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Oh please, I actually find it rather convenient. I know I don't have to take anybody who equates copyright violation with theft seriously. Anyone who uses deceitful propaganda and newspeak to hide the truth is obviously not interested in a serious discussion about piracy and copyright law, but is only looking to demonize their opponents to further their own cause. It's like religious fundamentalists that equate homosexuality with child abuse.

It's far more than just being semantically "inaccurate". Anyone who equates piracy with theft is being deliberately and fundamentally dishonest, and is only interested in waving their propaganda about instead of having an open debate.
Actually, you can download the Windows (Vista and 7) ISOs legally provided by Microsoft ( see http://forum.notebookreview.com/windows-os-software/428068-l... ).

Then it is your decision whether to buy a license or download an activator (which you can download after installing all the antivirus programs in the world)
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This is a topic that is not discussed enough. We all know that entrepreneurship is a pursuit that requires us to ride an economic and emotional roller-coaster that can jerk us up and down far harder than if we decided to work for more established company. People do not talk about the lows enough because it is human nature to focus on the upside that a great startup can create. The tough pill to swallow here is that, even if you sell your company, things can feel awful. This paragraph really nailed it on the head:

Burnout is a sneaky bastard. It creeps up slowly and attaches to you like a parasite and starts to suck your lifeblood. Once it gets its fangs into you deep enough, you need a major jolt to the system in order to shake it off.

The great thing to hear is that Nate has had just such a jolt. Good luck for the future.
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This is laughable! User gets pissed by activation system. User does the exact thing that causes the activation to not only exist but become more infuriating as time goes on.

How about you either deal with it or not use Windows. If its that much of a pain then there's no reason to use it. Come on. How do we not see the blatant excuse to pirate something here?
Karunamon does a pretty good job describing it, but now that Wikipedia is back up, here's a section of the court's opinion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_(1985) ):

The phonorecords in question were not "stolen, converted or taken by fraud" for purposes of [section] 2314. The section's language clearly contemplates a physical identity between the items unlawfully obtained and those eventually transported, and hence some prior physical taking of the subject goods. Since the statutorily defined property rights of a copyright holder have a character distinct from the possessory interest of the owner of simple "goods, wares, [or] merchandise," interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The infringer of a copyright does not assume physical control over the copyright nor wholly deprive its owner of its use. Infringement implicates a more complex set of property interests than does run-of-the-mill theft, conversion, or fraud.
Its worth pointing out that fashion is a unique industry when it comes to copying; everyone copies everyone else.

There was a great article on this on the net, written by someone in the industry who fleshed it out with anecdotes which included a high level designer going into a budget store and looking at the design and products there, to copy.

Sadly I can't find that article, I offer a freaknomics article in its stead: http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/03/03/behind-the-scenes-of-...
> It's time for all of the pirates to stop justifying
> their stealing by putting up the facade of protecting
> online freedoms

Does this mean you feel it's ok to take away our freedoms just so long as it's in order to fight piracy?

> Steal if you want to, but stop trying to call
> it something else

So anyone that insists that copyright infringement be called copyright infringement is "just a pirate trying to justify their theft?" That's a false dichotomy if I've ever seen one.
Author of SOPA violates SOPA
And I have yet to be provided with any reasonable business model that would still enable the creation of something like the Great Pyramids of Giza, or the Great Wall of China. I just don't think this idea of abolishing slavery has legs.
Its more like you tell me Joke and I tell same joke to everyone without asking you first or paying anything.
Oh yeah, there can be no other way that that happens. Must've been greedy old guys in a room rubbing their hands together, plotting.

Most cars in the same class and relative features cost the same. Most comparable computers cost similar amounts. Costume jewelry from store to store is similarly priced.

Not everything is a conspiracy. You price things at what people will pay for them, and for many years people gladly paid, and still pay, $13.99 for CDs. You don't have to conspire to come to a similar price point.
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Nope, in windows 7 activating via pirate methods is still easier than activating via normal methods. The pirate, illegal method of activating involves downloading a program, 1 double click (to open said program) and 1 click (to run the activation).

I wont say which program is it because I do not condone piracy, but it is widespread in the internet.

I agree that Microsoft should remove all anti-piracy stuff in their products. It only makes their products more expensive.
I don't know how it translates to non-programming stuff, but the vast majority of developers do work for in-house stuff (I've seen this cited somewhere, but can't remember exactly where). Only a minority try to actually sell programs (admittedly including some big companies like Adobe and Microsoft, but that's a different story). Moreover, as somebody using exclusively open-source tools--and being more productive than before--I can testify that the world would not be too bad without anybody selling proprietary programs.

