I've pondered a three-step process: 1. Register the work with the Library of Congress or equivalent, 2. Collect a fee on the sale of all writable media, 3. Distribute a percentage of that fee to the author of the work, based on how often it's shared or downloaded.
That last step needs some work, though. How would you track it? There are many preferred sources for digital goods - Amazon, publishers, Play Stores, Project Gutenberg - which would account for the majority of copies. Maybe they'd just publish their stats?
And you'd need some way to detect and discourage plagiarism or fraud, while still allowing derivative works. But if I was going to read a novel or a news article, I'd prefer to get the provably original version from a reliable source, and PKI works well for that. So that's probably not as big a challenge as trying to prevent all copying, which is what we have now.
It seems to me that Murdoch has adapted extremely well. He's made millions selling nonsense as "news" and now he has an entire government requiring people to pay him for the privilege of sending more business his way.
Obviously the patent examiner had never read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
"Yes, an electronic brain," said Frankie, "a simple one would suffice."
"A simple one!" wailed Aurthur.
"Yeah," said Zaphod with a sudden evil grin, "you'd just have to program it to say What? and I don't understand and Where's the tea? Who'd know the difference?"
Fine. Pass a law making ISPs common carriers, just like the phone company. They don't listen in, they don't care what you say or who you call. [That's the NSA's job].
Then whoever wants to spew nonsense of any sort can set up their own server and host it themselves. Of course, you won't get a large audience unless you can pay for a lot of bandwidth. So perhaps other companies could spread your message to whoever wanted to see it. But they'd need to be paid too, so they'd probably charge a lot or accept paid advertising. But they'd be aggregators or hosting providers, not common carriers. So when they spread someone's content that causes them to lose advertisers or that violates their terms of service and they drop it, you're back to hosting it yourself.
The only difference from now is that ISPs aren't common carriers, so they can say no right away.
Yes, that's the correct term. "Cyber" is a word used exclusively by people in government to let everyone know that they don't understand how computers work.
I don't see why that isn't a valid reason to throw out any search results. None of my official documents leave the name off: auto license, insurance, house title - they all have the names of all the parties clearly printed. "Who signed this warrant? Really? Prove it."
They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Jack. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds.
Because the toothbrush seller makes a big contribution to your reelection while subtly hinting that it might be possible to give some cavities to your enemies.
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I got my first covid vaccine dose last week, and my 5G reception has never been better!
Re: sparkling consequences
How many times are you going to win the funniest comment of the week?
Congrats in advance, Stephen!
Re: first sale doctrine?
I've pondered a three-step process: 1. Register the work with the Library of Congress or equivalent, 2. Collect a fee on the sale of all writable media, 3. Distribute a percentage of that fee to the author of the work, based on how often it's shared or downloaded.
That last step needs some work, though. How would you track it? There are many preferred sources for digital goods - Amazon, publishers, Play Stores, Project Gutenberg - which would account for the majority of copies. Maybe they'd just publish their stats?
And you'd need some way to detect and discourage plagiarism or fraud, while still allowing derivative works. But if I was going to read a novel or a news article, I'd prefer to get the provably original version from a reliable source, and PKI works well for that. So that's probably not as big a challenge as trying to prevent all copying, which is what we have now.
For failing to adapt to a changing market?
It seems to me that Murdoch has adapted extremely well. He's made millions selling nonsense as "news" and now he has an entire government requiring people to pay him for the privilege of sending more business his way.
prior art
Obviously the patent examiner had never read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Re: A look at the near future…
Australian Government: [image not found]
/FTFY
Re: network neutrality
Fine. Pass a law making ISPs common carriers, just like the phone company. They don't listen in, they don't care what you say or who you call. [That's the NSA's job].
Then whoever wants to spew nonsense of any sort can set up their own server and host it themselves. Of course, you won't get a large audience unless you can pay for a lot of bandwidth. So perhaps other companies could spread your message to whoever wanted to see it. But they'd need to be paid too, so they'd probably charge a lot or accept paid advertising. But they'd be aggregators or hosting providers, not common carriers. So when they spread someone's content that causes them to lose advertisers or that violates their terms of service and they drop it, you're back to hosting it yourself.
The only difference from now is that ISPs aren't common carriers, so they can say no right away.
Re: Re:
I think they've put the coup before the hosts.
;-)
Re:
Yes, that's the correct term. "Cyber" is a word used exclusively by people in government to let everyone know that they don't understand how computers work.
Larry Ellison
Larry is only a few orange jumpsuits short of being a Bond villain.
Re: Re: No readable signiature, no valid warrant
I don't see why that isn't a valid reason to throw out any search results. None of my official documents leave the name off: auto license, insurance, house title - they all have the names of all the parties clearly printed. "Who signed this warrant? Really? Prove it."
Re: reshuffle
Unfortunately the people who are capable of running the country are too smart to get into politics.
Re:
They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Jack. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds.
Re: WHY????
Because the toothbrush seller makes a big contribution to your reelection while subtly hinting that it might be possible to give some cavities to your enemies.
Re: It's a joke.
No, it's not. Jokes are funny.
Re: we can help trump gain more complaints
Please don't help make America any greater again. With everything else 2020 has brought, I'm not sure we could stand it.
A wide variety..
You forgot to include "senators and representatives".
Re: What could possibly go wrong there?
Randall Munroe explained voting machines with blockchain very succinctly here: https://xkcd.com/2030/
It's just a typo
The ad should have said "People from midtown Manhattan OR downtown Denver..."
AI lipreading
Masks: They're not just for Covid-19 anymore!
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