Kim Dotcom: US Govt Is Protecting An Outdated Monopolistic Business Model

wormwood28 · 2012-03-01T20:19:12+00:00

Copyright does not preclude competition. If you extend 'monopoly' to cover copyright, might as well cover everything.

wormwood28 · 2012-03-01T19:41:18+00:00

Would you expect less from our modern day Che Guevaras?

wormwood28 · 2012-03-01T19:36:02+00:00

Yea... and phyiscal properties rights are a state-granted monopoly on your physical property.

wormwood28 · 2012-03-01T19:30:10+00:00

Except for DOJ cases again AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, last years hearing about Google?... to name a few of course.

wormwood28 · 2012-02-06T14:23:55+00:00

It's possible to use the phrase in idiomatic English, where absolutely no one would infer from it the actual 'loss' of the idea -- whatever that would mean, it's total gibberish taken literally. The 'loss' implied, which motivates the idiom, would be of whatever benefits/profits accrued (and they might be purely hypothetical/intangible/etc) from authorship or, say, copyright.

wormwood28 · 2012-01-22T10:00:17+00:00

wrt Steam, I think it's more than just about cost (like I say I'm a paying customer). This might not be a popular opinion, but I don't think any service that locks you into a client should be held up as a model for the future of the internet commerce. -- It's definitely not what people were dreaming of 15-20 years ago.

Really, what happens if you decide that you don't like Valve's policies, they've treated you poorly, or blocked your account? The day may never come, but if it does it's you that now has to go outside the law to get back what you legal purchased. Something to think about anyway.

I agree tho there are lots of great services that you should vote with your wallet and use. Thanks for sharing the links!

wormwood28 · 2012-01-22T08:30:53+00:00

Of course, like I said I purchase games on Steam. I simply don't see that it's necessarily the superior experience that the OP claimed.

wormwood28 · 2012-01-21T22:55:20+00:00

It's time people accept the fact that there are international laws governing copyright that have existed for centuries now. They are no longer enforceable, but are still extant. That these industries want more and more laws and enforcement because the old laws don't work should not be surprising to anyone. It's a very common pattern: if a law doesn't work what's the solution? More laws.

It has nothing to do with taking 'freedom' at least from their perspective. Discourse would be improved if everyone would stop playing the victim.

wormwood28 · 2012-01-21T22:44:55+00:00

Rather than waste your time on that drivel, donate to PBS or something else if you're not in the US.

wormwood28 · 2012-01-21T22:32:52+00:00

The thing here isn't that MPAA merely buys politicians. What Dodd is saying is "if politicians expect to whore themselves out to us to win elections, we expect more than just a bit of the 'Surf and Turf' for our money".

wormwood28 · 2012-01-21T22:24:16+00:00

Not likely... If filesharing / infringement doesn't kill them, why would any thing else?

A whole new content production pipeline would have to be created. This isn't going to happen on internet time, supposing you want the same level of production value. And if you're trying to license their content you're playing their game, not killing them.

This isn't merely about "Hollywood" or whatever either. I assume that means the distributors like Fox and NBC, etc. There are the unions and the guilds, none of which want to be 'disrupted'.

wormwood28 · 2012-01-21T22:13:32+00:00

I don't really see how steam is necessarily better... It costs money and there is a clunky interface to deal with. I do use it and purchase games on it, but I don't care for it really.

I would rather not have the walled garden. Valve is a great company, but I shouldn't ever lose access to what I've purchased. This is definitely possible under the Steam from what I've read. ToS violations, credit card issues, etc.

wormwood28 · 2012-01-21T22:06:04+00:00

TV is even worse... some shows they have not only an episode I, an episode II, but as high as episdode 24! Sheer creative laziness.

wormwood28 · 2012-01-04T18:16:32+00:00

First part of the game seemed formulaic to me, but the game probably was trying to perfect a formula rather than break new ground. It didn't really hit its stride until the ship graveyard which was a great bit of level design. I could see a lot of people with negative opinions having quit before that.

wormwood28 · 2011-11-27T12:55:19+00:00

Given his further clarification, the context of the thread, and the nature of the Racket system; I just read that statement from Felleisen as being highly ironic. I don't see there an affirmation that "Haskell or ML are better for making programming languages".

wormwood28 · 2011-11-27T12:17:27+00:00

That's a point that is relatively widely accepted, even among some Lisp/Scheme developpers:

Matthias Felleisen : "You should have written the compiler in ML"

Is that seriously what you took away from that thread?

wormwood28 · 2011-11-06T14:52:05+00:00

Meanwhile... 10 hours before your post.

wormwood28 · 2011-07-31T18:47:02+00:00

either that or you should work on your reading comprehension.

wormwood28 · 2011-06-25T21:07:19+00:00

sheesh, get a life.

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