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2015年4月9日3 Insane Ways Companies Are Using Copyrights to Bully You
If we didn’t protect the rights of creative people to be able to make money off the stuff they involuntarily squirt out of their brains, then the careers of Stan Lee, Steven Spielberg, and whoever invented inspirational cat posters would’ve amounted to nothing more than whatever they could throw together on the bus home from the fat rendering plant. Because it turns out .
3. It’s a technological quirk that can be as simple as preventing you from playing a DVD from the wrong region or as infuriating as a video game that won’t let you play single player unless you’re online. That shit may seem stupider than a coffee enema, but it’s just a side effect of security measures, right? That’s understandable, at least I want the people behind House of Cards to make money, because that show inspired me to spend the rest of my life making stupid analogies in a broad Southern accent. In my book, those folks have earned the shit out of their retirement just for that.
Actually, there’s a big secret: DRM isn’t about preventing privacy; it’s about stifling innovation. The fewer things a company lets you do with the stuff they sell you, the less you can tinker with it, and the less likely you are to come up with a newer, better idea. And that’s not just speculation an actual empirical study found that DRM is stopping more legal things from happening than illegal things. A blind woman who couldn’t get her screen reader to read aloud the Bible e book that she had legally purchased ended up being forced to pirate a copy. Of the Bible. That’s exactly why the MPAA and RIAA wanted to make it illegal to break DRM even if it meant putting your life in danger. And now that you know how their priorities shake out, it shouldn’t surprise you that .
2. But as a noob, I thought it was weird how all the bars advertised their parties by talking about the "Big Game" instead of the "Super Bowl." I mean, I get that all of us in the Pacific Northwest are hipsters and fiercely uninterested in stuff everyone else likes, but if it’s your fucking job to scribble a notice on a blackboard, you can at least use your retro flip phone to text your friend and ask him to Google what "the big thing happening tonight" is, right? How else will we know this isn’t a bait and switch?"Here, just put this up. True football fans will Wholesale Jerseys know what it means."
The answer (as you probably know) is that the NFL insists that it’s illegal for anyone to use the phrase "Super Bowl" in their advertising unless they’re an official sponsor, which is (as you probably didn’t know) complete horseshit. There’s no reason you can’t use "Super Bowl" in casual reference to it existing, because if it were illegal to do that, that law would be completely insane. It’s totally fine for Cracked (or anyone else) to talk about the Super Bowl because just using the phrase doesn’t automatically imply sponsorship, wholesalejerseysusa.us.com and if I wrote "Seahawks Super Bowl Champs 2014" on my wall, the only crime anyone could accuse me of is being a poseur. And yet everyone, from newspapers to my favorite bar, heeded the NFL’s threats. The ironic part is that by placing such strict controls on how people can reference the Super Bowl, they’re hurting every local business’ ability to capitalize on the event, even though stimulating the local economy is their justification for existing in the first place but they don’t give a fuck. They once sued a church for showing the game on a big screen TV. The NFL cares as much about the human social construct of morality as an exterminator cares about the standard of living in a termite colony. How many times have you seen the words "I do not own this video!" in the "about" section of a movie clip that’s been illegally uploaded to YouTube, apparently written under the impression that admitting you’re doing something illegal somehow makes it legal, even though that’s the dumbest thing anyone has ever thought."No, I tweeted that I was selling crack to children, so this doesn’t count! Loophole!"
But the NFL thing isn’t even the worst example. So if you post a negative review of a movie and use a clip from that movie to prove your point (which is totally legal under fair use) and then post that clip to YouTube, the people who own the rights to that movie can shut your butt down. It doesn’t matter who’s right: In a legal fight, the advantage always goes to whoever has a huge team of lawyers on payroll.
If we didn’t protect the rights of creative people to be able to make money off the stuff they involuntarily squirt out of their brains, then the careers of Stan Lee, Steven Spielberg, and whoever invented inspirational cat posters would’ve amounted to nothing more than whatever they could throw together on the bus home from the fat rendering plant. Because it turns out .
3. It’s a technological quirk that can be as simple as preventing you from playing a DVD from the wrong region or as infuriating as a video game that won’t let you play single player unless you’re online. That shit may seem stupider than a coffee enema, but it’s just a side effect of security measures, right? That’s understandable, at least I want the people behind House of Cards to make money, because that show inspired me to spend the rest of my life making stupid analogies in a broad Southern accent. In my book, those folks have earned the shit out of their retirement just for that.
Actually, there’s a big secret: DRM isn’t about preventing privacy; it’s about stifling innovation. The fewer things a company lets you do with the stuff they sell you, the less you can tinker with it, and the less likely you are to come up with a newer, better idea. And that’s not just speculation an actual empirical study found that DRM is stopping more legal things from happening than illegal things. A blind woman who couldn’t get her screen reader to read aloud the Bible e book that she had legally purchased ended up being forced to pirate a copy. Of the Bible. That’s exactly why the MPAA and RIAA wanted to make it illegal to break DRM even if it meant putting your life in danger. And now that you know how their priorities shake out, it shouldn’t surprise you that .
2. But as a noob, I thought it was weird how all the bars advertised their parties by talking about the "Big Game" instead of the "Super Bowl." I mean, I get that all of us in the Pacific Northwest are hipsters and fiercely uninterested in stuff everyone else likes, but if it’s your fucking job to scribble a notice on a blackboard, you can at least use your retro flip phone to text your friend and ask him to Google what "the big thing happening tonight" is, right? How else will we know this isn’t a bait and switch?"Here, just put this up. True football fans will Wholesale Jerseys know what it means."
The answer (as you probably know) is that the NFL insists that it’s illegal for anyone to use the phrase "Super Bowl" in their advertising unless they’re an official sponsor, which is (as you probably didn’t know) complete horseshit. There’s no reason you can’t use "Super Bowl" in casual reference to it existing, because if it were illegal to do that, that law would be completely insane. It’s totally fine for Cracked (or anyone else) to talk about the Super Bowl because just using the phrase doesn’t automatically imply sponsorship, wholesalejerseysusa.us.com and if I wrote "Seahawks Super Bowl Champs 2014" on my wall, the only crime anyone could accuse me of is being a poseur. And yet everyone, from newspapers to my favorite bar, heeded the NFL’s threats. The ironic part is that by placing such strict controls on how people can reference the Super Bowl, they’re hurting every local business’ ability to capitalize on the event, even though stimulating the local economy is their justification for existing in the first place but they don’t give a fuck. They once sued a church for showing the game on a big screen TV. The NFL cares as much about the human social construct of morality as an exterminator cares about the standard of living in a termite colony. How many times have you seen the words "I do not own this video!" in the "about" section of a movie clip that’s been illegally uploaded to YouTube, apparently written under the impression that admitting you’re doing something illegal somehow makes it legal, even though that’s the dumbest thing anyone has ever thought."No, I tweeted that I was selling crack to children, so this doesn’t count! Loophole!"
But the NFL thing isn’t even the worst example. So if you post a negative review of a movie and use a clip from that movie to prove your point (which is totally legal under fair use) and then post that clip to YouTube, the people who own the rights to that movie can shut your butt down. It doesn’t matter who’s right: In a legal fight, the advantage always goes to whoever has a huge team of lawyers on payroll.
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