Yes yes, this is stupid. But would you please spend your energy on voting (democratic) in November? And then net neutrality? When you fixed your country (Read: saved the world), you are very welcome to criticise the EU.
The correct solution is to force internet providers to collect a tax from their customers, and then divide that tax among content providers.
If you put up a page that gets a zillion hits, you should get paid. You shouldn't have to shill ads or whatever; you should just get paid for content people want to see. If we all paid $10 a month more for our internet that would be ten billion dollars a year that content providers could collect. That's like Hollywood's whole budget.
But as long as we insist on getting our content for free, we will be the product that is sold to advertisers, instead of the customer.
And, to be honest, I don't think it's a wonderful movie. For starters, it is one of the few times that James Stewart wildly overacted.
But the copyright only lapsed because somebody bungled. When, through a technicality, the movie once again benefited from copyright, it seems like justice. Though, of course, it only benefits the legal entity that produced the movie, not the writer and actors.
What is a little harder to accept is that we keep pushing back copyright protection to the point where almost nothing will be in the public domain except the Iliad and Odyssey
I don't quite get it. Will we be forced to share dick jokes the old fashioned way (on the telephone and through the post office)? Oh, wait! People have those new-fangled phones that no one can keep their nose out of, and rarely talk on. Oh, wait again, those are interwebs too, right? Damn, if this keeps up we may have to have actual conversations with one another.
That photograph is my childhood.
Working on it.
We can multitask, though.
Well... some of us can.
When the news is outlawed, only Outlaws will have news.
Yes yes, this is stupid. But would you please spend your energy on voting (democratic) in November? And then net neutrality? When you fixed your country (Read: saved the world), you are very welcome to criticise the EU.
The correct solution is to force internet providers to collect a tax from their customers, and then divide that tax among content providers.
If you put up a page that gets a zillion hits, you should get paid. You shouldn't have to shill ads or whatever; you should just get paid for content people want to see. If we all paid $10 a month more for our internet that would be ten billion dollars a year that content providers could collect. That's like Hollywood's whole budget.
But as long as we insist on getting our content for free, we will be the product that is sold to advertisers, instead of the customer.
In retrospect, we should never have allowed them flintlocks.
A PIRATE hippo.
We should have known right away that 2016 was cursed when both David Bowie and Alan Rickman died.
And, to be honest, I don't think it's a wonderful movie. For starters, it is one of the few times that James Stewart wildly overacted.
But the copyright only lapsed because somebody bungled. When, through a technicality, the movie once again benefited from copyright, it seems like justice. Though, of course, it only benefits the legal entity that produced the movie, not the writer and actors.
What is a little harder to accept is that we keep pushing back copyright protection to the point where almost nothing will be in the public domain except the Iliad and Odyssey
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Official flag of Pirates of the Internet.
With the EU as the EIC headed by one Beckett Cutler.
https://youtu.be/2QFg9CvgIYI
I don't quite get it. Will we be forced to share dick jokes the old fashioned way (on the telephone and through the post office)? Oh, wait! People have those new-fangled phones that no one can keep their nose out of, and rarely talk on. Oh, wait again, those are interwebs too, right? Damn, if this keeps up we may have to have actual conversations with one another.
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He was such a wonderful cat. I miss him so much.
In other words they've basically equated piracy with kiddie porn