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by bediger 15y ago
Wow, that's really weird. I think you're projecting, Dodd. On the other hand, sometimes I wish I had the presence of mind to falsely accuse others by saying they are doing what I'm actually doing. Of course this requires a lot of gall to c
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by bediger 15y ago
Maybe part of SOPA has the effect you desire. Nevertheless, you've missed the part of the policy argument where you show that the proposed solution does not cause more problems than it solves, and the part where you do a cost/benefit analys
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by bediger 15y ago
Then go after counterfeit drugs specifically. SOPA casts far too wide a net, conflating counterfeit drugs, counterfeit/unauthorized fashion and copyright infringement. This conflation may be part of calling it all "IP" (a falsehood in fact,
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by bediger 15y ago
The "gap" existing in current laws hasn't been demonstrated. That's one of the real issues here. How much harm does counterfeit drugs do? How much harm does "stolen" "IP" do? Once we establish harm, then we can propose solutions. Once we p
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by bediger 15y ago
I propose they enforce it selectively, because everybody knows that a certain class of people is entitled to show status, and that certain other classes of people are not entitled to it. "Sumptuary laws". I like that term. It lets Th
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by bediger 15y ago
Yeah, but then the new class of "rightsholders" would have to pay for the enforcement of these new "rights" themselves. Surely they're entitled to have their "rights" enforced at others' expense.
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by bediger 15y ago
I agree with you on the distinction of copyright and patent with respect to independent invention. But that's just a human-made distinction, in the USA. Whoever wrote the laws didn't get independent invention enacted in patents. I also ag
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by bediger 15y ago
I agree that "Intellectual Property" isn't property per se. It's just too easy to re-invent a particular bit of "IP". I mean, I've done some of those on-line "C Programming Interview Test Questions", and come up with something identical t
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by bediger 15y ago
Those who give up general purpose computing in exchange for convenience deserve neither. Wait, didn't Mark Twain write that?
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by bediger 15y ago
He makes a legit point, and he even raises the "Microsoft Monoculture" issue, asking why the folks alarmed about MSFT aren't alarmed by GOOG. I think they (and we) should be alarmed. Nevertheless, where are all the people, pundits, piemen
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by bediger 15y ago
you are willing to screw over people who genuinely do like ... Gilligan's Island ... because you don't. Your response irritated me beyond its level of highhandedness. And I finally figured out why: I actually do like Gilligan's Island.
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by bediger 15y ago
I didn't just pick out the worst bits: there's far worse, that I couldn't even remember. How many "brand new shows" from last Tee Vee season do you watch? I know how many I do: none. Similar, popular music. I probably wouldn't even miss P
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by bediger 15y ago
"Pro quality" TV series? You mean like "CSI: Miami"? Or "Gilligan's Island"? Or do you mean movies like "The Smurfs" or the US version of "The Vanishing" or "Leave it To Beaver"? Yes, I'd gladly do without all that TV and all the movies,
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by bediger 15y ago
"Deserves" to be paid? That seems a little counter-free-market. IF he produces a photo that someone wants or thinks they can use, THEN he can charge what the market will bear. "Deserves to be paid". Humbug. That's the beginnings of an ari
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by bediger 15y ago
You're kidding, right? A monopoly on "web search"? What are Bing, Yahoo, Blekko, Duckduckgo and others? Chopped liver? You have a monopoly on (or monopoly power in) a market, not in something given away for free. If Gruber had said "Monop
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by bediger 15y ago
I think all National Firewalls of Purity should block sites which contain the word "Shoes" in the URL. How else would they protect their country's precious bodily essence?
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by bediger 15y ago
This article certainly appeals to the "Yankee Ingenuity" in all of us, eh? But one could substitute "copyright infringer" for "unlicensed peddler", and the gist of the argument remains intact. Heck, you could substitute "mild drug dealer"
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by bediger 15y ago
Tell me again about how "the market" chose Microsoft as the market leader?
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by bediger 15y ago
I don't think that OSF had anything special at all. At the time, it looked like HP and DEC (especially DEC) trying to keep Sun and AT&T from steamrollering everything else. Bear in mind that in the mid-to-late 90s, there were a bunch
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by bediger 15y ago
Sure, there's a million ways to make better quality or more desirable goods. That's why the monopoly part of copyrights is undesirable from a consumer's standpoint. Goods of lower quality command higher prices when they're copyrighted or p
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by bediger 15y ago
That's all well and good, but will we see a "Sophail" style tell-all analysis of Norton AV? See: http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/103727/Sophail.pdf for Tavis Ormandy's revelations.
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by bediger 15y ago
Ben Bagdikian called. He wants his truth back. http://www.amazon.com/New-Media-Monopoly-Completely-Chapters...
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by bediger 15y ago
Yeah, I was wondering about "meta-sites", psychologically linked to places that don't have comments/discussions. Maybe disassociating the comments and discussion from the original stimulus is a good idea?
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by bediger 15y ago
I don't think that the "high cost == high value" assumption is true of feature films. I've read that technically, most of the high-grossing films never actually turn a profit, due to very, very strange accounting. When profit is disassocia
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by bediger 15y ago
How about in the case of "better quality mugs"? Trivial examples can often reveal important points, when examined closely. What if Disney Mugs, Inc, a solely-owned subsidiary of Giant Immoral MegaCorp, made very poor quality mugs, ones whe
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by bediger 15y ago
As pointed out, more than one copyright extension has occurred. But it's more than just that: the copyrights are now automatic, and don't depend on something being labeled appropriately, as was true in the USA until 1978. That alone makes "
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by bediger 15y ago
About (5): The grounding in the USA's federal constitution allows copyright but for a very well-defined purpose , increasing the size of the public domain. How much material went into the USA's public domain on January 1st, 2012? Answer: n
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by bediger 15y ago
I've been wondering about the social consequences of being on camera, and automatically recognizable for a while. I've come to believe that we're about to see the end of revealing clothing, at least for women. After all, which woman wants t
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by bediger 15y ago
The money quote (of the analytical section): Yet, research in human-computer interaction barely acknowledges the command line's existence. It's a strange omission, since the core principles of human factors engineering still apply to the c
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by bediger 15y ago
I dunno, this seems like a prima facie argument where the "inherency" step got missed. Does the solution cause more problems than it fixes? If yes, then don't do that solution, live with the problem. But I guess that in the case of SOPA,

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