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Well, one idea that might could fix this problem would be a simple but potentially profound change in the law: Declare "exclusivity" off the table altogether. NO company should be allowed to be the only one licensing a given cultural property, such as Star Wars character images, in any given...

Well, this matter also somewhat intersects with The Story of Techno-viking... http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... rity-curse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno_Viking https://vimeo.com/106329383 https://www.facebook.com/TheStoryOfTechnoviking ...in which an obscure, short...

What bothers me is that this raid was initiated after only a 7 minute conversation, NOT after a court of law determined there was genuine infringement going on. They basically took the other company's WORD on the matter, alone, before confiscated the who shebang. Is 7 minutes long enough to...

Well, I'm looking at this more from the douchebaggery-at-the-top perspective. Too many times, the powers that be overrule the wishes and vision of the producers of a movie or TV show over things that have nothing to do with the TV show itself. Look at Babylon5-spinoff "Crusades," for instance...

Well, Rich C., it rather depends on how much of that money raised is plowed back into the production itself. If the totality of that million plus raised goes to actual production and sets, and NONE of it goes to profits (which is what's left over AFTER all the expenses are paid) then no, this...

I think you might be missing the point apollo729 is trying to make. It would not be about small production companies making new, budget Star Trek or Star Wars productions in order to render megacorps irrelevant, it would be about small production companies making brand NEW sci-fi adventure...

Okay, I probably oversimplified it by saying "a few cents," since it could well be a tiny fraction of a cent per each playing of the song on, say, a streaming internet radio station depending on how many are tuned in right then. On the other hand, you're kinda missing one of the points I was...

You know what, I WANT a system in which no copyright owner (of a song, for instance) is ALLOWED to refuse a license from, say, a music-playing service, or for inclusion into a movie, so long as a standardized amount of money (say, a few cents for each playing of it) is set aside for the...

I wonder what would happen if a very large number of people in the EU stood up and said, "Over my dead body!" This proposed law is a horrendously bad idea. It needs to go down in flames. In fact, it needs to be made totally radioactive.

I was looking around on Amazon for the cheapest k-cup-capable brewer I could find in order to place it alongside my existing Senseo-style soft-pods single-serve device, which is made by Hamilton Beach (and which was the cheapest model of that they make)... and in the process came across a device...

Pretty sure I remember the Pirate Party at one point stating that one of their intended goals is to pass laws guaranteeing everyone the right to copy things THEY PURCHASED over onto another media, and for those same laws to declare DRM (digital restrictions mechanisms) of the sort devised to...

I have seen Facebook "like" buttons and related show up on erotica websites, including ones where at least some of the content is the type that, depending on what country you're in, would get you in deep doodoo just for being there. Which means your pervy tastes are being tracked by Facebook...

Pretty sure I remember Pirate Party stating that one of their major goals is to outlaw DRM, or maybe it was outlaw any and all legal restrictions on bypassing DRM. In any event, so many bad laws, such as the heavyhanded Copyright-maximalist laws and such, come about because of the stranglehold...

There is another wrinkle in Twitch's policies about outright banning games that have nudity. Some months back there was a kerfuffle about how Twitch made an across the board, outright ban of any video from the virtual world Second Life, because they somehow got it into their heads that Second...

For the past couple of days I have been facedesking about this one, and yelling at my computer monitor about the shear lunacy of this ruling.... and then today I saw THIS article in my Twitter feed, and the twitter stated that this decision had been made in the ninth circuit court. THE NINTH...

The unfortunate thing is... ultimately, applying these sorts of varied censorship laws onto cyberespace does more harm than good, and in fact are harmful to mankind. It has been my belief for some time that eventually they.... Well, let me put it this way. what I'D like to see is ALL countries...

Theoretically, Nintendo could also go to their subsidiary The Pokemon Company on this and say, "Wait... WTF are you doing?!?"

Actually, what this issue exposes is the serious flaw that comes when you have an important Internet-related service or function that a large part of the population uses, but where the entire mechanism is owned and run by one company and that whole service exists entirely on that company's...

There is something Rick Falkvinge said recently in one of his Liberty Reports video podcasts, to which I will somewhat paraphrase here: The problem with getting rid of "the worst of the worst" from online (and I'm not suggesting 8chan are the worst of the worst), you then have a NEXT "worst of...

I'm actually wondering how long it will be before this runs afoul of some laws somewhere and Microsoft finds themselves with a major court order telling them to drastically reduce their report-back-to-the-mothership shenanigans or face serious fines. Or jail time.