Posts by giovanni tiso
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Your position is that it is perfectly acceptable for an entire industry to refuse to supply legitimate, legal products for which their customers are screaming at the top of their collective voice
I'm sorry. Let's say I write a book, and you choose to digitise it and distribute it because it's not available digitally. How is what your doing legitimate and legal again? Just because the consumers want a digital copy of my stuff?
Fuck 'em, you know.
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Yes, sorry, I should have said where they are both emeritus professors. Or is it emeriti?
Only Peter can get away with phrases like "poltroons of pusillaniousness" ...
Especially since it should be pusillanimousness. Seems appropriate to link to the post which is here.
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CK Stead weighs in very critically on both Ihimaera but most especially the university that employs them both. Money quotes:
"You reject students' essays for doing this and you fail them in exams for doing it.
"It makes you wonder what the title of a distinguished professor means in the University of Auckland if they then say what Witi Ihimaera has done doesn't matter."
And concerning the "it's only half a percent" thing:
It's really like saying'well yes I did steal from 16 people but I only took a dollar from each'," he told Radio New Zealand.
"You haven't harmed them much, but you've harmed yourself enormously."
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Fantastic(o).
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in fact i suspect the neo-classical economist
What's one of those? Do they feature Doric columns?
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Though, thinking about it, one could argue that fine art auctions demonstrate that there absolutely is a perfectly-functioning free market in expression of ideas. Moreover, it is one that does not rely on copyright to enforce value, because all of the works of the old masters were outside any copyright term limits before the idea of copyright even existed.
Based on the fact that in that particular medium the original has supreme object-value. Which happens to be exactly the opposite of what happens in the digital. But carry on.
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It's such an unbalanced situation, and the producers are still not happy, that I can only see leaving it to market forces as a solution.
You could make a reasonable argument that doing absolutely nothing is better than what we are hearing about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, yes. Still, if all we can muster in opposition to ACTA is "adapt or die" and "let's wait and see what happens", that's pretty damn poor.
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You're telling me? Where I come from agreeing with people is considered impolite.
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OK, most of the time
Heh. I've been on the receiving end of a few QFTs myself.
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You came to a fork in the road then?