You know, there are some things that will someday seem obvious to any reasonably person as completely wrong and nuts, that at the times seemed completely rational. Racism, slavery, and the inferior status of women were all once taken mostly for granted by all except a few, but now are considered generally indefensible, at least in theory.
Someday, the true may be said of this idea: that corporate ownership of intellectual property takes priority over folk and grassroots enthusiasms (particularly nonfraudulent and not-for-profit ones); that the owners of popular culture enjoy the benefits of the ubiquity of that culture, a culture which has in some sense colonized our subconscious (I have dreams with Bugs Bunny and the Enterprise in it - but if I depicted one of my own dreams publicly, I'd risk a lawsuit) but refuse to allow that ubiquity when it doesn't serve them.
Unfortunate, there is no indication that the increasingly global plutocracy is going to become reasonable any time in the near future. But I still hold out hope. What would it take for that to happen?
What will it take?
Massive civil disobedience, a la Napster...
I don't think that the IP holders can win this war the way they're trying to. Until they provide the same materials more conveniently, there will be always be Napsters and Morpheuses and Aibohacks. As one is shut down, others will pop up.
The DMCA might be a bad law, but effectively I'm able to take all the rights I'd wish to have under a perfect system. So do most people. So who is winning?
I don't think that the IP holders can win this war the way they're trying to.
Except that it corporate (especially large corporate) "IP" holders who are enguaging in this. If this were simply about copyright holders then you'd stuff to be being pulled off the websites of large corporations daily at the request of individuals and small business.
I'm going to take the same attitude with Sony as I have with other abusers of patent and copyright law. If there's opportunity to put the shaft to 'em, I'm gonna.
Should I ever have an Aibo, I'll be doing my damnest to hack it.
The same shoe will also fit on the other foot. Maybe one day people will think it criminal to leave an idea languishing with a poverty stricken individual instead of realising its full potential with a cashed up development fund.
For the record, I find the idea that a notional entity should enjoy more privileges than a flesh & blood person to be a worrysome development.
Xix.
The more cordial the buyer's secretary, the greater the odds that the
competition already has the order.
Just plain wrong. (Score:5, Insightful)
Someday, the true may be said of this idea: that corporate ownership of intellectual property takes priority over folk and grassroots enthusiasms (particularly nonfraudulent and not-for-profit ones); that the owners of popular culture enjoy the benefits of the ubiquity of that culture, a culture which has in some sense colonized our subconscious (I have dreams with Bugs Bunny and the Enterprise in it - but if I depicted one of my own dreams publicly, I'd risk a lawsuit) but refuse to allow that ubiquity when it doesn't serve them.
Unfortunate, there is no indication that the increasingly global plutocracy is going to become reasonable any time in the near future. But I still hold out hope. What would it take for that to happen?
Re:Just plain wrong. (Score:2, Troll)
What will it take?
Massive civil disobedience, a la Napster...
I don't think that the IP holders can win this war the way they're trying to. Until they provide the same materials more conveniently, there will be always be Napsters and Morpheuses and Aibohacks. As one is shut down, others will pop up.
The DMCA might be a bad law, but effectively I'm able to take all the rights I'd wish to have under a perfect system. So do most people. So who is winning?
Re:Just plain wrong. (Score:2)
Except that it corporate (especially large corporate) "IP" holders who are enguaging in this.
If this were simply about copyright holders then you'd stuff to be being pulled off the websites of large corporations daily at the request of individuals and small business.
Re:Just plain wrong. (Score:2)
I'm going to take the same attitude with Sony as I have with other abusers of patent and copyright law. If there's opportunity to put the shaft to 'em, I'm gonna.
Should I ever have an Aibo, I'll be doing my damnest to hack it.
Re:Just plain wrong. (Score:2)
Or private ownership will be seen as irrational (Score:2)
For the record, I find the idea that a notional entity should enjoy more privileges than a flesh & blood person to be a worrysome development.
Xix.