Monday, January 11. 2010When Feeling As Jaded As I Am Lately..........John Linton .....it's always good to come across a sensible person's view how the things that really bug me at the moment are not just my personal aberrations: I have read various treatises written by Lanier over the years and even attended a seminar at which he was a key speaker a long time ago. The article is not long and if you have a minute or two it's worth reading. It addresses a number of points including the current defenses of stealing intellectual property from someone who once promoted the ideas and 'philosophies' that led to the current situation - as he says at one point the 'sharing of intellectual property' is turning everyone in to a peasant. One of his insights is what is the inevitable result of internet theft: "Unfortunately, we were also making another decision at the same On the one hand we want to avoid physical work and instead benefit and "Youthful fascination with collectivism is in part simply a way to This is all harmless enough, but the pattern can be manipulated in I think part, possibly a large part, of my current lack of enthusiasm for what I am doing, and have been doing, for the past ten or so years is the pointlessness of spending the declining years of your business life making it easier and cheaper for tens of thousands (in Exetel's case alone) of people to steal other people's property rather than reducing the amount of money they need to pay to get access to the most valuable source of information for their personal and business lives that has ever existed. It's a matter of perspective but somehow I've allowed my personal perspective to become clouded by the deluge of nonsense I read every day in carrying out the tasks needed to operate a business of Exetel's size. I realise that the only way of getting rid of this lassitude is to do something different but that's not a simple as just doing it because of the inter twined obligations that have been created in believing that what we have been doing for the past six is good and a useful contribution to the current society in which we live. Somewhere else in the article Lanier comments that "poverty trickles up not down" which I have always observed to be true in many aspects of the societies in which I lived and as I noticed it I became more and more obvious to me why 'socialism' was just a way of reducing human societies to mediocrity and eventually oblivion as 'history demonstrates over the past 5,000 years. Taxing the "haves" to provide for the "have nots" only has one conclusion - it eventually produces a society where there are no "haves" and the "have nots" have no source of future sustenance. I have little doubt that today's collective denial that internet downloading of intellectual property is theft is simply a symptom of many societies around the world today where has become the dominant view of the way of living life. "I want = I take - because I can". I sometimes think that providing internet is like dealing drugs - you are illegally profiting from the weaker minded's need for a substance they will abuse and you take their money although you know it's harmful and possibly fatal. People can only take other people's property without retribution in a society where morality/ethics are simply words in a dictionary in a society that is heading South towards an ever closer end date. Krudd panders to this societal decline in the most overt example of a politician whose only objective is to keep his nose in the trough for as long as possible - he is the worst example yet of a 'collectivist' who could create an "ideas summit" as an indication of how little idea he had in being the prime minister of Australia.
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Ask any generation and you will hear the same thing. Morals and ethics have taken a bumslide downhill for a long while. Unfortunately its come hand in hand with 'freedom' NOT linked to the notion of 'responsibility'. I believe if you are held responsible for what you do, and not hand held, things would be different.
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Makes a less happy consumer when a significant peer brushstrokes this entanglement in such a low key. co-operatives function I imagine in being a responsibility to every participant, all end users. For society I expect things are changing and we live to adapt/discover whatever changes to our ourselves/data providers turn out to be.
With no ADSL2 (nor NBN fruitioned); competitors who require such huuuge profits to exist(comfortably); Exetel still fills that void for me. Looks like a good team here http://www.exetel.com.au/staff.php ,well picked. ps. I note Off peak goes to 82-Gig this month, good figure - I haven't reached 1/3rd way, but value is in having flexibility. Comment (1)
These are all intellectual property infringements in many countries now:
1. Share an mp3 with a friend or family member that doesn't live in the same house. 2. Record a TV show and watch it more than once. 3. Photocopy a newspaper article for someone at work. 4. Print a web page for someone at work. 5. Transcode a movie or TV show for your iPod/etc 6. Copy a DVD onto a server for playback without the disk. 7. Convert an MP3 into a ringtone. 8. Play music (even the radio) over the speakers at work without a license. 9. Add on-hold music to your PBX without a license. 10. Quote a newspaper article/someone else's blog post/twitter/etc in your blog/twitter/etc. regardless of attribution. 11. Make a copy of a CD you borrowed. 12. Make a mix tape from the radio. 13. Make an offline copy of a youtube video. 14. Upload a youtube video with music in the background. 15. Create a video with a TV showing anything in the background. I'm interested to know, do you consider them all "theft"? Comment (1)
What I may think is totally irrelevant.
What the legislation at any time in any country states is the only thing that matters. Comments (2)
Thought you may be interested in David Thodey ramblings from CES.
http://www.channelnews.com.au/Events_And_Associations/CES_2010/R4S5R8G9?page=1 Peter. PS is the number of ADSL2 equipped exchanges Exetel can use still growing? have been waiting for HAMS to become active for a few years. Comment (1)
Exetel profits at least go to charities.
I see it as a choice, people are allowed to choose to break the law and face the risk of consequences. Alcohol companies sell a drug that causes thousands of deaths in Australia every year, no one kicks up a stink. You sell bandwidth for people to break the law and media producers chuck a big stink, no one dies though. I see the business model of current producers of media is to make something then milk it forever. There isn't any incentive with copyright for 100+ years. Where's the innovation? Drug companies are forced to innovate because patents only last 20 or so years. I think that producers want to have their cake and eat it too. Sony profit from selling everything that breaks copyright, blank CD/DVD/tapes, VCR, PVR, hard drives, computers, video cards, blu-ray, MP3 players, etc etc. Yet they expect consumers never to use any of this to copy stuff? Consumers go the path of least resistance. Up until recently it was far easier to illegally download material things than to try and find a legal source. I'll never pay for DRM, most consumers wouldn't. I watched a favorite show of mine at thedailyshow.com. Due to the Comedy Channel's agreements with distributors they disabled viewing for everyone outside the US. My choice is to never watch it, or illegally download it. Easy choice. The Colbert Report is on ABC2 now Comment (1)
The Daily Show is on Foxtel's comedy channel every night at 6:30pm.
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