. All the companies are trying to do is to make sure that they make as much off their customers as humanly possible.
Regarding that station in AU: Don't be surprised that in the future they offer ten or fifteen shows for free, but charge a 'viewing fee' for each episode of any other show.
That is what this is about: Big Media will take all our rights away from us, give us little things for 'free' and charge for the rest. See "Free digital copy" from Warner Bros. That is a right that we already have, but they are trying to make us thing that we don't have that right and will eventually sell those rights back to us piecemeal. If the anti-circumvention portion of the DMCA were taken out, they would not have a leg to stand on....at all.
My daughter recently played 'Rock band' or 'Guitar Hero' or whatever the PS3 version game is over at a friends house. When confronted with her wanting to get a PS3, I made a compromise.
Instead of purchasing a very expensive game console and game, I purchased her a real guitar, amp, and Guitar Pro (she already has a computer). Total was about a third of the cost of a PS3 and now her friends come over and play the real thing. (Usually while I am at work, and no request has been made for drums yet.)
She watches YouTube for Guitar and Piano lessons, and is actually doing very well. (All parents say that, I know.)
Bottom line? Cheaper to learn the real thing, but it was the game that got her started; thank goodness I didn't have to buy THAT.
"The man created it. it's his. he has a reasonable right to decide what use is made of it."
He made a memorial for public display, was paid for it. That's work for hire according to all the 'big content people.'
stop trying to convince us that theft is accapetable.
Aside from the fact that you need a spell-checker 'acceptable,' the memorial is still there, nobody stole it.
That's like the original architect and builders of the World Trade Center towers trying to claim that all of the media outlets in the world owe them money for documentaries related to the attacks on said towers.
Does the sculptor get paid for every person that visits the memorial or for every photograph taken of it? I didn't think so. http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=korean+war+memorial
And felt the song was just.
unlucky for me, I was signed up with MUST.
Now I can't play my music, or even sing a chord
because here in Taiwan, MUST is the overlord.
I tried playing for coins, which people tossed at my feet.
MUST came along and told me to get off the street.
I can't earn any money, without first paying MUST,
Tell me, dear reader, do you think that is just?
Far in the future, we will be sitting around in our rocking chairs having a good laugh at all the trouble the content companies went through to get paid.
Of course, my bank account will be close to empty because I sat through thirty years of CSI being beamed directly into my brain and being charged $3,000 an episode for the privilege. (Adjusted for inflation, of course.)
I will look at my long-obsolete ten terabyte media server with longing for the good old days when I watched such things on a flat-panel television, then I will try to remember what television was, and that I needed my glasses to watch it, then I will settle back and watch a news flash beamed into my head...Iran just released all the political prisoners taken captive during the demonstrations following the 2009 election.
2009? Oh yes, I remember that year. We had elected representatives to Congress! ZAP! Another message comes into my head..."You are not allowed to think about free democratic society. This warning courtesy of the Corporate States of America."
2009? Oh, yes, that's when every country in the world signed that ZAP! treaty ZAP! that gave corporations everything ZAP! they needed ZAP! to stamp out consumer choice. ZAP! ZAP! ZAP! "We're sorry, but your thought process has strayed to freedom. This is not allowed. You will be terminated. ZAP!
"There's a lot of built in artificial scarcities in the system, and opening up the flow of information changes that."
This reminds me of something else...
Like Music and Movies online (filesharing) They made money as long as they had scarce goods. (A cd or dvd.) Once filesharing took off, that scarcity went away. Is it any wonder why the MAFIAA sues everything in sight?
Anyways...
There is also an artificial scarcity built into test records. They COULD give you a copy of an MRI on a DVD for little or no cost in a standard format, but they WANT you to pay $300.00 a copy, plus courier costs. Then, if you want a SECOND opinion...
I would like to be able to carry my medical records around on a flash drive. I WANT to go get a second opinion without having to go through fifty pages of privacy act notices and then having to make another appointment because I missed some minute initial block on page 36.
I would LOVE to be able to hand a flash drive over to my doctor and say...Here ya go doc, what do you think?
Could you imagine your CHEM tests, laid out in a nice neat spreadsheet, so a doctor could look over ten or fifteen years of physical data just by moving a mouse, (or a touchpad, or ideally a big old 46" flatpanel touchscreen?)
Look out, local hospital, the days of the $12.00 acetaminophen pill are numbered. Especially when a person can go to the local Wally-world and get 1200 for $12.00. (couldn't resist)
I say let him take the credit for email
That way we have someone to put for all the spam that we get. If he was so smart to invent the system, he should have put safeguards in it.
