Posts by Don Christie
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robbery, I've been away, but I'll answer your question.
...because, "Intellectual Property" is simply and expression of ideas. We have ideas all the time, probably hundreds a day. Writing those ideas down is a pretty trivial task (whether in book or computer code form). The idea that the action of writing out an idea should somehow exclude everyone else having a similar thought and acting upon it is not only repugnant, it is stupid.
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I know some may be wondering what happened to the Captain of David's 1st 15. I hired one of Ian Wishart's investigators who found him, have sworn affidavit and a video to prove this.
I think that's success.
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If you'd have been David Haywood your barefootedness would no doubt have been the cause for a sever beating. Lucky for you, eh?
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By the way, even sagenz was claiming the $250k scheme was Obamas. Sage, is it a better idea now? Just asking.
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I called McCain a liar for claiming Obama's insurance plan. Here Palin repeats the lie:
John McCain’s got some great ideas on granting authority, for instance, to the FDIC, making sure that our deposits are insured. He wants to increase that deposit insurance cap of all of our money, our savings, from $100,000 dollars up to $250,000 dollars, so that families like mine, so that we don’t have to worry about our money being safe or not under FDIC.
I think a lot of observers are stunned by the McCain/Palin lying. I think they are mostly too stunned to comment much. Those that do comment have already been shunted aside by their bosses (NBS, for example) at the request of the MCain team.
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I recall I asked yesterday whether his campaign could get anymore weird and erratic.
Yes. Yes, it could.
Which is why we just know the Biden / Palin debate is going to be a blast. She has already started with her "I remember his speeches from 2nd grade" jibes. I bet there is a whole lot more where that came from
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you call this leadership?
Yes. Apparently it will deliver the 12 votes that went AWOL yesterday. Of course, McCain is now claiming it was his idea. Liar.
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Kyle, you are correct in both your assertions. Unfortunately the latest amendments to the Copyright Act and the secretive ACTA agreement take us down the path that I and others have been describing.
We differ on the main identities of Copyright holders. I agree that individual authors, artists etc. are often very amenable to fair use of their works. But the bulk of wokr probably does not belong to them. It has been reassigned.
Disney and others are not at all of the view you describe. And it is this latter group that are causing so much harm and concern.
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Islander - because I might want to learn from your wisdom (but be prevented from doing so or I might want to incorporate your wisdom into something "new" which may be even more fabulous than you are no doubt producing today :-)
I probably wouldn't bother doing either if I knew the RIAA or equivalent were going to dob me in the shit. Which may be a big loss to society (unlikely in my case, but not for the next Da Vinci).
Which is not to say you should not be able to earn a living from your original work. The issue is about stifling others and taking away other peoples' freedoms to maintain your monopoly.
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but I do think that it's easier to sermonise about the evils of copyright when it's not the way you actually earn your living.
As a software developer I do earn a living as a result of Copyright. Just though I would point this out to the "Creators" on this thread.
Let's forget the issue of how long Copyright should last (and many authors & artists think it should be short time for very practical, business reasons). For me a key issue is what rights we are now expected to give up in order to enforce those Copyrights.
In the past, a printing press that was breaching Copyright could be identified and shut down. Production was centralised, individual freedoms hardly affected.
These days copying is a distributed activity (indeed, it has been since the invention of magnetic tape). This means that Copyright holders are more and more seeking to abrogate the rights of their fellow citizens. We are expected to assume guilt as the default position, to hand over web logs for millions of users, to only buy computer devices - that may never ever render Copyrighter material - that has been approved by the recording industry, and to curtail our own creative activities for fear of breaching their "rights" to print money.
I could use a software development example to illustrate that last point. But here is a sadder one. At the Digital Development Forum a multi-media tutor of some renown explained how the creative talents of many of his students would never see the light of day because they probably were in breach of someones Copyright.
There it is in a nutshell, the very thing Copyright is supposed to encourage has been destroyed, and largely due to commercial greed.