What do you think of copy-protection in Audio-CD's ?
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Furry Spatula
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I dont think so. Because if you buy a foriegn DVD it wont always run on domestic DVD players and thats not illegal. Aslong as it is clear that if can't run on your computer on the packaging then they are in the clear. But if they do get those melting cd's i can smell lawsuits comming for damaged computers when they have their fine print warning. If they do have warnings then they should AT LEAST be as visible as parental advisory warnings.
Aphex_Twin
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Question... when does a copyright expire?
I know patents last for 20 or so years, but never heard something similar for copyright... maybe it never expires...
I know patents last for 20 or so years, but never heard something similar for copyright... maybe it never expires...
onejayhawk
Afflicted with reason
On Baen books website there is a free library. Eric Flint, one of Baen's authors, posted a manifesto of sorts. Here. Some excerpts.
The first is what you might call a "matter of principle." This all started as a byproduct of an online "virtual brawl" I got into with a number of people, some of them professional SF authors, over the issue of online piracy of copyrighted works and what to do about it.
There was a school of thought, which seemed to be picking up steam, that the way to handle the problem was with handcuffs and brass knucks. Enforcement! Regulation! New regulations! Tighter regulations! All out for the campaign against piracy! No quarter! Build more prisons! Harsher sentences!
Alles in ordnung!
I, ah, disagreed. ...
Any cure which relies on tighter regulation of the market especially the kind of extreme measures being advocated by some people is far worse than the disease. As a widespread phenomenon rather than a nuisance, piracy occurs when artificial restrictions in the market jack up prices beyond what people think are reasonable. The "regulation-enforcement-more regulation" strategy is a bottomless pit which continually recreates (on a larger scale) the problem it supposedly solves. And that commercial effect is often compounded by the more general damage done to social and political freedom.
The upshot is that he started the free library by donating one of his books to be available for free downloading. It may have worked. I bought one of his free books hardcopy recently.
J
PS Copyrights expire 50 years after the death of the author. Gone with the Wind will become public domain inthe next few years for example.
The first is what you might call a "matter of principle." This all started as a byproduct of an online "virtual brawl" I got into with a number of people, some of them professional SF authors, over the issue of online piracy of copyrighted works and what to do about it.
There was a school of thought, which seemed to be picking up steam, that the way to handle the problem was with handcuffs and brass knucks. Enforcement! Regulation! New regulations! Tighter regulations! All out for the campaign against piracy! No quarter! Build more prisons! Harsher sentences!
Alles in ordnung!
I, ah, disagreed. ...
Any cure which relies on tighter regulation of the market especially the kind of extreme measures being advocated by some people is far worse than the disease. As a widespread phenomenon rather than a nuisance, piracy occurs when artificial restrictions in the market jack up prices beyond what people think are reasonable. The "regulation-enforcement-more regulation" strategy is a bottomless pit which continually recreates (on a larger scale) the problem it supposedly solves. And that commercial effect is often compounded by the more general damage done to social and political freedom.
The upshot is that he started the free library by donating one of his books to be available for free downloading. It may have worked. I bought one of his free books hardcopy recently.
J
PS Copyrights expire 50 years after the death of the author. Gone with the Wind will become public domain inthe next few years for example.
cgannon64
BOB DYLAN'S ROCKIN OUT!
Its about 80 years or so. They keep on extending it to save ol' Mickey Mouse.
History_Buff
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Copy Protection?
I'm all for it. It discourages (I doubt it wil ever be eliminated) illegal burn age. And every CD I have ever bought I can copy and re-format with Windows Media.
I'm all for it. It discourages (I doubt it wil ever be eliminated) illegal burn age. And every CD I have ever bought I can copy and re-format with Windows Media.