Let's say he sues Google for gMail. Wins a billion dollars, cause that's the going rate for suing the Goog. Google gets to counter-sue for the 50 trillion or so spam e-mails it filtered out of our inboxes and leaves Shiva with $1.00.
Everybody wins.
The best way around both.
Take your information and throw a big encrypted wrapper on it (truecrypt volume) and upload it to usenet. from there, any person in any country could download the file, but only those who hold the keys can unlock the file.
Not only that, but usenet would serve as a free online backup for the file, and you could download it later. This is easier than a cyberlocker, and it would be held for three years plus on the servers, effectively for free.
Your only problem would be DMCA complaints against the file, taking it off the servers faster than you can say "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
(Just thought of this: Ideally put three wrappers on the files, just to hamper cracking efforts.)
Trap advertisement.
AKA: Ads you can't get away from, or ignore.
On TV, you fast forward through the commercials. Billboards, no matter how flashy they are, can be ignored.
Enter trap advertisement. Every time you pick up your kindle, you will see the ad. You probably have to swipe through it or enter a key sequence to open the document. That is free advertisement to them.
Another example of the trap advert: The gas pump. You can ignore the credit card offers/rewards gallons/what have you plastered on the top of the pump. You can bypass the prompt for the carwash if you pay cash or go inside.
It is harder to escape the panhandlers/salesmen that approach you while you are pumping fuel, but usually reaching into the truck bed for the steel pipe deters that approach.
What you cannot do is escape the ~75db ad that blares at you from the screen once you start the pump. (I also could have sworn that it actually took longer for that gallon of gas to come out.) After a minute I shut off the pump and went back inside to the balance of what I had pre-paid.
The cashier actually quipped to me about how I didn't need as much as I thought, and my reply was, "I don't need the ads, I'm going somewhere else."
It's nice to be able to go somewhere else. As for the branded lock screens and special offers? there will always be something else to switch to.
obligatory comment....
you reap what you sow.... Monsanto.
Re:
Research 'Fritz Chip' or 'CBDTPA' The TV companies already tried to put DRM on their 'HDTV' at the point of recording.
Also research 'Broadcast Flag' and 'Replay TV.' They tried to get the FCC to issue a mandate that all technology that can record HDTV must abide by the rules. 'COPY NEVER' would be good for Presidential speeches.....
Anyways, the broadcast flag is probably embedded in tv tech by threat of lawsuit rather than law. There have already been several documented glitches, which means that somebody is getting ready to flip a switch.
fireworks and copyright infringement.
Ohhhhh....
Ah.......
Oh my.....
Goodness!!!!!
Gracious....
Look at those great balls of fire!!!
Please.
We are rapidly approaching a saturation point where any given sentence can be found in somebody else's work. Pretty soon every work could possibly be infringing on another.
Another example, less obvious.
Person on deathbed, "Who's that? Who's there?"
Me, "I don't see anybody."
"He's there...He's reaching out to me."
Light dawns on my marble head. "That's the reaper. Don't fear the reaper, take his hand and he'll lead you into the light."
Enough?
The reason that Wikipedia can't use the logo is......
that they are a non-profit organization. If they were a for-profit organization like every record label (RIAA) and every movie studio (MPAA) then they could use the logo on every page of Wikipedia.
That includes, of course, subjecting you to a 60-second picture of the logo above some text that tells you that copying, even not-for-profit, personal use copying, is stealing and the FBI will HUNT YOU DOWN!.
Sue Me!
I have Netstumbler installed on my laptop and turn it on whenever I go out just because I can!
And yes "nobodyseesme" you forgot to turn your SSID Broadcast off.
my moronic act for the day
was to go to the IMDB and give one-star ratings to all the films that belong to the companies are doing this. (Not that they were 8-or-9 star films to begin with.) I am not a pirate, nor have I seen any of the movies. UWE BOLL, watch out, all your movies are going to visit the one-star devil.
Next up....amazon.com.
Content Industries, before you start to celebrate:
campaign over.
Al Yankovic has already advised us of the consequences of 'stealing music.'
First you start out stealing songs,
then you're robbing liquor stores,
and selling crack
and running over schoolkids with your car...
So don't download this song..
and so on. Sing along.
It is not about....
taking away value. All the companies are trying to do is to make sure that they make as much off their customers as humanly possible.
Regarding that station in AU: Don't be surprised that in the future they offer ten or fifteen shows for free, but charge a 'viewing fee' for each episode of any other show.
That is what this is about: Big Media will take all our rights away from us, give us little things for 'free' and charge for the rest. See "Free digital copy" from Warner Bros. That is a right that we already have, but they are trying to make us thing that we don't have that right and will eventually sell those rights back to us piecemeal. If the anti-circumvention portion of the DMCA were taken out, they would not have a leg to stand on....at all.