My point isn't that this model can carry over unchanged to a different field; rather, all I maintain is that it is possible for a creative endeavor to be pushed largely by creators working for a salary rather than a royalty. I do not know enough about fields outside of programming to figure out exactly how it would work, but I see no reason it could not exist.
Google says 4.5 million people signed anti-SOPA petition today
Actually, English wikipedia does not seem to mention that, and the Russian one says that not only Chikatilo did not have mismatched AB types of blood and sperm, but also that the condition has been proven to be genetically impossible (citing a broken link as a source for this statement, though).
So what? That doesn't make it theft, any more than it makes it murder or rape.
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What do you mean "isn't going to get exposed" , people complain all the time that certain songs re-use riffs from older songs.

Your argument seems to boil down to what the minimum unit of valid IP is. This is a complex issue and is often fought in courts.

Taking a riff from someone elses song and rebuilding a new song around it requires a lot more creativity time and money than simply copying and redistributing the song.

Copyright isn't so much for protecting an "idea" as such (that's what patents are for).
It is to stop somebody reproducing a complete piece of work without prior agreement.

Let's say I build a new type of software and publish it, then somebody else thinks that is a good idea and builds their own version that is similar to mine (without re-using my source code). I would view that as flattery and competition. However I have a strong first mover advantage and whilst they may have learned from some of my mistakes they still have to actually do the work of creating their software which puts us economically on a relatively even footing.

Suppose instead they simply redistribute my software with their logo on it for half the price then they have a strong economical advantage because they didn't have to invest the initial development costs that I did.
> "which is already available digitally"

The sad thing is "already available digitally" is a thing that comes and go. Take e.g the iTunes Store or Zune, which I use routinely, have items disappear and then reappear a week, or a month later, or never. It's absolutely ridiculous.

(I notice it because I add things to my wishlist and they sit there, and when I want to rent or buy it it's not there anymore, and then, a month down, maybe it's back, maybe not).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiglers_law_of_eponymy
> Timeline also makes branded posts (ads) look nearly identical to the actual content we’re on facebook to see, so it follows that they’d be processed similarly.

I'm not sure what the author is referring to, but the ads on the side (regrettably IMO) look nothing like the organic content in the main Timeline columns. There isn't enough space to show more organic content on the side as there is next to the Newsfeed. Why does the OP think that the ads are "nearly identical" to organic content?
I'm a bit puzzled by the reasoning, though. "The top court, with Justice Elena Kagan recused, said Congress’ move to re-copyright the works to comport with an international treaty was more important."

OK so they made their decision on the basis of there being a treaty... Does this mean that any time you want to sidestep an actual examination of the merits of an argument in the Supreme Court you just need to ensure there's an international treaty in your favour? How does the US become party to a treaty, in any case? I'm guessing it has something to do with Congress. This seems like a bit of circular reasoning.
ftr, I didn't do it. But I do think it's smirk-worthy. To each his own.
Why stop at stealing? Why isn't pirating a movie also rape, murder, armed robbery and polygamy, and any other crime it doesn't fit the definition of?
Wrong morally, or wrong factually?

If factually, then which parts are wrong?
If only life was so simple. Most problems are not so one-dimensional. Problems in life are typically not math problems - they usually are complex situations with multiple solutions that have numerous impacts with degrees of good and bad.

For example, we would all like our roads well paved at all times but you'd also have to take into consideration the environmental impacts of upping the frequency of putting tar on all of our roads across society. On top of it you'd most likely have higher incidences of road worker deaths. etc. etc.

I'd agree that we need more people attempting to solve problems and that there are many things that could be vastly improved -- but I think the dynamics of true social problems are somewhat misrepresented in the article.
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Why is phonegap not a good option?
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Is this also true for startups & VCs?
No, because the automated online system erroneously rejects the activation.
Stop buying their stuff and you will force them to change.
No, the author's complaint is that he gets a better service as a 'pirate' than as a paying customer, which is backwards.
I haven't seen anything about SOPA/PIPA on Reddit, apart from the warning that they were going to be down protesting against it. It's just not come up on the subreddits I read. I imagine it hasn't shown up on most non-politics non-internet subreddits.
It is so heartfelt that this news ends up at the very top of HN even in at the height of the SOPA debate.
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Out of curiosity, how do you come to the conclusion that the treaty was heavily influenced by the USA?

