Sorry for ignoring this topic for a while. been busy with other things and i still don't have the time to compose a propper reply.
The DMCA, has raised significant civil liberty objections, so has the Hadopi law in France and several others. Look at the Swedish IPRED Laws, or the great Australian firewall. As detailed in the talk by the pirate party at a google talk, enforcement of ant-filesharing requires the curtailing of several civil liberties.
micro-payments is an old idea and it has been just around the corner for over a decade. i don't see it happening until we can be a lot more confident in computer security. how would you prevent an unscrupulus website from randomly charging people without making the system so cumbersome that people feel it's a pain to use? What about people whose computer has been compromised? these are fairly basic problems and i'm not aware of any good solutions to them.
The data doesn't quite show that, also remember there are other, known, factors at work, such as economic ups and downs. Read the studies if you want details. I'm not arguing that file-sharing as a distribution system doesn't create problems, distributors like blockbuster might go the way of the buggy-whip maker when cars became popular.
Once opon a time there was a large outcry against libraries, if they let people borrow books for free how will publishers ever sell books. Later there was hometappeing is killing music. now it's filesharing. somehow I doubt the world will stop turning.
Like the bean free library noted in one of their palavers, authors are not going to go away because their services are still wanted, what is changing is the way they are compensated. this requires a adjustment in business models but that is something that technology has been doing since there was technology.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
Quote:Civil liberties are not undermined by enforcing the laws as they exist. If they were, then you could challenge that in court (or more to the point, the ACLU would).
The DMCA, has raised significant civil liberty objections, so has the Hadopi law in France and several others. Look at the Swedish IPRED Laws, or the great Australian firewall. As detailed in the talk by the pirate party at a google talk, enforcement of ant-filesharing requires the curtailing of several civil liberties.
Quote:I think it was Scott McLeod, although I am sure others have done so, who noted the idea of micro-payments. A mechanism by which pay-for-play content could be rapidly provided in ammounts of a 5 cents to a fraction of a cent.
micro-payments is an old idea and it has been just around the corner for over a decade. i don't see it happening until we can be a lot more confident in computer security. how would you prevent an unscrupulus website from randomly charging people without making the system so cumbersome that people feel it's a pain to use? What about people whose computer has been compromised? these are fairly basic problems and i'm not aware of any good solutions to them.
Quote:file-sharing coincides with a drop in sales and profits. But, of course, that's all just a complete and total coincidence.
The data doesn't quite show that, also remember there are other, known, factors at work, such as economic ups and downs. Read the studies if you want details. I'm not arguing that file-sharing as a distribution system doesn't create problems, distributors like blockbuster might go the way of the buggy-whip maker when cars became popular.
Once opon a time there was a large outcry against libraries, if they let people borrow books for free how will publishers ever sell books. Later there was hometappeing is killing music. now it's filesharing. somehow I doubt the world will stop turning.
Like the bean free library noted in one of their palavers, authors are not going to go away because their services are still wanted, what is changing is the way they are compensated. this requires a adjustment in business models but that is something that technology has been doing since there was technology.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."