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You're right that perhaps what the paper was saying was to radical to be really implemented but sometime radical things are need to bring change! You can't be p

by cdooh 14y ago

You're right that perhaps what the paper was saying was to radical to be really implemented but sometime radical things are need to bring change! You can't be paying over a billlion dollars for the music in a single ipod...

tptacek 14y ago
In one sense, your point and mine can be true at the same time: that radical proposals are what's going to be required to reform copyright, and that the RSC is not only a wildly inappropriate venue for those proposals but also that a single "rogue" RSC staffer had no business putting the RSC behind a policy initiative that virtually nobody in the house on either side supported. Again, you'd be right here and I would at the same time. But in another sense, I'm saying something more about the memo; not only that it was inappropriate for its venue, but that its policy goals were dumb. The Khanna memo would not have made it any less fraught to run a consumer Internet company. It would not have prevented the content industry from leveraging potential bankruptcy against infringers. Apart from reducing copyright terms, it seemed to consist mostly of extravagantly costly political expenditures in the service of cosmetic goals.
- cdooh 14y ago
  It's not the government's job to protect any industry from anything, only to foster jobs and the general economy. The 100 billion the industry makes is besides the point. Further it's been proven that there was nothing 'rogue' about that report, it was properly vet and screened before release but the GOP bowed to lobbist pressure and came up with that lame excuse
  - tptacek 14y ago
    Citation to the vetting that report got?
    - cdooh 14y ago
      Lemme see if I can find it, read it when this story first started
    - cdooh 14y ago
      Got it: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121117/16492521084/hollywood-lobbyists-have-busy-saturday-convince-gop-to-retract-copyright-reform-brief.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121117/16492521084/hollyw...
      - tptacek 14y ago
        So, the memo wasn't vetted. Techdirt just thinks it must have been to have made it onto the RSC site.

by cdooh 14y ago

tptacek 14y ago

In one sense, your point and mine can be true at the same time: that radical proposals are what's going to be required to reform copyright, and that the RSC is not only a wildly inappropriate venue for those proposals but also that a single "rogue" RSC staffer had no business putting the RSC behind a policy initiative that virtually nobody in the house on either side supported. Again, you'd be right here and I would at the same time. But in another sense, I'm saying something more about the memo; not only that it was inappropriate for its venue, but that its policy goals were dumb. The Khanna memo would not have made it any less fraught to run a consumer Internet company. It would not have prevented the content industry from leveraging potential bankruptcy against infringers. Apart from reducing copyright terms, it seemed to consist mostly of extravagantly costly political expenditures in the service of cosmetic goals.

cdooh 14y ago
It's not the government's job to protect any industry from anything, only to foster jobs and the general economy. The 100 billion the industry makes is besides the point. Further it's been proven that there was nothing 'rogue' about that report, it was properly vet and screened before release but the GOP bowed to lobbist pressure and came up with that lame excuse
- tptacek 14y ago
  Citation to the vetting that report got?
  - cdooh 14y ago
    Lemme see if I can find it, read it when this story first started
  - cdooh 14y ago
    Got it: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121117/16492521084/hollywood-lobbyists-have-busy-saturday-convince-gop-to-retract-copyright-reform-brief.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121117/16492521084/hollyw...
    - tptacek 14y ago
      So, the memo wasn't vetted. Techdirt just thinks it must have been to have made it onto the RSC site.