Stewart Stremler wrote:
(In this country, it would undoubtedly morph into a franchise operation, kind of like Chuckee Cheese meets the Chicken Ranch.)Thank you for that disturbing idea. I need a gallon of meme-bleach, please.
I think we need meme-acid ... bleach just isn't going to cut it.
I could buy that half the people sharing copyrighted work would give
being pissed at the {RI,MP}AA as a justification, but I don't think it's
the reason.
Let's step back a bit. How much sharing is *actually* going on?I had an *entire class* of CS students who had never heard of BitTorrent. I would have expected 1 or 2 out of 30 to at least have heard of it. Nope. Nada.
That's far from a "bastion of piracy". Most piracy is still "I'll just burn a copy for my friend."
I knew a guy in the Apple ][ days who spent ALL his time cracking copy protected games. He had YARDS of 5 1/2" floppies on his bookshelf -- bug attack, pacman, whatever. He kept offering them to me. Games bored me then and now. Turns out he never played them himself. He did it because he was pissed off that anyone would try to lock up the data.I knew folks like that. I kind of agree with it. I think that copy protection should invalidate copyright. Just as you can't both copyright and patent a work, we should extend the principle: copyright, patents, trade secret, or copy protection -- pick one, and only one.
Well, he gets the last laugh. The only games which now run reliably on emulators are the ones that cracked the stupid copy protection.
I can't carry on a conversation, read a book, or accomplish anything if there's a TV on around me. I may be on the edges of the bell curve in other areas of my life, but I'm damn smack in the middle of the target area when it comes to television programming.
This is neither unusual nor something to be ashamed of. Television is practically the definition of a stimulus that impacts your deep seated orienting response.
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