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Ariella
Ariella
11/8/2017 2:48:56 PM
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Re: Piracy is Killing
@mhhf1ve well, as it's not tangible it becomes a bit more difficult to quantify. Say you're a photographer who sells your images and you find that somoene takes the shot you took and then sells it, you may put that price tag on it. But even if they didn't sell it but just took it without your permission, you may consider that a form of theft. This is why many photographers who want to show off their work online now put in watermarks.

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
11/8/2017 2:48:36 PM
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Ghosts in the machine
> ""phantom bandwidth" -- bandwidth dedicated to services that continue streaming, even though no one is watching."

I wonder how many video ads are counted in this "phantom bandwidth" issue. I know Hulu instituted a timeout if you didn't hit a button after watching several shows in a row -- usually a button that made sure you were watching an ad. I'm not sure if Netflix does this? 

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
11/8/2017 2:46:12 PM
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Re: Piracy is Killing
While I understand that plagiarism can be hurtful, the harm can be difficult to quantify. If someone else profits off my ideas/work, I'm rightfully angry or disappointed that *I* didn't get a slice of the profits. But am I entitled to them? Did it harm my reputation? I don't think it's quite an easy answer, even if you can find the "criminal" behind the IP heist.

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
11/8/2017 2:42:01 PM
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Re: Piracy is Killing
> "Turning back to piracy and IP, I think that may be why it's very difficult to get people to see IP as any kind of property." 

The other half of the problem may also be that copyright laws have trended toward "breaking the deal" that works are supposed to be protected *for a limited time* -- as copyrights now extend far beyond the deaths of the authors/composers/etc. I think if IP laws were a bit more reasonable, perhaps more people might be inclined to observe them to the letter. When laws grow absurd, no one follows the law.

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Michelle
Michelle
11/7/2017 7:55:03 PM
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Re: Support & service
I see what you did there! 

 

You'd be right. You're paying for access you're not allowed to have, not service and support you're not entitled to ;)

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JohnBarnes
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11/7/2017 3:02:13 PM
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Re: Piracy is Killing
Ariella, 

Yep, there are people who believe that ... but I think I worry more about the people who didn't build that and believe that they did! The existence of thieves at least affirms the idea of property (you couldn't steal if nothing belonged to anyone); the idea of just consuming, that everything is just kind of there for everyone, is, I think, ultimately more destructive.

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Ariella
Ariella
11/7/2017 2:53:57 PM
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Re: Piracy is Killing
@JohnBarnes now on plagiarism outside the classroom, I have seen my own work plagiarized. The writer did paraphrase everything, but he didn't even bother to rearrange the order of presentation, keeping my three examples and droppign the citations I had put in for the sources I had used. That was extremely brazen, and I let the editor of the publication I had written this for know. Instead of crediting me for the find, though, he put out some general email to all the writers about being careful about using sources. The guy who ripped off my piece wasn't doing research; he was doing what many students do and often get away with for lazy checks that rely on identical phrasing rather than looking at the concepts.

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Ariella
Ariella
11/7/2017 2:48:21 PM
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Re: Piracy is Killing
@JohnBarnes But if you agree that "you didn't built that" applies to the person who designed the object or produced the show or wrote the paper, then really shouldn't there not be any restriction on intellectual property? I know the theory of everyone influences everyone else and all writing is rooted in and influenced by other writing even if one is trying to write against that influence. However, if you fully swallow this idea of everything being a product of collaboration and take it to its logical conclusion, then there really shouldn't be any copyright at all. There are people who believe that. 

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JohnBarnes
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11/7/2017 2:38:24 PM
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Re: Piracy is Killing
Ariella,

I think you're on to something there.

I suppose I'm not as worried about the frequency and prevalence of academic cheating -- America is a nation of crooks, thugs, con men, and fraudsters and always has been, despite all the histories written to make our ancestors out to be something other than the "wretched refuse" (to quote Emma Lazarus) who were "thrown out of every decent country in the world" (to quote Bill Murray). I'm much more worried about the idea that getting a degree consists of trading typed-on pieces of paper for grade points and that where or how you get the paper shouldn't matter. The old-fashioned cheater was well aware that there were such things as skills and knowledge, which could be faked in order to get stuff (and sometimes faked rather cleverly); the new breed often seems to be unaware that there is any such thing as doing the job -- you just present the credential and collect your place in the world.  So there's no really any room for being smart, any more than there is room for being smart in playing the lottery.

Turning back to piracy and IP, I think that may be why it's very difficult to get people to see IP as any kind of property.  They tend to think of watching/listening as a creative act, somehow; no awareness that "you didn't build that" (to quote a president who endured a lot of hassle for saying that, especially because it was true).

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batye
batye
11/7/2017 2:21:28 PM
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Re: Watching the defectives
@afwriter good point as with legality of it you never know... it like dead chicken will bite... 

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