"The Berne Convention was revised in Paris in 1896 and in Berlin in 1908, completed in Berne in 1914, revised in Rome in 1928, in Brussels in 1948, in Stockholm in 1967 and in Paris in 1971, and was amended in 1979"

"The United States initially refused to become a party to the Convention, since that would have required major changes in its copyright law, particularly with regard to moral rights, removal of the general requirement for registration of copyright works and elimination of mandatory copyright notice. This led to the Universal Copyright Convention in 1952 to accommodate the wishes of the United States. But on March 1, 1989, the U.S. Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 was enacted, and the United States Senate ratified the treaty, making the U.S. a party to the Berne Convention,[4] and making the Universal Copyright Convention nearly obsolete.[5]"

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protec...]

Doesn't sound like the USA had anything to do with it. All seems a bit like circular reasoning to me. Another country creates a treaty, you ratify it, and suddenly your "hands are tied". (I'm not saying I have any opinion on the treaty itself, but the process seems a bit concerning.)
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I think not being able to guarantee that there always 7200 seconds between 11:00pm and 1:00am the next day could be a worse problem than having the sun rise at noon in a few thousand years.
Gettin' paid seems to have wide bipartisan support.
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You are spot on.. my friend. I don't agree with the hidden notion that creative people create to become famous or make boat loads of money. I consider myself a creative person too.. software is my art though. Yes.. I would prefer not to have to work a day job and I'm trying to move into freelancing to do just that unless the day job is the dream team I would love to work with. Yes.. I have had desires of making it big.. but over time I've realized that basically.. I just need enough money to live comfortably and work on my ideas. That is what would really make me happy.. not being the next Zuckerberg.. especially not Zuckerberg.. but I digress.. or do I?
Huh? Microsoft has a very tiny hold in mobile computing. Android is Google.
WSJ has always been trash 'reporting'. No surprises here.
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If you compare Breyer to the general population you may call him conservative, but compared to Alito, Thomas, Roberts, and Scalia, he's very liberal.
> not given the power to do in the establishment clause

What does a prohibition on establishing a national religion have to do with DNS blocking? Perhaps metaphorically, unlimited-copyright is the religion of many politicians, but legally that seems like a stretch...
The person putting up the money will always assume that they deserve more than they do. Wave 8 figures at any young founder and they can't help but say yes, regardless of how ridiculous the terms are. Look what happened to Eduardo Saverin, and he's someone that by all means should've known better.
Paying someone a salary inhouse will work for stuff like "Bespoke BigCorp Customer Database" but I don't think it would work so well for general use applications intended to be sold to the population and I don't think we want those type of apps to die.

Open source dev tools are great because they are built by developers who understand what developers want and crucially they were built because they were needed i.e there was nothing commercial that did the job in the way they wanted.

How many developers know enough about developing image , video or audio editing software to do it well on their own? Most OSS solutions in this area are basically poor clones of commercial software. Also where will the money come from to fund them doing this full time?

I know as one example Ardour is developed full time and is quite a cool piece of OSS for sound editing but it's developed by one guy who can barely pay his bills from the donations, he probably makes what he would at burger king.

You would think that computer programmers would be able to design some awesome OSS games right? After all about 50% of my CS class joined the course because they wanted to make games and it's probably one of the most popular topics on any programming forum.

Well I can't really think of a single OSS game that has ever really impressed me and certainly none have become popular in the same way Half life or Skyrim has (by OSS game I mean a game that was developed under an OSS model, not something where the code was released by the developer 10 years later or something that is essentially an open source mod for a commercially developed game).
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Joking that the dates/years were so wrong that they weren't even there.
You're wrong.

> The point is that you're stubbornly refusing to let people pay for a hot dog how they want it

If you are the guy spending money to create the original magic hot dogs, you have to charge a certain amount to recoup your money. If you do not, you cannot afford to make those hot dogs anymore. You must also take into consideration the many investments you make in magic hamburgers and fries that don't pan out.

Once you create that hot dog, even if you give people exactly what they want - bread, no bread, wrap it in a fucking croissant - if you require a credit card and the dipshit down the street does not, no amount of convenient packages and toppings is going to make up for it. Does it make the guy down the street a genius with a better product, as TPB's "statement" tries to paint of them? No, it makes them a parasite leeching from people who have the talent and skill to make magic hot dogs.

