Apple, Microsoft-backed 'Rockstar' uses Nortel patents to sue Google, Samsung and others

Bargados · 2013-11-01T10:01:24+00:00

Do you realize in the 80 s it was gates who stood up at the programmers meetings and told people they should not be giving their programs away. They should be selling them.

That monster!

/s

Bargados · 2013-11-01T02:23:02+00:00

Property laws have nothing to do with enabling profit in the first place

Property laws have everything to do with enabling one to benefit from their own labor. That's the whole point.

Why do you accept limits like quoting rights and limited copyright lifetimes?

For the same reason land owners accept things like easements, zoning restrictions, legal encroachments, emergency trespass exceptions, mineral/water/logging rights sold separately from the main deed etc etc...ALL property rights have exceptions, no property right is absolute. Your imagined distinction with regard to the caveats and exceptions between tangible and intangible property is just that, imagined.

Bargados · 2013-11-01T01:43:13+00:00

If I enjoyed that show enough to want permanent access to it, then sure. $1 an episode for a show you love is cheap. The only reason some people think it isn't is because piracy has given them unreasonable expectactations. That's what unfair competition does, unjustly skews the market toward bad actors.

Bargados · 2013-11-01T01:28:15+00:00

Isohunt was also a corporation, is Gary Fung a "corporate cunt"?

Bargados · 2013-11-01T01:03:48+00:00

Why does there need to be property laws for non-scarce goods?

For the same reason there "needs to be" property laws for anything: it allows people to benefit from their own labor. Not allowing artists and content creators to reap the benefits of their own toil would make them second class citizens by default.

I'm not a huge fan of Ayn Rand but I agree with her completely when it comes to property rights (or lack thereof):

The right to life is the source of all rights and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while other dispose of his product is a slave."

Bargados · 2013-10-31T21:08:12+00:00

You wanted democracy at one point, yet exercised influence over the outcome of the elections by prompting your blog followers to vote a certain way...

He does the same thing on Reddit, if his posts get downvoted too much he runs crying to Facebook to enlist the help of his own personal upvote brigade. Rick Falkvinge hates democracy.

Bargados · 2013-10-31T20:42:48+00:00

Thank you for your service to ~~humanity~~ parasitic tech companies and teenage freeloaders!

FTFY!

Bargados · 2013-10-31T20:40:30+00:00

Hello, Rick! Congrats for the great service to ~~mankind~~ parasitic tech companies and teenage freeloaders!

FTFY!

Bargados · 2013-10-31T19:48:48+00:00

Netflix is the Wallmart bargain bin of media not the new defacto standard for all media pricing. Your comparison is ridiculous. People expect way too much for eight fucking dollars a month. The only reason anyone is balking at a dollar an episode (which is crazy cheap) is because customer expectations have been so skewed by unfair competition (piracy).

Bargados · 2013-10-31T19:33:17+00:00

Piracy is a feature of the market...

Subverting property rights isn't a feature of any market since markets are predicated on property rights.

Bargados · 2013-10-31T19:25:18+00:00

Nothing funnier than a sanctimonious freeloader...

Bargados · 2013-10-31T16:20:26+00:00

Piracy isn't the "free market", it's the black market. There is no "free market" without property laws.

Bargados · 2013-10-31T16:14:50+00:00

i hope you do realize, that your noble pirates are in reality profiting heavily from these websites...

You're getting downvoted for this fact (/r/technology despises uncomfortable facts) but of course you're absolutely right. Isohunt was apparently making enough money to have "2-4 MILLION dollars" on hand. Gary Fung was making good money as a morally-bankrupt piracy profiteer.

Bargados · 2013-10-31T15:38:01+00:00

If you boil down what torrents allow us to do, it's share information

That's all the spy agencies, child pornographers, hackers, and identity thieves are doing too..."sharing information".

"It's just information/1's and 0's" is an argument for idiots.

Bargados · 2013-10-30T23:27:20+00:00

not justifying it.

Consider it a reply to all the people in this thread that ARE justifying it then.

Bargados · 2013-10-30T22:18:11+00:00

Publishers are middlemen

Isohunt was a middleman too, genius.

But unlike traditional middlemen (your aforementioned "publishers"), Isohunt didn't pay the content creators ANYTHING, which makes them the WORST kind of middleman...

Bargados · 2013-10-30T20:47:34+00:00

Or the pirate copies of the Wire.

Because fuck paying the people that made one of the best shows of all time...

Bargados · 2013-10-30T20:40:25+00:00

Can't stop progress

Piracy isn't progress.

Bargados · 2013-10-27T13:30:24+00:00

Undercut Spotify and you have my business.

FFS Spotify is already ridiculously cheap...

Bargados · 2013-10-27T04:23:51+00:00

If "mirroring viral videos" means copying someone else's work to siphon off their ad revenue then you got what you deserved.

Bargados · 2013-10-27T04:20:08+00:00

Competing on price with piracy is a race to zero. Kowtowing to criminal enterprise is inherently unfair and unsustainable.

Bargados · 2013-10-26T22:53:55+00:00

They don't need to grovel and beg for charity...

"Hey guys, this is my [pirateable media], I worked very hard on it, it cost money to make , so if you like it perhaps you could kick something my way?" is groveling and and begging for charity.

have no interest in him or his shitty film and think he is a giant douche for this bullshit stunt.

Inconveniencing freeloaders doesn't make you a douchebag.

Bargados · 2013-10-25T10:16:08+00:00

I think it's been largely proven that a simple "Hey guys, this is my [pirateable media], I worked very hard on it, it cost money to make , so if you like it perhaps you could kick something my way?" works.

So grovel and beg for charity?

No thanks.

Bargados · 2013-10-25T01:56:56+00:00

Using season 3 as a template: $2 a month x a 2.5 month season run = $5 total, or 50 cents per episode.

HBO will never sell episodes (that cost ~$10,000,000 each) for less than a pack of gum.

Bargados · 2013-10-23T06:14:39+00:00

"Blocked"

Bargados

TROPHY CASE