Comment Re:Obligatory "Your post advocates a" checklist (Score 1) 167
Yours seems better than mine, but since I did work up a related checklist some time ago, maybe someone will see fit to cull a few items from it.
Your suggestion advocates a
( ) technical (X) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting copyright infringement. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws.)
( ) Analog hole
( ) A file only has to be cracked once
( ) The entire system only has to be cracked once
( ) Playback hardware must contain the decryption key
( ) An IP address is not a person
(X) Sneakernet
(X) Jurisdictional problems
(X) Cannot distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate uses
(X) It will stop infringement for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) It is illegal
(X) Requires too much cooperation from other bodies
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(X) Users will not put up with it
( ) Apple will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Courts will not put up with it... eventually
It may cause the following problems specifically for users of the products in question:
( ) Incompatibility with otherwise working devices they already own
( ) No backups
( ) No timeshifting
( ) No shifting across multiple owned devices
(X) No quoting, parody, etc. reuse
( ) SOL if the activation server goes down, internet connection is lost, or the creating company folds
( ) Loss of the right of first sale
( ) Inability to control own devices
( ) Security holes
( ) Inferior product to a pirated version
and the following general objections to your argument may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
(X) The activity in question is not actually copyright infringement
(X) You are not willing to be held to this standard
( ) You routinely infringe others' work
( ) You have quietly encouraged infringement of your own work
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of private computers
( ) The Internet is not a series of tubes
( ) Incompatibility with open source or open source licenses
( ) Breaks important standards
( ) You are a rent seeker
(X) Anyone with deep pockets for litigation could destroy anyone else's life or business
( ) As above, but without even the need to litigate
( ) Copyright infringement should remain a civil matter
(X) Disproportionate penalties
(X) It would make it impossible for anybody to safely automatically accept user-generated content
(X) It would make it impossible for anybody to safely link to anything
(X) People will not bother to check that their recognition tool avoids false positives or that they actually own the material in question
( ) Copyright infringement is not theft
( ) A download is not a lost sale
( ) Some artists do not belong to your cartel
( ) Even within your cartel the artists won't end up with the money
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your headquarters down!
Your suggestion advocates a
( ) technical (X) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting copyright infringement. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws.)
( ) Analog hole
( ) A file only has to be cracked once
( ) The entire system only has to be cracked once
( ) Playback hardware must contain the decryption key
( ) An IP address is not a person
(X) Sneakernet
(X) Jurisdictional problems
(X) Cannot distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate uses
(X) It will stop infringement for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) It is illegal
(X) Requires too much cooperation from other bodies
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(X) Users will not put up with it
( ) Apple will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Courts will not put up with it... eventually
It may cause the following problems specifically for users of the products in question:
( ) Incompatibility with otherwise working devices they already own
( ) No backups
( ) No timeshifting
( ) No shifting across multiple owned devices
(X) No quoting, parody, etc. reuse
( ) SOL if the activation server goes down, internet connection is lost, or the creating company folds
( ) Loss of the right of first sale
( ) Inability to control own devices
( ) Security holes
( ) Inferior product to a pirated version
and the following general objections to your argument may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
(X) The activity in question is not actually copyright infringement
(X) You are not willing to be held to this standard
( ) You routinely infringe others' work
( ) You have quietly encouraged infringement of your own work
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of private computers
( ) The Internet is not a series of tubes
( ) Incompatibility with open source or open source licenses
( ) Breaks important standards
( ) You are a rent seeker
(X) Anyone with deep pockets for litigation could destroy anyone else's life or business
( ) As above, but without even the need to litigate
( ) Copyright infringement should remain a civil matter
(X) Disproportionate penalties
(X) It would make it impossible for anybody to safely automatically accept user-generated content
(X) It would make it impossible for anybody to safely link to anything
(X) People will not bother to check that their recognition tool avoids false positives or that they actually own the material in question
( ) Copyright infringement is not theft
( ) A download is not a lost sale
( ) Some artists do not belong to your cartel
( ) Even within your cartel the artists won't end up with the money
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your headquarters down!
