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Comment: Everybody knows the dice are loaded (Score 1) 135

by crystal_rose (#41690509) Attached to: Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Calls For Governments To End Patent Wars

The patient system is broken but that's only a symptom. The real problem is that the people who write laws are in the pockets of the those who benefit from the system being broken.

If the patient system were to be completely re-written from scratch tomorrow, in your country or in mine, does anyone really think the politicians would create a better one than what we currently have?

I don't know how to fix it, but right there is the underlying problem.

Comment: Re:'Fair Use' is not sufficiently well defined (Score 1) 194

by crystal_rose (#41258491) Attached to: The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video's Robotic Overlords

> They should be allowed to run them, however, the consequence of them being wrong should place a large enough deterrent
> that they should not WANT to if it isn't extremely accurate.

Falsely accusing anyone of violating the copyright on X results in X being released to the public domain. Problem solved! By the way, punitive fines in the order of $22k per "lost" page-view* has a pleasing kind of symmetry.

* Everybody knows a "lost" page-view == a lost sale for whoever might be advertising on that page, right?

Comment: Re:Overstated topic title (Score 1) 146

by crystal_rose (#39606705) Attached to: Should Failure Be Rewarded To Spur Innovation?

A failure-intolerant environment would have listened to those concerns, and the iPad never would have launched. And what a mistake THAT would have been..

OMG! One less device to watch porn on. How could civilisation have survived?

But yes, I do agree with the sentiment of your post. Looks like some VP from TFA actually had the intellect to grasp the message of the 'Three Little Pigs' story we learn as children (learn from mistakes and hopefully do better next time).

You never know. If this keeps up we might, one day (lets not get too far ahead of ourselves), get some management up to high-school comprehension level.

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