I just wrote a technical document about a new feature we deployed over the weekend for Radio 8 users. It's called the Web Bug Simulator, because it does for...
Below is what Philip S. Corwin said about his letter to Senator Biden that describes the current situation with intellectual property rights and suggests the...
The IPUF proposal is unnecessarily long. We don't need a recital of somebody's observations about the state of DRM. The core of the IPUF proposal appears to...
Under the IPUF idea, would software developers have to pay a per-copy fee? If open source devlopers are forced to pay per-copy fees then that pretty much shuts...
... I'm not sure that I understand the question. The developers are not singled out in any sense. The idea is that everybody who uses Internet pays a ...
... Yes but the difference is that your are talking of national things - the internet is global, even if the USA is rather dominant! Let's be controversial -...
... (Nice shot, Andy!) This is true, but DRM also has to be international. The difference is that with per-piece licensing based on DRM, a piece can become...
My question is what happens when the p2p networks that are commercialized and industrialized for music start to become a platform for the distribution of DVDs,...
You getting pushback from the paranoid, Dave? Any pushback WRT the idea that the hit counter is updated for every updated feed that manages to get a...
...the economy funded by license payments has a flat size, given that there's a standard pool of money where nothing changes but the slice sizes. It's hard to...
... If programmers are paid by the byte they will create huge executables. If they are paid by discrete licensable modules, there will be large numbers of...
... Exactly. That's a very good description of what I had in mind in a technological sense. On Phase I, there's even no need to include an "obligation" into...
... Hash: SHA1 ... I hope to be getting a voucher from the state to help pay for private school tuition, after the next legislative session. It's stupid and...
... Alternative networks would not affect how much was paid out, just how well the payouts were metered. The core of Oso's idea is that usage only has to be...
... Depends on which problem do you want to solve. If you want to solve the problem of P2P networks being sued, then it *is* an ISP tax. When the stuff is...
I notice with satisfaction that Biden's Foreign Relations Committee says: "illegal downloading of songs is now at its highest level ever, despite any chilling...
... Whatever the original intent of the law or institution, the intent expired when its original authors and creators are gone. The rascals in Washington today...
... You don't have to wait :-) That's basically what ASCAP and BMI do: http://www.music-law.com/ascapbmi.html Quote from this page: "Just as you could not...
... I-Poof! is fun language, but calling this nationalization is a stretch. There is no taking. Paul's point about how to adapt the system to digitizable...
Woohoo! It's like agricultural subsidies, but for creators. Maybe they could be paid in government-issued "Art Stamps". Can't wait to see the construction of...
The NEV - National Endowment for the Virtualities or NED - National Endowment for the Digerati poor digerati ... Dear HR Manager/Hiring Manager, Having seen...
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