As long as...
Antigua doesn't sign into ACTA, we'll be all right. Fair use will still reign supreme whether the industry likes it or not.
(Home of Slysoft, maker of AnyDVD+HD)
In defense of 'games'
My daughter recently played 'Rock band' or 'Guitar Hero' or whatever the PS3 version game is over at a friends house. When confronted with her wanting to get a PS3, I made a compromise.
Instead of purchasing a very expensive game console and game, I purchased her a real guitar, amp, and Guitar Pro (she already has a computer). Total was about a third of the cost of a PS3 and now her friends come over and play the real thing. (Usually while I am at work, and no request has been made for drums yet.)
She watches YouTube for Guitar and Piano lessons, and is actually doing very well. (All parents say that, I know.)
Bottom line? Cheaper to learn the real thing, but it was the game that got her started; thank goodness I didn't have to buy THAT.
AP Headlines calling it Piracy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_en_ot/us_books_orwell_removed
I wonder if any of the profits from this 'Piracy' went to terrorists.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/03/us-attorney-general-piracy-funds-terror.ars
Work for Hire
"The man created it. it's his. he has a reasonable right to decide what use is made of it."
He made a memorial for public display, was paid for it. That's work for hire according to all the 'big content people.'
stop trying to convince us that theft is accapetable.
Aside from the fact that you need a spell-checker 'acceptable,' the memorial is still there, nobody stole it.
That's like the original architect and builders of the World Trade Center towers trying to claim that all of the media outlets in the world owe them money for documentaries related to the attacks on said towers.
Does the sculptor get paid for every person that visits the memorial or for every photograph taken of it? I didn't think so. http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=korean+war+memorial
Oops, somebody better warn Flickr.
Ray Bradbury
"Fahrenheit 451 is next."
Unfortunately, you'll have to pick another title. As reported here on Techdirt, Ray Bradbury hates the internet and will never release digital copies.
"Burn em to ashes, then burn the ashes."
I wrote a song..
And felt the song was just.
unlucky for me, I was signed up with MUST.
Now I can't play my music, or even sing a chord
because here in Taiwan, MUST is the overlord.
I tried playing for coins, which people tossed at my feet.
MUST came along and told me to get off the street.
I can't earn any money, without first paying MUST,
Tell me, dear reader, do you think that is just?
Feel free to spread that around.....
One day,
Far in the future, we will be sitting around in our rocking chairs having a good laugh at all the trouble the content companies went through to get paid.
Of course, my bank account will be close to empty because I sat through thirty years of CSI being beamed directly into my brain and being charged $3,000 an episode for the privilege. (Adjusted for inflation, of course.)
I will look at my long-obsolete ten terabyte media server with longing for the good old days when I watched such things on a flat-panel television, then I will try to remember what television was, and that I needed my glasses to watch it, then I will settle back and watch a news flash beamed into my head...Iran just released all the political prisoners taken captive during the demonstrations following the 2009 election.
2009? Oh yes, I remember that year. We had elected representatives to Congress! ZAP! Another message comes into my head..."You are not allowed to think about free democratic society. This warning courtesy of the Corporate States of America."
2009? Oh, yes, that's when every country in the world signed that ZAP! treaty ZAP! that gave corporations everything ZAP! they needed ZAP! to stamp out consumer choice. ZAP! ZAP! ZAP! "We're sorry, but your thought process has strayed to freedom. This is not allowed. You will be terminated. ZAP!
Kinda like...
"There's a lot of built in artificial scarcities in the system, and opening up the flow of information changes that."
This reminds me of something else...
Like Music and Movies online (filesharing) They made money as long as they had scarce goods. (A cd or dvd.) Once filesharing took off, that scarcity went away. Is it any wonder why the MAFIAA sues everything in sight?
Anyways...
There is also an artificial scarcity built into test records. They COULD give you a copy of an MRI on a DVD for little or no cost in a standard format, but they WANT you to pay $300.00 a copy, plus courier costs. Then, if you want a SECOND opinion...
I would like to be able to carry my medical records around on a flash drive. I WANT to go get a second opinion without having to go through fifty pages of privacy act notices and then having to make another appointment because I missed some minute initial block on page 36.
I would LOVE to be able to hand a flash drive over to my doctor and say...Here ya go doc, what do you think?
Could you imagine your CHEM tests, laid out in a nice neat spreadsheet, so a doctor could look over ten or fifteen years of physical data just by moving a mouse, (or a touchpad, or ideally a big old 46" flatpanel touchscreen?)
Look out, local hospital, the days of the $12.00 acetaminophen pill are numbered. Especially when a person can go to the local Wally-world and get 1200 for $12.00. (couldn't resist)