As I said, let's just call a spade a spade. The greater efficiency they bring to the table is removing the paywall, which they can only afford to do because they create nothing. Maybe you think there is nothing wrong with that. But if everyone is going to so adamantly insist that we not call piracy theft, let's also not call TPB innovative. Their only innovation is finding a way to profit off the backs of people who make things we enjoy, while giving nothing back. Bravo.
There are even more angles to it. Sometimes piracy works as advertisement, and sometimes it works like shareware: pirate it, like it, pay for it.
The 10/10 match refers to HLA typing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_leukocyte_antigen

These are the human MHC molecules that present antigen to T-cells. Unfortunately for the transplant process, a vast number of HLA alleles exist for each locus. This is important evolutionarily for population disease aversion, but makes the process of finding a match very difficult.

Central tolerance makes our immune system unreactive to self antigen. Foreign HLA present in tissue grafts will never be screened out by negative selection since this process requires expression of our own genes to cull any B or T cells that are self-reactive. Anything foreign will most certainly have reactive cell-surface epitopes (to varying degrees of reactivity).

Try reading up on central tolerance, somatic recombination, and clonal selection if you get the chance as it's a beautiful example of nature stumbling upon metaheuristic optimization:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_tolerance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal_selection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V(D)J_recombination

To me, these are starker, more potent examples of biological optimization processes than evolution -- they're ongoing in your body right now.
Thats defined as copyright infringement, and is still against the law.
More SOPA Protests, Please
So I run a SaaS that targets startup creators, site owners, marketers, webmasters, people like you and me who spend a lot of time online reading hackers news and the like.

I have been averaging ~5 sales per day over the last month or two.

Today (at the end of the first SOPA blackout) we had just over 33 sales, our largest sales day ever, and by far.

It looks like at least one webmaster or two turned their boredom into motivation today.

Reddit, I think this might be your doing.

Thank you, whoever the main culprit is.
Please also kindly add why you chose it.
Theft - you take something from someone. Result: You have something, someone else does not have that same thing which you just took from them. That is called theft.

Piracy/Copyright-infrigiment - you copy something from someone. Result: You both have that same thing, in digital world, it is exactly to the bit the same. In analog world the someone has the original while your copy will probably be a bit different and unique. Nobody is left without having stuff.
This unnamed publishing insider basically confirms my observations as an outside observer, so, of course, I think it is a great post.
Great, so when copyrights expire in those nations they should expire in the US.

So James Joyce should be PD in the US this year! Good news!
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How does exclusivity add any value to a piece of software? The utility and productivity that I get out of a piece of software is in no way influenced by how anyone else obtained it. Sure, I might be bitter that I didn't also break the law and obtain an illegal free copy of my software, but that's really just sour grapes.

And in business if the value I'm able to produce with software is governed more by my exclusive ownership than my skill with it and other professional skills, then it's probably a good idea to find another line of work.
The way it will work is the movie and recording industry groups will start pouring in money into party coffers. That should really read "continue pouring...", actually.

The bill will be split into smaller chunks and added as riders to completely unrelated, must-pass spending like the annual Medicare "doc fix", and passed at the end of the session over a two day period along with 1500 other bills. If there's substantial public opposition, and really there won't be because they're passing 60,000 pages of legislation in a couple days on the way out of town, the leadership of both parties will sit down and figure out who needs to vote against it to keep his seat. Amazingly the bill will pass by one vote in both houses, with all the members in a tough reelection fight voting against.

If the blow back is surprisingly bad the Congressmen who voted for it will say "Aw, jeez, I really didn't want to vote for it, but I couldn't allow the Medicare bill to be jeopardized by this one little thing. You don't hate grandma, do you? There's plenty of time to fix it in the next session." Of course the fix will be tied up by procedural moves and then watered down into a runny legislative paste if they can't bury it altogether.

And there you have it. Another piece of crap legislation paid for and passed with the least political impact. You can't say these guys don't know what they're doing.
It's not a right to make millions it's a right to make... whatever you make.

Rihanna could release her music on vinyl only but it would still be recorded and converted to an MP3 and up on torrents in a matter of hours, digital has nothing to do with it.

The business model they would probably switch to in the case of no copyright would be to distribute a small amount of the music for free but if you want to hear the rest you have to attend a live concert where you would be searched for recording devices on entry.

Would you prefer that model?