I like this plan. Copyright fees would cross $1,000,000 by 20 years.
If Disney was to renew their Mickey Mouse copyright this year, it would cost them $19,342,813,113,834,066,795,298,816.
Now you know why they wanted that $45 trillion anti-piracy lawsuit - preparing for the day when they are forced to pay for copyright in those terms
No quite as silly a proposal as you think. Torrents tend to be in 2 kinds - the crappy low quality, shot on a handheld camera, and the perfect, pristine, studio-released screener copy.
So, to prevent piracy, all studios that provide screener copies must be de-listed, as they clearly are actively promoting piracy.
And, by extension, any film ever made by Hollywood is based on a copyright work (even if it's only the screenplay), so they not only promote piracy, they actively produce copyright infringing works. Since Google, Bing et al are bigger than Hollywood, I'll side with the tech guys on this one.
You make some interesting points. However, the Win32 API will probably remain the same. As such, it will be a simple matter of recompiling legacy apps for ARM. I don't see the big problem here?
"Simply recompile" was the argument used to show how portable UNIX was across platforms. However, the end user isn't going to recompile (and the vendor isn't going to hand out the source code to let the end user recompile), so the legacy app just won't work.
(Unless they adopt a true hardware abstraction layer like IBM's AS/400, where the app code was recompiled on the fly for the new architecture on first use. But since x86 apps weren't distributed that way, then it won't happen)
Nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Or is that Aliens....
I believe in the benefits of copyrights. Most of my Web pages are copyrighted. However, the current state of intellectual law is unacceptable. Extending copyright coverage to 90 years (Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998) violates the concept of "limited Times". The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) stifles innovation instead of promoting it. And the primary beneficiaries of these laws are not "Authors and Inventors" but corporate publishers, movie studios, and record companies who reap the bounty of others' creativity. If you agree that this situation is intolerable, tell your representatives and senators in Congress.
I copied the above paragraph from one of my own copyrighted Web pages (with a slight modification in the second sentence). I hereby grant to the public the right to quote that paragraph at will, in all contexts, and in all media.
Duly quoted!
So... is the Study of the Public Domain itself in the public domain (through Creative Commons licencing), or is it copyright too?
It was used as a prop in a movie. Nobody thinks that's real, like the whiskey and champagne they supposedly drink in the movies, it's just a prop. I'd be amazed if they'd spend the insane amounts of money for one of those ugly bags, when they can get something that looks the same on film for a tenth or less the price.
It may be "something that looks the same", but if they didn't ask LV for permission, then it is IP infringement.
Of course, your argument is based on logic and common sense, something lacking in the murky world of IP 'protection'
Some excellent points there.
I'd go with Engineer D - for not "continuing the trend of smaller". The F-22 is pretty much the same size as the F-15 (62ft long with 44ft wingspan for the Raptor). And still around the same size (though with a larger wingspan) than the F-4 Phantom II.
And, going back further, the F-86 Sabre was 37ft long; 37ft wingspan, roughly the same size as the P-51 Mustang.
Most economic models are based on "how we would like people to act" rather than "how people actually act". Much of the time, the model works, but they fail when people act in irrational ways.
Simples.
Android is a copy of iPhone, but not that well done.
O RLY? So why is it that so many of the "cool new features" in iOS 5 are features that Android has had for quite awhile now?
Because Google uses a time machine. Each iteration of Android copies, imperfectly, features from future versions of iOS.
I thought it was Apple that had the Time Machine...
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H.L. Mencken, on Shakespeare